I was at the Buenos Aires book fair last Monday and bought Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged" (I've heard so much about her, good and bad, I want to check out for myself) and Virginia Woolf's "The waves" and "To the lighthouse".
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I was at the Buenos Aires book fair last Monday and bought Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged" (I've heard so much about her, good and bad, I want to check out for myself) and Virginia Woolf's "The waves" and "To the lighthouse".
hmm, now that you mention it, p.a.m., i've been looking to read "To the Lighthouse" for a while now.
have two books waiting for my fingerprints to disturb the dust that has settled on them since the last time i picked it up, but i think i'm looking forward to starting another book my mom got for me just today: Far From the Madding Crowd. does that count as the last book i bought ? :)
yesterday I bought Rant by Chuck Palahniuk, the Subterraneans by Kerouac and The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham
dunno when I will get to read them - I have about 40 books on the shelf that are still unread. I seem to have an addiction where I cant walk past a book shop without buying something, especially when there is stuff you want in the 3 for 2 offers!
Joseph Conrad's Nostromo
I've gone on a bit of a buying binge, in the last few weeks I've bought:
Paradise Reclaimed by Halldor Laxness
Skylark Farm by Antonia Arslan
The Tree of Man by Patrick White
Monumental Propaganda by Vladimir Voinovich (my new favorite author)
The Anti-Soviet Soviet Union by Vladimir Voinovich
Candide by Voltaire
and lastly, The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford
'What Matters Most Is How Well You Walk Through the Fire' - Charles Bukowski. It's a large collection of his poetry.
I also bought some of Poe's short stories the other day.
The Host by Stephenie Meyer...
"Vellum" and "The Ink" by Hal Duncan
I read Anna Karenina this year. It's the most absolutely engrossing, sweeping, moving narrative I've read in a very, very long time. Good buy!Quote:
Originally Posted by fallingup
I read Anna Karenina this year. It's the most absolutely engrossing, sweeping, moving narrative I've read in a very, very long time. Good buy!Quote:
Originally Posted by fallingup
Light In August, In Evil Hour, Julius Caesar and Che's Bolivian diary. All at once. :)
At a second-hand bookshop,
3 titles by W. Somerset Maugham:
Cakes and Ale
The Moon and Sixpence
The Razor's Edge
and Ordinary Love & Good Will by Jane Smiley.
My favourite Conrad - hope you enjoy it, Sir B.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir Bartholomew
The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova