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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
I traded a bunch of books at Powell's yesterday and used up some of my credit to upgrade my paperback copy of The Dream Songs by John Berryman, to a used hardcover copy. It is a first printing (which I don't care about) in standard condition, and was heavily marked in pencil by the previous owner, so it was marked down to $15 from an overly optimistic $30. I have been busily erasing the pencil markings.
I also picked up a nice harcover edition of The Book of the City of Ladies by Christine de Pisan and translated by Earl Richards. It was only $7.
Earlier this week I picked up a used copy of Ernie Pyle's posthumously published Home Country for $1. It's a just cobbled-together rehash of his journalism from before WWII, but I enjoy Pyle's style and observations, just as his millions of loyal newspaper readers did, so it's fine by me. He was another of those Indiana boys who mastered typing, like Vonnegut.
― Aimless, Sunday, 1 July 2007 17:36 (seventeen years ago) link
Bookmooched recently:
Jose Ortega y Gasset - History as a System Christopher Lasch - Revolt of the Elites
― o. nate, Tuesday, 3 July 2007 15:36 (seventeen years ago) link
Impulse bought Someday I Will Be Invincible by Austin Grossman and that Miranda July book, borrowing the new Arthur Philips and Consider the Lobster.
― Jordan, Tuesday, 3 July 2007 15:38 (seventeen years ago) link
I do like that Book of the City of Ladies.
I think I am off to the Strand now.
― Casuistry, Tuesday, 3 July 2007 20:09 (seventeen years ago) link
I bought one of those Aberystwyth detective novels, in the hope that my unread book mountain will assume critical mass and blow up the world.
― The Real Dirty Vicar, Wednesday, 4 July 2007 15:16 (seventeen years ago) link
Oh, and I also bought Gore Vidal's memoir, Palimpsest, which was on sale at the Strand Annex.
― o. nate, Thursday, 5 July 2007 20:13 (seventeen years ago) link
Yesterday:
JR by William Gaddis, in a used in-new-condition Penguin paperback edition, $4.99. Constant favorable effusions by ILBers led me to buy this book.
Plutarch's Lives VII: Demosthenes and Cicero, Alexander and Caesar in a used Loeb classical library edition, $2.99. I cannot pass up any Loeb edition less than $5. I just can't.
― Aimless, Saturday, 7 July 2007 18:57 (seventeen years ago) link
Picked up Cronopios and Famas by Cortazar and Calvino's The Baron in the Trees on some old store credit I forgot I had yesterday.
― wmlynch, Monday, 9 July 2007 18:03 (seventeen years ago) link
Not a purchase, but my mommy was in town last week and left me a couple of her books:
Wild Latitudes by Barbara Else (a Kiwi) The Law of Dreams by Peter Behrens (which was actually her Christmas present from me last year, but which I am more than happy to get back)
― franny glass, Monday, 9 July 2007 19:21 (seventeen years 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 (three 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 (three 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 (three weeks ago) link
oops, you said his latest.
― dow, Wednesday, 11 September 2024 03:28 (three 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 (two weeks 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 (two weeks 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 (two weeks ago) link