Interesting book, Befida.Quote:
Originally Posted by befida
Printable View
Interesting book, Befida.Quote:
Originally Posted by befida
Oh, yay, I was hoping it was. Read the intro and chapter one last night...Quote:
Originally Posted by TheFifthElement
eleven minutes by paulo quilho and in the country of men by hisham matar
"The Horn of Merlyns" Violet Needham - Not one of her best, I think.
"Lone Survivor" by Marcus Luttrell with Patrick Robinson 'The Eyewitness Account Of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of Seal Team 10" {a real page turner} quasimodo1
"The Hours" by Michael Cunningham. I wanted to buy it for a long time. I have watched the film based on it and I liked it, I have read "Mrs. Dalloway" and I was curious. May be a month ago I have read one of his other books - "A Home at the End of the World" and I was impressed, so it was about time :)
I have also bought a copy of French edition of "La Peau de chagrin" by Balzac. When last year I read "Le Père Goriot" I quite liked it so I've decided to try something else by Balzac. I actually have a translation of the whole "La Comédie humaine", but I wanted to work a bit on my French too.
Well... this past week lead to several new purchases. Among these was Inner Voices a volume of collected poems by Richard Howard. I also got a new collection of translations of Aristophanes plays. Closer to my own area of expertise... the visual arts... I got a book entitled Degas and the Dance which focuses on Degas' marvelous pastels drawings of ballerinas. I almost forgot how much I loved his work... and how much I use to love working in charcoal, terra-cotta and paste. Another art book is a brief essay entitled The Piero Della Francesca Trail by the art historian John Pope-Hennessy exploring the work of the marvelous Italian Renaissance painter. How could I resist after this opening line?:
"There comes a point in life when the artists one has known cease to be objects of research and become friends."
In perhaps perfect compliment to the Degas book I also had to get Whistler and his Circle in Venice which includes many of his great prints and pastels... but also paintings and prints by other ex-patriots... most importantly, John Singer Sargent.
Three books that I have torn into already include a newer translation of The Gospel of Thomas with comments by Harold Bloom, The Schools We Need (& why we don't have them) by E.D. Hirsch (one of those books geared at my professional interests as a teacher) which argues convincingly for standards and points out that progressive notions of "higher order thinking skills" are useless without a student having a core knowledge upon which to build. And then... A Splendor of Letters by Nicholas A. Brisbanes, the bibliophile author of A Gentle Madness who has made his own bibliophilia/bibliomania into a career. The chapter entitled From the Ashes which examines the deliberate destruction of the library of Sarjevo by the Serbs during the recent Bosnian/Serbian war, the destruction of the library of Louvaine by the invading Germans in WWI or almost the entirety of written history by the Khmer Rouge is quite heart-wrenching for any book-lover.
Green Hills Of Africa~Hemingway
To stlukesguild: Great information and you do have diverse interests. Now to find what I can't remember about Richard Howard, quite the scholar and poet. quasimodo1
Tess of the D'Ubervilles~ Thomas Hardy... 1 buck!!!
"The rainbow" D.H Lawrence
"The tower" Franz Kafka
Shalimar the Clown by Salman Rushdie
:sick: I just could not get into that book. Hope you enjoy it better than I did. Couldnt finish it and its not like me not to finish a book.Quote:
Originally Posted by brimstone
Bridge to Terrabithia by Kathrine Paterson
I had a great day at book mall!
Here we go:
Mihail Bulgakov - Master and Margarita
Fyodor Dostoevsky - Poor Folks, Adolescent,The Gambler, and numerous of his short stories. The Idiot is now his only piece of work I don't posses. But I will, soon!:)
Ivan Turgenev - Waters of spring
John Steinbeck - The Grapes of Wrath
Richard Overy - The Dictators: Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Russia
Doris Lessing, London observed: Stories and Sketches
i've been thinking of buying this for almost 2 weeks but i didn't have time to go to bookstore. but finally i got it on last saturday! and finished it by last monday, i found it really interesting, interesting enough to get nobel prize :)
next time i'm gonna read "The 5th child" by Lessing.
I got 3 at the second-hand bookstore today:
Quartet in Autumn by Barbara Pym
Every Man for Himself by Beryl Bainbridge
The Catastrophist by Ronan Bennett
H.P. Lovecraft ~ The Dreams in the Withchouse and other Weird stories
I've added Idiot to my Dostoevsky's collection( now it's finally completed :) ), and Pushkin's poems and plays.
