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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
Also 'Pale Fire' because I don't own a copy and was feeling rich.
Damn good excuse.
― R Baez, Tuesday, 26 June 2007 19:22 (seventeen years ago) link
I prefer to think of it as a rationale.
― franny glass, Thursday, 28 June 2007 01:22 (seventeen years ago) link
A remainder-fest:
Pocket Guide to the Apocalypse, and Parasites Like Us (can't remember either author, but looked promising) Mark Salzman: The Soloist, The Laughing Sutra Robert Frost:Early Poems The Letters of Sacco & Vanzetti Somerset Maugham: Mrs. Craddock, The Razor's Edge Hesse: Siddhartha (I'll probably regret this one, even at $3) Hannah Arendt: Between Past and Future DH Lawrence: England, My England and Other Stories Iris Murdoch: The Good Apprentice, The Bell Pynchon: Vineland DuBois: The Souls of Black Folk Conrad: `Twixt Land and Sea Garland: A Son of the Middle Border
― James Morrison, Thursday, 28 June 2007 02:35 (seventeen years ago) link
I visited my favorite cheapie bookstore today and came away with:
One Man's Meat, E.B. White, a collection of essays from the WWII years and just prior. A 1944 "new and enlarged' edition, hardcover with dust jacket, in good shape, $3.
Saints and Strangers, George F. Willision, in a 1945 hardcover edition, $1. This is a history of the Pilgrims of Plymouth Colony, starting from their days in England, up through exile in Holland and the voyage to North America. It seems to paint a pretty realistic picture of them.
The Golden Casket: Chinese Novellas of Two Millenia{, tr. into English by Christopher Levenson, from a German translation from the original Chinese. (Whew!) This is a used Penguin paperback in marginal condition and I don't think it ever sold very well, because I've never seen it before today. It seemed worth a tumble for 50 cents.
― Aimless, Thursday, 28 June 2007 02:42 (seventeen years ago) link
Beauty and Sadness - Kawabata Yasunari The Stain in the Snow - Georges Simenon Breakfast with the Ones you Love - Eliot Finushel Alphabet of Thorn - Patricia McKillip Varieties of Disturbances - Lydia Davis Call Me By Your Name - Andre Aciman
― Arethusa, Thursday, 28 June 2007 03:47 (seventeen years ago) link
Lonely (or is it Lovely?) Bones. Seems to be good. Fast Food Nation (for less than 3 dollars!) Cheap ass chicken recipe book (less than a dollar!) Children Recipe book
― nathalie, Saturday, 30 June 2007 09:31 (seventeen years ago) link
bought a few online over the last weekAngela Saini Patriarchs her latest book that came out last month. Do enjoy her writing and interviews. This is looking at the phenomena of patriarchy and what alternatives there have been historically, both different types of patriarchy and different types of matriarchy. Looking forward to reading it.
Augusto BoalLegislative theatre & Rainbow of DesireTHought I wa sgoing to get a few of his books from a friend but turns out it was only one book on him. & there were a few he has buried in te corner of a room because he's as untidy as i am it would appear. But these are 1) Legislative Theatre a book looking at the time he was in the government and applying his Theatre of the Oppressed methodology to the act of government and legislation& 2) Rainbow of Desire where he applies the methodology as therapy.I had this ordered from the library but I think it's been lost or just not returned. Found it relatively cheaply so grabbed it online.
was also thinking of buying Orlando Patterson's book Slavery and Social Death cos I can't get it though the library.Anybody read it?
Did also get a copy of George Perec's first 2 novels Things and A Man Asleep in one volume.
plus a continual stream of books from charity shops. If I can reinvent the passage of time I might get through a load of these.Do have a bit more time now that the bike mechanic course has ended.
― Stevo, Sunday, 9 April 2023 16:54 (one year ago) link
Did buy that Orlando Patterson so should be arriving over next few days. THought i would make one last Book Depositary purchase they close next week.
Angela Saini Patriarchs arrived a couple of days ago. I haven't really looked at it. Did strike me that it must have been sentthe one day I was physically near the shop and thinking I mightdrop in and ask if I could grab it. Didn't wind up goingthere after all. Seemed to take forever to get processed though. So wasn't sure of status.
Bought the rest of teh Time Life World of Art books that were in a local charity shop. So have 7 of them yesterday got Michaelangelo , Delacroix, Vermeer and Rembrandt. Had picked up Durer, Breugel and Da Vinci earlier.Do not know how I managed to get the bag that was that heavy up the stairs last night. Couldn't stand up elsewhere.
& purchased a copy of Ugly things new issue yesterday too.
― Stevo, Sunday, 23 April 2023 11:09 (one year ago) link
I weakened and, when a £3 copy of the Tadeusz Rozewicz volume in the Penguin Modern European Poets series came up on eBay, I bought it. Normally it's more like £30. Now I have collected the full run of that series, and completion feels more melancholy than it feels exciting. Should've known.
The poetry good though.
― Tim, Thursday, 27 April 2023 10:31 (one year ago) link
$2 each from a school sale. I was thrilled to find these.
John Dewey - Art as ExperienceT. J. Clark - The Painting of Modern Life
― jmm, Friday, 28 April 2023 19:02 (one year ago) link
Tadeus Borowski This Way For tHe Gas, Ladies and GentlemenPolish Auschwitz survivor's set of short stories about life in teh prison camp. Every time i go and look in charity shops I find something I really want to read. JUst wish I could find a way of creating a new timestream or means of osmosing books since real time doesn't suffice.Have heard this is extremely haunting and not easy reading.
James Burke Circles The writer and presenter of Connecctions connected book which is a lot of short pieces on inventions.
The Phenomenon of Religion Moojan MomenSummary and comparison of core tenets of mainstyream religions. THis looked like a book I'd wanted to read for years and now I wonder hwo soon I will get to it.
Alan Weisman The World Without us speculative work on what the planet would do in our absence should a sudden calamity remove teh prevalent destructive species.I've now listened to a few podcasts tied in with this and really want to get into it.
Adam Higginbotham Midnight In ChernobylOral history of the Chernobyl disaster
Orlando Patterson Slavery and Social Deathsurvey of all historical instances of survey in society. GOing back thousands of years and loking at what it meant at theh time.
which are only a handful of a larger pile amassed recently. I want to read them all immediately as well as a stack of things from the library. & all the books I bought over the last couple of years
― Stevo, Wednesday, 24 May 2023 18:16 (one year 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 (ten months ago) link
What did you think of Solenoid?
― dow, Thursday, 17 August 2023 02:51 (ten months 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 (ten months 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 (ten months ago) link
Just reading the Csath now. It's an amazing book.
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Looking to crack it open in the next month.
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 17 August 2023 09:39 (ten months ago) link
I found two more books on the cheap, ofc.
Thomas Bernhard - GargoylesMarguerite Duras - L'Amour
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 17 August 2023 21:07 (ten months 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 (nine months 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 (nine months 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 (nine months 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 (three 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 (three months ago) link
Carrying all those books will do that to you.
― I would prefer not to. (Chinaski), Wednesday, 27 March 2024 12:37 (three 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 (two 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 (two 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 (two months ago) link