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What books have you bought/received recently? Larry Send a noteboard - 28/09/2009 12:18:11 AM
There used to be a regular post on OF (often Announced, before abandoned earlier this year) for readers to post lists of books they recently bought or received. I think it'd be a nice thing to bring back, especially with the Christmas season coming in a few months, as perhaps something on one person's list will encourage another to purchase/acquire that book. While I usually post mine in picture form on the OF Blog, I'll copy/paste the list here. Feel free to share books that you've purchased/received recently:

Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Jaime Martínez Tolentino, Cuentos Fantásticos

Gabriel García Márquez, Olhos de Cão Azul

Camilo José Cela, Los vasos comunicantes

Italo Calvino, The Path to the Spiders' Nests

Hayo Miyazaki, Nausicaä: Of the Valley of the Wind

J.M. Coetzee, Elizabeth Costello

Salman Rushdie, Haroun and the Sea of Stories

Salman Rushdie, Midnight's Children

Samuel Delany, Neveryóna

Robert Holdstock, Lavondyss

Don DeLillo, Cosmopolis

Nadine Gordimer, A Guest of Honour

Scott Mills, Big Clay Pot

Mary Doria Russell, A Thread of Grace
Illusions fall like the husk of a fruit, one after another, and the fruit is experience. - Narrator, Sylvie

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What books have you bought/received recently? - 28/09/2009 12:18:11 AM 1358 Views
I bought Anathem by Neal Stephenson a couple of weeks ago. - 28/09/2009 12:21:43 AM 921 Views
I read almost all of it on Inaugural Day this year while waiting to see the doctor - 28/09/2009 12:22:57 AM 944 Views
That's good news. - 28/09/2009 02:53:25 AM 886 Views
Snow Crash or Quicksilver - 28/09/2009 03:02:58 AM 894 Views
Really? - 29/09/2009 05:40:18 PM 881 Views
Hadn't read the DA yet - 29/09/2009 11:25:19 PM 907 Views
Re: What books have you bought/received recently? EDIT - 28/09/2009 12:52:17 AM 1015 Views
Only four. - 28/09/2009 01:04:16 AM 984 Views
Excellent choices - 28/09/2009 01:35:40 AM 937 Views
But of course. - 29/09/2009 01:35:33 AM 939 Views
I finally found "The Little Prince". My mom had bought it at a garage sale and I remembered that you - 28/09/2009 01:09:18 AM 1017 Views
Good! - 28/09/2009 01:32:12 AM 1046 Views
Quite a Few... - 28/09/2009 01:26:41 AM 1031 Views
Lucky you *NM* - 28/09/2009 01:34:53 AM 610 Views
Tigana, by GGK *NM* - 28/09/2009 02:39:19 AM 662 Views
I've only read one duology by him - 28/09/2009 03:08:34 AM 958 Views
Re: I've only read one duology by him - 28/09/2009 03:59:09 PM 901 Views
Recently? - 28/09/2009 02:55:17 AM 1103 Views
Cantos? *NM* - 28/09/2009 03:04:55 AM 420 Views
Okay. Be pendantic. Cantiche. You know what I meant. *NM* - 28/09/2009 04:24:23 AM 815 Views
Actually, I was uncertain - 28/09/2009 04:43:11 AM 923 Views
Each of the sections in a cantica are called a canto. However... - 28/09/2009 05:28:10 AM 887 Views
Thanks for clearing that up with me - 28/09/2009 07:18:01 AM 869 Views
Ordered the portrait of mrs. charbuque, though I've yet to receive it. - 28/09/2009 03:02:02 AM 935 Views
I really enjoyed that Ford book - 28/09/2009 03:07:51 AM 979 Views
Nice interview. *NM* - 29/09/2009 01:54:34 AM 457 Views
Sort of a mixed bag - 28/09/2009 03:09:34 PM 951 Views
My list - 28/09/2009 04:33:52 PM 949 Views
I've not bought any recently and am waiting on a couple in the post. - 28/09/2009 05:33:34 PM 964 Views
Want another in the "post?" - 28/09/2009 06:57:31 PM 974 Views
Oooh. Yes please. ^__^ - 28/09/2009 08:43:58 PM 940 Views
Ok, I'll grab it when I get home. - 28/09/2009 09:03:43 PM 872 Views
Yes, yes she does need to borrow something - 28/09/2009 11:10:05 PM 899 Views
You mean the present you bought me with my money? - 29/09/2009 12:03:54 AM 883 Views
Not my fault! - 29/09/2009 11:19:29 AM 930 Views
What? - 29/09/2009 04:12:23 PM 902 Views
Egg-zactly - 29/09/2009 04:34:10 PM 960 Views
Oooh, The Giver. - 28/09/2009 09:23:36 PM 859 Views
Agreed. - 29/09/2009 05:58:54 AM 847 Views
Yeah. - 29/09/2009 03:47:14 PM 938 Views
*thinks* - 28/09/2009 06:32:10 PM 938 Views
I got myself four this weekend - 28/09/2009 07:01:34 PM 1039 Views
I haven't much money at moment or time to read - 28/09/2009 08:02:11 PM 904 Views
Ooh, I actually bought one a few days ago! (That rarely happens.) - 29/09/2009 06:00:29 AM 920 Views
Booksies! - 29/09/2009 01:51:05 PM 845 Views
Re: What books have you bought/received recently? - 29/09/2009 02:59:07 PM 893 Views
Bauchelain and Korbal Broach - 29/09/2009 05:41:35 PM 821 Views

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