Nu-ILB: What books have you purchased lately?

Finally got around to ordering Under The Hoodoo Moon the Dr John memoir so it will appear in a few days. Been meaning to order that for ages.

Got a Doc Pomus biography and the Lester Bangs book on Blondie waiting for me to pick them up from local 2nd hand bookshop probably this Thursday.

ha so I'm out today and I see the other bookseller, who's not there as often, and lo and behold three novels by Elizabeth Taylor! I took it as a sign & bought them all

Very nearly said to the guy "you know the night before last I dreamt that I bought a book by Elizabeth Taylor at the market" but then I realised that the only reason it was even half worth mentioning was the coincidence with this thread and even then it is the most boring "story" in the world

It's not a properly boring Elizabeth Taylor conversation unless the star of Cleopatra has also been mentioned.

ann quin - berg (og cb pb)
anna kavan - julia and the bazooka
giorgio de chirico - hebdomeros: a novel

Please let us know what the De Chirico is like, always wondered about his fiction (having been spooked by the heyday of his art at an early age, mine I mean).
Bangs on Blondie=coffee table book and hatchet job in one, unique in my reading experience.

Yeah, realy getting into this Bangs Blondie. Seems really odd as a mass market pop tome.

xpost: will do... had been looking for a copy of hebdomeros since my mid-teens based on the mention it gets in one of aldiss' sf histories (seem to recall his opinion of it was rather negative!)

I bought a couple of $1 used trade paperbacks today, just to put on my shelf and have handy in the unlikely event I want something to read that exactly aligns with them. That may take a while, considering the 40 or so other books just waiting for the same alignment to occur.

The Tale of Genji, Lady Murasaki, translator Seidenstecker, abridged version (~360 pp.)
Cathedral, Raymond Carver, a short story collection.

I have had the massive unabridged Genji for so long. No idea if/when I will ever read it. So many pages, such tiny type.
I do have this beautiful book which summarises each chapter with wonderful papercut illustrations, though.
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Mysteries Knut Hamsun Seems to be the next thing he wrote after hunger which i finally got to read earlier thsi year.
I hadn't heard about it before finding it in a local 2nd hand bookshop which I happened to be in last week cos my companion hadn't been in there before. & we were down for a local Xmas lights going on & street party.
Haven't started it yet but hope it is as good as Hunger.

also bought
Antonin Artaud Selected Writings edited by Susan Sontag.
I need to read more of him . I read The Theatre and Its Double 30 something years ago when I was in New York.

& the day before
Wordgloss by Jim O'Donnell
which a friedn I bumped into in the main 2nd hand /remainder bookshop in town pointe dout as worth looking at. Not really had a chance so far. But looks interesting.

Classic Album Covers of teh 60s by Storm Thorgerson.
NIce reproductins of some classic lp sleeves, a lotof tehm psychedelic. Put together with some prose by Hipgnosis designer.
Nice little product.

xmas presents:

Joao Gilberto Noll - Atlantic Hotel
Jane Austen - Emma

1st hand (for me):

Wolfgang Hilbig - Old Rendering Plant

2nd hand:

Yukio Mishima - Runaway Horses (read the complete Tetralogy but this is in the Tuttle ed. hence v nice)
J H Prynne - Poems (600 pages of his crazy-ass shit for 2.99)
William Carlos Williams - A Voyage to Pagany
J.K.Huysmans - Drifting
Antonio Tabucchi - Indian Nocturne

That is a fine haul. Really liked old rendering plant.

Its really beautiful - saving me in this totally fucking shit of a day.

Last batch for 2017:

1st hand (one more xmas present for myself): Franz Fuhmann - At the Burning Abyss: Experiencing the Georg Trakl Poem

2nd hand:

Rilke - Rodin and Other Prose Pieces (great score, read these years ago)
The Letters of Abelard and Heloise

More isabel fargo cole? Good one. Just finshed her translation of the vry enjoyable Gaslight, by Joachim Kalka

rené daumal & co - theory of the great game: writings from le grand jeu

James - yes, more Isabel Fargo Cole. She is doing two more books by Wolfgang Hilbig next year can't wait.

