Last book you borrowed from the library.

[thelastmelon]

I know there's a thread where you write the last book you bought, but I thought it'd be interesting to see what people got from the library as well, since some of us can't afford to buy books all the time. So, what was the last book you borrowed from the library? :)

I am going to the library today, and I'll get:
A Família Trago - Germano Almeida
Coraline - Neil Gaiman
In the Time of the Butterflies - Julia Alvarez
The Pilgrimage - Paulo Coelho

[bouquin]

Amélie Nothomb's Stupeur et Tremblements (Fear and Trembling). I finished reading it last night, will return it to the library tomorrow.

[xlxlauraxlx]

Millions - dont know who its by i have forgotton already lol its a good book though

[metal134]

"The Sun Also Rises". That was years ago. My libraries are total garbage now so I don't go there anymore.

[DickZ]

Give Us This Day by R. F. Delderfield. I like to own books that I thoroughly enjoy so I can re-read them, which I actually do. But until I know I like a particular book (or author), I prefer to try them out at the library first.

Give Us This Day is a member of a trilogy on the Swann family of England, which owns an overland cargo transportation company. The family is large and has members who participated in military operations against the Zulus in Africa, the Boer War, and the Boxer Rebellion. But most of their activities take place at home in England.

I had read another book of Delderfield's many years ago, which I found to be very enjoyable. It was called The Dreaming Suburb and dealt with a suburb of London between the World Wars.

In Arlington, Virginia, our library system seems to be quite good.

[johann cruyff]

I believe it was The Epic of Gilgamesh.One of the few books that I was never interested in buying,not sure why.

[grace86]

Fathers and Sons

I need to take that back so I can go and borrow the Collected Short Stories of D.H. Lawrence, and one more, but I can't remember...something on forensic anthropology. I will post here when I check them out!

[Schokokeks]

The last one I took out was Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis, which I finished yesterday.
The next one will be Collected Poems by W. H. Auden.


and one more, but I can't remember...something on forensic anthropology. (...)
You're doing the most interesting degree I've ever come across, Grace :nod:. I don't even think it exists over here ...

[Niamh]

It was more than likely J.M.Synges letters to Molly Algood about nine years ago.

[papayahed]

Slow Man, just got it last week.

[crazefest456]

Books: Kant (related writings)
Movie: Apocalypse Now...I'm gonna watch it soon.

[LadyWentworth]

Crashing Through - Robert Kurson

It was for my book club. I didn't even finish it. The holidays. Too much going on right at that time.

[Weisinheimer]

Wide Sargasso Sea - Jean Rhys
I finished it a bit ago. When I go to take it back, I plan on getting Slow Man.

[stlukesguild]

I believe it was a volume of the collected poems of Ronsard... its been so long... must be 15 years. I mostly buy books because I am constantly referring back to books or wanting to jump ahead in another book so I now have my own library:D .

[Janine]

This is rather funny, last book I checked out and returned to my library was "Creative Beading".....haha - well, I finally copied all the pages and now I won't have to bug the librarians and take it out any longer.

I usually do get novels or commentary books, but this was the last book (technically speaking) I took out.

[Mortis Anarchy]

The Year of Living Bibically by A.J. Jacobs

It was funny and interesting. Not one of my favorites, but still a good read. I owe 3$ because of it.:(

[LeonMello]

'The Devil to Pay in the Backlands' (Grande Sertão: Veredas) - Guimarães Rosa

I'm almost finishing, but I can say already, this is one of the better books I've ever read.

[Nightshade]

Ive got 32 out at the moment, sadly not a single one was any good :bawling: Im just having a bad book couple of weeks...
oh wait no I lie the 2 hendee people vampire/elf series is good...I read all of that over the last few weeks, just waiting for the next one to come out, then I also reade Kelley Armstrong's No Humans involved and exit strtegy...which annoyed me because it was really good and then shes not writing the second one till next sept :bawling: .
OH Jullliet Marilliers's Wildwood Dancing finally manged to sit down and read that, good too.
SO maybe not so much that all the other thiings Ive got out are bad its just Im in a scifi/fantasy mood and Ive read almost everything we stock..

[bouquin]

Daisy Miller and other stories by Henry James. I actually have my own copy but it's back there at my mother's house which is some 11,000 km away!

[Shea]

Ususally if I borrow from the library, it's to listen to books on cd while I'm driving. Right now, I'm listening to 1776 by David McCollough. It's extremely interesting. I'm learning tons about the Revolutionary War that I never knew before and it gives me a new perspective on it.

[Keatykat]

I popped into the library today and borrowed three books.

