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tartan_skirt said:
Today I picked up a copy of Accomodating Brocolli in the Cemetary or Why Can't Anybody Spell? from Music Zone today for £1.97. Also bought another manga, Fruits Basket volume 8. :)

That brings my unread book pile to just over 60. :confused:
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You are sooo not alone - I've got 65 books in my tbr stack. Not that I mind having that many to hand but the trials and tribulations of deciding which one to read next is exhausting.
 
Life is good - life is especially good when you get to spend some quality time rummaging through stacks and stacks of books at the local 'friends of the library' monthly sale. Managed to add to my collection:

Dan Brown's The Da Vince Code
Gravity by Tess Gerritsen
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
Katherine by Anya Seton
Bend Sinister by Vladimir Nabokov

And three Patricia Cornwall novels that I've read ages back (from the library) - The Body Farm, From Potter's Field and Post Mortem (the latter was acquired through a book fairy).
 
Must also pay tribute to my overseas book fairy who sent the following:

Two Women by Martina Cole
The Weeping & the Laughter by Noel Barber
Miss Undine's Living Room by James Wilcox
Now or Never by Lynda Page
Three Wishes by Liane Moriarty
Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt
 
I almost bought Angela's Ashes at the Library Sale today....! Just couldn't make up my mind to actually do it. :rolleyes:

As far as the TBR stack(s).........I don't count. Its better Not to Know. :p :cool: ;) :eek:
 
My boyfriend just bought me Wings of the Dove by Henry James (Nice hardcover edition). This past Thursday, I finally saw the movie and it was beautiful. And I'm certain the book will be better.
 
A whole bunch of books. 30 or so.....

Some: Intensity- Koontz
How to be good- Hornby
A Farewell to Arms- Hemingway
Eye Scream- Rollins
Prime- Brite
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close- Foer
The Stranger- Camus
Jude the Obscure-Hardy
A room with a view- Forster
Women in Love- Laurence
 
pontalba said:
Well, today was quite a fruitful day. We were able to go to Both the Library Sale and the Second Hand Book Store. Delightful.

At the Library Sale:
Prague by Arthur Phillips
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What's that one about? It keeps catching my eye in the thrift store I frequent. I'm curious....;)
 
CattiGuen said:
What's that one about? It keeps catching my eye in the thrift store I frequent. I'm curious....;)
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It'll probably be in my TBR stack for awhile, so I'll quote a bit from the inner jacket:
A first novel of startling scope and ambition, Prague depicts an intentionally lost Lost Generation as it follows five American expats who come to Budapest in the early 1990's to seek their fortune--financial, romantic, and spiritual--in an exotic city newly opened to the West. ........What they actually find is a deceptively beautiful place that they often fail to understand. What does it mean to fret about your fledgling career when the man across the table was tortured by two different regimes? How does your short, uneventful life compare to the lives of those who actually resisted, fought, and died? What does your angst mean in a city still pocked with bullet holes from war and crushed rebellion?

.......Arriving in Budapest one spring day to pursue his elusive brother, John finds himself pursuing something else entirely, something he can't quite put a name to, something that will draw him into stories much larger than himself.
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I've scanned it a bit, and like the style of writing. Clear, well put.
Hope that helped a bit. :)
 
Weird California: Your Travel Guide to California's Local Legends and Best Kept Secrets.

Greg Bishop, Mike Marinacci, Joe Oesterle, Foreword by Mark Moran, Foreword by Mark Sceurman



A San Franciscan friend of mine is featured in this one. ;)
 
Ronny said:
The Beach by Alex Garland
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I was really undecided whether I liked that book or not when I read it. It was good I guess, just really slow.. and somehow unimpressive. I managed to finish though, so that's good.

My latest Book purchases have been Arthur Golding - Memoirs of a Geisha and The Story-to-Screenplay thing to Brokeback Mountain.
 
DiscoDan said:
I was really undecided whether I liked that book or not when I read it. It was good I guess, just really slow.. and somehow unimpressive. I managed to finish though, so that's good.

My latest Book purchases have been Arthur Golding - Memoirs of a Geisha and The Story-to-Screenplay thing to Brokeback Mountain.
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Uh, oh, that doesn't sound good, this is one of those books that I picked up used because, well, I liked the cover:)
 
Recently purchased books:

Google Hacks (Publisher: O'Reilly)
Yahoo Hacks (Publisher: O'Reilly)
The Cheater's Handbook: The Naughty Student's Bible (I'm a middle school teacher and also editor of a Web site on plagiarism)
Princeton Review's guide to the New SAT (I'm thinking of becoming an SAT tutor)
Darwin's Black Box (Michael Behe)
Building Wealth One House at a Time (John Schaub)
The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress (Robert Heinlein)
 
DiscoDan said:
I was really undecided whether I liked that book [The Beach by Alex Garland] or not when I read it. It was good I guess, just really slow.. and somehow unimpressive. I managed to finish though, so that's good.
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I really liked that one. Much better than the movie. I picked up my copy from a 2nd hand bookstore years ago, after I saw 2 people pick it up, and one of them say to the other "That's the book I was telling you about!!!" in a really excited tone. ;)
 
This weekend went to the second-hand shop and bought

Alias Grace - Margaret Atwood
I Know This Much is True - Wally Lamb
When We Were Orphans - Kazuo Ishiguro
We Need to Talk About Kevin - Lionel Shriver
 
I received another couple of books from my book fairy, including:

The Tears of Autumn by Charles McCarry
Role of Honor byJohn Gardner
 
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