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Would it be too much if I said I recieved 9 books as presents?...
Well,here it goes...
The Fifth Child-Doris Lessing
Seeing-Jose Saramago
Women in Love-D.H.Lawrence
The Ground Beneath Her Feet-Salman Rushdie
Shame-Salman Rushdie
The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket-Edgar Allan Poe
A short introductin in Social-Cultural Anthropology
Un Amour de Swann-Marcel Proust
Selected Poetry of Lord Byron
Yes,a happy new year for me...At least for some time...
To Remarkable: The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket-Edgar Allan Poe
A short introductin in Social-Cultural Anthropology
Un Amour de Swann-Marcel Proust
Nice windfall of great books. I would start with these three.. quasi
I've just bought (Hurrah for christmas money) The Heartbreaking Work of a Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers, and Selected Poems of Carol Ann Duffy and Louis MacNeiece.
I'm really getting into poetry-I used to hate it!
I forgot to mention a couple of books I did get for Christmas...why I said I didn't get any is beyond me, but oh well.
My secret santa at church gave me Introduction to the History of Christianity it's got a CD-ROM and color pictures everywhere (I think secret santa was paying too much attention to me :p )
Think I mentioned somewhere else that my best friend bought me a hardcover copy of Crime and Punishment, she knew I had ruined by paperback copy.
Too many? You can't have too many.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shea
If you could though.. then me and my boyfriend has too many. We can only fit one bookshelf into the apartment right now, and we are using a shelf in the kitchen for books now as well. If we had the room for it, we'd have two more bookshelves filled with books. :p (I didn't think when I wrote and wrote the word money instead of books at first.. but two bookshelves with money would be good too, lala)
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte.
:lol: We're in the process of looking for a new house now and I keep thinking, wouldn't it be great to have a library room? That would never happen.Quote:
Originally Posted by thelastmelon
On my last birthday, I asked for a specific book. Our cofee maker happened to bite the dust a few days before. Guess what I got for my birthday....?
The one I'm currently reading, The wind-up bird chronicle, which I bought at Heathrow airport, as a xmas present to myself ;)
The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad.
Bodyline - The Novel by Paul Wheeler.
This deals with the famous (or infamous) cricket Test series between Australia and England of 1932/3.
In the USA, we have had very good fiction writing about baseball and how it reflects our society. Little do we know that the British, Australians, Indians, and West Indians have also produced a great deal of meritorious fiction on the subject of cricket.
Bewteen my birthday and Christmas, I got 10 new books (12 if you caount the fact that two of them are 2-in-one books):
The Fountainhead - Ayn Rand
The Collected Short Stories of William Faulkner
The Great American Novel - Philp Roth
The Human Stain - Philip Roth
The Complete Poems of William Blake
Metamorphasis/The Trial - Franz Kafka
Candide/The Maid of Orleans - Voltaire
The Art of War - Sun Tzu
Beowulf
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - James joyce
My last book shoppings in the last day of 2007 were:
Fight Club by Chuck, I've seen the movie like dozens of times and when I looked this book on the shelf, I got moved to pick it up
Junky by Bill, no particular reason why and just want to know more about his writing.
To metal134: Your collection of new books is great but "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" - James Joyce...is a delightfull work, suprising and the most accessable of Joyce's works. quasi
The Evolution of Cooperation for my mum's birthday. It was really hard to find, so I had to get it off Amazon via a friend seeing as I'm not 18 so don't have a credit card.
Last book I bought for me was Silverthorn by Raymond E Feist, but the last one I acquired was a lovely new hardback copy of War and Peace for Christmas.
Yeah, I'm still slowly working my way through "Ulysess".Quote:
Originally Posted by quasimodo1