1. "Postcards from the Bed" - by Marian Keyes
2. "The Lovely Bones" - by Alice Sebold
3. "1984" - by George Orwell

[Weisinheimer]

Slow Man ~ J M Coetzee
A long, Fatal Love Chase ~ L M Alcott
All Things Bright and Beautiful ~ James Herriot

[Nightshade]

Slow Man ~ J M Coetzee
A long, Fatal Love Chase ~ L M Alcott
All Things Bright and Beautiful ~ James Herriot


James herriot always funny :D :lol:

[Weisinheimer]

James herriot always funny :D :lol:

yep, I like him alot. His books, I mean, I like his books alot.

[thelastmelon]

Today I went to the library and got Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee.

[Wallnutters]

im sad to say that i dont really check out the library for its full potential-- i jknow what genre i like and go straight there without checking anything else. last book i got was "i'd tell you i love you, but then i'd have to kill you". it was cute... next time i go, ill probably get a whole stack of vampire books. i feel deprived of vampires.

[n_maw]

I currently have checked out:
Slow Man by J.M. Coetzee
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak
Sold by Patricia McCormick
My Brother's Keeper by Patricia McCormick
Cut by Patricia McCormick

[Tersely]

Its been two years since I've been back to the library... I took out a book about The History of Japan and Renaissance/Baroque Art. Vague, but hey it was two years ago..

[LadyWentworth]

A long, Fatal Love Chase ~ L M Alcott


So, what did you think of this one?

[bouquin]

Today I took out:
The Garden Party and Other Stories by Katherine Mansfield
Soie (Silk) by Alessandro Baricco

[GatsbyTheGreat]

Seven Years in Tibet by Heinrich Harrer. I found it to be very informative of the condition of Tibet before the Chinese assumed control in 1950

[Simao]

Anna Karenin. I also borrowed Lord of the Flies but I have yet to finish it. I tend to buy books more than borrowing them because well, my local library doesn't have enough books that suit my taste.

[Annamariah]

Anthony Burgess - A Clockwork Orange
Jennifer Weiner - In Her Shoes
Philip Reeve - Mortal Engines (we translated the beginning of this book at school, and I just want to know what happens next :D)
Philip Reeve - Predator's Gold (we'll, I guess I still want to know what happens next after I've read the first book :lol:)

+ a children's book for our Finnish-English translation class.

[Lioness_Heart]

The Feynman Lectures on Physics (Volume 2)
An Equal Music (not sure who it's by, and can't be bothered to go and check)

Have read bits of the former many times, but haven't started An Equal Music as I only got it out a couple of hours ago

[Takeahnase]

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
Dance Dance Dance by Haruki Murakami
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov
The Outsider by Albert Camus

[Bakiryu]

Emma by Jane Austen (I saw the movie and I rather liked it)
and A Collection of Silvia Plath poems'.

[andave_ya]

Crime and Punishment - Dostoevsky

[Aeltya]

So, what was the last book you borrowed from the library?

There are still libraries? http://forum.literotica.com/images/smilies/eek.gif

[Zybahn]

I tend to use the library when in search of particular short stories.
Recently I checked out The Street by Mordecai Richler.

[Takeahnase]

I just got:
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Plague by Albert Camus
Poor People by Dostoevsky

Only popped in to return some books but just couldn't resist the temptation to haul a few more back with me, despite already having a huge stack waiting to be read. :rolleyes:

[Dark Star]

The last book I picked up was Chet Raymo's Natural Prayers. I'll soon be picking up Neil DeGrasse Tyson's Death By Black Hole and Other Cosmic Quandaries.

[grace86]

Last books I borrowed from the library:

The Sound and the Fury - Faulkner
Anthem - Ayn Rand

[aeroport]

Well, the last book I actually checked out was either Best American Essay of 2005 or Blake's book on Milton.
However, I stole, yesterday while at work, Philip Roth's The Plot Against America on audio.

[intoxicatedsoul]

lost horizon by james hilton....ashamed to admit that i haven't returned it to the library yet, been 6 mos now. *blush** and worst, i haven't read it still...*blush**blush**blush***

[Janine]

Tonight I took out "The Name of the Rose". It is the February book read, so I thought I would look it over; then after what I am currently reading, I will start it.


intoxicatedsoul - "Lost Horizons" is a great book; do read it and return to your poor library.

[Gracewings]

Garden Spells by Sarah Addison Allen

I was hoping to get the Aeneid, too, so I can read along with my daughter as she just began it for her English class. Luckily, we read some of it last year when she was still homeschooled. However, there wasn't a single copy at the library of the book or CD.

[thelastmelon]

Changes: A Love Story by Ama Ata Aidoo and a book by Nguyen Huy Thiep, but I can't find the translation of the title anywhere, unfortunately.

[Lioness_Heart]

The Ringmaster's Daughter by Jostein Gaarder. I've read it so many times but love it so much!!

[thegreenthing]

Siddharta by Herman Hesse, I failed at returning it, so now iv'e got a rather large fee wating for me...

[thelastmelon]

The Fifth Child - Doris Lessing
Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
Harens År - Arto Paasilinna

[KyleBennett]

Fearful Symmetry Northrop Frye..

