Since there is a topic for this in the movie and music topics...I thought I might start one in the book thread.



I just bought The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath(and Kelly(kab)) was with me at the time. ..and a puzzle book called so do ku, which is a popular puzzle found in the washington post.

I also bought Blue Like Jazz.

well, I didn't exactly buy these, but I was the reason they were bought, so...close enough. for my birthday I got:
About A Boy (Nick Hornby)
A Timbered Choir (Wendell Berry)
The Holy Longing (Ronald Rolheiser)
The Restless Heart (Ronald Rolheiser)
Bright Evening Star (Madeleine L'Engle)
Brother to a Dragonfly (Will D. Cambell)
A Generous Orthodoxy (Brian McLaren)
Mere Discipleship (Lee Camp)
Bono: In Conversation

i loved the bell jar! just bought and am reading blue like jazz too

tell me about these puzzles...what kind? words?

Oh, when you hear the word Sudoku, RUN in the other direction.... IF it hasn't swept the US yet, be glad...

Patrik

(recent book: Umberto Eco: Foucault's pendulum.)

Holy Fools
The Wonder Spot
Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister

These are all within the last week too. I love buying books.

Just bought:
The Historian - Elizabeth Kostova
The Myserious Flame of Queen Loana - Umberto Eco

I don't know when I will get around to reading them, but it was a great thrill to add them to the stack.

Books are a bad addiction.

never heard of this game. went on-line and found they have a daily variety HERE. looks very interesting.

peace,
zayne

Been on a history kick lately... (with a couple exceptions)...

1. 1776 - David McCollough
2. Washington's Crossing - David Hackett Fischer
3. A History of the American Revolution - John R. Alden
4. 100 People Who are Screwing Up America - Bernard Goldberg

For those at all interested in American history, I would recommend reading the three history books in the following order:
1. A History of the American Revolution - A broad overview from about 1760 through 1787
2. 1776 - this one gives great detail from October 1775 through about the end of 1776
3. Washington's Crossing - This one is especially good on the "10 crucial days" of the revolution... the turning point of the war if you will......

Anyhoo..... thanks for the good suggestions in this thread....

Charles Kuralt's America and A Monk Swimming, A Memoir by Malachy McCourt.

The Decameron, by Boccaccio.

Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder. Great meta-plot.

The Care and Feeding of Books Old and New

(by Rosenberg and Marcowitz)

last book i bought....

well, my friend gave me Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.

i'm hooked.

now on to book 3...

though, i prefer the Canadian editions, as they just look nicer.

any Canadian want to mail it to me? i'll pay costs...

Sure! Do you want paperback or hardcover? I might be able to find a nice used copy, to help recoup postage costs.

I bought for $2 in Ann Arbor a Dag Hammarskjold paperback of Markings. Has anyone read it before?

I got a The American Heritage Dictionary recently...and a book called "dare to repair your car' by Julie Sussman, and Stephanie Glakas-Tenet.

hardcover (raincost) edition, please.

i think they usually sell for around 20 canadian.....

Children's or adult? (They're both Raincoast.)

Sure, of course, he is the great swedish speaking mystic of th 20th century (and the general secretary of the UN, of course). It was a long time ago though, so I can't remember much else than being moved.

Patrik

the kids' hardcover.

i like the outside cover better.

plus, what can i say, i still feel young.

On my Christmas List..I have the book "marley and me: the world's worst behaved dog" by john grogan on my wish list. I picked it up from the library, and I read the entire 400 pages in one night. I loved it. Very Funny.

Last night I went to Barnes & Noble to by Born Fighting: How the Scots-Irish Shaped America by James Webb for my dad for Christmas. I was disappointed that there was no music section there; that is the third of three B&N I have been to in Charlotte, and none of them have music sections like the one in Columbia. I nevertheless got carried away finding things I could get for myself, and I am really quite excited about them. The first thing I found is the December issue of CycleSport magazine, with a cover story about my favorite rider, Ivan Basso.

Then I went to the Christianity section, and found the books I am most excited about: The Last Word: Beyond the Bible Wars to a New Understanding of the Authority of Scripture by N.T. Wright. (I think that is a great name for a New Testament scholar, though now he serves as a bishop. ) Then I just stumbled across Is the Reformation Over? An Evangelical Assessment of Contemporary Roman Catholicism by Mark Noll, whose The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind blew me away. This one will be particularly interesting to me because my sister's husband (of one week) is Roman Catholic. I also found the Oxford Bible Atlas, which was recommended in an appendix of Wright's book, and I am as excited about it as one can be about an atlas. Actually, I probably get more excited about atlases than most people. I just hope I can find time to read these things!

Recently I just purchased We Were Soldiers Once...And Young. I saw the movie years ago and was always told it was tame compared to the book - and oh my were they right. What an intense book.

Next on the dock is another book purchased via eBay - The Dante Club. I've heard some things about it.

All I can say is this year I really got back into reading (from some heavy encouragement from my wife) after sort of taking about a year and a half off (I read some, but not as much as I am now). I guess after college I just felt whipped from all that reading. Thankfully I've gotten back into it and rediscovered my love of the printed word again. Also daily visits to Fire & Knowledge has helped turn a spark of interest into a blazing desire for books. I owe Josh a ton of thanks as well.

Apathy no more!

The last book I bought was Ovid's Metamorphoses, Humphries translation. It was one of the books I couldn't borrow for class, and therefore had to buy. I'm rather fond of it, though, gory rapes and all.

while at the discovery store in columbus last weekend i bought "you did what?!" for my dad for his birthday. it describes all sorts of political blunders throughout the history of the world, including hitler, nixon, and the trojan horse.

i think he likes it.

I've finally caved and bought Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid

Now to find the time to take it on.

I just got a book called "the Krzyzewskiville tales' by aaron dinin....

it is a story told in a story similiar to 'the canterbury tales' by chauncer about the history & story of why duke students camp in k-ville during every duke basketball season

The salvation army is my friend.

Ordinary People (Guest)
As I Lay Dying (Faulkner)
Loser (Spinelli)


$1.50

Norman Mailer - The Spooky Art (I was patient, wanting to get this when it came out, but recognizing it wasn't going to "make it" in the market, and finally it's in Barnes & Noble's bargain stacks, first edition hardcover, for 6 bucks)

Kurt Vonnegut - Slaughterhouse Five
Ralph Ellison - Invisible Man
Pema Chodron - When Things Fall Apart
(Borders 3 for 2 sale)