March was a heavy book buying/mooching/trading/borrowing month on LT.
And April will probably be just as rewarding! Don't be an April Fool! Bring home some books, and tell us about them. (Then visit the thread about book related neuroses for some support from like-minded bibliophiles.)
Well since Borders sent me a 40% coupon for any book and I have to use it by tom. I think I will bring at least one book home on April Fool's Day!
I predict I will have a heavy mooching month, other people's inventories allowing. (I don't think I've ever had much more than half a dozen points before the Good Friday Storage-Retrieval Run: it was followed by a Listing Spike and an Easter Weekend Mooching Run, which are both still sputtering on a little. Now I have nearly twenty points burning an e-hole in my e-pocket.)
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printing out that borders coupon as we speak! back tomorrow to list my new additions :) happy april fools everyone! (hopefully that coupon isn't an april fools though, that would suck)
I've got an ARC of the next John Connolly.
I left my book at home today, so picked up another for the bus ride home, I'm so hopeless, now have
Never Let Me Go I read an a chapter on Amazon and have been looking forward to it. Will alternate with
Catch 22>6 shelby:
Never Let Me Go is really making the LT rounds right now! I just finished it; what a great book!
In fact, I liked it so much, I got another of his books from the library yesterday:
Remains of the Day. Also brought home Rejection, Romance and Royalties : the Wacky World of a Working Writer by
Laura Resnick.
I'll be bringing something home tonight, I'm sure. I also have the 40% off coupon from Borders. I can never resist, even though I know they'll soon be sending me another one.
My extra batch book,
Franklin and Lucy by Joseph Persico just arrived via UPS (perfect timing, because all I have read in
Handmaid's Tale is the first little chapter, so I can set it aside for awhile). I don't know what happened to my March book, though...
@6 - I read
Never Let me go earlier this year and loved it. Very beautifully written.
Today I went to the Borders that is right across the road from my work...it was my first time in the store since starting here last week. I am so impressed with my will power!! Although now that the seal has been broken (so to speak) I'll probably be a frequent visitor.
Anywho...I went into the store to pick up
Jim Butcher's newest Dresden book (just released today)
Small Favor. Then I slipped in my mantra of chanting 'stay focused, get in, get the book, get out' by wandering too far into the store. So ended up with
The Book Thief and
Persian Girls as well. There were a few others that tried to follow me home but I was able to lure them back onto the shelf with promises of next time....
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I loved
The Book Thief, I listened to the audio book. It was wonderful.
Hoping to join the GroupRead - Literature group, I bought
Middlemarch - technically yesterday but...
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My 40% off coupon from Borders was burning a hole in my purse, so I stopped on my way home. All three books were LT recommendations:
Mallory's Oracle by Carol O'Connell
A Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin
Shakespeare: The World as Stage by Bill Bryson (touchstone not working)
I almost brought home two more books, but then remembered my library's used book sale is this Saturday.
I too fell prey to the 40% off coupon and came home with
The Outlandish Companion by Diana Gabaldon,
The Dark Queen by Susan Carroll, and
Fer-de-Lance by Rex Stout (this after having two people recommend the Nero Wolfe books to me).
They gave me another coupon for the weekend as I was leaving...
A very nice man in brown delivered
Right Ho, Jeeves right to my door, completely unbidden ;-)
He also had Volumes 1 & 3 from Anne Rice's
Sleeping Beauty Trilogy. Amazon was out of 2, so I had to order it from another seller.
ETA: ooh, ooh, Talbin, you're starting Mallory!!!! Let us know how you like it!
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I am currently reading InkHeart written by Cornelia Funke. It is a really interesting book because you are reading a book about a book.
@15 shootstarr - they give me those weekend coupons all the time. its a horrible vicious circle...for how can any book addict in their right mind let a coupon expire?
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I know. I just looked at the guy and said something to the effect of "Because another coupon is just what I need."
#15 shootingstarr7 and #20 Irisheyz77
Damn coupons! I'm from Canada and our biggest book chain Chapters has what they call their "irewards" program: basically, you pay $25 per year and you are then entitled to 10% off everything in the store (or 5% if you buy online) at any time during the year. When you pay your annual fee, they give you a coupon booklet. Last week my TBR pile took a dive from the cupboard I keep it in and as I was replacing everything so that the doors would close, the sheer volume of volumes in my possession kinda had me saying "enough already" - plus my friend had just given me 8 more in the afternoon, so I took the last coupon in the booklet and ripped it to shreds...
I'm still feeling guilty...
Kathy
kmbooklover - your chapters sounds like the Barnes and Noble reward program. Its positively evil!
Borders rewards program is free to join and after you spend a certain amount you earn $ dollar off coupons....and then they send you pretty little 40% off coupons and news on various sales and promotions that they are having.
I also gave up trying to get a handle on my TBR pile. One of these days the books are going to rise up and revolt against me....burying me beneath them in outrage for being neglected for so long. so if a lot of time goes by and no one has heard from me....please send help!
So, I made this resolution that I wasn't going to buy any books for a while to get my TBR shelves to a manageable level. Then I saw the group that was reading War & Peace is considering reading
Middlemarch next, so of course I needed that. Then, Borders sent me a coupon, so of course
Crowning the Kansas City Royals was necessary. Don't ask me how I'm going to justify
Conversations with Tom Petty or
A Thousand Days. *sigh* My name is Jen, and I'm a book addict.
Hi Jen. Welcome to the group! I'm Irish, fellow shamless hopeless book addict.
Jen, you are among friends. We all share the sickness! ;o)
>16 citygirl - Yep, I saw the thread in the Crime group about Mallory and decided I needed to see what everyone was talking about. Mysteries are my secret escape literature, and I love finding a series that I can start at the beginning!
>27, 28 Being around fellow book addicts only encourages my addiction, I think. I blame LT for at least half of my recent purchases.
>30, LT TOTALLY encourages addiction. I have put 105 books on my wishlist in the past month - that's just how many are still on it! It doesn't even count the ones I've already bought off of the wishlist, or the books that I bought because I found them at Half Price Books when I went in to get things off of the wishlist.
My parents gave me (book) money for my birthday and the first of my purchases came in today. All of them are from series/authors that I am currently reading:
By Faye Kellerman:
The Ritual Bath,
Sacred and Profane,
Milk and Honey,
Day of Atonement,
False Prophet,
Sanctuary, Justice, Prayers of the Dead, Serpent's Tooth,
Jupiter's Bones and
Stalker.
By Daniel Silva:
The Mark of the Assassin,
The Messenger,
The Marching Season,
The Kill Artist,
A Death in Vienna,
The Unlikely Spy,
Prince of Fire,
The Confessor and
The English Assassin.
