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[Luke]

The new year came just in time for me to have enough read books lying around to merit a mass sellback session, and while I still have a few lying around in the trunk of my car (COVID restrictions on taking non-sellable materials that are understandable, but still tedious), I got enough back to cover the costs of what ended being quite a rewarding trip indeed.

Venus in Furs and Selected Letters - Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
The Colored Museum - George C. Wolfe (!)
Send in the Idiots: Stories from the Other Side of Autism - Kamran Nazeer
A Map of Home - Randa Jarrar
The Gilda Stories and Bones & Ash - Jewelle L. Gómez (!!!)

Major queer rep this time around, which is always appreciated.

[Gilbert]

Started the new year by ordering the following:
The Old English Baron by Clara Reeve;
The Romance of the Forest by Ann Radcliffe;
Consuelo: A Romance of Veniceby George Sand;
The History Of Miss Betsy Thoughtless by Eliza Fowler Haywood; and,
An Essay on the Art of Ingeniously Tormenting by Jane Collier.

[Kirsten]

Just picked up this morning The Child of Auschwitz by Lily Graham for $0.99 at the Kindle Store. Still deciding what to use my Audible credit for.

[Darren]

just taken delivery of a thumping doorstop of a 710 page hardback of John Barth's Giles Goat-Boy

snapped up for a bargain on eBay - without dust-jacket and with sun-fading on the spine - but 1966 (likely first?) edition and with deckled edge (gosh I love a deckled edge!)

[Lynn, New School Classics]

I love Science Fiction and may make Science Fiction a theme on a challenge or two this year. I just purchased Masterpieces: The Best Science Fiction of the Twentieth Century edited by Orson Scott Card. It features many authors I have read or heard of, yet has stories by those authors I have not yet read. I love short story anthologies. Best of all it was "free" using my credit card points.

[Lynn, New School Classics]

Darren wrote: "just taken delivery of a thumping doorstop of a 710 page hardback of John Barth's Giles Goat-Boy

snapped up for a bargain on eBay - without dust-..."

Interesting. I had never heard of a deckled edge before. Thanks for teaching me something.

[Kirsten]

Lynn wrote: "I love Science Fiction and may make Science Fiction a theme on a challenge or two this year. I just purchased Masterpieces: The Best Science Fiction of the Twentieth Century edited by ..."

I love science fiction too, especially space opera.

[Sabrina]

Hello!

So I received a gift card and unfortunately did not purchase any classic's but maybe some of you have read these? Or, maybe are interested? Although, I did purchase Pride and Prejudice and have been reading that.

I purchased the following:
Serpent and Dove - Shelby Mahurin
Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card (oh, this is considered a classic!)
Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
The Lies of Locke Lamora - Scott Lynch
Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand
Anxious People - Fredrick Backman
Ninth House - Leigh Bardugo
Little Fires Everywhere - Celeste Ng
The Midnight Library - Matt Haig.

Apparently, I have a few classics haha!

I am also reading Where the Crawdads Sing right now, which is considered a modern classic.

[Kirsten]

Bri wrote: "Hello!

So I received a gift card and unfortunately did not purchase any classic's but maybe some of you have read these? Or, maybe are interested? Although, I did purchase Pride and Prejudice and ..."

I absolutely loved Crawdads!

[Sabrina]

Kirsten "keep calm there are only 14 days left" wrote: "Bri wrote: "Hello!

So I received a gift card and unfortunately did not purchase any classic's but maybe some of you have read these? Or, maybe are interested? Although, I did purchase Pride and Pr..."

Fantastic! I am enjoying it immensely so far. Her words/descriptions are just plain beautiful. It is an honor to read. I have also seen people claiming it as a modern classic! Like "The Alchemist." Have you read that? I want to simply because its widely known but it doesn't grab my interest at all.

[Kirsten]

Bri wrote: "Kirsten "keep calm there are only 14 days left" wrote: "Bri wrote: "Hello!

So I received a gift card and unfortunately did not purchase any classic's but maybe some of you have read these? Or, may..."

I have read Alchemist but it didn't grab me. It was okay, but I like The Devil and Miss Prym by the same author much better.

[Darren]

ooh forgot to mention xmas day pressie of 1250 page monster doorstop of Penguin edition of Spenser's The Faerie Queene

which I am hoping to fit in reading this year, but might have to wait til 2022!