"In search of lost time" vol 1 M. Proust
The Portable Atheist edited by Christopher Hitchens
Ines de alma mia (Ines of my soul) by Isabel Allende
I bought some books a couple of weeks ago when there was the annual book fair in Helsinki Fair Center :) (I really have to go there every year :lol:)
- Lucy Maud Montgomery - Emily of New Moon, Emily Climbs and Emilys Quest
- Torey Hayden - Somebody Else's Kids and Beautiful Child
- Neil Gaiman - Stardust
- Finnish-Russian-Finnish Dictionary
...and all that only cost me 25 euros!
At a local book fair i bought a few classic novels
A passage to India
Journey to the centre of the earth
And three or four Clive Cussler novels.
These days I tend to borrow more books from the Library then I buy i am running out of room to store them:flare:
The adaptation of Arnaldo Jabor's movie Love Me Forever or Never (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0122480/)
(hey, I loved the English title, it's better than the Portuguese one - something like "I know I'll love you")
Here is a list of books I just bought today
Four Dark Nights, four original novellas by Bently Little, Douglas Clegg, Christopher Golden and Tom Piccirilli
Jack Maggs, by Peter Carey
Shroud of Shadow, by Gael Baudino
Vasari's Lives of the Painters, Sculpotors, and Architechts.
Enter Jeeves: 15 Early Stories by P.G. Wodehouse
The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester
I just bought two books today that were in the bargain section. One about Jane Austen's life and times. The other was American Brutus. That is about John Wilkes Booth and the Lincoln conspiracies. I was actually thrilled to find that one. It was a hardcover for $7. I only saw it as $30 otherwise! :) Pretty decent deal!
The Selected Letters of Anton Chekhov, Dr. Zhivago by Boris Pasternak, This is not a Book by Micheal Picard
I have a hard time resisting book stores so I brought home a copy of Crime and Punishment from the mall the other day. I can't wait to start it but I'm trying finish Brothers Karamazov first (which is very good as well).
Thomas Hardy's "A Pair of Blue Eyes".
I have a little pile of new books :p :banana:
1. a french edition of "99 francs" by Frédérick Beigbeder
2. "Je crois Moi non plus : Dialogue entre un évêque et un mécréant" by Frédérick Beigbeder (again :lol: )
3. "L'Herbe rouge" by Boris Vian
4. "Exercises in Style" by Raymond Queneau
5. "The Real Life of Sebastian Knight" by Vladimir Nabokov
6. "My Name is Red" by Orhan Pamuk
7. "The Complete Ilustrated Works of William Shakespeare"
8. "La sagesse des Modernes" by André Comte-Sponville and Luc Ferry
Hi Alexei, :lol: *She has 'a little pile' of new books! :lol: ...just a little pile, A? #7 - being a world in it's own - "The Complete Illustrated Works of William Shakespeare"!!! You leave me in the dust once again, Alexei....*sigh*Quote:
Originally Posted by Alexei
How nice, an illustrated volume of Shakespeare - splendid!
Hi Amalia, I read "A Pair of Blue Eyes" by Hardy, also. I don't recall too much about that book, but at the time, I believe I did like it. I read nearly all of Hardy's novels once. Someday I will probably read them all again.
Personally, I have not bought any new books lately. I often find some they are giving away at my library, but these past few months, I have not found any really good ones there...oh well.. I did find a book that looked sort of interesting of 20th Century Mystery stories and last night I found the book "The Secret Life of Bees" - either I will read that eventually, or give it away to a friend. I don't know much about the book, just that I have seen it on some reading lists.
