Last book you borrowed from the library.

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Doblin I've read like 40 pages, it seemed interesting, but I didn't like the prose style (I'm pretty sure it was bad translation), and in the second episode there were many casual things that seemed unrelated and even boring. Then the books were stolen from me =\

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Hmm I've read it in French, and I found the prose extremely nice, and can't say I share your opinions about the second episode, I thoroughly enjoyed that book, I thought it was funny, entertaining and fascinating.

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It was you who recommended Bely, no? For some reason I haven't read it yet. I think I didn't finish the last 10 books I've read or so... I hope I'm gonna like this one.

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Yes I keep preaching for Petersburg to be read, it is one of my favorite works, undeniably.

Animal Farm - George Orwell

Blake's Milton

Several books on Chekhov, two commentary and one thick biography
Willa Cather Stories, Poems, and Other Writings
Dubliners (renewed it for another 2 weeks)
Christina Rossetti: Love and Devotion (illustrated poetry anthology)
and movies, movies, movies...always.....:lol:

A non-fiction book titled "This is Your Brain on Music"...about how your brain responds to music, chemically, psychologically...very fascinating, very interesting. Checked it out Monday.

The Betrayal of Work, How Low-Wage Jobs Fail 30 Million Americans and their Families, by Beth Shulman

Everyone should read this; it shames and puts a blot on our society (the US that is).

The Song of an Innocent Bystander, The Princetta, the Dawn Stag, and What Would Shakespeare Do?

schoolbook about Hebrew

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A non-fiction book titled "This is Your Brain on Music"...about how your brain responds to music, chemically, psychologically...very fascinating, very interesting. Checked it out Monday.

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I think I have that book!

What I last checked out of the library:

At Home in Mitford-Jan Karon
Hypocrite in a Pouffy White Dress: Tales of Growing up Groovy and Cluless-Susan Jane

Three Cups of Tea: One Mans' Mission to Promote Peace--One School at a Time-Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin

Never Have Your Dog Stuffed: and Other Things I've Learned-Alan Alda

And I've got Me: Stories of my Life-Katharine Hepburn, but I've finished it, and now my grandma is reading it.

I actually haven't borrowed a book from the library since I was about...eight, probably. To say the library here is inferior would be a gross understatement. I don't buy books frequently, either. It's really a rather sad situation.

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A non-fiction book titled "This is Your Brain on Music"...about how your brain responds to music, chemically, psychologically...very fascinating, very interesting. Checked it out Monday.

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My dad bought that a couple of months ago. It looks really cool.

The Early Short Stories of Henry James - James Kraft
The Early Development of Henry James - Cornelia Pulsifer Kelley

Four Spirits, by Sena Jeter Naslund. I don't have the book in front of me, so I might have the author's name slightly wrong. It was a good novel--set in the South during the civil rights movement.

Also, Two for the dough, by Janet Evanovich--the mystery series! They can't all be great literature! I loved it--sometimes it's nice to read something a little brainless.

Willa Cather
Stories, Poems, and Other Writings

Chekhov
and his prose
Thomas Winner

last book i asked someone to borrow for me in a library was The Reign of Greed, by Charles Derbyshire, an English translation ( a remarkable one, really) of Jose Rizal's El FIlibusterismo, which is required reading for us. I didn't really get El Fili in Filipino (since Filipino is not my mother tongue and I find reading anything long in Filipino tiring), so i was glad for the translation. I did get to appreciate the work more.. it flet like reading Les Miserables of Victor Hugo.

i don't use our school library too often. they don't have too many interesting home reading books, and as far as resources go, typically our textbooks and books at home are sufficient.

Daughter of Fortune - Isabel Allende

Daniel Martin by John Fowles. Have been wanting to read it for quite some time.
The Black Album by Hanif Kureishi. Thought it looked interesting...
and This is your brain on music by Daniel J. Levitin. Saw the title somewhere on this forum...

Today I borrowed a book with three dramatic works by Samuel Beckett. It contained: Waiting for Godot, Endgame and Play.

Ugh, I'm a library addict. I'm there twice a week, at the very least.
Anyway, the last book I got from the library was a book of short stories by Dostoevsky. So far, I'm on The Double, and I find myself really, truly enjoying his work. And that's saying something.

V for Vendetta

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V for Vendetta

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thats a book?

Fahrenheit 451
-well actally I have 20+books out at the moments but tht was the last one
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Teach Yourself Finnish!
:D

Capitan's daughter by Alexander Pushkin. I have yet to return it, borrowed it about 10 or so days ago.

Ughhh- it's been a long time. It was stupid, awful Love in the Ruins by Walker Percy...there are few books which I have loathed so much as I loathed that book.

God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything by Christopher Hitchins

What an awesome book. I wish more religious folks would take a big step and read this book--it sure would help our wonderful planet.

Doug

Today I borrowed The Sea by John Banville and Dead Famous by Ben Elton.

Love in The Time of Cholera

The Poisonwood Bible

I borrowed some books to read during the summer. And I got the following:
Atonement - Ian McEwan
Incidents of the Shrine - Ben Okri
Stars of the New Curfew - Ben Okri
Eucalyptus - Murray Bail
If On A Winter's Night A Traveller - Italo Calvino
Invisible Cities - Italo Calvino

Has anyone read any of these books? If you have, what did you think? :)

If On A Winter's Night a Traveller - Italo Calvino
To The Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf

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The Poisonwood Bible

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Please tell me what you think of the book once you have a solid opinion of it. I am being forced to read it for my junior year English class and I disagree with it almost entirely. I want to hear another person's opinion to see if I'm perhaps missing the appeal of the book.

"Red Flag/Black Flag: French Revolution 1968" by Patrick Seale and Maureen McConville

I finally paid my fine at the local public library and picked up "Faulkner: Novels 1930-1935", which includes "As I Lay Dying", "Sanctuary", "Light In August", and "Pylon".

I'm all up in Sherlock Holmes's business. Doyle is making an impression on me. I'm really enjoying it.

Ladies Coupé by Anita Nair. Reading it for a Swedish book club in July.

Real World Research (2nd edition) by Colin Robson

hi im new here :)

Layla and Majnun by Sheik Nizami Ganjavi

The Year of Living Biblically ~ A. J. Jacobs

"Dialectical Materialism" by Henri Lefebvre
"Pale Fire" by Vladimir Nabokov
"Historicizing Theory" edited by Peter C. Herman
"The Cambridge Companion to Critical Theory" edited by Fred Rush

Don Quixote

Two plays:

"The Philadelphia Story"
"Steel Magnolias"



A book that I saw just sitting on the shelf there:

Great Hair : Elegant Styles for Every Occasion (yes, my girly side took over when I saw that :D )

I thought it would be interesting to see what was in there but Heaven only knows how a person could attempt those styles without a friend creating those styles for you! :confused: