I know there's a thread where you write the last book you bought, but I thought it'd be interesting to see what people got from the library as well, since some of us can't afford to buy books all the time. So, what was the last book you borrowed from the library?
I am going to the library today, and I'll get:
A Família Trago - Germano Almeida
Coraline - Neil Gaiman
In the Time of the Butterflies - Julia Alvarez
The Pilgrimage - Paulo Coelho
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Amélie Nothomb's Stupeur et Tremblements (Fear and Trembling). I finished reading it last night, will return it to the library tomorrow.
Millions - dont know who its by i have forgotton already lol its a good book though
Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts.
- Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
"The Sun Also Rises". That was years ago. My libraries are total garbage now so I don't go there anymore.
Give Us This Day by R. F. Delderfield. I like to own books that I thoroughly enjoy so I can re-read them, which I actually do. But until I know I like a particular book (or author), I prefer to try them out at the library first.
Give Us This Day is a member of a trilogy on the Swann family of England, which owns an overland cargo transportation company. The family is large and has members who participated in military operations against the Zulus in Africa, the Boer War, and the Boxer Rebellion. But most of their activities take place at home in England.
I had read another book of Delderfield's many years ago, which I found to be very enjoyable. It was called The Dreaming Suburb and dealt with a suburb of London between the World Wars.
In Arlington, Virginia, our library system seems to be quite good.
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I believe it was The Epic of Gilgamesh.One of the few books that I was never interested in buying,not sure why.
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I need to take that back so I can go and borrow the Collected Short Stories of D.H. Lawrence, and one more, but I can't remember...something on forensic anthropology. I will post here when I check them out!
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The last one I took out was Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis, which I finished yesterday.
The next one will be Collected Poems by W. H. Auden.
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"Where mind meets matter, both should woo!"Currently reading:
* Paradise Lost by John Milton
It was more than likely J.M.Synges letters to Molly Algood about nine years ago.
"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
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Artemins Fowl and the Lost Colony by Eoin Colfer
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Slow Man, just got it last week.
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Books: Kant (related writings)
Movie: Apocalypse Now...I'm gonna watch it soon.
Crashing Through - Robert Kurson
It was for my book club. I didn't even finish it. The holidays. Too much going on right at that time.
Wide Sargasso Sea - Jean Rhys
I finished it a bit ago. When I go to take it back, I plan on getting Slow Man.
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I believe it was a volume of the collected poems of Ronsard... its been so long... must be 15 years. I mostly buy books because I am constantly referring back to books or wanting to jump ahead in another book so I now have my own library.
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This is rather funny, last book I checked out and returned to my library was "Creative Beading".....haha - well, I finally copied all the pages and now I won't have to bug the librarians and take it out any longer.
I usually do get novels or commentary books, but this was the last book (technically speaking) I took out.
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