Recently Purchased/Borrowed

[mehdirza]

Good choises.

 

[Stewart]

Some review copies:

• The Collected Stories Of, Vernor Vinge
• Cliffs, Olivier Adam
• Envy, Alain Elkann
• The Game Of Cards, Adolf Schröder
• The End Of Sleep, Rowan Somerville

 

[mehdirza]

Some review copies:

• The Collected Stories Of, Vernor Vinge
• Cliffs, Olivier Adam
• Envy, Alain Elkann
• The Game Of Cards, Adolf Schröder
• The End Of Sleep, Rowan Somerville

Who is Alan Elkann?

 

[Stewart]

An Italian journalist, essayist, and novelist. But that's what things like Google are for.

 

[mehdirza]

Thanks a lot. I google things when I am not enough interested in it. It is a principle of mine. And also I love Italianos so I wanted to learn about him from a person who knows him well. I thought that person was you because you finished a book by him.

 

[abecedarian]

Just in from the library:

Sacred Horses: The Memoirs of a Turkmen Cowboy-Jonathan Maslow

The Bastard Of Istanbul-Elif Shafak

Madame Bovary-Gustave Flaubert

Unlocking the Sky-Seth Shulman


These are all interlibrary loans and arrived within days of requesting them; I'm impressed.

 

[mehdirza]

Oh, mine. A person from Kansas reads Elif Shafak's book.

 

[angerball]

Not purchased, but borrowed from the library:

The Memory Keeper's Daughter - Kim Edwards
The Poe Shadow - Matthew Pearl
Saturday - Ian McEwan

 

[Anamnesis]

Invitation to a Beheading by Vladimir Nabokov. I was interested in reading this novel for quite some time, so I was pleased when I found out this was assigned by my 20th Century Lit professor.

 

[Stewart]

I've went on a splurge today:

And I also bought Badenheim 1939, by Aharon Appelfeld.

 

[abecedarian]

I've went on a splurge today:

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And I also bought Badenheim 1939, by Aharon Appelfeld.

I guess!

I see I'll have to read Badenheim 1939...sounds to good to let pass.

 

[Stewart]

Just realised I missed a book out, so have added it and, for symmetry, have put in Badenheim 1939.

 

[Phlebas]

Just arrived from Amazon - so here's my list-
Renegades Magic - Robin Hobb
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
Ghostwriter - Philip Roth
Poe - A Life cut short - Peter Ackroyd
A Mind Alive - Roderick Strange

.. and a bunch of business type stuff that you wouldn't be interested in

 

[silverseason]

Just ordered from Amazon:

A Dance to the Music of Time: First Movement (3 novels) by Anthony Powell

A Dance to the Music of Time: Second Movement (3 novels) by Anthony Powell

Russian Thinkers by Isaiah Berlin

Just received from Bookmooch:

Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

 

[abecedarian]

Adventures in Africa-Gianni Celati

 

[joderu95]

The Beast God Forgot To Invent - Jim Harrison
The Singularity Is Near - Ray Kurzweil

 

[mehdirza]

Rey Kurzweil?

 

[Stewart]

The Awful Mess On The Rua Merulina, Carlo Emilio Gadda

I've been looking at this in book shops for ages but never committing to the sale. Strangely, it's not so much the author or the blurb that sold it, rather the publisher (NYRB) and the translator (William Weaver).

 

[sparkchaser]

The Awful Mess On The Rua Merulina, Carlo Emilio Gadda

I've been looking at this in book shops for ages but never committing to the sale. Strangely, it's not so much the author or the blurb that sold it, rather the publisher (NYRB) and the translator (William Weaver).

Enlighten me, why did the translator contribute to your decision to purchase? Did he do the translations of some other books you enjoyed?

 

[Stewart]

William Weaver is arguably the best Italian to English translator in the world. He has given us translations of Umberto Eco, Italo Calvino, Italo Svevo, yer man above, and more.