Recently Purchased/Borrowed

[Appolonia]

"The Night Gardener" by George Pelecanos
"Goodbye Lemon" by Adam Davies
"My Sister's Keeper" by Jodi Picoult

 

[heywood lad]

number9dream by David Mitchell

 

[Vanilla]

I recently bought and read The Da Vinci Code. I know, I know I am really late!!! But it is an incredible book. Much better then the movie.

 

[pontalba]

Received today via UPS:

Mrs. Dalloway
A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf
Elia Kazan, A Life E.K.

 

[Dogmatix]

The Prostitute in the Family Tree - Douglas Adams
Last Chance to See - Douglas Adams (signed first edition)

 

[TrialVersion]

My recent purchases:

Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
The English Patient - Michael Ondaatje
The Talented Mr. Ripley - Patricia Higsmith
The Fall of Hyperion - Dan Simmons
Endymion - Dan Simmons
The Rise of Endymion - Dan Simmons
Hitchhiker's Guide to The Galaxy - Douglas Adams
The Secret History - Donna Tartt
Island of The Day Before - Umberto Eco
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy - John Le Carre

 

[venusunfolding]

Today I got The Seville Communion, The Flander's Panel, and The Nautical Charts by Arturo Perez-Reverte. He's my mew current favorite author.

I also got Possession by A.S. Byatt

 

[Appolonia]

The Prostitute in the Family Tree - Douglas Adams

And here you got me all excited that there was a Douglas Adams book I hadn't read!

 

[StillILearn]

I also got Possession by A.S. Byatt

The book is great. How they managed to make such a dreadful movie out of it is completely beyond me.

 

[Shelly]

Industrial Magic-Kelley Armstrong
Redemption-Wayne Sharrocks
Graham Hancock-Supernatural

 

[-Carlos-]

Blindness by Jose Saramago

 

[Balmy Westwind]

Hey Nostradamus! - Douglas Coupland
Time’s Arrow - Martin Amis
Sophie’s World - Jostein Gaarder
Derailed - James Siegel
What the Body Remembers - Shauna Singh Baldwin

 

[Halo]

The Historian - Elizabeth Kostova
Last of the Wilds - Trudi Canavan
Messenger - Lois Lowry
Shade's Children - Garth Nix
V for Vendetta - Alan Moore (graphic novel)

 

[Mattyj]

Yay - library book sale this past weekend!!:

She's Come Undone - Wally Lamb
Seven Houses - Alev Lytle Croutier
The Best Awful - Carrie Fisher
The Annunciation of Francesca Dunn - Janis Hallowell
...no idea really what I purchased - so we shall see.

oh yeah, also picked up Pro Motocross and Off-Road Riding Techniques - Bales and Semics (non-fiction of course)when I was at Barnes & Noble.

 

[jaynebosco]

Recent Purchases

The lady and the unicorn by Tracy Chevalier

 

[lady.cordelia]

please don't laugh!

The Eldest (Paolini)

 

[venusunfolding]

I got this really amazing 4 volume boxed set of the Complete Greek Tragedies. There's a volume of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and 2 Euripides for 20 bucks.

I also got The Club Dumas by Arturo Perez Reverte
Camille by Dumas
The Three Musketeers
Captain Blood by Rafael Sabatini
Surfacing by Margaret Atwood

 

[venusunfolding]

I got this really amazing 4 volume boxed set of the Complete Greek Tragedies. There's a volume of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and 2 Euripides for 20 bucks.

I also got The Club Dumas by Arturo Perez Reverte
Camille by Dumas
The Three Musketeers
Captain Blood by Rafael Sabatini
Surfacing by Margaret Atwood

 

[tartan_skirt]

Today I received George Orwel's Animal Farm as a belated birthday present.

I now have £30 of book vouchers and £10 on Amazon, so I might be getting a lot more books soon... if I ever find the will to leave my house...

 

[venusunfolding]

this is a picture of the Greek Tragedies set I was talking about