15 January, 2007

Christmas book tokens, hooray!

I bought Christopher Booker's The seven basic plots: why we tell stories and the Bloodaxe anthology Being alive which is a follow up to a previous anthology called Staying alive.

Books I want to buy this year: I want more art and photography books, if I can find ones that aren't too expensive. I'd like to buy a bit more poetry, particularly contemporary poetry and poetry in French and German.

4 comments:

Frances Grahl said...

Boring, boring boring. I got to college and found there were a bunch of set texts I needed straight away. So spent them on French grammar, Freud and Nietzsche. Helpful comment from dad on application for refund- 'why aren't you reading Nietzsche in German?' He also bought me another of my set texts for English, Roland Barthes' Mythologies, in French.

woodscolt said...

Ah. I nicked dad's copy of Mythologies in French. At least I'm guessing it was dad's since ma doesn't believe in literary criticism. But I am reading it. Or will be. Eventually.

sphamilton said...

Woods - you're welcome to have a browse through my photography books some time if you like. Or I can lend you my Photographers' Gallery membership card, which gets you 10 per cent discount on everything in their (excellent and extremely comprehensive) shop.

woodscolt said...

That would be great, S. Thanks very much!