Lu
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Post by Lu on Dec 30, 2008 11:01:03 GMT -5
December:- The Tales of Beedle the Bard by J.K. Rowling
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charmed4evr
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Post by charmed4evr on Dec 30, 2008 18:26:49 GMT -5
Breakfast At Tiffany's by Truman Capote Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
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zoealea
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Post by zoealea on Dec 31, 2008 1:02:15 GMT -5
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain Someone Like You by Sarah Dessen On Writing by Stephen King
I am going to the bookstore to volunteer tomorrow, so I will probably buy more.
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Post by Dominique on Feb 1, 2009 4:50:31 GMT -5
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Bad Kitty
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Post by Bad Kitty on Feb 1, 2009 5:40:57 GMT -5
January 2009, Books Bought: (INCOMING!)
"Coraline" by Neil Gaiman (read) "The Complete Polysyllabic Spree" by Nick Hornby (read) "Where The Wild Things Are" by Maurice Sendak (read) "The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay" by Michael Chabon "No One Belongs Here More Than You" by Miranda July "Monsieur Proust"by Celeste Albaret "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson (previously read, but not owned, til now) "The Beautiful and Damned" by F. Scott Fitzgerald "Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers" by Mary Roach "Neverwhere" by Neil Gaiman "Pussy King of the Pirates" by Kathy Acker "Lucia Joyce: To Dance in the Wake" by Carol Loeb Shloss "Zelda Fitzgerald" by Nancy Milford "A Book Addict's Treasury" by Lynda Murphy & Julie Rugg (editors) "Rules of Thumb: 73 Authors Reveal Their Fiction Writing Fixations" by Michael Martone & Susan Neville "Aquarius Revisited: Seven Who Created the Sixties Counterculture" by Peter O. Whitmer & Bruce Vanwyngarden "The Tiger in the House: A Cultural History of the Cat" by Carl Van Vechten "Dropping Ashes on the Buddha" by Stephen Mitchell "Bowie in Berlin: A New Career In A New Town" by Thomas Jerome Seabrook "JPod" by Douglas Coupland "Princess Ai: v. 1" by Misaho Kujiradou, Courtney Love & DJ Milky "Tigger on the Couch: The Neuroses, Psychoses, Maladies and Disorders of Our Favourite Children's Characters" by Laura James "Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited" by Vladimir Nabokov "The Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster" by Bobby Henderson "The Seven Addictions and Five Professions of Anita Berber" by Mel Gordon "Atomic Sushi" by Simon May "Rosa Parks: My Story" by Rosa Parks "Re-Enchantment: Tibetan Buddhism Comes to the West" by Jeffrey Paine "Bloomsbury Good Reading Guide" by Nick Rennison "****: A Declaration of Independence" by Inga Muscio "The Monk" by Matthew Lewis (gift) "Cowgirls, Cockroaches & Celebrity Lingerie: The World's Most Unusual Museums" by Michelle Lovric (gift)
Phew! Quite a haul huh? My excuse is that I had extra money left over from Christmas.. and it was my birthday at the beginning of the month.. and there were sales on.
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sylviaplath
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Post by sylviaplath on Feb 1, 2009 10:32:16 GMT -5
January 2009, Books Bought: (INCOMING!) "Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers" by Mary Roach I LOVE this book! Mary Roach has an incredible way of making the touchy, disgusting portions of science fascinating and objective. She also has a lot of articles on Salon.com that are just as great. - Savage Beauty by Nancy Milford - Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris - The Illustrated Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte - Bobbed Hair and Bathtub Gin by Marion Meade - House of Stairs by William Sleator - The Future Dictionary of America And these aren't technically books, but I ordered a bunch of back issues of McSweeney's Quarterly Concern and The Believer. I haven't read them before, but I've done a bunch of research online and they look fabulous, and I wanted to try them before subscribing.
