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queensthiefRemember the post a little while back about what books we'd buy if we suddenly got a gift certificate from Amazon or a bookstore or whatever?
Somehow, when posting what I *would* buy, some of the things magically turned into things that I *did* buy, even without a gift certificate!
One of them was AMAZING GRACE, a biography of William Wilberforce. What an absolutely heroic man he was; to dare to fight against the prevailing moral climate, to fight for decades against the evils of slavery until the majority of his countrymen were no longer able to believe or claim that blacks were somehow less than human - and to do it without becoming bitter or vicious or venomous.
Okay, anyway, I think it's time for another book buying question: What books have you bought lately? And for how many of them can you blame Sounis?
Somehow, when posting what I *would* buy, some of the things magically turned into things that I *did* buy, even without a gift certificate!
One of them was AMAZING GRACE, a biography of William Wilberforce. What an absolutely heroic man he was; to dare to fight against the prevailing moral climate, to fight for decades against the evils of slavery until the majority of his countrymen were no longer able to believe or claim that blacks were somehow less than human - and to do it without becoming bitter or vicious or venomous.
Okay, anyway, I think it's time for another book buying question: What books have you bought lately? And for how many of them can you blame Sounis?
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Date: 5/18/09 08:56 pm (UTC)Still, I am happy with them. :)
(Still backwards, but Word isn't backwards so I'm copying and pasting)
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Date: 5/18/09 09:03 pm (UTC)Books I have bought recently:
-Howl's Moving Castle, by Diana Wynne Jones (for some reason I never had a copy of this)
-The Deep Far Thing, by Libba Bray (finally came out in paperback so I could complete the trilogy in matching editions)
-The Virgin's Lover, by Philippa Gregory (bought used, haven't read it yet)
-The Other Boleyn Girl, by Philippa Gregory (also bought used)
-Crown Duel, by Sherwood Smith (still haven't read it...but it as highly recommended so I took a leap of faith and bought it)
-Princess Academy, by Shannon Hale
-Stardust, by Neil Gaiman
-Wise Child, by Monica Furlong (bought used)
-Love, Stargirl, by Jerry Spinelli
Now, when I say "recently" I mean within the last six months or so. I frequent used bookstores and generally buy a few books each time, but the ones above were ones I decided to keep. I also go to Barnes & Noble every week or so and spend about three hours there (I've decided that if I were to meet my One True Love in a bookstore, that would just be too awesome) and generally end up buying something to add to my collection. So...yeah, the above books were bought over the course of several months.
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Date: 5/18/09 09:24 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 5/18/09 09:50 pm (UTC)blamecredit Sounis for the poke.no subject
Date: 5/18/09 10:15 pm (UTC)Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow
Beach Music by Pat Conroy (I'm anxiously awaiting South of Broad)
The Great Snatini also by Pat Conroy (I've been on a kick lately)
The Pillars of Earth by Ken Follett
Theodore Rex by Edmund Morris
Les Liaisons dangereuses by Choderlos de Laclos (trans. by Dougles Parmée)
Consumed by Benjamin Barber
Bloodhound by Tamora Pierce (which I'm having an incredibly hard time getting excited about)
Team of Rivalsby Doris Kearns Goodwin
I don't normally read so much nonfiction but the Chernow Hamilton biography has been incredibly compelling so far. It's turning me into a Hamilton fangirl.
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Date: 5/18/09 10:16 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 5/18/09 10:49 pm (UTC)I can blame Sounis for a book I've TRIED to buy, namely R.J.'s book (What's it called over here? Faery Rebels or something?) but unfortunately none of my local indies are stocking it so I will have to mail order it. But I believe in supporting your local Sounis authors!
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Date: 5/18/09 10:59 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 5/18/09 11:34 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 5/19/09 12:04 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 5/19/09 12:32 am (UTC)I'm soo grateful for the suggestions!
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Date: 5/19/09 01:17 am (UTC)The second series of the comic The Umbrella Academy, "Dallas," in single-issue.
The Vertigo printing of Neil Gaiman's Stardust, illustrated by Charles Vess.
Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan
The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
Firebirds Rising edited by Sharyn November
Short fictions of Jorge Luis Borges (trans. Andrew Hurley)
The Theory of the Leisure Class by Thorstein Veblen
Movie-Made America by Robert Sklar
Diary of a Provincial Lady by E.M. Delafield
And a few others. None of them can be attributed to Sounis, I'm afraid. I don't know how that is!
