Nu-ILB: What books have you purchased lately?

Actually, said that wrong. The page that the book was advertised on seemed to apply to the V&A exhibition tie in by Stephen Calloway.
But if you chose hardback in marketplace and then pressed Return to Product information an option in the top left hand corner of the marketplace page it showed the biography by David Colvin.
I've just had another look at this and they've sorted it out so that both are Stephen calloway. Will see what arrives when it arrives now. Maybe I'll have 2 different books and maybe I'll have a spare copy of the other format of the same thing.
BUt seemed to be a glitch tied in with previous experience of looking through the site. THough that may be more trying to work out details of specific details of specific issues of music or printruns of the same book at different times and finding that all the reviews etc show for every release under the same title. Particularly annoying when publishers/record company have stuck out anthologies under the names of existing lps/books.

So now got to wait until presumably later this week to see what arrives. ho hum.
I think other websites use specific product numbering so you know what pressing you get.

Also got the Max hastings history of Vietnam since it was in a half price sale locally.
Had seen it in Waterstones over Xmas and thought about getting it. So grabbed it when i got the chance once i got home..

Ligotti - Songs of a Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe
Bunch - Moderan
coincidentally, these both have forewords by jeff vandermeer.

Heinlein - Starship Troopers
checked out a new used bookstore -- this was all i found. $2.

Big Book of Ghost Stories
got this for christmas. it's one of those phonebooks edited by otto penzler. looks good.

Donald Barthelme - 60 Stories and 40 Stories
microfiction seems to be the only stuff i can finish as of late.

Bunch - Moderan

just read this last month, curious what you make of it

Mike McCormack - Solar Bones
Peter Biskind - The Sky is Falling

alan burns - dreamerika!
ann quin - the unmapped country

Today at Open Books, a poetry bookstore in Seattle

Frank O’Hara, Selected Poems
Anne Carson, If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho
Christopher Logue, War Music
Donika Kelly, Bestiary

I am buying (and reading) all the Devil Advocates books. Now it'll be ab The Shining. Yay

Adam, Starship Troopers is awesome! Very different from the movie.

The book on which The Thing was based. Yay

I somehow (not by design) managed to read/see “who goes there”, the thing from another world and the thing in the order they were produced, with many years in between each. So I dimly remember enjoying the story but I didn’t then have the carpenter film to compare it to (only saw the film for the first time a couple of years ago, it’s great obv)

dreamerika is killer

Xpost woha! I'm sort of going through books made into movies by Hitchcock (and also the devils advocates series). Need some pat Highsmith(?) too!

Colette - Gigi and The Cat
Pushkin - The Tales of Belkin (good score except the student prick underlined the intro for his assignment)
Faulkner - As I Lay Dying (ashamed of my struggles but this should be good)
Coetzee - The Life and Times of Michael K.
Jose Saramago - Cain
Jose Saramago - All the Names
Juan Goytisolo - The Blind Rider
Juan Goytisolo - Count Julian
Jane Austen - Mansfield Park

1st Hand:
Bruno Schulz - Collected Stories

Is that the new collected Schulz with the previously uncollected stuff?

Yeah the new one. Want to get to it soon, have high expectations.

No idea what I'm doing anymore:

Rachel Cusk - Outline
Tolstoy - Anna Karenina (bought it because of the BBC adaptation cover) *
Henry James - Wings of the Dove (has the Merchant/Ivory crowd on the cover, and there are a number of stills from the film in the middle of the book lol) *
Gottfried Benn - Selected Poems and Prose
Erich Auerbach - Dante: Poet of the Secular World

* these are insane buys, lord help to read them.

two orders from a remaindered books e-store

Rhys - Wide Sargasso Sea
Roth - Portnoy's Complaint
Lipsyte - Home Land
Tales of the Marvellous and News of the Strange
Bibliomysteries: Stories of crime in the world of books and bookstores
Stream System - The Collected Short Fiction of Gerald Murnane
Le Guin - The Word for World is Forest
Jansson - Comet in Moominland
some crosswords and batman comics

You guys ride for Christopher priest inverted world right? picked it up at the shop last week bc i thought it sounded familiar. hilarious 70s édition where cover is naked amazonesque ladies walking up a mountain to an enormous glowing orb

This is one of my fave 70s SF paperback covers:

https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1264395115i/2208886._UY475_SS475_.jpg

Never seen a copy of that book. Did manage to get his second novel out of the library though.

