Last Book You Bought and Why

The Sufferings of Young Werther and Don Quixote (the books I should have read ages ago, but never got around to...)

Half Price Books is great :)

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Originally Posted by mness421

Does it count if they're not literature? I'd received some money for X-mas and decided to get some books. It's a relatively small list, but it was a pretty good chunk of change:
A Brief History of Time
The Practical Geologist
Restless Skies
The 50 Best Sights in Astronomy and How to See Them
Astronomy for Dummies

My birthday is next month and I'm planning on at least getting the complete works of Robert Frost and Edgar Allen Poe.

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The Practical Geologist? Let me know if its any good.:) And Yes its okay to post non-lit.

The Bostonians by Henry James and The Green Mile by Stephen King.
I always buy one serious and one for enjoyment. Almost always read the enjoyment ones first haha.

"Cider house rules" - J Irving
"The world according to Garp" J Irving

I stopped by my local used bookshop on Tuesday and came out $60 lighter. Half of that went to a single book: Behind a Mask: The unknown thrillers of Louisa May Alcott. It's a mint condition first edition. Now I'm afraid to read it because the binding is so tight I don't think anyone ever read it before. I also got The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Writers in Residence (a picture book about the homes of American authors) and a jazz piano book I'll use for teaching. So there goes my Christmas cheque that my mom sent me.

The posthumous papers of Pickwick Club

I just bought Tulta ja tuulta on huuto.net (it's like a Finnish ebay). I've been looking for a copy of that book a couple of years already, since it was printed in 1939 and it's pretty much forgotten that it even exists.

A Year of Reading Proust by Phyllis Rose which goes nicely with my reading of A Remembrance of Things Past:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Year-Reading...0676040&sr=8-2

last book I bought was The Pact, by Jodi Picoult. :)

The Name of the Rose- Eco

Atonement -- MacEwan

Now I want to buy some new history books......but perhaps I should first get through Road to Reality by Roger Penrose, that's a physics book if you are wondering.

Common Sense by Thomas Paine

The postwoman just delivered my lovely hard-bound bilingual edition of Waitng for Godot: En Attendant Godot :

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Waiting-Godo...741335&sr=1-19

lol...the Waiting for Gadot I have is a sad photocopy used in English class..........I've suddenly realized highschool English teachers are probably one of the largest groups who violates copyright...

I tend to buy or collect in waves, hence:

-I bought V. at this great place called Ophelia's in Fremont (Seattle)
-I have Gilead coming via bookmooch
-I have Water For Elephants and The Raw Shark Texts sitting on the shelf from Christmas

And if that isn't enough:

-I just mooched the 3 Lord of the Rings books because I've never read them

I've got some reading to do...