[Luke]

Darren wrote: "ooh forgot to mention xmas day pressie of 1250 page monster doorstop of Penguin edition of Spenser's The Faerie Queene

which I am hoping to fit in..."

I may join you in a 2022 read if my recently acquired Outlaws of the Marsh set doesn't tempt me more.

[Margaret]

Darren wrote: "ooh forgot to mention xmas day pressie of 1250 page monster doorstop of Penguin edition of Spenser's The Faerie Queene

which I am hoping to fit in..."

Oops, I was planning on listening to the audiobook this year, but after I saw your message I checked - 33 hours....may indeed have to wait until 2022

[Jim]

I must have won some kind of giveaway because I received in the mail yesterday or Monday, January 4 Balcony of Fog by Rich Shapero, published in 2020.

A friend of mine at work, who says I inspire her to read more books, apparently doesn't like the book she brought into work today, Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky and gave it to me.

Both are new-to-me authors.

[RJ - Slayer of Trolls]

Went to my favorite $1 used bookstore the other day and picked up some gems including:

Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin
Tough Guys And Dangerous Dames edited by Robert E. Weinberg (a whole buncha hard boiled/noir stories that were originally published in pulp magazines)
Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie
Roseanna by Maj Sjöwall
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg

and I ordered a used copy online of The Hot Spot by Charles Williams for an upcoming read in the Pulp Fiction group.

[Kirsten]

I picked up 2 books this morning for free at the Kindle Store:

Ring Around the Rosie by Jullian Scott
A Life To Waste by Andrew Lennon

[Jazzy]

I just ordered The Atom Station by Halldór Laxness.

[Jazzy]

RJ from the LBC wrote: "Went to my favorite $1 used bookstore the other day and picked up some gems including:

Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin
[b..."

I'm going to be reading Roseanna this year!

Such hardboiled drooly shtuff! I am gonna check out some of your reads.

[Gilbert]

Just received: Consuelo: A Romance of Venice by George Sand 1841

[Gilbert]

Just received: The History Of Miss Betsy Thoughtless by Eliza Fowler Haywood 1751

[Janice]

Yesterday I purchased: The Heart is a Lonely Hunter-Carson McCullers, The Importance of Being Ernest and Other Plays-Oscar Wilde, Canoeing in the Wilderness-Henry David Thoreau and earlier this month at a beautiful Little Free Library (it's a London phonebooth) I got: War and Peace-Leo Tolstoy, Little Women-Louisa May Alcott, Songs of Love and War-Santa Monefiore, Summerhill Secrets 1-Beverly Lewis, The Paris Seamstress-Natasha Lester, Winter in Paradise-Elin Hilderbrand, and Come Home-Lisa Scottoline

[Heather L]

Small world — I recently found The Paris Seamstress at one of my neighborhood LFLs, too. I’m a bit spoiled having 15 within walking distance. I also found The Lilac Girls, Ella Enchanted, The Tatooist of Auschwitz and There, There in recent months.

(And I always leave something in return, if not that day then on my next walk in that direction.)

[Janice]

Heather L wrote: "Small world — I recently found The Paris Seamstress at one of my neighborhood LFLs, too. I’m a bit spoiled having 15 within walking distance. I also found The Lilac Girls, Ella Enchanted, The Tatoo..."
Oh my goodness how lucky!!! I only have 2 in my town, but I am thankful for them. I too leave books when I have finished reading a few of them and also when I am decluttering my bookshelves. I only keep books that are classics and books that I know I will reread. :)

[Heather L]

Received an unexpected package in the mail this afternoon. A friend sent me Ruth Ware’s In a Dark, Dark Wood with a note saying she hoped I loved it as much as she did. And bonus—it fits one of the Ultimate Reading Challenge prompts for this year! 🙂

[Heather L]

Janice, it looks like we were posting at the same time! I am definitely spoiled with all the LFLs in my area. Three are actually new this year, and ten are in front of an elementary school, an “LFL garden.” I love that people leave books in those, but do wish they wouldn’t be so lazy and take the time to sort books into the right box. Every time I visit those I end up sorting out a couple of them. And don’t just cram them higglety-pigglety, either. Sigh.... (Philistines!)

Anyway, each of the ten is labeled for particular genres or reading levels. For example, one for picture books, two for chapter books (English and Spanish), one for young adult, magazines, nonfiction, literature...I’m missing three. Pretty sure there’s another for Spanish books. Personally, I think the one labeled ‘literature’ should be rebranded ‘adult fiction,’ because no one seems to know what ‘literature’ is, and the one for nonfiction should list on the door what constitutes nonfiction.