Now if only my Book Closeouts order would come in . . .
Earlier this week from The Book Depository in the UK:
Voices, the third mystery in the series by Arnaldur Indridason
Sorry by Gail Jones (I have her previous two books)
Swiftly by Adam Robert (his latest)
notice they are all one word titles. . .
On the same day from Amazon:
Dark Integers by
Greg Egan (for the hubby)
Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout (a collection of stories centered around one woman, set in Maine, PW gave it a great review)
From the library:
A New England Tale by Catharie Maria Sedgwick
24 - Irisheyz77
I keep track of your thread in the "50 book challenge" - I got your back!!!
:)
Irish, if you die under a pile of books, can I have your library?
Yesterday (one of) my book(s) from Marktplaats.nl came in:
Les Contemplations, a collection of poems by
Victor Hugo, which I only bought because it has the exquisite "Demain, des l'aube" in it. I'm not much of a poetry lover, but that one is just so beautiful.
I received my first BookMooch book today. How much fun! Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson with illustrations by N.C. Wyeth. It's beautiful. I almost feel guilty.
Used a giftcard to Barnes & Noble yesterday and came out with more than expected:
Emma by Jane Austen
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
Stori Telling by Tori Spelling
Now if I can only find time to read them all along with everything else.
Went to the library today and picked up Kafka at the Shore by Murakami Haruki and
1984 by George Orwell. Both looks like very interesting read.
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No less than 3 books in the mail for me today through Marktplaats.nl!
One flew over the cuckoo's nest by
Ken KeseyThe cider house rules by John Irving
More than human by Theodore Sturgeon
I've really been out of control these past couple of days, but I decided I could see if any of the books on my wish list were for sale on Marktplaats.nl and they were and that makes it so much cheaper than buying them new from Bol.com, so actually I've been really frugal...
...my name is Yvonne and I'm a bookaholic...
Initial D #1 came in today from a BookMooch member. Hurrah! Books via mailbox is my favorite way of getting them, I think.
Two tidy little packages from PBS:
Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
I have a feeling I'm not going to like this, but I can't resist seeing what the fuss is about. At least I won't have paid money for it if I am right.
Gil's All Fright Diner by
A. Lee MartinezRead about it on an LT-thread and thought it looked like fun.
#52 jlcardwell I, too, have read some of Lauren Willig's books and bought
The Scarlet Pimpernel at the Thrift Shop! Great minds. You'll probably get to it before me, so let me know what you think.
i was passing a local charity shop and the ... had books outside on the windowsill. i spotted
A high Meadow by
John B. Keane so, naturaly, i had to go in and buy it. while in there i also picked up
Any old Iron by Anthony Burgess and
Heros and villains by Angela Carter. it's not too bad: 3 books for 4€, but the mount is really starting to take over now--Help
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STOCeallaigh -- give in to it. It's easier that way.
I received a slightly worn 1930 first edition copy of The Mountain Wreath by Petar Petrovich Nyegosh which I am going to read for the Reading Globally: Former Yugoslavia choice.
I also received a gift from a friend who works at a bookstore in Stuttgart, a paperback copy of
Istanbul by Orhan Pamuk, signed by the author!
A banner book day!
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The book fairy dropped by today and left:
Speak, Memory - Nabokov's autobiography. Yum.
Side Effects: A New Orleans Love Story - Patty Friedmann. I didn't realized it would be hardback. Bonus.
The Uses of Enchantment - Heidi Julavits.
The Dutchman - Maan Meyers. I'd never heard of this author (actually a husband and wife team until that author cluster thing whose name I cannot remember grouped it close to Carol O'Connell, one of my faves and the reviews looked pretty good so....
Wit's End by Karen Fowler was in my mailbox today, apparently I won an early reviewer edition from a website. I'm not complaining, I just don't remember doing it!
Sounds like an interesting haul, jlcardwell. Oooh, hours and hours of page feasting.
The Story Girl by L.M. Montgomery was sent to me by a fellow BookMoocher.
Our library had a book sale, as well! But I didn't know about it, UGH. I stopped in to pick up some books I'd requested and I had NO CASH and NO TIME so I had to exercise incredible restraint. Hopefully they will have another one soon.
Meanwhile, on loan from the library I have
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle and
First, Break all the Rules.
>68 lindsacl - I think you'll love Kingsolver's book - especially now that it's gardening season! (although, I felt so inferior with my relatively meager harvests). It's inspiring at any rate.
I got my best friend
Beowulf: An Illustrated Edition (translated by
Seamus Heaney) for his birthday, and it looked so wonderful that I had to get myself one too! (I'm embarrassed to say that I've never read Beowulf, but I'm excited about reading it.)
I'm embarrassed too, so that's why I put
Beowulf on my 888 challenge for the year. I was quite excited to learn that I actually already had it - Harvard Classics #49 Epic and Saga. Not that I really know anything about it, but it is a translation by Francis B. Gummere.
I bet you get to it before I do!
karenmarie: It's nice to know that I'm not the only one! :)
@36 teelgee - if I die when my books topple on me then you can have all the ones that won't fit into my casket. ;-)
Today I received
The Venetian Mask in the mail. Its the best sort of book...free. =)
scaifea, I think the Heaney translation is the best so far. Enjoy!
>87 -- just use a book shelf for a casket.
@90 - i figure that my family can cremate me and spread my ashes in the coffin....that should leave plenty of room for all my favorites....
My advanced reader's edition of
Jordan Dane's No One Heard Her Scream arrived from Harper Collins today. :D
I received Make Loneliness by J.Reuben Appelman in the mail yesterday. He was a former college professor. I think it's his first book of poetry every released. I'll probably have it read in a day.
Ah, the Marktplaats.nl bird left a wonderful present on my doorstep (actually, he put it in the mailbox, how clever is that?!):
Life of Pi by
Yann MartelMy friend was raving about it and although the titel is of course very familiar, I've never read it. When I thought about why not, I found out because I hate maths and even though the book very probably isn't about maths, the titel was enough to put me off!
Today ((Cormac McCarthy's)) ('The road' ) fell through my letterbox. Started reading it and had to put it down before I filled my head with enough nightmares to fuel a week of lost sleep. However, I have to find out what happens, so I'll gird my loins and carry on, but it feels like strong medicine. Why am I reading it? I guess because it's referred to in so many 'green issue' posts on the internet and also in the media.
But oh my word, it is soooo depressing.
debigliori, hang in there -- not that it gets any less depressing, but it's really a brilliant book.
fyi: to get the book and author links (touchstones) to work, use the squarish brackets instead of the parentheses. Find them just to the right of the P key.