Ok, so here is the last actual batch for 2017 (there are no more bookshops open in this timezone):

Anne Carson - The Beauty of the Husband
Natalia Ginzburg - The Little Virtues
Edmond and Jules de Goncourt - Pages from the Goncourt Journals (read it a couple of years and its great to finally have scored my own copy of this in the racks!!)
B.K.S. Iyengar - Light on Yoga

Gifts:

Anthony Powell - Venusberg
Anthony Powell - Afternoon Men
Silva, Mira and Shyam Mehta - The Iyengar Way

I spent some Christmas money on a final haul:

Marcel Proust - Le Temps retrouvé
Simon Schama - Rembrandt's Eyes
Alex Danchev - Cézanne: A Life
Robert Hughes - American Visions: The Epic History of Art in America

I decided not to buy any books last year so now that 2018 is here I went hunting at the local used book store:

The Door, Magda Szabó
Guys & Dolls And Other Stories, Damon Runyon
Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons
The Man Who Was Thursday, G.K. Chesterton (I'd read this already , but it has one of those Boy's Own style covers Penguin did some years back. Since I decided to keep Greemantle purely for that (despite finding it a vile book), I figure I might as well collect them.

Online:
Pal Joey, John O'Hara
Italian Crime Filmography, 1968-1980, Roberto Curti

runyon is terrific

For the second time recently i have bought a book only to find out i already own it translated under a different title

Oxfam haul: An illustrated collection of MR James stories wiv academic introduction, Penelope Fitzgerald's book of essays A house of air for a quid (!), and Irvin Yalom's new autobiography.

(MR James purchased after namedrops on the Lanchester thread.)

The Penguin Book Of The British Short Story: From Daniel DeFoe to John Buchan (enjoyed the curation of the second volume so I'll try the first)
The Power, Naomi Aldermann
Jeeves In The Offing, P.G. Wodehouse
The Haunting Of Hill House, Shirley Jackson
Go Tell It On The Mountain, James Baldwin

Today:

The Dud Avocado, Elaine Dundy, in a used NYRB trade paperback, good condition, $2.
Around the World in Seventy-Two Days and Other Writings, Nellie Bly, used Penguin paperback, good condition, $4.

Apparently Dundy hates that NYRB cover because of bum

aargh, 2018:

Robert Burton - Anatomy of Melancholy (yes I will read substantial chunks this year, promise)
Raduan Nassar - A Cup of Rage (need my own copy of this classic novella)
Eduardo Cozarinsky - The Bride from Odessa (he is a terrific director, no idea what this might be like)
Louise Labe - Love Sonnets & Elegies (punch-to-the-gut Renaissance-era poetry lads, translated by Richard Sieburth)

The Cozarinsky was good but not great, from memory. Loved Labe, including the possibility she may not even have existed.

Thanks re: Cozarinsky - I think I've got into this annoying habit of getting a short novel for a quid, stuff that is merely 'good', just because its there. All of a sudden there are ten of these about. Do need to stop before its too late.

The Labe is really beautiful. Possibly the best volume from the NYRB poets series.

The Harvey Kubernick book on the Monterey pop festival
& I Always Kept A Unicorn the Sandy Denny biography
both were considerably reduced in Chapters in Dublin when i went over to go to a Frederick William Burton exhibition last weekend.

Also an encyclopaedia of herbs and spices cos it was cheap in a charity shop.

A like-new copy of Stanley Cavell's Pursuits of Happiness for $2 from a library sale. My old one has a huge coffee stain.

that's just proof of studiousness

Final gift card purchase:

Antonio Di Benedetto - Nest in the Bones

Sold a bunch for:

Roots of Yoga (Penguin compilation of several yogic texts)
Philip K Dick - We Can Remember it for you Wholesale

Latest 2nd hand finds:

Roberto Bolano - The Insufferable Gaucho
Cesare Pavese - Devil in the Hills
Cesare Pavese - Among Women Only (replacing a tired looking copy)
Samuek Beckett - Trilogy

The Voice That Is Great Within Us: American Poetry of the Twentieth Century, edited by Hayden Carruth. It looks like they just photocopied the 1983 edition instead of resetting it. Too bad, because it seems to be a really useful book.

― Under Heaviside Manners (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, July 23, 2017 1:00 PM (six months ago)

1st hand (going to try and buy less 2nd hand books by buying 1st hand books, things that are actually on my list):

Carlo Emilio Gadda - The Experience of Pain

Gifted:

Gillian Rose - Love's Work

Anhiliation, Jeff VanderMeer
David Copperfield, Dickens
Passing, Nella Larsen
Perfecting Sound Forever: The Story Of Recorded Music, Greg Milner

Also ordered James Baldwin's If Beale Street Could Talk

Small Town Talk Barney Hoskyns the Woodstock history town that begat the festival which wound up being held elsewhere. BUt had been an artistic colony for years before taht which I think is why Dylan among others moved up there.

