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Like 'books we have recently purchased' but delineate books you have borrowed from libraries/friends etc instead.

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 13 October 2005 12:21 (twenty years ago)

I have just got the following from my work library (thanks almost entirely to discussions on ILB/E as it happens):

Loving by Henry Green
A Favourite of the Gods by Sybille Bedford
The Book of Three by Lloyd Alexander
The Black Cauldron by "
At Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O'Brien

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 13 October 2005 12:23 (twenty years ago)

School library:
Two issues each of "Vinduet" and "Din", two Norwegian magazines.
Ian McEwan's "Atonement"
E.M. Forster's "Collected Short Stories"
James Joyce's "Giacomo Joyce"
Ngugi's "A Grain of Wheat"

So, ah, "work library"? That's something quite new to me, unless you actually work at a library.

― Øystein (Øystein), Thursday, 13 October 2005 12:38 (twenty years ago)

Ha I work at a university, which has a library.

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 13 October 2005 12:41 (twenty years ago)

We are all Loving by Henry Green mad!

Bob Dylan Chronicles
Badenheim 1939
The Hearing Trumpet or The Listening Trumpet
Elusive Peace
Young Adolf

Some others I can't remember. It is my attempt to get more value for money from my council tax.

We have a work library. It is boring though.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Thursday, 13 October 2005 13:20 (twenty years ago)

From the public sumo-wrestling dog-agility library center, which is now showing Indian extravaganza movies on the weekends:

English Bread and Yeast Cookery -Elizabeth David (for inspiration)
The American Religion - Harold Bloom
The Lucifer Principle - Howard Bloom (for contrast or something)
Interior Desecrations - James Lileks (for fun)

We have a work library too, chock full of titles from Deborah Tannen, that Mars/Venus guy, and stuff like Making the Elephant Dance.

― Jaq (Jaq), Thursday, 13 October 2005 13:51 (twenty years ago)

Oy.

RIM by Alexander Besher
LUCKY JIM
THE ART OF ARROW-CUTTING by Stephen Dedman
THE VERIFICATIONIST
LOW LIFE: LURES AND SNARES OF OLD NEW YORK by Luc Sante
IN PATAGONIA by Bruce Chatwin

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 13 October 2005 13:53 (twenty years ago)

It is quite pleasing that the classmark (Library of Congress) for the pinefox's book on O'Brien starts 'PF'.

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 13 October 2005 14:59 (twenty years ago)

'Runaway' by Alice Munro - Meh.
'Tropical Truth' by Caeteno Veloso - This is pretty good.
'The Book of Shadows' by Don Paterson - Dear God, this is bad.
'Keeping a Rendezvous' by John Berger - I keep trying with Berger but I find him so... pious.

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Thursday, 13 October 2005 16:01 (twenty years ago)

God's Politcs by Jim Wallis
Our Musicals, Ourselves by John Bush Jones
Restoration London by Liza Picard
Lion of Hollywood: the Life of Louis B. Mayer by Scott Eyman
Bare Bones by Kathy Reichs (I have decided to reread all her books in order. Which version ofTemperance Brennan, the book one or the TV one? I haven't decided yet.)

I am going to the library (but which one??) tomorrow to return my Tomorrow People DVDs. And check out more books.

― tokyo nursery school: afternoon session (rosemary), Thursday, 13 October 2005 17:01 (twenty years ago)

the library wants an awful lot of my books back all at once! that's what i get for exploiting the extended graduate student checkout time.

last week the library turned up a report of LOST for a book i put in a search for. how disappointing.

― Josh (Josh), Thursday, 13 October 2005 19:31 (twenty years ago)

Normally I don't borrow from the library.. I think I owe them money from my senior school project books being late about 3 years ago... And we have a card that all libraries can see so I'm off limits :/

But I did recently borrow Neil Gaiman's Anansi Boys from my 'work library'.. I work at Barnes & Noble and we are allowed to take out any book on a book loan for two weeks or more anytime.

― Megan, Friday, 14 October 2005 03:46 (twenty years ago)

The other book was The Dreamers by Gilbert Adair. Phwooar, etc.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Friday, 14 October 2005 07:05 (twenty years ago)

Finally someone other than myself gets to marvel at my eclectic borrowings....

Inventing Australia - Richard White
Dog Soldiers - Robert Stone
The Periodic Table - Chemlab
Food for Cooks - Clare Ferguson

― sandy mc (sandy mc), Friday, 14 October 2005 10:06 (twenty years ago)

Bait and Switch by Barbara Ehrenreich
The Business of Dying by Simon Kernick
Against Love by Laura Kipnis
A History of God by Karen Armstrong

― tokyo nursery school: afternoon session (rosemary), Friday, 14 October 2005 15:36 (twenty years ago)

Oo Rosemary, tell me how you find History of God, would you?

― Laurel, Friday, 14 October 2005 17:12 (twenty years ago)

tim lustig, doubled up: my life as the back end of a pantomime horse

― tom west (thomp), Saturday, 15 October 2005 15:11 (twenty years ago)

Will do! I am looking for good Bible history books at the moment.

― tokyo nursery school: afternoon session (rosemary), Saturday, 15 October 2005 18:38 (twenty years ago)

last cpl of borrows have been on 'contemporary' composers -- ligeti and peter davies (the latter has bits on renaissance music). both are written by paul griffiths.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Saturday, 15 October 2005 19:05 (twenty years ago)

I am looking for good Bible history books at the moment

I can recommend God's Secretaries: The Making of the King James Bible by Adam Nicolson.

