books I purchased vs. loved vs.read

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I buy from the remainder bin - or what I can afford - and just bought:
The Time Travellers Wife (highly reccomended here:))
The last Report On The Miracles At Little No Horse - Louise Erdrich
Confessing A Murder - Nicholas Drayson

From the library right now:
about grace - Anthony Doerr
The Children's War - Monique Charlesworth

I loved, this year:
A Very Long Engagement - Sebastian Japrio...
Bel Canto - Ann Patchett
I went into an anti-lit, mystery period and came out of it reading all of Patricia Highsmith, and then Ruth Rendell. Crazy, but good. i read all of Elizabeth George, most of both of the Kellermans and basically one of any books by someone who is a popular mystery writer. Also Henning Mankell.
It was fun.But I don't read mysteries - I eat them. So now I'm on a diet.
Looking forward to Middlesex, Life of Pi, and the new Jared Diamond nonfiction - when i can afford them.
Oh- I did manage to fit in "Curious Tale of the Dog.." and "Name All The Animals" and the book about the kid who's accused of being a serial killer.
It was a very good year.

― aimurchie, Monday, 10 January 2005 00:27 (twenty years ago)

I went on a budget and started reading the backlog of books I'd impulse-purchased in the years before I started saving up to go back to school. Loads of 18th and 19th-century stuff -- I wonder why I tend to impulse-buy and then not read such things? It's not like they aren't entertaining. But I guess I feel this need to stay current AND reach back toward the beginning of time, so the stuff that's just past gets lost in the shuffle... anyway, I discovered how much I fucking adore Balzac this year, so hooray. Now I'm pissing away money impulse-purchasing every Balzac that comes within 100 yards of me.

― Ann Sterzinger (Ann Sterzinger), Monday, 10 January 2005 02:00 (twenty years ago)

aimurchie I read Track by Louise Erdrich and loved it lots.

― anonymous poster, Monday, 10 January 2005 02:19 (twenty years ago)

"tracks" is great - and you should read everything, because she just is a very reliable writer. She really rocks. And she writes a lot.
Master Singers Butcher Club is recent - and it thrilled me.
Tell me how much you love her! xo

― aimurchie, Monday, 10 January 2005 03:21 (twenty years ago)

Ann Sterzinger - I love your name. And you are great too.

― aimurchie, Monday, 10 January 2005 03:31 (twenty years ago)

lots.

ann sterzinger are you the same ann sterzinger with The Reader? What was with Hal Hamburger? I'm not sure I liked it, at least how long it was.

― anonymous poster, Monday, 10 January 2005 05:23 (twenty years ago)

Ann S: have you read Dylan on Balzac, in the Chronicles?

― the bellefox, Monday, 10 January 2005 14:55 (twenty years ago)

I found The Time Travellers Wife at a second hand book seller, it was so cheap, but 10 pages were missing :-( I didn't buy it.

― Fred (Fred), Monday, 10 January 2005 15:06 (twenty years ago)

aw, Aimurchie, I didn't even make my name up!
(ngrumawthanks!)
I'm the Ann Sterzinger with the Reader... for the moment. Hal Hamburger... uh... well... uh... I didn't submit anything for the fiction issue this year.

And I have NOT read Dylan on Balzac, but thanks for the tip!

― Ann Sterzinger (Ann Sterzinger), Monday, 10 January 2005 22:43 (twenty years ago)

It's brief, and silly maybe, but arguably compelling, or at least engaging.

― the bellefox, Tuesday, 11 January 2005 17:09 (twenty years ago)

Bought today:

The British Isles Since 1945 - historical essays

and

Greil Marcus, Double Trouble - a book I had almost assumed was a figment of JtN's imagination!

― the bellefox, Tuesday, 11 January 2005 17:10 (twenty years ago)

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