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I certainly love rabbits. How did you find the story?:)Quote:
Originally Posted by limajean
The Plague by Camus. To read it . . .
Ticket to Ride - Larry Kane
Life Mask - Emma Donoghue
I got them both from the Dollar Store. That seems to be where my store of choice is lately for all of my books.
Isn't it perculier that hardly any of us 'literature junkies' buy one book at a time, always 2, 3 or more!
Looking for Alaska by John Green
Brave new world by Aldous Huxley
The surgeon of Crawthorne by Simon Winchester
Tove Jansson - Moominsummer Madness
Because I love her books, they are so sweet and have very wise thoughts.
Last book bought:
Tess of the D'urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
Why bought it:
Have been meaning to read it for a while, read a little on Google book search and then thought I had to get it because I loved it too much and wanted to underline/highlight bits I loved.
The last book I bought, which was last week, was the English translation of The Reader originally written in German by Bernhard Schlink.
The reason I bought it was that Kate Winslet won an Academy Award for the movie based on this book. I was interested by the movie sypnosis. This book is really worth a read. It is short and could be finished in three to four hours. Each of the three parts deal with very different emotions.
Last book I purchased is entitled: You Suck [A love story]
Why?
I was at the Walden bookstore and was planning on buying a journal.
Instead I spotted a light, bright blue covered book with large red letters
and a vampire mouth with fangs. Not only did that catch my attention; the title itself got me curious.
After reading the entire book, I must say.....it did not suck. haha:)
The last book I bought is entitled: The Penguin Book of American Short Stories
The reason is: I'm preparing for my MA in American Literature and those stories will enrich my knowledge.
I'm always intrigued by that book.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bookthief
YES! I love the authors form of writing.Quote:
Originally Posted by papayahed
Ghosts of London - J.A. Brooks
The Ghost Hunters Favorite Cases - Hans Holzer
Sister Carrie - Theodore Dreiser
The Day Loncoln Was Shot - Jim Bishop
Wild Women - Autumn Stephens
Why? They were cheap. I got them from a used bookstore that is going out-of-business for half off of an already decently discounted price.
Justine by Lawrence Durrell. It is one of a quartet of books about the lifes and loves of characters living in Alexandria, Egypt just prior to and during WWII. The first three novels tell the same story but in different perspectives. Time dosesn't move onward until the fourth or last novel. Have just finished Justine and have ordered the second novel, Balthazar. Number three is Mountolive and four is Clea. Very passionate novels and extremely interesting.
Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallace
The Road - Cormac McCarthy
the Crying of Lot 49 - Thomas Pynchon
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte so that I own a book by each of the Bronte sisters :)
Ulysses by James Joyce
Anarchism & Other Essays by Emma Goldman
The Complete Poems of Hart Crane
The Idiot's Guide to Learning French
They were used, and essential.
Enter the Saint by Leslie Charteris--the complete edition. Loved the Saint back in pre-teen days and teen years then went through a snob period when I discovered better (John D. MacDonald, Adam Hall) characters but now the pendulum has swung back and I am going back to the childhood days of more innocent times. And enjoyng it, This would NOT have been possible even five years ago because Charteris never was the great writer HE thought he was but he is entertaining in a Cesar Romero kind of way.
Hamlet--because I had to for my course. I really dislike it :(
Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert. I heard it was good.I'm not sure why I waited until now, but I needed something to read, and there it was. It's a very involving story.
The Canterbury Tales - to help with my independent study of the Middle Ages.
Last book ACQUIRED - History of Modern Russia, Robert Service to help with Russian A Level studies.
Catcher in the Rye as a birthday gift for a boy who has turned 13.
The Remains of the Day ~ Kazuo Ishiguro
Cursed Days: Diary of a Revolution ~ Ivan Bunin
Martin Birck's Youth: A Novel ~ Hjalmer Söderberg
Sir Harry Hotspur of Humblethwaite ~ Anthony Trollope
The Hotel Room ~ Agnar Mykle
A Slave No More - David W. Blight
Seeing Redd - Frank Beddor
The Ballad of Blind Tom - Deidre O'Connell
The Washingtons of Wessyngton Plantation - John F. Barker Jr.
Peter's War - Joyce Lee Malcolm
Hallam's War - Elisabeth Payne Rosen
A local bookstore has closed here after 70+ years. But the idiot that I am, I didn't go until the very last day. So there were hardly any books on the shelves. I found those above. They seemed interesting (and I needed Seeing Redd because it is a sequel to another one that I already have). So, at least I managed to leave the store with these. It is better than none at all, right? :)
Homecoming by Bernard Schlink because I liked The Reader.
Recently, I was cleaning up room, trying to make some sense and order out of the discheveled mess and found an entire box of books, I bought not long ago from Dover Publications when they had a big sale. I was rather delighted, since I found these:
The Ambassadors ~ Henry James
The Golden Age ~ Kenneth Grahame, Illustrated by Maxfield Parrish
Monday or Tuesday ~ Eight Stories ~ Virginia Woolf
The Voyage Out ~ Virginia Woolf
Crime and Punishment ~ Dostoyevski
Celtic Designs ~ Mallory Pearce
Dulac's Fairy Tale Illustrations
Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream", Illustrated by Arthur Rackham
Assorted Dover Paper Dolls for my grand-daughter, when she is old enough to play with them....haha...do kids still like paper-dolls?.....haha...they are probably more for me....
Gibson Girl Paper dolls ~ Tom Tierney (probaby use for clipart or design work)
Rather a strange mix, isn't it?
It's a strange but wonderful mix, Janine. Enjoy! :)
Madame Bovary - Flaubert
The Temptation of St Anthony - Flaubert
The Travels of Marco Polo
The Jungle - Upton Sinclair
The Complete Tragedies of Aeschylus
I've been buying too many books recently. Ah well, I'll get around to reading them some day I suppose.
