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Birthday - what book shall I buy myself?

August 18th, 2009 at 05:45 pm

Every year on my birthday, I buy myself a book (naturally). Some years, it's been luxe like an art book - Odilon Redon's BEYOND THE VISIBLE. That was a cush present, even at the Strand in NYC (one of the world's best bookstores - like there's a bad bookstore). Some years it's been thrift stores or a non-bought book, like a book found on the street or a neighbor's treasure left on the stairs for a lucky bookworm, like me.

I'm feeling philosophical and these books are speaking to me, at fifty cents apiece at the church thrift store: Harold Kushner's WHO NEEDS G-D; Dale Carnegie's HOW TO STOP WORRYING AND START LIVING; and Viktor E. Frankl's MAN'S SEARCH FOR MEANING. More deep than I thought I'd be on my birthday, but again these books are'speaking to me'. What does it mean?

Anybody read Kushner, Carnegie or Frankl? Which ones? Can you recommend any authors?

Oh yeah. I bought them all.

2 Responses to “Birthday - what book shall I buy myself?”

  1. ceejay74 Says:
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    Hmm...can't help you there. My book reading usually veers toward escapist true-adventure or true-crime novels, experimental literary fiction and the classics, and the occasional fiery-progressive-political or quirky-social-history book.

  2. whitestripe Says:
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    for my birthday a couple of years ago my DF bought me SoftFruits, a book on Japanese Harajuku Fashion, literally hundreds of photographs of crazy outfits. I've got three of them now Smile

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