One of my supplier is having their long awaited book sale. A list of my booty:
- Woods Etc by Alice Oswald
- Travels with My Aunt by Graham Greene
- Street Haunting by Virginia Woolf
- Love by Stendhal
- Oblomov by Ivan Goncharov
- The Alexandria Quartet by Lawrence Durrell
- Freedom From Fear by Aung San Suu Kyi
- Letters from Burma by Aung San Suu Kyi
- Middlemarch by George Eliot
- Tigers in Red Weather by Ruth Padel
- Jamie's Italy by Jamie Oliver
- Stranger on a Train by Jenny Diski
As you can see - I've been really disciplined!
Okay, maybe not. I'm going back this Saturday. My friend the Hamster has offered transportation. Heh.
5 comments:
Woah - major bounty! I've never bought more than about 6 books in one go; I feel awful if I spend over £50 at once on books, especially since I never read everything I buy.
Heh! I know what you mean. So many books purchased, so little time! But I guess part of the pleasure is coming into your personal library of books waiting to be read!
Afterall, would you visit a library where you have nothing to read?
Very nice list! I've never read Durrell -- maybe I should??
Nice haul. I have Middlemarch on my "classics to be read" list.
I've been binging on books like a wino on Ripple.
I will actually need to 1) buy a new bookshelf to handle the overflow 2) still get rid of books that won't fit into my seven bookshevles.
Hi Dorothy:
To be honest, I remember Lawrence Durrell from Gerald Durrell's My Family and Other Animals. Remember egocentric Larry? Then the whole epic tale of searing passion against exotic landscape thing was just too enticing not to buy.
Hi LK:
Not sure about Middlemarch - most my friends who've read it loves it. But hmm...always thought it's something I should read.
So many books, where to put them. Hmm...
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