What Books Have You Recently Purchased?

My list:

  • The Great Gatsby (R)
  • 1984
  • Catch 22
  • The Grapes of Wrath
  • Lolita
  • Animal Farm
  • Lord of the Flies (R)
  • Slaughterhouse Five
  • Brave New World
  • Invisible Man
  • To Kill a Mockingbird
  • Beloved
  • On the Road
  • The Age of Innocence
  • A Farewell to Arms
  • The Old Man and the Sea
  • A Clockwork Orange
  • The Good Earth
  • The World According to Garp
  • One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
  • Fahrenheit 451
  • The Handmaid's Tale (R)
  • Tender is the Night
  • Of Mice and Men (R)
  • All the King's Men
  • The Jungle
  • A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (R)
  • The Fountainhead
  • A Room With a View
  • A Confederacy of Dunces
  • Angle of Repose
  • Rabbit, Run
  • The Shipping News
  • Watership Down
  • A Prayer for Owen Meany
  • The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
  • Main Street
  • The Remains of the Day
  • East of Eden
  • The Stand
  • The Adventures of Augie March
  • The Bell Jar
  • A Thousand Acres
  • The Beautiful and Damned
  • Breathing Lessons
  • The Accidental Tourist
  • The Pearl


Hmm this was for the book worms, I think I am (I ahve read 270 books, not including textbooks for school) but I have not read too many of them. Most of these that I have read were wonderful.
 
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OMG I love Fifth Business. I was part of a trilogy, I 2 of the 3.
 
Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie
The Apple Cart by Bernard Shaw
Kokoro by Natsume Soseki
Bee Season by Myla Goldberg

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how to read literature like a professor:

1. buy the "teacher's edition" of the book
2. read the extra notes in the margins...for teachers
3. share this information with students
4. repeat next semester
 
My book buying spree might cease soon, maybe. I ordered these selections from Dawn Sign Press:

Signing Naturally Level 2 (w/DVD) by Ella Mae Lentz, Ken Mikos, and Cheri Smith
Movers & Shakers: Deaf People Who Changed the World (Storybook) by Cathryn Carroll and Susan M. Mather

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Deaf Culture Our Way: Anecdotes from the Deaf Community by Roy Holcomb, Samuel Holcomb, and Thomas Holcomb
 
I got a book... "Girl with a pearl earring".. but Havent read it yet :D

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Gang Leader for a Day by Sudhir Venkatesh - he's a sociologist. The experience he talks about in the Chicago suburbs was actually the subject of a chapter in Freakonomics, if you've heard of that.

Quite a good read if you're interested in culture and social issues.
 
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