Recently Purchased/Borrowed

[harrypotterrox]

I dont purchase books, i only get them 4m the library or from skool.

 

[Libra]

Love in the time of Cholera-Gabriel García Márquez

 

[JPost]

I dont purchase books, i only get them 4m the library or from skool.

I'm 100% opposite of that...

 

[sparkchaser]

I'm 100% opposite of that...

Well she is 15. She can buy books a plenty later.

 

[abecedarian]

Well she is 15. She can buy books a plenty later.

Or not.. sometimes the library is the better bargain..whether one is 15 or twice that+

 

[BeerWench13]

I'm 100% opposite of that...

Ditto. As I've mentioned in a few other posts, I'm a bit of a mysophobe and cannot stand the thought that I don't know where my books have been.

 

[-Carlos-]

Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

 

[Peach]

last books purchased: His Dark Materials trilogy, bought after watching the Golden Compass movie.. Robin Hobb's Forest Mage (already had the first in this series), Dragon Master (omnibus edition of this trilogy) by Chris Bunch, and Ken Follet's World Without End, because i remember enjoying Pillars of the Earth a long time ago..

 

[joderu95]

Or not.. sometimes the library is the better bargain..whether one is 15 or twice that+

Or orders of magnitude beyond 15 like some of our venerable elders here at the book and reader.

 

[pontalba]

The Blue Wolf by Frederic Dion
An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
Ripley Under Water by Patricia Highsmith
Strangers on A Train by Patricia Highsmith
Mistress of the Art of Death by Ariana Franklin
Royal Harlot by Susan Holloway Scott
Metamorphosis and Other Stories by Franz Kafka
Women in Love by D.H. Lawrence
Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence
Have Mercy On Us All by Fred Vargas

 

[Peder]

And speaking of venerable (as joderu just was), here we go:

Story Structure Architect by Victoria Lynn Schmidt

Sister Bernardette's Barking Dog: The Quirky History and Lost Art of Diagramming Sentences by Kitty Burns Florey

 

[saliotthomas]

Aczel, Amir D. - The Mystery of the Aleph

Ben Macintyre - Agent Zigzag

Jeff Long - The Wall

Achebe, Chinua - Things Fall Apart

Garry Kilworth - The Winter Soldiers

John Banville - Eclipse

Mark Helprin - City in Winter

Jess Walter - The Zero

 

[Polly Parrot]

Thomas Hardy - The mayor of Casterbridge
Sue Townsend - The Queen and I

 

[abecedarian]

These just in from the library:
The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch

How the Scots Invented the Modern World by Arthur Herman

The Lost Ark of The Covenant:Solving the 2,500 Year Old Mystery of the Fabled Biblical Ark by Tudor Parfitt


Adventure Guide to the Cayman Islands by Paris Parmenter

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[-Carlos-]

Notes from Underground, The Double and Other Stories by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel García Márquez
Empire Falls by Richard Russo

 

[Stewart]

I've come back after a couple of days away and now have the following books:

• The Belly Of The Atlantic, Fatou Dimoe
• This Earth Of Mankind, Pramoedya Ananta Toer
• Child Of All Nations, Pramoedya Ananta Toer
• Footsteps, Pramoedya Ananta Toer
• House Of Glass, Pramoedya Ananta Toer
• Metropole, Karinthy Ferenc
• Little Big, John Crowley
• Some Rain Must Fall, Michel Faber

 

[joderu95]

The Solitude of Thomas Cave - Georgina Harding
Before The Legend: The Rise of Bob Marley - Christopher John Farley (no, not that guy)
A People's History of American Empire - Howard Zinn, Mike Konopacki & Paul Buhle

 

[Eva]

The Lost Ark of The Covenant:Solving the 2,500 Year Old Mystery of the Fabled Biblical Ark by Tudor Parfitt

Wow, that looks very interesting. I previewed it at Amazon. Thanks for listing it.

 

[abecedarian]

Wow, that looks very interesting. I previewed it at Amazon. Thanks for listing it.

My dh is reading it right now. He's getting irritated with the lack of documentation.

 

[Stewart]

Oh, and today I bought Omega Minor by Paul Verhaeghen, this year's winner of the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize. It's a biggy. So might have to leave it to later. Much later.