Last Book You Bought and Why

I bought a whole pile of old whodunnits for 50 cents each at a used book store -- Rex Stout, Ngaio Marsh, Michael Innes, Ian Fleming, Agatha Christie...

I use to work at a book shop and I still get a 50% discount, free if the books are from outside, so I get books daily and have the habit of kissing and not telling (to many lips to remember:brow:).

I purchased two books from the Jorge Luis Borges and Adolfo Bioy Casares collaboration: Chronicles of Bustos Domecq and Extraordinary Stories.

That was yesterday. Today I bought Mircea Eliade's Shamanism.

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Originally Posted by Antiquarian

Flannery O'Conner, The Collected Works (Library of American Edition - these are her four novels)

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Have you read the introduction to the edition? I have the Signet edition, I think, but I love LOA books. They are advocates of the author has the final word, so I was curious how much restoration was done.

hello everyone, this is my first post and i hope to talk w/ all of you in the future!! i just bought The Brothers Karamazov today and am very excited to read it!

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Originally Posted by Antiquarian

No, Nick I haven't. I haven't received that book from Amazon yet. LOL I have Flannery O'Conner's short stories, but I've never read her novels.

I'll let you know what it says when I receive the book. :)

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Thanks.

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Originally Posted by Idril

I loved The Way We Live Now but then again, I'm an unabashed Trollope fan. His novels are long, except for The Warden but they really are quick reads, his prose flows so nicely, the plot is always moving, the characters, for the most part, keep developing. A great Victorian author!

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I'm thinking this would be a healthy compliment to my Summer of James. Thanks. :)
*begins*

I've just received my order today for 6 books from the Rougon-Macquart series by Emile Zola. They are:

The Kill
Pot Luck
The Belly of Paris
L'Assomoir
Nana
The Masterpiece

Les Miserables- Victor Hugo. About 30 pages into it, loving it so far.

When You Are Engulfed in Flames - David Sedaris
Pretty amusing so far. :)

The Oddessy
A Winter's Tale


guess why?

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Originally Posted by Page Sniffer

American Sea Writing - A Literary Anthology, pub by Library of America. Just found it onsale and bought it at the LOA website. Beautifully made book. Sixty-eight entries, 671 pages.

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Three cheers for the LOA. I look for their volumes whenever I'm in the library, and I'd buy them all if I could afford it. I'm on their mailing list, and those anthologies look really tempting...

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Originally Posted by Jamesian

I'm thinking this would be a healthy compliment to my Summer of James. Thanks. :)
*begins*

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Great! You'll have to let me know what you think of it.

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Originally Posted by papayahed

The Oddessy
A Winter's Tale


guess why?

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I have to get the oddyssey. Have winters tale. Try pick Book up on way to work tomorrow.