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What books came into your home today? - August 2007Join LibraryThing to post. This topic is currently marked as "dormant"—the last message is more than 90 days old. You can revive it by posting a reply. 2Falkin81bEdited: Aug 2, 2007, 6:02am 
Well I got my Amazon-parcel yesterday at last :-) and it contains 19th century classics:
Wilkie Collins: The Moonstone; Man and Wife
Charles Dickens: Bleak House
George Eliot: Middlemarch
4dihibaAug 2, 2007, 7:25am
In the mail I received Hill Towns by Anne Rivers Siddons. I have taken a vow not to borrow any more books or pay more than $1 for a secondhand one until I read 10 in my TBR pile!
"Team of Rivals" by Doris Kerns Goodwin, "Lost Illusions", by Honor de Balzac, and "Water for Elephants," by Sara Gruen. I'm reading all three, doing the two novels at bedtime and the non-fiction during the day. I would switch and do the second fiction during the day, but Team of Rivals weighs about 14 pounds... I can't read it in bed. 7elleveeAug 2, 2007, 10:10am
Mouse Noses On Toast from work. And I'm going to the Strand Annex after work. I am sick, I am miserable, I live with a lunatic, I have no money and no apartment after the first, and I am going to go buy BOOKS, DAMN IT!
I didn't buy any, but I did go to the library. I picked up Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy and I Know This Much Is True by Wally Lamb. I'm holding off on reading them right now; I'm going on vacation this Saturday and I need reading material for the trip! 13SqueakyChuEdited: Aug 2, 2007, 10:15pm
--> 8 and 9 I finished Astonishing Splashes of Colour and liked it very much. I especially liked the way the author portrayed Kitty, the protagonist. Kitty tended to be rather crazy, but it was a lovely and understandable craziness. I hope you like the book too, momom248. A few days ago I bought Troll: A Love Story. It's a book by an author from Finnish Lapland who writes about a gay man who adopts a troll. Now that seems like an unusual story. So far, it's quite a fun read. More later...! 14judylouAug 2, 2007, 11:36pm
I finally received a phone call from the library to say my requests for The road and Middlesex were finally in! So that's my weekend reading.
--> 14 Ooooh! I LOVED The Road. Start with that one, judylou! 16bec012 First MessageAug 3, 2007, 8:53am
A few books I bought on a whim:
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
My Story by Dave Pelzer
Night by Elie Wiesel
All five books received a great deal of critical acclaim so I'm quite excited about reading them all, however, I'm rather unsure as to which book I should begin reading first! Any recommendations?
17SqueakyChuEdited: Aug 3, 2007, 8:58am
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The Life or Pi or Night. Both are equally as good - but in different ways. 18netollAug 3, 2007, 1:48pm
Came home today with:
Of Mice and Men by Steinbeck
The Great Gatsby by Fitzgerald
The Crucible by Miller
(preparing for the new school year)
Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler
Independence Day by Ford
The Stone Diaries by Shields
The Stories of John Cheever
(plan to read all Pulitzer Prize Winners in Literature)
Between, Georgia
(for book club)
27SqueakyChuEdited: Aug 4, 2007, 8:27am
I just recently bought, started, and immediately finished Troll: A Love Story by Johanna Sinisalo. OMG!!! This was a fabulous book! I couldn't stop reading it. If you're not afraid of gay fiction, love the absurd, want to read something hilariously funny, utterly gruesome, and wildly original, THIS IS THE BOOK! Enjoy!
#21 Lamb is hilarious! Now that I'm buying books again, I may buy that one just so I can have it on my bookshelf and reread it whenever I feel the need for a good laugh. It's that good! Enjoy! 32lettp First MessageAug 5, 2007, 4:12pm
I picked up the new Jasper Fforde book, First Among Sequels. Looking forward to reading it
Friday night I bought Hypatia of Alexandria: Mathematician and Martyr by Michael Deakin. I've been anxiously waiting for this to come out, but I wasn't expecting to see it in a physical store. I was sure I'd have to order it, so I was quite pleased to find it just sitting there on the shelf like it was waiting for me.
