Recently Purchased/Borrowed

[xBasx]

Harry potter and the half blooded prince ...paperpack
I've been waiting for it for AGESSS

 

[abecedarian]

Like Water For Chocolate- Laura Esquivel

 

[Stewart]

Didn't buy, but was given after a training course today:

The Oz Principle: Getting Results Through Individual and Organizational Accountability.

Whoop-de-doo!

 

[abecedarian]

Didn't buy, but was given after a training course today:

The Oz Principle: Getting Results Through Individual and Organizational Accountability.

Whoop-de-doo!

Just think of the fun you can have creating a review for this gem

 

[tartan_skirt]

Picked up some more cheap books today...

A Dictionary of Biology (£0.19)
Pan Study Aids - Human Biology (£1.00)
Deception Point by Dan Brown (£0.30)

I thought I'd give Mr Brown another chance. For 30p I think it's worth it, and if not off to eBay it goes!

 

[Coach Morse]

Good to Great - Jim Collins
The Leader in You - Dale Carnegie
The One Minute Manager - Kenneth Blanchard (already read this one... it was crap)
Who Moved My Cheese - Spencer Johnson (co-authored OMM with Blanchard and looks like the same kind of crap)
Think & Grow Rich - Napolean Hill

 

[jaynebosco]

The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
The Devil Wears Prada by Lauren Weisberger (and then I went and bought a pair of shoes)

 

[MonkeyCatcher]

There was a big booksale on in town today, and for $2.50 I picked up:

As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H Lawrence
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
Robbery Under Arms by Rolf Boldrewood

 

[Stewart]

Money, Martin Amis
American Pastoral, Philip Roth

 

[Dogmatix]

The Mercury Visions of Louis Daguerre - Dominic Smith

 

[Appolonia]

"Winkie" by Clifford Chase
"Jack" by A.M. Homes

 

[Stewart]

A couple of non-fiction oddities:

Salt In The Blood: Fishing Communities In Scotland, Jim Miller
Salt Herring On Saturday: The Fishertown of Nairn Last Century, Margaret M. Bochel

 

[Dogmatix]

Used hardbacks of:

A Clockwork Orange
One Flew Over the Cucko's Nest

 

[abecedarian]

Brought these home from the library earlier:

Time Gifts-Zoran Zivkovic

The Compromise- Sergei Dovlatov

Oracle Night -Paul Auster

 

[Stewart]

You know those books you've just got to have?

Well, here's the latest.

Onion Johnnies: Personal Recollections By Nine French Onion Johnnies Of Their Working Lives In Scotland by Ian MacDougall

 

[Dogmatix]

The Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov
The Tale of Desperaux - Kate DiCamillo
An Instance of the Fingerpost - Iain Pears

It was a good day...

 

[steffee]

You know those books you've just got to have?

Well, here's the latest.

Onion Johnnies: Personal Recollections By Nine French Onion Johnnies Of Their Working Lives In Scotland by Ian MacDougall

I think you may be the only person in the world (or this forum at least) who just has to have that.

 

[Stewart]

I think you may be the only person in the world (or this forum at least) who just has to have that.

Yes, and I'm sure I'll enjoy having it.

Anyway, I bought another couple of books today:

The Silver Darlings, Neil M. Gunn
Ella Minnow Pea, Mark Dunn
The Bridge Of San Luis Rey, Thornton Wilder

 

[trendy_scum]

tender is the night, f scott fitzgerald
live and let die, ian fleming

 

[Stewart]

live and let die, ian fleming

You could have got that and nine others at The Book People.