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― Aimless, Friday, 18 May 2007 00:26 (seventeen years ago) link
That's the middle one of the Shelby Footers, isn't it? I bought them for my dad a while ago. I remember thinking that he was maybe a bit pro-Southern... the stuff in the first book about how Jefferson Davis would only punish any of his slaves after they had been convicted by a jury of their peers struck me as being a bit O RLY. And in the volume you have he never even mentions Joshua Chamberlain at the battle of Gettysburg.
Sorry, that's my inner nerd coming out.
The Figes book is great crack. Maybe I should read it from cover to cover some time.
― The Real Dirty Vicar, Sunday, 20 May 2007 08:48 (seventeen years ago) link
IR buy with birthday book tokens:
William Dalrymple's The Last Mughal, about the last Mughal Emperor and the Indian mutiny. I get the impression that this book will be a bit sadface. I've been meaning to read something by Dalrymple for a while, and am currently on an India kick (having just finished Mike Dash's Thug
Alan George's Jordan, a book about the country of Jordan. I am not *that* interested in Jordan, given that it is a boring country made up of leftover bits of other countries, but I found Alan George's book on Syria very interesting.
― The Real Dirty Vicar, Sunday, 20 May 2007 08:51 (seventeen years ago) link
two textbooks! the resettlement of british columbia: essays on colonialism and geographic change by cole harris and a double issue of bc studies from 1997/98.
― derrrick, Monday, 21 May 2007 03:11 (seventeen years ago) link
We had a Vancouverite poet read tonight, and I liked her work. N@talie Simps0n.
― Casuistry, Monday, 21 May 2007 05:49 (seventeen years ago) link
I seem to be on an east Asian religion bender lately. Yesterday I bought:
The Diamond Sutra, translated by Red Pine, with extensive commentaries, from Sanskrit and Chinese. Trade paperback in excellent condition. It was US$14.00 at Powell's, but I had $13.50 in trade and I used that.
The Book of Tea, Okakuro Kakuzo, used hardcover in a slipcase, a bit warped, but in decent shape. This is one of the older Tuttle editions that were printed in Japan. I owned this long ago and I don't exactly consider it indispensible, but it was nice to find a cheap (US$3.00) copy in OK condition.
― Aimless, Monday, 21 May 2007 16:54 (seventeen years ago) link
i do not know that poet, but will recognise her name now if i see it!
i had a good day at value villiage: -"night of the shooting star" by dan vipond. a 1970's conspiracy/thriller, set entirely in the canadian wilderness! -"fellowship of the stars", a 1974 sci-fi anthology focused on "the friendship between humans and beings from other dimensions" -"the tent peg", by aritha van herk. western canadian lit, about misfits ending up in the yukon. -"survival: a thematic guide to canadian literature", by margaret atwood. a classic and a steal at $1.99 -"roadside empire: how the chains franchised america" by stan luxenburg. from 1985, all about the historical development of franchising in the US and the subsequent effect on cultural expectations. -"act of faith: an illustrated history of the reform party" - a 1991 history of the western-based PC splinter that became canada's official opposition by 1997 and, in a vague sense, is currently in government.
― derrrick, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 03:39 (seventeen years ago) link
I bought 2 Coetzees today, 'Waiting for the Barbarians' which is one of my favourites, and 'The Life and Times of Michael K' which I've not read before. Also 'Pale Fire' because I don't own a copy and was feeling rich.
― franny glass, Tuesday, 26 June 2007 03:30 (seventeen years ago) link
School book fairs always turn up some gems. I found a first edition hardcover of Cavell's The World Viewed for $3, as well as William Gass's On Being Blue.
― jmm, Sunday, 4 June 2023 14:35 (one year ago) link
Found a copy of Arlie Russell Hochschild's The Managed Heart by chance on Friday. Like it was what I was specifically looking for for the last few weeks but after being told that it doesn't turn up in charity shops i heard it calling to me in a 2nd hand place.Or close to. Went to the section and it was there, though nopt in the cover I would have liked.BUt have been meaning to read it for years. May have read it soon after hearing about it in the early 00ies but if so I think I read it really fast and that was 20 years plus ago. So very glad that it turned up . & it was cheap. I had nearly ordered it on ebay.
― Stevo, Sunday, 4 June 2023 15:12 (one year ago) link
Gifts from people (birthday etc.):
Charles Rosen - The Frontier of Meaning: Three Informal Lectures on MusicGeza Csath - Opium and Other StoriesSergio Pitol - Mephisto's Waltz (Selected Short Stories)Miguel de Palol - Garden of Seven TwilightsYu Miri - The End of August
Otherwise I have bought v little over the last six months.
