Never too Late to Read Classics discussion

I brought bunch of kids book from the library today.

Peppermint by Dorothy Grider

The Poky Little Puppy's Wonderful Winter Day by Jean Chandler

The Story of Tom Kitten

The Night Before Christmas

The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle by Beatrix Potter

Patsy the Pussycat by Mabel Watts

The Cat Next Door by Elizabeth Koda-Callan

Cats Goes Fiddle-I-fee by Paul Galdone

Clifford at the Circus by Norman Bridwell

Two Louisa May Alcott Under The Lilacs and Jack and Jill

Alicia, some great finds! Merry Christmas!

Wow! All those, and a double helping of LMA!!!

I picked Origin by Dan Brown (Hardcover) and Me before You by Jojo Moyes (Paperback) late November. I am not a very disciplined reader.. sometimes it takes me only an eight hours long train journey to finish a book and sometimes even eight months are not enough.

My recent acquisitions were Paul Auster's Mr Vertigo and The snows of Kilimanjaro - Hemingway. Next year challenges ;)

Merry Christmas!

Thank you, Alicia.

Merry Christmas to you, and to all our members.

Ana wrote: "My recent acquisitions were Paul Auster's Mr Vertigo and The snows of Kilimanjaro - Hemingway. Next year challenges ;)"

Ive been looking for Hemingway's The Snows of Kilimanjaro was hoping Santa might bring it tonight!!

Merry Christmas Ana!

Merry Christmas Alicia! Have a beautiful day!

Hey Lesle, and? :) Did Santa remember your "request"?

Not today, but my Birthday is tomorrow so thinking....(Cross your fingers!)

*Fingers crossed* Heheheh ;)

Lesle, I hope you get your wish!

My husband gave me Gumbo Ya-Ya: Folk Tales of Louisiana for Christmas today. I am very excited to read it, but I have a few books ahead i want to quickly enjoy. The book was first published in 1945 with material gathered by the Works Progress Administration, Louisiana’s Writers’ Project, and with help from the Louisiana State Library Commission. Louisiana has some very unique cultural history, and it’ll be fun to learn more of it.

Samantha that sounds like a very exciting and fun book to learn about some Folk History of Louisiana!

Should be a great read!

For Christmas:
The Noel Diary
and a First Edition of Go Set a Watchman (which I know the regular Edition is part of the REWARD for 2017, but I did not get one for myself. Now I am glad I did not!)

For my Birthday:
The Broken Road
The Sun Also Rises a Hemingway Library Edition
The First Five Year Garth Brooks The Anthology Part 1

Exciting additions to my Library! Thank you family and friends!

That is a nice bunch of books, Lesle.

Today I bought my last book for a while, Everything Flows by Vasily Grossman at a used book store.
I got The Keepers of the House by Shirley Ann Grau for Christmas.

Nice Christmas Gift and find Rosemarie!

I have one shipment coming that I ordered myself. Hopefully I will be done for a while. Maybe skip every other month?? haha! Already trying to figure out how to shop for books!

So its still freezing here 14 F. So I was bummed until I got home and opened the mailbox... Hemingway's The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories

You will not believe what was inside, other than brand new pages?
A receipt from "Roxanne's Reflection" a book and card shop at 157 St. David Street North, Fergus, Ontario purchased on Saturday September 2, 2000 for $39.59 Canadian and a bookmark from there as well!

Alicia wrote: "I brought bunch of kids book from the library today..."

Alicia not sure how I missed this post! Some wonderful finds! Great job book hunting!

I have actually been to Fergus, Ontario. It is a cute little town with lots of limestone houses. There is a wonderful used book store in the neighbouring town of Elora.

I did not google it. Sounds like a pretty little town.

Lesle wrote: "So its still freezing here 14 F. So I was bummed until I got home and opened the mailbox... Hemingway's The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories

You will not believe what was inside,..."

Wow, Lesle! I find it so interesting and exciting when random objects are found in used books. When I worked at Salvation Army Thrift Store for about a year, I found an assortment of things in books - usually photos and receipts. I always get nostalgic when finding a stamp for the Prairieville, LA bookstore, The Book Rack, in used books. That's my local bookstore that closed 2.5 years ago.

