Hubbub: Filth, Noise and Stench in England 1600 - 1770 by Emily Cockayne
How can you not buy a book with a title like that?
Hubbub: Filth, Noise and Stench in England 1600 - 1770 by Emily Cockayne
How can you not buy a book with a title like that?
I just ordered following books:
Out of the Silent Planet - C.S. Lewis
The Elder Gods - David Eddings
Grass for His Pillow - Lian Hearn
Brilliance of the Moon - Lian Hearn
The Harsh Cry of the Heron - Lian Hearn
Heaven's Net is Wide - Lian Hearn
Has anyone read any of these books, and have an opinion about them?No spoilers though, thanks.
The last two books I bought were "Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World" by Haruki Murakami and "The Master of Petersburg" by J.M. Coetzee. I loved Murakami's "The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle" so I wanted to read more of his works and I read about Coetzee on wikipedia and thought he would be interesting to read.
J.H.S.
Narrative of the Life - Frederick Douglass
I had just read Invisible Man and found it really interesting and wanted to read more African American literature, so I started with Douglass, since I had already read some of his work.
Green Lantern/Green Arrow Volume 2. Adams/O'Neill
Very good read.
'Nights in Rodanthe' by Nicholas Sparks
I bought it because I wanted to watch the movie, but I had to read the novel first. The novel was waay better!
"My warm hands have made the paper limp,
So that its feel reminds me of slept-in sheets: comfortable and safe"
"All these things I say... I say them because I want you to know, I don't ever want to regret afterwards that I didn't say enough, I would rather say too much." ~ Samuel Selvon
A book from Ryszard Kapuscinky, I think that the English title is "Encountering the Other: The Challenge for the Twenty-First Century", but I'm not sure. I bought it because I see a lot of intolerants and xenophobics around me, and I wanted to think about it.
Akhenaten, Dweller in Truth - by Naguib Mahfouz.... because I love Mahfouz .... and I was in Egypt, with my head full of the breath-taking monuments I was visiting & of the stories of pharoahs and their gods.
"He lives most gaily who knows best how to deceive himself. Ha-ha!"
- CRIME AND PUNISHMENT (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
The Good Earth, mostly because I really liked it back when I read it the first time.
I think if you make a signature, you should inspire some emotion in someone else. I also think it would be pretentious for me to think I could do that.
Wallace Stegner - Collected Stories
I started reading Stegner some years ago, first his Pulitzer-winning Angle of Repose, followed by Big Rock Candy Mountain and non-fiction. He is certainly an American master. I wanted to read more of his short fiction and have been rewarded by more interesting tales.
Red Cavalry ~ Isaac Babel
Collected Stories ~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Case of Comrade Tulayev ~ Victor Serge
Serious Game ~ Hjalmar Söderberg
Soul ~ Andrey Platonov
The Song of the Red Ruby ~ Agnar Mykle
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
The Brothers Karamazov, and Notes from the Underground because Crime and Punishment was excellent.
Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
The Luxe Series
Some manga.
Shall these bones live?
Watership Down- Adams
A required read.
"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise."
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald
1. W. Somerset Maugham - The Moon and Sixpence
2. Heard good things about it here.
3. "I confess that when i first made acquaintance with Charles Strickland I never for a moment discerned that there was in him anything out of the ordinary."
4. 130/215
5. I love it so far, there are some really funny passages and some really poignant ones, great writing.
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