Last Book You Bought and Why

I received a package from B&N just the other day containing Sala's Gift: My Mother's Holocaust Story and Johnny Got His Gun. I am looking forward to diving in to both when I get the time.

For Whom the Bell Tolls by Hemingway, and the Dummies guide to Excel :yawnb:

I have to mix work and pleasure I'm afraid :(

"Ethan Frome", Edith Wharton
and
a book with obscure Lovecraft's tales

"never let me go" Kazuo Ishiguro
"Fräulein Else" Arthur Schnitzler

Rabbit Angstrom : The Four Novels : Rabbit, Run, Rabbit Redux, Rabbit Is Rich, Rabbit at Rest (Everyman's Library) by John Updike (All four Rabbit novels in one book)
and
Albert Giraud's Pierrot Lunaire

Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell, from Half Price Books. :)

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Originally Posted by Jamesian

Before someone remarks on my being obsessed or something, I would like to mention that I am planning to take an independent study sometime next summer or next year of Henry James. Thus, catching up with the following:
The Turn of the Screw and the Aspern Papers
The Wings of the Dove
The Portrait of a Lady
The American
And I have just ordered the following:
The Awkward Age
The Spoils of Poynton
The Europeans
The Bostonians
Italian Hours
What Maisie Knew
The Outcry
The Other House
The Tragic Muse
A Small Boy and Others
The Ivory Tower
The Princess Casamassima

Henry James at Work - Theodora Bosanquet
The Cambridge Companion to Henry James

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That is cool! That is --so--cool! just a couple of books bought by a book lover. Man, if there were only more people like you!

"When I have money I buy books, and if there is any left I buy food and clothing."
--Erasmus

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Originally Posted by Pensive

What an interesting novel! I hope the one you gift it to likes it!

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I hope that too :)

The Dark Room ~ R.K. Narayan

"The tin drum", Guenter Grass

If on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino

Behind the Lines (collection of letters) - Andrew Carroll
Banishing Verona - Margot Livesey
Misfortune - Wesley Stace

Bought them all at the Dollar Tree last night! 3 nice, hardcover books. I've been meaning to get Behind the Lines as I had the other two collections. What luck, huh?!

It's one of my most irritating habits(especially for my big sis!)to buy books whenever I get hold of some money.My mom never trusts her daughter in this very case and is therefore ever reluctant to hand me money for any purpose.okay now,the last book I bought huh?well,it was...as far as I can recall...'A volume of stories of Misir Ali' by Humayun Ahmed,currently the most renowned author of my country,Bangladesh.

the new Harry Potter

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Originally Posted by andave_ya

That is cool! That is --so--cool! just a couple of books bought by a book lover. Man, if there were only more people like you!

"When I have money I buy books, and if there is any left I buy food and clothing."
--Erasmus

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Many thanks. I'm thinking the wisest thing is to stop buying them now... I'm beginning a project of one chapter a night for the next year or so (perhaps ever after, if I like it) in order to acquaint myself with more of his works before the class, so I consider myself completely justified... ;)

The Ticket That Exploded by Burroughs and Lolita by Nabakov...