Last Book You Bought and Why

[Dickens59]

Enter Jeeves: 15 Early Stories by P.G. Wodehouse

The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester

[LadyWentworth]

I just bought two books today that were in the bargain section. One about Jane Austen's life and times. The other was American Brutus. That is about John Wilkes Booth and the Lincoln conspiracies. I was actually thrilled to find that one. It was a hardcover for $7. I only saw it as $30 otherwise! Pretty decent deal!

[Dori]

The Selected Letters of Anton Chekhov, Dr. Zhivago by Boris Pasternak, This is not a Book by Micheal Picard

[livelaughlove]

I have a hard time resisting book stores so I brought home a copy of Crime and Punishment from the mall the other day. I can't wait to start it but I'm trying finish Brothers Karamazov first (which is very good as well).

[amalia1985]

Thomas Hardy's "A Pair of Blue Eyes".

[Alexei]

I have a little pile of new books

1. a french edition of "99 francs" by Frédérick Beigbeder
2. "Je crois Moi non plus : Dialogue entre un évêque et un mécréant" by Frédérick Beigbeder (again )
3. "L'Herbe rouge" by Boris Vian
4. "Exercises in Style" by Raymond Queneau
5. "The Real Life of Sebastian Knight" by Vladimir Nabokov
6. "My Name is Red" by Orhan Pamuk
7. "The Complete Ilustrated Works of William Shakespeare"
8. "La sagesse des Modernes" by André Comte-Sponville and Luc Ferry

[Janine]

I have a little pile of new books

1. a french edition of "99 francs" by Frédérick Beigbeder
2. "Je crois Moi non plus : Dialogue entre un évêque et un mécréant" by Frédérick Beigbeder (again )
3. "L'Herbe rouge" by Boris Vian
4. "Exercises in Style" by Raymond Queneau
5. "The Real Life of Sebastian Knight" by Vladimir Nabokov
6. "My Name is Red" by Orhan Pamuk
7. "The Complete Ilustrated Works of William Shakespeare"
8. "La sagesse des Modernes" by André Comte-Sponville and Luc Ferry

Hi Alexei, *She has 'a little pile' of new books! ...just a little pile, A? #7 - being a world in it's own - "The Complete Illustrated Works of William Shakespeare"!!! You leave me in the dust once again, Alexei....*sigh*

How nice, an illustrated volume of Shakespeare - splendid!

Hi Amalia, I read "A Pair of Blue Eyes" by Hardy, also. I don't recall too much about that book, but at the time, I believe I did like it. I read nearly all of Hardy's novels once. Someday I will probably read them all again.

Personally, I have not bought any new books lately. I often find some they are giving away at my library, but these past few months, I have not found any really good ones there...oh well.. I did find a book that looked sort of interesting of 20th Century Mystery stories and last night I found the book "The Secret Life of Bees" - either I will read that eventually, or give it away to a friend. I don't know much about the book, just that I have seen it on some reading lists.

I did buy some audiobooks recently - mostly William Shakespeare and some short stories of Chekhov, narrated by Kenneth Branagh; oh and the audiotapes of "Frankenstein", the original text, also narrated by Kenneth B. Can't wait to get to those. Currently, I am listening to the audiobook of "Women in Love" and enjoying it very much...it is so different listening to someone narrating the book. I sometimes stop and say - 'did I really read this book before?' - and I read it twice, so that statement is a bit strange. I must have read it, when I was falling asleep or with one eye open...

[LeonMello]

I bought five books some weeks ago:

The Sickness Unto Death (Soren Kierkegaard)
The Pickwick Papers (Charles Dickens)
Fathers and Sons (Ivan Turgenev)
Common Sense (Thomas Paine)
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain)

[Alexei]

Hi Alexei, *She has 'a little pile' of new books! ...just a little pile, A? #7 - being a world in it's own - "The Complete Illustrated Works of William Shakespeare"!!! You leave me in the dust once again, Alexei....*sigh*

How nice, an illustrated volume of Shakespeare - splendid!

Hi, Janine! I've wanted to buy a copy from this edition of Shakespeare's works for almost two years and I finally did I have tired from sighing, while I am looking it in the bookstore
There actually was an occasion about all this "shopping". Between 5th and 9th of December this year in Sofia took place the annual book fair (officially Sofia International Book Fair) and, of course, seeing so many books, I couldn't resist the temptation and start buying

I did buy some audiobooks recently - mostly William Shakespeare and some short stories of Chekhov, narrated by Kenneth Branagh; oh and the audiotapes of "Frankenstein", the original text, also narrated by Kenneth B. Can't wait to get to those.

A month ago I watched Kenneth Branagh's version of "As You Like It" (I think it is from 2006) and I liked it very much. Everything was so vivid and beautiful, one could really feel the spirit of the play. I knew he made a lot of films, based on Shakespeare's plays, but I didn't know he had narrated audiobooks. It's seems interesting, I will try to find a few although i am not a big fan of audiobooks. I prefer reading the book by myself. With audiobooks I link too strongly the narrator's voice with my general impression of the book.