Aaaahhhhh - sisaruus, to die for!!!! I just heard her interviewed this morning on Democracy Now.
'Scuse me, I have to wipe the drool off my keyboard now.
My first book purchase of April:
The End of the Alphabet, by CS Richardson. I bought at the grocery store, of all places, in a 40% off bin. There were actually about half a dozen books that I'd call literary fiction, but I'd read most of them. I pulled as many of them out from under books as I could and arranged them on top of the self-help books. Shesh, I should work at a book store.
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Celebration: I BOUGHT A BOOK YESTERDAY!!!! :-D I've only bought one other this whole year, and that was with a gift voucher (but if you saw my library list on the other hand...)
Bought book =
The remains of the day. I'm starting in reverse from everyone else, this is my first Ishiguro and it's started off excellently :)
Library books borrowed yesterday =
A morbid taste for bones (my first Ellis Peters) and
Interesting Times which I've since discovered I've read before, didn't think I had.
Chocolate- I just finished Remains of the Day and thought it was brilliant. Congrats on picking a winner as your second book o' the year! Enjoy!
teelgee (#103),
Isabel Allende did a reading last night at Harvard Square. I saw her last year in Hartford (sponsored by the YWCA). The two talks were very different (at the YW, quite serious; last night, quite amusing) yet she was wonderful each time. I am looking forward to the next opportunity.
Yesterday I received the manga Loveless Volume 1 in the mail.
teelgee - thanks for the tip about brackets. So. last night I finished
The Road by Cormac McCarthy and had a really hideous nightmare a few hours later. Mind you, that's hardly his fault, but right now, more nightmares I do not need. I tried my very best, but I could not connect with anything redemptive about this book - for sure the parent/child love was there, but it was somewhat swamped by the endless burnt landscape, the drifting clouds of ash ( what on earth happened?) and those unutterably gruesome images ( two of) that frankly, I wish I could wash out of my head. But hey, I read it and now I'm going to start overlaying the horror with some Amy Tan,
Saving Fish From Drowning and to follow an
A.L. Kennedy that I cannot remember the name of.
Thankyou for connecting with me.
I bought two books from the charity shop, the Notting Hill Housing Trust today: Help Yourself with the Kumars from the popular and hilarious BBC TV series, and
Falling Cloudberries by
Tessa Kiros, for £5 each.
Today I received
Brave New World in the beautiful Easton Press format. I love these and search regularly for them on eBay. I am very cheap though so I do not have many.
I also got a book from BookMooch,
Girl with a Pearl Earring. The other two books by Tracy Chevalier have been of "mixed" quality, but not so much so that I'm willing to blanket-dismiss the rest of her work.
I adored
Girl with a Pearl Earring, but I have been fascinated with Vermeer's rooms for years, and it gave me a peak at his world, even though it's fictional. If you don't have a book of Vermeer's art, take one out of the library to look at while you read. That's one novel that really needs illustrations (you can get Vermeer pics on the internet too, of course)
Today I bought a really nice edition of
Northanger Abbey, which will replace a perfectly adequate Dover edition. I also got
Pierre Berton's
The Arctic Grail, which I've picked up every time I've gone to the bookstore. Today it finally got to come home with me.
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>117
I know about buying a book to replace another, perfectly good copy of the same one. I listed a copy of
Emma on BookMooch, pending purchasing another copy that isn't so obviously secondhand -- and which in all likelihood
still wouldn't hold a metaphorical candle to the copy of
Northanger Abbey you've described
elsewhere.
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Yes, I hear you. Unfortunately in this case I had a bit of a problem justifying the new
Northanger Abbey, as the one it's replacing is new and unread. But, in my defense of the new purchase, the old one was really cheap. There. I've justified it. And furthermore, now that I think of it, I should buy the whole set, because all my Jane Austen books should match.
now that I think of it, I should buy the whole set, because all my Jane Austen books should match.Nickelini, get thee to the
Book-related Neuroses Thread with that one!
(although I sheepishly admit to feeling the same way about my collection of mooched Austens ...)
Yesterday I finished
A Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin and didn't have book two ready to go, so even though I was sick I headed to Borders and bought
A Clash of Kings and
A Storm of Swords. I already found
A Feast for Crows at a library sale, so now I don't need to worry about being caught unprepared for the next book in the series!
>127 Addictive as all get out, aren't they? I'm anxious as heck to get my hands on book number five, which should be hitting stores shortly :D :D
>128 Yes, they are! Just looked at Amazon, though, and #5 isn't due to be out until September 30th! I'm going to have to slow down . . . .
This is one I got as a gift for my brother:
More Spit than Polish at Tolman Pond: An unlikely summer resort in the wilds of Nelson, New Hampshire, another "little town that Time forgot" by
F. B. Tolman.
I got a really nice illustrated edition of
Oliver Twist by
Charles Dickens in the mail today. An early present from my future in-laws for my birthday on Monday.
It must be the day for Charles Dickens! In the mail today from FrugalReader.com I received
The Old Curiosity Shop.
#134: Definitely sounds like you got the better part of the bargain!
I did indeed! But you know the saying: "one man's trash is another man's treasure". Someone is going to wander in there and be just thrilled to find that Danielle Steel novel. :-)
A weekend visit to the capital netted a three-volume set of Florida's Past by Gene Burnett
While on a visit to our new Goodwill Bookstore looking into info for the LT Local page I found:
Crusade of Tears by
C.D. Baker Scott Foresman Handbook for Writers at Florida State University by
HairstonA signed first edition of
The Dolphins of Pern by Anne McCaffrey
What an amazing place! Based in a not too appealing building, I was surprised to find an open and wheelchair friendly interior with books attractively displayed alphabetically by category. There was even a children’s room with books separated by age. I need to return for pictures since I want to do an article on my blog.
Three coupons led me to Borders where I found:
The Complete Illustrated Guide to Castles, Palaces & Stately Houses of Britain by Charles Phillip
American Family Paper Dolls from the Pilgrim Period to the Civil War by Tom Tierney
Buckingham Palace Gardens by Anne Perry
The Friday Night Knitting Club by Kate Jacobs
Utopia by Thomas More
The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
I'll soon need new bookcases.
Today I got
Queen Lucia, which is really cool, because it was suggested to me by a LTer. And because of where the suggestion came from, it's going straight to my shortlist TBR pile, bypassing the other 40+ books in the regular TBR pile.
alcottacre - only four from the library?? have they run out of books?
I finished a book that I think about anyone who enjoys reading would like to read.
The Brimfield Rush this was such a funny, well written, non fiction book. Another very good book is
Slightly Chipped anyone who collects books would find this interesting on how this couple went about collecting books. Both books are fast, easy reads.
