Nu-ILB: What books have you purchased lately?

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LOvecraft Country Matt Ruff
not seen this around. Bought from same charity shop I got the Octyavia Butler on the previous visit.
Enjoyed teh tv series and heard thaht varies a bit from this.

THe Black Diaspora Ronald Segal
White South African telkls a black history . looked interesting so hoping it is actually good, slightly worried by the white SA bit on picking up the book. But seems he was a Jewish anti apartheid campaigner. Will see what this reads like.

How He Gets Into Her head Don henessy

Nega Mezlekia The God Who Begat A jackal
novel by Ethiopian now living in Canada. Seems to be based ina lot of local folklore and things.

Thomas L Friedman The Lexus and The Olive Tree Understanding Globalization

Ben Okri The Famished Road
Booker prize winning novel by writer I've meant to read for a while.

Stevolende, Wednesday, 7 July 2021 19:23 (two years ago) link

Green Suede Shoes: An Irish-American Odyssey Larry Kirwan
memoir of Irish American musician who I became familiar with from him backing Copernicus and met when he was leading Black 47

Girls Against God Jenny Hval
feminist book verging on manifesto apparently. got 2 loads of 3 books for 1 Euro => 2 euro = 6 books so found some interesting stuff in a charity shop that I had seen some interesting stuff before. I know this writer's name from somewhere and this look sinteresting

Sick in the Head: Conversations About Life and Comedy JUdd Apatow
book of interviews which was part of taht deal too

The Great Dune Trilogy Frank Herbert
I know I've read Dune itself not sure about the other 2 here./ I got some Herbert when my uncle died a couple of decades ago I know there was some Dune in there but not sure what.

Toni Morrison Beloved
This was the book i'd seen on a previous visit. Odd layout in the shop with books stood up in rows behind the visible front row might explain why it was still there.
Really need to read some Morrison. Now got 2 to get to.

Richard Wright Black Boy
May have read this before, some years ago. Another book on the black experience from the middle of the 20th century

The Victorian Underworld Kellow Chesney
Looked interesting in a different charity shop.
Overview of the milieu of the criminal underworld during the Victorian era innit.

The Rise of Respectable Society: A Social History of Victorian Britain, 1830-1900 F.M.L. Thompson
bought this in the same purchase as the other Victorian book. Seems like it could be good and this kind of sociologcal view seems really interesting right now . Not really looked at it much yet I mean stocking up yet again .

Stevolende, Monday, 12 July 2021 14:58 (two years ago) link

Daedalian Depths by Rami Hansenne
Based on Christopher Manson's MAZE but I hear that it is actually solvable. I'm going to put off looking at clues for as long as possible.

wasdnuos (abanana), Monday, 12 July 2021 22:09 (two years ago) link

> Jenny Hval
> I know this writer's name from somewhere

she's all over 6 music, but i didn't know she wrote books

koogs, Tuesday, 13 July 2021 00:19 (two years ago) link

Went into town so bound to have bought even more
this time

The Irish (& Other Foreigners) Shane Hegarty
Irish book looking at immigration to the country over 10, 000 years. Vikings, Italians and everybody .
Sounded like it might be interestig. Hoping it is more on the decolonisation side of things.

Joan Of Arc The Image of Female Heroism Marina Warner
I saw this i the shop a couple of weeks ago but I thought this was gone last week.
Have read a couple of the writer's books and seen talks tied in with the latest book she put out.
So hope i do have a chance to read this.

MIddle England Jonathan Coe
one of the books in this trotter family saga. I read the ones named after Hatfield and the north lps about 20 years ago I think. Maybe not quite that long ago. I think this i s2018 and the main characte ris much older.

Companero The Life and Death of Che Guevara Jorge Castaneda
biography of the revolutionary hero

Girls Will Be Girls Emer O'Toole
Feminist book on gender identity etc

Stevolende, Wednesday, 14 July 2021 15:17 (two years ago) link

three weeks pass...

Deconstruction In A Nutshell A Conversation with Jacques Derrida
Seemed to be an interesting introduction

The Way Home Tales from A Life Without Technology Mark Boyle
I think this is an ex-p[at Brit who lives down country in either Galway or Clare off the grid. I saw him do a talk at the launch of either this or a later book and have meant to get this ever since and his other work.

