went slightly book mad and ended up with close to a year's worth of reading:
kafka - stories 1904-1924grossmith & grossmith - diary of a nobodysomerville & ross - the irish rmanthony trollope - the pallisersivy compton-burnett - parents & childrenivy compton-burnett - a father & his fatesylvia townsend warner - mr fortune's maggotelizabeth bowen - the last septembercapel boake - painted claydali - hidden facesjohn berger - gstig dagerman - games of nightthomas tryon - the othersimenon - maigret sets a traphenry james - english hoursdickens - selected journalism 1850-1870stevenson - dr jekyll & mr hyde/weir of hermistonhorace walpole - castle of otranto/hieroglyphic talesthe common muse: popular british ballad poetryroland barthes - selected writingscervantes - don quixoterabelais - gargantua & pantagruelbalzac - cousin ponsgautier - mademoiselle de maupinflaubert - madame bovarypushkin - eugene oneginbulgakov - the white guardthomas hardy - wessex talesthomas love peacock - novels ofcs lewis - that hideous strengthmichael moorcock - an alien heatmichael moorcock - the hollow landsroger zelazny - isle of the deadjulian symons - bloody murdergraham greene - a gun for salerobertson davies - the deptford trilogyrussell hoban - riddley walkerthomas pynchon - crying of lot 49italo calvino - our ancestorselias canetti - auto da fewilla muir - imagined selvesgeorge painter - marcel proustgerard manley hopkins - poems and prosejoyce cary - the horse's mouthralph ellison - invisible manjoseph heller - closing timedeighton - billion dollar braindeighton - game, set, match trilogy
also a number of pulp/crime/ghost/horror anthologies. now to try and find shelf space for them all.
― no lime tangier, Monday, 25 March 2024 19:41 (one month ago) link
I have come to accept that I do not have meaningful amounts of shelf space left, nor do I have wall space to put shelves against, and I'm just a person who is going to have piles
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Monday, 25 March 2024 21:46 (one month ago) link
Carrying all those books will do that to you.
― I would prefer not to. (Chinaski), Wednesday, 27 March 2024 12:37 (one month ago) link
Just logging my last buys and stuff I got from Xmas gifts now:
S. Yizhar - PreliminnariesMiguel Asturias - Mr. PresidentAlejo Carpenter - Explosion in the CathedralShakespeare - Julius CeasarLucio Cardoso - Chronicle of the Murdered HouseAndrei Platonov - ChevengurStanislaw Witkiewicz - InsatiablityWittold Gombrowicz - FerdeydukeYasunari Kawabata - The Old CapitalYasunari Kawabata - The RainbowV. S. Prtchett - A Cab at the DoorHenry Green - ConcludingJohn Donne - SermonsJeremy Taylor - Four SermonsOsvaldo Lamborghini - Two StoriesHoracio Quiroga - Beyond
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 7 April 2024 15:03 (two weeks ago) link
if you have piles you could take a book suppositoryor not as the case may be.
― Stevo, Sunday, 7 April 2024 15:12 (two weeks ago) link