The Sufferings of Young Werther and Don Quixote (the books I should have read ages ago, but never got around to...)
Half Price Books is great
The Sufferings of Young Werther and Don Quixote (the books I should have read ages ago, but never got around to...)
Half Price Books is great
The Practical Geologist? Let me know if its any good.Originally Posted by mness421
"Come away O human child!To the waters of the wild, With a faery hand in hand, For the worlds more full of weeping than you can understand."
W.B.Yeats
"If it looks like a Dwarf and smells like a Dwarf, then it's probably a Dwarf (or a latrine wearing dungarees)"
Artemins Fowl and the Lost Colony by Eoin Colfer
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The Bostonians by Henry James and The Green Mile by Stephen King.
I always buy one serious and one for enjoyment. Almost always read the enjoyment ones first haha.
"Cider house rules" - J Irving
"The world according to Garp" J Irving
Through the darkness of future past
the magician longs to see
one chance out between two worlds
'Fire walk with me.'
Twin Peaks
I stopped by my local used bookshop on Tuesday and came out $60 lighter. Half of that went to a single book: Behind a Mask: The unknown thrillers of Louisa May Alcott. It's a mint condition first edition. Now I'm afraid to read it because the binding is so tight I don't think anyone ever read it before. I also got The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Writers in Residence (a picture book about the homes of American authors) and a jazz piano book I'll use for teaching. So there goes my Christmas cheque that my mom sent me.
The posthumous papers of Pickwick Club
I just bought Tulta ja tuulta on huuto.net (it's like a Finnish ebay). I've been looking for a copy of that book a couple of years already, since it was printed in 1939 and it's pretty much forgotten that it even exists.
Little Lotte thought of everything and nothing. Her hair was golden as the sun's rays and her soul as clear and blue as her eyes.
Gaston Leroux - The Phantom of the Opera
A Year of Reading Proust by Phyllis Rose which goes nicely with my reading of A Remembrance of Things Past:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Year-Reading...0676040&sr=8-2
"The farther he goes the more good it does me. I don’t want philosophies, tracts, dogmas, creeds, ways out, truths, answers, nothing from the bargain basement. He is the most courageous, remorseless writer going and the more he grinds my nose in the sh1t the more I am grateful to him..."
-- Harold Pinter on Samuel Beckett
last book I bought was The Pact, by Jodi Picoult.
but this journey, I believe, will lead me to bottomless seas
The Name of the Rose- Eco
"Come away O human child!To the waters of the wild, With a faery hand in hand, For the worlds more full of weeping than you can understand."
W.B.Yeats
"If it looks like a Dwarf and smells like a Dwarf, then it's probably a Dwarf (or a latrine wearing dungarees)"
Artemins Fowl and the Lost Colony by Eoin Colfer
my poems-please comment Forum Rules
Atonement -- MacEwan
Now I want to buy some new history books......but perhaps I should first get through Road to Reality by Roger Penrose, that's a physics book if you are wondering.
Salvation comes, not because the miracle is illuminated by the rays of Hope, but because it is against the darkness of Despair.
Common Sense by Thomas Paine
"The time has come," the Walrus said,
"To talk of many things:
Of shoes--and ships--and sealing-wax--
Of cabbages--and kings--
And why the sea is boiling hot--
And whether pigs have wings."
The postwoman just delivered my lovely hard-bound bilingual edition of Waitng for Godot: En Attendant Godot :
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Waiting-Godo...741335&sr=1-19
"The farther he goes the more good it does me. I don’t want philosophies, tracts, dogmas, creeds, ways out, truths, answers, nothing from the bargain basement. He is the most courageous, remorseless writer going and the more he grinds my nose in the sh1t the more I am grateful to him..."
-- Harold Pinter on Samuel Beckett
lol...the Waiting for Gadot I have is a sad photocopy used in English class..........I've suddenly realized highschool English teachers are probably one of the largest groups who violates copyright...
Salvation comes, not because the miracle is illuminated by the rays of Hope, but because it is against the darkness of Despair.
I tend to buy or collect in waves, hence:
-I bought V. at this great place called Ophelia's in Fremont (Seattle)
-I have Gilead coming via bookmooch
-I have Water For Elephants and The Raw Shark Texts sitting on the shelf from Christmas
And if that isn't enough:
-I just mooched the 3 Lord of the Rings books because I've never read them
I've got some reading to do...
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