Last Book You Bought and Why

The Wonder That Was India II: Coz I lurrrrrve mah history!
The Golden Treasury (Palgrave): Coz I luuuuurves my poetry too!

I bought Lolita because everyone here keeps talkin' about it. I figured it was high time to read that sucker.

The Booker shortlist. Why, because for once I fancy all of them, and they were on special offer, for £35. I couldn't resist the bargain, even though I was going to wait a little to get my unread pile down.

Wolf Hall - Hilary Mantel
The Children's Book - A.S.Byatt
The Little Stranger - Sarah Waters
The Glass Room - Simon Mawer
Summertime - J.M.Coetzee
The Quickening Maze - Adam Foulds

There's some real doorstoppers amongst the list, but I can't wait :lol:. They've just been shipped, so I'm eager for them to arrive. The winner is announced on Tuesday 6th, and I'm guessing that it will be Wolf Hall, which is the favourite, but they all look good.

http://www.themanbookerprize.com/news/stories/1275

I bought an Icelandic book about literature and Beckett's collection of plays,poems and stories. I also bought Thomas the train and Aja Baja Alfons Aberg for my boy...

Troll: A Love Story ~ Johanna Sinisalo
Cancer Ward ~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Chronicle of a Death Foretold ~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Kalevala

"The Coastwatchers" - non fiction. It was cheap.

I sure hope they close that book market soon. or I'll get broke

today I bought:

Koran
Jekyll and Hyde
stupid white men (as a gift)
two children books (as a gift)
aldingarðurinn (an Icelandic book)
and as gift for shopping there I got
Lucky

Picked up a paperback copy of The Fall by Albert Camus at the library. Why? Because I love Camus, because the paperback was in excellent condition and because it cost only $0.25. Can't get any better than that :-)

The Tarot - Alfred Douglas
Mastering the Tarot - Eden Gray

I purchased a Tarot deck a few months ago, but never gotten around to getting a book. I thought it might be interesting to use the Tarot to develop characters.

Last month
Hogfather by Terry Pratchett (because it's the only Discworld book I haven't read), Pride and Prejudice because the last copy 'mysteriously' disappeared in the dc, 1984 because my friend 'borrowed' it last year and never gave it back and I want to read it, and two children' book for my little sis (Shakespeare's Secret and the third Allie Finkle's Rules For Girls)

Yesterday:

The Messenger -Markus Zusak
I loved The Book Thief.

On Fairy-stories - Tolkien
Recommended by wisp a while ago.

Steppenwolf - Hermann Hesse
It's on my list.

I bought Midnigts Children by Salman Rushdie and Guernica by Dave Boling.

I bought Guernice because I was intrigued to see how it links to Picasso's piece, and because it was on offer in Waterstones. The last book I bought on offer was Netherland by Joseph O'Neill which was a really good read.

I just purchased Moby Dick, an Easton Press leatherbound edition, from a seller on ebay. I'm fairly certain the book was never read and possibly never opened.

I bought it because I've never read Moby Dick, I liked the idea of owning some classics bound in leather, the price was right ($15 shipped), and it's an early Christmas present.

Wuthering Heights, because my 13yr old daughter had read it and asked me to read it so many times, that I ended up buying it.

An anthology of Wordsworth, because it was on sale.