My library is growing
Isaac Asimov, The Complete Robot
John Berryman, Homage to Mistress Bradstreet & Other Poems
Elizabeth Bishop, Complete Prose
Martin Buber, I and Thou
George Eliot, Middlemarch
William Golding, Lord of the Flies
Spaulding Gray, Impossible Vacation
Lorraine Hansberry, A Raisin in the Sun
Joseph Heller, Catch-22 (a nice hardcover version)
Ernest Hemingway, The Snows of Kilimanjaro
James Joyce, Ulysses
Maxine Kumin, Nurture
Jonathan Lethem, Motherless Brooklyn
Bernard Malamud, Magic Barrel
Bernard Malamud, A New Life
Guy de Maupassant, The Great Short Stories
Ian McEwan, Atonement
Ian McEwan, Saturday
Thomas Merton, Complete Poems
George Orwell, Animal Farm
Peter Pereira, Saying the World
Alexander Pope, Complete Poems
Philip Roth, Goodbye Columbus
Aleksandr Solsyneitzen, The Gulag Archipelago
Mark Twain, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (a New York Post Family Edition hardcover)
Mark Twain, Complete Humorous Sketches and Tales
Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass
Tom Wolfe, I Am Charlotte Simmons
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So, ahem, yes. These books account for a large part of my absence from the internets. I picked these up at either 1) the Skaneateles Memorial Library sale, where, at the stroke of the church's 6'o'clock, the gathered bibliophiles darted under the pink tape barrier and had at the beautiful, organized, and extensive collection; 2) the Hamilton Grange branch of the New York Public Library, where I found six books including the new Tom Wolfe in hardcover for $3.50; 3) the Book Cellar in Solvay, New York, which proffers vast rooms full of massmarket books with pink covers and bodices rent in twain, and smaller rooms toward the back with Malamud and Philip Roth; 4) Westsider Books in Manhattan, Broadway & 80th St., where the proprietor knows his Tom Waits.
John Berryman, Homage to Mistress Bradstreet & Other Poems
Elizabeth Bishop, Complete Prose
Martin Buber, I and Thou
George Eliot, Middlemarch
William Golding, Lord of the Flies
Spaulding Gray, Impossible Vacation
Lorraine Hansberry, A Raisin in the Sun
Joseph Heller, Catch-22 (a nice hardcover version)
Ernest Hemingway, The Snows of Kilimanjaro
James Joyce, Ulysses
Maxine Kumin, Nurture
Jonathan Lethem, Motherless Brooklyn
Bernard Malamud, Magic Barrel
Bernard Malamud, A New Life
Guy de Maupassant, The Great Short Stories
Ian McEwan, Atonement
Ian McEwan, Saturday
Thomas Merton, Complete Poems
George Orwell, Animal Farm
Peter Pereira, Saying the World
Alexander Pope, Complete Poems
Philip Roth, Goodbye Columbus
Aleksandr Solsyneitzen, The Gulag Archipelago
Mark Twain, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (a New York Post Family Edition hardcover)
Mark Twain, Complete Humorous Sketches and Tales
Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass
Tom Wolfe, I Am Charlotte Simmons
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So, ahem, yes. These books account for a large part of my absence from the internets. I picked these up at either 1) the Skaneateles Memorial Library sale, where, at the stroke of the church's 6'o'clock, the gathered bibliophiles darted under the pink tape barrier and had at the beautiful, organized, and extensive collection; 2) the Hamilton Grange branch of the New York Public Library, where I found six books including the new Tom Wolfe in hardcover for $3.50; 3) the Book Cellar in Solvay, New York, which proffers vast rooms full of massmarket books with pink covers and bodices rent in twain, and smaller rooms toward the back with Malamud and Philip Roth; 4) Westsider Books in Manhattan, Broadway & 80th St., where the proprietor knows his Tom Waits.
posted by Wil at
5:48 PM
3 Comments:
Peter Pereira is a nice fellow. I have not, however, read his book.
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Anthony Robinson, at 7:24 PM
The purchase and reading of books is a worthy excuse for not attending to one's blog duties.
I am like a (regular) woman and shoes when it comes to a bookstore or library sale. Can't go in without buying something.
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junebee, at 10:05 AM
I think you should stack Elizabeth, George, Lorraine and Maxine together on the shelf so they can cry from their soap boxes to the would-be female authors of tomorrow, "Join us! Your words are worthy!" And no, I am NOT attacking you, William, so keep pouring your cereal and stop eyeing me suspiciously. After all, you purchased what was available. I am attacking societal norms that prevent more women from writing, and I am attacking the women who aren't writing. I am also audibly hurrahing the women that made it on this list, because I know you, and I know you didn't buy those books because they were written by women. You purchased them because they are worth reading on their own merit. So my hat's off to them, and I will only remind you that you are off to teach the writers of tomorrow, and I considerate it your job to even out this list for the future.
- K
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