I bought five books some weeks ago:

Fathers and Sons (Ivan Turgenev)

Hi, LeonMello! Welcome to the forum. "Fathers and Sons" is the Christmas reading of the forum book club. It will be nice if you join us in the discussion:
http://www.online-literature.com/for...ad.php?t=30901

[Janine]

Hi, Janine! I've wanted to buy a copy from this edition of Shakespeare's works for almost two years and I finally did I have tired from sighing, while I am looking it in the bookstore
There actually was an occasion about all this "shopping". Between 5th and 9th of December this year in Sofia took place the annual book fair (officially Sofia International Book Fair) and, of course, seeing so many books, I couldn't resist the temptation and start buying


A month ago I watched Kenneth Branagh's version of "As You Like It" (I think it is from 2006) and I liked it very much. Everything was so vivid and beautiful, one could really feel the spirit of the play. I knew he made a lot of films, based on Shakespeare's plays, but I didn't know he had narrated audiobooks. It's seems interesting, I will try to find a few although i am not a big fan of audiobooks. I prefer reading the book by myself. With audiobooks I link too strongly the narrator's voice with my general impression of the book.




Hi, LeonMello! Welcome to the forum. "Fathers and Sons" is the Christmas reading of the forum book club. It will be nice if you join us in the discussion:
http://www.online-literature.com/for...ad.php?t=30901

Alexei, Thanks for you mini-review; I have wanted to know if the film was any good. I am dying to see it; in fact, I really want to buy it, to add to my KB collection - I am an avid fan of KB's and of Shakespeare, so you can imagine my film collection, by now. Ok, so I went and bought the soundtrack and I have been listening to it ever since - it is grand and so lovely - I love Patrick Doyle's soundtracks and own all the ones from KB films and others as well. Immediately, after hearing the music, I knew I must also love the film; and what I have read about it from reviews makes it sound totally delightful and beautiful.

How lovely - a whole book fair...and what fun! You must have had a time choosing just 'a small pile'... That Shakespeare book sounds terrific...it seems like something I would fully appreciate being an artist. I must look into it.

Yes, LeonMello, do join us in the discussion group. It should be very good and lively. Welcome to Lit Net. This is a great site with many nice people.... and other avid readers, like Alexei! I like your dancing bananas very much, A!

[motherhubbard]

I just won these books on e-bay

1) Father And Sons by Ivan S. Turgenev.
2) Tess Of The D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy.
3) How To Judge Of A Picture by John C. Van Dyke.
4) The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky

[Dori]

The last books that I bought were "early Christmas presents" from my Grandma. She gives me $50 every Christmas (and then buys more gifts on top of that). So, from BarnesandNoble.com, I bought the following.

An Incomplete Education: 3,684 THINGS YOU SHOULD HAVE LEARNED BUT PROBABLY DIDN'T by Judy Jones and William Wilson

This book is my favorite of the three I purchased. It's pretty self-explanatory; it is divided into twelve chapters, each dedicated to a specific subject, ie. American Studies (Lit and History), Art History, Economics, Film, Literature, Music, Philosophy, etc. These chapters have several things included in them. For instance, in Chapter 5 Literature, there is a section entitled "The Carriages: Wheels of Fortune" which describes carriages that we might encounter when reading literature (such as a phaeton, a curricle, a cabriolet, a broughman, a gig, etc.). Very informative indeed!

The Politcally Incorrect Guide to English and American Literature by Elizabeth Kandor (I think.)

This book is very amusing and informative at the same time. It is what the title says, a guide to English and American literature. However, it is from a conservative point of view (or better yet, a politically incorrect point of view). I've learned a lot from simply skimming over the pages.

The Superior Person's Field Guide to Deceitful, Deceptive, and Downright Dangerous Language by Peter Bowler

This book is not exactly what one might think from reading the title. Essentially, it's a compendium of euphemisms and their 'real' meanings. For example, Bowler defines Adult (n.) as "pornographic." He also covers such things as "Accessible Parking" (which is supposedly parking for cripples, to be blunt), and points out that all parking is accessible, therefore making the term "accessible parking" confusing, to say the least.

[n_maw]

The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
Eragon by Christophre Paolini
The Ballad of the Sad Cafe by Carson McCullers
The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith
Working in a Very Small Space by Mark Shelton
The Jane Auten Book Club by Karen Joy Fowler

[grace86]

Dori let me know if you enjoy An Incomplete Education, I've been thinking of picking it up.

Some books I bought recently:

King Lear - Shakespeare (Penguin Paperback)
Macbeth - Shakespeare (B&N Paperback)

*These first two were for school. Complete collections of Shakespeare are awesome to have, but not when you have to lug a dictionary size book to class every day along with three other textbooks and a notebook!)

Then I bought:

The Rainbow - D.H. Lawrence
Sons and Lovers - D.H. Lawrence

*These were to help complete my collection of major works of D.H. Lawrence, seeing how we're all so fond of reading them recently!

[amalia1985]

1) El Greco, the painter of God written by a famous Greek writer

2)The Song of Troy - Colleen McCullough

3)La Reine Crusifee- Gilber Sinoue

4)Love in the Time of Cholera-Gabriel Garcia Marces