Honore de Balzac - The Quest of the AbsoluteWilliam Shakespeare - MacbethMircea Cartarescu - Solenoid
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 16 August 2023 10:43 (one year ago) link
What did you think of Solenoid?
― dow, Thursday, 17 August 2023 02:51 (one year ago) link
The past few purchases have all been book club readings
Clarke, Piranesi
Enger, So Brave, Young and Handsome
Grann, The Wager
Whitehead, Harlem Shuffle
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Thursday, 17 August 2023 02:54 (one year ago) link
that csath collections is... interesting? also at times somewhat gruesome
think the only book i've purchased at all recently is the updated edition of the electric muse by lang, dallas, denselow & shelton
― no lime tangier, Thursday, 17 August 2023 08:05 (one year ago) link
Just reading the Csath now. It's an amazing book.
― dow, Thursday, 17 August 2023 bookmarkflaglink
Looking to crack it open in the next month.
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 17 August 2023 09:39 (one year ago) link
I found two more books on the cheap, ofc.
Thomas Bernhard - GargoylesMarguerite Duras - L'Amour
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 17 August 2023 21:07 (one year ago) link
Sold a bunch at Skoob for:
Gottfried Benn - Primal VisionSamuel Beckett - Three NovellasLouis Ferdinand-Celine - Fable for Another TimeEuclides da Cunha - BacklandsHans Magnus Enzenberger - Mausoleum
Also:
William Shakespeare - Romeo and JulietHenry Green - Caught
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 19 September 2023 09:06 (one year ago) link
Look Homeward Angel Thomas Wolfeautobiographical 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 WestBook 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 Binderhistory of prohibition era gangsters in Chicago. Looked good anyway.
― Stevo, Tuesday, 19 September 2023 11:06 (one year ago) link
& 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.
― Stevo, Tuesday, 19 September 2023 11:12 (one year ago) link
went slightly book mad and ended up with close to a year's worth of reading:
kafka - stories 1904-1924grossmith & grossmith - diary of a nobodysomerville & ross - the irish rmanthony trollope - the pallisersivy compton-burnett - parents & childrenivy compton-burnett - a father & his fatesylvia townsend warner - mr fortune's maggotelizabeth bowen - the last septembercapel boake - painted claydali - hidden facesjohn berger - gstig dagerman - games of nightthomas tryon - the othersimenon - maigret sets a traphenry james - english hoursdickens - selected journalism 1850-1870stevenson - dr jekyll & mr hyde/weir of hermistonhorace walpole - castle of otranto/hieroglyphic talesthe common muse: popular british ballad poetryroland barthes - selected writingscervantes - don quixoterabelais - gargantua & pantagruelbalzac - cousin ponsgautier - mademoiselle de maupinflaubert - madame bovarypushkin - eugene oneginbulgakov - the white guardthomas hardy - wessex talesthomas love peacock - novels ofcs lewis - that hideous strengthmichael moorcock - an alien heatmichael moorcock - the hollow landsroger zelazny - isle of the deadjulian symons - bloody murdergraham greene - a gun for salerobertson davies - the deptford trilogyrussell hoban - riddley walkerthomas pynchon - crying of lot 49italo calvino - our ancestorselias canetti - auto da fewilla muir - imagined selvesgeorge painter - marcel proustgerard manley hopkins - poems and prosejoyce cary - the horse's mouthralph ellison - invisible manjoseph heller - closing timedeighton - billion dollar braindeighton - game, set, match trilogy
also a number of pulp/crime/ghost/horror anthologies. now to try and find shelf space for them all.
― no lime tangier, Monday, 25 March 2024 19:41 (six months ago) link
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
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Monday, 25 March 2024 21:46 (six months ago) link
Carrying all those books will do that to you.
― I would prefer not to. (Chinaski), Wednesday, 27 March 2024 12:37 (six months ago) link
Just logging my last buys and stuff I got from Xmas gifts now:
S. Yizhar - PreliminnariesMiguel Asturias - Mr. PresidentAlejo Carpenter - Explosion in the CathedralShakespeare - Julius CeasarLucio Cardoso - Chronicle of the Murdered HouseAndrei Platonov - ChevengurStanislaw Witkiewicz - InsatiablityWittold Gombrowicz - FerdeydukeYasunari Kawabata - The Old CapitalYasunari Kawabata - The RainbowV. S. Prtchett - A Cab at the DoorHenry Green - ConcludingJohn Donne - SermonsJeremy Taylor - Four SermonsOsvaldo Lamborghini - Two StoriesHoracio Quiroga - Beyond
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 7 April 2024 15:03 (five months ago) link
if you have piles you could take a book suppositoryor not as the case may be.