I must admit, since last fall when I joined LT my book buying has greatly increased. There have been way too many interesting book suggestions on here for me to pass up!
#143: Only 4 from the library today. I currently have 60 checked out.
To quote Ms. Spears in her better years: "Oops, I did it again".....
Went shopping yesterday and saved the great bookstore for last. Came home with the following (all thanks to LT...):
The Dice Man by Luke Rhinehart
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and
Neil GaimanBut still, I put about 6 books back that I also had in my hands, so actually I've been very good! ^^
Damn library sales.... I bought 23 books from the library (only cost $6.75, though.) That's too many titles for me to list (at least I don't feel like it anyway.)
BUT I did get one book from my wishlist,
How Green Was My Valley, and I did a little "I found a treasure" dance (Nobody saw me...)
And I picked up about four or five Erich Maria Remarque books; I had only heard of
All Quiet on the Western Front. I was surprised there were so many.
Besides the book sale, I borrowed
The Invention of Hugo Cabret from the library. I didn't know it was an illustrated novel, so that'll be interesting. THAT'S another book off my wishlist.
Also, I got two books in the mail from BookMooch:
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, and Plum Lucky. It'll be my first Janet Evanovich book.
Now I need a new bookcase.
I was feeling really depressed so I went for a walk in downtown Chicago, entered Barnes & Noble and found my all time favorite book
Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel Garcia Marquez which I have read 3 times but I will read it again, and I also bought his Collected Stories. I was on my way back home happy when I eneterd a goodwill which had a 50% off everything and I bought
The birth of Venus by
Sarah Dunant;
The Weight of Water by Anita Shreve;
The Tenth Circle and
Salem Falls both by Jodi Picoult for only $2. Neddless to say I went home estatic! I love books! I am totally hooked like everyone else here! My name is Angie and I am a bookaholic!
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#156 whymaggiemay I just read
Foreskin's Lament I liked it, but was sort of saddened to think this was someones real life.
Actually I got these yesterday, but close enough. Used from Amazon came a like-new hardback of
Wizard of the Crow on recommendation from LTers. Last night I picked up
Run with the Hunted from the clearance rack at Borders. I'd been eyeing this one for a while and starting browsing through it while waiting for someone. From the little I've read so far, I suspect he was mainly a very crazy man with moments of brilliance. But that's just my first impression.
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I rarely buy books, and so haven't posted on here before, but I went on a mini-trip to Providence this last weekend and found a basically new copy of
The Invention of Hugo Cabret for $11.50! Score!
I also weakened and ordered a few books from Amazon- an on-sale copy of
The God Delusion, which I'm currently reading but the library wants its copy back,
Don't Know Much About History- the US one (I use it when I tutor US history- a fun read if you're into the subject), and
The Invisibles, Volume 1, a graphic novel that keeps getting recommended. They won't technically enter my house for another 5-9 days, but soon they shall be mine!
#160
KplatypusI just finished
The Invention of Hugo Cabret, and I loved it. It has beautifully captivating illustrations and a story that is fantastic and heart-warming. I really hope you love it as much as I did... more, if possible... :-D
I got Stardust by
Neil Gaiman in the mail today from PaperBackSwap.
OOOooooh!!! #165
sferrando:
I love love love
Something Wicked This Way Comes! I've read it twice, and I thought
Tartuffe was one of the funniest satires I've read... it's a tie between Tartuffe and Candide (don't know why the Touchstone don't work...) by
Voltaire.
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#166 ~ I think I read Candide as a teenager, but can't for the life of me remember it. Yet another book to add to my TBR pile...there's gonna be an avalanche soon! :-)
Hello everyone.
I just just just got "The boy in striped pajamas". I can't wait to get started.
I'm so bored with "The Zodiac". I'm thinking about going straigh to the final chapter.
On Saturday I visited a used book store that I had seen and heard about many times but had never visited.
I went in hoping for one, at the very least, battered W. Somerset Maugham book.
I walked in and went right to a stack of beautiful hard-bound books and I blinked a few times in case my eyes were deceiving me. There were FIVE Maugham books in the set. The condition was pretty close to perfect with just enough wear to make them interesting.
I dared to ask how much the whole set would be.
The employee asked me to give her a few minutes to look it up. I went on through the store admiring and maybe drooling a little.
She found me a few minutes later and said, "Is $17 ok?"
"For the set?" I asked, not believing.
Yes...it was $17 for the set!
I quickly grabbed them up, marveling at my lucky find!
@170 ~ DeAnnaW: What a great find!
I picked up
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides for 50p in a local Hospice shop - in Middlesex!!
#159 emaestra - I hope that you enjoy
Wizard of the Crow. It may look very long but as I recall, I couldn't put it down.
I am currently in Winnipeg and there's a new McNally Robinson near the house. I don't need any books, but...they had a very good bargain book section so I got
The Summer Tree by Guy Gavriel Kay, which seems to be well-liked here on LT.
#123 - I know about buying a book to replace another, perfectly good copy of the same one. I listed a copy of Emma on BookMooch, pending purchasing another copy that isn't so obviously secondhand -- and which in all likelihood still wouldn't hold a metaphorical candle to the copy of Northanger Abbey you've described elsewhere.
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I was convinced by several members here (thanks, guys!) that I really needed the whole set of these lovely Jane Austen novels, so I went and bought the other 5 today.
Also came home with a copy of
The Girls, by Lori Lansens, which has been on my TBR list since it came out.
As if my lunchtime trip to the thrift store wasn't enough...when I got home I found the following awaiting me:
From PBS ~
Main Street by
Sinclair LewisEmily's Quest by L.M. Montgomery
From TitleTrader ~
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
Flappers and Philosophers by
F. Scott FitzgeraldI also must confess I stopped by ANOTHER thrift store on my way home from work and have a couple sacks o' books in the back seat of my car that I scored! I'm afraid I may have to sneak those into the house, though, so I can't list them right now...I feel so delightfully naughty! ;-)
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#162 alcottacre, let me know what you think of
Warmly Inscribed. Have you read any of their other books? I really liked
Slightly Chipped. Reading their books make you want to search everywhere for books:)
#174 citygirl - My husband just came back from a business trip in Calgary (we live in the US) and he bought the kids and I books from the McNally Robinson bookstore there. I guess the rumor is the one in Calgary is to close in August.
#178: I understand what you mean completely. I have not read
Slightly Chipped, but I have read
Used and Rare, which I enjoyed thoroughly and made me wish I were a millionaire and could afford to buy as many books as I wanted . . .sigh.
@ 182 ~ teelgee...thanks for the tip. I'm on my way!
Sometimes when I'm feeling really down, or I'm having a bad day, I let myself go to HPB and book-shop to my heart's content.
