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I could go into a long spiel about yet another one of my book-stalking quests, but instead will let pictures do the talking;
I just started The Shuttle by Francis Hodgson Burnett.
Oh I LOVE that illustration, Darren
When my family dog is really hungry, he does the Snoopy meal dance. F451 was one of my favorite SF novels of my early or mid teen years, and after a reread not that long ago, I still agree with my original assessment.
similarly to Richp, I re-read F451 recently and thought it was so good that I had to upgrade from ebook to vintage hardback!alright it's not a first impression 1954, but they go for £150+(!) so I'm happy with a 4th impression 1965 :oD
Darren wrote: "I could go into a long spiel about yet another one of my book-stalking quests, but instead will let pictures do the talking;"
Oh, that is so pretty!
I found this collection of Gustave Dore illustrations for Orlando Furioso https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/d/dore... .I'm going to try and edit them into the John Harrington translation i have http://www.lulu.com/shop/lodovico-ari... .
Might take a while :P. While most the drawings say where they fit in the poem others are just listed as plates.
If i can't decipher from the net where they're supposed to go, i might have to wait until a reread and put those in as i move along, where they seem appropriate.
Wreade1872 wrote: "I found this collection of Gustave Dore illustrations for Orlando Furioso https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/d/dore... .I'm going to try and edit them into the John Harrington translatio..."
That will be quite a labour of love, considering there's dozens of images... I would assume they've been digitised in order, so all the ones in between chapter headings belong to that chapter, but then again anything can be the case...
Thanks for sharing the link. I grew up surrounded by old book with Doré's illustrations, and it was quite a good trip down memory lane...
Nina wrote: "That will be quite a labour of love, considering there's dozens of imag..."Yeah that ain't happening anytime soon :lol, after some failed effort i've decided the only way i can figure to get them all in the right place would be to put them in as i'm going along during a reread.
Which is fine, i'll get to that one day :) . I'll probably need to split the final file into about 6 parts to keep the size down so might try rereading it in 6 sections, spread it out.
Wreade1872 wrote: "Nina wrote: "That will be quite a labour of love, considering there's dozens of imag..."Yeah that ain't happening anytime soon :lol, after some failed effort i've decided the only way i can figur..."
Ah ha! It turns out all the drawings have already been put into the William Steward Rose translation i just need to copy its layout to put them all into the right places for my version https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/a/ario... .
Edit: I also found someone working on an english poetry translation of the prequel, Orlando Innamorato https://rossignolbooks.wordpress.com/... looks like they made it to canto 14 but theres 29 cantos in just the first book, of 2 and a bit books.
On Saturday I went to our local second-hand bookstore and picked up these tasty items:
Rear Window And Four Short Novels
Lud-in-the-Mist
By the Pricking of My Thumbs
Inferno
No Place on Earth
Wreade1872 wrote: "I found this collection of Gustave Dore illustrations for Orlando Furioso https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/d/dore... .I'm going to try and edit them into the John Harrington translatio..."
You mean actually edit the ebook? How cool. Will you go into the XML and edit it directly or what?
Michele wrote: "You mean actually edit the ebook? How cool. Will you go into the XML and edit it directly or wh..."So They have the orlando drawings in the William Stewart Rose version, but his translation is incomplete so i'll take the images from that and edit them into the Harrington version, which is a PDF file http://www.lulu.com/shop/lodovico-ari...
I can't find anthing to edit a pdf the way i want (for free) so i'll just convert it to a word doc copy and paste in all the images using the Rose version as a guide and then convert it back to a pdf. Then cut into 6 parts or so because those images are going to make it huge :lol.
On an unrelated topic, i couldn't resist buying
. Last one in the shop and halfprice. Was going to read it from the library first but didn't want to risk that cool cover getting away from me ;) .
A few classics I downloaded to my kindle recently:
Wreade1872 wrote: "On an unrelated topic, i couldn't resist buying Radiance by Catherynne M. Valente . Last one in the shop and halfprice. "I love her stuff, This one looks great!
Acquired this month:Willful Creatures - Aimee Bender
At Home with the Marquis de Sade: A Life - Francine du Plessix Gray
The Woman Reader - Belinda Jack
SCUM Manifesto - Valerie Solanas
Heart Berries - Terese Marie Mailhot
Ain't Gonna Be the Same Fool Twice - April Sinclair
Inseparable: The Original Siamese Twins and Their Rendezvous with American History - Yunte Huang
Told on the King's Highway - Eleanore M. Jewett
All but the last two were on the TBR already, which I'm very pleased about. The very last one I acquired in order to fill in one of my gaps for my Quest for Women, and it has one rating and no reviews, I'll be doing some necessary unburying work even if I end up not liking it.
I have to trim this habit! There are too many books stacking up. One good thing — I have started to seek out used bookstores, and most of these were at least half price over new books, and some less. Here is what I bought this month:Books for the group read, and
Me Before You by Jojo Moyes
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
A Girl of the Limberlost by Gene Stratton Porter
A Room with a View by EM Forster
Where Angles Fear to Tread by EM Forster
Breakfast at Tiffany’s by Truman Capote
I’d Rather Be Reading by Anne Bogel.
Some of these support my 20th Century challenge. Others are for fun.
