glebe, newtown & Kinokuniya: aka the booklover's heaven
Books I bought these last three days: (picture me sort of fondling them and inhaling the scent of their paper and glue -- meanwhile lighting the fuse on my allergies -- while I type this)
- Life: A User's Manual, Georges Perec
- Lucifer's Dragon, Jon Courtenay Grimwood
One of the rare sf authors who I don't get depressed reading.
- The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke, translated by Stephen Mitchell
- Uncensored: Views & (Re)views, Joyce Carol Oates
- Fifth Quarter, Tanya Huff, used
An otherwise forgetable fantasy novel I read years back, that somehow ended up leaving a huge impression because of the incredibly hot idea it contained of a brother and sister in the one body. *g*
- Distant Voices, John Pilger, used
- Catch Me If You Can, Frank W. Abagnale, used
- Wolves Eat Dogs, Martin Cruz Smith
rez_lo, it's the new Renko novel! Mmm. I'm two pages in and have already found a bit I love:
Ivanov had arrived at 9:28 P.M., gone directly up to the safest apartment in Moscow and at 9:48 P.M. plunged to the sidewalk. Arkady had measured Ivanov's distance from the building. Homicides generally hit close, having expended their energy in trying not to fall. Suicides were single-minded and landed further out. Ivanov had almost reached the street.
- Life: A User's Manual, Georges Perec
- Lucifer's Dragon, Jon Courtenay Grimwood
One of the rare sf authors who I don't get depressed reading.
- The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke, translated by Stephen Mitchell
- Uncensored: Views & (Re)views, Joyce Carol Oates
- Fifth Quarter, Tanya Huff, used
An otherwise forgetable fantasy novel I read years back, that somehow ended up leaving a huge impression because of the incredibly hot idea it contained of a brother and sister in the one body. *g*
- Distant Voices, John Pilger, used
- Catch Me If You Can, Frank W. Abagnale, used
- Wolves Eat Dogs, Martin Cruz Smith
rez_lo, it's the new Renko novel! Mmm. I'm two pages in and have already found a bit I love:
Ivanov had arrived at 9:28 P.M., gone directly up to the safest apartment in Moscow and at 9:48 P.M. plunged to the sidewalk. Arkady had measured Ivanov's distance from the building. Homicides generally hit close, having expended their energy in trying not to fall. Suicides were single-minded and landed further out. Ivanov had almost reached the street.