― Stevo, Sunday, 7 April 2024 15:12 (five months ago) link
Mix of buys and 2nd hand exchange. Year properly beginning in May
Ferit Edgu - The Wounded Age and Eastern TalesJen Craig - WallErnesto Sabato - On Heroes and TombsMontaigne - Essays (tr. John Florio) (the NYRB edition which is called "Shakespeare's Montaigne")Ngugi - Devil on the CrossGerard de Nerval - Journey to the OrientSindbad and Other Stories from the Arabian Nights (tr. Husain Haddawy)
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 30 April 2024 14:17 (five months ago) link
i would love to read the full multi-volume translation of journey to the orient, but it seems to be extremely rare!
today i stopped in at a bookshop i haven't been into for years &...
alan burns - celebrations*blaise cendrars - goldgyula krudy - sunflowerew hornung - the collected raffles
*keep finding early editions of that group of experimental brit fic in that particular part of town for some reason
― no lime tangier, Thursday, 29 August 2024 06:40 (one month ago) link
First update in a while.
Euclides Da Cunha - BacklandsCristina Campo - The Unforgivable and Other WritingsWilliam Gass - On Being BlueJean Genet - The Criminal Child (Selected Essays)Celine - WarArthur Schnitzler - Fraulein ElseDomenico Starnone - The House on Via GemitoJean Renoir - La Grande IllusionElfriede Jelinek - Children of the Dead
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 29 August 2024 07:00 (one month ago) link
K Punk Mark FisherThe Dalek HandbookRace and Racism Bernard R. Boxill My Life So Far Jane FondaPower: A Radical View Steven Lukes To Explain the World: The Discovery of Modern Science Steven Weinberg Costume and Fashion: A Concise History James Laver
― Stevo, Thursday, 29 August 2024 08:46 (one month ago) link
local book sale, all $2 or less
Ferrante - My Brilliant FriendWilkerson - The Warmth of Other Suns (#1 and #2 on that NYTimes list)Tuchman - The Proud Tower, essays covering the era before WW1Mahfouz - Palace WalkUpdike - Rabbit RunN.K. Jemisin - Inheritance Trilogy, a massive 1400 page paperbackDreiser - Sister Carrie, norton critical editionDeLillo - The NamesOsman - The Thursday Murder Club
― master of the pan (abanana), Friday, 30 August 2024 05:25 (one month ago) link
i have been on an austerity program and not buying and trying to read some of the hundreds of friggin' books that i own and haven't read. which can be difficult now that there is an ace book store next door to my house! but it must be done. EXCEPT i did buy books for the store. i needed some new color in the place and i bought three boxes of wholesale books for the front window. its back to school season after all. soooo, i did cop a few for myself. the last Joe Ide crime novel. the last Nick Petrie crime novel. a nice hardcover of Oil! by Upton Sinclair. 2 and 3 of Vernon Subutex (i haven't even read 1 that i've had forever.). What Are You Going Through and A Feather On The Breath Of God by Sigrid Nunez because you guys keep talking about her. and the latest S.A. Cosby crime novel. there. not too greedy. bought around 80 books for the store. some fun stuff. some art books. some music autobios. sly. richard thompson. raekwon.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 10 September 2024 23:50 (two weeks ago) link
and then i look on a shelf and notice that i already own that nick petrie book. so, the one i got today goes back to the store.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 10 September 2024 23:52 (two weeks ago) link
I got my maiden xpost S.A. Cosby: his latest, All The Sinners Bleed, from library, and was disappointed, esp. considering all the awards that his books have won and been nominated for, incl. this one---about which, in case that's what you actually paid money for, I'll just say don't expect too much---and maybe you'll be pleasantly surprised!
― dow, Wednesday, 11 September 2024 03:26 (two weeks ago) link
oops, you said his latest.
― dow, Wednesday, 11 September 2024 03:28 (two weeks ago) link
George Eliot - The Lifted Veil and Brother JacobChristopher Isherwood - Goodbye to Berlin
― a mysterious, repulsive form of energy that permeates the universe (ledge), Wednesday, 18 September 2024 19:55 (one week ago) link
free library find yesterday: an old school panther paperback of john o'hara's a rage to live with a very young looking ben gazzara on the cover
― no lime tangier, Wednesday, 18 September 2024 21:21 (one week ago) link
I have pre-ordered a large book by Bioy Casares on Borges, but it will not be published until next year.
― alimosina, Friday, 20 September 2024 16:56 (one week ago) link