Part One was getting a little large -- which means we must be buying a ton of books!!! And who says reading is a dying art???
wooHOO!! I'm on a book-buying
fast this year (trying to get through TBRs) but finally relented ... these came today from Amazon:
The Book Thief -- LT inspired!
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! -- LT inspired!
Confessions of a Closet Catholic -- middle-grade novel about a girl who gives up being Jewish for Lent
Not Quite What I Was Planning -- along the lines of Hemingway's famous six-word story ("For sale: baby shoes, never worn"), this is a compilation of six-word memoirs; the first one from page 1: "After Harvard, had baby with crackhead."
@teelgee
Uhm, I'm HOPING they calculate it based on an average... It's giving me some comfort though that I'm leading a relatively healthy life. Should be able to squeeze some extra books in at the end ;)
Did you leave the bookstore empty-handed, investory?
#2-
The Book Thief was an LT recommendation that I picked up and just fell in love with.
>10: Oh man, I'd go to Bath just to visit that place!
I came home from the local bookstore with four new books.
Two of them are for my mother: her birthday is tomorrow, and I'm not likely to have enough time at lunch to stand on the line at the Borders near work. (This Borders is the one in Madison Square Garden.) There is an outside possibility that she'll read this in the next 24 hours, so I'll keep my trap shut.
The other two books I got were for myself:
Thomas Paine's Common Sense and Other Writings is the first. It fits in quite nicely with my other American history books about the Revolutionary/Founding period, but presents a nice change from the straight history (such as
Washington's Crossing and
1776) and the biographical (
Founding Brothers,
John Adams, and
His Excellency).
The second book I got today is
Brian Greene's The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality. Science, specifically astronomy, is a secondary interest of mine (the primary ones are some of the various history/biography interests). I'll be looking forward to reading this one since I didn't nab
Women Astronomers in this month's Early Review batch.
Edited to add a correction: That should be
this Common Sense and Other Writings.
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I borrowed
Uglies from a friend and really loved it so I picked up
Pretties, the next book in the series. Will probably buy my own copy of
Uglies before the week is over.
I hadn't planned to pick up any novels before reading some of my TBR pile, but I was on vacation and went to a couple bookstores and just couldn't leave without getting something! I picked up a YA historical fictional novel called
Pagan in Exile which I've already read and really enjoyed,
Inkheart and a non-fiction language book, Tracks that Speak by
Charles L. Cutler, which looked interesting and is about the influence of Native American words in North American culture.
I also received the manga I was waiting for in my pile of mail when I arrived home:
Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle Volume 16Fake Volume 3and
Legal Drug Volume 2Had a tough day at work today. Then I came home, pushed open the door and there waiting for me was This Perfect Day by
Ira Levin that I ordered through an Ebay-type website. Indeed it turned out to be a Perfect Day... ^^
>25
I hope I do too, since I accidentally mooched it twice!
Right now I am reading The Soul's Code by James Hilman, which I am finding to be an excellent read. Hillman gives credence to the idea that we all come into the world with a destiny of our own choosing (Appealing to Plato's
Myth of Er) and this destiny has as much to do with our future as chance or environment. It has proven to me to be most enlightening. I don't buy in to all of Hillman's theories, but I do think it comforting to believe that there is
something working aside me and that I am not abandoned to depend upon dogged determination alone. I fail often in this area, but I hope against hope that some of Hillman's ideas are right.
I have also, just started reading
The Reformation by George L. Mosse The book is a part of the older Berkshire Studies in European Studies.
When I get done with these two books, I think I am going to start on
The Heart of Darkness by Joesph Conrad.
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During the daily meeting with my boss, she gave me her copy of
Life of Pi by
Yann Martel. Another book to add to my TBR pile!
#28 sferrando --what a great boss to pass on books to you. Wish my boss read like that--oh well!! I will be interested in your thoughts on
Life of Pi seems like you either love it or hate it.
@29 momom248 ~ my boss also gave me
Anna Karenina which turned out to be amongst my top 5 fave reads of 2007. She's given me some good books and some real stinkers, too! ;-)
@36 shootingstar7 ~ I've got you beat; my TBR pile is at least 341 long + a few more. In my TBR pile there at least 5 different series of books (each series having around 5 in the group) that I only count as one TBR since when I start reading them, I'll read the series as a whole.
I just stumbled on a
Book Crossing book, after spending the last couple of weeks actively searching for a few that were gone by the time I arrived. So I am chuffed!
The Emperor of Scent by
Chandler Burr. Don't know a thing about it, but I don't care! LOL!
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@43 memasmb - we are going to Venice in October. We plan to read
The City of Falling Angels before we go. It sounds like Leon's books would be good too.
AnnaClaire > Gosh, that sounds uncomfortable for him. Must have been a big mailbox!
Unfortunately, this is a residential mailbox in New York City. These aren't usually that large.
littlebookworm -- I read
The Mayor of Casterbridge about a year ago, which sparked my current run on
Thomas Hardy books. And given how much of my reading is
non-fiction, two works of fiction by the same non-Austen author within a year is definately a run.
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Oh I was very bad at Borders w/ my gift card:
Remember Me by
Sophie Kinsella, The Black Book by Orhan Pamuk, Daughter of York by Ann Easter Smith,
The Year of Fog, and lastly
The Last Bungalow. Ok now I'm shut off for awhile--well at least shut off after I buy Jodi Picoults new book next week.
#50
Oooh, I read the first few chapters of
The Last Beach Bungalow in an online book club. Now it is on my wishlist.
Been trying not to buy any books for awhile as my TBR pile takes over my house. But had time to kill today (about an hour) and was by Barnes and Nobles. This is a bad combination. To make a long story short The following came into the house today;
1.
The Honor of the Queen by David Weber (Miliray Sci Fi)
2.
The Black Ship by Dudley Pope (Nautical History)
3.
Ramage by Dudley Pope (nautical fiction)
4.
Shark Island by
Joan Druett (Mystery)
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