Last book you borrowed from the library.

[Urizen]

hallo

[Eric Cioe]

A bunch of stuff on translation theory for a paper - Dryden, Schleiermacher, and a collection of essays with one by Richmond Lattimore, who is the translator of Homer into English.

[downing]

Vanity Fair

[Janine]

Vanity Fair

downing, did you read it yet? Also, have you finished "Atonement" - how was it? How is "Vanity Fair"? I have the book here - happened to find it very cheap at a thriftshop one day. Love those thriftshops. It is on my 'To Read' list, which is getting longer and longer as the time wears on.....

[Oomoo]

I was Broch's? I've read The Death of Virgil, and I think it was bad (have you read The Death of Virgil too?), but The Sleepwalkers seems something very different.

And I really loved that Döblin's, it was amazing! How did you like it yourself?

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I've only skimmed over a pages of The Sleepwalkers and it was very Thomas Mann-ish in approach (pedantic, heavy, too many adjectives). Doblin I've read like 40 pages, it seemed interesting, but I didn't like the prose style (I'm pretty sure it was bad translation), and in the second episode there were many casual things that seemed unrelated and even boring. Then the books were stolen from me =\

All the Names also couldn't keep me interested. It was a good book but I found out halfway through that I simply don't care.

It was you who recommended Bely, no? For some reason I haven't read it yet. I think I didn't finish the last 10 books I've read or so... I hope I'm gonna like this one.

[Etienne]

Doblin I've read like 40 pages, it seemed interesting, but I didn't like the prose style (I'm pretty sure it was bad translation), and in the second episode there were many casual things that seemed unrelated and even boring. Then the books were stolen from me =\

Hmm I've read it in French, and I found the prose extremely nice, and can't say I share your opinions about the second episode, I thoroughly enjoyed that book, I thought it was funny, entertaining and fascinating.

It was you who recommended Bely, no? For some reason I haven't read it yet. I think I didn't finish the last 10 books I've read or so... I hope I'm gonna like this one.

Yes I keep preaching for Petersburg to be read, it is one of my favorite works, undeniably.

[thelastmelon]

Animal Farm - George Orwell

[aeroport]

Blake's Milton

[Janine]

Several books on Chekhov, two commentary and one thick biography
Willa Cather Stories, Poems, and Other Writings
Dubliners (renewed it for another 2 weeks)
Christina Rossetti: Love and Devotion (illustrated poetry anthology)
and movies, movies, movies...always.....

[moose gurl]

A non-fiction book titled "This is Your Brain on Music"...about how your brain responds to music, chemically, psychologically...very fascinating, very interesting. Checked it out Monday.

[byquist]

The Betrayal of Work, How Low-Wage Jobs Fail 30 Million Americans and their Families, by Beth Shulman

Everyone should read this; it shames and puts a blot on our society (the US that is).

[ntropyincarnate]

The Song of an Innocent Bystander, The Princetta, the Dawn Stag, and What Would Shakespeare Do?

[Amundsen]

schoolbook about Hebrew

[JaneEyre1986]

A non-fiction book titled "This is Your Brain on Music"...about how your brain responds to music, chemically, psychologically...very fascinating, very interesting. Checked it out Monday.

I think I have that book!

What I last checked out of the library:

At Home in Mitford-Jan Karon
Hypocrite in a Pouffy White Dress: Tales of Growing up Groovy and Cluless-Susan Jane

Three Cups of Tea: One Mans' Mission to Promote Peace--One School at a Time-Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin

Never Have Your Dog Stuffed: and Other Things I've Learned-Alan Alda

And I've got Me: Stories of my Life-Katharine Hepburn, but I've finished it, and now my grandma is reading it.

[Sarasvati21]

I actually haven't borrowed a book from the library since I was about...eight, probably. To say the library here is inferior would be a gross understatement. I don't buy books frequently, either. It's really a rather sad situation.