Nu-ILB: What books have you purchased lately?

Sold a bunch and found:

Homer - The Odyssey (tr. George Chapman)
Heinrich Von Kleist - Select Prose (great timing as I was reading a story of his in a compilation and that really stood out) (on Archipelago)

Castle to Castle - Céline. I must not start buying books again.

Well if you're going to buy one thing new, might as well be quality.

The LRB are doing 10% off nights for the next three weds and I am not sure how I'm going to avoid going to one of these.

I say earn pin money for book purchases by selling cigarettes and booze down at the schoolyard. Alternatively, you could sell your surplus books. But not at the schoolyard, they'd never find a buyer there. Maybe try Amazon.

THE TASK OF THE CRITIC: Terry Eagleton in Dialogue

as readable a book as I can imagine.

I, er, stole some old used copies of Dickens's Hard Times, Alice Munro's Something I've Been Meaning to Tell You and Robertson Davies's "Deptford Trilogy" (The Fifth Business, The Manticore and World of Wonders as I was packing up my office today for the end of the semester. Lest anyone think me a hooligan, they had clearly been sitting there unread for years (I'm assuming they belonged to one of the office's prior occupants) and I left behind some books that I don't need anymore, so fair trade, right?

post-christmas round-up:

jack black - you can't win
neil young - on the beach songbook (includes a section of rick griffin art)

i bought a copy of claudia rankine, CITIZEN

i am teaching a class this spring, i might assign it

Sidney Mintz - Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History

Looking forward to this one.

Oh geez bookoutlet got me

Levi - Survival in Auschwitz / The Reawakening (a.k.a. If this is a man / The truce)
Hitchens - The Trial of Henry Kissinger
Apostolos Doxiadis - Logicomix

Dybek - Paper Lantern
Banks - The Sweet Hereafter
Le Guin - The Lathe of Heaven
Gene Wolfe - Sword & Citadel
Felix Gilman - The Half-Made World

merry christmas to me

LEFTIST SHOPPING ALERT

Verso's doing 90% off all e-books.

I have a cart full of things with 'Capital' in the title.

Willing Slaves of Capital
Cultural Capital
A Companion to Marx's Capital
Representing Capital

May check bookoutlet, cautiously (sure). Think I mentioned way upthread had good exp w Abebooks, network of indie sellers: got some rarities for nice prices (signif better than Amazon Dealers, for inst)

Abebooks is owned by Amazon...

Got some of those old Hitchcock anthologies.
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"I am curious (bloody)"!

Stories That Scared Even Me and the original Stories To Stay Awake By (see you've got the sequel there) are often really good too. Helps greatly that Hitch fans' needs for "psychological suspense" touch tasty twisters from various subgenres/genres.
xpost Koogs: evidently it's the good Amazon.

that looks like a great gift

Christmas gifts:

Walter Benjamin, RADIO BENJAMIN - text of his broadcasts

R.F. Foster, VIVID FACES which I have just about finished reading.

E. E. Evans-Pritchard - Witchcraft, Oracles, and Magic Among the Azande
Michael Young - Malinowski's Kiriwina: Fieldwork Photography 1915-1918
Colin Turnbull - The Forest People
Mary Kingsley - Travels in West Africa

Received from my wish list:

The Transformation of the World: A Global History of the Nineteenth Century
by Jürgen Osterhammel

Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
by Bryan Stevenson

Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America
by David Hackett Fischer

I also got Radio Benjamin for Christmas, pf!

Went to the LRB 10% off night, had cheese and wine and got:

Josef Winkler - De Natura Morta

2nd hand:
Rimbaud - Complete (really nice paperbk too)
Hubert Selby - The Room

I found this 1961 hardcover book, published by Hutchison of London, at my local charity bookshop for $4. It looked too interesting to pass up. And yes, it is non-fiction.

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Today I bought a paperback copy of Patti Smith's Just Kids for $3. It seemed to be well-received in the couple of reviews I read, so I am hoping it is well written enough that one doesn't need to be a fanboy of hers or Mapplethorpe's to find enough interest in it.

No fanboy-ism required--Just Kids is a lovely piece of memoir.

Cheap and 2nd hand:

Claudio Magris - Danube
Marquis De Sade - The 120 Days of Sodom & Other Writings
Joseph Roth - Perlefter: The Story of a Bourgeois
Samuel Beckett - Mercier & Camier (nicer edition than the one I have)
Nadezhda Mandesltam - Hope Against Hope and Hope Abandoned (again, nicer edition)
Pushkin - The Captain's Daughter (NYRB classics, found it just after reading a copy I borrowed from the library)

I'd love to hear more about the Mao book!

I am still enmeshed in the toils of the Civil War, circa June 1864, with ~750pp yet to digest. But the Mao book will happen this year, I am fairly certain.

Joseph Roth - Perlefter: The Story of a Bourgeois

Didn't know this was available in English! Must get!

i'm getting antsy, i've been 3 weeks already into a new job now without getting paid, not til the end of the week, and i can already imagine the LIBRARY i will buy

really it will just be a few oxford world's classics, but it will feel like pirate plunder

just picked up a hb facing page translation of leopardi canti and my own copy of the changing light at sandover for a £13.