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Michelle
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Post by Michelle on Feb 1, 2009 10:35:46 GMT -5
* The World is Flat by Thomas L. Friedman * The Virgin's Lover by Philippa Gregory * Gathering Blue by Lois Lowry * Inkheart by Cornelia Funke * War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy * The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith * The Big Over Easy by Jasper Fforde * A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking * Fermat's Enigma by Simon Singh * Dateline: Toronto by Ernest Hemingway * Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh * Magical Thinking by Augusten Burroughs * The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields * The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein * Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende * Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks
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mv
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Post by mv on Feb 1, 2009 11:49:23 GMT -5
January:
* The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga * Confessions of an Air Hostess by Marisa Mackle * Living Next Door to Alice by Marisa Mackle * Songs of the Humpback Whale by Jodi Picoult * The Sweet Far Thing by Libba Bray
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Halie
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Post by Halie on Feb 1, 2009 12:03:58 GMT -5
Mr. Darcy's Daughters Going Home Brideshead Revisited City Chic: A Girl's Guide to Livin' Large on Less The Sharper Your Knife, the Less You Cry: Love, Laughter, and Tears at the World's Most Famous Cooking School The Pursuit of Love & Love in a Cold Climate: Two Novels Getting High: The Adventures of Oasis The Little Black Book of Style The One Hundred (signed!) A Rather Lovely Inheritance Some weird French diet book, as a joke
I have read ONE of them. Lovely. But I usually don't buy so many books, so this will last me for a while. Besides, like Bad Kitty, there was a leftover Christmas gift card to be spent, plus I stopped in a bookstore that was having a going out of business sale. The rest were Bookmooched.
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Post by Hanna on Feb 1, 2009 17:47:36 GMT -5
Hello. My name is Hanna and I'm a bookoholic. I'm proud to announce that it has now been a whole month since I last bought a book! I'm so proud of myself:) It hurts a little though, but still. I can't remember the last time I managed to get through a whole month without buying a single book.
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Bad Kitty
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Post by Bad Kitty on Feb 1, 2009 18:30:42 GMT -5
January 2009, Books Bought: (INCOMING!) "Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers" by Mary Roach I LOVE this book! Mary Roach has an incredible way of making the touchy, disgusting portions of science fascinating and objective. She also has a lot of articles on Salon.com that are just as great. I've got to read her Salon articles now. I really want to get and read her other books too ("Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Sex & Science" and "Six Feet Over: Adventures in the Afterlife". Both are high on my epic amazon wishlist.) - Bobbed Hair and Bathtub Gin by Marion Meade And these aren't technically books, but I ordered a bunch of back issues of McSweeney's Quarterly Concern and The Believer. I haven't read them before, but I've done a bunch of research online and they look fabulous, and I wanted to try them before subscribing. At some point I fully intend to collect every single back issue of both McSweeney's & The Believer and read them all cover to cover. Both are wonderful publications. I'm so glad they exist. Also, Marion Meade's "Bobbed Hair & Bathtub Gin" is on my to-get-very-soon list! ;D
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sylviaplath
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Post by sylviaplath on Feb 1, 2009 21:30:10 GMT -5
[quote author=badkitty board=general thread=123 post=51005 time=1233531042 [/quote] I've got to read her Salon articles now. I really want to get and read her other books too ("Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Sex & Science" and "Six Feet Over: Adventures in the Afterlife". Both are high on my epic amazon wishlist.) At some point I fully intend to collect every single back issue of both McSweeney's & The Believer and read them all cover to cover. Both are wonderful publications. I'm so glad they exist. Also, Marion Meade's "Bobbed Hair & Bathtub Gin" is on my to-get-very-soon list! ;D[/quote] I got Bonk for Christmas -- I haven't read it yet, but it looks fantastic. I haven't read her book on the afterlife yet either, they're both also high on my TBR list. I have, however, reread Stiff a couple times and I still love it just as much. I was so glad to find McSweeney's too! I have been looking for some substantial magazines to subscribe to for a while, and I think I've finally found some. Bobbed Hair and Bathtub Gin looks like the perfect introduction to the twenties and these authors! I flipped through it and it looks fun and breezy.
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Bina
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Post by Bina on Feb 2, 2009 13:32:31 GMT -5
Hello. My name is Hanna and I'm a bookoholic. I'm proud to announce that it has now been a whole month since I last bought a book! I'm so proud of myself:) It hurts a little though, but still. I can't remember the last time I managed to get through a whole month without buying a single book. Applause for Hanna!!! You should get a medal or something, did you avoid areas with bookstores? I got a few, but since i´m actually not broke yet. . . January:Firmin (Sam Savage) Der Vorleser (Bernhard Schlink) Bad Monkeys (Matt Ruff) Plum Lucky (Janet Evanovich)
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Post by Isa on Feb 3, 2009 7:52:33 GMT -5
None for me in January, making good on my new year's resolution
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Lu
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Post by Lu on Feb 3, 2009 10:18:59 GMT -5
None for me!
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