Last Book You Bought and Why

Before someone remarks on my being obsessed or something, I would like to mention that I am planning to take an independent study sometime next summer or next year of Henry James. Thus, catching up with the following:
The Turn of the Screw and the Aspern Papers
The Wings of the Dove
The Portrait of a Lady
The American
And I have just ordered the following:
The Awkward Age
The Spoils of Poynton
The Europeans
The Bostonians
Italian Hours
What Maisie Knew
The Outcry
The Other House
The Tragic Muse
A Small Boy and Others
The Ivory Tower
The Princess Casamassima

Henry James at Work - Theodora Bosanquet
The Cambridge Companion to Henry James

Sacred Games - Vikram Chandra

My mum just bought me "The Comglomeroid Cocktail Party" by Robert Silverg

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I also, finally, got my hands on a rare used edition of Midnight's Children, by Salman Rushdie.

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I have completed 3/4 of it, and so far I have liked it very much. I wish you do too and like to participate in its discussion which we are having in Forum Book Club this month. :p

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Kite Runner -- as a gift for someone.

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What an interesting novel! I hope the one you gift it to likes it!

Iceland's Bell ~ Halldór Laxness

I received a package from B&N just the other day containing Sala's Gift: My Mother's Holocaust Story and Johnny Got His Gun. I am looking forward to diving in to both when I get the time.

For Whom the Bell Tolls by Hemingway, and the Dummies guide to Excel :yawnb:

I have to mix work and pleasure I'm afraid :(

"Ethan Frome", Edith Wharton
and
a book with obscure Lovecraft's tales

"never let me go" Kazuo Ishiguro
"Fräulein Else" Arthur Schnitzler

Rabbit Angstrom : The Four Novels : Rabbit, Run, Rabbit Redux, Rabbit Is Rich, Rabbit at Rest (Everyman's Library) by John Updike (All four Rabbit novels in one book)
and
Albert Giraud's Pierrot Lunaire

Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell, from Half Price Books. :)

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Originally Posted by Jamesian

Before someone remarks on my being obsessed or something, I would like to mention that I am planning to take an independent study sometime next summer or next year of Henry James. Thus, catching up with the following:
The Turn of the Screw and the Aspern Papers
The Wings of the Dove
The Portrait of a Lady
The American
And I have just ordered the following:
The Awkward Age
The Spoils of Poynton
The Europeans
The Bostonians
Italian Hours
What Maisie Knew
The Outcry
The Other House
The Tragic Muse
A Small Boy and Others
The Ivory Tower
The Princess Casamassima

Henry James at Work - Theodora Bosanquet
The Cambridge Companion to Henry James

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That is cool! That is --so--cool! just a couple of books bought by a book lover. Man, if there were only more people like you!

"When I have money I buy books, and if there is any left I buy food and clothing."
--Erasmus

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What an interesting novel! I hope the one you gift it to likes it!

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I hope that too :)

The Dark Room ~ R.K. Narayan

"The tin drum", Guenter Grass

If on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino

Behind the Lines (collection of letters) - Andrew Carroll
Banishing Verona - Margot Livesey
Misfortune - Wesley Stace

Bought them all at the Dollar Tree last night! 3 nice, hardcover books. I've been meaning to get Behind the Lines as I had the other two collections. What luck, huh?!

It's one of my most irritating habits(especially for my big sis!)to buy books whenever I get hold of some money.My mom never trusts her daughter in this very case and is therefore ever reluctant to hand me money for any purpose.okay now,the last book I bought huh?well,it was...as far as I can recall...'A volume of stories of Misir Ali' by Humayun Ahmed,currently the most renowned author of my country,Bangladesh.

the new Harry Potter

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That is cool! That is --so--cool! just a couple of books bought by a book lover. Man, if there were only more people like you!

"When I have money I buy books, and if there is any left I buy food and clothing."
--Erasmus

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Many thanks. I'm thinking the wisest thing is to stop buying them now... I'm beginning a project of one chapter a night for the next year or so (perhaps ever after, if I like it) in order to acquaint myself with more of his works before the class, so I consider myself completely justified... ;)

The Ticket That Exploded by Burroughs and Lolita by Nabakov...

How to Read and Why by Harold Bloom.

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows~J.K Rowling..
I need to go to the bookstore.....

Leaves of Grass, First and "Death-Bed" Editions,
--Barnes & Noble Classics

i have to thank virgil for his high praise of the first edition which inspired the purchase.

Turning Training into Learning: How to Design and Deliver Programs that Get Results by Sheila W. Furjanic and Laurie A. Trotman.

It's for my next job. :)

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Leaves of Grass, First and "Death-Bed" Editions,
--Barnes & Noble Classics

i have to thank virgil for his high praise of the first edition which inspired the purchase.

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Thanks Jon. I'm no expert on Whitman, but I think the first edition is the better. I don't think he edited well. When he just let it out he was at his best. In all fairness to him, he was really breaking ground with his form and didn't have any models to go by. I've grown to really respect Whitman as I read him more.

I do book orders from chapters.ca, so:

The Last Day of a Condemned Man- Victor Hugo
Notes from the Underground- Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Gambler- Fyodor Doestoevsky
The Death of the Korosko- Arthur Conan Doyle
The Brothers Karamazov- Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Psycho Ex Game by Merrill Markoe and Andy Prieboy

I saw it when I was 13(5yrs ago) and I knew I had to have it...but I forgot about it...so wandering around looking for AP study prep guide, I saw it and bought it...instead of the study prep:lol: :D :banana:

Father Raven and other tales by A E Coppard

The Stranger ~ Albert Camus

whoooozzzzzeeee....pause. (trying to figure out exactly what makes someone so damned obstinate at times) :lol:

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The Stranger ~ Albert Camus

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One of my favorites; please do write a review once you finish reading (that is, if you have time). :)

The Silmarillion -- J.R.R. Tolkien

Ecce hommo by Nietzsche.. wouldnt be better ask, last book you have stolen?

An evil cradling-Brian Keenan
Atonement- McEwen
Inferno-Dante
sabbaths theatre- Philip Roth
What Maisie Knew- Henry James
Voice of the gods- Trudi Canavan

On amazon.com I bought:

Marriage on the Rock - Jimmy Evans (Pastor is going to start pre-marriage counseling and that is his choice)

and

How to Win at College: Surprising Secrets for Success fromt he Country's Top Students - Cal Newport (I think I am getting all psyched out about starting school)

Hmm I think it was


Becoming Jane Austen by Jon Spence

Eclipse, by Stephanie Meyer. AWESOME BOOK, AWESOME SERIES!!!!

"Women in love" by D.H. Lawrence

La Vita Nuova- Dante

The Rainbow-Dh Lawrence

Until the End - Harold Coyle

The sequel to his Civil War novel Look Away.
I was SO happy to finally see it somewhere. I read the first book well over a year ago. I can finally see how he decided to finish the story.