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Recent Acquisitions #59
Yes, more books. The shelves are full, the house is full, but still they come.
Firstly, a three-volume box set I picked up at the agricultural show yesterday. Probably crap but you never know what ideas might be sparked. Also, the money went to help cats.
True Crime:
Criminal Masterminds: Evil Geniuses of the World of Crime* by Anne Williams, Vivian Head and Sebastian C. Prooth;
Great Unsolved Crimes: Getting Away with Murder* by Rodney Castleden
and
Killers in Cold Blood: Glimpse into the Dark Side of the Criminal Mind** by Ray Black, Rodney Castleden, Gordon Kerr and Ian and Claire Welch.
Just dropped the second volume into my tea. Bah. Now it can't go back into the box until it dries.
Another box set, this one from Penguin, picked up in the Mind shop.
Great Ideas:
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius;
Why I Write by George Orwell;
Civilisation and its Discontents by Sigmund Freud;
A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf;
Why I am So Wise by Friedrich Nietzsche;
On Natural Selection by Charles Darwin;
On Art and Life by John Ruskin;
On the Suffering of the World by Arthur Schopenhauer;
On the Pleasure of Hating by William Hazlitt;
The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels;
Common Sense by Thomas Paine;
The Christians and the Fall of Rome by Edward Gibbon;
The Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau;
A Tale of a Tub by Jonathan Swift;
A Vindication of the Rights of Women by Mary Wollstonecraft;
On Friendship by Michel de Montaigne;
Confessions of a Sinner by St Augustine;
The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli;
The Inner Life by Thomas a Kempis
and
On the Shortness of Life by Seneca.
Phew! That's a few weeks reading right there.
Tomorrow When the War Began by John Marsden;
We Need to Talk about Kevin by Lionel Shriver;
Medical Blunders: Amazing True Stories of Mad, Bad and Dangerous Doctors by Robert Youngston & Ian Scott
and
Across the Nightingale Floor by Lian Hearn.
I also picked up two books from the house wishlist:
The Holy Thief by Ellis Peters
and
Sidetracked by Henning Mankell.
Quite a successful few days.
*presumably, titles like these are how we indicate our condemnation of crime and criminals
**whereas this title merely makes you go, EH?
Firstly, a three-volume box set I picked up at the agricultural show yesterday. Probably crap but you never know what ideas might be sparked. Also, the money went to help cats.
True Crime:
Criminal Masterminds: Evil Geniuses of the World of Crime* by Anne Williams, Vivian Head and Sebastian C. Prooth;
Great Unsolved Crimes: Getting Away with Murder* by Rodney Castleden
and
Killers in Cold Blood: Glimpse into the Dark Side of the Criminal Mind** by Ray Black, Rodney Castleden, Gordon Kerr and Ian and Claire Welch.
Just dropped the second volume into my tea. Bah. Now it can't go back into the box until it dries.
Another box set, this one from Penguin, picked up in the Mind shop.
Great Ideas:
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius;
Why I Write by George Orwell;
Civilisation and its Discontents by Sigmund Freud;
A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf;
Why I am So Wise by Friedrich Nietzsche;
On Natural Selection by Charles Darwin;
On Art and Life by John Ruskin;
On the Suffering of the World by Arthur Schopenhauer;
On the Pleasure of Hating by William Hazlitt;
The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels;
Common Sense by Thomas Paine;
The Christians and the Fall of Rome by Edward Gibbon;
The Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau;
A Tale of a Tub by Jonathan Swift;
A Vindication of the Rights of Women by Mary Wollstonecraft;
On Friendship by Michel de Montaigne;
Confessions of a Sinner by St Augustine;
The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli;
The Inner Life by Thomas a Kempis
and
On the Shortness of Life by Seneca.
Phew! That's a few weeks reading right there.
Tomorrow When the War Began by John Marsden;
We Need to Talk about Kevin by Lionel Shriver;
Medical Blunders: Amazing True Stories of Mad, Bad and Dangerous Doctors by Robert Youngston & Ian Scott
and
Across the Nightingale Floor by Lian Hearn.
I also picked up two books from the house wishlist:
The Holy Thief by Ellis Peters
and
Sidetracked by Henning Mankell.
Quite a successful few days.
*presumably, titles like these are how we indicate our condemnation of crime and criminals
**whereas this title merely makes you go, EH?