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last book you bought?
Last book I bought since my last entry was Carlos Ruiz Zafon's The Angel's Game (at long last; I hope to start reading it soon) =D
I ventured towards a few bookshelves of used books and saw one I remember someone here wanting. It was only 50 cents so I grabbed it, and it looks like a few of you have it on your to read list.
Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong
So after I read it, I will gladly pass it along, if you all want to send me your addresses we can do it like a chain letter. Just let me know.
I went to the store to get The Magic Tree House books for my neices and nephews, (coupon was buy 2 get 1 free) so while I was there, I also got The Girl Who Played With Fire (another coupon) which is the next book after The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo.
Including my previous visit, the last books I bought were:- C.J. Sansom's Winter in Madrid
- The Complete Poems of John Keats
- Diane Setterfield's The Thirteenth Tale
- Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows's The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
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I just bought The Time Traveler's Wife, even though I won't get it done before the movie. We'll see though. I also bought Eclipse on paperback!
Oh and I bought Fourth Comings to keep going with the Jennifer Darling series and waiting for the 5th on to come out on paperback.
I went to Powells today and did gotAlias Grace- Margaret Atwood
For Whom the Bell Tolls- Hemingway
The Winter of Our Discontent & Cannery Row- Steinbeck
The Dark Bride A Novel- Laura Restrepo
Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs-Judi Barrett (for my best friends son)
I just went to the used book store; my favorite one closed, this one is not as good :(. Anyway, I bought Running with Scissors A Memoir
Barnes and Noble run yesterday. I ended up getting:
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll (I can't believe I've never read the book before).
My Horizontal Life A Collection of One-Night Stands by Chelsea Handler
Cocktails for Three by Madeleine Wickham
I was thinking about picking up Twilight but I didn't. Now I'm thinking I should have.
I guess I was in an easy read mood! Need something light before classes start up.
Yesterday I bought The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane, which is actually really good for me (in the way that it is not five books). Last week(ish) I bought Waiter Rant Thanks for the Tip-Confessions of a Cynical Waiter, Fables Volume 1 Legends in Exile, Hocus Pocus, and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. And maybe one more that I'm forgetting.
Kellie wrote: "I just went to the used book store; my favorite one closed, this one is not as good :(. Anyway, I bought Running with Scissors A Memoir"Running With Scissors is VERY good. I haven't seen the movie, but I heard it wasn't very good anyway! LOL! But the book is great! Let me know what you think of it! :)
Damn, damn, DAMN psychology books! I absolutely love psychology, if I see a psychology book I HAVE to get it. I got The Psychology of Science and the Origins of the Scientific Mind and Social Identifications A Social Psychology of Intergroup Relations and Group Processes. I can't keep doing this!
Went to my favorite place to buy books yesterday and bought The Liar's Club
Lolita
East of Eden
All for $15 :)
These books were lost/stolen, so I found them and bought them and bought them again:Hairstyles of the Damned by Joe Meno
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
The last books I bought were:- Niffenegger's The Time Traveler's Wife
- McCullough's The Independence of Miss Mary Bennet
- Phillips's Gods Behaving Badly
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Recently I bought:The Shadow of the Wind
Daughter of Fortune A Novel
Freakonomics A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
Blindness
and a few others but I can't remember for the life of me right now!
I just bought a few books:Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass
The Secret of Lost Things A Novel
Dracula
Bonk The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex
The last few books I bought were:
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Olive Kitteridge: A Novel in Stories
Twilight (I finally gave in!)
Sadly I have not had the time to read any of them yet.
Yesterday I got "Tempted" the final book of the House of Night series, and I got Shadowland the third book of the Immortals series by Alyson Noel.
Well I haven't started "Tempted" yet and I haven't even started the first book of the Immortal series. I will have to get back to you on that.
ok, thuis afternoon I picked up an anotated copy of Lolita. Online picking up First Lord's Fury. And tomorrow I'll be picking up Dragon Rule (but only because I'm published in it.)
Recently I've bought...The Essential Rumi, Layla and Majnun, Nine Stories, the complete works of Robert Frost, a collection of Churchill's speeches, The Second World War: A Complete History, and a biography on MacArthur. I had a couple of gift certificates to Amazon.Matthew, I really want to read Lolita, but I keep hitting roadblocks. Any advice on how to get through it?
That would depend Lori. Where is your trouble? Is it the language, the morality, the psychology or something else entirely?
I think it's the style. It's so clinical and removed. (I understand why it's written like that, but I don't know how to get past that)
Lori, if that's your problem my advice would require two things; a good imagination and suspended disbelief. I would suggest you try reading it imagining yourself to be a psychiatrist, reading the self-justification of Humbert Humbert.
Matthew--I think that is a great suggestion. That was kinda my approach because I started out having a hard time with it too.
Another suggestion is to pick up the annotated copy of Lolita (The Annotated Lolita Revised and Updated). (I suggest this for everyone who has read the book) You would be amazed at how many literary references Nabokov dropped in.
I'll have to look into doing that. (It will be difficult because I really like the cover for my other copy of Lolita...) Thank you Matthew!
I just bought 3 books for 90c in a charity store! I got Lucky by Alice Sebold, The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck, and Three Junes by Julia Glass. I can't wait to read them!
I swore I wasn't going to buy more books for myself until after christmas, but then I had to buy my secret santa book and other books just accidentally got added to my cart...Here is what I ended up with
The Professor and the Madman A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
THE OXFORD DICTIONARY OF WORD HISTORIES.
Seven Gothic Tales
The Book Thief
The Complete Persepolis
The Little Mouse, the Red Ripe Strawberry, and the Big Hungry Bear
and my secret santa book
I just bought Snow Flower and the Secret Fan for $1. There just happened to be a random used book sale, and of course I couldn't walk by it without buying anything!
I ordered Seeing Redd about 5 minutes after finishing The Looking Glass Wars yesterday morning. Such a compelling, if awkwardly written, story line.
So I broke down yesterday and bought a book even though I'm on my ban... I bought Dog on It A Chet and Bernie Mystery yesterday at B&N because it was a BARGAIN book--I ended up paying about $3.50 for it with my discount and I've been dying to read it! So anyone know what I should do for punishment? Maybe I should add 1 or 2 books to my goal now.
I'd say it needs to be written from the prospective of a 3rd grader. It will be an exercise in creativity and more entertainment for the rest of us.
I bought Dear John bargain priced at B&N. I've been meaning to read something by Nicholas Sparks for years & now I'm finally going to.
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