Last Book You Bought and Why

Yikes - here comes half the list, the other half next week. School just started, and this is just from my literature classes:

Stephen Adams, Poetic Designs (Broadview Press); The Norton Anthology of Poetry (5th ed. abridged); Shakespeare, Sonnets (Signet); New Life in Dark Seas: Brick Books 25 (Brick Books), Eliot, T.S., Four Quartets.
That for the course, "Reading Poetry". A rather slim list in comparison with the rest;

Donna Bennett, Russell Brown: A new Anthology of Canadian Literature in English
Thomas King: Green Grass, Running Water
Sinclair Ross: As for Me and My House
Hugh MacLennan: Barometer Rising
Margret Laurence: The Diviners
Alice Munro: Who Do You Think You Are
Robert Kroetsch: The Studhorse Man
Michael Ondaatje: In the Skin of a Lion
Thomson Highway: Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing
Joy Kogawa: Obasan
Margret Atwood: Alias Grace
Douglas Glover: Elle

That's from Canadian Literature; I still haven't picked up the 12 or so books for my last class, which will bankrupt me utterly.

Yesterday I found a great little antique book shop(I just recently moved to a different city),bought a collection of Chekhov's short stories.

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Lord of the Rings, whole serial; hard cover, brand new. Why? It was only 6$!?!? :D

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For some reason, I was under the impression that you were less than impressed by Tolkien and Lord of the Rings...why is that?! :p:lol:

All the books I ordered have started coming in. I'm only missing 2 right now and then I had coffee with my sister at Barnes and Noble the other day and picked up yet another book, Death In Venice and seven other stories by Thomas Mann. :D

I just send away for a book: D.H.Lawrence ~ Film Adaptations of his Novels/Stories; I have about 6 films, but did not know there were more. It will be a great addition to my DHL collection and interesting to read.

I also bought two books at the 5 Below Zero store - one on King Arthur and one on Fantasy - both are picture/text type books and should give me a break from difficult reading. I read another from the same store on the Holy Grail and loved it. These new ones look interesting as well.

Cannery Row (John Steinbeck)
Cup of Gold (John Steinbeck)
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (Muriel Spark)
The Bridge of San Luis Rey (Thornton Wilder)
An Obedient Father (Akhil Sharma)
Green Hills of Africa (Ernest Hemingway)
The Short Stories (Ernest Hemingway)
Falconer (John Cheever)

No Country For Old Men by Cormac McCarthy. I've wanted to buy it for sometimes now, and while I was looking for another book today I found it, right there on the shelf :D It was the last copy, so I just had to take it :D

Moorish Architecture in Andalusia by Marianne Barrucand and Achim Bednorz. Beautiful book published by Taschen, the German publishing house that always bring out beautiful books. It is a large-sized hardbound book and at £5.99 it must be one of the best bargains out there. I love the history of Moorish Spain and after the Reconsquita zealots and inquisitors like Ximenes de Cisneros burned every single book written in Arabic (only three manuscripts of cultural importance survived that carnage out of the two million books that brought Renaissance to Europe. Further 300 books of medicine and science were 'pardoned' because Christians testified to their greatness). Architecture is the only surviving art form that speaks for the cultural greatness of that era and its achievements:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Moorish-Arch...3233541&sr=8-1

Amazing buildings, amazing cities and absolutely beautiful paintings and calligraphy.

The Complete Jane Austen~Jane Austen:)
Does it need a reason??
I was reading pride and prejudice for the second time for class, and i realized how much I wanted to read all of Austens other works... I was lucky enough to nab it at a Half Price Books. 10 bucks for ALL 6!! :)

How's the quality of the book? good paper, any intro notes? I'm wondering, because it would need to be a big book.

Kafka'sCrow... sounds like a marvelous book. I'll need to look into it. I have been exploring non-Western art to a great extent for the last year... especially that of the Islamic cultures (particularly the Persians), India, and Japan. It is quite sickening to read of de Cisneros auto de fe of books. Unfortunately, such actions are in no way unique... nor even reserved for the ancient past when one considers Nazi Germany, Maoist China, and even the destruction in the Bosnian conflict.

Three fabulous books I have been leafing through a great deal are Traces of the brush:The Art of Japanese Calligraphy, Impressions of Ukiyo-e, and Utamaro. The first of these focuses on the elegant examples of Japanese calligraphy... especially from the "classical" Heian era. The latter two books focus upon works of the Japanese woodblock artists, the last book being a monograph of the late 18th/early 19th century woodblock master, Kitagawa Utamaro. All of the books are sumptuously illustrated and I am gleefully taking my fill... absorbing all that I can, while simply blown away by the originality and the marvelous sensitivity and sense of design of these works of art.

Tolstoy - Resurrection
Why? Because I don't have it!

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The Complete Jane Austen~Jane Austen:)
Does it need a reason??
I was reading pride and prejudice for the second time for class, and i realized how much I wanted to read all of Austens other works... I was lucky enough to nab it at a Half Price Books. 10 bucks for ALL 6!! :)

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They were all in one volume? Or each novel in a separate book?
I have all her six novels myself, they're def. worth the money spent on them :D

With my birthday book tokens (yay!!!) I've bought Ariel, the restored edition (by Sylvia Plath). I got it because I keep trying to get more into poetry, and have found her poems relatively accessible in the past.

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Kafka'sCrow... sounds like a marvelous book. I'll need to look into it. I have been exploring non-Western art to a great extent for the last year... especially that of the Islamic cultures (particularly the Persians), India, and Japan. It is quite sickening to read of de Cisneros auto de fe of books. Unfortunately, such actions are in no way unique... nor even reserved for the ancient past when one considers Nazi Germany, Maoist China, and even the destruction in the Bosnian conflict.

Three fabulous books I have been leafing through a great deal are Traces of the brush:The Art of Japanese Calligraphy, Impressions of Ukiyo-e, and Utamaro. The first of these focuses on the elegant examples of Japanese calligraphy... especially from the "classical" Heian era. The latter two books focus upon works of the Japanese woodblock artists, the last book being a monograph of the late 18th/early 19th century woodblock master, Kitagawa Utamaro. All of the books are sumptuously illustrated and I am gleefully taking my fill... absorbing all that I can, while simply blown away by the originality and the marvelous sensitivity and sense of design of these works of art.

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Here is the link to Amazon (US) for Moorish Architecture in Andalusia. For $10.19, it is cheap, very very cheap!

http://www.amazon.com/Moorish-Archit...3318157&sr=8-1

This book should also be of interest to you:

http://www.amazon.com/Theft-History-...3318285&sr=8-1

Brisinger. Why? because i read the other two books and i want to know what happens. :D