The last book I bought is entitled: The Penguin Book of American Short Stories
The reason is: I'm preparing for my MA in American Literature and those stories will enrich my knowledge.
The last book I bought is entitled: The Penguin Book of American Short Stories
The reason is: I'm preparing for my MA in American Literature and those stories will enrich my knowledge.
I'm always intrigued by that book.Originally Posted by Bookthief
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
Do, or do not. There is no try. - Yoda
YES! I love the authors form of writing.
Ghosts of London - J.A. Brooks
The Ghost Hunters Favorite Cases - Hans Holzer
Sister Carrie - Theodore Dreiser
The Day Loncoln Was Shot - Jim Bishop
Wild Women - Autumn Stephens
Why? They were cheap. I got them from a used bookstore that is going out-of-business for half off of an already decently discounted price.
The last book for me was ...
Justine by Lawrence Durrell. It is one of a quartet of books about the lifes and loves of characters living in Alexandria, Egypt just prior to and during WWII. The first three novels tell the same story but in different perspectives. Time dosesn't move onward until the fourth or last novel. Have just finished Justine and have ordered the second novel, Balthazar. Number three is Mountolive and four is Clea. Very passionate novels and extremely interesting.
Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallace
The Road - Cormac McCarthy
the Crying of Lot 49 - Thomas Pynchon
"And the worms, they will climb
The rugged ladder of your spine"
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte so that I own a book by each of the Bronte sisters
Ulysses by James Joyce
Anarchism & Other Essays by Emma Goldman
The Complete Poems of Hart Crane
The Idiot's Guide to Learning French
They were used, and essential.
Enter the Saint by Leslie Charteris--the complete edition. Loved the Saint back in pre-teen days and teen years then went through a snob period when I discovered better (John D. MacDonald, Adam Hall) characters but now the pendulum has swung back and I am going back to the childhood days of more innocent times. And enjoyng it, This would NOT have been possible even five years ago because Charteris never was the great writer HE thought he was but he is entertaining in a Cesar Romero kind of way.
Hamlet--because I had to for my course. I really dislike it
I'm Hana--lovely to meet you
Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert. I heard it was good.I'm not sure why I waited until now, but I needed something to read, and there it was. It's a very involving story.
"The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its' own reason for existing." ~ Albert Einstein
"Remember, no matter where you go, there you are." Buckaroo Bonzai "Some people say I done alright for a girl." Melanie Safka
The Canterbury Tales - to help with my independent study of the Middle Ages.
Last book ACQUIRED - History of Modern Russia, Robert Service to help with Russian A Level studies.
Catcher in the Rye as a birthday gift for a boy who has turned 13.
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"It is not that I am mad; it is only that my head is different from yours.”
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The Remains of the Day ~ Kazuo Ishiguro
Cursed Days: Diary of a Revolution ~ Ivan Bunin
Martin Birck's Youth: A Novel ~ Hjalmer Söderberg
Sir Harry Hotspur of Humblethwaite ~ Anthony Trollope
The Hotel Room ~ 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
A Slave No More - David W. Blight
Seeing Redd - Frank Beddor
The Ballad of Blind Tom - Deidre O'Connell
The Washingtons of Wessyngton Plantation - John F. Barker Jr.
Peter's War - Joyce Lee Malcolm
Hallam's War - Elisabeth Payne Rosen
A local bookstore has closed here after 70+ years. But the idiot that I am, I didn't go until the very last day. So there were hardly any books on the shelves. I found those above. They seemed interesting (and I needed Seeing Redd because it is a sequel to another one that I already have). So, at least I managed to leave the store with these. It is better than none at all, right?
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