Lu
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Post by Lu on Apr 30, 2009 14:26:02 GMT -5
Same here!
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Bad Kitty
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Post by Bad Kitty on May 1, 2009 1:53:07 GMT -5
I tried (and failed) to buy fewer books in April...
Books bought, April 2009: "Edie: American Girl" by Jean Stein "The Year of Magical Thinking" by Joan Didion "Rip It Up & Start Again: Post Punk 1978 - 1984" by Simon Reynolds "The Thumpin': How Rahm Emanuel & the Democrats Learned to be Ruthless & Ended the Republican Revolution" by Nefalti Bendavid "Bobbed Hair & Bathtub Gin: Writers Running Wild in the Twenties" by Marion Meade "Dope Girls: The Birth of the British Drug Underground" by Marek Kohn "The Scarlet Letter" by Nathaniel Hawthorne "Book Lust: Recommended Reading for Every Mood, Moment & Reason" by Nancy Pearl "The Little Demon" by Fyodor Sologub "Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith" by Jon Krakauer "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy "Between the Bridge & the River" by Craig Ferguson "My Idea of Fun" by Will Self "Cock & Bull" by Will Self "Discourse on Method & the Meditations" by Rene Descartes
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Bina
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Post by Bina on May 1, 2009 5:25:43 GMT -5
April: Rebel Angels (Libba Bray) The Sweet Far Thing (Libba Bray) Waiting for Godot (Samuel Beckett) A Concise Chinese- English Dictionary for Lovers (Xiaolu Guo) Love (Toni Morisson) The Vile Village (Lemony Snicket) The Penultimate Peril (Lemony Snicket) The End (Lemony Snicket) Horseradish (Lemony Snicket) I am the Messenger (Markus Zusak) Pomegranate Soup (Marsha Mehran) Seven Up (Janet Evanovich) Because of the book festival and London Oh, I forgot The Monsters of Templeton (Lauren Groff)
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Michelle
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Post by Michelle on May 1, 2009 7:46:13 GMT -5
April * North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell * Look Me in the Eyes by John Elder Robison * Agnes Grey by Anne Bronte * Ex Libris by Anne Fadiman * All I Want is Everything: A Gossip Girl Novel by Cecily von Ziegesar I'm a little embarrassed by the Gossip Girl one but I just wanted to see what they were like.
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Post by whitegold on May 1, 2009 11:29:24 GMT -5
April * North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell * Look Me in the Eyes by John Elder Robison * Agnes Grey by Anne Bronte * Ex Libris by Anne Fadiman * All I Want is Everything: A Gossip Girl Novel by Cecily von Ziegesar I'm a little embarrassed by the Gossip Girl one but I just wanted to see what they were like. The gossip girl books are not so bad if you don't compare them to the show. I much prefer the show over the books
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Halie
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Post by Halie on May 2, 2009 1:03:10 GMT -5
I like the books. They're very satiric.
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Michelle
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Post by Michelle on May 2, 2009 22:06:08 GMT -5
Good to know.
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bookworm
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"Everything you can imagine is real" - Pablo Picasso
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Post by bookworm on May 3, 2009 3:37:36 GMT -5
April: - Unaccustomed earth by Jhumpa Lahiri - Sex, drugs and Cocoa Puffs by Chuck Closterman - Yes man by Danny Wallace - Motley Crue: The dirt - Confessions of the world's most notorious rock band
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Lu
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Post by Lu on May 30, 2009 14:34:44 GMT -5
May:- Tutti i Racconti by Beppe Fenoglio
- Daisy Miller by Henry James
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Isa
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Post by Isa on May 30, 2009 20:06:12 GMT -5
- Bel-Ami, by Guy de Maupassant - Death in Venice, by Thomas Mann - Waiting for Godot, by Samuel Beckett
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Post by Dominique on May 30, 2009 21:29:00 GMT -5
The Intimate Adventures of a London Call Girl by Belle de Jour Eva Luna by Isabel Allende Portrait in Sepia by Isabel Allende The Tale of the Murasaki by Lisa Dalby. All very cheap
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sylviaplath
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Post by sylviaplath on May 31, 2009 15:19:01 GMT -5
Only two : God Bless You Mr. Rosewater by Kurt Vonnegut Short Stories of Franz Kafka
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Bad Kitty
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Post by Bad Kitty on May 31, 2009 16:07:04 GMT -5
Fewest monthly books bought so far this year! I'm obviously growing as a person (or going broke.)
Books bought, May 2009:
"Dangerous Angels (Weetzie Bat books)" by Francesca Lia Block "B Is For Beer" by Tom Robbins "The Book on the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are" by Alan Watts "Fierce Pajamas: An Anthology of Humor Writing from The New Yorker" by David Remnick (Editor.) "Drinking: A Love Story" by Caroline Knapp "More Book Lust: 1000 New Reading Recommendations for Every Mood, Moment & Reason" by Nancy Pearl "And The Ass Saw The Angel" by Nick Cave "Squee" by Jhonen Vasquez "Memories, Dreams, Reflections" by Carl Jung
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Michelle
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Post by Michelle on May 31, 2009 16:16:13 GMT -5
MayThe Luxe by Anna Godbersen The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows How Proust Can Change Your Life by Alain de Botton Blue Bloods by Melissa de la Cruz A Hunger Like Fire by Greg Stolze (it came free with another book) Vampire Academy by Richelle Mead The Sweet Far Thing by Libba Bray What is the What by Dave Eggers
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Bina
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Post by Bina on Jun 1, 2009 14:40:12 GMT -5
May:
Only one: The Willoughbys (Lois Lowry)!
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