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Date: 5/19/09 03:27 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 5/19/09 05:09 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 5/19/09 05:15 am (UTC)I recently bought the second Sisters of the Sword novel.
All three volumes of The Crest of the Stars (the novel not the manga).
The Stolen One (This doesn't come out till next month. I got an uncorrected proof. Heee...)
The Twelve Kingdoms:The Vast Spread of Seas.
I think that's about it.
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Date: 5/19/09 06:07 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 5/19/09 06:11 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 5/19/09 06:26 am (UTC)Laurie R King's new Mary Russell! The language of bees is out at last.
John Scalzi's YA science fiction Zoe's tale, which was on sale in paperback at the site where I bought the King...and if you're getting one book posted to you, you might as well make it two, right?
Hilary McKay's The exiles - I love McKay's family stories but realised I don't own any of them, so am slowly starting to collect them.
And second hand:
Kate Atkinson's One good turn (adult crime)
Anne Tyler's The acccidental tourist - I've enjoyed some of Tyler's books but not some of her other ones, so am hoping this falls into the first camp
An old Peter Dickinson children's book The weathermonger, which sounds familiar but I was willing to risk 30p
George Eliot's Middlemarch - hey I think Philia inspired this one, so that's another Sounis purchase!
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Date: 5/19/09 11:30 am (UTC): )
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Date: 5/19/09 11:37 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 5/19/09 11:38 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 5/19/09 03:54 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 5/19/09 03:55 pm (UTC)Here's to that! What is the book you are talking about?
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Date: 5/19/09 03:56 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 5/19/09 04:15 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 5/19/09 05:51 pm (UTC)Frederica. Because I had gone two months without any Georgette Heyer and couldn't take it any more.
Castle in the Air. Because I wanted to re-read it. :)
Thank you, Jeeves. For my sister's birthday!
The Treasure Seekers. For my brother's birthday!
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell. I had to have my own copy.
Knife (by our own RJ Anderson! YAY!). It wasn't out in the States yet and I <3 the UK cover muchly.
I also saved most of the books from the Shakespeare class I took so I now have brand-new Penguin editions of: Twelfth Night, Winter's Tale, King Lear, Othello, Midsummer Night's Dream, and As You Like It.
I had to bring all of these back to the States with me. My backpack was unbelievably heavy.
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Date: 5/19/09 07:26 pm (UTC)Yes, he is not a very responsible adult. Although, he's a good guy he acts like an idiot on purpose so people don't realize how powerful he is. He is famous android with three guns. Thus, the name of the anime.
I love your chibi Gen icon. It's very cute. BTW, the kana in it is "yo". Japan adopted "Yo" as an informal greeting.
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Date: 5/19/09 07:27 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 5/20/09 02:05 am (UTC)nicked it from bear
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Date: 5/21/09 03:47 pm (UTC)I have not bought very many books at all.
Of course, I just got some graduation money from relatives...one set of it came in the form of a gift certificate to Amazon, with which I bought Sunshine by Robin McKinley, which was on my list from the other topic. (ETA: three days and counting!)
Oh, that's right, I also bought The Winter Prince after some excellent advice as to where I could obtain it. That had nothing to do with gift money; I bought it all by myself...
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Date: 5/22/09 02:20 am (UTC)In the last three weeks there has been both a charity booksale and a library selling off their old books. There are books piled all over my desk waiting for me to double-stack them into the bookshelves. I went back to the library this morning (I should have known better) and added two books to the teetering piles.
And they were:
Bloody Liggie by Ken Catran
In the Dark by Frances Cherry
which are both NZ YA books I don't think anyone would have heard of ;P
In the last month or so:
Busman's Holiday by Dorothy L. Sayers, (for which I combed every second-hand bookshop I could find in the city, in town and on holiday) because I'd sent the library's copy back and was having withdrawal symptoms.
Erewhon, by Samuel Butler, in a fit of patriotism, and because it was a nice edition
Sign of the Lion, by Sherryl Jordan, to replace my old copy that mysteriously disappeared
Saving Francesca, by Melina Marchetta, because Melina Marchetta's books are pure gold.
Latin for All Occasions, by Henry Beard, for teh lulz.
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Date: 5/22/09 02:21 am (UTC)