Category: polysyllabic spree

Books Purchased February 2008 Books Purchased: The Wednesday Wars by Gary D. Schmidt Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy by Gary D. Schmidt The Penderwicks by Jeanne Birdsall The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose by Flannery O’Connor Things I’ve Learned From Women Who’ve Dumped Me edited by Ben… Continue reading Polysyllabic Spree – February 2008

Books Purchased – January 2008 Books Purchased: The Best American Non-Required Reading 2003 edited by Dave Eggers Something Happened by Joseph Heller The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd The Annotated Alice: The Definitive Edition by Lewis Carroll My Mistress’s Sparrow is Dead edited by Jeffrey Eugenides People of the Book by Geraldine… Continue reading Polysyllabic Spree – January 2008

Better late than never? Books Purchased (or in this case, received as gifts!): Books Acquired – Decemeber 2007 The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera (gift) Penguin by Design by Phil Baines (gift) Rosie Little’s Cautionary Tales for Girls by Danielle Wood (gift) Portraits and Observatios: The Essays of Truman Capote (gift) At Large… Continue reading Polysyllabic Spree – December 2007

There wasn’t much time for book buying or reading in November. Books purchased: Books Purchased November 2007 Books read: Books Read November 2007 My complete Polysyllabic Spree can be found here . I haven’t seen Atonement yet, but I would recommend reading the book before seeing the movie. To quote from Entertainment Weekly, “Their movie… Continue reading Polysyllabic Spree: November 2007

It was a good month for books. Books Read: Books Read October 2007 Books Purchased: Books Purchased October 2007 I read a few more books than usual this month, due to the glory of audio books. I listened to both the Augusten Burroughs books. I put my actual copies of the books in the picture… Continue reading Polysyllabic Spree October 2007

Oh goodness. September was a crazy book month. I had Birthday Month Mentality, whereby any book is a reasonable present to myself. Then, many people kindly bought some books I’ve been wanting as presents for me. And I also went to one of the greatest used book stores in the world, The Book Nook, while… Continue reading Polysyllabic Spree September 2007

Books Purchased: Books Purchased August 2007 Books Read: Books Read August 2007 I did really well with not buying so many truckloads of books this month. Also, of those three books, I’ve already read two (Clementine and Thunderbolt Kid) so I only added one new book to my heaps of books that need to be… Continue reading Polysyllabic Spree – August 2007

Books Read – July 2007 Books Purchased – July 2007 I really need to work on getting my books purchased pile to be smaller than my books read. As always, my complete Polysyllabic Spree can be found here. (This post was brought over from emilyw.vox.com. Click here for the original post and comments.)

Despite June flying by at what I’m sure is record speed, I still managed to accumulate an alarming number of books purchased. This was mainly due to having a $100 AMEX gift card and a lot of time to browse in Strand. And five of these books were purchased for book signings. Books Purchased –… Continue reading Polysyllabic Spree – June 2007