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Recently Purchased/Borrowed

Foucault's Pendulum, by Umberto Eco.

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Yann Martel - The Facts Behind Helsinki Roccamatios
I was very happy to discover the new book by the author of Life of Pi.
Has any of you read this?
 
I've just borrowed a book about everyday life in the second half of the 19th century, quite thick and full of history but very interesting.My reading is quite slow though as I'm very busy at work so it's good that the book is not from the library, but from a friend of mine.:innocent:
 
Midshipman Bolitho By Alexander Kent
Midshipman Bolitho and the 'Avenger' by Alexander Kent
Sloop Of War By Alexander Kent
Passage To Mutiny By Alexander Kent
Signal - Close Action! By Alexander Kent
 
In order to celebrate my enrollment and first day in my MA in American Literature, I went shopping:

The Great Shadow & other stories, Mário de Sá-Carneiro
Kaputt, Curzio Malaparte
If on a Winter's Night a Traveller, Italo Calvino
Why Read the Classics?, Italo Calvino
The House on the Borderland, William Hodgson
Lud-in-the-Mist, Hope Mirless
Five Children and It, Edith Nesbit
The Phoenix and the Carpet, Edith Nesbit
Time and the Gods, Lord Dunsany
A Dreamer's Tales, Lord Dunsany
Tales of Three Hemisphere, Lord Dunsany

A very good day!
 
A gift: Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad.

Much more readable and meaningful, this time, than the first time I tried it long ago.

Now it seems to me that Apocalypse Now missed the point.
 
I received two books from Bookswim today.

Bloodsucking Fiends, Christopher Moore

and I'll Fly Away: Further Testimonies from the Women of York Prison, Wally Lamb

And I bought, from Amazon To Die For, Joyce Maynard
 
Last books that I bought:
The Shack by WM. Paul Young
The Alchemist's Daughter by Katharine McMahon

On my to buy list:
The Duchess by Amanda Foreman
The 19th Wife by David Ebershoff
Brisingr by Christopher Paolini (for my sons)
All by Myself by Mercer Mayer (for my daughter)

The Shipping News is a great novel!! The movie is really good, too!
 
tyule said:
Last books that I bought:
The Shack by WM. Paul Young
The Alchemist's Daughter by Katharine McMahon

On my to buy list:
The Duchess by Amanda Foreman
The 19th Wife by David Ebershoff
Brisingr by Christopher Paolini (for my sons)
All by Myself by Mercer Mayer (for my daughter)

The Shipping News is a great novel!! The movie is really good, too!
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I just saw a commercial yesterday that a movie is coming out,I think it is based on this book.
 
The Clothes on their Backs - Linda Grant
The White Tiger - Aravind Adiga

As you may have guessed, I've been in a Booker mode recently. I want to read both 2007's and 2008's shortlist, and then I'll see where it goes from there.
 
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