I am reading it in the moment. It seems to be a very good choice :pQuote:
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I am reading it in the moment. It seems to be a very good choice :pQuote:
Originally Posted by thelastmelon
The Cloudspotter's Guide
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
Patrick Süskind
"From the Earth to the Moon" by Jules Verne.
I ran out of science fiction to read months ago and now I'm happy I have a new one. :D
Good choice Lily Adams :)Quote:
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Interesting book, Befida.Quote:
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Oh, yay, I was hoping it was. Read the intro and chapter one last night...Quote:
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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!!!