What was the last book you bought?

"Bye Bye Balham", Richard Herring.

 

Auryvedic Medicine, Auryvedic Cookbook

 

I love Richard Herring - do you read his blog and listen to his podcast?

 

I've heard some of the podcast, and try to keep up the with blog. The book is a collection of the first six months of the blog, and it's a great read. Check out www.gofasterstripe.com for the book and DVDs of his superb stand up shows...

 

life on air - david attenborough

my hero

 

Nights at the Circus - Angela Carter
because I have to teach it

 

Lonely Planet India...

 

The 'Boudicca' books by Manda Scott

 

The Lords and The New Creatures By Jim Morrison.

I love his poetry, I highly recommend it!

Blessings
xxx

 

The Last Watch by Sergei Lukyanenko.

Good book, I highly recommend the entire "Night Watch" series by him if you like fantasy type books.

 

wild swimming.
swimming the coves and hidden beaches of britain. can't wait for my next road trip.

 

The Summer of Love by Lisa Mason. I had to buy another copy because I wore out my first two.

 

Literary Darwinism: Evolution, human nature and literature

 

I bought three books from Borders: Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solhenitsyn and Vanity Fair by William Thackery.

I read Fathers and Sons first - took me a while to get in to it even though it was only a short novel (less than 200 pages), but thoroughly enjoyed it once I did. I like Russian novels from that period anyway (I'm a big Tolstoy fan), and I've got a degree in politics so this book with its theme of father-son relationships, emerging class and political awareness and the philosophies of anarchism and socialism were right up my street.
Next I read Vanity Fair. It took me a while to get into it and I wasn't sure about if for the first hundred pages but I ended up being thoroughly absorbed into the plot and with the characters and their lives. It's an excellent book, it really is. My only criticism was that I found the end was a bit rushed when it eventually came - it was like the author tied up all the loose knots in a hurry and after having read five hundred odd pages that slowly revealed events in the characters lives in detail, I felt a bit let down by the rushed ending. Still, the story as a whole was a brilliant read.
I haven't started reading Solhenitsyn yet - having a break in between novels.

 

I bought Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer a few weeks ago after being touched so deeply by the film.

 

"Rogue States" and "Letters from Lexington: Reflections on Propoganda" by Noam Chomsky and "Cold War" by Fidel Castro (actually, it's credited to Castro but is a transcript of a 2003 interview with NBC).

 

TIKHAL The Continuation - Alexander Shulgin & Ann Shulgin

enjoyed PIKHAL, so thought i'd get this one too... haven't managed to start reading it yet as there is a cue of books pending and i can't concentrate too well at the mo... but it will get read, eventually...

 

Ser humano - Krishnamurti

 

The Dharma Bums - Jack Kerouac