The last book I bought was Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card, we read the first book in the series, Ender's Game in my American Lit class and I loved it, they're both great stories. Worth the whole $13
The last book I bought was Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card, we read the first book in the series, Ender's Game in my American Lit class and I loved it, they're both great stories. Worth the whole $13
Women in Love - dh Lawrence. I wanted to get this from the library but don't have a card yet.
Do, or do not. There is no try. - Yoda
I studied in York last semester and there are loads of second-hand bookshops, and I bought there so many books that I was hardly able to come back with them allThe very last I bought was "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire".
In dreams begin responsibilities.
CRIME AND PUNISHMENT
"Why describe the hole, I mean it is a hole; So why describe it?" - Anonymous
The Complete Prose of Woody Allen since then I mainly bookmooch my books as it saves on money as I keep buying books I don't read for ages!!
"Without music, life would be a mistake." - Nietzsche
"The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative on the day after the revolution" - Hannah Arendt.
"Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance" - James Joyce
Currently reading:
Bitter Fame: A Life of Sylvia Plath - Anne Stevenson
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice and Emma
Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling
M.H. Abrams, The Mirror and the Lamp
William Shakespeare, The Tempest
Interesting mix of books for pleasure/for my course in the autumn, it's lovely having the time now to just READ, unrestrainedly and without distraction!
"Haunt me, take any form. Only, do not leave me in this abyss where I cannot find you."
Thursday I went to the bookstore. I bought:
Don Quixote because I broke my other copy
Women in Love because I didn't care to read that one online.
(Grrr Linz I want that copy of Crime and Punishment!)
"So heaven meets earth like a sloppy wet kiss, and my heart turns violently inside of my chest, I don't have time to maintain these regrets, when I think about, the way....He loves us..."
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I have bought some books that I'm supposed to read during my summer holiday:
Brave New World by Huxley
1984 by Orwell
The Bluest Eye by Tony Morrison
Heart of Darkness by Conrad
Wuthering Heights by E. Bronte
And I'm reading all of them in English...at least I hope I'll manage to!!
"Lawrence" a biography and essay about D.H Lawrence. I paid 1 dollar for it.
Dastak Nah Do (Don't knock!) by Altaf Fatimah.
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I sang of leaves, of leaves of gold, and leaves of gold there grew.
Blart 2 by Dominic Barker! (ok so i'm a big kid! Whatca gonna do eh!)
"Come away O human child!To the waters of the wild, With a faery hand in hand, For the worlds more full of weeping than you can understand."
W.B.Yeats
"If it looks like a Dwarf and smells like a Dwarf, then it's probably a Dwarf (or a latrine wearing dungarees)"
Artemins Fowl and the Lost Colony by Eoin Colfer
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I just bought an Albert Camus book (as I've never read any but have only heard good things about him here!), it's a collection of three of his books which are, The Plague, The Fall, Exile and the Kingdom plus some essays. It's in hardback, and it's beautiful, and it was a bargain!
The Good Guy by Dean Koontz
O. Wilde the complete works part of a sale at a wellknown bookstore chain. quasimodo1
Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, The Little Prince, and one of the various books by V.S. Naipaul
we stand round blankly as walls...
let's live suddenly without thinking
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