I went on a bit of a spree when I came across a second hand shop near where I live... I can never resist those.
Sylvia Plath - The Bell Jar
Ken Kesey - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Hemingway - True at First Light
Faulkner - Light in August
Solzhenitsin - One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch
"In the sunset of dissolution, everything is illuminated by the aura of nostalgia, even the guillotine."
- Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
mushsin, This is so funny; I was in my library last night and saw this book in the free bin. I never heard of it before, but my friend likes Dan Brown, so I picked it up for her. Is it a good read? Just curious. It did look sort of interesting from the cover and unlike his "DaVinci Code" and other books.Originally Posted by muhsin
"It's so mysterious, the land of tears."
Chapter 7, The Little Prince ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
I've been away for a bit and in that time, I've bought a fair amount of books. I was trying to get out of my Russian rut so I made a concerted effort to avoid anything Russian for awhile so I got:
Growth of the Soil and Victoria by Knut Hamsun
Nothing-Doting-Blindness by Henry Green
The Fish Can Sing by Halldor Laxness
Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee
My Antonia by Willa Cather
Somersault by Kenzaburo Oe...and
Scum by Isaac Bahevis Singer
...but then I got this overwhelming feeling that something was missing so yesterday I ordered:
The Law of Eternity by Nodar Dumbadze, who is actually Georgian so not Russian but a Soviet Georgian so...close...sort of... That book was recommened to me by someone at the librarything site.
Pretender to the Throne: Further Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin by Vladimir Voinovich...and
The Twelve Chairs by Ilya Ilf
Now I have a freakishly long 'to read' pile but all is right with the world now that it has some Russian in it.
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
Marie Antoinette: The Journey by Antonia Frazer
Can I see another's woe,
And not be in sorrow too?
Can I see another's grief,
And not seek for kind relief?
~William Blake
Well I am quite happy, I just got the complete works of Edgar Allan Poe
Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before. ~ Edgar Allan Poe
I scoured the school bookshop in the past week for some holiday reading. To me it's all free, 'cause it gets billed on my parents' account! They'll never know!
Anyway, here's what I bought:
The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
Hatchet - Gary Paulsen
Love in the Time of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
An Evil Cradling - Brian Keenan
The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
Kim - Rudyard Kipling
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The Outsider - Albert Camus
Madame Bovary - Gustav Flaubert
Waiting for Godot (The play) - Samuel Beckett
And here's some other books I've bought, though they weren't from the school bookshop, in the past week:
The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again - Andy Warhol
No Country for Old Men - Cormac McCarthy
The Book Thief - Markus Zusak
and then I bought one for my Father:
Atonement - Ian McEwan
Haha, spent all my debit card on those!
So, what you think, good selection?
Currently Reading:
The Marriage Plot - Jeffrey Eugenides
Neon Genesis Evangelion: Volume 1 - Yoshiyuki Sadamoto
Song for Night - Chris Abani
Recently bought:
Candide: Or Optimism by Voltaire
Cats Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
Hatchet - Gary Paulsen: I read that book a long time ago, but I do remember enjoying it
The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck: I enjoyed this book more than I thought I would, sense I really did not care for Of Mice and Men
Kim - Rudyard Kipling: This is a good book
Madame Bovary - Gustav Flaubert: I have just recently aquired a copy of this, have not read it yet, but look forward to doing so soon
Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before. ~ Edgar Allan Poe
Exit A by Anthony Swoffard - I didn't care for it that much...
The Five People You Meet In Heaven by Mitch Albom - Thought it was decent, not as good as everyone says it is
The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis - Haven't read it yet, looks promising
The Collected Poetry and Prose of Wallace Stevens
How to Read a Poem - Terry Eagleton
I guess, technically, the last book I bought was a new Moleskine pocket journal. But I just ordered Amazing Grace: William Wilberforce and the Heroic Campaign to End Slavery by Eric Metaxas. Looking forward to reading it after seeing the movie.
A Creative Approach to Music Fundamentals
Language: Its Structure and Use
Evolutionary Medicine and Health
Those are for class this quarter. Intro to Music (theory), Intro to Linguistics, and Biological Approaches to Medical Anthropology classes (respectively)
This is going to be an interesting quarter.
"So heaven meets earth like a sloppy wet kiss, and my heart turns violently inside of my chest, I don't have time to maintain these regrets, when I think about, the way....He loves us..."
http://youtube.com/watch?v=5xXowT4eJjY
Oops!!!
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Most of these I just got for one of my classes but most of them also happend to be upon one of my book lists as well.
Dubliners, James Joyce
A Passage to India, E.M. Forster
The Death of the Heart, Elizabeth Bowen
To the Lighthouse, Virginia Wolf
*The Ambassadors, Henry James
*The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood
*The Island of the Day Before, Umberto Eco
*Dark Voices, a collection of horror stories
* These ones I got for only for my personal reading pleasure, and are not school related.
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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