― Jaq (Jaq), Saturday, 15 October 2005 19:49 (twenty years ago)

Oh good, Jaq, I have that one on my list, too, plus Whose Bible Is It? (Pelikan) and Reclaiming The Center: Confronting Evangelical Accommodation In Postmodern Times (Erickson), which isn't exactly history but I'm throwing it in.

― Laurel, Saturday, 15 October 2005 23:16 (twenty years ago)

Neither a borrower nor lender (of books) be.

― Mister Jaggers (Mr. Jaggers), Sunday, 16 October 2005 15:39 (twenty years ago)

Elusive Peace - again
The hearing Trumpet - again
Rabbit-Proof Fence

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 16:48 (twenty years ago)

Try Elaine Pagel's THE GNOSTIC GOSPELS (she got Pulitzer prize for this book that looks at early Christianity) and BEYOND BELIEF, a sort of sequel. I first borrowed these, then bought copies of my own.

I also borrowed (then bought) Anne Lamott's TRAVELLING MERCIES a,d PLAN B-Further Thoughts On Faith.

Borrowed (and just finishing, both:) EXTREMELY LOUD AND INCREDIBLY CLOSE by Jonathan Safran Foer, anf YEAR OF THE COMETS by Jan Deblieu.

At my bedside, waiting: GILEAD, and ROUGH STONE ROLLING.

― pepektheassassin (pepektheassassin), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 22:37 (twenty years ago)

PS Actually, Jaq, there is an excellent book by a Filipina writer called "When the Elephants Dance," about the Japanese occupation of the Philippines during WWII. The jacket calls it "Mesmerizing" and it really is, by Tess Uriza Holthe.

― pepektheassassin (pepektheassassin), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 22:46 (twenty years ago)

Kathy Reichs - Monday Mourning
Mark Leyner and Billy Goldberg, M.D. - Why Do Men Have Nipples
Dalma Heyn - Drama Kings: The Men Who Drive Strong Women Crazy
Richard Wightman Fox - Jesus in America: A History

― tokyo nursery school: afternoon session (rosemary), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 17:07 (twenty years ago)

Don Quixote trans. by Edith Grossman
The Story of Lucy Gault William Trevor
Nabbed them from my parents bookshelf when I was home this weekend.

― wmlynch (wlynch), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 18:18 (twenty years ago)

three weeks pass...

From the public library:
Gilead
The Family Cat [thinking of getting a cat]

From a friend:
Paper Doll by Robert B Parker
Ceremony by Robert B Parker

From the nice inter-library loan people:
Library Anxiety [personally I have never suffered from this. Until now... when I have to write 20,000 words about libraries.]

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 17 November 2005 16:40 (twenty years ago)

I've requested this book: America's constitution : a biography / Akhil Reed Amar. It's "in process."

― youn, Friday, 18 November 2005 12:12 (twenty years ago)

I am really looking forward to going to the library tomorrow. This is what my life has become.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Friday, 18 November 2005 13:18 (twenty years ago)

rich and satisfying, you mean

― Josh (Josh), Saturday, 19 November 2005 01:00 (twenty years ago)

Here is what I got:

Molesworth - Geoffery Willans and Ronald Searle (to my surprise and delight, it is written in the Starry Sarah vernacular).

Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka (The Birth of the Beatles).

GB84 - David Peace (Do I have read the closely typed bits, or are they illustartions? I don´t think I will like this book much).

I passed up on The Whole Hog (about piggies) and some book about Iraq Shenanigans and some others I can't remember.

Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit - J. Winterson (Lesbo pulp, I hope).

Felicia's Journey - William Trevor (my nod to the ongoing Kate Bushmania sweeping the nation).

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Sunday, 20 November 2005 13:13 (twenty years ago)

Public library on Saturday, almost entirely pap as my brain has effectively given up:

On Beauty by Zadie Smith [looking forward to this though I hated her last one]
Back Story by Robert B Parker [a re-read]
Where Have All the Boys Gone by Jenny Colgan [terrible idea, both on my part and hers]
Three Men on a Plane by Mavis Cheek [MC is one of my guilty pleasures I guess, but just realised I've read this one already which doesn't say much for its memorability]
Madolescents by [can't remember; just grabbed it off the shelf]

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 13:26 (nineteen years ago)

Always Magic in the Air: The Romp and Brilliance of the Brill Building Era - Ken Emerson
Born to Kvetch: Yiddish Language and Culture in All of Its Moods - Michael Wex

― tokyo nursery school: afternoon session (rosemary), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 22:52 (nineteen years ago)

Crime & Punishment (never read it, feeling newly motivated)
Rereadings (ed. Anne Fadiman)
The new Cory Doctorow
The new Iain M Banks
Neighborhood Tales by Norman Rosten
Scarlet Pimpernel (what a romp)
Expletive Deleted: A Good Look at Bad Language by Ruth Wajnryb
Manhattan Transfer by Dos Passos

Rose, my boss is recommending BORN TO KVETCH to everyone so I assumed it was a humor-sort of book (like Yiddish with Dick & Jane etc) but the subtitle interests me more....

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 23:06 (nineteen years ago)

The author translated The Threepenny Opera in Yiddish. I am DYING to find a recording of that.

― tokyo nursery school: afternoon session (rosemary), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 23:28 (nineteen years ago)

On Beauty - Zadie Smith
The Penelopeiad - Margaret Atwood
Biche - Stephanie Theobald

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 5 December 2005 09:52 (nineteen years ago)

The Clumsiest People in Europe, or Mrs. Mortimer's Bad-Tempered Guide to the Victorian World

The Lonely Planet Guide to Austin, San Antonio and the Hill Country

― Mary (Mary), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 07:52 (nineteen years ago)

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