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
― blue light or electric light (the table is the table), Saturday, 27 April 2019 16:51 (four years ago) link
The TatumO'Neal bio. I want to know how much of qn asshole her dad was/is.
― nathom, Sunday, 28 April 2019 06:42 (four years ago) link
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?
― A is for (Aimless), Sunday, 12 May 2019 03:59 (four years ago) link
Simon Schama The Story of the JewsLooked 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 UniverseI 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.
― Stevolende, Sunday, 12 May 2019 08:02 (four years ago) link
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 eyebs johnson - travelling peopletom phillips - a humument: a treated victorian novel
― no lime tangier, Sunday, 12 May 2019 08:02 (four years ago) link
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.Barbour1968 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.
― Stevolende, Sunday, 12 May 2019 08:53 (four years ago) link
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.
― fancy the Dirkishness of carrying Doré a round (fionnland), Sunday, 12 May 2019 14:07 (four years ago) link
Was introduced to the fab secondhand Bookmongers in Brixton yesterday
ah my local!
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 14 May 2019 21:17 (four years ago) link
Sheridan Le Fanu In A Glass DarklyI 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.
― Stevolende, Tuesday, 14 May 2019 21:26 (four years ago) link
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.
― And according to some websites, there were “sexcapades.” (James Morrison), Wednesday, 15 May 2019 01:30 (four years ago) link
ha, my oxford world's classic edition suddenly turns into walden... which was somewhat jarring!
― no lime tangier, Wednesday, 15 May 2019 04:14 (four years ago) link
"The Reluctant Fundamentalist" - Mohsin Hamid"Dino" - Nick Tosches"The Chapo Guide to Revolution"
― . (Michael B), Wednesday, 15 May 2019 08:00 (four years ago) link
Le Fanu is the Wordsworth edition, not looked at it much yet. So not seen the errors.
― Stevolende, Wednesday, 15 May 2019 12:36 (four years ago) link
purchased over the last two months (have to boot into windows specially to download these)
Adrian_Tchaikovsky_Ironclads.epubJohn_Wyndham_The_Kraken_Wakes.epubR_A_Lafferty_Nine_Hundred_Grandmothers.epubChris_Packham_Fingers_in_the_Sparkle_Jar.epubNeal_Stephenson_Reamde.epubMargaret_Atwood_Hag_Seed.epubJennifer_Clement_Widow_Basquiat.epubPatrick_deWitt_The_Sisters_Brothers.epubIan_Rankin_In_a_House_of_Lies.epub
― koogs, Wednesday, 15 May 2019 20:50 (four years ago) link
1st hand: Pasternak, Rilke, Tsvetaeva - Letters: Summer 1926
2nd hand: Machado De Assis - Quincas BorbaOsip Mandesltam - Selected (tr. David McDuff)Ngugi Wa Thiong'o - Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Landscape in African LiteratureAbdellaf Laabi - The Bottom of the JarJose Saramago - BlindnessKingsley Amis - Ending UpYuko Tsushima - Territory of Light
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 31 May 2019 20:47 (four years ago) link
A history of Immediate Records from a charity shop.
― Daniel_Rf, Monday, 3 June 2019 10:35 (four years ago) link
The Jorma Kaukonen memoir Been So Long which I'm waiting to arrive.
A DK book on nutrition
― Stevolende, Monday, 3 June 2019 11:06 (four years ago) link
― TS The Students vs. The Regents (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 3 June 2019 11:35 (four years ago) link
I'm reorganising my books, which is causing stuff to pop up i forgot i had and never looked at*: for example the 200 best novels in english since 1950, carmen callil and colm tóibín (1999)
*maybe this shd be a different thread tho
― mark s, Monday, 3 June 2019 11:40 (four years ago) link
copped a first edition of Tough Trip Through Paradise
― Οὖτις, Monday, 3 June 2019 15:19 (four years ago) link
Test
― 57mg/20floz, Wednesday, 5 June 2019 05:26 (four years ago) link
What books have you purchased lately? What books HAVEN'T I purchased lately? Help me.
― And according to some websites, there were “sexcapades.” (James Morrison), Wednesday, 5 June 2019 07:02 (four years ago) link
I only read 2 books last month, but I bought all of these:
tree booksMatsumoto, Masahiko - Cigarette GirlMossfegh - EileenHarper Lee - Go Set a Watchman
ebooksBroken Stars anthologyLucia Berlin - A Manual for Cleaning WomenArthur C. Clarke - The City and the StarsTomas Transtromer - The Great Enigmaa humble bundle that had a particle physics textbook in it that looked interesting
audiobooksThe Gay Revolution: The Story of the Struggle Alec Nevala-Lee - Astounding
i have an ikea bookcase filled with unread books.
