Nu-ILB: What books have you purchased lately?

Sold a bunch at Skoob for:

Gottfried Benn - Primal Vision
Samuel Beckett - Three Novellas
Louis Ferdinand-Celine - Fable for Another Time
Euclides da Cunha - Backlands
Hans Magnus Enzenberger - Mausoleum

Also:

William Shakespeare - Romeo and Juliet
Henry Green - Caught

Look Homeward Angel Thomas Wolfe
autobiographical novel by a writer I was turned onto as an influence on Jack Kerouac about 40 years ago. I may have read this back then.
BUt found it for a euro yesterday so Thought I'd take the plunge.

The Day Of The Locust Nathaniel West
Book about turn of theh 40s Hollywood that I've meant to read for an age. I saw the 1974 film of it a couple of weeks back then found this in teh charity shop I got the above from. May have a copy in a different imprint floating around somewhere.
Also reminds me that I need to read the City of Nets about the same era Hollywood. have had taht sitting around for a while.

Al Capone's Beer Wars John F Binder
history of prohibition era gangsters in Chicago. Looked good anyway.

& I just bought a copy of C. Willett Cunnington's A handbook of English Costume in teh 19th century
hoping that it is at least presentable cos it is listed as Poor but the better quality versions are upwards of £50 a copy.
Hoping that an ex library version dating back to 1966 with some writing inside is going to be rated as this if not in absolutely pristine condition . Well will see. It is up on archive.org but I do want a physical copy.
writer's name sounds like a particularly middle class sexual euphemism or something.

went slightly book mad and ended up with close to a year's worth of reading:

kafka - stories 1904-1924
grossmith & grossmith - diary of a nobody
somerville & ross - the irish rm
anthony trollope - the pallisers
ivy compton-burnett - parents & children
ivy compton-burnett - a father & his fate
sylvia townsend warner - mr fortune's maggot
elizabeth bowen - the last september
capel boake - painted clay
dali - hidden faces
john berger - g
stig dagerman - games of night
thomas tryon - the other
simenon - maigret sets a trap
henry james - english hours
dickens - selected journalism 1850-1870
stevenson - dr jekyll & mr hyde/weir of hermiston
horace walpole - castle of otranto/hieroglyphic tales
the common muse: popular british ballad poetry
roland barthes - selected writings
cervantes - don quixote
rabelais - gargantua & pantagruel
balzac - cousin pons
gautier - mademoiselle de maupin
flaubert - madame bovary
pushkin - eugene onegin
bulgakov - the white guard
thomas hardy - wessex tales
thomas love peacock - novels of
cs lewis - that hideous strength
michael moorcock - an alien heat
michael moorcock - the hollow lands
roger zelazny - isle of the dead
julian symons - bloody murder
graham greene - a gun for sale
robertson davies - the deptford trilogy
russell hoban - riddley walker
thomas pynchon - crying of lot 49
italo calvino - our ancestors
elias canetti - auto da fe
willa muir - imagined selves
george painter - marcel proust
gerard manley hopkins - poems and prose
joyce cary - the horse's mouth
ralph ellison - invisible man
joseph heller - closing time
deighton - billion dollar brain
deighton - game, set, match trilogy

also a number of pulp/crime/ghost/horror anthologies. now to try and find shelf space for them all.

I have come to accept that I do not have meaningful amounts of shelf space left, nor do I have wall space to put shelves against, and I'm just a person who is going to have piles

Carrying all those books will do that to you.

Just logging my last buys and stuff I got from Xmas gifts now:

S. Yizhar - Preliminnaries
Miguel Asturias - Mr. President
Alejo Carpenter - Explosion in the Cathedral
Shakespeare - Julius Ceasar
Lucio Cardoso - Chronicle of the Murdered House
Andrei Platonov - Chevengur
Stanislaw Witkiewicz - Insatiablity
Wittold Gombrowicz - Ferdeyduke
Yasunari Kawabata - The Old Capital
Yasunari Kawabata - The Rainbow
V. S. Prtchett - A Cab at the Door
Henry Green - Concluding
John Donne - Sermons
Jeremy Taylor - Four Sermons
Osvaldo Lamborghini - Two Stories
Horacio Quiroga - Beyond

if you have piles you could take a book suppository
or not as the case may be.