A Natural History Of the Senses Dianne Ackerman
sensualist look into the senses , history antropology and fun things

The Stubborn Soil William A. Owens
memoir of a Texan survivor of extreme poverty

Stonemouth Iain Banks
a sequel to the Wasp factory I think

A Girl Is A Half Formed Thing Eimear McBride

THe Female Eunuch Germaine Greer
Feminist book by Australian author

The haunting Of Hill HOuse Shirley jackson
Have come across films and tv series based on this so thought I'd grab th ebook too.

Dolly My Life and Other Unfinished Business Dolly Parton
memoir of country star

The Handmaid's Tale Margaret Atwood
still not read much of the Atwood i was picking up a while back but somehow hadn't got this one

Banksy The Man Behind The Wall Will Ellsworth-Jones
biography of the grafitti artist

Paranormality Why We See What Isn't There Professor RIchard Wiseman
book sceptical of the supernatural taht sees some benefits deriving from the study of the subject

How to DO MORE of Just About Everything
thought I might learn how to do some things i don't yet.

Costume Worldwide
depictions of costume over history I thought it might inspire meto get back to making stuff. May do yet

Cat Breeds of teh World Desmond Morris
Thought it might be good. I known his manwatching and stuff. & knowing cat breeds might be useful at some point

Stevolende, Friday, 6 August 2021 17:30 (two years ago) link

knowing cat breeds might be useful at some point

― Stevolende

Stevo your worldview and your book shopping habits are both really inspiring to me

Clara Lemlich stan account (silby), Friday, 6 August 2021 19:16 (two years ago) link

spent some of yesterday downloading recent purchases, some of which I'd forgotten i'd bought...

summer, ali smith. i enjoyed autumn and have been picking up the other parts when i see them. missing winter.

Germinal, Zola. was cheap and sounds right up my street.

Children of Ruin, the second part of that thing about the spider planet.

troy, Stephen fry. didn't like the chapter i read of his mythos, sounded too much like Stephen fry, so this was a cheap hate-purchase given i'm on an iliad kick lately.

the honjin murders, mentioned here recently and i like the cover.

currently buying at about 3x my reading speed... but it's nice and varied so I'll never be stuck for something to read no matter what mood in in. and those 5 in total were less than half the price of the one physical book i bought this month.

koogs, Monday, 9 August 2021 07:12 (two years ago) link

Okay, sorry meant to post
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No Particular Place to POLL (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 13 August 2021 00:41 (two years ago) link

I've acquired the Repeater Books reissue of Patrick Wright: THE VILLAGE THAT DIED FOR ENGLAND.

The physical scale of Wright's books is remarkable!

the pinefox, Friday, 13 August 2021 10:53 (two years ago) link

My local charity bookshop that benefits the public library has reopened recently. Today I bought:

Vinland, Thomas Pynchon, used hardcover w/ dust jacket, $1.
A Small Town in Germany, John LeCarre, used trade paperback, $1.

it is to laugh, like so, ha! (Aimless), Saturday, 14 August 2021 21:17 (two years ago) link

Peter Cook A Biography Harry Thompson

Bandit Country The IRA & South Armagh Toby Harnden

Jeanette Winterson Frankisstein

A Mercy Toni Morrison

Even Silence Has An End Ingrid Betancourt

Grrl Gurl Gworl Guhl Kenya Hunt

THe Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay Michael Chabon

Stevolende, Wednesday, 18 August 2021 17:25 (two years ago) link

Malice in Blunderland Aubrey Malone
I think this is about Holllywood gossip. Seems to be too new to even turn up on goodreads etc. Cant even get a read for it on Google.
Found it for a Euro in a charity shop so thought it would be worth grabbing. Not really had a chance to look at it yet.

Larry Kirwan The Bronx
Irish American musician memoir about his life during the 80s. So far he's been ripped off before getting on the plane out of Ireland.
I think I mainly know him as the main backing musician to Copernicus though I may have something by his band Black 47 somewhere.
First chapter seemed promising. I got his Green Suede Shoes from a different charity shop recently too but haven't got into it yet.
THink I will be reading this soon but do have a lot of things already on the go.

