Last Book You Bought and Why

[kasie]

[QUOTE=Lioness_Heart;601532]Last week I accidentaly bought 5 books... /QUOTE]

You are a gal after my own heart, LH! I thought I was the only one who 'accidentally' bought books - they just sort of leap off the shelf at you, don't they?

There is no proper bookshop in the nearest town to me, so when I get near a bookshop I tend to behave in an unrestrained fashion. Was in Oxford last week and asked my sister-in-law to keep me out of bookshops but the bus stopped right outside Waterstones.... and the return bus picked up outside Borders.....so one or two volumes went home with me....If on a Winter's Night by Italo Calvino because I've seen it mentioned on the Forum several times, Chronicler of the Winds by Henning Mankell because I'm off to S Africa soon and I like Mankell's books, My name is Red by Orhan Pamuk because I'm in the middle of Snow and I want to read more Pamuk, Binu and the Great Wall of China by Su Tong because I was there last year and anything Chinese still grabs my attention, An Instance of the Fingerpost by Iain Pears because it's set in Oxford and I suspect I won't see it in my part of the world unless it becomes a Best Seller and/or a film/tv series and Touching Distance by Rebecca Abrams, an Oxford author (ditto last title). Then there were the odd detective stories, volume 2 or 3 of series, latest titles by previously enjoyed authors....Good job I was only there for a few days and we didn't get as far as Blackwell's.

Hope you enjoy The Conjuror's Bird btw - I found it a most entertaining read.

[Bijou]

A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini. I thoroughly enjoyed the reading of his first novel The Kite Runner and it served as an inducement to purchase another novel written by him.

[Virgil]

A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini. I thoroughly enjoyed the reading of his first novel The Kite Runner and it served as an inducement to purchase another novel written by him.

Nossa just mentioned that novel too. I forget which thread.

[EricP]

I picked up "Debunking 9/11 Myths: Why Conspiracy Theories Can't Stand Up to the Facts" (ed. by David Dunbar & Brad Reagan) today. I bought it because I've had several people recently mention that they believe the terrorist attacks on 9/11 were an "inside job" and I want to give them more detailed reasons for why I think they are delusional idiots.

[Nossa]

Finally bought my own copy of Cormac McCarthy's The Road
About Khaled Hosseini's A Thousand Splendid Suns, you can find my review here:
http://www.online-literature.com/for...ad.php?t=36316

[sharpie]

One Hundred Years of Solitude - Marquez

bought it in london impulsively because my friend was rushing me to leave the bookstore to catch a movie, so i ran through the fiction section and grabbed anything that looked interesting. I had been meaning to buy marquez because it's supposedly a classic. It's quite good.

[MorpheusSandman]

The Complete Poetry and Essential Prose of John Milton

-Because I've been interested in poetry for a while and one has to start somewhere.

[Dark Muse]

Tales for the Midnight Hour ~ J.B. Stamper
Merlin ~ Stephen R. Lawhead
Exiles: The Ruins of Ambrai ~ Merlanie Rawn
The House of the Seven Gables ~ Nathanial Hawthorne
The Return of the Native ~ Thomas Hardy

[Dark Muse]

The Day of the Locust ~ Nathanael West
The Portrait of A Lady ~ Henry James
Fathers and Sons ~ Tugenev
Howards End ~ E.M. Forster
The Music of the Spheres ~ Elizabeth Redfen
The Naked Empire ~ Terry Goodkind
Aztec Autumn ~ Gary Jennings

[CathyEarnshaw]

Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin. I bought this partly because I wanted to get more into literature of the world, since I have mostly read British and some American. Also was interested in a novel in verse.

[Equality72521]

Breaking Dawn, by Stephenie Meyer. I had to finish the crappy series.

[lyni]

The Poisoned Crown by Amanda Hemingway - to finish the trilogy.
The Singing by Alison Croggon - to finish the ..... quadruple? is that what a series of four is called?

[Janine]

The House of the Seven Gables ~ Nathanial Hawthorne
The Return of the Native ~ Thomas Hardy
Fathers and Sons ~ Tugenev
Howards End ~ E.M. Forster

DM, I read all 4 of these; let me know how you like them, when you finish them. In my opinion, they are all excellent. I recently bought Hawthorne's ~ "The Mable Fawn"; and I have read most of Hardy and Forster's work. They are two of my favorite authors.

[Dark Muse]

Hehe, I will be sure to let you know once I have read them

[Janine]

Hehe, I will be sure to let you know once I have read them

Ok, good. Have fun reading them!