A Farewell to Arms (Hemingway.)
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A Farewell to Arms (Hemingway.)
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
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!
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?
I borrowed two. Just Past Sunset by Stephen King and Kokoro by Natsume Soeki.
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
Kazuo Ishiguro's "A Pale View of Hills" and "An Artist of the Floating World".
Twelfth Night, again.
Don Quixote, again.
I'm thinking of just buying my own copies...
13 Reasons Why by Jay Asher
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...
Beowulf..:)
for our Anglo-Saxon discussion.
Bridget Jones's Diary - Helen Fielding
Good in bed - Jennifer Weiner
Succubus Blues - Richelle Mead
The Tragic Sense of Life -Miguel de Unamuno
I highly recommend it. A must read I dare say.
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!!).
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