Once Upon A Time In Aparanta Sudeep Chakravarti,
This looked like it could be interesting. I wanted to read as much non European stuff as possible was my excuse to myself for buying things when I'm too broke to be doing so. May catych up with me later. may turn out to be the best thing I've read in ages. One takes the gamble somethimes. I dunno.



Katherine Swynford: The Story of John of Gaunt and His Scandalous Duchess Alison Weir
Free book from teh library. They have a section of books taht can be taken. This looked like it ould be pretty interesting th epiecing together of a medieval woman's life by a current female historian.
So hope i do have the time to get to this.

Stevolende, Thursday, 26 August 2021 12:19 (two years ago) link

Rockin' the Bronx was the Larry Kirwan title

Stevolende, Thursday, 26 August 2021 12:20 (two years ago) link

Dulwich Park Festival: 50p for a tiny hardback of Synge: 4 plays + THE ARAN ISLANDS.

I wanted to have THE ARAN ISLANDS so this is a find.

the pinefox, Monday, 6 September 2021 11:03 (two years ago) link

If that Synge is the Oxford World Classics pocket edition, I have owned a copy of it since 1978. Yes, it is one sweet little book!

it is to laugh, like so, ha! (Aimless), Monday, 6 September 2021 16:25 (two years ago) link

Adventures in The Skin Trade Dylan Thomas
hardback copy of anthology of pieces not previously published in Book form. I thought i might be interesting but not read much of it so far.
Now seeing reviews of it taht say that it is opaque or cloudy or something. Like its well written but the reviewer can't make sense of what's being said., I dunno, is that bad reading ? Will explore further. I'm not that familiar with Dylan Thomas, do know some of his biography but not much of his work. Still looked interesting and may have me investigating him further.

Africa: Altered States, Ordinary Miracles Richard Dowden
a look at contemporary Africa from the late 00ies.
Not familiar wit the book. It looked interesting as i looked at the shelves of a charity shop and had Africa in the title.
Hope its not got an overly white gaze.

as some reviews of
The Lost Kingdoms of Africa Jeffrey Tayler
have suggested.
Another travelogue around Africa by a white Author. Looked interesting for 1.50Eur and i hadn't checked reviews til i got it home.
Well it will either be read and possibly found wanting or found to have some merit.

Just Ignore Him Alan Davies
memoir by the TV personality. I have liked him on QI and he comes from an area of London I was somewhat familiar with since my mother taught around there at one point as i grew up. have wanted to know a bit more about hsi relationship to the place since finding out he was from there. Just hope there is some of that here.
an Davi

Stevolende, Wednesday, 8 September 2021 12:56 (two years ago) link

Went to a charity shop for the first time in ages and found a hardcover of John McPhee's Annals of the Former World. $6.

adam t. (abanana), Sunday, 19 September 2021 02:47 (two years ago) link

Just a bunch of gifts and Oxfam finds (* = already read, is good to have a copy):

J. Rodolfo Wilcock - The Temple of Iconoclasts
The Argonauts - Maggie Nelson*
Driss Chaibi - The Simple Past
Natalia Ginzburg - Family and Borghesia
Gerald Murnane - Tamarisk Row
Mario Levrero - The Luminous Novel
Raymond Chandler - The Big Sleep
Nammalvar - Tiruvaymoli (Endless Song)
Shakespeare - Anthony and Cleopatra
Jocelyn Brooke - The Image of a Drawn Sword*

xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 28 September 2021 22:17 (two years ago) link

Here Comes Everybody James Fearnley
POgues accordionist's memoirs of the time he spent in the band. From auditioning for guitar in the Nipple Erectors to leaving a whilie after Shane had been fired. I found it quite compelling. Wound up being the book i read almost immediately after buying it which is like 2 weeks ago.
I'm not sure to what extent I was afmiliar with the history of the band. I didn't take the opportunity to see them in their early days which I should have done. May have seen them at Brockwell Park if at all. I did buy records from Shane in Rocks Off , met him at a Nick Cave gig a while later and even got to armwrestle him backstage at the Brixton Rollercoaster gig for which he gave me £10 to buy a drink after i missed the free bar.
Sorry to hear about quite what a state and liability he was to work with. He was quite a decent songwriter at one point.
Also interesting to hear about the ratio of Irish players in the band which I had assumed were mainly 2nd generation Irish Uk immigrant and seems to b efar less so.
Great book anyway I thought. I know i saw this around for ages in sales in HMV and FOPP and thingsbut don't think I had teh urge to buy it until I found it in a local charity shop.

