Recent Purchases/Borrowings

[ions]

as for me and my house by Sinclair Ross (U)
Green Grass Running Water Thomas King (U)
The Quincunx Charles Palliser

[Mirabell]

Oooh I have the Palliser at home, too, was a xmas present, but then in january, when I boasted with the book, my beloved biscuit said the book wasn't up too much. Haven't touched it since. But I will. I will.

Thanks for reminding me. It looks so delicious.

[ions]

It looks great to me but I do love that which can be described as Dickensian honestly. No idea when I will actually get to it. Perhaps a book buying embargo is in order for a short time, books for school excluded of course.

[Sybarite]

Amazon should be banned. It's too, too easy to buy books.

You think of something, search for it and then decide that you might as well buy.

I'm now expecting a couple of Balzac, some Flaubert, more Jules Verne, a Graham Greene and and G?nter Grass. And my shopping basket is not empty since reading the thread here on Spanish literature.

[Stewart]

Amazon should be banned. It's too, too easy to buy books.

I tend to mix and match between Amazon Marketplace and the Book Depository.

To this effect I've just bought

Roadside Picnic, Arkady & Boris Strugatsky
The Diving Pool, Ogawa Yoko

[ions]

Short work by a new Canadian author called Barnacle Love by Anthony De Sa for my CanLit course.

[abecedarian]

Interlibrary loan is wonderful:
The Joys of Motherhood by Buchi Emecheta

[Stewart]

It's getting to that point now where the Booker Prize longlist is soon to be announced. Somewhere around the end of this month. And, as such, I intend on reading all thirteen longlisted titles as I did last year. Of course, with over a hundred titles potentially submitted or called in it's pretty much an impossible task to guess which thirteen will be thrust on us this year. But I've made a start, buying up a few that may feature. If I can read them and they appear on the list, then result!

So, I've bought:

• A Case Of Exploding Mangoes, Mohammed Hanif
• Trauma, Patrick McGrath
• Netherland, Joseph O'Neill
• The White Tiger, Aravind Adiga
• Boy Meets Girl, Ali Smith

And, just to add to my collection, Oliver VII, by Szerb Antal, the new Penguin Modern Classics edition of John Wyndham's The Day Of The Triffids, and Richard Ford's The Lay Of The Land.

[ions]

Won a galley of Miriam Toews' new novel The Flying Troutmans. She's a newer Canadian author that's got a lot of publicity and an award or two for her novel A Complicated Kindness.

[Mirabell]

It's getting to that point now where the Booker Prize longlist is soon to be announced. Somewhere around the end of this month. And, as such, I intend on reading all thirteen longlisted titles as I did last year. Of course, with over a hundred titles potentially submitted or called in it's pretty much an impossible task to guess which thirteen will be thrust on us this year. But I've made a start, buying up a few that may feature. If I can read them and they appear on the list, then result!

So, I've bought:

• A Case Of Exploding Mangoes, Mohammed Hanif
• Trauma, Patrick McGrath
• Netherland, Joseph O'Neill
• The White Tiger, Aravind Adiga
• Boy Meets Girl, Ali Smith

And, just to add to my collection, Oliver VII, by Szerb Antal, the new Penguin Modern Classics edition of John Wyndham's The Day Of The Triffids, and Richard Ford's The Lay Of The Land.

Oooh as I am finally employed I may try this, too. I love to be cranky about juror's decisions.

[Sybarite]

Just had the time for a browse in my local, independent bookshop and emerged with:

Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler

The Successor by Ismail Kadare

Belle de Jour by Joseph Kessel

Pure coincidence that it's all the Ks.

[Stewart]

Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler

I was thinking about buying this one the other day. And I probably will at some point.

I did buy, however,

• The Guest, Hwang Sok-yong
• The Big Clock, Kenneth Fearing

[saliotthomas]

All in audio

M.Yourcenar - Memoires d'Hadrien

Ivan Goncharov - Oblomov

G.K. Chesterson - The Man Who Was Thursday

Noel Coward-Blithe Spirit

Penelopiad-Margaret Atwood

Cabeza de vaca-Adventures in the Unknown Interior of America

[Heteronym]

I've just got:

• Leaf Storm, Gabriel Garc?a M?rquez
• In Evil Hour, Gabriel Garc?a M?rquez
• Ignorance, Milan Kundera
• The Tartar Steppe, Dino Buzzati

[Irene Wilde]

Just ordered the Third Movement of a Dance to the Music of Time and because they had a 1937 hard-copy within my price range Present Indicative. Of course, they had a signed, first edition of Present Indicative, but at $300, def. out of my price range.

[Sybarite]

Just ordered the Third Movement of a Dance to the Music of Time and because they had a 1937 hard-copy within my price range Present Indicative. Of course, they had a signed, first edition of Present Indicative, but at $300, def. out of my price range.

How tempting, though?

I saw a ?250 first edition (1916) of Thomas Mann's Royal Highness recently ... I cannot express just how tempted I was.

[Irene Wilde]

How tempting, though?

I saw a ?250 first edition (1916) of Thomas Mann's Royal Highness recently ... I cannot express just how tempted I was.

Tempting...oh yeah. And now that I know it's there I'm going to have to start putting pennies away just for it. It will probably be sold before I have the money, but at least if I find another I'll be ready for it. Not too many people I'd spend that money on (ok, Sinatra was the other).

[Sybarite]

Tempting...oh yeah. And now that I know it's there I'm going to have to start putting pennies away just for it. It will probably be sold before I have the money, but at least if I find another I'll be ready for it. Not too many people I'd spend that money on (ok, Sinatra was the other).

Good luck with getting it before anyone else, Irene.

[ions]

A Glossary of Literary Terms 8th Edition by M.H. Abrams. Nearly $50! Yes yes I know you can find it cheaper online but I needed it now and online, as convenient as it is for many of you it is not for me.

[Irene Wilde]

All in audio

Noel Coward-Blithe Spirit

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.