― adam the (abanana), Wednesday, 5 June 2019 07:15 (four years ago) link
Short intro to zee Fwench Revolution
― nathom, Wednesday, 5 June 2019 07:25 (four years ago) link
spent an hour or so at the annual 24 hr booksale here & walked away with the following for a grand total of $15:
e.r. eddison - the worm ouroboroscharles maturin - melmoth the wandererdiderot - jacques the fatalistdiderot - rameau's nephew/d'alembert's dreamchristina stead - seven poor men of sydneymarina warner - monuments and maidensalex callinicos - against postmodernism: a marxist critiquejack murray - landscapes of alienation: ideological subversion in kafka, celine, & onettijulian symons - makers of the new: the revolution in literature 1912-1939wyndham lewis - the essential wyndham lewisd.h. lawrence - studies in classic american literatureroger shattuck - the banquet years: origins of the avant-garde in francephilippe jullian - dreamers of decadence: symbolist painters of the 1890sjohn ashbery - reported sightings: art chronicles 1957-1987mario bussagli - bosch: life & works
― no lime tangier, Friday, 7 June 2019 12:00 (four years ago) link
all book covers really are the same now
https://aux.avclub.com/under-the-radar-underrated-or-simply-missed-7-books-1835282240
― omar little, Tuesday, 18 June 2019 16:38 (four years ago) link
Ha
― TS The Students vs. The Regents (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 18 June 2019 17:14 (four years ago) link
Roadside Picnic. It’s fantastic.
― nathom, Tuesday, 18 June 2019 20:59 (four years ago) link
Jonathan Lethem, Dissident Gardens ($5, hardcover)
― Herman Woke (cryptosicko), Wednesday, 26 June 2019 17:06 (four years ago) link
the other day I picked up a copy of The Westing Game because I somehow don't have one right now and then I saw Sheila Heti's Motherhood is out in paperback now so I got that too.
― don't mock my smock or i'll clean your clock (silby), Wednesday, 26 June 2019 17:12 (four years ago) link
I've got a copy of Peter Higgins' Wolfhound Empire coming in the mail today, psyched to revisit it.
Vasily Grossman's Stalingrad is en route, though I'm annoyed at how reviews keep referring to it (written before Life and Fate) as a "prequel".
― omar little, Wednesday, 26 June 2019 17:14 (four years ago) link
A couple of cheap used bookstore purchases:
Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-1963, Taylor Branch, a paperback in like new condition, $4. Some 900+ pages of stirring, inspiring, infuriating history. It's ground that needs to be visited and revisited until we get it right.
The Ten Thousand Things, Maria Dermout, a NYRB Classic paperback in like new condition, $3. I generally trust NYRB to print things I want to read. The title reference to the Tao-Teh-Ch'ing helps to coax my interest, too.
― A is for (Aimless), Wednesday, 26 June 2019 23:47 (four years ago) link
Got Raphael Bob-Waksberg’s (Bojack Horseman creator) book of short stories, gonna crack it over the July 4th weekend
― old cloud yells at man (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 26 June 2019 23:50 (four years ago) link
Wolfhound Empire is wonderful. I just finished his latest book, Dragon Heart, which sadly was just ooooookay.
― And according to some websites, there were “sexcapades.” (James Morrison), Thursday, 27 June 2019 00:09 (four years ago) link
An early hardcover copy of Colonel Sun, Kingsley Amis's Bond novel, $2
― adam the (abanana), Thursday, 27 June 2019 09:38 (four years ago) link
2nd hand finds:
Wolfgang Hilbig - The Tidings of the TreesHoracio Castellanos Moya - Revulsion: Thomas Bernhard in El SalvadorBorder Districts - Gerald MurnaneYasunari Kawabata - Thousand Cranes Yasunari Kawabata - The Old Capital (both of these Kawabata's are in the classic Tuttle covers)Ovid - Metamorpheses (tr. Arthur Golding)
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 5 July 2019 15:58 (four years ago) link
Fuck me, that's a good haul
― And according to some websites, there were “sexcapades.” (James Morrison), Sunday, 7 July 2019 07:55 (four years ago) link
Love Kawabata. Often unfairly overshadowed by his deranged protegé.
