Thought that’d get your attention. It certainly always gets mine.
Popular Penguins, the collection of distinctively-covered popular books which sell for just $9.95, are releasing another 26 titles in September.
As always, this gets me going. Books I’ve been meaning to read for a long time for less that $10?! Yes please! Also making me ridiculously happy is the fact that Borges’ “Labyrinths” is on this list – a book the whole world should read multiple times, and now at $9.95 they’ll have no more excuses.
Not sure I can get behind the Bryce Courtney, but… you win some, you lose some.
13/05/2011 at 5:15 pm
Love the classic $10 reads. Was the Borges a short story we read in World Myths last year?
15/05/2011 at 4:33 am
Yep, was stoked to see JLB on the list too. Labyrinths is my standard book present – now that it’s cheaper, everybody wins!
Of those in the list I don’t have, I’ll pick up Zadie Smith. Read some of her criticism, watched videos of her speak, but haven’t read her fiction.
15/05/2011 at 8:36 am
I’ve only read White Teeth of Zadie Smith’s, but I loved it. Really tight.