I got a Barns and Nobel gift card for my brithday originally I had gone hoping to find 20 Years After since I just finnished the Three Musketeers but they did not have it so I picked up a couple of other things I wanted to read plus found an interesting sounding book in the bargin books section.
In the Company of the Courtesan ~ Sarah Dunant
Thirsty ~ M.T Anderson
The Age of the Gladiators ~ Rupert Matthews
Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before. ~ Edgar Allan Poe
One flew over the Cuckoo's nest - Ken Kesey
Just happened to pass the bookstore on my way to grocery shopping. Just another of those books I've read somewhere but never owned...
Dogeaters by Jessica Hagedorn.. It's a must for us to read her works- a fellow Filipino writer. I adore her works actually, which perhaps is one of the reason why I plead for money for my mother.
For some reasons, I like the "title" it captures the nature of Filipinos which is eating "dog meat".. Don't get me wrong- I never ate any cuisine with such ingredient.
"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
Added The Great Gatsby to my collection a week ago...great classic. I love Fitzgerald and it was pretty cheap haha. Also, I bought a play called Par for the Corpse...hilarious. Read it...
Beyond the clouds, my mind wanders in the stars.
Hey - me tooOriginally Posted by eyemaker
Watership Down- Adams
A required read.
Watership Down... I saw the (cartoon) movie as a child and I still don't dare to watch it again. It is scary/sad as can be! I still see that one scene where... Nevermind. Maybe I should read the book to get past it.
Jude the Obscure (Thomas Hardy)
I needed a book to read on my journey to and from work. It seemed interesting enough on the first glare, it wasn't too thick and it wasn't too expensive. And the cover was OK: something I wouldn't mind holding in my hands
I'm not that far in the book yet, but I think I'll enjoy itReally curious about what is gonna happen next.
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It is not too late, to be wild for roundabouts - to be wild for life
Wolfsheim - It is not too late
Oops double post... Who do I have to warn about this?
Last edited by Sapphire; 03-10-2009 at 04:28 AM.
It is not too late, to be wild for roundabouts - to be wild for life
Wolfsheim - It is not too late
I certainly love rabbits. How did you find the story?Hey - me too
"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
The Plague by Camus. To read it . . .
The salvation of the world is in man's suffering. - Faulkner
Ticket to Ride - Larry Kane
Life Mask - Emma Donoghue
I got them both from the Dollar Store. That seems to be where my store of choice is lately for all of my books.
Isn't it perculier that hardly any of us 'literature junkies' buy one book at a time, always 2, 3 or more!
Looking for Alaska by John Green
Brave new world by Aldous Huxley
The surgeon of Crawthorne by Simon Winchester
Tove Jansson - Moominsummer Madness
Because I love her books, they are so sweet and have very wise thoughts.
Last book bought:
Tess of the D'urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
Why bought it:
Have been meaning to read it for a while, read a little on Google book search and then thought I had to get it because I loved it too much and wanted to underline/highlight bits I loved.
The last book I bought, which was last week, was the English translation of The Reader originally written in German by Bernhard Schlink.
The reason I bought it was that Kate Winslet won an Academy Award for the movie based on this book. I was interested by the movie sypnosis. This book is really worth a read. It is short and could be finished in three to four hours. Each of the three parts deal with very different emotions.
Last book I purchased is entitled: You Suck [A love story]
Why?
I was at the Walden bookstore and was planning on buying a journal.
Instead I spotted a light, bright blue covered book with large red letters
and a vampire mouth with fangs. Not only did that catch my attention; the title itself got me curious.
After reading the entire book, I must say.....it did not suck. haha
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