2 days ago I actually found two stacks of great books at Salvation Army. Of all the contemporary and classics I picked, I am most thrilled at finding Life on the Mississippi It is in perfect condition, a fairly new copy, and even had stickers on the cover from Baton Rouge's bicentennial that happened last year. The stickers made me wonder if it was first picked up at the Louisiana Book Festival in October.

That is exciting! To find a used book especially at a thrift store in
good condition (let alone perfect) makes me happy! Wonderful find for you Samantha!

Good evening!

Lesle, the receipt in the gift box you got on January 5, 2018 from the Ontario bookstore equals about $US28.80.

Went crazy on two occasions obtaining books in the last week. On January 10, 2018 at my local library, I geeked out by borrowing the following:

The Music of the Primes: Searching to Solve the Greatest Mystery in Mathematics by Marcus du Sautoy.

One to Nine: The Inner Life of Numbers by Andrew Hodges.

Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer.

Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea by Charles Seife.

Three days later my wife and I raided the 50% off and 75% off Barnes & Noble clearance bins to the tune of $US31.08 for nine books:

For my wife Susie

Betty Crocker 300 Calorie Comfort Food: 300 Favorite Recipes for Eating Healthy Every Day by Betty Crocker.

Betty Crocker Healthy Heart Cookbook by Betty Crocker.

Foods that Harm and Foods that Heal Cookbook by Editors of Reader's Digest.

Taste of Home Slow Cooker Throughout the Year: 475+Family Favorite Recipes Simmering for Every Season by Taste of Home.

For me:

Great Historical Blunders by Pere Romanillos.

The Greatest Adventures of Sherlock Homes by Arthur Conan Doyle.

The Custom of the Country & Other Classic Novels by Edith Wharton.

William Shakespeare: Complete Plays by William Shakespeare.

Classical Mythology by Various.

A History of the World in Numbers by Emma Marriott.

Jim

Jim, I read the book about Zero a few years ago, also from the library,and found it interesting.

Jim, that looks like as bad as my last book raid at Salvation Army. I came home with 2 grocery bags full of books; most were contemporary, though, with a few classics mixed in. Thrift stores are great for book finds - low prices and amazing finds, but you do have to usually dig.

I have not bought any books this year, but did download two H.G. Wells free ebooks onto my ipad. The last book I bought was on December 31.
Of course, I still go to the library, usually for books for goodreads challenges or book discussions, but not always.
I am avoiding all places where I can buy books!

Jim, Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer, is extremely good, hard to take, for me at least, the end.

Rosemarie, avoiding places that sell books is probably a good idea. Finding intriguing books at a good price is simply too easy.

Samantha wrote: "Rosemarie, avoiding places that sell books is probably a good idea. Finding intriguing books at a good price is simply too easy."

Truer words were never spoken.

Samantha wrote: "Rosemarie, avoiding places that sell books is probably a good idea. Finding intriguing books at a good price is simply too easy."

Very true. Also avoided ebay!

Good morning,

My wife dropped me off at B & N last evening while she visited her mother for an hour and a half. While I wandered around looking at books--and even grabbed an NIV (New International Version) of the Bible and read my daily readings, which included the book of Numbers chapters 19 and 20 and the book of Paul's second letter to the Corinthians chapter 5, after which I returned the Bible to its shelf--I looked at but bought none of the B & N paperback classics on sale for $5.00 USD each.

Jim

*groans* B&N is my other weakness! Spend $100 last weak on bunch of books! And I already have pile books I work through too!

Wow Jim! Not sure I could have been that strong!

That is truly amazing, Jim. Walking in and out of B&N without making a purchase is hard.

I did get a hot chocolate at the cafe.

Jim

Yummy hot chocolate!

It's still amazing you walk away without buy books especially $100 worth of books.

Yes. I'm weak. *sigh*

Samantha wrote: "That is truly amazing, Jim. Walking in and out of B&N without making a purchase is hard."

Jim wrote: "I did get a hot chocolate at the cafe."