[Gilbert]

Just received: The Old English Baron by Clara Reeve1778

[Kirsten]

I picked up The Death of the Heart by Elizabeth Bowen this morning at the Kindle store for $4.99 (62% off).

[Michele]

Some horsey books, beloved from my childhood and found again :)

The Horsemasters
The Tale of Two Horses

Sent by my mom for my birthday:
Sometimes You Have to Lie: The Life and Times of Louise Fitzhugh, Renegade Author of Harriet the Spy
A Promised Land
Hamnet

[Cynda]

I so want tomake time to read Hamnet. I hope you enjoy your read Michele.

I have recently bought

Little Dorritt by Charles Dickens. This is on my lifetime bucket list.

The Heidi Chronicles and Other Plays by Wendy Wasserstein. This is on happy reading list.

[Brina]

Yay Cynda. I love Wendy Wasserstein. I have been reading through all of her plays.

[Cynda]

Brina wrote: "Yay Cynda. I love Wendy Wasserstein. I have been reading through all of her plays."

Brina, I am so glad you hooked me up. Thank you my friend. I plan to read all 3 plays by end of the year :-)

[Gaurav]

I bought two hauls this month:
Mrs. Dalloway
White Teeth
The Namesake
The Little Friend
The Glass Bead Game
Beloved
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Emma
The Oresteian Trilogy

Phew. I didn't know there were so many until I typed them out.

[Richard]

I'm about 100 pages into Serotonine by Michel Houellebecq, brushing up on my rather rusty French. Perfectly revolting in places, but not gratuitously so - it captures a particularly Gallic flavour of 40-something alienation.

[Darren]

one of my fave books that I read last year was John Barth's The Sot Weed Factor, which I read in electronic form, but liked so much that I just had to buy a monster doorstop (800 page!) paperback thereof:

ready for a re-read in a few years' time...
:oD

[Kimberly]

OMG! I had no idea how many books I've purchased in January.

Pain: The Science of the Feeling Brain by Abdul-Ghaaliq Lalkhen
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond
Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong and the New Research That’s Rewriting the Story by Angela Saini
The Siege: 68 Hours Inside the Taj Hotel by Cathy Scott-Clark
The Tree of Life by Hugh Nissenson
The Quotidian Mysteries: Laundry, Liturgy and “Women’s Work” by Kathleen Norris
The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
The Kelloggs: The Battling Brothers of Battle Creek by Howard Markel
Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham
The Art of Memoir by Mary Karr
The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History by John M. Barry
Love Poems for Anxious People by John Kenney
Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo
The Novel Cure: From Abandonment to Zestlessness: 751 Books to Cure What Ails You by Ella Berthoud
The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James

[Tara]

Kimberly wrote: "OMG! I had no idea how many books I've purchased in January.

Pain: The Science of the Feeling Brain by Abdul-Ghaaliq Lalkhen
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond
I..."
The Devil in the White City is very good

[Luke]

A very tiny haul this month, but quality (and usefulness) over quantity.

Maud Martha - Gwendolyn Brooks (that much closer to having a full set of my Quest for Women challenge reads)
A Small Gathering of Bones - Patricia Powell
Diary of a Man in Despair - Friedrich Reck-Malleczewen (it'll be good to finally see what Arendt was talking about with this one)

[Cynda]

I have bought books for the (too) many challenges I have signed my own self up for.

The Beet Queen by Louise Erdrich

Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Quixote: The Novel and the World by Ilan Stavans

The Last Days of Socrates: Euthyphro / The Apology / Crito / Phaedo by Plato

Ivanhoe by Walter Scott

The Lais of Marie de France by Marie de France

[Richard]

When Reason Goes on Holiday: Philosophers in Politics

Neven Sesardić

Sesardic tackles a question which has often intrigued me as a former academic philosopher: how does it come about that my erstwhile colleagues - supposedly the exemplars of rationality and intellectual rigour in their professional lives - overwhelmingly adopt extreme leftist views in politics, to the extent that they frequently end up being the apologists for terror, torture, famine, and mass murder?

