Recently Purchased/Borrowed

[Mattyj]

A friend just loaned me Sword by Da Chen. I have no idea what it's about and am refraining from looking it up. Hopefully it will be a pleasant surprise.

 

[Peder]

. . . plus another two used:

Alaska by James Michener

Caribbean by James Michener

 

[shadforth]

The Clearing by Tim Gautreaux

 

[Sleepy]

The Sacred Blood by Michael Byrnes.

 

[Robert]

Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes

Thanks Didi_Gogo

 

[Didi_Gogo]

Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes

Thanks Didi_Gogo

hehe... you're welcome. ^_^

I got that book as a present for my 16th birthday.

 

[Mattyj]

Breakfast at Tiffany's - Truman Capote

 

[shadforth]

Wingfoot by Alan Lloyd
The Highest Tide by Jim Lynch

 

[Comeflyaway]

From the library...
The Zookeeper's Wife - Diane Ackerman
Sing Them Home - Stephanie Kallos
The Hour I First Believed - Wally Lamb
A Country Called Home - Kim Barnes

 

[Libra]

From the library...
The Zookeeper's Wife - Diane Ackerman

I ordered this one too,sounds like an interesting story.

 

[saliotthomas]

I ordered this one too,sounds like an interesting story.

Is it a sequel of the time travellers wife?

 

[Libra]

Is it a sequel of the time travellers wife?

Thomas,I had the same thought,alot of books about wifes out there.:lol:

 

[Comeflyaway]

Thomas,I had the same thought,alot of books about wifes out there.:lol:

There's the Senator's Wife, by Sue Miller -- read that last fall

 

[Libra]

There's the Senator's Wife, by Sue Miller -- read that last fall

I will read one wife at a time,I doubt I will get to this one though.Was it good?

 

[Comeflyaway]

I will read one wife at a time,I doubt I will get to this one though.Was it good?

I was pleasantly surprised by it. Sue Miller was unknown to me before then and I felt the need to go look up other books by her after I read it. I can't remember exactly what I might have rated it but I do remember liking it more than I expected to.

 

[abecedarian]

Mayflower-Nathaniel Philbrick

The Forgotten Soldier-Guy Sajer

 

[Fantasy Moon]

Cabal - Clive Barker
When I Fall In Love - Lynn Kurland
Dune - Frank Herbert

Wow, I bought more than one book and the shocking thing is that they are books that I've already read.

 

[dude]

The Reserve - Russell Banks
Revolutionary Road - Richard Yates
A Lesson Before Dying - Ernest Gaines
The Known World - Edward P Jones
Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro
Housekeeping - Marilynne Robinson

 

[Robert]

The Echo Maker by Richard Powers
In Our Time by Ernest Hemingway

 

[shadforth]

Viking by Tim Severin
The Road Back by Erich Maria Remarque