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    The Simple Past by the Moroccan writer Driss Chraibi.
    I also bought a book with quite many poems by 26 different contemporary Lithuanian poets.

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    Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller...although I didn't technically buy it, it was a very thoughtful gift.
    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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    "Beauty and the Beast" Vocal Selections
    The book made for the movie "Sweeney Todd"

    Yes, I know they aren't "story" books, but they are still books, nonetheless!

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    I bought another Lawrence's book - "The Plumed Serpent". I was browsing a new book shop I stumbled on and I just saw it on the bookshelf, so i decided to buy it
    Currently reading:
    The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon

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    Quote Originally Posted by Idril View Post
    Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller...although I didn't technically buy it, it was a very thoughtful gift.

    I agree, it surely was.

    In a similiar vein are the newest additions to my library, one being an EXTREMELY thoughtful gift...just look at the thoughtful inscription: "devastation has never been so beautiful"
    Independent People ~ By Halldor Laxness

    and Ceremony~ Leslie Marmon Silko~ is officially the last book I bought, thanks IP
    Last edited by Riesa; 01-10-2008 at 11:08 PM.
    "Don't matter who they are, anybody sets foot in this house, they are company and don't let me catch you remarking on their ways like you were so high and mighty."

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    Just bought Hitchens's Portable Atheist and The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing.

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    Bought three in Borders!

    Slow Man - J. M. Coetzee (for the forum book club).

    The Time Machine - H. G. Wells

    The Shining - Stephen King

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    I almost bought The God Delusion By Richard Dawkins. I saw it in the book store the other day. Upon closer examination I found that I forgot my wallet, so I didn't get it after all.
    There is no darkness, there is no light, there is only Lasagne!

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    A Quiet Belief in Angels by R.J.Ellory
    "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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    Quote Originally Posted by Riesa View Post
    I agree, it surely was.

    In a similiar vein are the newest additions to my library, one being an EXTREMELY thoughtful gift...just look at the thoughtful inscription: "devastation has never been so beautiful"
    Independent People ~ By Halldor Laxness
    Oh, I just can't wait until you read it. I really think it will speak to the poet in you.
    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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    Just bought a few days ago, 'The Brothers Karamazov' (woohoo finally found it), 'The Name of the Rose', 'The Golden Notebook' and the 'Dubliners'.

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    Does it count if they're not literature? I'd received some money for X-mas and decided to get some books. It's a relatively small list, but it was a pretty good chunk of change:
    A Brief History of Time
    The Practical Geologist
    Restless Skies
    The 50 Best Sights in Astronomy and How to See Them
    Astronomy for Dummies

    My birthday is next month and I'm planning on at least getting the complete works of Robert Frost and Edgar Allen Poe.

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    I just bought

    A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

    and

    The Age of Innocence by Edith Whorton

    Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before. ~ Edgar Allan Poe

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    Just got the rest of my textbooks. The Penguin Anthology of American Literature, vol. 2; Milton: Major Works; The Bedford Anthology of World Literature vol 1 - The Ancient World; Blackwell Annotated Anthology of Seventeenth Century Poetry

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    which courses are those? I'd like that class.
    "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."

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