[ecrivan]

The last book I took from the library dealt with the life of Marilyn Monroe. Fascinated about her mysterious death, I wrote something
about what the circumstances could have been and how a lot depended on her upbringing:

http://www.quazen.com/Reference/Biography/Notes-on-Marilyn.65607

the library has something written by her her half sister which I took out earlier, and it gave me a new perspective on the diva.

[ntropyincarnate]

The Mysterious Stranger and Other Stories - Mark Twain

[Bakiryu]

3 books:

Ship of Destiny by Robin Hobb
The Boyfriend List (by some person or other)
And Flame (also by another person)

[papayahed]

The Scarlet Letter - Nathanial Hawthorne

[Ultravox]

The Catcher in the Rye, Salinger. I had never, until recently, encountered this book so I thought I'd pick it up for a spot of light reading, considering it's so well renowned as a book taught in high schools. I finished it this evening and was mildly disappointed that I was never taught it in school. I can certainly understand why so many students are given this to read.

[higley]

Washington's Crossing, Fischer; By the Light of the Moon, Koontz; umm Master and Margarita and The Fall. I finally paid my fine!

[bouquin]

L'Amant (The Lover) by Marguerite Duras

[thelastmelon]

To the Is-Land by Janet Frame
Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami

[Rogers_68]

I just checked out Godless: The Church of Liberalism by Ann Coulter. I haven't had a chance to start it yet.

[Dori]

Today, for the first time in almost a decade, I went to the library. :D

I borrowed a book called Summer of the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion. I need it for a paper I'm writing. :thumbs_up

[Cailin]

Just borrowed Amsterdam by Ian McEwan

[thelastmelon]

To the is-land by Janet Frame
The Turning by Tim Winton
Ben, in the World by Doris Lessing

[stlukesguild]

I must have 50 or 60 books sitting on the floor in uneven and unbalanced stacks that I intend to read "soon"... to speak nothing of the endless unread books staring back at me from my own personal library shelves. Of what use would I have for a taking out more books from the library?! Masochism?

[papayahed]

The Scarlet Letter

[Oomoo]

I picked up:

Hermann Broch - The Sleepwalkers
Alfred Doblin - Berlin, Alexanderplatz
Jose Saramago - All the Names

[Jane's Nemesis]

"Belinda" by Maria Edgeworth. Also "What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew" (a guide to 19th century literature and 19th century life in general- fascinating reading for those with an interest in history)

[Mockingbird_z]

The Catcher in the rye =)

[n_maw]

I must have 50 or 60 books sitting on the floor in uneven and unbalanced stacks that I intend to read "soon"... to speak nothing of the endless unread books staring back at me from my own personal library shelves. Of what use would I have for a taking out more books from the library?! Masochism?

My bookshelves are filled with unread books! But I can't help it. I still have to go the library as well!

[crazyed]

Homeward Bound by Elaine Tyler May. Used it for a paper on Lolita. Fascinating insight into Cold War social psychology!

[aeroport]

Two critical studies of Paradise Lost.

[Janine]

Chekhov Collected Works. I needed the book for the 'Chekhov Short Story' thread - any Chekhov fans out there? We have very active discussions in progress monthly. If inclined do come and join in. We would love to have more enthusiasts.

[AdoreroDio]

Reality in Fiction

[Urizen]

Walden

[Etienne]

Hermann Broch - The Sleepwalkers
Alfred Doblin - Berlin, Alexanderplatz

I was Broch's? I've read The Death of Virgil, and I think it was bad (have you read The Death of Virgil too?), but The Sleepwalkers seems something very different.

And I really loved that Döblin's, it was amazing! How did you like it yourself?


Siddharta by Herman Hesse, I failed at returning it, so now iv'e got a rather large fee wating for me...

How large can a library fee be? :lol:

[Urizen]

hallo

[Eric Cioe]

A bunch of stuff on translation theory for a paper - Dryden, Schleiermacher, and a collection of essays with one by Richmond Lattimore, who is the translator of Homer into English.

[downing]

Vanity Fair

[Janine]

Vanity Fair

downing, did you read it yet? Also, have you finished "Atonement" - how was it? How is "Vanity Fair"? I have the book here - happened to find it very cheap at a thriftshop one day. Love those thriftshops. It is on my 'To Read' list, which is getting longer and longer as the time wears on.....;)

[Oomoo]

I was Broch's? I've read The Death of Virgil, and I think it was bad (have you read The Death of Virgil too?), but The Sleepwalkers seems something very different.

And I really loved that Döblin's, it was amazing! How did you like it yourself?

:

I've only skimmed over a pages of The Sleepwalkers and it was very Thomas Mann-ish in approach (pedantic, heavy, too many adjectives). Doblin I've read like 40 pages, it seemed interesting, but I didn't like the prose style (I'm pretty sure it was bad translation), and in the second episode there were many casual things that seemed unrelated and even boring. Then the books were stolen from me =\

All the Names also couldn't keep me interested. It was a good book but I found out halfway through that I simply don't care.

