What was the last book you purchased?
Whether you have read it or not, what was the last book you bought for yourself. Why did you buy the book (was it recommended to you, did the cover catch your eye etc).
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Story. It was recommended to me for my screenwriting.
Kitchen Confidential and The Walking Dead book 2 (In hardcover!)
Beginning Programming for Dummies, although after reading some of it, I realized I’m a loser and never amount to anything lol! But seriously, I’m learning a lot about programming in general, but I don’t think I want to dedicate my time to this.
Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations. Another book I was reading referenced it
Scorpia Rising, it is the last of the Alex Rider series by Anthony Horowitz. I bought it for my oldest son to feed his reading habit during summer vacation. He finished it in a weekend.
Blink and my last book given to me was a great book on gardening tips….I love it!!
Shallow Sex for Dummies! Lol.
My last buy was World War Z, an epic fight to rid the world of zombies. So far so good. It makes the Walking Dead stories like a single paragraph in a children’s book.
Dream Work by Mary Oliver, a collection of her poems that I like the best.
It arrived on Saturday, I will reread the collection and then give it to a friend who just had a second hip replacement.
Cannonball! by Brock Yates. It’s about the real “Cannonball” races that he and others took part in during the 1970s. I’m reading it because I’ve always liked “Cannonball Run” type movies and the idea of being able to drive from coast to coast at high speeds appeals to me. I’ve never seen the cover; it was a digital purchase.
Friday Night Bites It’s book 2 in the Chicagoland Vampire series. I bought it because I read the first one in the series to see if I would like it and I did, so I immediately got the second one.
Swamplandia by Karen Russell
about a family of gator wrestlers in a failing Everglades theme park. The writing is evocative and stunningly beautiful.
If by “purchased” you mean “stole from the internet”, then The Greatest Show On Earth, by: R. Dawkins.
If by “purchased” you mean “used money to buy”, then it was in 1992, in London at a book festival. I was 9 years old and I purchased IT, by S. King. It was 8 pounds 50.
A biography on Galileo Galilei.
I ordered quite a few books – they haven’t arrived yet – all centered around this one topic: the relation between science and truth, since I’ve been having some fiery discussions with a friend of mine, so I wanted to stock up on arguments, and also because it’s a topic which really really interests me.
Two of them are:
– Against Method by Paul Feyerabend
– The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas Kuhn
In the literary area the last one was… Black Mischief by Evelyn Waugh.
Because he’s awesomely pompous.
Kahlil Gibran’s The Prophet which I like to carry around in my bag and read excerpts from.
“American Pastoral” by Philip Roth
I bought it because it’s considered by many literary critics to be one of the great 20th century American novels. I’ve read early Philip Roth books and liked his writing style, so I skipped ahead quite a few books to read his magnum opus.
I just got another one on glaze technology….very suspenseful!
I also have Mark Twain’s autobiography sitting on the table.:)
Last Saturday night I bought Ian McEwan’s Solar. I like his writing and it sounded interesting. I will start it right after I am done with Hunger Games.
The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet’s Nest – Stieg Larsson
Bought it 3 months ago for my Nook, and I’m still waiting to read it.
The Genie in the Machine how computer-automated inventing is revolutionizing law and business
I purchased it online.. i’m interested in computer science, especially in programming and artificial intelligence..i probably read its review in the newspaper- “Its intriguing how we are using computers to invent stuff! We are in the Artificial Invention Age and computers are becoming intelligent day-by-day ..Its going to have a major impact on the speed and direction of our progress… but we also have to take care of the patent laws…”
Miss Julia Rocks the Cradle. It’s the next book in the “Miss Julia” series by Ann. B. Ross. She is one of my very favorite authors. I highly recommend the series!
The whole series is about a proper southern woman of a certain age, who by a series of tragedies and completely unexpected events, ends up (quite accidentally) living a very adventurous life, filled with previously unknown family, quirky friends, a devoted housekeeper (and partner in “crime”), a pushy and intrusive preacher, and a gentleman caller whom she has kept (with great difficulty to her own heart) at arm’s length.
Seven Pillars of Wisdom by T.E. Lawrence
I got three books for my daughter, Mess, This is not a book and wreck this journal
for myself it’s The Locavore’s Handbook – The busy Person’s guide to eating local on a budget
Fun with Dick and Jane…..
Not really. I got the Hunger Games last week to find out what it was about. Oh. My. Gosh. Now I HAVE to see the movies.
Player One by my favorite contemporary author, Douglas Coupland. I think it might be my new favorite book by him, as well.
Following a train of thought that originated on Fluther (thank you @nikipedia) I bought this for my Kindle, if that counts.
The one that @josie recommended here. I ordered a used copy from Amazon and haven’t received it yet.
The most recent arrival was this one. My son recommended it to me because he knows I dote on stuff like that.
A cookbook called Great British Cooking.
^^That belongs in the oxymoron thread.
@tinyfaery – Oh, now… at least I know how to make a Yorkshire pudding, finally.
@aprilsimnel or as my four year old calls them – pain au chocolat ;-P
I just bought Highway to a War by Koch which I have read before but don’t have a copy and wanted to read again. It’s about a war photographer and was a very compelling story as far as I remember.
I bought a photography book last month and I still have to get time to read it.
The Happiness Project by Gretchen Ruben——I checked it out from the library and wanted to highlight in it constantly so I broke and bought it. I refer to it often ;)
“http://www.happiness-project.com/”
The Help – it’s about 1960’s South – black servants and the rich people who employ them. It was recommended by a friend, and I found out it’s coming out in the movies, as well. I am going to a book discussion on it at the local library on Thursday 6/16.
@jca: My daughter, who just flew back to BC after a wonderful two-week visit with me, was reading The Help and raving about it.
Every morning over breakfast, she exhorted me to read it next, and so I will.
She majored in English lit at that school in Providence, and I always admire her taste in books (but I am prejudiced.)
It’ll be a while for me, since I have other things to do and read. My daughter’s enthusiasm is a favorable review, as far as I am concerned.
My husband rarely reads anything but computer manuals and technical literature read The Help the week after I read it which was the week it was released…He still is talking about that book months later. For the week he was reading it, he kept bringing up each character, and his wonderings about how it would all come together and end.
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