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[Linda]

siriusedward wrote: "For next year

I bought these
The Mill on the Floss
Three Men in a Boat
The Glass Palace

Annnd Dracula"


I loved The Mill on the Floss - hope you will too.

[Linda]

I just received -
We Were On a Break
The Last Star
Christmas at Thompson Hall and Other Christmas Stories

[Gini]

Pink, Thanks for mentioning the Proust bargain! Had to have it. Needed to do some looking since the link took me to a higher priced line but I wasn't going to be denied. :)

[Hilary]

Thanks for the audible heads-up, Pink! (Even though I may have missed them. I keep forgetting to check for deals). My daughter is great at stumbling on classics in second-hand bookstores. She goes mainly for plays as she's a second-career acting student.

[Nell]

I just ordered the whole Anne of Green Gables series for myself for my birthday -- my grandma sent me an Amazon card. I can't wait! They were my favourites when I was young, so I'm eager to have a whole matched set on my shelf.

[Brina]

Susan and others- the girls can be president book arrived today. It is appropriate for girls in 1st and 2nd grade and has a clear message- we girls can do anything if we dream big. Each girl got their own copy and helped me review it.

[Susan O]

Brina wrote: "Susan and others- the girls can be president book arrived today. It is appropriate for girls in 1st and 2nd grade and has a clear message- we girls can do anything if we dream big. Each girl got th..."

Sounds great. What a wonderful message to be able to share with your girls. Hope the book was as good as the message.

[Pink]

Ginib, I changed the link to the edition I got for 99p :)

Hilary, none of the books I got were audible deals of the day. With classics I tend to get the free kindle version on Amazon, then buy the audible paired book which is often available for under £3, which works out cheaper than an Audible subscription each month.

[siriusedward]

Linda wrote: "siriusedward wrote: "For next year

I bought these
The Mill on the Floss
Three Men in a Boat
The Glass Palace

Annnd Dracula"


I loved The M...".

Hopefully I will.I loved Middlemarch

[Tytti]

Brina wrote: "Susan and others- the girls can be president book arrived today. It is appropriate for girls in 1st and 2nd grade and has a clear message- we girls can do anything if we dream big. Each girl got th..."

This reminded me of a speech our president held for HeForShe campaign. I might have mentioned it earlier, can't remember, but here it is anyway: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAegs... He touched that issue from the different perspective. It's pretty funny.

(I just realised a fun fact: He is only two years younger than Trump but his wife is seven years younger than Melania... He was widowed in the 1990's when his wife died in a car accident. She has also published poetry books and been organising a book fare.)

[Deborah]

The Curious Incident of the Dog at Night-time by Mark Hadden
The Once and Future King by TH White
A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf
The Awakening by Kate Chopin
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

I just ordered them from Amazon and can't wait to read them. I'm going to start with The Once and Future King.

[Pink]

What a great selection of new books! Enjoy them!

[Kitty]

Recently bought To Kill a Mockingbird, a little Penguin Classic with Anecdotes by Goethe, and received as birthday present a book with The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe.

[Cosmic]

I bought a Zip book for the library called

Hexen 2.0

I had bought it for my library in October.
This book has prompted me to begin Gravity's Rainbow
Which i bought last month. As well as The Gravity's Rainbow Handbook: A Key to the Thomas Pynchon Novel

If anyone is interested in reading this book with me please message me!

I also recently bought Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Decoded: The Full Text of Lewis Carroll's Novel with its Many Hidden Meanings Revealed


Totally a must have for lovers of Alice! I stretched and shrunk regularly while reading this. I definitely am in a different place than i was before going down the rabbit hole.

[Cosmic]

Bob wrote: "My secret to an overly large TBR is denial. At the time I joined Goodreads didn't know how many book I had until I listed them. At one point I had close to 150 books on the shelf. I've worked it do..."

I am a charter member of audible. I have over 600 books in Audible. Some were for my children. I have enjoyed the fact that i dont have to worry about being strong enough to move a book box. I have been trying to reread more of my books. I love books. They are my friends that give me great ideas and a different way of looking at life.