It was you who recommended Bely, no? For some reason I haven't read it yet. I think I didn't finish the last 10 books I've read or so... I hope I'm gonna like this one.

[Etienne]

Doblin I've read like 40 pages, it seemed interesting, but I didn't like the prose style (I'm pretty sure it was bad translation), and in the second episode there were many casual things that seemed unrelated and even boring. Then the books were stolen from me =\

Hmm I've read it in French, and I found the prose extremely nice, and can't say I share your opinions about the second episode, I thoroughly enjoyed that book, I thought it was funny, entertaining and fascinating.


It was you who recommended Bely, no? For some reason I haven't read it yet. I think I didn't finish the last 10 books I've read or so... I hope I'm gonna like this one.

Yes I keep preaching for Petersburg to be read, it is one of my favorite works, undeniably.

[thelastmelon]

Animal Farm - George Orwell

[aeroport]

Blake's Milton

[Janine]

Several books on Chekhov, two commentary and one thick biography
Willa Cather Stories, Poems, and Other Writings
Dubliners (renewed it for another 2 weeks)
Christina Rossetti: Love and Devotion (illustrated poetry anthology)
and movies, movies, movies...always.....:lol:

[moose gurl]

A non-fiction book titled "This is Your Brain on Music"...about how your brain responds to music, chemically, psychologically...very fascinating, very interesting. Checked it out Monday.

[byquist]

The Betrayal of Work, How Low-Wage Jobs Fail 30 Million Americans and their Families, by Beth Shulman

Everyone should read this; it shames and puts a blot on our society (the US that is).

[ntropyincarnate]

The Song of an Innocent Bystander, The Princetta, the Dawn Stag, and What Would Shakespeare Do?

[Amundsen]

schoolbook about Hebrew

[JaneEyre1986]

A non-fiction book titled "This is Your Brain on Music"...about how your brain responds to music, chemically, psychologically...very fascinating, very interesting. Checked it out Monday.

I think I have that book!

What I last checked out of the library:

At Home in Mitford-Jan Karon
Hypocrite in a Pouffy White Dress: Tales of Growing up Groovy and Cluless-Susan Jane

Three Cups of Tea: One Mans' Mission to Promote Peace--One School at a Time-Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin

Never Have Your Dog Stuffed: and Other Things I've Learned-Alan Alda

And I've got Me: Stories of my Life-Katharine Hepburn, but I've finished it, and now my grandma is reading it.

[Sarasvati21]

I actually haven't borrowed a book from the library since I was about...eight, probably. To say the library here is inferior would be a gross understatement. I don't buy books frequently, either. It's really a rather sad situation.

[aeroport]

A non-fiction book titled "This is Your Brain on Music"...about how your brain responds to music, chemically, psychologically...very fascinating, very interesting. Checked it out Monday.

My dad bought that a couple of months ago. It looks really cool.

The Early Short Stories of Henry James - James Kraft
The Early Development of Henry James - Cornelia Pulsifer Kelley

[betzen]

Four Spirits, by Sena Jeter Naslund. I don't have the book in front of me, so I might have the author's name slightly wrong. It was a good novel--set in the South during the civil rights movement.

Also, Two for the dough, by Janet Evanovich--the mystery series! They can't all be great literature! I loved it--sometimes it's nice to read something a little brainless.

[Janine]

Willa Cather
Stories, Poems, and Other Writings

Chekhov
and his prose
Thomas Winner

[amanda_isabel]

last book i asked someone to borrow for me in a library was The Reign of Greed, by Charles Derbyshire, an English translation ( a remarkable one, really) of Jose Rizal's El FIlibusterismo, which is required reading for us. I didn't really get El Fili in Filipino (since Filipino is not my mother tongue and I find reading anything long in Filipino tiring), so i was glad for the translation. I did get to appreciate the work more.. it flet like reading Les Miserables of Victor Hugo.

i don't use our school library too often. they don't have too many interesting home reading books, and as far as resources go, typically our textbooks and books at home are sufficient.

[thelastmelon]

Daughter of Fortune - Isabel Allende

[vheissu]

Daniel Martin by John Fowles. Have been wanting to read it for quite some time.
The Black Album by Hanif Kureishi. Thought it looked interesting...
and This is your brain on music by Daniel J. Levitin. Saw the title somewhere on this forum...

[thelastmelon]

Today I borrowed a book with three dramatic works by Samuel Beckett. It contained: Waiting for Godot, Endgame and Play.

[Rakthor]

Ugh, I'm a library addict. I'm there twice a week, at the very least.
Anyway, the last book I got from the library was a book of short stories by Dostoevsky. So far, I'm on The Double, and I find myself really, truly enjoying his work. And that's saying something.