Sort of like potato chips, you can't stop with just one? Today, I drove to a bookstore in a neighboring city and bought the paperbacks of Books One and Two of The Dresden Files ~ Fool Moon and Grave Peril ~ which I've been unable to find at the library or any of my local bookstores, and almost bought the other books in the series that were in stock as well. Then, on the way to the cash register, I saw the hardcovers of Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell and Killing Critics on the bargain shelves and picked up those too. And this is a woman who has not purchased more than dozen reference books and maybe 10 novels over the past 20 years! I feel soooo free! :)
Casual by Oksana RobskiIt's about the intrigues among the Russian nouveau-super-riche -- $50,000/day shopping sprees, vacations in Courchevel, beautiful villas with warming marble floors, dinners with caviar and Crystal, expensive cars outside, etc. The book is supposed to be very witty in Russian and was wildly popular throughout the country. i'm planning to take a crack at reading it in the original, but doubt i'll get too far (it's been awhile since i've used Russian). 42elleveeAug 6, 2007, 6:02pm
I just got my ARC of The Guardians by Ana Castillo, so that is now at the forefront of my reading list.
Ohmigod, what a haul! I would not know where to start ... but would have lots of fun stacking, rearranging, and admiring that vast quantity of books on my shelves! 49MarianVAug 7, 2007, 11:13am
An almost new trade paperback copy of Time & again by Jack Finney from our local used bookstore. During the summer it's open every day & it was nice to see that it was crowded & busy because the sales are used to fund a local library which is still in the planning stages.
Today I got a first edition hardcover of Salman Rushdie's East, West from a second-hand bookshop. Should be a good read/break from my usual stuff I read, Neil Gaiman this ain't, but since it was a book of short stories, I couldn't resist. The Chekov and Zulu story is pretty good, quite dense and layered compared to what I'm used to. Getting used to the references to India as well.
have a great vacation teelgee!! 66SeajackAug 10, 2007, 5:45pm
via paperbackswap.com: The Queen of Whale Cay: the life of a great American eccentric by Kate Summerscale
It was a slow Saturday for me. I went to the library and picked up The Thirteenth Tale and Malinche. I still have four other library books to catch up on.
This month I have bought: The Friday Night Knitting club by Kate JacobsI knit so I couldn't resist it in the end. At the University bookstore they had a pile of books 50% off and I saw Jane Eyre. I bought it, thought it was time to fix the gap in my classics reading. Strangely I have never 'had' to read this book for English though I feel I've had to read every other classic - including Wide Sargasso Sea The prequel to Jane Eyre by Jean Rhys. My local Borders shop has changed it '3 for 2' book selection again. Of course there were more than 3 that I wanted so I frowned and finally figured out which three I really wanted. After that hard work I realised I didn't need these books and as I'm having my wisdom teeth out soon I should save my money and put the books back - arrgh! 77elleveeAug 12, 2007, 6:00pm
I bought Forever Odd today, because for some reason I couldn't stop thinking about it. This bookstore also failed to have The Eyre Affair or The Brothers K, the two books I am currently lusting over. Cruel world. (wonky touchstones, why you gotta be so wonky?) 78caroline123 First MessageAug 12, 2007, 7:27pm
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This past week I bought High Noon, Merle's Door, and Debating Calvinism.
Today I bought a limited edition hardcover of Neil Gaiman and Charles Vess's Stardust. It looks great.
#2 Falkin:
I have the Moonstone but got distracted and have not finished it yet. The Woman in White is wonderful. I have read it twice and Masterpiece Theater showed A Woman in White in 2002. I am ashamed to say that I have watched it at least a half dozen times. Mansfield Park and Jane Eyre are two of my other worn out dvds. 85StoreetllrEdited: Aug 13, 2007, 11:49pm
Things got a little crazy at the library today. I went to pick up some books I'd put on reserve that all came in at the same time. Turned out there were more than a few ~ there were 10. Then, just for fun, I lugged my burden of books to the popular section to see what had come in since the last time I was there (a few days ago) and guess what was lurking on a shelf in the very back?!? HP and the DH!!! Well, it jumped straight into my arms, almost knocking me down (it is a rather large book), and as I staggered toward the checkout machine, 3 more waylaid me, forcing me to check them out too. I'll tell you, libraries can be dangerous places. Books Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows by JKR Three Novels of Ancient Egypt by Naguib Mahfouz Lean Mean Thirteen by Janet EvanovichThe Cruel Stars of the Night by Kjell ErikssonThe Fall of Rome by Michael Curtis FordDead Beat by Jim ButcherWhite Night by Jim ButcherAudiobooks to load on my iPod: Dark Assassins by Anne PerryNorthanger Abbey by Jane AustenAbsalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner the Woods by Harlan Coben A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway The Sun Also Rises by Hemingway The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar WildeEdited to say: *Bad touchstones! Refusing to load tonight. Think I overloaded the system?* :D
#55
Did you know that Maggie Smith aka Professor McGonagall (Harry Potter)
played Jean Brodie in the movie? I need to read the book and watch the movie
again.
