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Today I took out the following books:
"The Sublime Object of Ideology" - Slavoj Zizek
"The Jameson Reader" - Fredric Jameson (edited by Michael Hardt & Kathi Weeks)
"Introduction to the Reading of Hegel" - Alexandre Kojeve
"Three Case Histories" - Sigmund Freud
"Volatile Bodies: Toward a Corporeal Feminism" - Elizabeth Grosz
- Memento Mori by Muriel Spark.
- Laughter in the Dark by Vladimir Nabokov.
'Why God Won't Go Away' by Newberg
Complete Poems by T.S. Eliot
Espresso Tales by Alexander McCall Smith
Anthem by Ayn Rand
The Complete Oscar Wilde
The Jane Austen Book Club - Karen Joy Fowler
I also have two other books from the library at home:
What I Loved - Siri Hustvedt
The Black Book - Orhan Pamuk
Julius Caesar.That is a stimulating book.It can be found in any library easily.
The Memoirs of a Survivor - Doris Lessing
The Wall - Jean-Paul Sartre
Jackstraws - Charles Simic
The Door - Margaret Atwood
Where Were You, Robert? (Lost in Time) - Hans Magnus Enzensberger
Mondo et autres histoires - J. M. G. Le Clézio
The Inheritance of Loss - Kiran Desai
The Westies by TJ English re Irish mobsters in NYC.
Amazingly, these criminals have engaged in far more violence than have Italian mobsters in recent decades but this has not generated as much media attention. The History Channel did a report on them a few months ago but, again, it got very little attention.
Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk
Third time I've read it...can't get enough of it and I have no idea where I got the time to read it!
The Good Earth- Pearl S. Buck
The Trial- Kafka
Creative Writing manual
The master and margarita by Bulgakov
I'm determined to finish it this time!
Kenzaburo Oe's Pluck the Bud and Destroy the Offspring. I will start reading it tomorrow.
foucault's history of madness. its frigging impossible to find this in a shop, meh
Hindu Scriptures
:) I'm reading a chapter of his Discipline and Punish book and I can't decide if I like him or not. Usually I can get a feel for the author, so to speak, by reading their works, but Foucault...is impregnable.Quote:
Originally Posted by weltanschauung
Currently it's Charles Wilbour's translation of Les Miserables.
Aside from the usual books that complement those needed for class, I borrow novels from the library. The last novel I've borrowed was Alexandre Dumas' "Twenty Years After".
I borrowed The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz. I finished it last night and really liked it. I listened to this interview and that's what made me want to read the book (at least I think it was this interview)
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/s...oryId=95764750
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess.
Mountain of Black Glass by Tad Williams (Volume Three of the Otherland Series) - also currently being used as a mousepad. :)
collected poems of Stephen Crane
(3/10)
The Life and Times of Chaucer by John Gardner-- a required material for my reporting next week.
The Knights Templar: The History and Myths of the Legendary Military Order by Sean Martin
Kress and van Leeuwen, The Grammar of Visual Design
Where angels fear to tread -Forster
The Art of Fiction - David Lodge
Practical Magic by: Alice Hoffman
That must be A Tale of Love and Darkness by Amos Oz, but i haven`t read it yet though. Some friend recommended that book for me.
A Farewell to Arms (Hemingway.)
Just visited today and the fictional books I borrowed are
Scoop-Evelyn Waugh
Darkness at noon-arthur Koestler
Regenation-Pat Barker
The Jewel in the crown-Paul Scott
Ooh, I love my library :D
Just visited and I got:
Atom Station by Halldor Laxness
As I lay Dying by William Faulkner
Man in the Dark by Paul Auster
The Heart of a Dog by Mikhail Bulgakov and
Taking off Emily Dickenson's Clothes by Billy Collins
Ace!
Right now I have:
The Best American Short Stories of the Century, edited by John Updike
The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Poetry, edited by J.D. McClatchy (I'm trying very hard, but ugh, I just don't understand poetry after a certain year)
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
I'm hoping The Old Man and the Sea will redeem my opinion of Ernest Hemingway. I've never read his work, besides a short story included in the anthology, and that I hated. Someone I knew once told me that Hemingway had a very straight-forward style, and I like decadent, romantic things, so I've avoided him. Oddly enough the picture of Hemingway on the back reminds me of the person who gave me that advice: kind of bloated and drunk looking...but he was handsome when he was young, wasn't he?
I borrowed two. Just Past Sunset by Stephen King and Kokoro by Natsume Soeki.
Bigfoot Cinderrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrella
Okay, not the last book I checked out. But I got my 6yr old a library card recently when I signed him up for the library summer reading program, and that was one of the books he picked. He's so proud of his card and his book choices ^^ and I'm so proud of how fantastic his reading has gotten
Kazuo Ishiguro's "A Pale View of Hills" and "An Artist of the Floating World".
Twelfth Night, again.
Don Quixote, again.
I'm thinking of just buying my own copies...
13 Reasons Why by Jay Asher
I don't really like borrowing books, I'd rather own them, but the last time I got a book from the library was about 2 years ago and it was an OK action/something book I don't remember the name but I wanted to read it cause a few years ago I borrowed another book by this author from an old friend and liked it, that one was called 'The temple' I don't remember the author either...