Category: polysyllabic spree

Books Purchased: Mathilda Savitch by Victor Lodato Irish Folktales by Henry Glassie and Francine Kass Dead End Gene Pool by Wendy Burden Backing into Forward by Jules Feiffer A Summer of Hummingbirds by Christopher E. G. Benfey Third Helpings by Calvin Trillin The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark Candide by Voltaire Books… Continue reading Polysyllabic Spree – April 2010

This is officially a new record in lateness putting up a Polysyllabic Spree post. :) Life has been too busy to keep up with lately, and I apologize for my absence here. Books Purchased: Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins About Town: The New Yorker And The World It Made by Ben Yagoda Round Ireland with… Continue reading Polysyllabic Spree – March 2010

Books Purchased: More Six-Word Memoirs edited by Smith Magazine The Road to McCarthy by Pete McCarthy Ireland: True Stories of Life on the Emerald Isle edited by James O’Reilly Little Bee by Chris Cleave The Sixty-Eight Rooms by Marianne Malone Books Read: Inklings by Jeffrey Koterba (library) Stitches by David Small (library) Permanent Rose by… Continue reading Polysyllabic Spree – February 2010

Books Purchased: The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens Kitchen Essays by Agnes Jekyll The Help by Kathryn Stockett Miss Hargreaves by Frank Baker Books Read: Shades of Grey by Jasper Fforde A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers… Continue reading Polysyllabic Spree: January 2010

Books Purchased: Shades of Grey by Jasper Fforde The Fantastic Mr. Fox by Roald Dahl Animal Vegetable Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne (present) I am the Messenger by Markus Zusak (present) Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout (present) The Pursuit of Love & Love in a Cold Climate by Nancy Mitford… Continue reading Polysyllabic Spree – December 2009

Books Purchased: A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton Cathedral by Raymond Carver Funny Business: Conversations With Writers of Comedyby Leonard Marcus Eat, Memory edited by Amanda Hesser Secret Ingredients: The New Yorker Book of Food and Drink edited by David Remnick The Paris Review Interviews vol. IV edited by Philip… Continue reading Polysyllabic Spree – November 2009

Books Purchased: The Queen of the Tambourine by Jane Gardam The Man Who Ate Everything by Jeffrey Steingarten Look at the Birdie by Kurt Vonnegut The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Prisoner’s Dilemma by Trenton Lee Stewart Fire by Kristin Cashore The Wild Things by Dave Eggers (fur covered edition) Bright-sided by Barbara Ehrenreich Books… Continue reading Polysyllabic Spree – October 2009

Books Acquired: Books Purchased September 2009 Graceling by Kristin Cashore Pilgrims by Garrison Keillor The Magicians by Lev Grossman The Most Beautiful Book in the World by Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt For Grace Received by Valeria Parrella Best American Non-Required Reading 2009 edited by Dave Eggers The Tenth Muse: My Life in Food by Judith Jones (present)… Continue reading Polysyllabic Spree – September 2009

Books Purchased – August 2009 Books Purchased: Love Begins in Winter by Simon Van Booy When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead The Impostor’s Daughter by Laurie Sandell A Room With a View by E. M. Forster Margherita Dolce Vita by Stefano Benni The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling The Secret Lives of People in… Continue reading Polysyllabic Spree – August 2009

Books Purchased – July 2009 Books Purchased: Fragile Things by Neil Gaiman American Gods by Neil Gaiman The Crowning Glory of Calla Lily Ponder by Rebecca Wells A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole I’ve been wanting to read American Gods, and I found it new for $5.95 at Strand. I’ve also been wanting… Continue reading Polysyllabic Spree – July 2009

This is a little late – I feel sort of drained creatively and am struggling to write anything. Hopefully I snap out of this writing rut soon. Books Purchased: Books Purchased – June 2009 Picnic, Lightning by Billy Collins Our Story Begins by Tobias Wolff The Reader by Bernhard Schlink Literary New York by Susan… Continue reading Polysyllabic Spree – June 2009

Books Purchased: Books Bought – May 2009 Alice, Let’s Eat by Calvin Trillin Another Marvelous Thing by Laurie Colwin A Big Storm Knocked it Over by Laurie Colwin The Lone Pilgrim by Laurie Colwin A Very Private Eye: An Autobiography in Dairies and Letters by Barbara Pym The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery The… Continue reading Polysyllabic Spree – May 2009