[andave_ya]

V for Vendetta

[Nightshade]

V for Vendetta
thats a book?

Fahrenheit 451
-well actally I have 20+books out at the moments but tht was the last one
:D

[aeroport]

Teach Yourself Finnish!
:D

[Mariami]

Capitan's daughter by Alexander Pushkin. I have yet to return it, borrowed it about 10 or so days ago.

[_Shannon_]

Ughhh- it's been a long time. It was stupid, awful Love in the Ruins by Walker Percy...there are few books which I have loathed so much as I loathed that book.

[Wintermute]

God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything by Christopher Hitchins

What an awesome book. I wish more religious folks would take a big step and read this book--it sure would help our wonderful planet.

Doug

[thelastmelon]

Today I borrowed The Sea by John Banville and Dead Famous by Ben Elton.

[_Shannon_]

Love in The Time of Cholera

[Pyrrho]

The Poisonwood Bible

[thelastmelon]

I borrowed some books to read during the summer. And I got the following:
Atonement - Ian McEwan
Incidents of the Shrine - Ben Okri
Stars of the New Curfew - Ben Okri
Eucalyptus - Murray Bail
If On A Winter's Night A Traveller - Italo Calvino
Invisible Cities - Italo Calvino

Has anyone read any of these books? If you have, what did you think? :)

[Cayenne]

If On A Winter's Night a Traveller - Italo Calvino
To The Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf

[Zeruiah]

The Poisonwood Bible

Please tell me what you think of the book once you have a solid opinion of it. I am being forced to read it for my junior year English class and I disagree with it almost entirely. I want to hear another person's opinion to see if I'm perhaps missing the appeal of the book.

[EricP]

"Red Flag/Black Flag: French Revolution 1968" by Patrick Seale and Maureen McConville

[EricP]

I finally paid my fine at the local public library and picked up "Faulkner: Novels 1930-1935", which includes "As I Lay Dying", "Sanctuary", "Light In August", and "Pylon".

[blackbird_9]

I'm all up in Sherlock Holmes's business. Doyle is making an impression on me. I'm really enjoying it.

[thelastmelon]

Ladies Coupé by Anita Nair. Reading it for a Swedish book club in July.

[Nightshade]

Real World Research (2nd edition) by Colin Robson

[imperiex]

hi im new here :)

Layla and Majnun by Sheik Nizami Ganjavi

[Weisinheimer]

The Year of Living Biblically ~ A. J. Jacobs

[EricP]

"Dialectical Materialism" by Henri Lefebvre
"Pale Fire" by Vladimir Nabokov
"Historicizing Theory" edited by Peter C. Herman
"The Cambridge Companion to Critical Theory" edited by Fred Rush

[Gracewings]

Don Quixote

[LadyWentworth]

Two plays:

"The Philadelphia Story"
"Steel Magnolias"



A book that I saw just sitting on the shelf there:

Great Hair : Elegant Styles for Every Occasion (yes, my girly side took over when I saw that :D )

I thought it would be interesting to see what was in there but Heaven only knows how a person could attempt those styles without a friend creating those styles for you! :confused:

[EricP]

Today I took out the following books:
"The Sublime Object of Ideology" - Slavoj Zizek
"The Jameson Reader" - Fredric Jameson (edited by Michael Hardt & Kathi Weeks)
"Introduction to the Reading of Hegel" - Alexandre Kojeve
"Three Case Histories" - Sigmund Freud
"Volatile Bodies: Toward a Corporeal Feminism" - Elizabeth Grosz

[optimisticnad]

- Memento Mori by Muriel Spark.
- Laughter in the Dark by Vladimir Nabokov.

[blackbird_9]

'Why God Won't Go Away' by Newberg

[Pyrrho]

Complete Poems by T.S. Eliot

[Gracewings]

Espresso Tales by Alexander McCall Smith

[Sloan]

Anthem by Ayn Rand
The Complete Oscar Wilde

[thelastmelon]

The Jane Austen Book Club - Karen Joy Fowler

I also have two other books from the library at home:
What I Loved - Siri Hustvedt
The Black Book - Orhan Pamuk

[wilbur lim]

Julius Caesar.That is a stimulating book.It can be found in any library easily.

[TheFifthElement]

The Memoirs of a Survivor - Doris Lessing
The Wall - Jean-Paul Sartre
Jackstraws - Charles Simic
The Door - Margaret Atwood

[thelastmelon]

Where Were You, Robert? (Lost in Time) - Hans Magnus Enzensberger
Mondo et autres histoires - J. M. G. Le Clézio
The Inheritance of Loss - Kiran Desai

[hellsapoppin]

The Westies by TJ English re Irish mobsters in NYC.

Amazingly, these criminals have engaged in far more violence than have Italian mobsters in recent decades but this has not generated as much media attention. The History Channel did a report on them a few months ago but, again, it got very little attention.