Secrets of the Press ed by Stephen Glover
Allstar cast of newspaper journalists give some insight into how things are done within the press of the turn of the millennium and a couple of decades before. I've read a couple of the essays and found them pretty interesting. Good to get a picture of how the world works or is it more worked. At least at one time. I do like things like this.

The Guilty Feminist: From Our Noble Goals to Our Worst Hypocrisies Deborah Frances-White
THe book related to a podcast I listen to frequently. I've been meaning to pick up a copy for a while but hadn't seen it around physically. Then managed to see 2 copies in different shops in one week. THis was the cheaper of teh 2 and does seem to be reasonably new.
It starts with a history/overview of feminism and the goes into further exploration.


Killing Custer: The Battle of Little Big Horn and the Fate of the Plains Indians James Welch
an attempt to look at the massacre that lead to the death of Custer from an Indian perspective and then look into the consequent history of the tribes involved.
James Welch was a Native American author so his perspective should be interesting. So far I've read the introduction and look forward to the rest of the book. He is joined in writing this by the film maker Paul Sekler who made acouple of films on the subject himself.

Modern Art and Modernism: A Critical Anthology Francis Frascina (Editor),
Charles Harrison (Editor)
An Open University related text book including a number of essays and articles on the subject. It came out in the 90s. Looks interesting

Manson: The Life and Times of Charles Manson Jeff Guinn
apparently the best researched book on the late 60s figure. I have read afew books on him and heard his solo lp.
So this looked like an interesting buy in a charity shop yesterday.
May take a while to get around to reading.

Also got hold of Jane Jacobs The Death and Life of Great American Cities from the library
I know i saw a documentary on the writer a while back & probably at least one webinar.
Looks interesting, hopefully give me even more background on a series of Town planning talks i was following last year and will probably continue interest in if webinars continue online. I think this is an interesting perspective anyway and may be one that has been built on since its early 60s initial publication.

Stevolende, Sunday, 3 October 2021 16:42 (two years ago) link

one month passes...

The Bang bang Club Greg marinovich & Joao Silva
Snapshopts from a hidden war
Talking about the township war in South Africa and some young photographers who covered it.

The Life Changing Magic Of Tidying Marie Kindo
a mouse eaten copy of the popular book on tidying up from a few years ago. So maybe doesn't automatically work. Well I'm sure i can lose i into a pile somewhere. THough maybe would do some good to read and learn.

Everyt6hing Is Illuminated Jonathan Safran Foer.
a story about a man of teh same name as the author turning up in the Ukraine looking for the man who saved hjis father accompanied by a bad translator. sounds interestying.

William Faulkner LIght iN August
cos it was Faulkner, not sure what its about

Maark Little The New America
I thought i recognised the cover from something from last year. Its earlier though

What Ei9nstein Told His Cook 2 Robert L Wolke
Kitchen science book, looked interesting.

The Rage of a Privileged Class Ellis Cose
book on how the m0re privileged classes of the black population are effected by institutional racism and similar

Black Hole; Green Card Fintan O'Toole
book by Irish thinker on changes in Ireland. Earlier than I thought since its from 94.

Modern Nature Derek jarman
Memoir and book on building a garden after the director discovered he was HIV positive. Looked very interesting.

A Different Drummer William Melvin Kelley
book by undersung black author

Stevolende, Wednesday, 3 November 2021 18:53 (two years ago) link

The Chestnut Man Soren Svestrup
started watching the tv version of this . Story about a Danish woman detective looking into a serial killer who is leaving a folk doll figure as a signature at his murders.

The Grail Tradition John matthews
thought I would get this and it would give me a decent outline of what had been believed cos I thought the tradition wasinteresting. apparently it gives few citations as to where the info came from and also interweaves everything with new age meditation practises. Still it was cheap and if it does give taht tradition it should be good.

Biased Jennifer Eberhardt
Looking into what creates biases etc

Stevolende, Wednesday, 3 November 2021 20:01 (two years ago) link

This is Grime Hattie Collins & Olivia Rose
Oral history of recent music genre. Nice find for a couple of Euro

Fashionopolis The Price of Fast Fashion & The Future of Clothes Dana Thomas
book on fast fashion etc . I have some interest in why iit is so bad so this might give me an even more concrete picture of the details.

