What's your most recent literary purchase?

[Pashernate_Lover]

Gang Leader for a Day- neat book about a sociologist studying gangs from the inside.

[chicken]

ooohhh...gang sociology sounds nifty, i know i'd enjoy that!

but i've SOOOOO many books!!!!
*in a whining voice*

this week marked the kick-off for the very last full topic in my psych of religion course: ritual.
i started class with readings from my "Mentality of Apes" book by Wolfgang Kohler--the students responded with enthusiasm at the notion of proto-ritualistic dancing in chimpanzees. woot!! score!! the last two classes found that notion to have not one bit of appeal, but this class is a different story. i got so excited words were fumbling out of my mouth again and again...which only added to the hilarity, of course.
wednesday i get to start class with the topic of using "prayer beads." i've recently discovered they are used in christianity, islam, hindu, buddhism, and baha'i. the only 'major player' among religions i didn't find using them is judiasm--but i'm tempted to think that's just a glitch in my knowledge.

just wanted to say i used one of my recent purchases in class and it went swimmingly.
back to your regularly scheduled programming:

[Boxguy]

[Truman Capote]

[Boxguy]

[chicken]

[Truman Capote]

[Pashernate_Lover]

Anyone else read The Only Lovers Left Alive? It was smutty as hell! But fun-- not a book I would recommend to someone that wants a real life changer but I had a good time with it-- quite a laugh if I say so myself! Especially with the author being breast obsessed, honestly if you don't laugh aloud reading the smut scenes then your sense of humor needs more exercise

[Still Ill]

Ha ha, smutty. With a title like that, how's it end?
Anyone read any of the 33 1/3rd series? I have Unknown Pleasures and If You're Feeling Sinister, which I just started last night. Should be quick reads. But they'll be fun just for the sheer pleasure of collecting.

[Pashernate_Lover]

[helmoz]

"the more you ignore me" by jo brand (yes, it's full of morrissey references ) and a book about travelling around europe on the cheap (hope to one day...).

[Pashernate_Lover]

[Nymphetamine]

A way of life: Over thirty years of blood, sweat and tears. - Reggie Kray is my most recent literary purchase for the summer.

[HeavenKnowsImMozzerable]

All Too Human: A Political Education by George Stephanopoulos (the only one that makes me proud to be Greek)
Moby Dick by Herman Melville
some Siegmund Freud
and all of John le Carre's spy novels