[Abbey]

I just won "Coulrophobia and Fata Morgana" and "Einstein's Beach House" in a Goodreads giveaway!!

[Darren]

aaand... a late "queue jumper" into my 2017 challenge :oD
brand-new copy of recent translation of Belyaev's 1927 russian sci-fi/fantasy classic The Amphibian

[Kris]

I picked up a pre-Christmas gift to myself...a few books from my favorite online book store.

[Blueberry]

I got Thug Notes: A Street-Smart Guide to Classic Literature for Christmas :)

[Darren]

I got 4 books on xmas day
want to read all 4 immediately/simultaneously!!!! :oD
Ancillary Mercy
Unknown Soldiers
House of Leaves
They Were Counted

particularly giddy about the They Were Counted as it is a gorgeous recent luxury edition (of which I was previously unaware!) of an award-winning translation

[Pink]

I'm loving the look of everyone's new books!

I haven't heard of They were counted, I'll have to take a look at it.

I received three for Christmas
The Good Immigrant
Augustine: Conversions and Confessions
Ardennes 1944: Hitler's Last Gamble

[Wreade1872]

Got some X-Men comics:


and by internet personality Yahtzee Croshaw no idea what that one's about.

[Tytti]

Darren wrote: "I got 4 books on xmas day
want to read all 4 immediately/simultaneously!!!! :oD
Unknown Soldiers"

Obviously I am the most interested in what you have to say about Unknown Soldiers. I see that you got the new translation, good. I haven't read it, yet, but there are several passages I know by heart after watching the (older) movie a few times. (Btw, they are filming it for the third time now...)

[Kathleen]

What is better than gifts of great and even unusual books?!?

Here's the treasures I got:
Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson
Leaves of Grass
Dialog of the Dogs by Miguel De Cervantez
The Maytrees by Annie Dillard
Spiridion by George Sand

I think I'll read the first two slowly all year. And I am TOO excited to read Spiridion. I had never heard of it before, and will be my first George Sand. Feels like I held out for the right one!

[Darren]

O... M... G
First Edition Darconville's Cat

physically hugged it after unwrapping :oD

[Laurie]

Darren wrote: "O... M... G
First Edition Darconville's Cat

physically hugged it after unwrapping :oD"

Uh oh! I bet you've already lost control and started reading it.

[Darren]

I sooo want to!
but I'm being very restrained - I have a big backlog of books that have been waiting ages to be read, so have promised myself I will get my head down on those for Jan-March before I allow any "queue-jumpers"
so April for the Cat! ;o)

[Laurie]

Darren wrote: "I sooo want to!
but I'm being very restrained - I have a big backlog of books that have been waiting ages to be read, so have promised myself I will get my head down on those for Jan-March before I..."

Sounds good. I'll slot this in my April reads for our buddy read.

[Jim]

After my wife and I met in the B & N cafe with the contractor who is fixing our house, I bought an unabridged paperback edition of Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert.

Jim

[Squire]

I've ordered , my Asian classic for the Bingo Challenge. Currently #1 on my TBR.

In 2013, I read a remarkable novella called Shrike by Quentin S. Crisp. It was a modern take on the "I-novel" from Japan--a self-confessional novel based in Naturalism that utilizes actual events from the author's life.

"The Quilt" is one of the first I-novels and I've wanted to read it since then. But getting hold of a copy has proven difficult. Storefronts that advertise it usually have "Futon", the French translation of this work or don't have it all. I ordered it from a company in TX who said they had it; but I never received it and after some bickering got my money refunded. I put it on my wish list in a Secret Santa exchange thinking I might be able to get it that way, no luck there either.

The company I'm currently doing business with assured me they had it stock, so I ordered it and it has shipped. So we'll see.

[Lena]

I would have thought you'd use Shogun. Or was that not written by an Asian, or does it only matter if the setting is Asian?

[Squire]

The setting can be Asian, but I'm not certain I consider that a classic yet. But places on the Bingo board will most likely change throughout 2017, so who knows. It might end up in the Short Story category!

