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When I visit my Grandmother, I always visit three places.
A restaurant that specializes in (yummy) soup, the local library, and the very large three-story and awesome used bookstore.
Below are the book-shopping notes I have prepared, so I can remember what to look for, to be stored on my iPod.
Books:
The Unconsoled by Kazuo Ishiguro
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky(Preferably Pevear Translation)
Three Men In a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome
The Baron in the Trees by Italo Calvino
Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann
The Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
Gone With The Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss (Incredibly unlikely, but you never know, right?)
The Egyptian by Mika Waltari
The Real Life of Sebastian Knight by Vladimir Nabokov
Christ Recrucified by Nikos Kazantzakis
The Cloven Viscount by Italo Calvino
The Nonexistant Knight by Italo Calvino
The Castle of Crossed Destinies by Italo Calvino
My Name is Red by Orhan Pamuk
The White Castle by Orhan Pamuk
Haroun and the sea of stories by Salman Rushdie
We Have Always Lived In The Castle By Shirley Jackson
Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town by Cory Doctorow (unlikely)
Westmark by Lloyd Alexander
The Thirteen Clocks by James Thurber
The Ball and the Cross by G.K. Chesterton
Coyote Road, edited by Windling and Datlow(unlikely)
Stardust by Neil Gaiman
I See By My Outfit by Peter S. Beagle
The Great and Terrible Quest by Margaret Lovett
The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
Sea of Shadow by Fuyumi Ono(unlikely)
Our Town (As it's getting increasingly likely that my copy was lost in the mail)
Authors:
Charles De Lint(Unlikely)
Tom Stoppard
Haruki Murakami
Shirley Jacksoni
Kurt Vonnegut
Mikhail Bulgakov
Have read, but want to own:
Welcome to the Monkey House by Kurt Vonnegut
Arcadia by Tom Stoppard
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
Pale View of Hills by Kazuo Ishiguro
War for the Oaks by Emma Bull (unlikely)
A Fine and Private Place by Peter S. Beagle
To get at Grandma's library if can't find at bookstore:
The White Castle
Haroun and the sea of stories
Promises to Keep by Charles de Lint
Lord Peter Wimsey Reading Order:
Clouds of Witness (1926)
Unnatural Death (1927)
The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club (1928)
Lord Peter Views the Body (1928) (12 short stories)
Strong Poison (1930)
Five Red Herrings (1931)
Have His Carcase (1932)
Hangman's Holiday (1933) (12 short stories, 4 including Lord Peter)
Murder Must Advertise (1933)
The Nine Tailors (1934)
Gaudy Night (1935)
Busman's Honeymoon (1937)
A restaurant that specializes in (yummy) soup, the local library, and the very large three-story and awesome used bookstore.
Below are the book-shopping notes I have prepared, so I can remember what to look for, to be stored on my iPod.
Books:
The Unconsoled by Kazuo Ishiguro
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky(Preferably Pevear Translation)
Three Men In a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome
The Baron in the Trees by Italo Calvino
Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann
The Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
Gone With The Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss (Incredibly unlikely, but you never know, right?)
The Egyptian by Mika Waltari
The Real Life of Sebastian Knight by Vladimir Nabokov
Christ Recrucified by Nikos Kazantzakis
The Cloven Viscount by Italo Calvino
The Nonexistant Knight by Italo Calvino
The Castle of Crossed Destinies by Italo Calvino
My Name is Red by Orhan Pamuk
The White Castle by Orhan Pamuk
Haroun and the sea of stories by Salman Rushdie
We Have Always Lived In The Castle By Shirley Jackson
Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town by Cory Doctorow (unlikely)
Westmark by Lloyd Alexander
The Thirteen Clocks by James Thurber
The Ball and the Cross by G.K. Chesterton
Coyote Road, edited by Windling and Datlow(unlikely)
Stardust by Neil Gaiman
I See By My Outfit by Peter S. Beagle
The Great and Terrible Quest by Margaret Lovett
The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
Sea of Shadow by Fuyumi Ono(unlikely)
Our Town (As it's getting increasingly likely that my copy was lost in the mail)
Authors:
Charles De Lint(Unlikely)
Tom Stoppard
Haruki Murakami
Shirley Jacksoni
Kurt Vonnegut
Mikhail Bulgakov
Have read, but want to own:
Welcome to the Monkey House by Kurt Vonnegut
Arcadia by Tom Stoppard
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
Pale View of Hills by Kazuo Ishiguro
War for the Oaks by Emma Bull (unlikely)
A Fine and Private Place by Peter S. Beagle
To get at Grandma's library if can't find at bookstore:
The White Castle
Haroun and the sea of stories
Promises to Keep by Charles de Lint
Lord Peter Wimsey Reading Order:
Clouds of Witness (1926)
Unnatural Death (1927)
The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club (1928)
Lord Peter Views the Body (1928) (12 short stories)
Strong Poison (1930)
Five Red Herrings (1931)
Have His Carcase (1932)
Hangman's Holiday (1933) (12 short stories, 4 including Lord Peter)
Murder Must Advertise (1933)
The Nine Tailors (1934)
Gaudy Night (1935)
Busman's Honeymoon (1937)