I bought yet more books today from Bargain Box, Nadi Town, at the marked price. My first book shopping for this new month, and new additions to my growing yet to be read pile.
I list them below in order of first published date.
1. Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen ($4, Penguin Classics 2015)
First published 1813. Blurb: With its ‘light and bright and sparkling’ dialogue, its romantic denouement and its lively heroine, Pride and Prejudice is Jane Austen’s most perennially popular novel. The love story of Elizabeth Bennet and Fitzwilliam Darcy, who misjudge, then challenge and change each other, is also a novel about the search for happiness and self-knowledge in a world of strict social rules where a woman must marry well to survive.
2. The Virgin and the Gipsy, by D. H. Lawrence ($1.50, Penguin Books 1976)
First published 1930. Blurb: The Virgin and the Gipsy affirms the powers of instinct and intuition in their struggle against the constraints of civilization and anticipates Lady Chatterley’s Lover in its theme. In it Lawrence tells the reverent tale of a young girl’s emotional awakening in the elemental presence of a gipsy.
3. Hung By The Tongue, by Francis P. Martin ($1.50, F. P. M. Publications 1979)
First published 1979. Blurb: This little book, Hung By The Tongue, has helped many to rise from their defeated condition to a victorious life. This is your opportunity. Will you pass it again?
4. Maximum Achievement, by Brian Tracy ($4, Simon & Schuster Paperbacks 1993)
First published 1993. Blurb: You learn ideas, concepts, and methods used by high-achieving people in every field everywhere. You learn how to unlock your individual potential for personal greatness. You will immediately become more positive, persuasive, and powerfully focused in everything you do.
5. Red Leaves, by Paullina Simons ($4, Flamingo 1997)
First published 1996. Blurb: On a New England college campus, the naked body of a beautiful student is found frozen in a bank of snow. Why had she not even been reported missing by her friends?
6. Whitethorn Woods, by Maeve Binchy ($4, Orion Books 2006)
First published 2006. Blurb: Everything is changing in Rossmore. No longer a sleepy Irish town, nowadays it’s a prosperous place, so busy that a new bypass has been proposed.
7. Tell it to the Skies, by Erica James ($4, Orion Books 2008)
First published 2007. Blurb: Suddenly in the middle of a crowded Venice street, Lydia glimpses a face that takes her back to England, back to her childhood and to a dreadful secret she believed she had banished to the past.
8. Shadow, by Michael Morpurgo ($3, HarperCollins Children’s Books 2011)
First published 2010. Blurb: Never has Aman needed a friend more than when a Springer Spaniel appears in the mouth of his Afghan cave. The dog becomes a constant companion, a shadow, and that’s what Aman decides to call her.
I bought this book, Shadow for my nephew JR. I hope he likes it.
And now, which book do I start with?