Other times, when I'm in a really good mood, it seems to me that good moods and books go really well together, so I'll let myself go to HPB and book-shop to my heart's content.
Either way, I spend way too much time at HPB, but today was a case of the latter ;) I got:
Tau Zero by
Poul AndersonPandora's Star and
Judas Unchained by Peter Hamilton
Earth Abides by
George R. StewartThe Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
eta: And I just noticed that this purchase took my total number of books to over 600 :D
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On the weekend I got
Remember Me? by
Sophie Kinsella which I read about 2/3 of in one day. I have about 20 pgs left. It's an easy, light read.
I got
The Piano Tuner in the mail today from BookMooch. It sounds like a good book, and the reviews favor it.
#176: I got
The Spellman Files on audio from the library and was listening in the car. When I was on about the 2nd disk, I took my 20-year old son to another city for a campus visit. Since the kids always bring their i-Pods, I turned on my story while we were driving. After only about 10 minutes, he took the earbuds out, asked me what was happening in the story and listened intently for the rest of the trip, and all the way home, and (since we weren't quite finished) took the last 2 disks to finish at home. I enjoyed it from the beginning, but wrongly thought he would think it was lame. He asked if there was a sequel!
I hope you enjoy it, too. It's just a fun, silly book, with just enough warm poignant moments to give it some substance. We had fun trying to figure out the mystery before the reveal at the end - I came closer than he did!
Just in from Bol.com:
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller
I'm very excited, because they both came highly recommended on LT and they were both on the top of my wish list! Now just have to find the time to finish my current read and start these... ^^
Not many books, but a good two/three:
Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
and oh yeah: Dune by F. Herbert, earlier this month.
My my, Lord of the Rings is a thick one. It contains the entire trilogy and is even thicker than Dune, which itself is a reasonable read. I love thick books but their quite cumbersome to handle in bed sometimes.
(Touchtones wouldn't work for Dune and LOTR but it's the trilogy of both.)
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I usually only pick up one at a time from work. Today I got this one in from Ingram:
Now You're One of Us by Asa Nonami. Good so far, I read about 30 pages of it on my break.
I got a mooched book in the mail today.
Molly Moon's Incredible Book of Hypnotism by Georgia Byng. I was surprised at how long it is. I got it for my 9 year old to replace the
Junie B. books, as we've read every book in the series. I'm not sure Molly Moon's gonna fly with her. Right now we're on our second book of
Lucy Rose.
Do audio books count? If so, I just picked up
Suite Francaise on CD from the library.
I just picked up 3 more from the libraries:
Blaze by Richard Bachman
An Incomplete Revenge by Jacqueline Winspear
The Writings of George Eliot, Volume 2 by George Eliot
Don't know why the Touchstone is not working for the Winspear book. Too new maybe?
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Sent with great speed by a Bookmoocher, a like-new copy of
Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer.
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Wandered back into McNally Robinson and wandered out with
Wintersmith by Terry Pratchett. Wanted to see what all the fuss is about.
Two books to review from ReaderViews. Historical Genesis: From Adam to Abraham by Richard James Fischer, which I believe was published last month and
The Last Queen: A Novel by
C.W. Gortner about Juana La Loca.
Took advantage of being in a part of town with two excellent used bookstores and bought:
At Home at the End of the World, by Michael Cunningham
The Swimming Pool Library, by Alan Hollinghurst
The Voyage Out, by Virginia Woolf
Silk, by Alessandro Baricco (with a barfy Kiera Knightly movie tie-in cover)
Midwich Cuckoos, by John Wyndham
Jude the Obscure, by Thomas Hardy
Bachelor Brothers' Bed & Breakfast, by Bill Richardson
History of Danish Dreams, by Peter Hoeg, and
Consumption, by Kevin Patterson
I went to Asda and to my surprise they had a shelf with books for a pound... so I got myself
Chase by Dean Koontz...
Finishing up
Infidel for the Muslim Women Group Read, so picked up
Honor Lost from the library for my next book on Muslim women.
From BookMooch today: I got
The Eyre Affair in the mail today, and it looks very good.... very interesting plot.
Stopped by my friends mother's house because that's where she was and found myself drawn to her bookshelves (as always). This time her mother caught me and before I knew it I had
Before I Go by
Riley Weston and
Eye Contact by
Cammie McGovern. She would have given me more to read but fortuantely for me my friend chose that minute to leave. Else who knows how many more books would have been added to my TBR pile!!
#228: The Yacoubian Building is a worthwhile DVD. I know the book was a huge best-seller in Egypt.
This weekend our local library is having it's semi-annual book sale. For $54 I purchased 34 books. Four I listed on BookMooch and they were gone immediately. The others which included
Unbowed by
Wangari Maathai,
World Without End by
Ken Follett and
A Long Way Gone by
Ishmael Beah were for me. Unfortunately, my dogearing, spine binding husband is interested in reading a few of them too.
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I made the mistake of stopping at Borders w/ 2 coupons--I got: The Forgery of Venus and Dervishes. Then I snuck them into the house w/o hubby noticing :)
My April ER book
Two Brothers: One North, One South came today. Somehow I didn't realize it was historical fiction, I thought it was just straight history and now I'm even MORE excited about it. Plus it is in great shape and has a personalized inscription from the author in the front.
The only problem is now I can't decide which of the next two books I have to review I want to read next, this, or
The Last Queen:A Novel of Juana la Loca. They both look so great!
A. McCall Smith is incredible - the creative and prolific mind of that man is unbelievable. If you like his
No.1 Ladies Detective Agency series I also highly recommend his 44 Scotland Street and
Sunday Philosophy Club series - altogether different from Botswana but definitely great reads.
I'm back from my weekly library visit with
We'll Always Have Paris by Harvey Levenstein
A Mist of Prophecies by Steven Saylor
Living in a Foreign Language by Micheal Tucker
Touchstones apparently are not working for me
From Audible I downloaded
The Moving Toyshop and Behold Here's Poison
It's my birthday today and my boss gave me
Trails of the Sawtooth and White Cloud Mountains by Margaret Fuller. I am SUPER excited about this book since my husband and I plan on doing a lot of hiking / backpacking / camping this summer.
On another note, my dad and stepmom gave me a $100 B&N gift certificate. I was thinking of venturing out into sci-fi since I really have never read that genre before. Can anyone give some book suggestions to a first time sci-fi reader? I was thinking about the Dune chronicles, but don't know if they are good or not.
*Touchstones don't appear to work here...*
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A couple of books in today: Krakatoa by Simon Winchester and Sea of Glory by Nathaniel Philbrick.
Touchstones don't seem to want to work at all this afternoon!
sferrando - Happy Birthday! And wow, what a great gift - enjoy!