[Pink]

Squire wrote: "I've ordered, my Asian classic for the Bingo Challenge. Currently #1 on my TBR.

In 2013, I read a remarkable novella called [book:Shri..."

That sounds good. I haven't heard of it before, so I'll be interesting to know what you think of it....if your copy arrives!

[Kathleen]

Jim wrote: "After my wife and I met in the B & N cafe with the contractor who is fixing our house, I bought an unabridged paperback edition of Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert.

Jim"

I love this story Jim. Madame Bovary seems a great antidote to contractors and house fixing. :-)

[Katy, Old School Classics]

Lena wrote: "I would have thought you'd use Shogun. Or was that not written by an Asian, or does it only matter if the setting is Asian?"

Asian setting or Asian author -- either one for Bingo. Classic setting is generally assumed here as before 2000, but we let you be the judge of classicness for you own challenge.

[Squire]

Recieved The Quilt and Other Stories by Tayama Katai in the correct edition! 2017 is already looking up.

The dust jacket is larger than the book, but presses do that when they're trying to calibrate the correct sizes, I don't mind. I've already slapped a mylar cover on it.

[Michele]

I was given this book for Christmas



finished reading it and it was fascinating

[Linda]

I got some great books during my holiday trip to Texas. I visited some used book stores and bought (all for about $15):
--a perfect copy of Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy) with the most beautiful cover. It's so big that I left it in TX and I'll pick it up when I return later this month and start reading it.
--Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
--Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes (maybe a summer read)
--Jean M. Auel's The Clan of the Cave Bear which looks like a really interesting series of books.

My sister gifted me Michener's Centennial (another summer read), and some nonclassics I've already finished: Sophie's Heart (Lori Wick) and Jane Austen Ruined My Life by Beth Pattillo.

Can't wait to get to them all!

[Vi (muchphame)]

Just got The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. It's pretty short so hopefully I can get to it before my final exams come.

[Darren]

Like New Hardback of Dovlatov's Pushkin Hills

found it at bargain price too! ;o)

[Squire]

Three books for my bingo classics challenge:



Asian Classic: The Quilt and Other Stories by Tayama Katai
Poetry: Basho: The Complete Haiku
Foreign Prize (Noaki): Temple of Wild Geese and Bamboo Dolls of Echizen

[Phil]

I'm trying to locate the first book I remember reading, and I think this is it. It's a Theseus book published in 1980, so it might have been the one I checked out from the school library. I'll have to see if the illustrations match my memory.

It was not available from the public library, so I coughed up the $1 (plus $4 S&H) to get a copy off Amazon.

[Loretta]

Linda wrote: "I got some great books during my holiday trip to Texas. I visited some used book stores and bought (all for about $15):
--a perfect copy of Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy) with the most beautiful cover..."

What a great haul Linda! Happy reading! :)

[Sarah]

I just got back from Half Price Books, where I picked up March, Angle of Repose, The Bridge of San Luis Rey, The Bean Trees, and The Poisonwood Bible for a grand total of $8.65!

[Loretta]

Sarah wrote: "I just got back from Half Price Books, where I picked up March, Angle of Repose, The Bridge of San Luis Rey, The Bean Trees, and [book:The Poiso..."

Wow! Sarah! That's incredible! :)

[Trig]

I just bought Antony and Cleopatra, Mythology, The Buddah Tree, and the Dead Sea Scrolls from hald price

[siriusedward]

I bought and borrowed and

I am enjoying .I may but it.I generally like to buy a book after reading it , loving it and there is a possibility of rereading it..

[Jessica]

My local library was having a discard/overflow sale. I got a bunch of paperbacks in pristine condition (most didn't even have library markings on them!) for 13 bucks. Roses, The Ox-Bow Incident, My Brilliant Friend, Marie Antoinette: The Journey, Bard: The Odyssey of the Irish, Pride of Lions, More Than a Dream, and Lady Chatterley's Lover. So excited to get to all these!

[Karin]

I just bought The English Governess at the Siamese Court: The True Story Behind 'The King and I' for classics.

[Ashley]

two books that I just bought were copper sun and the death of ceaser