Around the World in 80 Books discussion

Tell us all about books you have recently bought or borrowed from your library!

I had to borrow Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman.
I absolutely wanted to read this book but couldn't find it at the secondhand bookshop and it is too expensive to buy (34 euro!) and so I went to the library.

moshimoshineko wrote: "I'm currently borrowing all the books I am reading from the main library of Copenhagen:

-Purple Hibiscus - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
-The Bean Trees - Barbara Kingsolver
-The Fellowship of the Ring..."

I really enjoyed Purple Hibiscus and the Lord of the Rings Trilogy.

One Fifth Avenue by Candace Bushnell and Map of True Places

Must admitt, both novels much more liked than expected.

I'm grabbing the Moviegoer (Percy) and Out of Africa (Dinesen) for my Thanksgiving break.

Just finished There is No Me Without You by Melissa Fay Greene.
Now I am reading, I'd Like to Apologize to Every Teacher I Ever Had by Tony Danza

I borrowed The Reader by Bernhard Schlink..

I'm heading towards Germany in my Around the World challenge.. as soon as I finish my France chapter..

Just bought new books!
Ignorance
Mortal Engines
Bend Sinister
Half of a Yellow Sun
Magic Bites
Identity
Laughable Loves
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
Chew, Vol. 1: Taster's Choice
All used too! Can't wait until they come in! Does anyone else get as excited as me when books arrive in the mail?

Recently Borrowed

I buy so few books now that I'm in a retirement community with one small bookcase in my one bedroom apartment--the library has become my best friend :-)

However, I just purchased Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances by Neil Gaiman and The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro. Can't let these two authors pass by--and I just purchased my third copy of Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch, since I keep giving that one to friends. When Terry Pratchett died recently, I wanted to put the book back on my shelves; he and Neil Gaiman had so much fun writing it, and Gaiman's tributes to Pratchett are very moving.

Not that I needed any more books for my TBR shelf, but when to Longfellow's Books today because former U.S. Senator George J. Mitchell was there, signing his memoir The Negotiator: A Memoir. What a gracious man! And, while I was there I also bought two novels -- The Book of Aron: A novel by Jim Shepard and A History of Loneliness by John Boyne. Boyne is one of the Irish authors whose books I enjoy.

Library loans -

I recently bought "Ripley's Game." I have read the first two Ripley novels by Patricia Highsmith - "The Talented Mr. Ripley" and "Ripley Under Ground." "Ripley's Game" is the third. I am not big on crime fiction, but I will make an exception with Tom Ripley: He is much too sick to ignore.

I recently bought The Heir <3

Recently went on a spree because I haven't bought books in a while.
Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
Revenge
Parade
Strange Weather in Tokyo
A Death in the Family: My Struggle Book 1
Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
The Lowland
How to Be a Woman
The Year of Reading Dangerously: How Fifty Great Books (and Two Not-So-Great Ones) Saved My Life

I did my book shopping during the last February 2016 book Fair in Casablanca:


Memoirs of a Korean Queen by Dame Hong
The Dark road by Ma Jian
Yasashii uttae by Yogo ogawa
La saison de l'ombre by Leonara Miano
Sozaboy by Ken Saro-Wiwa
Tete de poivre by Nadia Chafik
the comity by Sonallah Ibrahim
I killed shererazade by Joumana Haddad
les ailes brisées by khalil gibran

Hello all,

Technically speaking I neither bought nor borrowed books today. I won the 1st prize of the Morocco Mall's Fnac culture store's April book lottery. I won 100 books I selected during 1h30 among a pre-selection of the store. Those 100 books have a value of about 2.500 USD. I chose mostly literature novels from diverse origins and also a few books on fine arts.

Moushine wrote: "Hello all,
Technically speaking I neither bought nor borrowed books today. I won the 1st prize of the Morocco Mall's Fnac culture store's April book lottery. I won 100 books I selected during 1h30..."

Wow!

Moushine, I hope you enjoy your amazing win. What an absolute dream for a book lover. I am really jealous.

Moushine wrote: "Hello all,

Technically speaking I neither bought nor borrowed books today. I won the 1st prize of the Morocco Mall's Fnac culture store's April book lottery. I won 100 books I selected during 1h30..."

That is an amazing prize. How lucky you are!
Which book are you going to read first?

Rosemarie wrote: "Moushine wrote: "Hello all,

Technically speaking I neither bought nor borrowed books today. I won the 1st prize of the Morocco Mall's Fnac culture store's April book lottery. I won 100 books I sel..."


With so many books to read, deciding which one to read first is a difficult choice. However, I miss reading books in English; therefore, I am going to read first the only 4 novels in English I found:

The last runaway by Tracy Chevalier
lost memory of skin by russell banks
Stumbling giant by Timothy Beardson
End this depression now by Paul Krugman

Enjoy, Moushine!

Books I recently bought:

The Master and Margarita
Blood Meridian
Ferdydurke
A Game of Thrones
Insurgent
The Lightning Thief
Suite Francaise
Eragon
My Struggle Part 1
The Last Wish
The House of Scorpion
The Land of Silver Apples.

I recently bought To Kill A Mockingbird and placed an order for The Fifth Season, though I haven't received it yet :(

The Miniaturist, Jessie Burton
All the Light we cannot see, Anthony Doerr
and an old copy of VS Naipul's Beyond Belief. In these accursedly interesting times, we can never be too well-informed of each other's cultures, opinions, religions...

Books I recently bought:

The Death of Achilles by Boris Akunin
A Beam of Light by Andrea Camilleri
Game of Mirrors by Andrea Camilleri
A Constellation of Vital Phenomena by Anthony Marra
Six Four by Hideo Yokoyama
The Language of Secrets by Ausma Zehanat Khan
The Septembers of Shiraz by Dalia Sofer

I recently bought Magic Slays book 5 in the Kate Daniels series by Ilona Andrews. Also, Dead Wolf Walking which is book 3 in the Shapes of Autumn series by Veronica Blade.

I borrowed Sense and Sensibility

I recently bought Coffin Road By Peter May

Bought - can't wait, it was just released. I loved

On loan from library I had and and and . All really good.

Now I have and - both on death and dying.