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"Books and Writers" by Robert Wilson Lynd. Because I've read a copy from the library and I truly liked it. Therefore, I decided to own it. Robert Lynd was a genius. A true man of letters who has been praised by Chesterton, J. B. Priestley, H. M. Tomlinson & L. A. G. Strong.
Fear of Flying (Erica Jong)
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
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Currently reading: Pères et Fils (Ivan Tourgueniev)
The Talk of the Town (Ardal O'Hanlon)
A Town Like Alice (Nevil Shute)
The Temple of My Familiar (Alice Walker)
Bouvard et Pécuchet (Gustave Flaubert)
Uncle Spence and Other Stories (Aldous Huxley)
The Killer Inside Me (Jim Thompson)
The Black Prince (Iris Murdoch)
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Currently reading: Kafka on the Shore (Haruki Murakami)
On Such a Full Sea by Chang-rae Lee
I had wanted to read Native Speaker and just as I got around to checking it out from the library, this book was released. The plot of this one sounds better, so I'm going to read it first.
Histoire du Siège de Lisbonne (José Saramago)
I bought a Copy of Angelmaker by Nick Harkaway. Its been on my to read list for a while and I found 1 copy in the pound shop so grabbed it!
I bougth "Charmed Life" ı don't remember the author. ı got it because the cover looked interesting and I am a book by it'scover type of person.
I bought a book called The Shaman's Secret because that book looked interesting to me. the book is talking about a mystery and i like mystery. im now on an other book so i haven't read it yet.
The last book I bought was Lady Grace Mysteries because I love mysterious books and this book is about a valentines day murder.
Les Liaisons Dangereuses (Pierre Choderlos de Laclos)
Independent People (Halldor Laxness)
^^ Choderlos de Laclos - great choice, one of my alltime favourites in French, @bouquin!
Me, it's been "The Marriage Plot" by Jeffrey Eugenides, somewhat less brilliant than his former books; and then "War and Peace" in the French version (been reading for 4 months now, have finished 3/4 roughly, and it's worth spending months on it!)
that's good to know. Thanks, DieterM.
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (John Le Carré)
Loving Living Party Going (Henry Green)
Possessing the Secret of Joy (Alice Walker)
The Elegance of the Hedgehog (Muriel Barbery)
The Birds Fall Down (Rebecca West)
The House of Doctor Dee (Peter Ackroyd)
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Currently reading: Voss (Patrick White)
4 volume set of A Dance To the Music of Time by Anthony Powell, Folio Society. Why? Looks great next to my folio Proust set, but seriously, I want to read it.
The Toilers of the Sea by Victor Hugo, The Limited Editions Club. I wanted another quality seafaring book.
I bought these both for about half of what the Dance set typically goes for, so it was a steal.
I had decided not to buy books until I have finished all the books I have in my bookcase unread. but I bought three biographies last week about three poets and authors from the ice and I bought essays by Freud and short stories by an author from the ice and Jan Kott's essays about Shakespeare.
Now I just have more books I can't read until next summer.
Tenth of December by George Saunders because I love CivilWarLand in Bad Decline, and because it was by the register.
The Sirens of Titan because Vonnegut is my girlfriend's favorite other and yet she hasn't read it!
The Flamethrowers by Rachel Kushner, again for my girlfriend, but I'll be reading this one as well.