I miss having a local B&N. I used to walk there often and browse the stacks. I would usually have them order the books I wanted since I usually wanted books that weren't stocked. They also had a cafe, so between the coffee and the books, it was one of my favorite places to while away an hour or two. Unfortunately they closed at the end of 2015.

The last bookstore in my parish closed in May 2015. There’s another new/used bookstore about 20 or so minutes away from me in a neighboring parish & B&N by the Mall of Louisiana in BR about 20 minutes away (depending on traffic). I think there’s still a Books-a-million one exit before the mall, too. I avoid Baton Rouge when possible, because Louisiana drivers are bad enough. Traffic in BR is horrible. Therefore, any new books I buy these days come from Walmart, amazon, abebooks, or thrift stores. Our K-Mart in my town closed last spring, and I keep hollowly wishing that B&N would buy the empty building.

Kroger grocery store bought our old KMart building. Tore it down and build a huge store!

We lost our Waldens Book store years ago. We have a locally owned used bookstore that has a very small section of Classics.

Our Hospital has a used bookstore (Twig) but it is only open 3 days a week and about 4 hours each day.

Have to go 30 miles to get to a Barnes and Noble or Half Price Book store.

Lesle wrote: "Kroger grocery store bought our old KMart building. Tore it down and build a huge store!

We lost our Waldens Book store years ago. We have a locally owned used bookstore that has a very small sect..."

Lesle, I really thought I responded to this. Attached to our K-Mart is a large, locally owned grocery store. Across the highway is Wal-Mart. Those surroundings leave a big question in the air as to who will eventually take over the old K-Mart building. We finally got a movie theater in town almost 4 years ago, so I will not give up hope that one day Barnes & Noble will come to this parish. If it ever comes here, the best chance is more likely for a location by the Tanger Outlet Mall next to the interstate. With Cabela's and more restaurants every year by Tanger, that could happen.

I ordered this week from B&N a beautiful leatherbound copy of Aesop's Illustrated Fables . Tuesday it arrived, and I could not be happier with the quality. For collections like that, I hope for the most complete edition available, which sometimes takes investigation, especially when I like to get fancy volumes for some classics.

Hi everyone:)
I too have added a few books to my collection this year. I have picked The Tenent of Wildfell Hall, Jane Of Lantern Hill, The Constant Gardener, Rebecca, Persuasion, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie, The Silent Corner by Dean Koontz, The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien, The Ocean At the End of the Lane by Neil Gayman and Looking for Alaska by John Green that I remember of my list so far.

I use to buy my books from Amazon.in as there are none of the book stores in the close vicinity. Mostly I pick paperback editions but sometimes I get by luck even the hardcovers at a very competitive price.
All of these books aren't classic and I am thinking of reading at least 3 popular contemporary ones and seven true blue Classics this year.

In 2017 I managed to finish just 4 books but this year it is going to be better indeed and in a more planned manner :)

You have a nice variety of books there, Rachana. Something for every mood.
I hope your reading plans work out well for you.

Rachana, the last two you mentioned have been well liked by my cube mates at work.
I hope you enjoy them as much as they did.
Looking for Alaska was Beth's favorite and chatted about it for a week!

Finally arrived on Monday: Memoirs from Beyond the Grave, 1768-1800 by Chateaubriand



This is the first unabridged translation of any portion of Chateaubriand's masterpiece to appear in English in over a century.


Next up: Berlin Alexanderplatz by Alfred Döblin.



This one I've been waiting for, for a long, long time. Finally in English, unabridged, for the first time. I have its release date marked on my calendar, literally.

There is another translation of the Chateaubriand that is available online and that is advertised as complete, by A.S. Kline: http://www.poetryintranslation.com/PI...

The Age of Innocence.

Went to Kroger and on the way out I decided to stop at the Twig Bookstore. I found 3 books for $2.50.

Evelina by Fanny Burney
The Prisoner of Heaven by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
The Parasites by Daphne du Maurier

Wish my groceries was that cheap!

Great bargains, Lesle. I really enjoyed The Prisoner of Heaven.