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Auben -> Wishlists (4/20/2008 12:20:37 PM)

I'm wondering how many of you have book wishlists. What's on it?

For those of you who have huge wishlists (like me) try to keep it down to your top 5-10 choices. [;)]



ta_mosquito -> RE: Wishlists (4/20/2008 12:33:27 PM)

I don't have a huge list, but some books I want to read at some point:

Fahrenheit 451 (watched the movie; want to read the book)
The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders (ditto)



StephK -> RE: Wishlists (4/20/2008 10:43:19 PM)

I have a fairly long one on Amazon. I hadn't checked it in a couple of months but noticed I had found quite a few of the books I have on the list at Goodwill for CHEAP.

Cold Sassy Tree
Gilead
Wide Sargasso Sea
A Passage To India
Interpreter of the Maladies
Mandala: A Novel of India
Reading Lolita in Tehran
A Prayer For Owen Meany

and a whole lot more.



Auben -> RE: Wishlists (4/21/2008 11:55:05 AM)

Nice lists both of you.

I really recommend Interpreter of Maladies and Cold Sassy Tree, Steph.



A little of my list (I also have long lists on Amazon):

Telling the Truth: the Gospel as Tragedy, Comedy, and Fairy Tale by Fredrich Buechner

Kon-Tiki by Thor Heyerdahl (anthropologist tries to prove Polonesia could have been settled from S. American by building a raft and sailing it west)

Dared & Done: the marriage of Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning

The Amateur Immigrant by Robert Louis Stevenson (how he left Europe as a young man to follow a woman he loved across the United States)

A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian (a humorous novel)

M'olokai (novel about the infamous leper's island in Hawaii)

Crossing (autobiography of a man who traveled with the Gypsies as a child before WWII)

The Bread Baker's Apprentice by Peter Reinhardt (cookbook)



techne -> RE: Wishlists (4/21/2008 10:37:50 PM)

· Carson, Anne. Decreation: Poetry, Essays, Opera
· Dewitt, Helen. The Last Samurai
· Elkins, James. Why Art Cannot be Taught
· Feher, Michel. Fragments for a History of the Human Body Part 1
· Feher, Michel. Fragments for a History of the Human Body Part 3
· Grenier, Catherine. Annette Messager
· Hyde, Lewis. The Gift: Imagination and the Erotic Life of Property
· Lyons, Joan ed. Artists’ Books: A Critical Anthology and Sourcebook
· Manguel, Alberto. The Library at Night
· McKean, Dave. Cages
· McLuhan, Marshall and David Carson. The Book of Probes
· The Compact Edition of the Oxford English Dictionary Complete Text Reproduced Micrographically
· Scarry, Elaine. The Body in Pain
· Stewart, Susan. On Longing: Narratives of the Miniature, the Gigantic, the Souvenir, the Collection
· Ward Harrison, Sabrina. Brave on the Rocks: If you don’t go, You don’t see
· Art:21 Art in the Twenty-First Century, Seasons 1-4

(sigh)



Auben -> RE: Wishlists (4/22/2008 9:48:25 AM)

I can understand that sigh, some of those are tall orders. The compact OED for one.

Very technical list, techne. [;)]



techne -> RE: Wishlists (4/22/2008 10:44:20 AM)

quote:

ORIGINAL: Auben
I can understand that sigh, some of those are tall orders. The compact OED for one.

i almost had one about 6 months ago -- a friend saw it for $60CDN but alas, they were driving their motorbike and therefore had no room for it (no bag big enough to place it in).

quote:

ORIGINAL: Auben
Very technical list, techne. [;)]

i have no idea what this means...[;)]

and, of course, there are more. here's my art list:

- Descent - Phaidon
- Annunciation - Phaidon
- Last Supper - Phaidon
- The 1000 Journals Project
- Installations, Mattress Factory, 1990-1999 - Michael Olijnyk, Barbara Luderowski
- Faith And Vision: Twenty-five Years Of Christians In The Visual Arts - Sandra Bowden
- Thomas Allen: Uncovered
- Antony Gormley: Blind Light
- Away From Home
- New Sins - David Byrne
- Anselm Kiefer - Mark Rosenthal
- Annette Messager: The Messengers
- Barbara Kruger: Desire Exists Where Pleasure is Absent
- Ann Hamilton - Hamilton



Auben -> RE: Wishlists (4/22/2008 12:42:26 PM)

I meant you had a rather scholarly list, one I'd expect to see a graduate student (or professor) read than your average Janette Oke.

Anyone who has the OED on their list should know exactly what I mean. [;)]



techne -> RE: Wishlists (4/22/2008 7:37:49 PM)

you just wait until i post my etymology books wish list...



Ganheim -> RE: Wishlists (4/26/2008 3:46:00 PM)

Quite an interesting set of lists. Mine is pretty short for now, I acquired a number of the books that I had on my wish list and now I'm trying to read them so I can move on to the next. I'm heavily into historical works. It probably started with reading The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksander Solzenitzen 'back in High School.

- Aquariums of Pyongyang by Chol-hwan Kang and Pierre Rigoulot
- Death March: The Survivors of Bataan by Donald Knox
- The Gold of Exodus by Howard Blum
- Body Trauma: A Writer's Guide to Wounds and Injuries by David W. Page
- Tracking - Signs of Man, Signs of Hope: A Systematic approach to the Art and Science of Tracking Humans by David Diaz
- Feudal Society, Volume 1: The Growth of Ties of Dependence by Marc Bloch
- As I Crossed a Bridge of Dreams: Recollections of a Woman in 11th-Century Japan by Sarashina
- The Life and Times of Jesus Messiah by Alfred Edersheim

Of course, those don't even touch the reference books I'm utilizing in the local libraries on medicine, medieval weaponry and mythology.



ConstantReader -> RE: Wishlists (4/27/2008 10:53:15 PM)

I have several coming this year, including:

Renegade, Chaos, and Sinner by T3d Dekker.
Field of Blood by Eric Wilson.
House of Wolves by Matt Bronleewe.
Merciless by Robin Parrish.
The Dreamhouse Kings books by Robert Liparulo.
The Rook by Patrick Bowers.

Down the road ('09?), I want to look into some stuff by Francis Schaeffer and Ravi Zacharias.



lexie -> RE: Wishlists (4/28/2008 9:04:52 AM)

I have a few wishlists right now.

At library request list right now:
We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed With Our Families: stories from Rwanda by Philip Gourevitch
When She Was White: The True Story of a Family Divided by Race by Judith Stone
Change of Heart by Jodi Picoult
The Baby Chronicles by Judy Baer
Gods Behaving Badly by Marie Phillips
The Outcast by Sadie Jones

My Chapters wishlist, which is books for my daughter, includes:
The Complete Adventures of Curious George by H.A. Rey
Snowy Day/Whistle for Willie Set by Ezra Keats
The Munschworks Grand Treasury by Robert Munsch
My Granny Went to Market by Stella Blackstone

I've also set the goal of reading through the entire BBC Big Read list (200 books). I already own quite a few from the list (but have not read yet), of the ones I don't own yet, but want to get soon:
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell
Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad



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