i am actually keeping (so far) to my self-imposed ban of staying away from bookshops (including second-hand and charity shops) as i've recently moved and only been able to take a handful of books with me (look, i whittled it down to about a hundred, almost all as-yet unread, except for the Complete Sherlock Holmes, the novels of Dashiell Hammett, the Sandman stuff, Ursula le Guin's 'Language of the Night' and 'Before the Beginning' by Martin Rees, which i'm having to re-read so i can try and understand more)

but i still have a couple of shelves of books i can look at and grin. is it just me that does that?

LeGuin's a marvellous essayist, and that's a good collection. Sometimes I like her essays better than her stories.

I just bought Neil Stephenson's massive new tome The Confusion ... to take to the beach on Friday. (Am I sick or what?)

I also bought McKillip's In the Forests of Serre as a fallback in case I just can't make myself start the Stephenson.

- Cho

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I just bought Neil Stephenson's massive new tome The Confusion

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i think i'm going to have to make an exception in my non-book-buying regime for The Confusion, just because.

(and anyone who does't realise why the full stop is there REALLY needs to read 'Cryptonomicon' and 'Quicksilver')

I really enjoyed Cryptonomicon, but I really do wish at times he'd stop writting such sodding long books. I've not bought Quicksilver yet just because I know how much time it will suck in.

Dragonfly Heart turned up today. thanks Jeff

I just purchased Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur and Beowulf. The edition of Beowulf I bought is really cool. It's a fairly recent translation by Seamus Heaney and it's also has the orginal old english along side the modern translation.

~LT!~

Sock by Penn Jilette and The 9/11 thing. Sock was good. So good in fact, Penn should give up magic and just write.

Oh and I buy at least 20 comics a week.
Planetary and Powers were so good, lastweek.

bead fantasies.

i'm so obssessed with beading. my eyes are getting worse.

but i just.... can't.... stop.... with those... beads.

Most recent purchase: Buddhism Plain and Simple.

a mini astronomy guide, Kate Chopin's Awakening, and some Harold Bloom thing about the millenium.

Italo Calvino's Cosmicomics.

Liquor/Poppy Z. Brite
and I'm waiting for my autographed copy of The Value of X to be sent on the 28th. impatiently I might add.

this isn't entirely appropriate if we're defining this thread as "bought" as opposed to "aquired".

my dear mother - a bibliophile and part-time english major (as are wel all) collects things in spurts - books, china, napkin rings, movies...you name it, she's phased it.

anyway, in a cathardic start to fall she's decided her entire library of classics and american contemporary is to be shed from our halls.

i twitch when i think of it.

too bad i'm spending the next year in europe and won't see my amazing inheritance til i get back.

a book on norse mythology, since i know next to nothing of it. yay books.
and the once and future king
...even though i don't particularly care for arthurian legend... i just thought i should have it around as an option.

i've found a new home, and I bought Bill Bryson's Made in America and I also got Derek Robinson's Goshawk Squadron, for husband or his friend, not for me.

Oh dear, I've gotten a bit carried away. I've just read three William Goldman books in a row and loved them so much that I've just ordered another ten (all old out of print ones via abe.com). Ten? What am I thinking? I've got a huge pile of books to read as it is. Gah!

just bought 'underworld' by don delillo. for no particular reason. don't know what it's about, didn't find the title particularly inspiring. in only saw it's lenghty and decided that after virginia woolf's stream of consciousness i need something lenghty.
hope it's good...

I just bought "In the Shadow of no Towers" by Art Spiegelman yesterday. Very good stuff.

Something Rotten by Jasper Fforde. The lastest in the Thursday Next series. Loved it.

I'm feeling a need to buy some more books, although I have no idea where I'll put them. A trip to the used bookstore in town sounds good.