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Apr 29, 2017 06:23AM
Thank you, too bad I just got myself an expensive edition of Lolita+Lolita: screenplay, I'll check it out anyway, can't get enough of Lolita!
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Melanti - I read The Pursuit of Love last year, not necessarily expecting to like Nancy Mitford, but thought it was excellent, hence my charmed purchase of Love in a Cold Climate!
I know we're not supposed to judge books by their covers but the cartoony cover on the default edition of that does absolutely nothing to convince me to read it. It does the opposite, in fact.
A Tale for the Time BeingA GR friend of mine had recently read this multi-genre book. She enjoyed it, found it thought-provoking, so I wanted to read it too. I ordered it a fee days ago, and it has been shipped. Looking forward to reading the book!
Milena wrote: "It's been a hectic period. But finally a free weekend is about to begin.A few days ago I received my new copy of Moby Dick with explanatory notes, glossary of nautical terms, maps and illustratio..."
How totally cool. I read Moby Dick online, not trusting myself to destroy the library's paperback edition. I would so love all that information together. I will have buy a copy. Thanks for sharing Milena :-)
Cynda wrote: "Milena wrote: "It's been a hectic period. But finally a free weekend is about to begin.A few days ago I received my new copy of Moby Dick with explanatory notes, glossary of nautical terms, maps ..."
You're welcome Cynda. It's a good edition.
It's got a long introduction, but I won't read it before I've read the book. I want to find out things by myself.
O-M... F-G!(explanation for above letter "F" follows...)
continuing quest for books of fave films
Once Were Warriors - 1994 film - love it
most editions have movie tie-in covers
early (pre-movie) editions are a bit more scarce/expensive
found cheap second-hand copy on eBay with best looking cover:
(nice eh?)kept fingers crossed that I would actually receive this one...
arrived...
yep, correct cover - hoorah!
superb (as new) condition - double hoorah!!
no mention whatsoever of movie on front or back cover, so checked copyright page to see date published...
SIGNED BY AUTHOR
Woohoo!
:oD
Darren wrote: "O-M... F-G!(explanation for above letter "F" follows...)
continuing quest for books of fave films
Once Were Warriors - 1994 film - love it
most editions have movie tie-in covers
ea..."
You didn't know you were buying a signed copy? What a fantastic surprise. Congratulations!!
Laurie wrote: "You didn't know you were buying a signed copy? ..."No I did not
and neither, I'm guessing, did the seller!
Well that's a nice surprise! Lucky you! Hope you enjoy it :)
siriusedward wrote: "
"Good luck with those. I hope you get on better with a physical copy of The Canterbury Tales. I'm currently working my way through Les Mis as well :)
Pink wrote: "siriusedward wrote: ""Good luck with those. I hope you get on better with a physical copy of The Canterbury Tales. I'm curre..."
Hope so too.. Pink... I liked the knights Tale.. and the middle english is fascinating to read..
And Les Miserables that I am reading now is borrowed from my aunt...I am loving it...
I just bought The Guns of Navarone for 99p on Kindlethink it may be a short-term offer price, as last time I checked I'm sure it was £4!
I recently bought "A Daughter's Daughter and Other Novels" by Mary Westmacott (Agatha Christie) for one buck at a used book store! Also, for a buck each, D.H.Lawrence's "Aaron's Rod" and 'Kangaroo". Then I splurged a few days later and paid two dollars at an antique store for what looks like a mint condition, illustrated 1955 edition of Boccacio's "Decameron". (The seller had never heard of the author or the book, I felt a tad guilty but said nothing and handed over two bucks.)
been after my 2010 book for my "Book A Year Since Birth Challenge", namely Project Itoh's HarmonyI think there's only yet been one English translation edition of this, so tends to be fairly expensive
managed to find one a bit cheaper than I've seen before... billed as "Very Good" condition... and it's, er... basically NEW!
luvverly!