[Tara]

I just received the latest installment of Penzler's American Mystery Classic: by Dorothy B. Hughes:

Sailor used to be Senator Willis Douglass’ protege. When he met the lawmaker, he was just a poor kid, living on the Chicago streets. Douglass took him in, put him through school, and groomed him to work as a confidential secretary. And as the senator’s dealings became increasingly corrupt, he knew he could count on Sailor to clean up his messes.


Willis Douglass isn’t a senator anymore; he left Chicago, Sailor, and a murder rap behind and set out for the sunny streets of Santa Fe. Now, unwilling to take the fall for another man’s crime, Sailor has set out for New Mexico as well, with blackmail and revenge on his mind. But there’s another man on his trail as well—a cop who wants the ex-senator for more than a payoff. In the midst of a city gone mad, bursting with wild crowds for a yearly carnival, the three men will violently converge…


The suspenseful tale that inspired one of the most beloved films noir of all time, Ride the Pink Horse is a tour-de-force that confirms Dorothy B. Hughes’ status as a master of the mid-century crime novel.

[Luke]

Another small haul from the usual place, but all the works are promising.

It Begins with Tears - Opal Palmer Adisa (if I keep coming across interesting looking works every time I visit, I'm going to have quite the collection of Caribbean Writers Series' works by the time my reading schedule frees up)
Women of the Klan: Racism and Gender in the 1920s - Kathleen M. Blee (just realized that this works for Women's History Month, if in a rather grotesque fashion)
The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism - Edward E. Baptist (!)

[Richard]

I've just taken delivery of this little lot. The first on the list is background reading, because I'm planning to write my 2nd and 3rd verse plays. The Donne is to fill a gap in my knowledge of English poetics. Lastly, Meredith is a fairly significant if latterly somewhat neglected figure in the Eng. Lit. canon, whose work I have never grappled with until now. I've read the first 20 pages of the Egoist, and am very much enjoying it.

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[Tara]

Three new books:

First edition purchased from a book fair: Underfoot in Show Business by Helene Hanff

$1 find at a used book store: The Pillars of Hercules by Paul Theroux

Early birthday present: The Oxford Book of Fantasy Stories by Tom Shippey

[Luke]

Regular change of the month bookstore visit. Got a few that I've been on the lookout for, as well as some more spontaneously chosen, yet promising works:

Metamorphoses - Ovid (the copy I have is pretty scrungy and doesn't have much in the way of contextualizing notes, and I figure I need all that I can get when I read this for Poetry Month next month)
The Dwarf - Cho Se-Hui
The Crow Eaters - Bapsi Sidhwa
The Interrogative Mood - Padgett Powell
The Emperor of Lies - Steve Sem-Sandberg
Indian Horse - Richard Wagamese (!!!)

[Tara]

Newest installment of the American Mystery Classics series: The Odor of Violets: A Duncan Maclain Mystery by Baynard Kendrick.

[Luke]

Visited my fave bookstore as the result of long overdue meeting plans (fully vaccinated/socially distanced, of course) and lucked out in terms of both long sought after works and intriguing discoveries.

Lady Audley's Secret - Mary Elizabeth Braddon (!!!) (getting this means I can finally stop scrambling to acquire 2021 challenge reads, as the children's books are definitely going to be well supplied by my library)
Complete Prose Fiction - Alexander Pushkin (I don't see myself feasibly acquiring the short story I'm interested in, so an edition like this that contains it and more is the next best thing)
The Silent Duchess - Dacia Maraini (never too early to start stockpiling for WIT Month 2021, and this has interesting subject material alongside it's good rep)
A House Full of Females: Plural Marriage and Women's Rights in Early Mormonism, 1835-1870 - Laurel Thatcher Ulrich (!)
The Little Ottleys - Ada Leverson (always deeply appreciative of this store's special attention paid to Virago Modern Classics, and I was determined to pick out at least one on a whim)
One-Smoke Stories - Mary Hunter Austin (the author's The Land of Little Rain is a true classic of naturalism, and I couldn't resist getting one of her even more underread pieces for a song)

[Richard]

Voss, by Patrick White
Literary Theory: An Introduction, by Terry Eagleton
Illywhacker, by Peter Carey
Omeros, by Derek Walcott

[Joseph]

Bought a 1st Edition The Little Prince off eBay. Dust jacket is just "good" but the book is in "excellent" condition. Pretty happy with it.

[Janice]

I just got The Blithedale Romance by Nathaniel Hawthorne at a wonderful Little Free Library in my town. :)