Happy Birthday sferrando!
#238 sferrando, I'll recommend a SF book that not everybody would for a first time reader in the genre.
The Parable of the Sower by
Octavia E. Butler. It's powerful and intense, not a cozy comfort read, but excellent. I've read it only once but it's one of those books that's stuck in my soul and will probably remain there for my lifetime. Butler won a MacArthur 'genius' award so she's not the typical SF writer. Still, she is one author I never tire of recommending. I'm not saying you will like her but I think most readers should give her a shot at least once.
Thanks for the birthday wishes, everyone!
#242 VisibleGhost ~ Thank you for the recommendation. I think I'll check it out.
Today in the mail I received two books from FrugalReader.com. They are:
Fannie Flagg's
Welcome to the World, Baby Girl!Edith Wharton's
The Glimpses of the MoonAnd in from the library: Ducks & Geese in Your Backyard by Rick & Gail Luttmann. My husband bought me two white Chinese goslings for my birthday (no joke) and I need some pointers on how to raise them!
I got a B&N online gift certificate for National Admin. Assts. Day or whatever they are calling it this year. I ordered
Out Stealing Horses and Skeletons At The Feast. Can't wait to receive them.
I got
The Dark Tower by Stephen King from PBS today. Much bigger than I thought it would be!
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Just got back from the outlets shops in Reading PA. The book shop had a sale on Buy Three get the fourth for a $1.00, and with it's already low prices of $5.00 to $6.00 for most of their H/C books had to take them up on a few.
Got the following;
War of Honor (Honor Harrington Series, Book 10) ,
Echoes of Honor (Honor Harrington Series, Book 8) and
Empire From the Ashes by David Weber
The Regiment: A Trilogy (Regiment Series) by
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#250 nancyewhite: Glad to find another fan of the "In Death" series here on LT, although I will admit that
Ceremony in Death is probably one of my least favorite in the series. I am currently in the midst of reading them all again.
It didn't come into my home, but it came to my attention. I noticed a book on my husband's shelves in his home office that was NOT science fiction, so I claimed it.
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, first Scholastic trade paperback printing. I already have a hardback copy and the audiobook, but I'll add it to my shelves.
I have no idea how this came to be on his shelves, neither does he.
In today's mail were:
The Adventures of Mr. Thake -
J. B. Morton (London: Jonathan Cape, 1934 Florin Books re-issue), which I had hoped would be a true first edition rather than the Florin pocket book. It is a series of comic letters from a parody of an Englishman to Morton's 'Beachcomber' persona. I already own the sequel.
The Spider's Bride -
Debbie Gallagher (Holicong, PA: Prime, 2007). This is a romantic fantasy about a human woman and a faery prince. I am a friend of the author.
:)
#257 extrajoker - Good answer! I'll have to tell my husband.
And, wouldn't that be wonderful! I love the idea of things just showing up magically.
#259
karenmarie: Yes! that
would be grand... If we could just go to the shelf to get a book, and the perfect book,
one we didn't even know we wanted, would pop out into our hands...
It was almost like Christmas here...5 free books came in the mail today:
I got a bonus ARC this month,
Firefly Rain, and it is next on my TBR pile.
Two books from BookMooch:
Team of Rivals, which is on Barack Obama's shortlist, and One Hundred Years of Solitude, which is a 1001 book and the excerpt that I read sounded really magical.
One book from PBS:
Lolita, a book on the 1001 list and I'm a bit unsure of whether I want to read or not.
and One GIFT book from a fellow LTer,
The Teahouse Fire, which has been on my WL for a while, and I'm going to have an asian read marathon.
#261 I re-read
Lolita in February and really loved it. It was, in places, a tough read, but beautifully written and great execution. Also, when I read it the first time at age 13, I totally missed the humor in it. Give it a try.
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#261 -
Lolita is wonderful, wonderful, wonderful. It's on my list of top 5 books ever. Give it a chance - the subject matter can definitely be off-putting, but the book is well worth it. Such a great read. Nabokov is a fantastic writer. I can't say enough good things about this book - my vocabulary is just not big enough (Nabokov's is, though!)
Did anyone else see that his son is going to go ahead and allow the last novel to be published? So exciting!
Also, I have a dumb question - what is PBS? In terms of acquiring books, that is.
PBS = Paperback Swap
Took me a while to figure out, too. Until I did, I ran across a number of books that people had swapped and thought, "now
that's an odd book for
PBS to sell!"
#265
jfetting: I did just see that Nabokov's son was publishing his las novel. I the headline and thought the name sounded familiar, then looked over at the stack of books from today's mail and seen it was on
Lolita's spine.
TY, whymaggiemay and jfetting for the encouragement on Lo-Lo. The mom in me cringes about it, but the reviews assure me that it's not a pervert's manafesto.
and PBS is found
here.
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The magical brown truck delivered Sarah Dessen's newest book, Lock and Key, to my door this morning.
Definitely not a pervert's manifesto! And thanks nancyewhite and AnnaClaire and thekoolaidmom for explaining PBS.
(I did think it was the other PBS, too, AnnaClaire. I was pretty confused!)
Let me add my thanks for clarifying the PBS mystery. I was sure it wasn't the TV station but couldn't think what else it might be.
264 - fleela - my daughter read
A Year of Wonders: A Novel of the Plague. I don't know the author but the book affected my daughter enough that we went to Eyam a couple of year ago. Fascinating! And not really depressing.
#271, 264 -- Author of
A Year of Wonders is Geraldine Brooks. I haven't read it, but it's highly recommended here on LT and I've been on the hunt for a PB copy.
imanivrn, let us know if
What Would Audrey Do? is good or stupid. I saw it for the first time earlier this week and I was sooo tempted. If I could be just a little bit like Audrey Hepburn, I'd be a better person.
A friend just loaned me
Maiden Voyage byTania Aebi. The story of the first America women to sail around the world solo.
I got a free book yesterday!
I decided off the cuff to go and see Will Self talk about his new novel "The Butt" at the Bloomsbury Theatre last night. I trudged into town and arrived at the venue about 20 minutes before the show was due to start, only to find a rather sheepish member of organisers Blackwells' staff, standing in a corner, dishing out copies of the new book because the event was cancelled. He gave me a book even though I hadn't paid the £8 for a ticket. So, as I result, I have a £14.99 hardback copy of "The Butt" that cost me nothing apart from my train fare.
Went to target today for some lunch and snacks for work and somehow found myself in the book section....which is within eye sitght of the food aisle but not really near. Luckily I'd already picked up me food items and so was fortunate with only adding one new book to my TBR pile. Though there were so many that sounded good!
