"I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou.. so far it's been great. :)
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"I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou.. so far it's been great. :)
The Narrows - Michael Connelly
Sleepwalking Land - Mia Couto
Desert Children - Waris Dirie
Half Of A Yellow Sun - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The Lover - Marguerite Duras
On my latest two occasions (sp?) I bought:
Night - Elie Weisel
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
Anthem - Ayn Rand
The Dolorous Passion of our Lord Jesus Christ - Anne Catherine Emmerich
The Communist Manifesto - Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
The Origin of Species - Charles Darwin
Evolution and Ethics - Thomas H. Huxley
Sounds like I'm a bit eclectic, but I promise, there is reason behind the madness.
The Attack - Yasmina Khadra
Yesterday I purchased The Snows of Kilimanjaro and As I Lay Dying.
Also, in the mail I have three political books on the way.
All Men Are Mortal-Simone de Beauvoir
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Originally Posted by Erichtho
I have read some of Pirandello's short stories; they're excellent.
I recently purchased the following:
The Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith
Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann
A Delicate Balance by Edward Albee.
I bought them at a second-hand book shop in Avignon, on the Rue Trois Faucons. I paid 8 euros for the 3 volumes.
Kim by Rudyard Kipling i'v never heard of it but i found sth pushed me to by it may be the short title...... ..........
Stardust by Gaiman
Candide By Voltaire
2nd hand copy of A Clockwork Orange for about $1
I'm taking advantage of the holyweek to read all the books I have purchased from booksale last month! Yay now I have the time to read them.
The Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man ~ James Joyce
Selected Stories - Butch Dalisay
101 Things You Didn't Know About Shakespeare
The Elements of Style - E.B White
Madame Bovary - Gustav Flaubert
Conversations with Ingmar Bergman
Our Secret Discipline: Yeats and Lyric Form - Helen Vendler
I was given Special Topics in Calamity Physics. I think the last book I actually purchased was a book on running techniques. The last novel I actually purchased was Fahrenheit 451.
The last books i bought would be
Ten Things I Hate About Me - Randa Abdel-Fattah
A Midsummer Night's Dream - Shakespeare
m or f? - Lisa Papademetriou and Chris Tebbetts
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
Will - Maria Boyd
well i didnt buy but was given as a present a book of short stories by F.Scott Fitzgerald "The diamon as big as the Ritz"
'The rules of attraction' - Bret Easton Ellis
'American Psycho' - Bret Easton Ellis
'Neither here nor there' - Bill Bryson
and some german book by Charlotte Link
Deception Point by Dan Brown
all the King's men by Robert Penn Worren
He's an interesting one; I just read Less Than Zero last summer. Creepy...Quote:
Originally Posted by summersun
Today, in the mail, I received:
The American Renaissance: Art and Expression in the Age of Emerson and Whitman - F.O. Matthiessen
Roderick Hudson - Henry James
The Great Gatsby-F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Fountainhead-Ayn Rand
Doctor Faustus-Thomas Mann
The Love Poems of Elizabeth and Robert Browning
I went on a bit of a spree when I came across a second hand shop near where I live... I can never resist those.
Sylvia Plath - The Bell Jar
Ken Kesey - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Hemingway - True at First Light
Faulkner - Light in August
Solzhenitsin - One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch
mushsin, This is so funny; I was in my library last night and saw this book in the free bin. I never heard of it before, but my friend likes Dan Brown, so I picked it up for her. Is it a good read? Just curious. It did look sort of interesting from the cover and unlike his "DaVinci Code" and other books.Quote:
Originally Posted by muhsin
I've been away for a bit and in that time, I've bought a fair amount of books. I was trying to get out of my Russian rut so I made a concerted effort to avoid anything Russian for awhile so I got:
Growth of the Soil and Victoria by Knut Hamsun
Nothing-Doting-Blindness by Henry Green
The Fish Can Sing by Halldor Laxness
Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee
My Antonia by Willa Cather
Somersault by Kenzaburo Oe...and
Scum by Isaac Bahevis Singer
...but then I got this overwhelming feeling that something was missing so yesterday I ordered:
The Law of Eternity by Nodar Dumbadze, who is actually Georgian so not Russian but a Soviet Georgian so...close...sort of... That book was recommened to me by someone at the librarything site.
Pretender to the Throne: Further Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin by Vladimir Voinovich...and
The Twelve Chairs by Ilya Ilf
Now I have a freakishly long 'to read' pile but all is right with the world now that it has some Russian in it. :D
Marie Antoinette: The Journey by Antonia Frazer
Well I am quite happy, I just got the complete works of Edgar Allan Poe
I scoured the school bookshop in the past week for some holiday reading. To me it's all free, 'cause it gets billed on my parents' account! They'll never know!:D
Anyway, here's what I bought:
The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
Hatchet - Gary Paulsen
Love in the Time of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
An Evil Cradling - Brian Keenan
The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
Kim - Rudyard Kipling
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The Outsider - Albert Camus
Madame Bovary - Gustav Flaubert
Waiting for Godot (The play) - Samuel Beckett
And here's some other books I've bought, though they weren't from the school bookshop, in the past week:
The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again - Andy Warhol
No Country for Old Men - Cormac McCarthy
The Book Thief - Markus Zusak
and then I bought one for my Father:
Atonement - Ian McEwan
Haha, spent all my debit card on those!
So, what you think, good selection?
Recently bought:
Candide: Or Optimism by Voltaire
Cats Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
Hatchet - Gary Paulsen: I read that book a long time ago, but I do remember enjoying it
The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck: I enjoyed this book more than I thought I would, sense I really did not care for Of Mice and Men
Kim - Rudyard Kipling: This is a good book
Madame Bovary - Gustav Flaubert: I have just recently aquired a copy of this, have not read it yet, but look forward to doing so soon
:D :thumbs_upQuote:
Originally Posted by Niamh
Exit A by Anthony Swoffard - I didn't care for it that much...
The Five People You Meet In Heaven by Mitch Albom - Thought it was decent, not as good as everyone says it is
The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis - Haven't read it yet, looks promising
The Collected Poetry and Prose of Wallace Stevens
How to Read a Poem - Terry Eagleton
I guess, technically, the last book I bought was a new Moleskine pocket journal. But I just ordered Amazing Grace: William Wilberforce and the Heroic Campaign to End Slavery by Eric Metaxas. Looking forward to reading it after seeing the movie.
A Creative Approach to Music Fundamentals
Language: Its Structure and Use
Evolutionary Medicine and Health
Those are for class this quarter. Intro to Music (theory), Intro to Linguistics, and Biological Approaches to Medical Anthropology classes (respectively)
This is going to be an interesting quarter.
Oops!!!
Most of these I just got for one of my classes but most of them also happend to be upon one of my book lists as well.
Dubliners, James Joyce
A Passage to India, E.M. Forster
The Death of the Heart, Elizabeth Bowen
To the Lighthouse, Virginia Wolf
*The Ambassadors, Henry James
*The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood
*The Island of the Day Before, Umberto Eco
*Dark Voices, a collection of horror stories
* These ones I got for only for my personal reading pleasure, and are not school related.
One of my favorites! I just bought A Cloclwork Orange by Anthony Burgess. I've seen the movie countless times, but never read the book. I also bought Norman Mailer's The Naked and the Dead, I've been told that no self-respecting U.S. soldier could go without reading this book.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dark Muse
The Crying of Lot 49, by Thomas Pynchon- Haven't gotten around to starting it yet, but I've heard it's his most accessible work and therefore probably the best way to introduce myself to his writing.