Jacob’s Comments (group member since Apr 18, 2010)

Jacob’s comments from the Book Buying Addicts Anonymous group.

I'm new to the group (hi!) and I just bought a third bookcase to accomodate the overflow of books on my first two, so I had to celebrate having extra shelf space. Some purchases over the past week:

From Amazon
The City & the City by China Miéville
The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution by Richard Dawkins
The Communist Manifesto and Other Revolutionary Writings: Marx, Marat, Paine, Mao Tse-Tung, Gandhi and Others, edited by Bob Blaisdell

From The Frugal Muse (local used bookstore)
Season of Migration to the North by Tayeb Salih
Manhattan Monologues: Stories by Louis Auchincloss
Life: A Natural History of the First Four Billion Years of Life on Earth by Richard Fortey
The Qur'an, translated by M.A.S. Abdel Haleem
The Islamic World, edited by William H. McNeill and Marilyn Robinson Waldman
Raffles: The Amateur Cracksman by E. W. Hornung
The Riddle of the Sands by Erskin Childers

From the clearance section at Barnes & Noble
Nights in the Gardens of Brooklyn: The Collected Stories of Harvey Swados by Harvey Swados
Supertoys Last All Summer Long: And Other Stories of Future Time by Brian Aldiss