Nu-ILB: What books have you purchased lately?

oh huh when i was in the blackwells it was only 30%. got the penguin modern classics celan. did they have much philosophy left?

and will they be still be there on sunday when i am next in london

Yeah, philosophy was ok – the routledge & verso display seemed pretty full, so there's that, and philosophy itself wasn't anything like picked clean – a fair bit of secondary and some canonical-primary stuff (blue Cambridge Kant paperbacks, for instance).

Poetry and lit crit was disappointing, but I might pick up some Arden 3rd series if I can get back tonight.

I took the following from the Lewisham Way book phonebooth scheme:

Lewis Mumford - The City in History
Gary Indiana - Three Month Fever: The Andrew Cunanan Story

Anyone read either?

long time ILMer, first time ILBer, with a question for the stoners out there. Is it a thing when high to order books online at such a rate that you'll never catch up? i couldn't believe it when a fellow pot head was like, oh yeah, that's a definite thing

you don't have to be high

Lots of art books, in particular, in the last couple of days.

The Book Of Miracles*
Fritz Kahn*
The Nuremberg Chronicle*
Architecture Now 9*
Green Architecture Now*
Heavenly Bodies ~ Paul Koudounaris
World Film Locations: Moscow
Art Nouveau*
Vienna: Art & Architecture
Rookie: Yearbook Two
Aquatopia: The Imaginary Of The Ocean Deep
An Encyclopaedia Of Myself ~ Jonathan Meades
Wholeness And The Implicate Order ~ David Bohm
The Occult Philosophy In The Elizabethan Age ~ Frances Yates
Folk Devils and Moral Panics ~ Stanley Cohen
British Folk Tales and Legends ~ Katharine Briggs
Aztecs ~ Inga Clendinnen
Anthony Burgess ~ Complete Enderby
Anthony Burgess ~ A Dead Man In Deptford
I Was Jack Mortimer ~ Alexander Lernet~Holenia
The Other ~ Thomas Tryon (NYRB)
Russian Criminal Tattoos vol.3 ~ Danzig Baldaev

*Taschen

Likely to have forgotten a few.

Patrick O'Brian - Master and Commander (on this now - it's great so far)
Christina Stead - Letty Fox: Her Luck
Helen Vendler - Dickinson
Northrop Frye - Anatomy of Criticism

I was mainly out looking for something on Japanese art, but couldn't find anything I wanted. :/

Sold a bunch for:

D.H. Lawrence - The Princess and Other Stories/This Mortal Coil and other Stories
Salvatore Quasimodo - Selected Poems (Penguin Modern European poets)

50% off @ Blackwells:

Malaparte - The Skin
Miklos Szentkuthy - Marginalia on Casanova

I was looking for The Skin. You must have beaten me to it.

There were two copies of it yesterday.

Went back and found the last one today, thanks.

four nyrb classics I could probably remember if I tried, 'passing', and the new Ben Marcus, which I have little hope for and would not have bought had it not matched my copy of the flame alphabet , which itself i dislike

you don't have to be high

so true

Seconded

trying not to buy books at moment through a mixture of having more than enough to read and space.

but bought Gold by Blaise Cendras and Les Enfants Terribles by Cocteau from good 2nd hand shop in Brixton.

they have cheap copies of LET in, of all places, Westfields HMV at the moment.

M.H. Abrams - The Correspondent Breeze: Essays on English Romanticism

Flann O'Brien - The Third Policeman (need to re-read this)
Manley Hopkins - Selected Poems

graham harman's towards speculative realism just showed up along with a surge protector

Sold another load:

Thomas Hardy - Selected Poetry
Virginia Woolf - Mrs. Dalloway (about time I had my own copy)
Leskov - Selected Tales
Henry Green - Pack my Bag

and a can of coke

i bought a book!!!

the first i have bought in months

one-volume edition of henri lefebvre's 'critique of everyday life'

my life is so much more full of possibility with a new book next to me

i've seen that (online). might get it eventually

I picked up a Loeb Classical Library hardcover copy of Cicero's Orations, volume III, today for fifty cents. It is decent condition, too. Just a bit of water spotting on the spine. I made a pact with myself long ago that I will buy any Loeb edition I find for $3 or less, regardless of title or condition.

LRB 10% off night:

Qiu Miaojin - Last Words from Montmarte
Victor Serge - Conquered City

I spent $11 on these five books today:

The Buccaneers of America, Alexander Exquemelin, used Penguin Classics paperback in good condition, $2.

Lady With Lapdog and Other Stories, Anton Chekhov, used Penguin Classics paperback in good condition, $2.

The Book of the Courtier, Baldesar Castiglione, used Penguin Classics paperback in good condition, $3.

Three Tales, Gustave Flaubert, used Penguin Classics paperback in good condition, $1.

Collected Stories, 1891-1910, Edith Wharton, used Library of America hardcover in very good condition, $3.

Short stories just don't command very high prices these days, I guess.

Three Tales might be my favorite Flaubert. Or at least the middle one.

Copendium the anthology of Julian Cope reviews. I read a lot of them as album of the months at his site.
Chickenhawk the book about a vietnam helicopter pilot that I started 24 years ago but had nicked at the time. Cheap find in a 2nd hand bookshop.
A book on Mexican cooking. Really must use some of these recipe books and learn to cook.
Flashback! #5 great psych-prog booksize tome.
Need to get
David Stubbs' Future Days krautrock book,
The Victorian Tailor on Victorian Tailoring
and Claire Shaeffer's book on Fabric

Connie Willis - Passage, Doomsday Book, To Say Nothing of the Dog
Jerome K. Jerome - Three Men in a Boat/Three Men on the Bummel
E. M. Forster - Hardcover omnibus feat. A Room With A View, Howard's End, and Maurice; $2 from a public library book sale

graham harman's prince of networks, last night

The texts for my Fall grad course ("Death and the Victorians"):

Anne Bronte, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist
George Gissing, The Nether World
H. Rider Haggard, She
Bram Stoker, Dracula

(Wuthering Heights is in there too, but I already own that one.)

