Recent Purchases/Borrowings - Page 43

My name is red · #**841** (**permalink**) 04-Jul-2009, 14:19

Titania,Have you started reading Pierre and Jean?I intend to read it sometime soon.But first i would like to know what you think of it.

Liam · #**842** (**permalink**) 06-Jul-2009, 21:15

Mothers and Sons: Stories by Colm Tóibín

L.

promtbr · #**843** (**permalink**) 06-Jul-2009, 22:53

Flanders Road--- Claude Simon (Richard Howard tr.)

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saliotthomas · #**844** (**permalink**) 07-Jul-2009, 10:21

I just got Le Magicien by Serge Rezvani,and i can't find trace of him in English(Iranian origine writing in French).
He wrote a lot for theater as well a novels,acted in new waves films(jule et jim)paint,is a song writer under the name Cyrus Bassiak.
His editors are prestigious(seuil,acte sud,stock,gallimard) but not translations??

Anyone heard of him?

Link for the ones who read French.Serge Rezvani - Wikipédia

Flower · #**845** (**permalink**) 07-Jul-2009, 17:48

I just got "The essays of Virginia Woolf; volume 5" and managed to find a good copy of "Kew Gardens" by the same lady at a decent price last night. Will go to the very same place in about a month time, cant wait!

promtbr · #**846** (**permalink**) 08-Jul-2009, 04:09

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Originally Posted by Flower

I just got "The essays of Virginia Woolf; volume 5" and managed to find a good copy of "Kew Gardens" by the same lady at a decent price last night. Will go to the very same place in about a month time, cant wait!

Nice.That's the last Volume I need as well...

Fantasia-An Algerian Cavalcade-- Assia Djebar

Dusk a Novel-- F. Sionil Jose

Ministry of Pain--Dubravka Ugresic

The Queen of the Prisons of Greece-- Osman Lins

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kpjayan · #**847** (**permalink**) 08-Jul-2009, 09:04

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Originally Posted by promtbr

The Queen of the Prisons of Greece-- Osman Lins

Awesome book. Very challenging. None of my friends were able to complete this.

**Bjorn** · #**848** (**permalink**) 08-Jul-2009, 10:06

Some more second-hand stuff. What's summer for, if not for browsing book shops?

Yvonne Vera, Butterfly Burning (signed!)
David Bellos, Georges Perec: A life in words (I'm probably never going to read it. It's about 900 pages. But I couldn't not buy it.)
Selma Lagerlöf, Gösta Berlings saga (in two volumes, printed 1928. Beautiful.)

titania7 · #**849** (**permalink**) 08-Jul-2009, 10:39

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Originally Posted by Bjorn

Some more second-hand stuff. What's summer for, if not for browsing book shops?

Yvonne Vera, Butterfly Burning (signed!)
David Bellos, Georges Perec: A life in words (I'm probably never going to read it. It's about 900 pages. But I couldn't not buy it.)
Selma Lagerlöf, Gösta Berlings saga (in two volumes, printed 1928. Beautiful.)

I cannot imagine a more enjoyable way to spend the summer than browsing book shops! It looks like you picked up some wonderful things, Bjorn. And who knows? Even if you don't read the Bellos book from cover to cover, you can always delve in and find out some interesting things you wouldn't have found out otherwise about George Perec. There are many books I own, especially biographies, that I will probably never read all the way through. But to skim them. . .to learn intriguing facts about writers or actors or artists or musicians that you admire. . .well, I think it's a lot of fun. Don't you?

~Alexis (Titania)

"All men by nature desire knowledge."
~Aristotle

Daniel del Real · #**850** (**permalink**) 08-Jul-2009, 17:44

Carlos Fuentes, The Eagle's Throne

Ramblingsid · #**851** (**permalink**) 09-Jul-2009, 15:49

Roberto Bolano - Distant Star

John le Carre - A Murder of Quality

Paul Bowles - The Sheltering Sky

john h · #**852** (**permalink**) 09-Jul-2009, 16:48

This is in response to Liam's comment about loving books in which nothing happens. The ultimate book in this sense is Flaubert's "Sentimental Education." Beautifully written but not a damn thing happens. Ford Madox Ford claimed to have read it fourteen times.

saliotthomas · #**853** (**permalink**) 10-Jul-2009, 19:31

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Originally Posted by john h

This is in response to Liam's comment about loving books in which nothing happens. The ultimate book in this sense is Flaubert's "Sentimental Education." Beautifully written but not a damn thing happens. Ford Madox Ford claimed to have read it fourteen times.

I Read it three,maybe four times.But there is a lot happening

wild parties,even barricades and such.Proust on the other hand.....

Got Bolano 2666,31 cd's in audio.Make War and peace look like a novela.

Liam · #**854** (**permalink**) 10-Jul-2009, 19:33

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Originally Posted by john h

This is in response to Liam's comment about loving books in which nothing happens. The ultimate book in this sense is Flaubert's "Sentimental Education." Beautifully written but not a damn thing happens. Ford Madox Ford claimed to have read it fourteen times.

Thank you for the tip, John. I'm afraid the only thing by Flaubert that I've read is Madame Bovary, which is, undeniably, a masterpiece. He's one of my mother's favorite writers (she's read all his books)--I'll just have to borrow some of them one of these days...

L.

Liam · #**855** (**permalink**) 10-Jul-2009, 19:39

Boyhood/Youth + Summertime (pre-order) by J. M. Coetzee

2666 by Roberto Bolaño--frankly, it's giving me the creeps, but I bought it based on the buzz

L.

Daniel del Real · #**856** (**permalink**) 10-Jul-2009, 19:45

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Originally Posted by Ramblingsid

Roberto Bolano - Distant Star

Excellent choice Ramblingsid, I just read this novel two weeks ago and I truly enjoyed it.
I expect your comments about it once you finish

titania7 · #**857** (**permalink**) 11-Jul-2009, 04:41

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Originally Posted by Liam

Thank you for the tip, John. I'm afraid the only thing by Flaubert that I've read is Madame Bovary, which is, undeniably, a masterpiece. He's one of my mother's favorite writers (she's read all his books)--I'll just have to borrow some of them one of these days...

L.

Dearest Liam,
Carpe diem, darling, carpe diem!

Have I not told you that A Sentimental Education is one of my favorite books? Do you remember? Do you not want to make your diva happy?

And if not, why not? <raises eyebrow> Why I've proclaimed your genius from the rooftops to all and sundry, have I not? What more can your dear, sweet little diva do?

Love,
Alexis (Titania)

Mirabell · #**858** (**permalink**) 11-Jul-2009, 07:49

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Originally Posted by saliotthomas

I Read it three,maybe four times.But there is a lot happening

wild parties,even barricades and such.

yeah that's what I thought. loads happens.

saliotthomas · #**859** (**permalink**) 11-Jul-2009, 13:45

I just fond this Brothers by Yu Hua.

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A bestseller in China, recently short-listed for the Man Asian Literary Prize, and a winner of France’s Prix Courrier International, Brothers is an epic and wildly unhinged black comedy of modern Chinese society running amok.

Le courrier international,for those who does not know it, is a newspaper made of acticles translated from all over the world.Always very interesting.

Anyone heard of this book?

Also got Pride and prejudice and zombies by Seth grahame-smith and you know, jane Austen.

Ramblingsid · #**860** (**permalink**) 11-Jul-2009, 21:58

Jose Saramago - Blindness

John Le Carre - Call for the dead

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