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I just put a hold on "The Old Man and The Sea by Hemingway" at the library. it should be ready for pick-up in 1 or 2 days.
 
I don't know if it counts or not, but I found a book in my stacks that I had totally forgotten having.....For Whom the Bell Tolls...Hemingway. I left it in the stack, until I organize, I don't know where anything is anyhow. :D
 
Today I picked up The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy, Baltasar and Blimunda by Jose Saramago, The Archivist by Martha Cooley, The Hundred Secret Sense by Amy Tan, East of Eden by John Steinbeck and I ordered a Suitable Boy by Seth Vikram from my used book shop the whole stack was under $20, I love shopping trips like that.
 
I just got a book free through the post for doing on online survey for Random House. :D It is called The Dearest and the Best by Leslie Thomas, and I have never heard of it before... but a book is a book! :D
 
Flaubert's Parrot - Julian Barnes
The Unconsoled - Kazuo Ishiguro
Foucalt's Pendulum - Umberto Eco
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle - Haruki Murakami
The Barrytown Trilogy - Roddy Doyle :rolleyes:
 
Ugh, I know. I asked you somewhere else (I'm sure it was you) what you thought of it, but you didn't reply :)rolleyes: ;) ) and so I went ahead and bought it anyway, then I clicked on your 'books I've read' link and saw you gave it two stars! Oh well. :cool:
 
murphyz said:
Tell us what books you have recently purchased so we can look at you in awe, or laugh and point at you for buying tripe.

For me:
Yann Martel - Life of Pi
Malorie Blackman - Noughts and Crosses
Alice Sebold - The Lovely Bones
Charles Dickens - Bleak House (Everyman's Library Edition)
PG Wodehouse - Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit (Everyman's Wodehouse Edition)

Mxx
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1) Left behind by Tim LaHaye (e-book, inglish text).
2) Død Joker by Anne Holt (hardcover)
3) Songs of innocence and of experience illustrated by W.Blake (hardcover)
4) Prison Planet by William Dietz (hardcover,translated to Norwegian).
5) Halo by Tom Maddox (e-book, inglish text).

Not the books for a rocket scientist maby :eek: :)
 
Earlier this month (all at 60% off each):
Little Birds - Anais Nin (This was nice, but not as good as Delta of Venus)
From Hell - Alan Moore
Doctor Strange: Into Shamballa - J.M. De Matteis (I got this one for less than a dollar... it was pretty good)
 
At long last my Amazon order has arrived.:)

Somewhere Over the Rainbow - Gavin Bell
The Poisonwood Bible - Barbara Kingsolver
Lolita-Vladimir Nabokov
Reading Lolita in Tehran - Azar Nafisi
The True Story of Hansel and Gretel - Louise Murphy
Disgrace - J. M. Coetzee
 
Ah, I've not posted in this thread for a good while. Here are the spoils of today's wee foray into the veritable metropolis of my podunk town:
In English:
Alan Sillitoe - Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
Somerset Maugham - The Moon and Sixpence (ratty 1961 Penguin paperback)

In Norwegian:
Stefan Zweig - Verwirring der Gefühle
Hermann Broch - Die Schuldlosen

I'm trying to put together an order at Amazon or some other webstore soon, but I can't for the life of me decide what to get. Who said consumerism was easy!
 
Well, my book fairy just gave me what are probably two of the most 'opposite ends of the spectrum' books one can imagine. :cool:

Gilead by Marilynne Robinson

The Fifth Woman by Henning Mankell

I had to start the mystery first, but it was close. :D ;)
 
Spent the whole afternoon at bookstores yesterday:

Merde Actually by Stephen Clarke
Americana by Don DeLillo
Dead Souls by Nikolaj Gogol
Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
Dracula by Bram Stoker
Thinks by David Lodge
Ten Novels and Their Authors by W. Somerset Maugham
The Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem
Arthur's Britain by Leslie Alcock
 
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