Your last book ordered in 2011?

[Extollager]

I just learned there's a new translation of Dostoevsky's The Insulted and Injured, something I don't have in any translation and have never read, so that's my last Amazon order for the year.

http://www.amazon.com/dp/0802825907/?tag=brite-21

I started elsewhere a thread on our last books acquired for this year. What was yours? What's the last thing you've ordered? I realize some of y'all can actually go to a bookstore and buy the books you want. Boy, not me!

 

[TheDustyZebra]

Ha! Mine were Christmas presents for the kiddos, so put me down for LMNO Peas and a 1973-1974 Peanuts compilation. Just before that, and probably the only book I ordered for myself all year, would be my prize for the 300-word challenge -- Save the Cat, The Last Book on Screenwriting That You'll Ever Need.

 

[dask]

THE LAST MUSTANG, a collection of western yarns by Frank Bonham was the last book I got this year.

 

[Interference]

Rob Brydon's auto-biog. I gave it to my sister for Christmas. I gather it's a good read with some interesting emphasise, which may have been advised by his publisher, but ought to be funny withal.

 

[GOLLUM]

I purchased half a dozen books on Dec 31, 'off the shelf' as it were rather than on order...that I've posted about already under Book Hauls....so very briefly....

The World Of the Book - Cowley & Williamson. *Crammed full of lavish illustrations and explanatory text providing a comprehensive commentary on the history of the book and printing.

The Art of the Personal Essay - Phillip Lopate *This is the best historical anthology available that features the art of that sometimes neglected but important Genre of 'the Essay'.

That Awful Mess on the Via Merulana - Carlo Emilio Gadda *NYRD edn. of what is generally regarded as one of the finest post-war Italian novels admired by authors including Alberto Moravia and Italo Calvino.

The Martyred - Richard E. Kim. *Penguin black classic edn. of a classic Korean novel.

A Hero Of our Time - Mikhail Lemontov *Penguin black classic edn. of what is considered to be the first major Russian novel.

The Underdogs : A novel of the Mexican revolution - Mariano Azuela *Penguin black classic edn. of the best known work of the Mexican revolution and an essential item to own for anyone interested in collecting, as I am, the best the 'Latin American' canon has to offer.

@Extollager: That new translation of Dostoevsky's The Insulted and Injured looks interesting. It's not a work I am at all familiar with, so any comments you post on these forums will be of particular interest to me.

 

[Jo Zebedee]

Spike Milligan's collected writings for my hubby, which I've had a delve into; it's very funny. I got a collection of horror-fantasy short stories, so how romantic was that?

 

[Mouse]

Just looked in my order history on Amazon and the last book I bought in 2011 was a boxset of Peppa Pig fairy tales.

(For a friend's daughter, I might add!)

 

[steve12553]

Trio for Blunt Instruments (Nero Wolfe Mysteries) by Rex Stout. My book collection is still about 4 to 1 Science Fiction over other genre, though.

 

[elvet]

Just ordered yesterday:
Skirmish by Michelle Sagara West
The Eyre Affair By Jasper Fforde
The Iron Jackal by Chris Wooding
Magister Trilogy #1 Feast Of Souls , Magister Trilogy Book Two Wings Of Wrath , Legacy Of Kings by Friedman
Shadowheart and Shadowrise by Tad Williams