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11.01.2008, 17:14 quote
Just got back from the bookshop with a haul of treasure - Diana Athill's Stet and Somewhere Towards The End, Anne Fadiman's Ex Libris and At Large & At Small, and Robertson Davies' Deptford Trilogy.
I'm hopeless I know but I hate that twitchy feeling I get when I'm coming towards the end of a book and I don't have one to jump into afterwards.
I am a very happy girl with all that choice stuff to get me teeth into but gawd, staff discount has a lot to answer for........ 
11.01.2008, 19:32 quote
I bought a book on Velazquez in a sale today, although on closer inspection several of the pages appear to have dried bloodstains on them. This might explain why it was so cheap...
11.01.2008, 20:17 quote
| bayle wrote: |
| I bought a book on Velazquez in a sale today, although on closer inspection several of the pages appear to have dried bloodstains on them. This might explain why it was so cheap... |
Eek!
- one of the reasons why I love secondhand books so much is that you can try and puzzle out what's behind inscriptions, or read other people's margin comments - there's a whole story to the book itself to do with its previous owners.
But that's a story I wouldn't be in a hurry to discover.....
13.01.2008, 13:19 quote
| paganpoetry wrote: |
| Eek! - one of the reasons why I love secondhand books so much is that you can try and puzzle out what's behind inscriptions, or read other people's margin comments - there's a whole story to the book itself to do with its previous owners.
But that's a story I wouldn't be in a hurry to discover..... |
It`s always telling when dense and thorough margin notes start to thin out, then disappear altogether, as students lose patience or interest in a book. Any copy of Plato`s Republic should prove my point!
Today I am reading "Cases and Materials on Employment Law, 6th Edition", by Richard Painter and Ann Holmes, their gripping follow-up to "5th Edition".
14.01.2008, 00:56 quote
Not really reading per se, more like dipping into before bedtime -- the history of the kings and queens of England and Scotland. Quite gossipy/interesting as opposed to just dates and names.
15.01.2008, 17:27 quote
I've finally found a copy of Moby Dick that isn't the size of a breeze-block. I have no intention of reading it again though. Life's too short. Come to think of it, I'm not even sure that I've even read it once. It's just one of those stories that's so familiar that you assume you have.
I also bought Selected Short Stories by Maupassant. He caught syphilis (which used to be compulsory for artistic Frenchmen) and died young.
17.01.2008, 17:37 quote
| Nixy69 wrote: |
| Evil Cults-various authors. |
Evil cults? UKIP, Liverpool FC and The Robbie Williams Fan Club are top of my list.
I've started reading Maupassant's short stories, but they are awful. Perhaps they lose something in the translation?
20.01.2008, 17:13 quote
went to the library today and got
Notorious, the life of Ingrid Bergman... i love reading about stars of the old silver screen, they are so much more interesting than today's 'stars'.
22.01.2008, 16:39 quote
| bayle wrote: |
| I've finally found a copy of Moby Dick that isn't the size of a breeze-block. I have no intention of reading it again though. Life's too short. Come to think of it, I'm not even sure that I've even read it once. It's just one of those stories that's so familiar that you assume you have. |
Moby Dick is the one book that defeated me and the ridiculous thing is that I still feel guilty that I never finished it. I'm not trying again though, trying to read it felt like chewing woodchip wallpaper....
Currently reading Georgina Howell's biography of Gertrude Bell, Daughter of the Desert. What a woman, the stuff she achieved in a time when women were supposed to be fragile decorative creatures languishing on chaise longues smelling of lavender water. I mean, she did use lavender water - but out among the Bedouin tribes in the middle of Iraq! Total girl power and about 81 years before the Spice Girls
It's a really good read - sometimes biographies can be a bit dry or stilted but this is a cracker!
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