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Daisy wrote: "I just bought Life of Pi. I buy way to many books, I have about 4-5 shelves worth of books I haven't read yet.. It's now even more tempting to buy one, at my favourite bookstore they have this thin..."my friend lent me her copy of life of pi but I haven't gotten a chance to read it yet. Please let me know how it is! And what's this bookstore? I wonder if they realize how many books they'd go through if they gave one of us free books for a year! I bet they'd never offer the prize again! Haha
I just bought Life of Pi. I buy way to many books, I have about 4-5 shelves worth of books I haven't read yet.. It's now even more tempting to buy one, at my favourite bookstore they have this thing where you can win free books for a year when you buy something, which sounds like heaven to me!
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn was my moms favorite book she had to read in school, and she has been after me to read it for awhile now. I don't think I ever have, it doesn't sound familiar, so I am excited to see if I like it as much as she did.
I bought Catch-22 for next month too! And I also bought Never Let Me Go. So excited about these two!
I'm not sure about A tree grows in brooklyn, though.
Kallie wrote: "Just bought A Tree Grows in Brooklyn and Catch-22 from half.com for next month!"YAY! I need to get on buying these!
Tami-I am way behind too! For the past couple of months I have wanted to read the selections and even owned them but go so behind. lol At least we can start over in January :)
Jamie, you are wrong. Well sortof. I am way behind. Figured if I at least had January's books beforehand that would help. I just finished Dracula last night, so now I only have 10 I haven't read yet. :) most of the last few months.
Tami, I have to say, you are one of the most dedicated person in this whole group to our group reads! :)
The last book I bought was Eats Shoots and Leaves, which I'm currently reading. It's funny. And I'm a total grammar/punctuation freak. :)
I just spent almost $200 at Barnes and Noble. :) Which is much better than I thought it would be (closer to $250)
Along with 13 books for gifts plus 2 calendars for gifts I got:
Breathless by Dean Koontz
Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
The thing is, I think I may already have a copy of Clockwork Orange, so that is going to make it necessary to go back to the store. :) Eeek!
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.
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.
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 ordered Seeing Redd about 5 minutes after finishing The Looking Glass Wars yesterday morning. Such a compelling, if awkwardly written, story line.
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 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 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'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!
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.
Matthew--I think that is a great suggestion. That was kinda my approach because I started out having a hard time with it too.
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.
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)
That would depend Lori. Where is your trouble? Is it the language, the morality, the psychology or something else entirely?
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?
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.)
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.
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.
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.
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
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!
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
=)
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
Went to my favorite place to buy books yesterday and bought The Liar's Club
Lolita
East of Eden
All for $15 :)
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