[Mortis Anarchy]

Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk

Third time I've read it...can't get enough of it and I have no idea where I got the time to read it!

[eyemaker]

The Good Earth- Pearl S. Buck
The Trial- Kafka
Creative Writing manual

[vheissu]

The master and margarita by Bulgakov

I'm determined to finish it this time!

[bouquin]

Kenzaburo Oe's Pluck the Bud and Destroy the Offspring. I will start reading it tomorrow.

[weltanschauung]

foucault's history of madness. its frigging impossible to find this in a shop, meh

[RG57]

Hindu Scriptures

[andave_ya]

foucault's history of madness. its frigging impossible to find this in a shop, meh

:) I'm reading a chapter of his Discipline and Punish book and I can't decide if I like him or not. Usually I can get a feel for the author, so to speak, by reading their works, but Foucault...is impregnable.

Currently it's Charles Wilbour's translation of Les Miserables.

[crystalmoonshin]

Aside from the usual books that complement those needed for class, I borrow novels from the library. The last novel I've borrowed was Alexandre Dumas' "Twenty Years After".

[motherhubbard]

I borrowed The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz. I finished it last night and really liked it. I listened to this interview and that's what made me want to read the book (at least I think it was this interview)

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=95764750

[Lily Adams]

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess.

[SpurYourImagina]

Mountain of Black Glass by Tad Williams (Volume Three of the Otherland Series) - also currently being used as a mousepad. :)

[imthefoolonthehill]

collected poems of Stephen Crane

(3/10)

[eyemaker]

The Life and Times of Chaucer by John Gardner-- a required material for my reporting next week.

[Dark Muse]

The Knights Templar: The History and Myths of the Legendary Military Order by Sean Martin

[Silas Thorne]

Kress and van Leeuwen, The Grammar of Visual Design

[xlxlauraxlx]

Where angels fear to tread -Forster

[Caspa]

The Art of Fiction - David Lodge

[Jane'sRedRose]

Practical Magic by: Alice Hoffman

[Saladin]

That must be A Tale of Love and Darkness by Amos Oz, but i haven`t read it yet though. Some friend recommended that book for me.

[Bakiryu]

A Farewell to Arms (Hemingway.)

[skasian]

Just visited today and the fictional books I borrowed are

Scoop-Evelyn Waugh
Darkness at noon-arthur Koestler
Regenation-Pat Barker
The Jewel in the crown-Paul Scott

[TheFifthElement]

Ooh, I love my library :D

Just visited and I got:

Atom Station by Halldor Laxness
As I lay Dying by William Faulkner
Man in the Dark by Paul Auster
The Heart of a Dog by Mikhail Bulgakov and
Taking off Emily Dickenson's Clothes by Billy Collins

Ace!

[shortstoryfan]

Right now I have:

The Best American Short Stories of the Century, edited by John Updike
The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Poetry, edited by J.D. McClatchy (I'm trying very hard, but ugh, I just don't understand poetry after a certain year)
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway

I'm hoping The Old Man and the Sea will redeem my opinion of Ernest Hemingway. I've never read his work, besides a short story included in the anthology, and that I hated. Someone I knew once told me that Hemingway had a very straight-forward style, and I like decadent, romantic things, so I've avoided him. Oddly enough the picture of Hemingway on the back reminds me of the person who gave me that advice: kind of bloated and drunk looking...but he was handsome when he was young, wasn't he?

[Infinitefox]

I borrowed two. Just Past Sunset by Stephen King and Kokoro by Natsume Soeki.

[Stargazer86]

Bigfoot Cinderrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrella

Okay, not the last book I checked out. But I got my 6yr old a library card recently when I signed him up for the library summer reading program, and that was one of the books he picked. He's so proud of his card and his book choices ^^ and I'm so proud of how fantastic his reading has gotten

[crystalmoonshin]

Kazuo Ishiguro's "A Pale View of Hills" and "An Artist of the Floating World".

[TurquoiseSunset]

Twelfth Night, again.
Don Quixote, again.

I'm thinking of just buying my own copies...

[kaymf]

13 Reasons Why by Jay Asher

[Helga]

I don't really like borrowing books, I'd rather own them, but the last time I got a book from the library was about 2 years ago and it was an OK action/something book I don't remember the name but I wanted to read it cause a few years ago I borrowed another book by this author from an old friend and liked it, that one was called 'The temple' I don't remember the author either...

[eyemaker]

Beowulf..:)
for our Anglo-Saxon discussion.

[thelastmelon]

Bridget Jones's Diary - Helen Fielding
Good in bed - Jennifer Weiner
Succubus Blues - Richelle Mead

[King Mob]

The Tragic Sense of Life -Miguel de Unamuno

I highly recommend it. A must read I dare say.

