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May 21, 2013 0:46:12 GMT
Post by Darkness on May 21, 2013 0:46:12 GMT
Tonight I finished Ariel's Gift, by Erica Wagner. Excellent literary criticism. Almost felt like I was back at university.  |
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May 22, 2013 13:27:09 GMT
Post by Darkness on May 22, 2013 13:27:09 GMT
Just starting How To Be a Woman, by Caitlin Moran.
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May 22, 2013 22:38:54 GMT
Post by Thrin on May 22, 2013 22:38:54 GMT
Yesterday and today I have been reading Sylvia Plath's Ariel (the restored edition, with an introduction by her daughter, the poet Frieda Hughes, and facsimilies of Plath's original drafts of some of the poems). I love Sylvia Plath May have become a bit obsessed with reading the Game of Thrones series. I have so many other books that I bought recently that I should read, but I've been sucked in! |
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Jun 5, 2013 12:04:32 GMT
Post by Darkness on Jun 5, 2013 12:04:32 GMT
Just starting Moranthology by Caitlin Moran. Her other book was ace and this one looks brilliant too. I think I love her.
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Jun 7, 2013 22:36:57 GMT
Post by Goblin King on Jun 7, 2013 22:36:57 GMT
May have become a bit obsessed with reading the Game of Thrones series. I have so many other books that I bought recently that I should read, but I've been sucked in! I haven't seen the TV series yet, but there's a few fandoms on Tumblr. Does it compare well to the books? Will they appeal to my D&D geekery side? |
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Jun 12, 2013 22:42:07 GMT
Post by Thrin on Jun 12, 2013 22:42:07 GMT
Well I'm only on the second book and they've stuck quite faithfully to them so far, though I've heard it drifts away from them a little later on. I don't know if you'd like it, I'm not a lover of 'high fantasy' usually but I'm really enjoying it, whereas my bro loves all that sort of stuff and couldn't get into it at all.
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Jun 13, 2013 16:38:56 GMT
Post by Goblin King on Jun 13, 2013 16:38:56 GMT
Interesting. As usual my can't-be-seen-to-be-indulging-in-something-that's-actually-current book-snobbery will mean it might be a year or so before I venture near them. I'll be honest, posters of Sean Bean brooding on that uncomfortable looking chair have put me off a little.  |
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Jul 28, 2013 22:28:06 GMT
Post by Darkness on Jul 28, 2013 22:28:06 GMT
A couple of christmases ago, GK bought me a book called Weird Things People say in Bookshops. His mum has just bought me volume 2 of the same thing. Perfect for me, after having put up with the stupidity of some customers over my 10 years in the trade. |
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Jul 30, 2013 19:15:57 GMT
Post by Goblin King on Jul 30, 2013 19:15:57 GMT
"Do have any books?" Might try to read Gormenghast again - got a bit stuck in the second book last time. Watching the DVD atm |
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Aug 10, 2013 9:55:06 GMT
Post by Thrin on Aug 10, 2013 9:55:06 GMT
Loved Gormenghast. Currently reading Atlas Shrugged. I do love dystopian novels |
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Aug 18, 2013 17:09:37 GMT
Post by Goblin King on Aug 18, 2013 17:09:37 GMT
Dystopian - there's a word that always takes me back to A-level English.
Bought the digital/Kindle version of Gormenghast because I'm the rarely in the same building as my paperback copy - unlike my iPad -which travels about with me like a type of wifi-growth.
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Aug 19, 2013 21:38:54 GMT
Post by Goblin King on Aug 19, 2013 21:38:54 GMT
Ooh, Atlas Shrugged looks really interesting. Why was this not on my radar before?
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Aug 26, 2013 17:01:56 GMT
Post by Goblin King on Aug 26, 2013 17:01:56 GMT
Nearly sold this second hand copy of '84-'87 House of Hell today - I'd forgotten how bad it was. I let the buyer know and am now sending him a shiny 2002 edition. Attachments:
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Aug 26, 2013 21:03:35 GMT
Post by Darkness on Aug 26, 2013 21:03:35 GMT
Currently drooling over the new Oxford World's Classics catalogue.
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Oct 21, 2013 5:48:40 GMT
Post by Darkness on Oct 21, 2013 5:48:40 GMT
Last night I finished A Very British Murder by Lucy Worsley, then read More Weird Things People Say in Bookshops by Jen Campbell.
Now reading The Invention of Murder by Judith Flanders.
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Nov 24, 2013 11:21:42 GMT
Post by Darkness on Nov 24, 2013 11:21:42 GMT
December Cosmo magazine. I'm highbrow, me. |
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May 9, 2015 13:57:56 GMT
Post by Darkness on May 9, 2015 13:57:56 GMT
Wuthering Heights, for the 4th time, although the last time was 20 years ago at university. Reading it now for OT book group in hospital. We read a couple of chapters a week, then meet for half an hour to talk about what we've read. Enjoying it. |
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Oct 12, 2015 19:13:47 GMT
Post by Darkness on Oct 12, 2015 19:13:47 GMT
Am going to get rid of my Shakespeare collection. I have all the plays, poems, sonnets, etc, in separate books, book but it's not as if they all match or anything. Some are RSC editions, some are Arden, but then a lot are cheap crappy Wordsworth editions. GK has said he'll take them off my hands, and I've ordered a beautiful RSC Complete Works volume to replace them. The real issue is lack of space, and I downright refuse to stop buying books just because of that....
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Feb 14, 2016 23:48:20 GMT
Post by Darkness on Feb 14, 2016 23:48:20 GMT
The Castle of Otranto, by Horace Walpole - widely considered in academic circles to be the first truly 'Gothic' novel, written in the latter half of the 18th century.
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Feb 28, 2016 1:01:44 GMT
Post by Goblin King on Feb 28, 2016 1:01:44 GMT
The Ballad of Halo Jones
A 2000AD comic strip by Moore and Gibson.
(electronic version was on special offer)
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Apr 5, 2016 7:55:05 GMT
Post by Darkness on Apr 5, 2016 7:55:05 GMT
I very recently bought a pile of cheap Wordsworth Classics (£1.99 each) to complete my Charles Dickens and Thomas Hardy collections. I'm a sucker for a good old Victorian yarn.
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Apr 26, 2016 11:09:34 GMT
Post by Goblin King on Apr 26, 2016 11:09:34 GMT
 Today's arrivals. (Darkness has already teased me about the middle one. Apparently "Woodland Warriors" is a very serious game!) |
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