Booksinbed:
We loved Devil in the White City
Today the Southern Living Christmas came in the mail. From Daedalus Books
we received:
The Wreck of the Batavia by Simon Leys
Magnificent Corpses by Anneli Rufus
Finding Atlantis by David King
Ada Blackjack by Jennifer Niven
Frozen Oceans by David N. Thomas
A Thousand Days by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. 90elleveeAug 14, 2007, 10:01am
Finally! Bought The Eyre Affair! The only copy, I might add. I feel validated as a human being. 92CariolaEdited: Aug 14, 2007, 5:40pm
#88 I really enjoyed Saturday. McEwan keeps getting more and more introspective as he ages, and it is showing in his characters. Loved On Chesil Beach as well. 95teelgeeAug 14, 2007, 5:59pm
Seajack - he can come to my house and wash all the dishes he wants in Oregon!
#88 Dihiba ~ have a great vacation!
The Crystal Cave by Mary Stewart
The Hollow Hills by Mary Stewart
The Last Enchantment by Mary Stewart
I loved the Merlin novels by Stewart! Hope you enjoy them too.
dihiba, good thing this Value Village isn't near me in New England--I'd be there quite a bit--sounds like a great.
I haven't spent much time looking at the books at Value Village, but have saved a small fortune on used clothes there! 104melsmarshEdited: Aug 15, 2007, 3:02pm
Aug 15
From bookmooch
Ancient Environments (Prentice Hall Foundations of Earth Science Series)
A surprise from the husband - The Silent Twins by Marjorie Wallace. He said he saw it mentioned somewhere and thought it sounded intriguing. After reading the description on the dust jacket, I have to agree (silent, antisocial twins who develop an elaborate fantasy world and their own "secret" language and signals end up in a psychiatric hospital). I am resisting the urge to put my other books aside to read this one immediately. But it's tempting...so tempting... 106dihibaAug 15, 2007, 7:28pm
Cariola - I teach ESL (high school).
'Fraid I will pass on The Hours - it is one of my all time hated movies!!
My interest in Virginia Woolf - she lived and died near where my mother grew up. In fact, a distant relation married a Dalloway - she probably picked the name from the locals!
I am going to stay away from the Value Villages for at least a week : ).
From Goodwill today:
A Wrinkle in Time - a later edition than what I had when I was growing up, but I'm glad to have it. I just need to get the others.
The Last Battle - the final book in the Narnia series, of which I've not read at all, and also....this is the only one I have so far. haha.
ellevee--I'm chuckling because I too need to stop buying books and my friend has threatened intervention on me many times. Luckily she hasn't been with me at the bookstore--yet.
#108, gracer, Sometimes you can edit touchstones. If the one that appears says (others) after it, you can click on that and see a list of other possibilities, sometimes including the right one. And welcome!
I'm sorely tempted to go back today and buy that book on my own. I don't have a PROBLEM!
##106--Sorry you saw the movie instead of reading the book. Cunningham does an awesome job of mimicking the structure of Mrs. Dalloway in a contemporary setting.
#106 The Hours was one of those books I could not believe was written by a man - it so perfectly captured aspects of being a woman. Then again, I thought the movie was amazingly well-done, and a wonderful look at depression, so there's that.
Ooooh, seitherin ~ I just love the Harry Dresden series!
Yesterday I checked out Sign of the Seahorse (a picture book) from the library and received A Running Start (used paperback) in the mail. But today I actually went to the bookstore and didn't leave with any books. 123teelgeeAug 17, 2007, 10:49pm
>121 chanale: how did you do it??? leave the bookstore without any books??? You must share your secret with us. 124chanaleAug 18, 2007, 12:56am
teelgee - Psst. My secret is having a maxed-out credit card. ;) (My daughter likes to go to the bookstore to play with the trains, so the trip was for her.) 127CariolaEdited: Aug 18, 2007, 2:50am
#120 I've read several of these. I loved Girl with a Pearl Earring--Chevalier hasn't come close in any of her later novels. I am one of the minority who didn't care for Memoirs of a Geisha. To me, it read like an American white guy's fantasy of the life of a geisha. 1984--a classic; can't go wrong there. I really hated House of Sand and Fog. I had no sympathy whatsoever for the main character, Kathy. Most of the time I was reading, I was shouting at her: "Grow up! Stop being a wussy, dependent female! Stop thinking you're some kind of special case!" If she had acted like a responsible adult, none of the bad things that happen would have. I really hate that kind of woman in real life, so it was impossible for me to empathize with her. 129teelgeeAug 18, 2007, 12:03pm
>127 Cariola - I'm not sure we were supposed to empathize with her. I thought the book was more about cultural differences and misunderstandings. She was awful - and was supposed to be, imo.
