Kevin's Watch

Got three pretty neat books at the thrift store, all in decent condition, for a buck-fiddy today:
Hunter S. Thompson's A Generation of Swine
finally!>The Crossing (sequel to All The Pretty Horses) by Cormac McCarthy. WOOO HOOO!!!
and The Third Millennium; Living in the Post Historic World by Ken Carey--which I've just started and seems to be the logical type of book to read right after The Celestine Prophecy, like the latter probably hokey but with some good organizational tips for treating the planet, others and yourself with unconditional universal love...

Loremaster wrote:Regeration, the Eye in the Door, and the Ghost Road, by Pat Barker. A trilogy set in Craiglockhart hospital, during WWI.

I love these books. They're all about men yet they're written by a woman, brilliant!

Currently on my own shelf 'The Boning Hall', new and selected poems by Mary O'Malley (2002), who I will, hopefully, get to do a workshop with later this year.

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Picked up a couple of non-fiction titles cheap at our local Borders today: Geneen Roth's "Lost and Found" (about the lessons she learned after she and her husband lost all their money to Bernie Madoff), and "The Everything Guide to 2012". This last is in preparation for NaNoWriMo in November....

ussusimiel wrote:

Loremaster wrote:Regeration, the Eye in the Door, and the Ghost Road, by Pat Barker. A trilogy set in Craiglockhart hospital, during WWI.

I love these books. They're all about men yet they're written by a woman, brilliant!

Just wanted to chip in that I absolutely love this trilogy too. I remember discovering it whilst traveling in Germany and screaming inappropriately-out-loud when I found the final book, The Ghost Road, in English, at a train station bookshop on the way to board a 20hr flight!
I read all of Pat Barker's stuff after this; nothing quite hit the heights of Regeneration Trilogy for me, but I suspect that was partly because the subject matter of RT appealed greatly.

Bought graphic novel memoir Fun Home by Alison Bechdel yesterday.

Following from recent reading (see above), today I ordered Are You My Mother? by Alison Bechdel. Or, I guess, pre-ordered, since it apparently isn't out in the UK until the end of the month (Waterstones didn't mention anything about that on the order page, so /shrug).

In gen lit:

- We Have Always Lived In The Castle, by Shirley Jackson
- Lets Pretend This Never Happened, by Jenny Lawson

I'm Murrin wrote:In gen lit:

- We Have Always Lived In The Castle, by Shirley Jackson

I quite like that. I like all the Shirley I've read [which off the top of my head is only 2 novels, that one and The Haunting of Hill House...and of course short story The Lottery.]

Wife got me Ayn Rand's "We the Living" for xmas cuz I'm always arguing about "Atlas Shrugged" with a Prof. in her department.
So it's a new [to me] book, but an old world.

Let's see... For Christ's mass I got three novels by Gabriel Garcia Marquez:

Crónica de una muerte anunciada
Del amor y otros demonios
El amor en los tiempos del cólera

I think I've bought myself about 40 books, mostly 2nd hand, in the last couple of weeks.

Mostly sci-fi or fantasy really.

--A

In a YA mode. A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray.

Life of Pi - Yann Martel

Something I just noticed about the edition I got (the 2012 film promo ed): the author's name is tiny. They're clearly not interested in promoting Yann Martel, only the book in itself, thanks to its reputation and film tie-in...

I'm Murrin wrote:Life of Pi - Yann Martel

Something I just noticed about the edition I got (the 2012 film promo ed): the author's name is tiny. They're clearly not interested in promoting Yann Martel, only the book in itself, thanks to its reputation and film tie-in...

I think that's a fairly accurate assessment. Even before the film, it is spoken of as merely 'Life of Pi'. I remember a few years ago talking to someone who had read and loved it. When asked who wrote it, he responded "I....am not sure..."

Very interesting. I couldn't have told you the author off the top of my head, and I read it long before there was a film.

Of course, I didn't like it much...

--A

I didn't like it much either, but I usually keep this quiet as everyone seems to upper case love it. The ending didn't work for me.

On topic, I've been a very bad girl. And I've also bought a bunch of books lately, mostly 2nd hand or remaindered and mostly sf or fantasy, except for a bunch of classics and some contemporary lit and... I can't be arsed to name the titles but I look forward to lying on my arse and reading them.