Last Book You Bought and Why

The last book I got was the 2008 Poet's Market (if you want to get technical...:).)

As far as novels...The Freedom Writers Diary by the original Freedom Writers and Erin Gruwell. (It's funny, as I read it, I realized these now young adults were from my graduating class of 1998. I doubt I would have lived through everything they've been through.)

This past summer we had to put my grandmother in a nursing home. When Mom came home after a weekend of cleaning Grandma's house, (that she lived in since 1948), she brought home several of Grandma's old books.

Heidi by Johanna Spyri
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
The Cat Who:
Talked to Ghosts
Went Underground
Lived High
Knew A Cardinal all by Lilian Jackson Braun
Earlier Poems by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
One Hundred and One Famous Poems compilation by Roy J. Cook
The Face Is Familiar by Ogden Nash

phewwwwwww :p

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Originally Posted by Antiquarian

The Woodlanders - Thomas Hardy

Camille - Alexandre Dumas

The Temptation of St. Anthony - Flaubert

Whitman: Poems - Walt Whitman

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Good choices!! I love The Woodlanders and Camille was quite good! :thumbs_up


and Sir Bartholomew.. I don't know if you've read it before but Master and Margarita is just amazing!! I would recommend it to anyone...:D

The Second Plane - September 11: Terror and Boredom - Martin Amis
(Some essays and a couple of short stories pertaining to extremism and terrorism and the day of infamy...)
Daisy Miller - Henry James (new Penguin edition with intro by David Lodge; hopefully it uses the New York Edition text, as the previous Penguin edition did not...)
Contes du jours et de la nuit ("Stories of Day and Night") - Guy de Maupassant
Reading Myself and Others - Philip Roth

The Feminine Mystique :D

last book I bought... Well that depends, the last book I bought in a shop was "The best short stories of Fyodor Dostoevsky". The last book I bought online and have received in the post was "Antigone - Sophocles" and the last book that i bought online and have yet to receive is "The Brothers Karamazov - Dostoevsky".

The Master & Margarita (Bulgakov)
Brave New World - reread (Huxley)

Am in process of reading The Master and Margarita. Very strange! The last book I bought was 'The Last Tycoon' by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Am planning to buy 'Giovanni's Room' by James Baldwin also. :)

Stephen King- CELL

A while back I bought following books:
Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
Eragon - Christopher Paolini
Odyssey - Homeros

Just today for a total of fifteen dollars:

Light in August - William Faulkner
Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
(these last two are in preparation for an Adolescent Lit. class for teachers I'll be taking in the fall)
and The Collected Poems of Sylvia Plath

Berlin Alexanderplatz - Alfred Döblin

Anyone have some commentary about this book?

Zadie Smith - On Beauty
Sabine Kuegler - Jungle Child

Yesterday I bought The Collected poems of Thomas Hardy - My favourite poet, and a verse adaptation of Homers odyssey - originally for radio 4 apparently so I expect I'll like it. Did anyone else catch Harold Pinter's landscape on 4 yeasterday? I thought it was brilliant.

Last month, at a couple of bookstores in Manila :

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
The Gathering by Anne Enright