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Which books have you bought recently?
I recently bought Khushwant Singh's 'A Train to Pakistan', George Orwell's 'Animal Farm' and Jhumpa Lahiri's 'Lowland'.
i just purchased a complete illustrated mark twain book. William Shakespears complete plays, Rumble by Ellen Hopkins, the diviners by libba bray and dearly departed
Sayantani wrote: "I recently bought Khushwant Singh's 'A Train to Pakistan', George Orwell's 'Animal Farm' and Jhumpa Lahiri's 'Lowland'."
I loved The Lowland...hope you like it too!
I loved The Lowland...hope you like it too!
Have purchased a Nicholas Sparks collection of 8 books recently. Undoubtedly the best romance writer.
Chetana wrote: "Have purchased a Nicholas Sparks collection of 8 books recently. Undoubtedly the best romance writer."
One of my favorite authors!
One of my favorite authors!
Freakonomics and Why Does E=MC2?: (And Why Should We Care?).....{the "why should we care" part is a part of the title too.} ;)
I have been buying from Thriftbooks. I recently bought The Paris Wife, Clan of the Cave Bear, The Coal Tattoo, and Vlad: The Last Confession
I really liked "Outlander." It's well-written, very descriptive, and Jamie and Claire are great characters! I bought the first one, read it, then bought all of the others, I enjoyed it so much.
I bought All Quiet on the Western Front, Fall of Giants, Ironweed, Farenheit 451I have finished Fall of Giants and Fareheit 451.
I didn't exactly buy them, but I recently came to own (inherited from my dad)"Be My Guest" by Conrad Hilton
and this sappy romance book by Sherryl Woods. I know...not many guys enjoy romance books, but my dad bought it at an airport and insisted that I read it. Like really, really INSISTED that I read it because he thought it was fantastic.
So. We'll see if I ever get around to that one.
I'm planning to buy the second "Veronica Mars" novel when it releases in January 2015, and I really want to buy "Diamond Eyes" by AA Bell, 'cause it looks AMAZING (with a great cover, also) but I can't find it anywhere! :(
I'll come back around the holidays...hoping to do some book-shopping and buying after Christmas rolls around.
The last books I bought were from a second hand book shoppe, there was a sale, "buy two, get four free" What a deal, right? Well, I bought "The Road", "The Help", "Fahrenheit 451", "Agatha Christie's Murders Abroad", and "The Giver Quartet".
I just now bought Josh Turner's new biography on fatherhood and what it is to be a man accepting to him. I wish he would narrate it. His voice is like melted dark honey.
I recently purchased Wilbur Smith's book titled "The Desert God" It's part of the Egyptian series. The others were good . . . I can only imagine this will be of a similar quality. Cheers Paul :)
I made a big purchase of several books last week and now I can't decide which one to start with. But this one is highest in the pile, and since I read the first one in the series I'm already in the zone of these characters. Hope Ignites
On sale this week for $0.99 each. The Heartland series of novellas set in outback Australia and written by Aussie writer John Holland are not connected by story line, but by setting. Each is a complete story in itself.
Not so much a triumphant march through the land of his birth this, more a grim determined slog uphill on a hot day. The people who populate these stories are often flawed and bitter. However like the hard country they live in they have beauty in them as well. Expect for a couple of characters who don’t have many redeeming features at all!
Raw powerful stories that pluck at the heartstrings and challenge the mind. Let’s look at the four leading characters from each book, shall we?
Shane Morris is suffering from depression. (Somewhere far from Iris)
Mick Creedy, a laconic outback policeman. (The Light at the Bottom of the Garden)
Dexter Knight, a tormented man with a disfigured face. (Bitter Bread)
Buck Brown, a boy facing almost certain death in the outback. (Left of the Rising Sun)
Not a collection for the faint hearted, but if you like your literary fiction raw and real you will love these stories of the hot hard places, where the bony elbows of humanity collide with the sharp edges of life.
~Marion~
Links.
Somewhere far from Iris: http://amzn.com/B00L3L1G3A
The Light at the Bottom of the Garden: http://amzn.com/B00LJAZ7U8
Bitter Bread: http://amzn.com/B00MZHKUAG
Left of the Rising Sun: http://amzn.com/B00O45SJN2
Just bought Uglies, Fifty Shades of Grey and Burned.I've read two but not Fifty Shades just yet.
Still trying to finish a Harry Potter book and The End of Alice
Just bought War Kids by HJ Lawson! It's an amazing story about kids in the civil war in Syria. A realy moving story. Also a beautiful cover! =D War Kids
Just started The Tale of Atlantis. I've only heard good things about it, so I brought it up from my TBR list and bought it.Great adventure novel with archaeology, great mythological characters and Atlantis. A combination that's keeping me up very, very late these days :)
Bhayya is missing? :O Wokay then, pm me your address and I'll send you :D Don't tell bhayya though :P
bwahahaha!!!!!! :-D :-D :-D :-D I'm loving this one.... just show me your faces now, both of you!!!!! muahahaha!!!!!
@Abhay....School was good,X-mas hols from 25th, bought Like the Flowing River by Paulo Coelho...
*whispers* I never buy textbooks, but don't tell my parents :P
Paul wrote: "I recently purchased Wilbur Smith's book titled "The Desert God" It's part of the Egyptian series. The others were good . . . I can only imagine this will be of a similar quality. Cheers Paul :)"Paul, let me know how you find it. I am a great fan of Wilbur Smith, but I didn't buy it because I know he didn't write this himself. If it is really as good at the first 2 (not the third), I'll buy it.
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