Sold a bunch for:

The Arabian Nights (yes - the Husain Haddawy ed.!! that I have so read and love)
Halldor Laxness - Independent People

Then yesterday a selection of Lowell's poetry (selected by M. Hofmann) and Buchner's Complete Plays, Lenz Other Writings on Penguin. I have a version of these which is more focused on the plays (the paras in Lenz are broken up which is not on, considering this is where German prose begins)

bought some books:

george grosz - ecce homo
john barnicoat - a concise history of posters
alasdair gray - the fall of kelvin walker: a fable of the sixties
paul goodman - don juan or, the continuum of the libido
cecil parrott - the bad bohemian: a life of jaroslav hasek
nicholas hewitt - the life of celine: a critical biography

as it happens the bookshop owner i got the celine bio at showed me an edition of celine's letters he's just published (only available in australasia due to copyright issues, apparently). looks interesting, but expensive.

10% off @ lrb shop night:

Marlen Haushofer - The Wall
Maurice Blachot - The One Who Is Standing Apart from Me

no lime - is it this?

http://www.brooklynrail.org/2014/09/fiction/the-selected-correspondence-of-louis-ferdinand-cline

Got a few things.

Katherine Mansfield - Selected Stories
Bruno Schulz - Street of Crocodiles
Janet Carsten - After Kinship
Confucius - The Analects
Mencius

Bought a paper copies of a couple of the Greek texts that Geoffrey Steadman has been producing - Iliad 6 + 20 and Plato's Crito. I'd downloaded a lot of the free pdf versions & they're pretty much exactly what I need to push my Greek a bit.

Cambridge History of Renaissance Philosophy. Kept getting it out of the library, so thought my own copy would be good.

Little pile of Renaissance stuff - the Courtier, Elyot's Governour, the Penguin anthology of English Renaissance Lit Crit.

xposts: yep, only had a quick look at it (quite a thin volume), but thinking about going and picking a copy up sometime i have some extra $.

publisher here: https://kilmogpress.wordpress.com/2015/02/12/selected-correspondence-of-louis-ferdinand-celine-ed-trans-mitchell-abidor-2015/

This colleciton of Serge's anarchist writings by the same translator also looks great.

Le Guin, The Compass Rose, and Threshold. They also had the winds twelve quarters vol 2 but I already have two of those thanks to some idiot online seller, still looking for vol 1.

Rilke - Selected, trans. by Stephen Mitchell. It looks so good as a paperback. I find that I am often buying for the content as much as by how good the book looks..

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Saramago - The Death of Ricardo Reis. Read it before, total classic, glad to have my own copy.

xp just ordered vol 1, hope it doesn't transmute en route to vol 2 like last time. Also ordered sebald's the rings of saturn. Decided against getting Asimov's version too.

Bought a few SF paperbacks today

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Also saw a happy looking bookcat

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Turns out I have an earlier Panther paperback of the Spinrad; I also have a copy of The Rats, but not in that classic NEL edition.

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tom mccarthy - c

was looking for remainder but neither my school library nor any local new or used bookstores had it. i just bought a new e-reader so i'll prob just download it. i've heard this one's not as good but no ilx rec'd author has lead me astray so far

it's been a shitty semester for reading for me. got halfway through a couple novels and lost momentum, read half of that anonymous book but completely hated the way it was written. i'll probably finish it and make an ilx post complaining about it at some point. i'm rereading piketty right now in a book club with some classmates. we're giving it the full treatment, going through the online appendix & playing around with the top incomes database. easily the best economics book ever written.

trying not to feel too bad about not reading. i'm rocking ass at school and slowly cutting down on internet use. my girlfriend insists we watch films or netflix every night, and i've basically been living at her place, so my before-bed reading is basically nonexistent, but at least it's being substituted by other good things and not just staying up needlessly late on the internet.

it's gonna be a good summer though. i'll be working purely on research and my data is in a restricted access room in the basement of the library only open 5 hours per day, so i'll have plenty of time to read. my plan is to read pynchon and a bunch of sci-fi. i wanna read robertson davies while i still live in kingston. i quit smoking weed so i expect that'll help.

I do love those panther (etc) sci fi books. Found a copy of rendezvous with rama in chiswick yesterday. Cover wasn't exceptional like those though.

This week I have been mainly buying penguin classics versions of Dickens's books - chuzzlewit, nicholby, rudge and hard times. Few more to go but the pile is already over a foot tall.

(RwR was actually a Pan copy, cover mainly text)

Spinrad's reviews in Asimov's Magazine (later collected, I think) led to me to some really good books, and fearlessly ripped into bad ones, even by Science Fiction gas giants, then went way over the top vs. Le Guin, and I got off the bus before trying his own novels. But I'll check 'em out if I come across affordables (they're long gone from the local library).
Library shop has several by Ha Jin; should I get them?

Bug Jack Barron is one of the few SF novels I can think of that has been at the centre of a moral panic, in the uk at least.

What happened?