[Cailin]

Molly Fox's Birthday Deirdre Madden
Fasting, Feasting Anita Desai
Tenderwire Claire Kilroy


Just rejoined my local library after years of buying books (English degree spoiled me - I felt I HAD to own every book I read!!).

[jlb4tlb]

Greetings all

My first post in a year in a half!!!!

Visited "The Lancaster Public Library" today and checked out the following;

"Heart Of Darkness" Joseph Conrad

"One The Road, The Original Scroll" Jack Kerouac

"Crime And Punishment" Fyodor Dostoevsky

"Leather Maiden" Joe R. Lansdale

[Beautifull]

Ink Exchange and Fragile Eternity by Melissa Marr

[stlukesguild]

I don't borrow from the library because I own a library.:lol: Seriously the last books I borrowed were some hefty tomes on Islamic, Persian, Indian, and Middle-Eastern art that I needed to write a term paper on Middle-Eastern art back in 2008.

[Mathor]

I'm not very good at returning books. The last time I used a library was in 5th grade when I got "The Biography of Thomas Edison". I forgot to return that and lost my membership. From that day forward, I bought all of my books from my local bookstore which sells hardcover vintage books for about 5 dollars.

[thelastmelon]

The Gift - Cecelia Ahern
The Thing Around Your Neck - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

[sprinks]

Audition Speeches for Young Actors 16+ (need to find a monologue!)
The Raw Shark Texts - Steven Hall
The War In The Air - H.G. Wells
The Time Machine - H.G. Wells
The Quest For Anastasia: Solving the mystery of the lost Romanovs
The Secret Plot to Save The Tsar

[andave_ya]

Les Miserables. I'm determined to finish it this time around.

[higley]

I don't borrow from the library because I own a library.:lol: Seriously the last books I borrowed were some hefty tomes on Islamic, Persian, Indian, and Middle-Eastern art that I needed to write a term paper on Middle-Eastern art back in 2008.

Ooh jealous.

I took out The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher recently.

[OzBlackman]

I used to always borrow literature from the library, but now I seem to buy these books more, so I can add them to my collection. Now, I usually just get geography and travel books from the library, as they're often around $50 at local bookstores, which I think is an insane price to pay for books with, as is often the case, very little information.

[tbarnes]

A Walk Across America, Peter Jenkins

such a great summer read...

[Nightshade]

Wings of the dove by Henry James
And People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks.

[Scheherazade]

A Death in the Family by James Agee

The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty

[meh!]

Various books revising for exams

'impressionism'
'impressionism and post-impressionism'

are the two titles i remember

[prendrelemick]

Katherine Mansfied -The Garden Party, and other short stories.

Chose it for a bit of light reading. "The Voyage" is a really wonderful short story.

[Scheherazade]

Katherine Mansfied -The Garden Party, and other short stories.

Chose it for a bit of light reading. "The Voyage" is a really wonderful short story.I think it is an excellent collection of short stories... And very "summery".

Hope you enjoy it too! :)

[Michael T]

'Thinks' by David Lodge.

[FanofdeBeauvoir]

A Bastarda by Violette Leduc, don't know the name in english, sorry.

[joebob]

Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead.


How's that for irony?

[Pryderi Agni]

The Mother of Dreams: Portrayals of Women in Modern Japanese Fiction and The Poems of Charlotte Bronte.

[Cailin]

The Woman in the Fifth Douglas Kennedy
Matters of Life and Death Bernard MacLaverty
Eclipse John Banville



The Kennedy book was DIRE - so disappointed because it came recommended for those who love Paris.
Really enjoying the MacLaverty short stories...

[Sheujade]

*how to find non fiction for dummies*

I don't go to the library that much, but the last book I honestly read was....
*drumroll*

Odd Thomas- by Dean Koontz

There's a story behind Dean Koontz, which I will share at a leter date...on a different thread.

[LitNetIsGreat]

Libraries are pretty cool when all is considered, what could be much better than free books? Though I am always disappointed with the central library (In Sheff) and the Uni libraries are mostly short loan so...

The last book I borrowed I think was something about good writing for journalists which I skimmed through for a few pointers and gave back. However the other day I got a letter reminding me that they are going to kill me (or something like that) if I don't bring the book back. I phoned the woman and told her that I had took it back to a different branch and she mumbled something along the lines that if it might be hidden on the bookshelf and if someone takes it out they would let me off!

I have ordered Michael Thomas CD's about learning French because they are really good. I have had them before but not had the time to follow them though. They are going to contact me when the other person brings them back. :) Though they don't know when that will be...

[Cailin]

Ian McEwan The Daydreamer
Michael J Fox Always Looking Up
JM Coetzee Disgrace
George Orwell Animal Farm

[mal4mac]

I tend to borrow paperbacks form the "new" shelf as older paperbacks in UK libraries are generally too old, yellow, and smelly to contemplate borrowing (and I have quite a high tolerance to biohazards!) Last book I borrowed, and well worth reading:

North & South by Gaskell

[neilgee]

Nice Work by David Lodge.

