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Recently Purchased/Borrowed

Time Travel in Einstein's Universe, J. Richard Gott
supersymmetry, Gordon Kane
Three Roads to Quantum Gravity, Lee Smolin
The Book of Nothing, John D. Barrow

Yes, I'm a physics nerd. Duh.
 
I pre-ordered Stephen King’s The Dark Tower: The Complete Concordance and Lisey's Story, by the same author. They are both coming out in October.
 
The Inheritance of Loss - Kiran Desai
Kalooki Nights - Howard Jacobson
The Emperor's Children - Claire Messud
Some Hope - Edward St.Aubyn
Mother's Milk - Edward St.Aubyn
Brighton Rock - Graham Greene
 
The Expected One Kathleen McGowan
The Pirates In an Adventure with Scientists/The Pirates In an Adventure with Ahab Gideon Defoe
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell Susanna Clarke
 
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, Michael Chabon
The Boy Detective Fails, Joe Meno
The Giant's House, Elizabeth McCracken
Set This House in Order, Matt Ruff
The Fourth Bear, Jasper Fforde
The Little Friend, Donna Tartt

This is what usually happens when payday, the weekend, and bookstores all converge.
 
The Night Watch, Sarah Waters
Carry Me Down, M.J. Hyland
Black Swan Green, David Mitchell
Theft: A Love Story, Peter Carey
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, Ken Kesey
 
Guys and Dolls and Other Stories, Damon Runyon
Cathedral, Raymond Carver
Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?, Raymond Carver
The Inheritance Of Loss, Kiran Desai
 
Well, let's see what I think of Roald Dahl's short stories. Just bought all seven collections. :eek:
  • Kiss Kiss, Roald Dahl
  • Switch Bitch, Roald Dahl
  • Someone Like You, Roald Dahl
  • Over To You, Roald Dahl
  • Ah, Sweet Mystery Of Life, Roald Dahl
  • My Uncle Oswald, Roald Dahl
  • The Wonderful Story Of Henry Sugar, Roald Dahl

EDIT: Apparently, they are not all collections. Oh well!
 
These just in from the libary:

The Sea-Crossed Fisherman -Yashar Kemal (found this on the site Stewart told me about in the Olympic Challenge thread)

Stories From Blue Latitudes:Carribbean Women Writers At Home and Abroad-ed Elizabeth Nunez

Watercolor for the Fun of It: How to Sketch with Watercolor-David R. Becker

Work Small, Learn Big!: Sketching with Pen and Watercolor-International Artist Pub.

Creating the Not So Big House- Sarah Susanka

One Carton of Oops-Judy Bradbury
 
AAUW Used Book Sale - Bernardsville, NJ

I recently got all these books at this sale and spent less than $30.

Isabel Allende - Daughter of Fortune
Isabel Allende - Portrait in Sepia
Isabel Allende - Paula
Isabel Allende - The House of the Spirits
Alice Sebold - The Lovely Bones
Jung Chang - Wild Swans
Da Chen - Colors of the Mountain
Jonathan Franzen - The Corrections
Stephen Hawking - The Theory of Everything
Ben Mezrich - Bringing Down the House
Marilyn Robinson - Gilead
John Irving - Cider House Rules
Pearl S. Buck - The Good Earth
Jeffrey Eugenides - The Virgin Suicides
Christopher J. Koch - The Year of Living Dangerously
Frank McCourt - Angela's Ashes
Amy Tan - The Joy Luck Club
Herman Wouk - The Winds of War
Anne Frank - The Diary of a Young Girl
Barbara Kingsolver - The Bean Trees
Margaret Atwood - The Blind Assassin
Philip Roth - The Plot Against America
Simon Winchester - The Professor and the Madman
Toni Morrison - Beloved
Michael Chabon - The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
Salman Rushdie - Midnight's Children
Tracy Chevalier - Girl With a Pearl Earring
Susanna Clarke - Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell

by the way - please don't make fun of me because I haven't read these books yet, I am embarrassed enough as it is... :eek:
 
What an amazing bargin. I'm jealous.

Just bought The Outlandish Knight - Richard Adams and it cost almost as much as all of yours put together. Geeez.........
 
I was at the open day at Glasgow University yesterday and found myself buying 2 books from the nearby Fopp for just £7 for the two.

Waiting - Ha Jin
Running with Scissors - Augusten Burroughs
 
I got 14 books today! :D Heres, the list, prices included. :rolleyes:

Japanese Cooking - Judith Ferguson (£0.79)
Burton on Burton - Tim Burton (£2.97 new)
Shanghai Baby - Wei Hui (£2.97 new)
The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood (£2.50)
Watership Down - Richard Adams (£0.50)
Dracula's Guest - Bram Stoker (£1.50)
The Historian - Elizabeth Kostova (£2.00)
A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess (£1.50)
Lord of the Flies - William Golding (£1.00)
Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro (£2.00)
Prozac Nation - Elizabeth Wurtzel (£2.00)
The Secret Life of Bees - Sue Monk Kidd (£1.59)
Big Fish - Daniel Wallace (£1.59)
The Binding Chair - Kathryn Harrison (£1.59)
 
You spent actual money on Shanghai Baby? Oh my, I feel sorry for you. The Binding Chair is well worth the money though.
 
Pearl said:
You spent actual money on Shanghai Baby? Oh my, I feel sorry for you. The Binding Chair is well worth the money though.
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I've debated buying it for a while, and was a bit fuzzy-headed today because of a cold and decided just to get it and see. I guess I'll be leaving this for a while until I have nothing else to read then...
 
on a fantasy kick

i don't know how well i did on these, as i'm not that familiar with a lot of the fantasy authors, but they were pretty cheap, so what the heck!

DragonLance Chronicles (Dragons of Autumn Twilight, Dragons of Winter Night, and Dragons of Spring Dawning) by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman

The Sword of Bedwyr by R. A. Salvatore

The Prisoner of The Iron Tower, Children of the Serpent Gate, and Lord of Snow and Shadows by Sarah Ash

Abarat Days of Magic Nights of War by Clive Barker

The Fall of Atlantis by Marion Zimmer Bradley (this is the only author I am familiar with)

let me know if they are duds, so i can return them before its too late!
 
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