The Battle for God by Karen Armstrong. I love her histories of religions.
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The Battle for God by Karen Armstrong. I love her histories of religions.
I ordered 3 on Amazon yesterday.
Rabbit Hole the play because I want to audition for it later this year.
The Red Queen by Matt Ridley which is about evolution of sexuality.
Theory of Money and Credit by Ludwig von Mises which is about money and credit.
Cocktail Hour under the tree of Forgetfulness by Alexandra Fuller
Last week:
The 42nd Parallel by John Dos Passos
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
V. by Thomas Pynchon
Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger (which I returned this morning...didn't like it much)
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Today:
Love of the Last Tycoon by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
Next planned purchases (and last for a while):
The Unabridged Mark Twain
The Complete Short Stories by Ernest Hemingway
The Short Stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald
~Tom Brown's Schooldays and Tom Brown at Oxford by Thomas Hughes
Bought "Of Mice and Men" last week. Excellent book. Read it in 2 days.
The Art of Fielding: a novel, by Chad Harbach
Hey, it's fall, and the payoffs are on. (Major League Baseball, that is)
The new Dresden Files book because my buddy in prison wanted it.
The Art of Fielding is that about Henry Fielding or Cricket??
My latest yet another bio of Virginia Woolf to add to my collection. This one by Alexandra Harris
Rachel Ray and Lady Anna by Anthony Trollope. In past month I read even 4 of his novels (American Senator, The Warden, Barchester Towers and He Knew He Was Right) and I find his novels fascinating.
Ha! Imagine my chagrin – I thought it was a farming manual.Quote:
Originally Posted by Seasider
Today I bought: Day Hiking the Northern Cascades
a thousand splendid suns by Khaleed hoseini. it is based in war stricken Afghanistan with an up close and personal view of women in Afghanistan and how they suffered for ages without the world taking notice.
Animal Farm and 1984, by George Orwell
-a single edition set with a preface by Christopher Hitchens
Because I feel like my thoughts have overly policed lately.
Also because it's raining in the Northern Cascades tody, making it a good day to read.
a book of poetry by an author from the ice named Sigfús Daðason, he was one of the so called atom poets here on the ice and wrote such beautiful poetry, I bought the collection of his work.
A Lover's Discourse, by Barthes. Guy at the bookstore said it was good when I sold them Camera Lucida and said I was afraid to read SZ.