I left the library without Atlas Shrugged, but I did get a few treasures: A Thousand Splendid Suns, The Woman in White, Slaughterhouse-Five, Never Let Me Go, Lord of the Flies, and A Mad Desire to Dance (an Elie Wiesel book I'd never even heard of). Not to be defeated, I took my family down the street to Bookstore Santa Cruz where I picked up my copy of Atlas Shrugged, and then, because I couldn't help myself, To Kill a Mockingbird, which I was shocked to realize I didn't own and Wolf Hall, because I love historical fiction revolving around the Tudors.
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I'm not saying I'm not buying "books of the hour." They're just going on my Kindle app, saving my shelves for these gems that I can pass down to my kids. I have a lot of work to do.
What literary loot did you dig up this weekend? Any shelf cleaning?
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I want to clean out my "to be read" shelf on good reads
did u buy those books from the library?
I bought most of them at the Friends of the Library, but Atlas Shrugged, To Kill a Mockingbird and Wolf Hall I bought at Bookshop Santa Cruz. :)
Nice haul. But classing "Atlas Shrugged" -- with its silly dialog, two-dimensional characters, dogmatically driven plot, and sillier premise -- with the others is like going to the symphony, and having Ted Nugent storm on stage singing "Cat Scratch Fever"... At least IMHO... =)
A lot of good books there and most of them are on my to read list. As for Atlas Shrugged, I applaud anyone who reads it. I want to read it but remain intimidated.
I haven't purchased anything, recently, but have been downloading a ton of free classics onto my Kindle. Anything from Carmilla to The Biography of Benjamin Franklin has made its way to my kindle lol.
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