Yesterday, I bought Salman Rushdie's "Grimus" (which I had never heard of and my library system doesn't carry it) and Tolstoy's "Death of Ivan Ilych" which my library does carry, but I like to keep boxes of books around that I've never read, one never knows what one might be in the mood for.
just ordered the newly published English translation of Mariam Petrosyan's The Gray House (apparently took her 18 years to write, and says she won't be writing anything else!) - should come next week - so excited! :oD
Just bought Talking as Fast as I Can and The Catcher in the Rye
I hope you like it Darren! It must have been extremely difficult to translate. One of the most surreal books I've ever read, and I have read The Man Who Was Thursday.
The catcher in the rye is the best!
I must re-read it soon. Despite just having reading it last year.
I must re-read it soon. Despite just having reading it last year.
Nente - did you like The Gray House then?if you like surreal, I can highly recommend Leonora Carrington's The Hearing Trumpet
I picked up Haruki Murakami's Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman book of short stories at a book sale, and there was a real short one I read standing there, called "The Year of Spaghetti." (The only Murakami I've read before was What I Talk About When I Talk About Running, which was great--even though I don't run.) But this spaghetti story was something else--really different. Now I know what everyone is raving about!
Darren, yes indeed! It's a kind of book either to love or to put away 100 pages in. It has a lot of POVs, at least two timeframes and a lot of mystery which is then ambiguously resolved, so you can choose what to believe.
Just got the boxed set
cover art by David Wiesner
I got Great Cycle by Tarjei Vesaas and the library plastic cover was so old it actually melted into the envelope!
I just picked up A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith, which is on at least two of my challenges this year, from one of the local libraries for $1.00 - I couldn't believe my luck. It's even in great condition.
Just picked up The Mrs. Dalloway Reader at a used bookstore because I wanted a copy of Mrs. Dalloway for an essay but they didn't have it. Excited to thumb through all of the essays and extra bits in this book! Definitely wouldn't have picked it up had it not been my only option...love used bookstores sometimes!I also finished my library book the other day and had a long wait for my bus so in desperation ran into the bookstore down the street and picked up a clearance book, Known and Strange Things: Essays, to keep me occupied on the bus. Haven't read more than a couple pages at this point, but it seems promising and I love a good collection of short stories!
I have to admit, I used to be a member of Book Buyers Anon, but we've moved a bunch over the last few years and somewhere along the lines we got rid of our bookshelves and gave most of our books away (more accurately put a ton in storage). It's actually been surprisingly ok because I LOVE my local library (the San Francisco Main Library is like an amusement park for book lovers if anyone is ever in the area) and I have some space for books in my headboard on my bed, so I just keep enough books to fill that up and once it gets too full, take a few to donate to the library or sell to a used bookstore. I definitely acknowledge that chucking almost your entire book collection is unfeasible for most--I was just lucky we didn't have many sentimental or family books and the library is literally between where I work and the bus stop that takes me home--but it was actually surprisingly (relatively) painless.
Get Shorty for a different Book Group :oOand Remembering Babylon (so that I could get 15% off by buying two together)
cover I wanted in both cases :oD
A trio of Stephen King books:
Illustrated Limited Edition The Shining, vol III of Cemetery Dance's Stephen King: The Doubleday Years series. Next volume will be Night Shift.
Trade Edition of CD's Gwendy's Button Box and PS Publishing's Illustrated Gold Cover (there's also a Blue Cover) Limited Edition of Night h.
Night Shift is the 7th volume of PS Pub's current King series. Next up, I believe will be a new edition of The Colorado Kid.
And finally, some books to complete my classics challenge:
Great Expectations
Backlands: The Canudos Campaign
The Faerie Queene
Digenes Akrites (Oxford University Press Academic
Monograph Reprints)
Those Cemetery Dance editions are gorgeous!
Expensive though. That's why I'm can't replace my computer yet(which crapped out about 3 months ago)--not that I miss it.
Squire wrote: "A trio of Stephen King books:Illustrated Limited Edition The Shining, vol III of Cemetery Dance's Stephen King: The Doubleday Years series. Next volume will be Night Shift ..."
