Haha, I use my old schoolbooks for thatOriginally Posted by Scheherazade
To put them on top of each other to climb and reach higher shelves in the kitchen?
That is cheap. I spent like 100 euro on this - http://www.amazon.co.uk/Lord-Rings-5...3497222&sr=1-7 - some years ago.
Last edited by Niamh; 10-09-2008 at 11:26 AM.
1. Ireland - Frank Delaney
2. Outlander - Gil Adamson
3. Norse Mythology: A Guide to Gods, Heroes, Rituals, and Beliefs - John Lindow
4. Othello, Signet Classics Edition
5. Midsummer Nights Dream, Signet Classics Edition
6. Myths and Legends of Japan - F. Hadland Davis
7. Bulfinch's Greek and Roman Mythology: The Age of Fable - Thomas Bulfinch
I bought them all at the same time. I have this rising interest in folklore, hence the books on mythology. I saw Ireland and I was impressed with the summary on the backcover.As for Shakespeare, I'm going to go see Othello on stage very soon and so I intend to read it before then. I'm sure a lot of people here have read The Sandman series by Neil Gaiman. It explains the interest in MND.
The Hours by Michael Cunningham. I liked the movie and decided to give the actual book a try.
I'm the patron saint of the denial,
With an angel face and a taste for suicidal.
I just got a marvelous coffee-table scaled book published by Könemann on Florence. The work is hundreds of pages of gorgeous, glossy photographs of the painting, sculpture, and architecture of Florence. I purchased the book because it is easily worth $75... but I got it for less than $15 as part of a teacher's discount promotion. I already have similar books on Rome, the Romanesque, the Gothic, and the Italian Renaissance. I still want to get the volume of Venice... and Islamic Art and Architecture. I also got another book on William Blake... because the 14 I already have just weren't enough.
Beware of the man with just one book. -Ovid
The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.- Mark Twain
My Blog: Of Delicious Recoil
http://stlukesguild.tumblr.com/
Me Talk Pretty One Day - David Sedaris, who is absolutely hilarious.
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone Anniversary Edition - J.K. Rowling. It's a really nice copy with a new cover, the actual book cover has stared, and it has a few extra illustrations. I'm going to keep it in good condition. Versus my old copy which I picked up once and the pages fell out of the spine. It's a bit worn.
Cuttlefish Bones by Eugenio Montale. Why? Because we are reading it for the poetry bookclub. Come and join in: http://www.online-literature.com/for...258#post631258
LET THERE BE LIGHT
"Love follows knowledge." – St. Catherine of Siena
My literature blog: http://ashesfromburntroses.blogspot.com/
Mythology by Edith Hamilton
E. M. Forster - Maurice
F. S. Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby
D. H. Lawrence - Sons and Lovers
Cause it's a shame not owning them.
Callicratidas: If women took part in government meetings, in the courts, and in public affairs, you surely would be a general, Charicles, or president, and they whould raise bronze statues of you in the public squares. In fact, the wisest among them, were they to speak in favour of their cause, could hardly have outdone you. (...) It may even be that Pericles defended Aspasia with less eloquence.
It was actually Germiane Greer's The Whole Women.
Heterosexual male feminism is not as rare as you may think.
Just bought Homer's Iliad translated by Richmond Lattimore (any good?) for 33p plus postage, really that is about equivalent to a Sunday newspaper.
Umberto Eco, The mysterious flame of Queen Loana, because I love everything he writes.
Soljenitsyne, Our young (novellas), ditto.
Nerval, Pandora, because I'd never seen that one around and it was cheap!
how do you know about this writer?
hes a brazilian guy
FANTASTIC NOVEL!!! One of my all-time favorites. I cannot praise it enough!
Erm, no, he's Italian.
And famous, at least in my parts of the world.
'Of Grammatology' by Derrida trans. by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak because it came in cheap and because it's worth keeping in the collection: even if i don't read it now at one go, i'll definitely go back to it innumerable times in the future.
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