I did buy some audiobooks recently - mostly William Shakespeare and some short stories of Chekhov, narrated by Kenneth Branagh; oh and the audiotapes of "Frankenstein", the original text, also narrated by Kenneth B. Can't wait to get to those. Currently, I am listening to the audiobook of "Women in Love" and enjoying it very much...it is so different listening to someone narrating the book. I sometimes stop and say - 'did I really read this book before?' - and I read it twice, so that statement is a bit strange. I must have read it, when I was falling asleep or with one eye open...;)
I bought five books some weeks ago:
The Sickness Unto Death (Soren Kierkegaard)
The Pickwick Papers (Charles Dickens)
Fathers and Sons (Ivan Turgenev)
Common Sense (Thomas Paine)
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain)
Hi, Janine! :wave: I've wanted to buy a copy from this edition of Shakespeare's works for almost two years and I finally did :banana: :banana: :banana: I have tired from sighing, while I am looking it in the bookstore :lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by Janine
There actually was an occasion about all this "shopping". Between 5th and 9th of December this year in Sofia took place the annual book fair (officially Sofia International Book Fair) and, of course, seeing so many books, I couldn't resist the temptation and start buying :D
A month ago I watched Kenneth Branagh's version of "As You Like It" (I think it is from 2006) and I liked it very much. Everything was so vivid and beautiful, one could really feel the spirit of the play. I knew he made a lot of films, based on Shakespeare's plays, but I didn't know he had narrated audiobooks. It's seems interesting, I will try to find a few although i am not a big fan of audiobooks. I prefer reading the book by myself. With audiobooks I link too strongly the narrator's voice with my general impression of the book.Quote:
Originally Posted by Janine
Hi, LeonMello! Welcome to the forum. "Fathers and Sons" is the Christmas reading of the forum book club. It will be nice if you join us in the discussion:Quote:
Originally Posted by LeonMello
http://www.online-literature.com/for...ad.php?t=30901
Alexei, Thanks for you mini-review; I have wanted to know if the film was any good. I am dying to see it; in fact, I really want to buy it, to add to my KB collection - I am an avid fan of KB's and of Shakespeare, so you can imagine my film collection, by now. Ok, so I went and bought the soundtrack and I have been listening to it ever since - it is grand and so lovely - I love Patrick Doyle's soundtracks and own all the ones from KB films and others as well. Immediately, after hearing the music, I knew I must also love the film; and what I have read about it from reviews makes it sound totally delightful and beautiful.Quote:
Originally Posted by Alexei
How lovely - a whole book fair...and what fun!:D You must have had a time choosing just 'a small pile'... :lol: That Shakespeare book sounds terrific...it seems like something I would fully appreciate being an artist. I must look into it.
Yes, LeonMello, do join us in the discussion group. It should be very good and lively. Welcome to Lit Net. This is a great site with many nice people.... and other avid readers, like Alexei! :lol: I like your dancing bananas very much, A!
I just won these books on e-bay
1) Father And Sons by Ivan S. Turgenev.
2) Tess Of The D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy.
3) How To Judge Of A Picture by John C. Van Dyke.
4) The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky
The last books that I bought were "early Christmas presents" from my Grandma. She gives me $50 every Christmas (and then buys more gifts on top of that). So, from BarnesandNoble.com, I bought the following.
An Incomplete Education: 3,684 THINGS YOU SHOULD HAVE LEARNED BUT PROBABLY DIDN'T by Judy Jones and William Wilson
This book is my favorite of the three I purchased. It's pretty self-explanatory; it is divided into twelve chapters, each dedicated to a specific subject, ie. American Studies (Lit and History), Art History, Economics, Film, Literature, Music, Philosophy, etc. These chapters have several things included in them. For instance, in Chapter 5 Literature, there is a section entitled "The Carriages: Wheels of Fortune" which describes carriages that we might encounter when reading literature (such as a phaeton, a curricle, a cabriolet, a broughman, a gig, etc.). Very informative indeed!
The Politcally Incorrect Guide to English and American Literature by Elizabeth Kandor (I think.)
This book is very amusing and informative at the same time. It is what the title says, a guide to English and American literature. However, it is from a conservative point of view (or better yet, a politically incorrect point of view). I've learned a lot from simply skimming over the pages.
The Superior Person's Field Guide to Deceitful, Deceptive, and Downright Dangerous Language by Peter Bowler
This book is not exactly what one might think from reading the title. Essentially, it's a compendium of euphemisms and their 'real' meanings. For example, Bowler defines Adult (n.) as "pornographic." He also covers such things as "Accessible Parking" (which is supposedly parking for cripples, to be blunt), and points out that all parking is accessible, therefore making the term "accessible parking" confusing, to say the least.
The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
Eragon by Christophre Paolini
The Ballad of the Sad Cafe by Carson McCullers
The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith
Working in a Very Small Space by Mark Shelton
The Jane Auten Book Club by Karen Joy Fowler
Dori let me know if you enjoy An Incomplete Education, I've been thinking of picking it up.
Some books I bought recently:
King Lear - Shakespeare (Penguin Paperback)
Macbeth - Shakespeare (B&N Paperback)
*These first two were for school. Complete collections of Shakespeare are awesome to have, but not when you have to lug a dictionary size book to class every day along with three other textbooks and a notebook!)
Then I bought:
The Rainbow - D.H. Lawrence
Sons and Lovers - D.H. Lawrence
*These were to help complete my collection of major works of D.H. Lawrence, seeing how we're all so fond of reading them recently! ;)
1) El Greco, the painter of God written by a famous Greek writer
2)The Song of Troy - Colleen McCullough
3)La Reine Crusifee- Gilber Sinoue
4)Love in the Time of Cholera-Gabriel Garcia Marces