Recently Purchased/Borrowed

[angerball]

The Heart Shaped Box by Joe Hill.

 

[gonewiththewind]

Heart Shaped Box

Angerball: let me know what you think of Heart Shaped Box. I really liked. Hill has a very strange mind. I thought the book was a really good ride

 

[arnuld]

Just purchased them yesterday:


A Canticle for Leibowitz -- Walter M. Miller Jr.
The Supreme Court and the Constitution -- Charles A. Beard
Friends in High Places -- Claire Hoy
All Too Human -- George Stephanopoulos
70x7 and Beyond -- Monty Christensen
A man called Interpid -- William Stevensen
The Berthren -- Bob Woodward & Scott Armstrong
The Lonely Prohpet ( V. P. Singh), A Political Biography -- Seema Mustafa
Bronfman Dynasty -- Peter C. Newman
The Canadian Establishment Volume 1 -- Peter C. Newman
Ordinary Love and Goodwill -- Jane Smiley
Millers Court -- Arthur R. Miller
Trading Places -- Clyde V., Jr. Prestowitz
House -- Tracy Kidder
The Hacker Ethic -- Pekka Himanen
The Cuckoo's Egg -- Clifford Stoll

 

[Wells83]

Oranges are not the Only Fruit, Jeanette Winterson

Magical Thinking, Augusten Burroughs

 

[Libra]

Fool's Gold- Maro Douka

in Greek.

I have been trying to find her 1st book The Trap, it's about her imprisonement by the Military Junta.

 

[angerball]

Angerball: let me know what you think of Heart Shaped Box. I really liked. Hill has a very strange mind. I thought the book was a really good ride

Will do. I think it will be next on my list of books to read.

 

[Sybarite]

A bit of an Amazon blitz in the last couple of days – I've ordered Mrs Dalloway and To the Sea by Virginia Woolf, plus the second to fifth volumes of Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City.

 

[Nepenthe]

The Summer Queen by Joan D. Vinge
Otherwise: Three Novels and Novelties and Souvenirs: Collected Short Fiction both by John Crowley

 

[Libra]

The Blood of Flowers: A Novel
by Anita Amirrezvani

 

[St. Stephen]

Farewell to Arms- Hemingway
Across the River and Into the Trees - Hemingway
Dubliners - Joyce
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - Joyce
The Ambassadors - Henry James
Tender is the Night - Fitzgerald

 

[monikamarie]

My recent purchases were:
Hot Blooded, Cold Blooded, & Absolute Fear by Lisa Jackson.
I'm always looking for new fascinating books to read, so if anyone
has any suggestions, let me know.

 

[Wells83]

Beasts, Joyce Carol Oates

None to Accompany Me, Nadine Gordimer

 

[Stewart]

• Eucalyptus, Murray Bail
• The Glass Bees, Ernst Jünger
• An African In Greenland, Kpomassie Tété-Michel
• Sunflower, Krúdy Gyula

 

[Wells83]

Rabbit Redux, John Updike

Now I only need Rabbit is Rich.

 

[Stewart]

Rabbit Redux, John Updike

Now I only need Rabbit is Rich.

You have Rabbit Remembered?

 

[Wells83]

You have Rabbit Remembered?

No I don't. :sad:

I'll have to get it on my Kindle.

I just got a few more books.

Witches of Eastwick, John Updike

Gut Symmetries, Jeanette Winterson

Lighthousekeeping, Jeanette Winterson

A Good Man is Hard to Find, Flannery O'Connor

The Barrens, Joyce Carol Oates and Rosamond Smith

Where is Here, Joyce Carol Oates

 

[Robert]

Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald

 

[GonzoCeltic]

Ordered four books from Amazon a couple of weeks ago. They all came in last week:

"The Last Banner; The 1985-1986 Boston Celtics: The Greatest Team of All-Time" by Peter May
"Wisdom of our Fathers" by Tim Russert
"Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs" by Chuck Klosterman
"Everything They Had" by David Halberstam

Yesterday, at Books-A-Million, I bought:

"I Am Legend" by Richard Matheson
"Fight Club" by Chuck Palahniuk
"Ring of Hell" by Matthew Randazzo V
"Do Travel Writers Go to Hell" by Thomas Kohnstamm
"Summer of '49" by David Halberstam

 

[Peder]

Two more translations of the oldest written story known to man:

The Epic of Gilgamesh -- Translation and Introduction by N.K.Sandars --Penguin Classics 1972

Gilgamesh -- Translated by John Gardner and John Maier -- Vintage Books 1985

to add to the version I already have

Gilgamesh , A New English Version -- Translated by Stephen Mitchell -- The Free Press 2004

It is an irresistible story and a literary landmark in the history of mankind.

 

[Libra]

Two more translations of the oldest written story known to man:

The Epic of Gilgamesh -- Translation and Introduction by N.K.Sandars --Penguin Classics 1972

Gilgamesh -- Translated by John Gardner and John Maier -- Vintage Books 1985

to add to the version I already have

Gilgamesh , A New English Version -- Translated by Stephen Mitchell -- The Free Press 2004

It is an irresistible story and a literary landmark in the history of mankind.

I am starting out with the narration by Anonymous.What did you think about it, and which one did you enjoy more?