White Fragility Robin Di Angelo
book I read recently in a library loan version and hoped a cheap copy might turn up in the shop I found this in afte rfinding Ibram X Kendi's How to be an anti-racist there a few months back. THis was even better today I had been in to my dentist which is a few doors down after being in the shop once. For some reason I went back in afterwards to see if they put any more titles out. Not sure if thsi had been put out in the timme I wa sin the dentists or had just missed it on the previous look.

John Fowles The Collector
I read acouple fo his before i think. Remember having him reccomended decades ago and still not picked up on him much. But wanted to pick up something wityh White Fragility.

previous trip was
Why I'm No Longer Talking TO white People About Race Reni Eddo-Lodge
which I'd read as a library loan item about 3 week s ago. But this is a nice looking copy & I did want a copy of my own.
So 1Eur is nice

Climate Justice Mary Robinson
introductory book on the subject

MotherFocloir Dispatches From A Not So Dead Language Darach O Seaghdha
Fun with Irish language etc

Stevolende, Friday, 5 November 2021 19:37 (two years ago) link

THe Book OfThe Thousandand One Nights Richard Burton
1950s edition of the Victyorian adventurer's translation compiled at 370 pages from a longer work.
I'm not sure who thsi is for. THought it might be a children's work but illustrations have titls in them and i think there may be more sex in this version than the bowdlerised later popular versions. Not read it yet.

Stevolende, Friday, 5 November 2021 19:40 (two years ago) link

For my birthday yesterday I received five books, all of which are non-fic and four of which are somewhat obscure titles purchased at a charity bookstore for a couple of bucks. My wife gave up on selecting books for me at least two decades ago, so I bought all five books and gave them to her to keep until my birthday.

The Moro Affair, Leonardo Sciascia, is the least obscure book on the list and cover his thoughts regarding the assassination of the Italian PM.

Treason by the Book, Jonathan Spence, about an 18th century Chinese conspiracy.

Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human, Richard Wrangham, much speculative paleo-anthropology theorizing about fire, food and cooking in human origins.

The Disappearing Spoon, Sam Kean, looks to be a bunch of entertaining stories all loosely connected to the periodic table of elements.

The Age of Entanglement, Louisa Gilder, recounts the quantum theory of quantum entanglement, which is a truly spooky phenomenon.

The Voice of the Middle Ages in Personal Letters 1100-1500, edited by Catherine Moriarty.

There have been at least another 20 titles I've acquired since the last time I posted to this thread, but I've been too lazy to post to ILB about them, until I've read them and can post in the WAYR threads. Stevolende has been doing heroic work keeping this thread current. Much appreciated.

more difficult than I look (Aimless), Tuesday, 9 November 2021 18:32 (two years ago) link

I got a copy of John Berger's Pig Earth second-hand because I liked Ways of Seeing and The Red Tenda of Bologna. Not sure if I'll read all of it or just the "three lives of lucie cabrol" chapters which seems to be the part people like.

adam t. (abanana), Tuesday, 9 November 2021 20:34 (two years ago) link

The thread Literary treats - recommend great reads, combined with the NYRB Flash sale this weekend just lead me to order:

Eve's Hollywood, Eve Babitz
The Long Ships, Frans G. Bengtsson
To Each His Own, Leonardo Sciascia
Black Wings Has My Angel , Elliot Chaze

Of these four I've already read To Each His Own, but I wanted a copy for my personal library (and I recommend it). I made a similar purchase of four interesting-looking titles from NYRB during last year's Flash Sale and didn't regret it.

more difficult than I look (Aimless), Saturday, 20 November 2021 03:56 (two years ago) link

Sophie Colline - Who is Mary Sue?
Baudelaire - Intimate Journals
Domenico Starnone - Ties
Aubrey - Brief Lives
Johann Grimmelhausen - Simplicissimus
Antonio Lobo Antunes - Act of the Dammed

xyzzzz__, Saturday, 20 November 2021 14:43 (two years ago) link

*Collins

xyzzzz__, Saturday, 20 November 2021 15:15 (two years ago) link

Johann Grimmelhausen - Simplicissimus

a+ (which translation, out of interest?)