The complete Guide to Tartan since I have used the pattern in a number fo pairs of trousers, wanted to know more about it.

Patternalia Jude Stewart book on various design patterns. I read the excerpt on Paisley sometime last year and mean to pick up the book from Amazon, found it in Chapters in Dublin so bought it alongside the above 2.

Rhythm & The Tide Liverpool, The Las and Ever After Mike Badger and Tim peacock. Memoir of Mike badger about the post-punk Liverpool.
scene

Xi an, Shaanxi and teh terracotta Army bought this cos it shareda name with my current favourite takeaway and cost €1 as did the one above.

Traditional Chinese Medicine Dr Duo Gao same price, same purchase as above 2. Tower selling off various things. Thought it might be interesting. Hope I get around to reading it.

Raising Hell on the Rock'n'Roll Highway Tom Wright & Susan vanhecke
photobook and memoir of photographer who covered teh Who in the late 60s, faces in the early 70s and has some interesting other shots in. Drummer fo Third power from Detroit for some reason.
4th €1 book from Tower.

The House That Jack built. Hal jackson with james Hoskins
memoir of black dj 7 media figure which was also pretty cheap in Tower.

Stephen King - Skeleton Crew
Joy Kogawa - Obasan

The former is mostly a nostalgia purchase, as it is the mid-80s paperback edition (the one with the monkey with cymbals on the cover) that I remember my mom owning at the time. That, and I remember really liking the short story "Word Processor of the Gods" when I was Grade 8.

1st hand: Marina Tsvetaeva - Earthly Signs - Moscow Diaries: 1917-1922
Gift: Gillian Rose - Love's Work

2nd hand:

Eimear Mcbride - A Girl is a Half-formed Thing
Anne Carson - Glass and God

let's start an anne carson thread

Thinking, Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman, used trade paperback, very good condition, $3. I read Michael Lewis's The Undoing Project last year and thought I'd go straight to the horse's mouth, some time later this year.

Jerry Brotton - A History of the World in Twelve Maps ($1)

Thought this looked cool. I want to read about maps. Seems like it talks about the Dutch Golden Age and maps in Vermeer, too.

The Knitting and Crochet Bible: The Complete Handbook for Creative Knitting and Crochet
Claire Compton,
I did a short aran knitting course at the local museum and found that since I hadn't spent any time at school learning how to knit I was finding it difficult. So think I'll get something and learn from the start. Been practising knitting an purling daily for the last few weeks.

Constance Spry Cookbook looked like a good one to have and was going very cheap on Amazon Marketplace

How to Speak Fluent Sewing Christine Haynes
overview of sewing terms and techniques.

John Milton - Paradise Regained/Samson Agonistes and the complete shorter poems
Dostoevsky - The Brothers Karamazov (two vol. ed.)
Herman Broch - The Death of Virgil (this is possibly the most Old White Men novel ever - crankily modernist, and is effectively a fake history on Virgil writing the Aeneid as if its his destiny to do so. It also has a very annoying quote by George Steiner at the back, and a garbage intro (needless to say this should be reissued). I liked parts of it but I sold it years ago and it was only when I saw Charlotte Mandell (French translator whom I follow) tweeting bits of it did I realise that trying to approach it like a Thomas Bernhard novel was wrong and I should revisit - weird seeing this in the racks so soon after wanting to find it again)

Who translated the Bros? Hadn't heard of a two vol.

Magarshack. Its on Penguin, just available as two vols., good and sane.

is the 'garbage intro' by arendt? picked it up about a decade ago & still need to read it (along with the sleepwalkers). anyone rep for the spell?

found an old virago edition of leonora carrington's the hearing trumpet to replace previous copies given away as gifts.

No its by Bernard Levin - just a whine on how there isn't a lot of German Literature about - except he is doing an intro for a translation of a fairly obscure text.

I think its a lot better than Sleepwalkers.

oh right, mine has what could be construed as an obnoxious blurb from steiner (out-joycing joyce! closer to the realities of the age than kafka!) but with an arendt intro extracted from a circa 1945 essay from partisan review.

2 x gass: omensetter's luck + life sentences: literary judgments and accounts