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I got three books for my birthday; To kill a mocking bird(Had read it prior to owning it), 1984 By George Orwell (Also read prior to owning) and War of the worlds by H.G Wells which I am currently reading.

Minutes ago I was at a bookstore and bought Great expectations by Charles Dickens.
 
CawMeFish said:
Have you read Confessions of an Ugly Step Sister?
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Not yet. I have 11 books in que right now. That one is number 5 (I think). I always read a Poe story or poem in between books, so it takes me a little longer to get to the next one.

CawMeFish said:
I noticed Something Wicked is in your current reads (Ray Bradbury's Something Wicked This Way Comes, amazing book!)
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I'm reading that and The Turn of the Screw, both of which are creepy little stories that I'm enjoying immensely.
 
I recently bought-
Eliza's Hope by Vicki Gaia
Duking Days by Anita Davison
Audrey Howard's latest book, A Time Like No Other.
Danielle Steel - Sisters
Maeve Binchy - Whitethorn Woods
Peter Fitzsimons - Biography of Nancy Wake (non fiction)
Dr Catherine Hamlin - The Hospital By The River (non fiction)
Isolde Martyn - Fleur-De-Lis
Bill Clinton - My life (non fiction)
Austin Woolrych - Battles of the English Civil War (non fiction)
 
Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen.

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  • Cliffs, Olivier Adam
  • The Hour Of The Star, Clarice Lispector
  • Bruges-la-Morte, Georges Rodenbach
  • A Perfect Waiter, Alain Claude Suizer
  • The Way Of The Women, Marlene van Niekerk
  • The Book Of Words, Jenny Erpenback
  • Shutterspeed, Erwin Mortier
 
Smash and grab:

  1. A Mere Interlude, Thomas Hardy
  2. Bodily Secrets, William Trevor
  3. Cures For Love, Stendahl
  4. Doomed Love, Virgil
  5. First Love, Ivan Turgenev
  6. Giovanni's Room, James Baldwin
  7. Mary, Vladimir Nabokov
  8. Something Childish But Very Natural, Katherine Mansfield
  9. The Kreutzer Sonata, Leo Tolstoy
  10. The Virgin And The Gypsy, D.H. Lawrence
  11. A Russian Affair, Anton Chekhov
  12. Bonjour Tristesse, Francoise Sagan
  13. Deviant Love, Siegmund Freud
  14. Eros Unbound, Anais Nin
  15. Forbidden Fruit, Peter Abelard
  16. Magnetism, F. Scott Fitzgerald
  17. Of Mistresses, Tigresses, And Other Conquests, Giacomo Casanova
  18. The Eaten Heart, Giovanni Boccaccio
  19. The Seducer's Diary, Soren Kierkegaard
  20. The Women Who Got Away, John Updike
 
Leyland said:
The Game of Kings by Dorothy Dunnett
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What a great book! It was tough getting used to the prose, but the plot and characters are amazing. I have the rest of the Lymond Chronicles on my TBR list.
 
purchased:
The Summoner by Gail . Martin
Dreamsongs volume 2 by George R.R. Martin (I couldn't find Volume 1)

and a friend lent me:
Timeline by Michael richton
 
I purchased these novels at a thrift store for only $2.40.

The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx
Quicksilver by Neal Stephenson (hardback)

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The Orchard Keeper, Cormac McCarthy
Outer Dark, Cormac McCarthy
Suttree, Cormac McCarthy
All The Pretty Horses, Cormac McCarthy
The Crossing, Cormac McCarthy
Cities Of The Plain, Cormac McCarthy
A Russian Journal, John Steinbeck

I've now got all ten books by McCarthy and can look forward to reading them in sequence, even though I've already read The Road. I've already got the Border Trilogy in a single volume but each one, along with his whole catalogue, have been relaunched with nice new covers in the UK.

As for Steinbeck, only a couple more to go to complete my collection of his books, also all in the same format. I've got all his novels and other fiction, so it's just a couple of volumes of essays and letters to get.

Next stop, the complete Roth, Bellow, and Updike. :D
 
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