Yes, flopson, Inverted World has a number of fans on this borad.

nice :)

Today I mostly sold books, but in doing so I picked up a used (very good) hardcover copy of 2666, Roberto Bolano, for $16.95. I read it several years ago from a public library copy and I finally decided to add it to my not-exactly-permanent collection.

Aside from it I also bought a $1 copy of Alan Watts' autobiography, In My Own Way, another book I've read in the past. It forms an interesting contrast to the ever-so-earnest autobiography of Thomas Merton, The Seven Storey Mountain, which I re-read in 2017.

My Indoctrinaire has a wince-inducing close-up of someone being injected in the eyeball

^pvmic!

also, still on the fence about reading his latest

Aside from it I also bought a $1 copy of Alan Watts' autobiography, /In My Own Way/, another book I've read in the past.

Mordecai Richler - St. Urbain's Horseman
Alice Walker - The Color Purple

also, still on the fence about reading his latest

Have read his latest, couldn't recommend. The plot is straight up WTC conspiracy theory, the "near future" post-brexit world he paints is pretty clunky. I do think Priest has gone way off the boil in old age. Which is not to take anything away from his past glories - The Affirmation is the key work for me.

Ordered The Tribe. 7 euros. Hurrah. Cldnt get it on kindle. So ordered sec hand.

50% off sale at a local 2nd hand bookshop, so:

elizabeth taylor - palladian
elizabeth bowen - to the north
sylvia townsend warner - selected stories
claud cockburn - beat the devil
dashiell hammett - the continental op
jp donleavy - the history of the ginger man

& from elsewhere:

knut hamsun - look back on happiness
alfred kubin - dance of death & other drawings

her Body & Other Parties, Carmen Maria Machado
Rebel Footprints, David Rosenberg
The Year Of Reading Dangerously, Andy Miller
The Penguin Book Of Japanese Short Stories
The Story Of A New Name, Elena Ferrante
Ealing Studios, Charles Barr

Good haul

The Machado book is great, and she's a lovely human

table!

Hi. I'm trying to wean myself off Facebook and start posting here again.

I work at a university now so have professor borrowing privileges at the library, but still buy a lot of books. Recent purchases:
- Heart Berries by Terese Marie Mailhot
- Grenade in Mouth by Miyo Vestrini (trans. Anne Boyer and Cassandra Gillig)
- a collection of Said essays
- Pet Sounds by Stephanie Young

The TatumO'Neal bio. I want to know how much of qn asshole her dad was/is.

Today I bought:

Before the Storm, Rick Perlstein's Barry Goldwater book, used paper back, good condition, $2. This will probably be the next book I read.

Burr, Gore Vidal, used mass market paperback, fifty cents. Last read this two decades ago. I'll probably revisit it before 2020.

Salute to Adventurers, John Buchan, used hardcover, a 1949 reprint of a 1915 novel, $1. Buchan was an originator of the modern espionage novel. This might be good. Who knows?

Simon Schama The Story of the Jews
Looked interesting and goes from ancient history 10000 BC to renaissance 1492. Not read it yet so assuming must be some connection to significance of that date or is it when the Spanish king expelled everybody of the faith.

Max Tegmak Our Mathematical Universe
I enjoyed Alex Bellos Alex In Numberland enough to pick up its sequel.
& I think this is similar from a different author so perspective also a little changed.

