The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories - H.P. Lovecraft
I lent out my old Lovecraft book and never saw it again, so I was driven to this.
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The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories - H.P. Lovecraft
I lent out my old Lovecraft book and never saw it again, so I was driven to this.
My recent purchases included
The Peppered Moth - Margaret Drabble
Kitchen - Banana Yoshimoto
The God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy
How I love library book sales and thrift shops!
I went to the book store about a week ago and picked up
Great Expectations- Charles Dickens
Anna Karenina- Leo Tolstoy
The Scarlet Letter- Nathaniel Hawthorne
Pride and Prejudice- Jane Austen
I went a little trigger happy, haha.
How do you get on with Peter Ackroyd, STL? I can't take to him, myself. Heard him speak a few years ago, mostly about what was then his latest book, the one about London - the audience was made up mostly of historians or, like me, people who were interested in history but not academically versed in the subject. Ackroyd picked up on the general disapproval very quickly, raced through his talk and beat a hasty retreat before anyone could ask questions.Quote:
Originally Posted by stlukesguild
Thank you so much, btw, for those different versions of Psalm 23 - I enjoyed reading them and feel inspired to seek some more 'translations'.
Putas Asesinas by Roberto Bolaño
Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
I read a quote attributed to Bolaño, "If you want to understand an author, translate him." I translated three of the stories in Putas Asesinas and I now understand that he is hard to translate.
Gilead is a delight.
I finished my A-level exams last Thursday, so on Friday I went to Waterstone's and bought a copy of The Magus by John Fowles in celebration. And I also bought Charlotte Bronte's The Professor. Now when I pick them up I feel happy. Haha. :D.
[QUOTE=Kafka's Crow;582588]Arthur Ransome's Old Peter's Russian Tales. Time to re-live my childhood!
Kafka and Kasie, if you're interested in Ransome, have you read Blood Red, Snow White by Marcus Sedgwick? I've got it at the moment from my Library, (but haven't started it yet). Sedgwick usually writes for Young Adults, so I think a lot of people missed this one, but it got good reviews, and the YA books I have read by him are very good. BRSW is a kind of biography/fairytale about Ransome's time in Russia at the time of the revolution, when he fell in love with Lenin's secretary, (I think it was his secretary). Anyway, he left his family behind and went there and got involved in spying etc. I really must read it so that I can take it back to school. :blush:
Wessexgirl: Thanks for that recommendation - I don't think I have come across it though I did know Ransome had lived in Russia at an 'interesting' time. I shall look out for it.
I have only recently become aware of Bolaño. I will put By Night in Chile on my list. Thank you for the tip.Quote:
Originally Posted by Antiquarian
Young Torless by Robert Musil
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
JR by Williams Gaddis
The Complete Poems and Plays of T. S. Eliot.
The Works of James Joyce (Chamber Music, Pomes Penyeach and Ecce Puer)
"Doctor Jivago" by Boris Pasternak, though I haven't started reading ityet, as I am reading something else.
How do you get on with Peter Ackroyd, STL? I can't take to him, myself. Heard him speak a few years ago, mostly about what was then his latest book, the one about London - the audience was made up mostly of historians or, like me, people who were interested in history but not academically versed in the subject.
I looked at some critiques of his biographies and found they largely echo my own experience. Ackroyd doesn't offer anything new, incredibly insightful, or groundbreaking, but he does offer a solid introduction to his topics that are presented in a well-written narrative manner. I've read his books on Chaucer and J.M.W. Turner, and such was my feeling. If I wanted to get a truly in-depth biography or an analysis that offers a unique perspective, I'd surely need to look elsewhere. On the other hand... if I just want the general facts presented in a manner that is certainly more interesting than what an encyclopedia or more academic writing would offer, he is right on the mark. Of course... I must admit to having read several of Ackroyd's novels which I enjoyed, so I may be more ready to appreciate his non-fiction manner.