Recent Purchases/Borrowings

[saliotthomas]

Is this an audio version of the play? If so, who's in the cast? If it is just a straight reading, who's doing the reading? I believe that out there somewhere is a radio version that was done in conjunction with the television version back in the 50s.

It's a dramatisation,I just listen to the start and the end but they don't give any credit...(i do not get much info on most of the books due to the way i'm getting them,no covers and oftne no description texts)but i think your right about the radio version.

[Irene Wilde]

It's a dramatisation,I just listen to the start and the end but they don't give any credit...(i do not get much info on most of the books due to the way i'm getting them,no covers and oftne no description texts)but i think your right about the radio version.

It seems Sheridan Morley directed a version with Joanna Lumley that has been packaged as an audio book. I couldn't find anything to say which character Ms. Lumley plays. It's easy to picture her as either Elvira or Madame Arcati.

[Mirabell]

in the mail today

The Impressionist, Hari Kunzru
Hadschi Murat, Leo Tolstoy

[ions]

Island by Alistair MacLeod. Another Canuck author. Very well respected for his short stories although gets overshadowed by Munro.

[Mirabell]

Great Haul today

K?tala, Fatou Diome

Die Gelehrtenrepublik, Arno Schmidt (I'm in for a reread)

New England White, Stephen L. Carter

In Verteidigung der Gesellschaft, Michel Foucault

Kindheitsmuster, Christa Wolf

[ions]

And the Ass Saw the Angel by Nick Cave. $3!

[fausto]

I'm under a self-inflicted book buying ban, started 20th of June. It will end on the 18th of August. So far, I manage. My brother just gave me Too loud a solitude by Bohumil Hrabal. I would have yelled my joy, almost.

[Mirabell]

I'm under a self-inflicted book buying ban, started 20th of June. It will end on the 18th of August. So far, I manage. My brother just gave me Too loud a solitude by Bohumil Hrabal. I would have yelled my joy, almost.

Proud of you. I tried once, but, you know.

[Stewart]

I tried once, but, you know.

I know the feeling. Back in 2006 I decided to set myself a book buying embargo. Knowing that I had put it in place meant that I could easily remove it. It felt like rule breaking, probably in the same way a smoker can believe quitting cigarettes is making a sacrifice, and ensured that I bought probably the most books I've ever bought in a year. 264, to be exact.

[abecedarian]

I know the feeling. Back in 2006 I decided to set myself a book buying embargo. Knowing that I had put it in place meant that I could easily remove it. It felt like rule breaking, probably in the same way a smoker can believe quitting cigarettes is making a sacrifice, and ensured that I bought probably the most books I've ever bought in a year. 264, to be exact.

This probably won't help either of you feel better, but I see knitters and crocheters talking about 'yarn diets' every day...and they all thrive on posting their latest purchases too.

[Stewart]

Doesn't make me feel better, abecedarian.

Anyway, two more Booker potentials, this time from Australia:

His Illegal Self, Peter Carey
The Spare Room, Helen Garner

And a Penguin Modern Classic, to mingle with the others:

Love In A Cold Climate and Other Novels, Nancy Mitford

[Mirabell]

In the mail today

Dorian, Will Self
L'Amour, Maguerite Duras
Original Bliss, A.L. Kennedy (Lost my old copy)



happy.

[Mirabell]

In the mail

Le Ventre de l'Atlantique, Fatou Diome

[Mirabell]

Popped in a bookshop in exeter today and got The Savage Detectives

in the mail

mascha kal?ko, die paar leuchtenden jahre
selma meerbaum-eisinger, ich bin in sehnsucht eingeh?llt

[Stewart]

Back in my teens, when I was reading horror, there was author I always wanted to read - especially as the market was stale - but his books were never available in the UK and, browsing around, editions were always limited and therefore out of my price range. Today, however, I saw a collection of his short stories, recently published, which I thought I'd snap up to see whether he is, as I've been assured elsewhere, any good. So Teatro Grottesco by Thomas Ligotti.

[ions]

MLA Style Manual and Guide to Scholarly Publishing the other day. Couldn't find my old paperback MLA manual so I got a new edition hardcover.

Need to get more essays on Literature and theory so...
Habitations of the Word by William H. Gass
Survival by Margaret Atwood

In September I have some Umberto Eco, Northrop Frye and Robertson Davies to pick up. Oh and the Borges non-fiction. Perhaps some other essay centric stuff too.

I finally found the 3rd and last instalment I needed to complete the hardcover collection of The Baroque Cycle, The System of the World. Pleased about that as it was done in relatively frugal fashion.

I also grabbed me a copy of A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr.

[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.

[nnyhav]

The latter is my favorite book, bar none. I shan't go into the reasons, lest it spoil your first impression (hey, I own it in its first impression, how ironic), and there's nothing like reading anything like it the first time through.

[Stewart]

Since it's payday I got a few NYRB Classics:

• Asleep In The Sun, Adolfo Bioy Casares
• Clark Gifford's Body, Kenneth Fearing
• The Radiance Of The King, Camara Laye
• A Way Of Life, Like Any Other, Darcy O'Brien

[Irene Wilde]

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!