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highlyeccentric) wrote2009-02-22 04:12 pm
highlyeccentric) wrote2009-02-22 04:12 pm
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Book-buying account
I bought a lot of books this weekend. Towed my dad around my favourite bookshops. Just as well I got a cheque in the mail...
The loot:
1. Nietzsche - Why I am So Wise
2. Thomas a'Kempis - The Inner Life
$7.50 each, matching Penguin editions. I'm vastly entertained by the prospect of buying Nietzsche and Thomas a'Kempis in a matching set.
3. Michael Swanton: English Poetry Before Chaucer
Lit-crit, ten dollars. I WIN, and Academic Remainders own my soul.
And from The Book Grocer in Kingston:
1. Diana Wynne Jones - Charmed Life
Five dollars. Plus one children's fantasy classic!
2. Virginia Woolf - The Waves
'cos I've never read any Woolf. I think it was about twelve dollars?
3. D.H. Lawrence - Women In Love
Still have to buy Lady Chatterly, but this looks interesting. Ten dollars, i think.
4. Arthur Miller - The Crucible.
Viking Critical Edition. Fourteen dollars. Bonus lit-crit FTW.
5. Someone-or-other Verhulst - The Carolingian Economy
Cambridge UP. Twelve dollars. You'd be surprised how often I need to know about Carolingian economic structures.
6. Joanne Harris - Jigs and Reels
By the woman who wrote Chocolat. Short stories, very pretty, can't remember how much it cost me.
The loot:
1. Nietzsche - Why I am So Wise
2. Thomas a'Kempis - The Inner Life
$7.50 each, matching Penguin editions. I'm vastly entertained by the prospect of buying Nietzsche and Thomas a'Kempis in a matching set.
3. Michael Swanton: English Poetry Before Chaucer
Lit-crit, ten dollars. I WIN, and Academic Remainders own my soul.
And from The Book Grocer in Kingston:
1. Diana Wynne Jones - Charmed Life
Five dollars. Plus one children's fantasy classic!
2. Virginia Woolf - The Waves
'cos I've never read any Woolf. I think it was about twelve dollars?
3. D.H. Lawrence - Women In Love
Still have to buy Lady Chatterly, but this looks interesting. Ten dollars, i think.
4. Arthur Miller - The Crucible.
Viking Critical Edition. Fourteen dollars. Bonus lit-crit FTW.
5. Someone-or-other Verhulst - The Carolingian Economy
Cambridge UP. Twelve dollars. You'd be surprised how often I need to know about Carolingian economic structures.
6. Joanne Harris - Jigs and Reels
By the woman who wrote Chocolat. Short stories, very pretty, can't remember how much it cost me.
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