Fuzzy Thinking Bart Kozko
Book on fuzzy logic which I have been wanting to read about since reading about Lotfi Zadeh in George Lakoff's book on categories years ago.

xpost: not sure i've even heard of that buchan before, looks to be an historical work rather than his more usual fare?

some 2nd hand finds:

ed sanders - peace eye
bs johnson - travelling people
tom phillips - a humument: a treated victorian novel

Glam the Performance of Style edited by Darren Pih
collection of essays tied in to an exhibition in Liverpool.Interesting philosophical/sociological stuff. I like Glamn so have several books on aspects of it.

Black Power Revolt edited by Floyd B.Barbour
1968 set of essays on Black Power. looks to be in pretty good state for something I picked up for €1 in a charity shop. So thought it might be a reprint but it only says 1968 in the front.

Was introduced to the fab secondhand Bookmongers in Brixton yesterday - I wish I could have carried more back up with me:

Diaries and Letters 1939-1945 - Harold Nicolson (hardcopy £6)
Diaries and Letters 1945-1962 - Harold Nicolson (hardcopy £6)
Edited diaries and the odd letter of diplomat and MP Harold Nicolson (husband of Vita Sackville-West).

I didn't realise that there was a 1930-1939 volume but I suppose it has been more exciting to jump straight into the War years. Nearly halfway through the first - it's mainly been interesting stuff on the day-to-day British understanding of the war as it developed - offering insight on the average person and of one slightly more in the know (but only slightly). The footnotes (by his son, Nigel) do a great job of explaining what in reality was happening at various points in time compared to what the public/backbenchers thought was happening.

The Fight - Norman Mailer (hardcopy £4)
Covering "The Rumble in the Jungle" which I don't know much about. I don't care that much for watching boxing but I've found myself often stuck in boxing history wikiholes so I'm looking forward to this.

Italian Cinema - Mary P. Wood (paperback £6)
Figured I would immerse myself a bit more after falling heavily in the last few months for Antonioni and Fellini.

Movies and Methods (vol. 1) - Edited by Bill Nichols (paperback £4)
Appears to be a varied collection of essays on film theory and criticism worth a flick through.

Pursued by Furies: A Life of Malcolm Lowry - Gordon Bowker (paperback £4)
Seems pretty weighty for a two book author but I really loved the Kenneth Macmillan biog I read recently and this seems in a similar vein.

Was introduced to the fab secondhand Bookmongers in Brixton yesterday

ah my local!

Sheridan Le Fanu In A Glass Darkly
I read some of his stuff about 10 years ago. Enjoyed it but I think never finished all of it. This turned up in a charity shop today so thought I'd get some more.

Reading In A Glass Darkly for me was like being in a Calvino novel. The first copy I bought was the OUP edition, and it was misbound, with 48p missing and 48 repeated. Desperate to keep reading, the only other copy i could quickly buy was a cheapo Wordsworth Classic edition, which was so full of OCR errors that it was unreadable. So I had to buy a THIRD copy, which was included in this vast and unwieldy omnibus of Irish ghost stories, but at least I could finish it.

It was good, though.

ha, my oxford world's classic edition suddenly turns into walden... which was somewhat jarring!

"The Reluctant Fundamentalist" - Mohsin Hamid
"Dino" - Nick Tosches
"The Chapo Guide to Revolution"

Le Fanu is the Wordsworth edition, not looked at it much yet. So not seen the errors.

purchased over the last two months (have to boot into windows specially to download these)

Adrian_Tchaikovsky_Ironclads.epub
John_Wyndham_The_Kraken_Wakes.epub
R_A_Lafferty_Nine_Hundred_Grandmothers.epub
Chris_Packham_Fingers_in_the_Sparkle_Jar.epub
Neal_Stephenson_Reamde.epub
Margaret_Atwood_Hag_Seed.epub
Jennifer_Clement_Widow_Basquiat.epub
Patrick_deWitt_The_Sisters_Brothers.epub
Ian_Rankin_In_a_House_of_Lies.epub