Recent Purchases

[Irene Wilde]

Originally Posted by Sybarite

Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami and Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov arrived yesterday.

The latter is quite probably going to be one of my holiday reading list.

Syb, you are going to love Pale Fire. Really. Truly. I can't wait to read your review!

[Sybarite]

Originally Posted by Irene Wilde

Syb, you are going to love Pale Fire. Really. Truly. I can't wait to read your review!

Thank you, Irene.

And nnyhav ... I'll let you all know after.

I'm away at the end of August for just over a week of sitting on a beach and reading, so I'll possibly have a glut to write about when I get back.

[Mirabell]

In the mail

The House of the Seven Gables, Nathaniel Hawthorne
A Poet's Guide to Poetry, Mary Kinzie
The Way We Live Now, Anthony Trollope
Tom Jones, Henry Fielding
The Invisibles, Vol.1: Say You Want A Revolution, Grant Morrison et al.

Happyhappyhappy

[fausto]

I once bought the Hawthorne just because I opened the book and saw the mention of a Pynchon family.

[Mirabell]

Originally Posted by fausto

I once bought the Hawthorne just because I opened the book and saw the mention of a Pynchon family.

[Mirabell]

in the mail today

The Collected Poems, C.P. Cavafy (trans Sachperoglou)
Back Hole, Charles Burns


happy.

[Mirabell]

in the mail

What is to be done? Nikolai Chernyshevsky
Y: The Last Man: Ring of Truth, Brian Vaughan et al.

lalala

[cuchulain]

Thanks to the mention of new translation winners, I purchased Zamyatin's We today, and ordered Rodenbach's Bruges. Also, picked up the already mentioned New Guide to Modern World Literature, by Martin Seymour-Smith. Again, it's an incredible resource guide for world literatures. Last updated and revised in 1985. Out of print. Ordered it from Alibris. Pretty good shape for a library copy . . .

Very happy to have it at home now.

[ions]

Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
Black Sun: The Brief Transit and Violent Eclipse of Harry Crosby by Geoffrey Wolff

Both for $5 bucks, 'Dog Days of Summer' booksale on campus. The Mitchell is a little bent but I may be able to press it out and I've never heard of the second book but it was a NYRB book for $3 so I liberated it from the bargain bin.

[Mirabell]

Bone by Jeff Smith


what a thick, thick book
and it's lots of fun to read, currently

[aquablue]

Moby Dick by Herman Melville
The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins
High Lonesome: Selected Stories 1966-2006 by Joyce Carol Oates
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson
The Double by Jose Saramago

[Mirabell]

Originally Posted by aquablue

Moby Dick by Herman Melville
The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins
High Lonesome: Selected Stories 1966-2006 by Joyce Carol Oates
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson
The Double by Jose Saramago

which On the Road is that, the restored edition or the common one?

[Stewart]

I went out for lunch and unconsciously found myself outside Waterstone's. Highly unexpected, as I'd only popped out to grab a panini and return to eat it and finish my book.

Ah well, and since it's against the law to enter a book shop empty handed, I got these:

• Regeneration, Pat Barker
• Jealousy, Alain Robbe-Grillet
• Moderato Cantabile, Marguerite Duras

[Sybarite]

Originally Posted by Stewart

I went out for lunch and unconsciously found myself outside Waterstone's. Highly unexpected, as I'd only popped out to grab a panini and return to eat it and finish my book.

Ah well, and since it's against the law to enter a book shop empty handed...

~~LOL~~

Just been having a post-lunch chat with a colleague about books – he organises the reviews for one of the publications that I'm currently working on, so we can class it as work – and, as a result of recommendations during that conversation, I've popped Italo Calvino's If on a Winter's Night a Traveller and Jorge Luis Borges's Labyrinths: Selected Stories and Other Writings into my basket.

[Mirabell]

Wargamäe, A.H.Tammsaare

[ions]

Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee
The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
The Book of Evidence by John Banville

Didn't realize I had gone so Booker. And this one:

Not Wanted on the Voyage by Timothy Findley

[aquablue]

Originally Posted by Mirabell

which On the Road is that, the restored edition or the common one?

I'm not sure...this is the book.

[Sybarite]

Toddled up the road this afternoon and spent a very pleasant half hour or so browsing in the local bookshop. Came out with Labyrinths: Selected Stories and Other Writings by Jorges Luis Borge, Peter Carey's My Life as a Fake and I Am a Cat by Soseki Natsume.

[Mirabell]

IN the mail yesterday

In Search of Heresy, John W. Aldridge

I have k2doggo to thank for that recommendation, I think...

[Sybarite]

Originally Posted by ions

... The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
The Book of Evidence by John Banville...

I really enjoyed both of those – I hope you do too.