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Made another trip to McKay's today and found quite a bit of interest in their Foreign Languages aisle. Languages fascinate me and I thought it'd be interesting to pick up elementary guides to Finnish and Gujarati, in case I want to learn bits and pieces of those language to go with the dozen or so grammars in other languages I already own. Picked up two books in French, and five in German, including Hesse's Der Steppenwolf, which I will read later this year or next.
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A little bit to my surprise I have recently been extremely lucky to obtain advance reading copies of three of my most awaited books for 2012 and as they cover the 3 areas of English language fiction that is of most interest to me to... Read Post

Pepetela (Angola) and Mia Couto (Mozambique) Over the past week or so, either through my two trips to Nashville's largest used bookstore, McKay's, or through purchases online, I have acquired an interesting collection of books from ... Read Post

Bought a few books, including two replacement copies, during my latest trip to McKay's in Nashville. Saw an interesting Steve Erickson novel, The Sea Came in at Midnight and snagged that for a couple of dollars, as well as getting t... Read Post