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Recently Purchased/Borrowed

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins. Decided to look at the preview on kindle and got hooked iimmediately. Pushed the button; it was just so easy, and the price was right.
 
I received these for Christmas:

Full Dark, No Stars (Stephen King)

The Coming of Conan the Cimmerian (Robert E. Howard)

If Life is a Game, These are the Rules (Cherie Carter-Scott)
 
Whose Bible Is It? by Jaroslav Pelikan.

A Guide to Understanding the Bible by Harry Emerson Fosdick.

Ask The Dust by John Fante
 
Sexing the Cherry - Jeanette Winterson

Written on the Body - Jeanette Winterson

Lighthousekeeping - Jeanette Winterson.

For catch-up.
 
Purge by Sofi Oksanen
The Girl Who Disappeared Twice by Andrea Kane
The Grifters by Jim Thompson
Pop.1280 by Jim Thompson
A Wild Sheep Chase by Haruki Murakami
 
Oh, I also completed my Dark Tower/Stephen King series with

#2 The Drawing of the Three
#3 The Waste Lands
#5 Wolves of the Calla
 
Just back from the library:

Singled Out:How Two Million Women Survived Without Men After the First World War-Virginia Nicholson

The Painted Boy-Charles DeLint

The Walkaway-Scott Philips

So, between the library and my 188 miles of yarn in the basement...I have plenty to do now:whistling:
 
abecedarian said:
Just back from the library:

Singled Out:How Two Million Women Survived Without Men After the First World War-Virginia Nicholson

The Painted Boy-Charles DeLint

The Walkaway-Scott Philips

So, between the library and my 188 miles of yarn in the basement...I have plenty to do now:whistling:
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Nice. :D
So, 188 skeins of yarn on the wall, 188 skeins of yarn....take one down...
whoops, sorry, that's beer, not skeins. :innocent:

In today's delivery....

Sun Storm by Asa Larsson
William Golding, the Man Who Wrote Lord of the Flies by John Carey
Cordelia's Honor by Lois McMaster Bujold
 
pontalba said:
Nice. :D
So, 188 skeins of yarn on the wall, 188 skeins of yarn....take one down...
whoops, sorry, that's beer, not skeins. :innocent:

In today's delivery....

Sun Storm by Asa Larsson
William Golding, the Man Who Wrote Lord of the Flies by John Carey
Cordelia's Honor by Lois McMaster Bujold
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MILES, not skeins honey....I have 188 MILES of yarn...ever so much more than 188 skeins:innocent:
(Now, about that beer..)
 
abecedarian said:
MILES, not skeins honey....I have 188 MILES of yarn...ever so much more than 188 skeins:innocent:
(Now, about that beer..)
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ROTFALOL Ah, did I mean skeins, or steins....oh well, must be the beer..... ;)
Oy! Miles..... :cool:
A trip to the second hand book store the other day proved fruitful.

Love, etc by Julian Barnes
Plainsong by Kent Haruf
Strip City by Lily Burana
A Personal Matter by Kenzaburo Oe
Watership Down by Richard Adams
The Abyssinian by Jean-Christophe Rufin
West Wind by Mary Oliver
The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk
Medusa by Michael Dibdin
 
Virginia Woolf, Moments of Being
Virginia Woolf, The Diary of... Vols. 4 & 5
Virginia Woolf, Letters, vol. 6


Yes, I'm taking the Woolf course this semester.
 
Two more from the cut rates:

Blak Girl/White Girl - Joyce Carol Oates.

Mein Herz So Weiss - Javier Marias
 
Three more from the library:

The Adjustment-Scott Phillips

Adventure Cycle Touring Handbook- Stephen Lord

A Train in Winter: An Extraordinary Story of Women, Friendship, and Resistance in Occupied France- Caroline Moorehead
 
The Blackpool Highflyer by Andrew Martin
King's Man by Tim Severin
The Last Kingdom by Bernard Cornwell
Witch Ligt by Susan Fletcher
 
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