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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 1285 Views
I bought Anathem by Neal Stephenson a couple of weeks ago. - 28/09/2009 12:21:43 AM 861 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 875 Views
That's good news. - 28/09/2009 02:53:25 AM 824 Views
Snow Crash or Quicksilver - 28/09/2009 03:02:58 AM 832 Views
Really? - 29/09/2009 05:40:18 PM 811 Views
Hadn't read the DA yet - 29/09/2009 11:25:19 PM 849 Views
Re: What books have you bought/received recently? EDIT - 28/09/2009 12:52:17 AM 950 Views
Only four. - 28/09/2009 01:04:16 AM 918 Views
Excellent choices - 28/09/2009 01:35:40 AM 878 Views
But of course. - 29/09/2009 01:35:33 AM 868 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 952 Views
Good! - 28/09/2009 01:32:12 AM 982 Views
Quite a Few... - 28/09/2009 01:26:41 AM 970 Views
Lucky you *NM* - 28/09/2009 01:34:53 AM 572 Views
Tigana, by GGK *NM* - 28/09/2009 02:39:19 AM 628 Views
I've only read one duology by him - 28/09/2009 03:08:34 AM 891 Views
Re: I've only read one duology by him - 28/09/2009 03:59:09 PM 827 Views
Recently? - 28/09/2009 02:55:17 AM 1030 Views
Cantos? *NM* - 28/09/2009 03:04:55 AM 391 Views
Okay. Be pendantic. Cantiche. You know what I meant. *NM* - 28/09/2009 04:24:23 AM 780 Views
Actually, I was uncertain - 28/09/2009 04:43:11 AM 857 Views
Each of the sections in a cantica are called a canto. However... - 28/09/2009 05:28:10 AM 824 Views
Thanks for clearing that up with me - 28/09/2009 07:18:01 AM 806 Views
Ordered the portrait of mrs. charbuque, though I've yet to receive it. - 28/09/2009 03:02:02 AM 860 Views
I really enjoyed that Ford book - 28/09/2009 03:07:51 AM 919 Views
Nice interview. *NM* - 29/09/2009 01:54:34 AM 423 Views
Sort of a mixed bag - 28/09/2009 03:09:34 PM 889 Views
My list - 28/09/2009 04:33:52 PM 886 Views
I've not bought any recently and am waiting on a couple in the post. - 28/09/2009 05:33:34 PM 892 Views
Want another in the "post?" - 28/09/2009 06:57:31 PM 908 Views
Oooh. Yes please. ^__^ - 28/09/2009 08:43:58 PM 879 Views
Ok, I'll grab it when I get home. - 28/09/2009 09:03:43 PM 809 Views
Yes, yes she does need to borrow something - 28/09/2009 11:10:05 PM 838 Views
You mean the present you bought me with my money? - 29/09/2009 12:03:54 AM 817 Views
Not my fault! - 29/09/2009 11:19:29 AM 868 Views
What? - 29/09/2009 04:12:23 PM 841 Views
Egg-zactly - 29/09/2009 04:34:10 PM 904 Views
Oooh, The Giver. - 28/09/2009 09:23:36 PM 787 Views
Agreed. - 29/09/2009 05:58:54 AM 792 Views
Yeah. - 29/09/2009 03:47:14 PM 867 Views
*thinks* - 28/09/2009 06:32:10 PM 864 Views
I got myself four this weekend - 28/09/2009 07:01:34 PM 972 Views
I haven't much money at moment or time to read - 28/09/2009 08:02:11 PM 841 Views
Ooh, I actually bought one a few days ago! (That rarely happens.) - 29/09/2009 06:00:29 AM 854 Views
Booksies! - 29/09/2009 01:51:05 PM 777 Views
Re: What books have you bought/received recently? - 29/09/2009 02:59:07 PM 826 Views
Bauchelain and Korbal Broach - 29/09/2009 05:41:35 PM 755 Views

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