My pretty new book is
Come Back* by
Claire FontaineAnd in 3 to 9 days I'm expecting a pretty package from Amazon filled with lots of books. But I'm not gonna think about THAT unexpected purchase just yet. ;-)
*incorrect touchstone...and they are being finicky for my right now. Will try again later.
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I got one of my BookMooch books in the mail today,
Love in the Time of Cholera. I read an excerpt of it awhile ago, and it seemed to be beautifully, even poetically written.
I purchased at the store B&N last nite The House in Riverton and got from B&N online
Unaccustomed Earth and
Now Face to Face. However Unaccustomed Earth was filthy as was the box it arrived in. So I'm off to B&N store today to exchange for a nice fresh clean copy. Jhumpa Lahiri is in for a book signing next week and I want my copy to be nice for her to sign :)
>284.....I thought
The Piano Tuner was wonderful. I hope you enjoy it also.
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>284,286 I loved
The Piano Tuner also. A great book, I thought it was very nicely written and I enjoyed the way it slowly unfolded into the story.
>284,289 Have either of you read
A Far Country, also by Daniel Mason?
From PBS:
Girl (Maladjusted) by
Molly Jong-Fast.
This is interesting to me because I've been wondering how the second-wave feminists did at raising their daughters. The woman I mooched it from said it made her think a little less of Erica Jong. So at least in this case, maybe not so great. I'll have to read one of Rebecca Walker's books as well for a larger sample :-)
#284, 289, 290--I read
Piano Tuner as well and enjoyed it. I just purchased
A Far Country at Borders. I would be interested to hear if anyone has read it also. And, did you like it? How does it compare to Piano Tuner.
I haven't read
A Far Country - I have friends that have and liked it equally as well as
Piano Tuner. They did say that it took a little longer for them to get into the story but when they did they really liked it.
I am glad to hear the raves on
The Piano Tuner. I haven't read anything by Daniel Mason, but now I have another book to add to my tbr list. Thanks :)
Today I went to my local bookstore to exchange a booklight (
you know, the small ones you clip to the book so you can read in bed and not have to get up to turn out the light)
just to exchange and not buy...yeah, right...
I bought two from the bargain table:
Janet Evanovich's
Plum Lovin', and
Harlan Coben's
Promise Me. I also bought one full price:
The Messenger by Lois Lowry.
Hello, my name is Alisha, and I'm a compulsive book-buyer...#296 thekoolaidmom--I feel your pain--when I go to return/exchange one book I end up w/ a couple more--they just hop off the shelves into my hands and there's nothing I can do about it.
Hello, my name is Maureen, and I too am a compulsive book buyer!
Hello, my name is Linda, and I am a compulsive book buyer...
Just started
Shadow of the Wind which may become my favorite book of all time! The mailman delivered my ZOOBA BOMC selection,
Too Late to Say Goodbye by Ann Rule. In March I read the first three Lee Child
Jack Reacher books and was introduced to
Darkly Dreaming Dexter. I guess I'm in my serial killer phase right now.
#300
KymberK Great books... I've only got one of those,
Slaughterhouse Five, I've never read it, though.
#304 - Let us know how Mudbound is. It was one of my choices today at Chapters. However I bought
The Known World by Edward P. Jones .
From the discard cart at the county library
Dead Reckoning - David Treadway
A place where the sea remembers - Sandra Benitez
Oracle Night - Paul Auster
Bastard out of Carolina - Dorothy Allison
Staircase of 1000 steps - Masha Hamilton
Lady Oracle - Margaret Atwood
The Enchanted April - Elizabeth Von Arnim
Of Love & Shadows - Isabel Allende (This copy looks like it has been under water & dried out but still readable.)
Yesterday was the second half of our department's book auction, and I bought way more this time:
Four Pragmatists: A Critical Introduction to Pierce, James, Mead, and Dewey by Israel Scheffler
Reconstruction in Philosophy by
John DeweyHuman Nature and Conduct by
John DeweyAims of Education by Alfred North Whitehead
Theory of Knowledge and Problems of Education by
Donald VandenbergPursuit of Truth by W.V.O. Quine
Philosophical Essays by Bertrand Russell
The Portable Nietzsche, edited by Walter Kaufman (I already had this book, but this old edition was just beautiful and in great shape, so now I have two...)
Ethical Issues in Business: A Philosophical Approach by Thomas Donaldson
Ethics and the Conduct of Business by
John BoatrightA Source Book in Indian Philosophy by Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan
The New Dictionary of Thoughts: A Cyclopedia of Quotations, edited by Tryon Edwards
The Search for Meaning, edited by
Richard P. DennisThe Cosmological Argument by
William RoweThe Great Legal Philosophers: Selected Readings in Jurisprudence, edited by
Clarence MorrisOpen Society and Its Enemies, vols. 1 & 2 by Karl Popper
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism by Max Weber
Introduction to General Equilibrium Theory and Welfare Economics by
James QuirkCapitalism, Socialism, and Democracy by Joseph Schumpeter
and the real treasure, a beautiful leather-bound, eight volumes in four tomes, the Collier-Macmillan
Encyclopedia of PhilosophyToday I went to look at a potential new apt and on the way there I saw a sign for that towns library booksale. I blame the sign for what happened for on my way home I somehow found myself in my friendly neighboorhood borders....and I walked out with:
Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie - the Green Dragon group is discussing their next group read and this is among the choices. made me nostalgic to read it again.
Vampire Academy by
Richelle Mead - because i like vampire books and vampire schools seems to be among the hot new thing. even if it sucks it
has to be better than Twilight right?
The Queen Geek Social Club by
Laura Preble - only $3.99 on the really bargain bin table
The Unconsoled by
Kazuo IshiguroWhen We Were Orphans by
Kazuo IshiguroThe Mercy Seller by
Brenda Rickman VantreaseThis is How it Happened by
Jo Barrett - about a girl who decides to kill her ex....this is the line that sold me from pg 1 "An hour later, after Heather and I parted company, I found myself browsing the gardening section of Half Price Books. I was looking for a book on poisons. And I didn't want to pay retail." It made me giggle and a new book was adopted.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland/
Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll - the book most likely to be the next Green Dragon group read.
The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield - on CD and only $4.99 - another uber bargain bin find.
I also bought Ramona Quinby, Age 8 for the towns elementary school.
Think that I can sue my the above mentioned town library for the fact that I'm probably not going to be able to buy groceries next month?