Easy to read but thought-provoking.

[BienvenuJDC]

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy ~Douglas Adams

[dfloyd]

suppossed to be part of a travelogue on New England.

[Dinkleberry2010]

Seven Science Fiction Novels of H.G. Wells

[DharmaBum77]

The Graphic novel "Lupin the Third"

[neilgee]

The Fall by Albert Camus. I made a reservation on this almost a month ago and today I was finally able to collect it. It's a little late for the November Book of the month discussion.

[DanielBenoit]

Majorie Garber's Shakespeare After All was probably the last book I borrowed from the library before they froze my account due to overdue fines.

[Helga]

a u.s. history book and a children's book and I'm a month late in returning....

[Cailin]

Engleby Sebastian Faulks

[mal4mac]

The Oxford Book of Essays edited by John Gross. This is a wonderful selection of essays, that is going to cost me a fortune. There are several essayists who I now must read more of...

[Thespian1975]

Frankenstein - Shelley.

[nalty7]

Mmmm i think it was "The Devils:The possessed" by Dostoyevsky but i haven't read it all because of my exams.

[Dr Jekyll]

The last book I borrowed from the library was Hawthrone's "Scarlet Letter".

[Jazz_]

Last week ;) I borrowed:
- Of Mice and Men (John Steinbeck)
- The Heart of Darkness (Joseph Conrad)
- Sense & Sensibility (Jane Austen)
- Persuasion (Jane Austen)

[Akeldama]

I borrowed Joesph Campbell's Hero With a Thousand Faces months ago (probably over a year ago at this point, now that I think of it...) and accumulated a huge fine. I haven't borrowed anything from any library since, and not because of the fine, I just have so much reading material at home to plow through.

[Boo Radley]

Blood Meridian - Cormac McCarthy

[Drkshadow03]

The History of Art by H.W. Jansen. It might be a bit too big for a library book, though. And I find myself getting impatient with it.

[crystalmoonshin]

A History of the Inquisition of Spain vol. 1 by Henry Charles Lea
Torquemada and the Spanish Inquisition by Rafael Sabatini (which I enjoyed reading BTW)
The Spanish Inquisition (A.S. Turberville)
Ideals and Ideologies: A Reader (Terence Ball and Richard Dagger)

[Lumiere]

God Knows, by Joseph Heller. I checked it out, then renewed it once, and tried to renew it again. They wouldn't let me, so I turned it in.....and checked it out again two days later. I love the library. :D

[MarkBastable]

Jaws.

I was fifteen. I'd heard it had sex in it.

[Phaedra's Love]

Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee

I'm not done. I hate all the characters in the book. But my English teacher keeps on telling me how great it is... I'll finish it one day.

[Dinkleberry2010]

On the spur of the moment I checked out Marcia Clark's Without A Doubt--largely because the cover of the book captured my attention. Marcia Clark was the lead prosecutor in the O.J. Simpson case, and the book is largely about that case. It turned out to be a fascinating book, albeit Clark had a lot of help in writing the book by someone whose name escapes me. I don't read much nonfiction about criminal cases, but Without A Doubt is an interesting book and the writing is compelling and it sheds a lot of light on the Simpson case.

[dfloyd]

and the latest DVD of Blade Runner edited abd added to by the director, Ridley Scott, in a four disc package with various comments.

[Jazz_]

The Grapes Of Wrath - John Steinbeck
Like Water For Chocolate - Laura Esquivel

[BienvenuJDC]

The Patchwork Girl of Oz ~Frank L Baum

[mal4mac]

Classical Music for Dummies - great introduction!
Mona Lisa - Sasoon - lot's of pictures, not too many words...

[applepie]

I don't really borrow one at a time, so here it is...

Wuthering Heights
Hamlet
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep (Book club read)

[PeeSlowlyAndSee]

The last book I checked out was Frank Zappa's autobiography, which is a great book.

I feel kind of silly saying that on here (Read: Not really), considering most of the other people are posting about classics and obscure literature.

[purplybob]

"Nixon: The Final Days" - Woodward and Bernstein

[grace86]

Last book I borrowed was Girl with A Pearl Earring, and that was back in August. I should probably return that book shouldn't I?! :blush:

[PeeSlowlyAndSee]

I just got back from the library.
I got "Sabbath's Theater" and a book about Cult Science Fiction Movies.

[Pryderi Agni]

The Modernization of Russia and Japan, ed. Cyril Black, and Byzantium and the Magyars by Gyula Moravcsik.

[neilgee]

Do Androids dream of electric sheep? ha ha yes it finally arrived at the library over a week after we changed book of the month

[mal4mac]

"Why music moves us" by Jeanette Bicknell - that rare thing, readable philosophy about something that matters... and Zappa is mentioned as well as Mozart... :)