no lime tangier, Saturday, 20 November 2021 19:15 (two years ago) link

Mike Mitchell.

xyzzzz__, Saturday, 20 November 2021 19:36 (two years ago) link

got into the habit of buying e-copies of books i already own when i see them on sale just because i fancy re-reading them and prefer the kobo. probably 4 or 5 a month. do androids dream... today, two Gibsons, 2001, slaughterhouse 5... at least it's not contributing to my space problem...

koogs, Wednesday, 24 November 2021 21:52 (two years ago) link

I want to do the opposite, have copies on shelves of ones I've only read on the kobo. No good bookshops round here unfortunately, but I did today pick up a Penelope Fitzgerald in Oxfam. (The Gate of Angels which I haven't actually read yet, was hoping for The Blue Flower.)

namaste darkness my old friend (ledge), Wednesday, 24 November 2021 22:12 (two years ago) link

i do have a complete set of penguin classics Dickens that I've only read the Project Gutenberg versions of but i know that's an extravagance. the intros were informative at least (although you can often read the intro via Amazon's look-inside feature)

koogs, Thursday, 25 November 2021 01:41 (two years ago) link

have just noticed ocr errors in my new digital copy of The Accidental Tourist. "Sony!" offered as an apology.

koogs, Thursday, 25 November 2021 08:22 (two years ago) link

The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows, by John Koenig. Seems like it is some kind of bestseller now, so expecting some sort of ILBacklash.

Duck and Sally Can’t Dance (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 30 November 2021 05:42 (two years ago) link

Remembering How We Stood John Ryan
book on the literary bohemian scene in Dublin in the mid 20th century. pen portraits of several writers from teh time. Should be interesting.

Warlock Oakley Hall
1950s Western reflecting the political feelings of the time. Fear of McCarthy and so on.
I think I know the name from somewhere was it filmed. Seemed interesting for a euro anyway.

City of Bohane Kevin Barry
dystopian sci fi novel by local author. I have his Beatlebone around somewhere too , maybe other stuff.
I bump into him t openings and things so think I need to read him.
Plus i heard he's really good.

Camera Lucida Roland Barthes
Philosopher's views on photography. Apparently his final book.

THree Novels of Old New York Edith Wharton
I think I may have picked up a copy of teh Age of Innocence after seeing the mid 90s film .
& sill haven't read it. But thought i might be tempted now.
Not like I've actually bought another stack of books since the olast things i added to this list and neglected to add tehm here or anything. Or amybe it is exactly like taht.

plus new book out of teh library
Ain't I A Woman bell hooks
Been meaning to read her fro a while and never see them in charity shops which I hope will change.
She was somebody who was recommended during the recent TULCA arts festival and I had this ordered as an interlibrary loan before that but seems like copies of this are disappearing and still listed within the system.

Stevolende, Wednesday, 1 December 2021 19:33 (two years ago) link

three weeks pass...

Damian Catani - Journey to the Extreme
Natalia Ginzburg - The Dry Heart
Wolfgang Hilbig - The Interim
Mario Vargas Llosa - Conversations in the Cathedral
William Congreve - Incognita

xyzzzz__, Sunday, 26 December 2021 22:48 (two years ago) link

Went overboard over the last couple of weeks leading up to Xmas.
Walked half way around town a couple of times to hit charity shops.
Got some interesting stuff and so on.

Stevolende, Monday, 27 December 2021 18:27 (two years ago) link

cutting and pasting from Goodreads doesn't seem to be working too easily, there's another 2 or 3 x this from the last couple of weeks

Unwritten Laws: The Unofficial Rules Of Life As Handed Down By Murphy And Other Sages

Rawson, Hugh


Bubble Of American Supremacy

Soros, George


Bessie

Albertson, Chris


A Girl of the Limberlost (Limberlost, #2)

Stratton-Porter, Gene

American Indians: Folk Tales & Legends (Wordsworth Myth, Legend & Folklore)

Cunningham, Keith


The House by the Lake: A Story of Germany

Harding, Thomas *


Out of the Fury: The Incredible Odyssey of Eliezer Urbach

Weigand, Edith S.

