The Last Man by Mary Shelley.
I wasn't aware that she'd written another novel, and when I saw this for £1.99 in The Works - a bargain books and stationary chain - I couldn't resist. It's a sci fi about humanity being wiped out by a plague. It must be one of the first. Can't wait.
Oh interesting, I wasn't aware of this as well. Please let me know what you think of it when you get around to reading it.Originally Posted by Paulclem
The last book I ordered was Cold Comfort Farm. It should be here tomorrow or the day after. It sounded interesting.
White Noise by Don Delillo. Already read it and it was brilliant, so I wanted to own it.
I ordered it once to the wrong address so it got returned to sender and I was refunded the price of the book but not the price of postage and packaging.
I have ordered it a second time but this is about a week now and it hasn't arrived so I need to get in touch with somebody. Maybe it is a sign. I need to pay less money to the big corporate giants and give something back to the little friendly bookshops down pleasant backalleys. The amount of times I have to buy a book before it comes I might as well pay full price to have it in my hand.
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'For sale: baby shoes, never worn'. Hemingway
Anna Karenina -- Leo Tolstoy
The Emigrants -- W. G. Sebald
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Currently reading: Mrs Dalloway (by Virginia Woolf)
"He lives most gaily who knows best how to deceive himself. Ha-ha!"
- CRIME AND PUNISHMENT (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
15/09 :
84 Charing Cross Road, Helene Hanff
After Leaving Mr Mackenzie, Jean Rhys
Black Dogs, Ian McEwan
The Book of Evidence, John Banville
The Black Dahlia, James Ellroy
18/09 :
The Assistant, Bernard Malamud
Everything You Need, A. L. Kennedy
On Chesil Beach, Ian McEwan
The English Patient, Michael Ondaatje
The Green House, Mario Vargas Llosa
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Currently reading: Girl with Green Eyes (Edna O'Brien)
"He lives most gaily who knows best how to deceive himself. Ha-ha!"
- CRIME AND PUNISHMENT (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
Nausea by Sartre for school but have been planning on reading it for years
I hope death is joyful, and I hope I'll never return -Frida Khalo
If I seem insensitive to what you are going through, understand it's the way I am- Mr. Spock
Personally, I think that the unique and supreme delight lies in the certainty of doing 'evil'–and men and women know from birth that all pleasure lies in evil. - Baudelaire
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)
Uhhhh...
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
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