Did a bit of recreational book shopping today and brought home:

Emma, Jane Austen. Fifty cents. Haven't read any Austen since college. I probably should revisit her.

My Brilliant Career, Miles Franklin. $3. I have not seen the movie made of this, so the book has not been spoiled for me. I hope it is good.

Confessions of an English Opium Eater, Thomas de Quincy. I read this about five years ago, so I may not hang onto it, but I saw one of the Oxford World Classics pocket-sized hard cover copies for $2 and had to bring it home.

Joyce - Ulysses. Probably dumb, needed to get an annotated ed, but I think I'll scribble crap in the margins etc. Its an old ed., with an essay by Ellmann.

Buchner - The Complete Plays. A real, real fkn find. All the plays w/Lenz, a bunch of letters, a lecture "On Cranial Nerves" + intro and annotations. Can't wait to read this.

Doris Lessing - The Golden Notebook. Forgot that one!

xpost http://www.amazon.com/Ulysses-Annotated-Notes-James-Joyces/dp/0520253973/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1409263695&sr=8-3&keywords=ulysses+joyce

This is a great companion to Ulysses if you don't have an annotated edition of the novel -- I've actually managed to plod through about half the novel thanks to this companion, after trying and failing several times to read it unaided. I managed to find a used version, it's great.

Only downside is having to lug around TWO huge tomes rather than just the one. It's basically a stay-put kind of undertaking, lol

Did he do that for Finnegan's Wake? Or do I have to rely on Joseph Campbell's A Skeleton Key To it??

Thanks, my local has the Oxford classics ed. of the '22 text. If I see the guide when on any browses through the 2nd hand racks over here I'll be tempted.

I read it once unaided, don't know how I finished it but if I have any one quality as a book reader is that I can keep turning pages.

I'll also be highlighting, there is a marked up version in progress. xp

So the Oxford classics is heavily annotated - already had a look and have to say the extent to which it is so probably isn't necessary, that's why I'm thinking of scribbling bits and pieces in the margins in this cheap 2nd hand one. I'll read 2-3 chapters at the time.

Miroslav Holub (vol. in the Penguin Modern European Poets ed.)
Frank Wedekind - The Lulu Plays & other Sex Tragedies

Sold a few for:

Kafka - The Castle tr. J Underwood
Beckett - Mercier and Camier.

D.H. Lawrence - Selected Poetry
Four Greek Poets (vol. in the Penguin Modern European Poets ed.)
Kafka - The Diaries (read it but needed my own copy)

I like Holub. Recently bought the expanded Poems, Before and After myself, along with a Szymborska selected and um something by Enzensberger (probably the Penguin MEP, it's in the post) and something else by Zbigniew Herbert. Just hit a euro-poetry mood.

Holub was good, but I don't know - found myself thinking his verse is too free.

I saw Herbert's Complete Poems and also a collection of Umberto Saba's stuff at Judd btw. Really need to control myself, breathe and get round to it slowly.

ikwym, he can feel a bit loose or thin or something - like it's an idea rather than a poem.

I've seen a couple of things that have been uncertain about that Herbert, & think the trans is a step down from the older ones. I haven't really looked at it – I've only read the Carpenters' versions.

I went to see Holub read, once. He gave every impression of being a delightful fellow, and finding his handsome slim Penguin Modern European Poets volume in a manky little bookshop in Sidmouth in the mid '80s got me started on collecting that series.

"Augustus," John Williams
"The Peregrine," J.A. Baker
"Gilead," Marilynne Robinson
"The Complete Poems of Cavafy," C.P. Cavafy
"The Complete Short Novels," D.H. Lawrence
"The Art of Worldly Wisdom," Baltasar Gracian
"Inner Voices: Selected Poems," Richard Howard
"A Time to Keep Silence," Patrick Leigh Fermor
"Light and Shade: New and Selected Poems," Tom Clark
"The Notebook, The Proof, The Third Lie," Agota Kristof
"Night Games: And Other Stories and Novellas," Arthur Schnitzler

The intro iirc had a few arguments with what Holub said/the attitudes, i.e. that reading poems should be as normal an activity as reading the paper or going to a football match, which is fine and yet if you said so out randomly..

The series seems highly regarded as translations. I saw a piece on Ungaretti which said that the versions by Patrick Creagh seemed superior (and I've got that on order at my library). Penguin should try and re-issue the series but er, you couldn't 'monetize' it. xp

Michael Jackson's Dangerous, Susan Fast (33 1/3)
Burning Daylight, Christine Fellows (poetry collection/new album combo)

"A Time to Keep Silence," Patrick Leigh Fermor

― cakelou, Tuesday, October 7, 2014 11:41 AM"

I read this recently, its excellent.

Collected Poems, Dorothy Parker, used paperback, fifty cents.
Cool, Calm & Collected: Collected Poems, Carolyn Kizer, ex-lib hardcover, fifty cents.

Veena Das - Life and Words: Violence and the Descent into the Ordinary
Nancy Scheper-Hughes - Death Without Weeping: The Violence of Everyday Life in Brazil

I'm excited about the Scheper-Hughes. The anthology excerpt I've read is some haunting writing.