The Master & Margarita (Bulgakov)
Brave New World - reread (Huxley)
Am in process of reading The Master and Margarita. Very strange! The last book I bought was 'The Last Tycoon' by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Am planning to buy 'Giovanni's Room' by James Baldwin also.
Stephen King- CELL
When you talk to God its called prayer,
When god talks to you its Catatonic Schizophrenia...Fox MULDER.
A while back I bought following books:
Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
Eragon - Christopher Paolini
Odyssey - Homeros
Just today for a total of fifteen dollars:
Light in August - William Faulkner
Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
(these last two are in preparation for an Adolescent Lit. class for teachers I'll be taking in the fall)
and The Collected Poems of Sylvia Plath
and somehow a dog
has taken itself & its tail considerably away
into the mountains or sea or sky, leaving
behind: me, wag.
- John Berryman
Berlin Alexanderplatz - Alfred Döblin
Anyone have some commentary about this book?
''The high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.'' - Aristotle
Zadie Smith - On Beauty
Sabine Kuegler - Jungle Child
Yesterday I bought The Collected poems of Thomas Hardy - My favourite poet, and a verse adaptation of Homers odyssey - originally for radio 4 apparently so I expect I'll like it. Did anyone else catch Harold Pinter's landscape on 4 yeasterday? I thought it was brilliant.
Last month, at a couple of bookstores in Manila :
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
The Gathering by Anne Enright
"He lives most gaily who knows best how to deceive himself. Ha-ha!"
- CRIME AND PUNISHMENT (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
I was at the Buenos Aires book fair last Monday and bought Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged" (I've heard so much about her, good and bad, I want to check out for myself) and Virginia Woolf's "The waves" and "To the lighthouse".
hmm, now that you mention it, p.a.m., i've been looking to read "To the Lighthouse" for a while now.
have two books waiting for my fingerprints to disturb the dust that has settled on them since the last time i picked it up, but i think i'm looking forward to starting another book my mom got for me just today: Far From the Madding Crowd. does that count as the last book i bought ?
yesterday I bought Rant by Chuck Palahniuk, the Subterraneans by Kerouac and The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham
dunno when I will get to read them - I have about 40 books on the shelf that are still unread. I seem to have an addiction where I cant walk past a book shop without buying something, especially when there is stuff you want in the 3 for 2 offers!
Joseph Conrad's Nostromo
I've gone on a bit of a buying binge, in the last few weeks I've bought:
Paradise Reclaimed by Halldor Laxness
Skylark Farm by Antonia Arslan
The Tree of Man by Patrick White
Monumental Propaganda by Vladimir Voinovich (my new favorite author)
The Anti-Soviet Soviet Union by Vladimir Voinovich
Candide by Voltaire
and lastly, The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford
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
'What Matters Most Is How Well You Walk Through the Fire' - Charles Bukowski. It's a large collection of his poetry.
I also bought some of Poe's short stories the other day.
The Host by Stephenie Meyer...
Find your dream and stick with it...or your life will have slipped past in a whisper with you still on the bottom.
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