Those Stephen King books are wonderful!
I've been very bad the last couple days! I ordered a few books the other day
,
,
, and
.Today I went to the bookstore, and came home with more books.
Ravenclaw edition for myself,
to read with my daughter,
for her to read by herself, and
, and
for my oldest. We even found
for my hubby for Father's Day. He's not a reader, but he may read this one since it's about his favourite hockey players :)
I got an Amazon gift cert for participating in a study, and today the things I spent it on arrived: A Darker Place, The Last Man, Califia's Daughters and Christian Nation.And then I got home and my mom had sent a "book box" (we do this to each other on a regular basis) which contained Dodsworth, The God of Small Things, The 6th Lamentation, three Miss Read books, We Are All Stardust: Leading Scientists Talk About Their Work, Their Lives, and the Mysteries of Our Existence, and There's a Mystery There: The Primal Vision of Maurice Sendak.
Truly an embarrassment of riches!!
Renee wrote: "I've been very bad the last couple days!...."Yay Neil Gaiman! And I love the name "Mrs Gigglepips" lol
I found something pretty cool at the store today and couldn't resist, even though it blows my book budget for the entire month.The Applause First Folio of Shakespeare in Modern Type
It's the First Folio of Shakespeare, complete with the original spelling, but translated to a modern typeface and some footnotes as to which passages most modern editions differ.
I've been in search of something like this since I realized how much of the rhyming and rhythm is lost with Chaucer when you moved away from the original spelling.
The only thing that could make it better is if it were a "Complete Works" (I'd especially like to read his sonnets with the original spelling) but I'll take what I can get.
I just ordered A Gentleman in Moscow from Amazon this evening. And my lovely boyfriend got me The One-in-a-Million Boy and Still Alice the other day to cheer me up!
I also picked myself up an on sale copy of Frankenstein, as it was one of my favorite classic reads in high school and it has been awhile since I re-read it.
And with that, I'm out of room on my new bookshelf.
Michele wrote: "Yay Neil Gaiman! And I love the name "Mrs Gigglepips" lol"Yeah, I like the name of it too. It looks very cute. It took her a while to pick one, but I think she liked the name, and thought it looked cute :)
Oh I'm envious of all your new books! What a great selection you all have.
Melanti wrote: "I found something pretty cool at the store today and couldn't resist, even though it blows my book budget for the entire month.The Applause First Folio of Shakespeare in Modern Type..."
Sweet! I've been salivating over Easton Press' First Folio for a while now, knowing that I'll never be able to afford it....
Squire wrote: "Sweet! I've been salivating over Easton Press' First Folio for a while now, knowing that I'll never be able to afford it.... ..."Though it won't look as nice on your shelves as a Easton Press edition. It looks and feels a lot like a text book.
Someone had recommended an Oxford University edition of the complete works to me that has the original spelling but that ran $150 used. WAY out of my normal price range.
This isn't everything I wanted, but I can compromise. If I end up liking it and finding it useful, I can splurge on the better edition later.
Squire wrote: "Expensive though. That's why I'm can't replace my computer yet(which crapped out about 3 months ago)--not that I miss it."Hm, books | computers...
I would go with the books every time :)
Good afternoon!At my local library's semiannual book sale, the spring edition of which ended today at 3:00 PM American Eastern Daylight Time, I got, for a total of $US7.00, at $2.00 per hardcover and $1.00 per paperback, the following:
Inferno by Dante Alighieri (1265-1321).
City of God by Augustine of Hippo (354-430).
Stonehenge And Its Mysteries by Michael. Balfour.
Season on the Brink: A Year with Bobby Knight and the Indiana Hoosiers by John Feinstein.
Baseball Is a Funny Game by Joe Garagiola.
Great Novels of D.H. Lawrence: The Rainbow & Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence.
Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi.
Jim
Ah, library book sales -- crack for book lovers :)
I just picked up a copy of Frankenstein for 10 cents. I also picked up what looks like brand new copy of Brave New World for free - someone left it in the swap shed at the transfer station.
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