F. Scott Fitzgerald - the Great Gatsby
I've been meaning to read it for a while. The fact that it was named to have some sort of car theme going on pushed me over the edge :)
I LOVED paper dolls when I was a kid, Janine!Quote:
Originally Posted by Janine
Haven't bought any books recently...stupid lack of funds!
I actually own a large variety of Tom Tierney paper dolls. I have regretted cutting some of them out now, but what else was I supposed to do with them when I was a kid? :) But still, I am mad that I did that to the others because the uncut ones look nice in the books like that. I also own a few of his coloring books. But I have said before on here that I am a big fan of coloring books. I love to color in them. I love the different fashions of his. I should look at the Dover site and see if there are any new ones.Quote:
Originally Posted by Janine
*Classic*, You sound like my sister, Michele. She was the 'queen of paper dolls' in our house. Everytime she got a little money she would buy a set. I loved them too and I think we still have some of our old vintage ones in the basement somewhere. I hope they are savagable, but it's doubtful. I get all nostalgic, when I see these paper doll books on Dover. I have this friend who lives in Michigan and she makes gorgeous quilts and designs patterns herself. She made the neatest quilt using the paper doll designs from Dover - the Pride and Prejudice ones, or it may have been a general Jane Austen collection. Her quilt is just amazing to see - all apliqued.Quote:
Originally Posted by *Classic*Charm*
Quote by LadyWentworth
LadyWentworth, Wow, you have a lot of Tom Tierney paper dolls?Cool! I am sort of thinking the same thing now, that I bought these for Brooke. Do we really want to cut them out and ruin the books?Quote:
I actually own a large variety of Tom Tierney paper dolls. I have regretted cutting some of them out now, but what else was I supposed to do with them when I was a kid? But still, I am mad that I did that to the others because the uncut ones look nice in the books like that. I also own a few of his coloring books. But I have said before on here that I am a big fan of coloring books. I love to color in them. I love the different fashions of his. I should look at the Dover site and see if there are any new ones.
Probably, I will give her certain ones such as the "Little Ballerina";
I bought "Shakespeare" ones which I will probably keep for my own delight.
I also bought "Gibson Girl" and "Shirley Temple"...not sure now they would mean anything to her either. Maybe, what I can do is color photo copy them and we can cut those out; what do you think of that idea? Then you always keep the book intact. I signed up for Dover samples and they send them to me often. I have files of the coloring pages. Same deal - I hope to print them out so I can eventually color with my grand-daughter. What fun that will be and I love the smell of the Crayola crayons, don't you? How that takes one back in time. :) You should look on the site. They offer tons of paper dolls and always present new ones. It's worth it to sign up for free sample of clipart, too.
[QUOTE=*Classic*Charm*;698326]I LOVED paper dolls when I was a kid, Janine!
So did I. I even made my own sometimes. We would play with them for hours
My cousin and I had hundreds of paper dolls and we played with them all the time.
[QUOTE=Lynne50;698679]Yes, I used to trace the outlines of the dresses and make additional pieces for them haha.Quote:
Originally Posted by *Classic*Charm*
That quilt sounds incredible!! Shakespeare Jane Austen paper dolls? Jealous! I'd keep those for myself as well haha. I don't remember which ones I had. I know there was a Little House on the Prairie set. I think I still have them all in a shoebox somewhere.Quote:
Originally Posted by Janine
I haven't purchased any books for a while, I have quite a bit which are yet to be read and I don't really have a lot of spare time on my hands lately to read, but I'm considering buying The Manticore by Robertson Davies. Fifth Business was such a great novel and I loved the subject matter. I don't expect it to be as 'magical' as Fifth Business was, but I think it will be a good read at any rate.
The Complete Sonnets and Poems of William Shakespeare
Selected Poems of William Carlos Williams (American Poets Project)
You had a "Little House on the Prairie" paperdoll set? Oh my gosh, LadyWentworth will freak out. She'll want to buy them from you.:lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by *Classic*Charm*
I wish I could post the photo of the quilt for you all to see. I will ask my friend. She loves exposure and it was simply beautiful. She also made the cutest Barbie one. It had outfits and all. *Classic*, you can still buy the Shakespeare and the Jane Austen paper dolls from Dover Publishing (online). I will look them up for you. They have all kinds of cool paper dolls. Gee, we should have a paperdoll party!
Lynne, that is so cool that you and your sister made your own. I guess we did as *Classic* said. We make some additional clothes for our existing dolls.
Wow, hundreds, Lady Scarlett? That is way more than we had - sounds like great fun. Now I have the desire to go hunt for my old vintage ones - they are in a crawl space in our basement. I fear the dampness and mold may have gotten to them by now, but the floor is cement, so maybe they survived and I can air them out. They would be from the 50's. They might be worth a few bucks, but I would not want to sell them.
My cousin and I kept our paper dolls in huge boxes shoved under our beds.
Last book I bought was The Awakening - for here.
Wish mine were still under the bed; then they might be preserved. Now I have such an itch to go and find those old ones in the basement. What fun it will be to see them again.Quote:
Originally Posted by MissScarlett
Ok, last book I bought was two nights ago. I went to Barnes and Noble with a friend and her husband. I got a book from the sale section on Van Gogh and she bought a book on Dore. We figured we could share the wealth. Can one ever go to B&N and actually NOT buy something?Needless to say, they also had a ton of DVD's on sale, so we both picked up a few of those. I should be shot; I still have some unopened! The Van Gogh book is really nice though. I had not seen many of the paintings in it and the price was incredible, so I am happy. Art books never go to waste!