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| What did YOU buy today? : Message Board #2 | | 188 | karen5l, June 29 |
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I loved Gentle Madness! have you read Every Book Its Reader? That one is another of my favorites. My first package from bookcloseouts--
Every book its Reader by Basbanes
Through a Glass, Darkly by Donna Leon
A Bigamist`s Daughter by Alice McDermott I have enjoyed her Irish stories!
You all are a bad influence for one with TOO large a MTR. Ha! Actually, how could anyone ... Following the example of many of you, I found Book Closeouts and will soon have MORE books....Every Book its Reader by (who else?) Basbanes------Through a Glass, Darkly by Donna Leon----- and A Bigamist`s Daughter by Alice McDermott. I need another room, too! ... that's usually how it works out comfortably and enjoyably for me.
At times, I do suffer from uber-reader envy. In Every Book Its Reader, Basbanes describes Harold Bloom's reading ability. He can sustain a reading pace of a thousand pages per hour, that's a little more than fifteen ... From Bookmooch Every Book Its Reader. From Amazon Dolphins Under My Bed a recommendation from LT readers, bought as a birthday gift for my boss who wants to retire to spend her days diving and hanging out with dolphins and sea turtles. ... something different.
I've got 4 books by Nicholas A. Basbanes -- A Splendor of Letters, Among the Gently Mad, Every Book Its Reader and Patience & Fortitude -- all of them gems in their own way.
That's a decent start, at least. I can't list all the books I'd recommend, but ... ... Got in the books I ordered from BookCloseouts.com for my birthday: The Children's Blizzard by David Laskin, Every Book Its Reader by Nicholas Basbanes (whose books I love!), What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew by Daniel Pool, Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns ... ... guide : 1,000 top albums of all time by Betsy Andrews
VideoHound's guide to three- and four-star movies, 1997
Every book its reader : the power of the printed word to stir the world by Nicholas A. Basbanes
The joy of books : confessions of a lifelong reader by Eric Burns
... ... a list. Here's this year's.
Boone: A Biography by Robert Morgan
Classics for Pleasure by Michael Dirda
Every Book Its Reader: The Power of the Printed Word to Stir the World by Nicholas A. Basbanes
The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop: A Memoir, A History by Lewis Buzbee
... ... Drinker Bowen - Nonfiction
The Savage Garden by Mark Mills
An Unequal Music by Vikram Seth
Every Book Its Reader by Nicholas Basbanes - Nonfiction
A plague on touchstones!! ... book Touchstone)
Chasing the Sun : Dictionary makers and the dictionaries they made by Jonathon Green
Every Book Its Reader : The Power of the Printed Word to Stir the World by Nicholas A. Basbanes
Gutenberg by John Man
(Incorrect book Touchstone)
The Ha ... Today I bought . . .
A Gentle Madness: Bibliophiles, Bibliomanes, and the Eternal Passion for Books
Every Book Its Reader: The Power of the Printed Word to Stir the World
Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading: Finding and Losing Myself in Books
These will be the last books I buy for a couple ... I finished Every Book its Reader yesterday morning, read Murder On Monday in the afternoon and started The Man Who Was Thursday last night. Murder on Monday was okay but I had trouble sticking with it as it felt really slow. Thursday has been good so far and I'm looking forward to finishing ...
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