"One" by Richard Bach
"The Book of Laughter and Forgetting" by Milan Kundera
"One" by Richard Bach
"The Book of Laughter and Forgetting" by Milan Kundera
Currently reading:
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon
Just got Eclipse by Stephanie Meyer and the last in the Vampire Edward Trilogy! (I think)
Got the book Uglies (soon getting Pretties)
Menoch the Devil by A. Rice
and A Princess Academy (PAY NO ATTENTION TO THIS: I'm A CYNIC WHO LOVES FAERIE TALES)
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Shall these bones live?
Three Novels: Molloy, Malone Dies and The Unnamable by Samuel Beckett
Death and the Penguin by Andrey Kurkov
Envy by Yuri Olesha
the luminous grass of the prairie hides
feet lovely and still as sleeping doves,
porcelain bones strong enough to carry a life,
but weighty and unmovable
As black Dakota hills. ~ Riesa
Melville; His World and His Work - Andrew Delbanco
Reading Like a Writer - Francine Prose
Just ordered Lifting Shadows - the Dream Theater biography! Pretty excited; viciously expensive, though...
Now that's a GREAT book to give someone...It's on the top of my favorite books of all time!!!Originally Posted by Madhuri
As for me, the last books I bought were yesterday, I went to a used bookshop, and bought both The Iliad and The Odyssey, and a hardcovered edition of Khalil Gibran's The Prophet. I also, finally, got my hands on a rare used edition of Midnight's Children, by Salman Rushdie.
I'm the patron saint of the denial,
With an angel face and a taste for suicidal.
Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe
William H. Gass -- The Tunnel
Samuel Beckett -- Trilogy (Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable)
Donald Bartheleme -- Sixty Stories
William Faulkner -- Collected Stories
T.C. Boyle -- Collected Stories
Under The Glacier by Halldór Laxness
the luminous grass of the prairie hides
feet lovely and still as sleeping doves,
porcelain bones strong enough to carry a life,
but weighty and unmovable
As black Dakota hills. ~ Riesa
Perfume by Patrick Suskind
"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
my poems-please comment Forum Rules
1. Daddy-Long-Legs by Jean Webster
2. Divine Comedy 1 and 2 by Dante
3. Faust Part One by Goethe
4. Second Penguin Book of English Short Stories.
"The time has come," the Walrus said,
"To talk of many things:
Of shoes--and ships--and sealing-wax--
Of cabbages--and kings--
And why the sea is boiling hot--
And whether pigs have wings."
Before someone remarks on my being obsessed or something, I would like to mention that I am planning to take an independent study sometime next summer or next year of Henry James. Thus, catching up with the following:
The Turn of the Screw and the Aspern Papers
The Wings of the Dove
The Portrait of a Lady
The American
And I have just ordered the following:
The Awkward Age
The Spoils of Poynton
The Europeans
The Bostonians
Italian Hours
What Maisie Knew
The Outcry
The Other House
The Tragic Muse
A Small Boy and Others
The Ivory Tower
The Princess Casamassima
Henry James at Work - Theodora Bosanquet
The Cambridge Companion to Henry James
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Sacred Games - Vikram Chandra
Voices mysterious far and near,
Sound of the wind and sound of the sea,
Are calling and whispering in my ear,
Whifflingpin! Why stayest thou here?
My mum just bought me "The Comglomeroid Cocktail Party" by Robert Silverg
Shall these bones live?
I have completed 3/4 of it, and so far I have liked it very much. I wish you do too and like to participate in its discussion which we are having in Forum Book Club this month.
What an interesting novel! I hope the one you gift it to likes it!
I sang of leaves, of leaves of gold, and leaves of gold there grew.
Iceland's Bell ~ Halldór Laxness
the luminous grass of the prairie hides
feet lovely and still as sleeping doves,
porcelain bones strong enough to carry a life,
but weighty and unmovable
As black Dakota hills. ~ Riesa
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