Recently Purchased/Borrowed

[Biblio]

Relics, Spawn and Shadows an omnibus novel by Shaun Hutson

 

[-Carlos-]

- Fiction -

The Chosen by Chaim Potok

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

The Short Novels of Dostoevsky by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Enemies, A Love Story by Isaac Bashevis Singer

Post Office by Charles Bukowski

Amsterdam by Ian McEwan

- Non Fiction -

The Writing Process: A Concise Rhetoric by John M. Lannon

Roget's International Thesaurus by Robert L. Chapman

Reading Skillls Handbook by Harvey S. Wiener, Charles Bazerman

 

[Fantasy Moon]

I borrowed Beyond the Shadows by Brent Weeks. Now I can see how this wretched trilogy ends.

 

[Justin91]

I just recieved The Orchard Keeper by Cormac McCarthy from Barnes and Noble.

 

[Isabell]

I love the history of The Cold War and The Berlin Wall-The book is so far so good

 

[saliotthomas]

David Simon- Homicide

So far i heard only praises.

 

[Polly Parrot]

Aphra Behn - Oroonoko

 

[Disenthral]

The Girl Next Door - Jack Ketchum
Child Of God - Cormac McCarthy

 

[Fantasy Moon]

From the library:
At the King's Command - Susan Wiggs
All Quiet on the Western Front - Erich Remarque
Death of Innocence: The Story of the Hate Crime that Changed America - Mamie Till-Mobley

Purchased:
The Mummy, or Ramses the Damned - Anne Rice

 

[writergirl]

dude, I loved Water for Elephants.

Recently borrowed from the library:

The Abstinence Teacher by Tom Perotta (I didn't care for it)
Keeping Faith by Jodi Picoult

(I've been re-reading Picoult's novels, because they inspire me to good writing. )

 

[Peder]

The Original of Laura - Vladimir Nabokov

 

[dude]

dude, I loved Water for Elephants.

I've heard good things!

 

[dude]

The Road to Mars - Eric Idle
The Hotel New Hampshire - John Irving
The New York Trilogy - Paul Auster
The Music of Chance - Paul Auster
Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky

 

[writergirl]

I've heard good things!

You'll have to let us know how you like it!

 

[libri vermis]

Lord Jim and Under Western Eyes by Joseph Conrad
The Brothers Karamazov and Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

I am generally a sci-fi and fantasy reader, but I have been branching out of late. :whistling:

 

[-Carlos-]

The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens
Gold by Isaac Ashimov
The Last Witchfinder by James Morrow
The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
Broca’s Brain by Carl Sagan (non-fiction)
Barron’s Pocket Guide to Vocabulary by Sam Brownstein (text)
Amsterdam by Ian McEwan
The Chosen by Chaim Potok
Enemies, A Love Story by Isaac Bashevis Singer
The Short Novels of Dostoevsky by Fydor Dostoevsky

 

[Fantasy Moon]

Heir to Sevenwaters, by Juliet Marillier

I loved the Sevenwaters trilogy, so I am eager to read this book.

 

[gonewiththewind]

I just bought and read immediately:

Under The Dome - Stephen King,
Last Night in Twisted River: A Novel - John Irving,
The Year of the Flood - Magaret Atwood,
The Man Who Loved Books Too Much - Allison Bartlett,
The Pilo Family Circus - Will Elliott

It has been a good month for reading.

 

[-Carlos-]

 

[PlaypitsPark]

One Good Turn - Kate Atkinson

Lustrum - Robert Harris

A History of Scotland - Neil Oliver
(I'm not a Scot, but I live there, and Scotland has such an amazing history)

De Re Metallica - Georgius Agricola
(Researching a book I am writing. I don't recommend you buy it unless you have a pathological interest in old mining methods!)