#235 where Farah makes some shopkeepers happy
It's been a while, so let's talk books.
I recently spent almost $200 (USD$160-ish) on books, hurrah!
Went into a book chain and bought every Neil Gaiman book available. I even asked the store lady to check their other branches for Gaiman books too because I am absolutely in love with the man's brain MUST READ THEM ALL
In the end I managed to find and bought:
M is for Magic
The Sandman Book of Dreams
Interworld
The Graveyard Book
Coraline
Neverwhere (currently reading)
Of course the much coveted American Gods could not be found, but I will still keep hoping and searching.
I also went to a book fair with the family but it was kind of lousy, too many theology books and screaming kids running around for my liking. But I found this one stall was clearing out some Pocket Penguin books so I snagged them all.
I claimed:
2 Stars Paul Theroux
9th and 13th Jonathan Coe
Three Trips John Updike
Young Bysshe Claire Tomalin
Seventeen Poisoned Englishmen Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Jeeves and the Impending Doom PG Wodehouse
King Arthur in The East Riding Simon Armitage
Cloud, Castle, Lake Vladimir Nabokov
The Kiss Anton Chekhov
The Queen in Hell Close Sue Townsend
War Talk Pat Barker
Summer in Algiers Albert Camus
On Seeing and Noticing Alain de Botton
These volumes are very thin and contain a few short stories each. Right after I paid for these, I glanced to a back shelf and found a pile of these and of course, I bought them all:
The Lesson of the Master Henry James
Krishna's Dialogue on the Soul
Lives of Three Renaissance Artists Giorgio Vassari
Souls Belated Edith Wharton
The Portrait of Mr WH Oscar Wilde
Gilgamesh and Enkidu
The Judgement and In The Penal Colony Franz Kafka
Boule De Suif Guy De Maupassant
The Betrayal of Montezuma Bernal Diaz
The Yellow Wallpaper Charlotte Perkins Gilman
I found these 2 non-fictions at another stall and got them because they looked interesting heh heh:
Pandemonium: Towards a Retro-Organization Theory Gibson Burrell
Comic Book Movies David Hughes
Now to find time to read all these. XD
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I am typing this while listening to the Evita film soundtrack. I am equally sickened and impressed with myself for knowing the all the songs by heart. I am not a big fan of Madonna, but it's worth watching/listening to for Che (Antonio Banderas singing! flail) alone... and the Andre Lloyd Webber/Tim Rice combo of course. :D I actually have a cassette tape of this OST, a souvenir/present from dad when he came back from New York or somewhere. I sort of vaguely remember dad waking me up in the wee hours of the morning when I was a teenager to give the cassette tape to me and I immediately played it in my Walkman and... wow. Antonio Banderas sang Oh What A Circus! (the first song with words, the first two tracks were instrumentals) and I was in love. <3
Oh and I cut my hair again. It's much shorter than before. I'm really happy with this one :D
G'nite! xxx