>129 Yes, I know that Kathy wasn't supposed to be a very likeable character, but it's pretty hard to enjoy a book if you can't empathize at all with the main character. To some extent the book was about cultural differences--but it seemed to me more about a not very bright and very spoiled, self-pitying woman who wanted what she wanted, regardless of anyone else's needs or legal rights. 134keren7Aug 20, 2007, 4:20pm
I too had a problem buying books. My book cases got too crowded, my pockets were empty and sometimes the books were really dissapointing and then I was mad I had wasted my money. So I use www.booksfree.com which some one mentioned on this site. I pay $13 a month for a 4 book membership - meaning I get 4 books at a time. I can buy the books I like for a discount, which could be less (so far its cost me $10 a book for the two books I have bought). They get shipped to you. The best is, I was always having fines at the library and with booksfree, there is no late fee or deadline to return to the book. I probably sound like I work for the site lol - Im just very happy with it - it may be a solution for some people
Sounds like Netflix for books, yes? 136keren7Aug 20, 2007, 6:46pm
teelgee - exactly :) 137ShortrideEdited: Aug 21, 2007, 4:14pm
First bunch of textbooks: Orientalism, by Edward W. SaidThe Agricola and the Germania, by TacitusThe Annals of Imperial Rome, by TacitusFences, by August Wilson1918, by Horton FooteValentine's Day, by Horton FooteThe Origins of Totalitarianism, by Hannah ArendtThe Prince and the Discourses, by Niccolo MachiavelliThe Sonnets and Narrative Poems, by William ShakespeareThe Pocket AristotleGroup Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego, by Sigmund FreudBackstage Handbook, by Paul CarterTheories of Tyranny, by Roger Boesche
Just been to my local bookshop and bought the third book in John Simpsons auto biog Tales from no man's land.Have finished the Constant Gardener really liked the book.
Just picked up at Barnes & Noble: Away by Amy Bloom, On Agate Hill by Lee Smith, Poet of Tolstoy Park by Sonny Brewer and lastly Echo Maker by RIchard Powers. Echo Maker got very mixed reviews--I hope I didn't make a mistake by buying it. It sounded good and won the National Book Award so I figured what the heck. 146Falkin81bEdited: Aug 23, 2007, 6:39am
Well, got my Amazon-Parcel just in this moment with my books for September:
George Eliot: Daniel Deronda
Edith Wharton: The House of Mirth
Wilkie Collins: Miss or Mrs?/The Haunted
Hotel/The Guilty River
Mary Elizabeth
Braddon: Lady Audley's Secret
I'm quite happy, because the next two weeks I'm on vacation and will have plenty of time for reading! :-)
A Ride to Khiva just arrived this morning :-) It's a somewhat comical account of a Victorian Englishman's journey to Central Asia to check out what the Russians are up to, and I'm looking forward to reading it - I seem to like his writing style a lot (though this is only from page 1, so we shall see how it goes...!)
Just arrived by mail this evening... Willard and His Bowling Trophies, a 1975 paperback by Richard Brautigan. Oh, joy! Another Brautigan book for my collection!
Went on a job interview at a non-profit organization today and, as I was leaving, the Executive Director gave me a copy of What Erika Wants by Bruce Clements, a locally well-known author who previously has been a finalist for a National Book Award. This book is about a child and the work this organization does. I could get enthusiastic about this job search if all interviews ended with a gift of a book.
Summer Knight by Jim Butcher, from the Borders on Sunset and Vine, topping off a delightful (though hot & humid) Sunday morning at the Hollywood farmers' market. *sigh* Life doesn't get much better! 161teelgeeAug 27, 2007, 11:54pm
A hand-me-down from my sister (even after all these years, I get her cast-offs!): In the Name of Salome by Julia Alvarez. Looking forward to that read!
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe. I love bookmooch very much :-) 173dihibaSep 1, 2007, 11:02am
Yesterday I borrowed Collapse by Jared Diamond from the library - I've been really wanting to read this book and thought I'd never find it secondhand (it's highly desired on BookMooch). Well, the fates were smiling, I found it this morning at a yard sale for $1! Yea!! Now I have my own copy. I also got The Day the War Ended by Martin Gilbert. 175triciamt First MessageSep 18, 2007, 7:08pm
hi i am new here and was wondering how can or do you buy or swap books , i am looking for cold moon over babylon ,by michael mcdowell , read it once and loved it , thalnks for any help , triciamt |  3,868 members 89,839 messages  AboutThis topic is not marked as primarily about any work, author or other topic. TouchstonesWorks- Solstice by Joyce Carol Oates
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