I am reading at the fastest pace I have ever read, except perhaps in college. However, I really do need to read what I have in line for awhile, at least until the next group read is announced. 😊
Today’s acquisitions:If He Hollers Let Him Go by Chester Himes, and
First Snow on Fuji by Yasunari Kawabata
I am gearing up to read all of the writings by George Eliot this summer. I've read a few but long ago so I am starting over. I just ordered used copies of five of the books that I don't already have.
Got vanity Fair today. Hoping to get The Brothers Karamazov next.
Annette wrote: "I am gearing up to read all of the writings by George Eliot this summer. I've read a few but long ago so I am starting over. I just ordered used copies of five of the books that I don'..."What a wonderful goal, Annette. I am currently reading Scenes of Clerical Life, and plan to read Adam Bede maybe over the summer. Enjoy your Eliot intensive!
I met my pledge of amassing at least 100 read books before selling them off at my local Half Price Books, so that's what I did, only to turn around and spend most of what I got on more books. Such is the way of the reader:Winter Rose - Patricia A. McKillip
Battle Royale - Koushun Takami
Disobedience - Naomi Alderman
All of these were on the TBR already, so woo. I could've snapped up Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo" as well, but it was expensive enough for me to reconsider and decide that, since it was published so recently and hasn't been on my TBR for that long, there's more of a chance of it popping up at a sale sooner rather than later, compared to my other purchases.
Kathleen wrote: "Annette wrote: "I am gearing up to read all of the writings by George Eliot this summer. I've read a few but long ago so I am starting over. I just ordered used copies of five of the b..."I'm shooting for her novels first then the other writings. I enjoy her writing so I am optimistic (hopefully, not too!) that I can finish.
It's not fiction, but it looked good. 
Baseball: A History of America's Favorite Game by George Vecsey
Picked up Footfall and Black Redneck vs. Space Zombies for a "Bossy Book Challenge" on another group. Entertaining.
Michele wrote: "Picked up Footfall ..."ooh Niven & Pournelle!
I have Lucifer's Hammer lined up for later in the year...
Darren wrote: "ooh Niven & Pournelle!I have Lucifer's Hammer lined up for later in the year..."
It shows its age in a lot of ways (gender, race), but as meteor-strike apocalypses go, still pretty much top of the heap :)
I just "purchased" all nine of the Kindle editions Amazon is giving away to celebrate World Book Day 2019. Looks like some good stuff on this year's list.https://www.amazon.com/article/read-t...
Just received The Idiot by Dostoevsky to follow up my current read Brothers Karamazov (which is amazing) and awaiting If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin, an Amazon Marketplace buy which is a great place for second hand books. If a film version of a classic comes out I leave off seeing it until I’ve read the book; the films tend to add a little enlightenment to the reading experience but the book is the main meal.
Just added about 23 true Crime books to my TBR shelf thanks to Terris! Great recommendations
I snuck off to my fave used book store and purchased Minister's Wooing by Harriet Beecher Stowe, a book I’d not heard of before Tuesday. Also, Concluding by Henry Green, and The Heat's On by Chester Himes.
Minister's Wooing is a fun read, really different from Uncle Tom's Cabin.
Carol wrote: "I snuck off to my fave used book store and purchased ..."Used bookstores are the best :)
I still have never read Uncle Tom's Cabin! and never even heard of Minister's Wooing. Yes, I agree, used bookstores are the best :)
Two gems:
The unjustly forgotten Lucky Per by Henrik Pontoppidan
& Rock, Paper, Scissors, and Other Stories by the Russian author and cardiologist Maxim Osipov. It comes with a brief preface by Svetlana Alexievich which alone is worth the price of admission:
The drama of those raised by culture, raised by books. Culture normally protects us diligently from reality... And... when you live in the provinces, it's harder for culture to deceive you, harder for it to mask reality with fashionable ideas and superstitions..."
For me, it's already earned ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.
Pillsonista wrote: "The unjustly forgotten Lucky Per by Henrik Pontoppidan"I want to read that just because the name "Pontoppidan" makes me giggle.
Michele wrote: "I want to read that just because the name "Pontoppidan" makes me giggle."You'd think he'd be remembered for his name alone, but alas. But being labelled the Danish Dostoevsky isn't a bad consolation prize.
Another two that just came in:
Picture by Lillian Ross
And most importantly, another addition my to my collection of dissident literature:
No Ordinary Men: Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Hans von Dohnanyi, Resisters Against Hitler in Church and State by Fritz Stern & Elisabeth Sifton
Pillsonista wrote: "Michele wrote: "I want to read that just because the name "Pontoppidan" makes me giggle."You'd think he'd be remember for his name alone, but alas. But being labelled the Danish Dostoevsky isn't ..."
PICTURE is wonderful! One of the best making-of-a-movie books.
I read No Ordinary Men and I’m ashamed to say that was the first I had ever heard of those brave men.
BAM wrote: "Just added about 23 true Crime books to my TBR shelf thanks to Terris! Great recommendations"I hope you're not blaming me for buying more books that you "need!" Haha! Enjoy reading!! ;)
YES Terris! It’s all your fault
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Daisy Jones and the Six, The Haunting of Hill House and The Professor. Still need to get Night and Kindred.
Finally it went on sale today:
Castle Gripsholm by Kurt Tucholsky
Everything else that I'm reading at the moment will be put on hold once I get my hands on this. The first of Tucholsky's work translated into English that I've ever owned.
Now I'm just counting down the days until the release Abel and Cain and Stalingrad. Another spectacular run by NYRB Classics.
Pillsonista wrote: "...No Ordinary Men..."That looks excellent.
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