― Daniel_Rf, Monday, 8 July 2019 10:12 (four years ago) link
Amy Schumer The Girl with The Lower Back Tattoo, was €1 in a charity shop so I thought it might be worth a shot.
The Body Shop book same price same charity shop. 70s or 80s healthy advice stuff thought it might be some good.
― Stevolende, Monday, 8 July 2019 18:24 (four years ago) link
Christopher Hitchens ArguablyCompilation of various short pieces
THe treasured THangkas in Yonghegong Palacea book with reproductions of a load of buddhist i9mages from Tibet. Some of it is quit ebeautiful but it is a bit small since it is an A4 book and i Assume the original images are much much bigger.
A History of Irish Thought Thomas Duddy.book by a NUIG Philosophy lecturer who I was taught by. I think I may have already gtot a copy of this when it first came out but it appeared for €1 in a charity shop.
got a few other bits and pieces over the last few weeks too.
― Stevolende, Monday, 8 July 2019 18:45 (four years ago) link
Not a purchase per se, but for xmas last year I was lucky to receive a Galley Beggar annual subscription. Their first book of the year arrived yesterday: "Ducks, Newburyport" by Lucy Ellmann. It seems to have some long sentences in it. I am thinking in particular of the sentence that runs from page twelve to page nine hundred and ninety eight, the others (found on pages eleven and twelve) seem less unusual in their length.
I am looking forward it and feeling daunted by it in roughly equal measure.
― Tim, Thursday, 11 July 2019 06:41 (four years ago) link
not long enough
― mark s, Thursday, 11 July 2019 09:40 (four years ago) link
…preordered (out in September in USA)
― president of deluded fruitcakes anonymous (silby), Thursday, 11 July 2019 23:32 (four years ago) link
bought murmur by will eaves on yalls recommendation
― flopson, Thursday, 11 July 2019 23:34 (four years ago) link
I used to love Lucy Ellmann and then she suddenly started writing books HALF OF THEM IN HYSTERICAL CAPITAL LETTERS AND DELIBERATELY FUCKING WITH REALISM IN A WAY THAT WAS IRRITATING RATHER THAN CLEVER
― And according to some websites, there were “sexcapades.” (James Morrison), Friday, 12 July 2019 01:01 (four years ago) link
Theatatus, Plato, used Penguins Classics paperback, 99 cents.
― A is for (Aimless), Friday, 12 July 2019 04:04 (four years ago) link
finally bought guns germs and steel and it's mainly irritating in ways i can't quite definealso reading Don Quijote for the first time since a teenager and it's amazing. half the stories i didn't remember and the other half I'm seeing entirely new details in. i love how so many of the stories use reported speech - it's a lot of tell-not-show, but the effect, slightly distancing, makes it effortlessly comic, your mind filling in all the blanks. i know there have been some doomed movie versions but genuinely surprised there haven't been more.
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Friday, 12 July 2019 08:32 (four years ago) link
Yesterday I picked up a used paperback copy of Austerlitz, W.G. Sebald for $1.50. It's unmarked and in good readable shape. When I bailed out of Vertigo earlier this year, many ILBers said Austerlitz was the one to read. Now I can test that theory, some time or other.
― A is for (Aimless), Friday, 26 July 2019 18:21 (four years ago) link
Went to an exhibition in the local art college as part of the Arts Festival found they had a trolley of Free books that they had withdrawn from the library there.So not bought but acquired
Cutting Room Floor Movie Scenes which never made it to the Screen Laurent Bouzereau
The Film Editing Room Handbook third edition Norman Hollyn
Print The Legend Photography and The American West Martha A Sandweiss
The Archaeology of Knowledge The Discourse on language Michel foucault.
haven't really looked at them much yet. Was pretty busy with things today.
― Stevolende, Friday, 26 July 2019 19:30 (four years ago) link
Krakatoa The Day The World Exploded Simon Winchester
The Establishment and How They Get Away With It Owen Jones
The Blessings Of A Good Thick Skirt Women Travellers and Their World Mary Russellthink I may have heard of this, but subject matter looks interesting anyway. Not really looked at it to see exactly what time period it covers assume it's 18th, 19th centuries maybe longer.
Nopt really had a look at any of these so far. But look interesting.
― Stevolende, Thursday, 1 August 2019 16:39 (four years ago) link