Invisible Man, by Ralph Ellison, cause his commentary on Faulkner seemed so profound, and, being of mixed race (if not black mixed race), I'm fascinated by the Black experience in America. I'm finishing my Baldwin project first, tho, so I have some context. XD
Talk to me sometime. http://dysfunctional-harmony.tumblr.com/
Recent purchases in roughly chronological order: Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses, Rodney Merrill's translations of The Iliad and The Odyssey, Frank Ryder's translation of the Nibelungenlied, Christina Hoff Sommers' The War on Boys, Twelve Plays by Shakespeare, The Oxford Shakespeare: The Complete Sonnets and Poems, and The Brothers Karamazov and War and Peace translated by Pevear and Volokhonsky.
Bought 2 used books in Strand Book Store in NYC recently!
Mapping Time by E.G. Richards
Europe: A Cultural History by Peter Rietbergen
I've bought Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell but considering seize of the book I put it aside. I'll try to read it after finishing War and Peace.
The last book I bought was Before the Throne by Naguib Mahfouz. I was just browning through a bookstore, and I came across his section. I had read a bit about him before, but had never come across any of his work. I had a bit of money on me, so I grabbed it and voila! It is sitting on my bookshelf just begging to be read.
I went to a couple of bookstores in Toronto the other day and purchased several books I've been meaning to read like The Secret Agent, Absalom, Absalom!, The Woman in White, The Castle, and The Island of the Day Before. I've got a lot of my reading for the summer already in front of me.
“Yesterday's rose endures in its name, we hold empty names.”
― Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose
Steve Jobs's biography.
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley....
I wanted a dystopian future book as I was feeling a bit glum and wanted something that fit that. And I always figured I ought to read Brave New World, I'd just never gotten around to it before now!
A hardbound copy of Done: The Reformed Soul by John Stubbs. There is no space for books in this house any more. My library of ebooks and audiobooks is growing fast as well but buying physical books is an addiction.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/John-Donne-T...7&sr=8-3-spell
"The farther he goes the more good it does me. I don’t want philosophies, tracts, dogmas, creeds, ways out, truths, answers, nothing from the bargain basement. He is the most courageous, remorseless writer going and the more he grinds my nose in the sh1t the more I am grateful to him..."
-- Harold Pinter on Samuel Beckett
Awe shucks, there's always room for more books - you just have to clear out the food in the pantry.
Today I bought Swamplandia! by Karen Russell. I bought it cold. I know nothing about it, but I read the first couple of chapters in the store and I liked the narrative voice.
Uhhhh...
Angels and Demons
The Da vinci code
The lost symbol
all by Dan Brown . i bought these all in the same day because i wanted to read the series
De Naam van de Wind (The Name of the Wind) by Patrick Rothfuss because it came highly recommended by some of my friends.
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past - The Great Gatsby
Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice - Polonius (Hamlet)
Some people think it's a slow read, but I quite liked it!Originally Posted by RicMisc
"But she expressed herself in many different ways, until she lost control again..."
The Floating Opera and The End of the Road (John Barth)
The Poor Mouth (Flann O'Brien)
Snow (Orhan Pamuk)
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas (Gertrude Stein)
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Currently reading: My Name is Red (Orhan Pamuk)
"He lives most gaily who knows best how to deceive himself. Ha-ha!"
- CRIME AND PUNISHMENT (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
The Woman in The Dunes (Suna no Onna) by Kobo Abe.
The Death of the Heart by Elizabeth Bowen.
Both are acclaimed works. The former is a japanese classic, the latter promises some kind of emotional turmoil. Enough said.
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