Recently Purchased/Borrowed

[Fantasy Moon]

From the library:
The Chronicles of Chrestomanci volumes 1 & 2 by Diana Wynne Jones

 

[Peder]

Stein on Writing - Sol Stein

From the first page:

The correct intention of writing ... is to provide the reader wiith an experience that is superior to the experiences the reader encounters in everyday life.​

 

[shadforth]

The Scarlet Lion by Elizabeth Chadwick
The Ninth Life Of Louis Drax by Liz Jensen
Ian Dury: The Definitive Biography by Will Birch
Angel's Rest by Charles Davis

 

[Fantasy Moon]

20th Century Ghosts, by Joe Hill
Nancy Drew Mysteries by Carolyn Keene
- The Clue in the Jewel Box
- The Mystery at Lilac Inn
- The Scarlet Slipper Mystery

 

[shadforth]

The Wild Road by Gabriel King
Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane

 

[abecedarian]

The War of the Flowers-Tad Williams (Birthday gift)

 

[shadforth]

Always The Sun by Neil Cross
Border Songs by Jim Lynch

 

[NotTheDoctor]

My latest amazon purchase arrived today!

Invisible, Paul Auster
The Shaking Woman, Siri Hustvedt
Horns, Joe Hill
Dispatches from the Edge, Anderson Cooper

 

[Fantasy Moon]

The Histories of Middle Earth volume 1-5, by J.R.R. Tolkien

*flails* ^_^

 

[Peder]

The Jukes by R. L. Dugdale

An infamous out-of-print old book that finally appeared from a watch list of mine after a years-long wait.

 

[pontalba]

Two by Robert B. Parker, found on sale for .75 cents each at a local library...
Hundred-Dollar Baby
Now & Then

Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
Tamar by Mal Peet
The Good Terrorist by Doris Lessing

 

[Peder]

Finding Lost, the Unofficial Guide by Nickki Stafford.

Seasons 1-3 so far, from my BB to feed my belated addiction to the series.

 

[dude]

Nineteen Minutes - Jodi Piccoult
The Age of Innocence - Edith Wharton
The Paperboy - Pete Dexter
The Cold Six Thousand - James Elroy
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil - John Berendt
A Son of the Circus - John Irving

 

[Peder]

Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem. For the TBR pile.

 

[Robert]

Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison

 

[Peder]

The King's English - Betsy Burton
The First Man - Albert Camus
The Ordeal of Richard Feverel - George Meredith
Elizabeth Costello - J. M. Coetzee
Perfume - Patrick Susskind
Night - Elie Wiesel
Relativity - Albert Einstein
Hidden Codes and Grand Designs - Pierre Berloquin

 

[Fantasy Moon]

From the library:
The Kansas Lawman's Proposal - Carol Finch
Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter - Seth Grahame-Smith
Silver Phoenix - Cindy Pon

 

[shadforth]

Ordered Candleland by Martyn Waites & bought a near mint edition hardback of Pat Barker's Regeneration Trilogy omnibus from Barnados after handing over same books in paperback.

 

[Peder]

More, from a couple of recent expeditions:

Renascence and Other Poems - Edna St. Vincent Millay
The Waste Land and Other Poems - T. S. Eliot
My Name is Sei Shonagon - Jan Blensdorf
The Grass Harp - Truman Capote
Pinocchio in Venice - Robert Coover
The Death and Life of Miguel de Cervantes - Stephen Marlowe
Treason in the Blood - Anthony Cave Brown
Broca's Brain - Carl Sagan
The Italian Secretary - Cale Carr
Rob Roy - Sir Walter Scott
The Magic Mountain - Thomas Mann
A Shooting Star - Wallace Stegner
Dark Eagle - John Ensor Scott
Son of Holmes - John Lescroart
The Wall of the Sky, the Wall of the Eye - Jonathan Lethem
The Hero with a Thousand Faces - Joseph Campbell

Seems like time to assemble the bookcase that has been sitting packed in a box here in the hall. :whistling:

 

[pontalba]

The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
Kiss Me Again Stranger [eight stories] by Daphne du Maurier
No Good Deed by Manda Scott
The History of Love by Nicole Krauss
The Given Day by Dennis Lehane
You, The Owners Manual by Michael F. Roizen, M.D & Mehmet C. Oz, M.D.