The Group

McCarthy, Mary


Conversations with Friends

Rooney, Sally *

And They All Sang: Adventures of an Eclectic Disc Jockey

Terkel, Studs

The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

Sagan, Carl


The Shorter Pepys

Pepys, Samuel

Falling Upwards: How We Took to the Air

Holmes, Richard


A Yellow Raft in Blue Water

Dorris, Michael


A Day in the Country and Other Stories

Maupassant, Guy de



Rack, Rope and Red-Hot Pincers: A History of Torture and Its Instruments

Abbott, Geoffrey


Walter Winchell: A Novel

Herr, Michael


Sacred Hunger (Sacred Hunger #1)

Unsworth, Barry


The Awakening and Selected Stories

Chopin, Kate


A Personal Anthology

Borges, Jorge Luis


On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

King, Stephen *


The Big Sleep and Other Novels (#1, 2, 6)

Chandler, Raymond


(TV HEAVEN)Complete Cult (Collins)

Condon, Paul


Weep Not, Child

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o


Strangers on a Train

Highsmith, Patricia

The Complete Parkhurst Tales: Behind the Locked Gates of Britain's Toughest Jails

Parker, Norman


Superbad: The Violent Rise and Fall of the Black Mafia

Griffin, Sean Patrick

Stevolende, Monday, 27 December 2021 18:41 (two years ago) link

Got the new 33 1/3 volume on Avalon in my Xmas stocking.

Les hommes de bonbons (cryptosicko), Tuesday, 28 December 2021 19:22 (two years ago) link

two weeks pass...

Got a copy of Morning of the Magicians by Louis Pauwels earlier this week.
I don't remember having seen one in years of charity shop scouring.
Also got stacks of books from various other places on like 3 occasions this week.

Also got a copy of Sir Robert Frazer's The Golden Bough after having bought a copy about 20 years ago taht I never got through. May still have it somewhere .

& a nice copy of Simone de Beauvoir's The 2nd Sex

Stevolende, Thursday, 13 January 2022 19:38 (two years ago) link

From the great Kaboom Books in Houston:

Memoirs of Hecate County, Edmund Wilson (edition upgrade)
In Praise of Older Women, Stephen Vizinczey
In Any Case and Natural Shocks, Richard Stern (whose
What Hath God Wrought, Daniel Walker Howe
The Radicalism of the American Revolution, Gordon S. Wood
Inventing a Nation, Gore Vidal

cakelou, Friday, 14 January 2022 03:46 (two years ago) link

What Hath God Wrought was one of my big pandemic reads back in 2020, it's very good

Jimmy Iovine Eat World (bernard snowy), Friday, 14 January 2022 11:34 (two years ago) link

I enjoyed that Edmund Wilson, especially "The Princess with the Golden Hair". He should have written more fiction!

o. nate, Friday, 14 January 2022 16:20 (two years ago) link

In Any Case and Natural Shocks, Richard Stern (whose

...Other Men's Daughters was great.

cakelou, Sunday, 16 January 2022 18:51 (two years ago) link

one month passes...

all three used

rivka galchen - everyone knows your mother is a witch

patricia lockwood - no one is talking about this

book of vija celmins' drawings published by a parisian art museum in the mid-90s. contains a long interview with vija and an introductory essay by robert storr. most of the drawings are of the night sky

flopson, Sunday, 20 February 2022 23:34 (two years ago) link

I more or less stopped reading through the pandemic, scraped through a few bits and pieces but it was more of a chore than a joy. Managed to start reading again which means I can start buying more books than I ever manage to read, again. Hooray! Including, in the last 10 days or so:

Maigret Goes South by Georges Simenon
The Sweet Indifference of the World by Peter Stamm
Childhood by Tove Ditlevsen
Youth by Tove Ditlevsen
Dependency by Tove Ditlevsen
Guestbook by Leanne Shapton
Trieste by Daša Drndić
Operratics by Michel Leiris (this last a small (Green Integer) book of very short pieces about opera - I'm not terribly interested in opera but I am interested in Michel Leiris and how he might talk about opera)

Tim, Tuesday, 1 March 2022 10:19 (two years ago) link

If I was a good person I would look up and write down the translators for seven of those eight but I am not, this morning.

Tim, Tuesday, 1 March 2022 10:20 (two years ago) link


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