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I almost picked up Diamond's book The Third Chimpanzee today. Maybe after I finish Guns, Germs and Steel. I did buy Jonathon Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke for $9.99 at Chapters.
 
ions said:
I almost picked up Diamond's book The Third Chimpanzee today. Maybe after I finish Guns, Germs and Steel. I did buy Jonathon Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke for $9.99 at Chapters.
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How do you like Guns, Germs and Steel?
 
Ronny said:
How do you like Guns, Germs and Steel?
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I dunno. Yet. ;) Haven't started but I will as soon as I finish A Game of Thrones. Probably later this week. Leafing through it has made me look very forward to it.
 
This morning the postman dropped 3 books through my letterbox ;)

Oracle Night - Paul Auster
The Line Of Beauty - Alan Hollinghurst
Out - Natsuo Kirino
 
A coffee table book. Twenty-Five Years of Williams F1 The Authorised Photographic Biography by Alan Henry.
 
I'm at the library and here's what came in for me today:

Troll-Johanna Sinisalo

The Shadow of the Wind-Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Drowned Wednesday-Garth Nix (for Emily)

and we're waiting to see if anything else came in-the Ill lady takes her time....
 
In Cold Blood - Truman Capote

Hand to Mouth
Timbuktu - Paul Auster

The Dead Zone
Danse Macabre - Stephen King

The World According to Garp - John Irving

in French:

American Vertigo - Bernard-Henry Lévy

in Spanish:

Las Aventurs del Capitan Alatriste, I - V
La carta esférica - Arturo Pérez-Reverte
 
I came across 2 Umberto Eco books( the Name of the Rose & Foucaults Pendulum) today at the used book shop and after hearing him discussed here quite a bit I picked them up.
 
Two Stephen King paperbacks: Different Seasons and The Bachman Books. I got them at the library for less than a dollar.
 
  • Villages, John Updike
  • The Third Policeman, Flann O'Brien
  • Rashōmon and Seventeen Other Stories, Akutagawa Ryūnosuke
 
Grace in Thine Eyes by Liz Curtis Higgs (on order, but haven't paid for it yet)
One Year Bible (New Living Translation) (on order, but have paid for it)
Bridget: the edge of reason by Helen Fielding
Deafening by Frances Itani

One can never have too many books :p
 
The World According to Garp - John Irving
If Nobody Speaks Of Remarkable Things - Jon McGregor
High Society - Ben Elton
Angela's Ashes - Frank McCourt
Speaking In Tongues - Jeffery Deaver

All for £4.00 :D
 
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