The other night I was in the Las Vegas airport with a few hours to kill. Slot machines bore me, so...I walked around and spotted a (gasp!) Borders. The angel on my left shoulder whispered, "Don't go in. You have four books, a Vanity Fair and a Sky Mall catalog in your purse
right now." Well, that angel should've been quieter, because the devil on my right shoulder heard her and immediately catapulted over my head, landed on the angel, pinned her down and shrieked, "
Don't stand in the way of us and our Precioussssssss!!!" The only way I could keep the devil from pounding the angel into oblivion was to enter the Borders. What was a girl to do? Once inside, I was pleased to find that
A Woman in Charge by Carl Bernstein was out in paperback and I didn't want the devil to start up again, so I bought it. It wouldn't fit in my purse, so I stuffed it in my wheelie bag.
I'm soooo bad.
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citygirl I don't think you are bad at all. You could have gambled on the slot machines and lost all your money, but instead you spent it in a bookstore and got a wonderful book instead!!
I agree with momom, citygirl!
I a rare moment of sanity, I actually bagged up a dozen books that haven't moved off my to-be-read shelf in years, meaning to take them for the library friends book sale. Somehow, though, I went to the library, and came home with another book without having dropped off the ones I meant to leave. I think maybe I'm addicted.
Citygirl, I think that considering you were in Vegas, you made the most sane choice. You should be proud of yourself. Angel obviously had no clue.
Thanks, guys. I feel vindicated. That angel never knows what she's talking about. ;-)
The angel never does when it comes to a girl and her books. ;-)
I just added a swap copy of
Rebecca to my Virago collection. I read it years and years ago and look forward to reading it again.
karenmarie- I really enjoyed
Suite Francaise.......The flight from Paris is really moving!
Just picked up
Never Let me Go and am excited to start it. I just finished Someone Knows My Name which was recommended by a friend of a friend who runs a book group. I was afraid it was going to be a bit "Oprah's Club" for me but I was on vacation and OK with that. I ended up quite liking it. I'm on the hunt today for a book called
Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids - has anyone out there read it?
Picked up
The Fourth Bear by Jasper Fforde yesterday. Haven't read anything by him yet, but I heard so many good things about him on LT, I thought I'd give him a try.
@331 Vonini - he's a good author, but he does tend to write series. So you might want to see if
The Fourth Bear is part of one...and if they books are ok to read out of order. There is a whole Jasper Fforde group on LT and I'm sure they can help. I've only read
Eyre Affair to date and don't know much about the other books of his.
I picked up
Our Kingdom Volume 4 and am already anxious to get my hands on volume 5 as well.
#336
hemlokgang That's funny, because
The Troublesome Offspring of Cardinal Guzman has been sitting on the shelf of the shared books at my gym. I've picked it up and put it back down several times. You'll have to read it and tell me if it's any good, so I can stop picking at it. :-D
I was about to write that I would get right on that, but I have a few others higher on my TBR pile......Soon, though, thekoolaidmom, soon.
>I just added a swap copy of Rebecca to my Virago collection.
I love this book.
>333 Irisheyz77
Tnx! I'll look into that! I don't like reading books from a series out of their order, but it didn't seem like part of a series. I'll have to check that out.
>344 alcottacre
Thanks for the info! Maybe I should try to find the first part in the Nursery Crimes series first.
ANOTHER trip to HPB at lunch with a coworker (SHE is the one who wanted to go, I couldn't very well say no!). This HPB isn't as nice as the one by my house and doesn't have as good of a selection, so I managed to escape with just two books:
March by Geraldine Brooks
The First Princess of Wales by
Karen HarperThat will teach me to read the threads fast. I couldn't figure out why Arethra Franklin would write a book called Mistress of the Art of Death.
*Shakes head in shame*
Recieved People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks in the mail today from Amazon.
To Waterstones to get
The Road, follow up to
No Country for Old Men which I greatly enjoyed. '3 for 2' offer on that so "forced" to buy
Fall of Kings, which I had been waiting for in paper-back, and
Man of War, again a waited for paper-back. I also got
The Neon Rain by James Lee Burke - not a book or an author I know but recommended in the weekend Times list of the 50 best crime writers.
Top of that list was, incidentally, Patricia Highsmith - I'm still thinking whether or not I agree.
I sent away my first book for BookMooch today and it cost me $10.59 + 14% tax to send it from Nova Scotia to Vancouver. Since the book only cost $14.00 I'm not sure its worth it. Are the rest of you enjoying cheaper rates?
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reeny - you're complaint is not a new one. From what I've read in the bookmooching group postal rates between canadian provences are ridiculously high.
perhaps you can get some tips here:
http://www.librarything.com/talktopic.ph...dang, reeny! 14% tax? $14 Canadian is still too much to pay cross-country... I don't know what you sent out, an unabridged Oxford? but it shouldn't cost THAT much. Here in the US, I send my moochies via media mail. It usually costs about $2.13 per package. I've never paid over $5, and the most I've ever paid was for a two books sent to one moocher.
#356 It would be cheaper for you to find a friend in the states and have them forward it to BC.
thekoolaidmom...we have it pretty easy here in the US. Canadian post is mega expensive. As Varielle says, its actually cheaper for someone in Canada to ship to the US then it is to ship the same book to the next provence over.
$14?!?!?!?!?
You should get internationally credit for shipping
within Canadian borders then!
Dang, makes me appreciate USPS a bit more...
and to shut up about the postage increase...
#356 .. ouch! If canadian post is so much more expensive (if that is your media rate, thats horrifying!) maybe bookmooch should adjust points accordingly .. such as canadians should get an extra point or two for each book they agree to send out, just to even out the cost or something. It seems like that might help balance things, $14.00 is scary. I send out 4 or 5 books at once sometimes, at $14 a pop i'd be broke as hell.
katheebee,
Where is this wonderful bookstore? It would be worth the gas if not too far away from me.
Also received Fairyville by
Emma Holly in the mail when I got home yesterday.
Stopped at Brazos on the way home this morning to pick up a copy of local author
Coert Voorhees' new (and first) novel, The Brothers Torres.
@371 jlcardwell - I'm glad that the book arrived safely! I hope that you enjoy it as much as I did. =)
I stopped at Borders for lunch today and walked out with
The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde.
I had the morning free (okay, I skipped out because I wasn't giving a TAKS test today) and stopped in at Half-Price Books. I got
Half a Life and
Sweet Hereafter in hardback, as well as
The Elephant Vanishes and
Club Dumas. I also ordered five from Amazon and am expecting one ordered last week. Obsession, anyone?
Edited to TRY to fix touchstones.
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People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks is one of the best reads of 2008 for me....can't put it down.
And tonight I came home with a signed first edition of the immigrant suite: hey xenophobe! who you calling a foreigner? and a signed copy of
Presenting Sister NoBlues both by the legendary
Hattie Gossett.
Tomorrow is May, right? I get a fresh start.
Got my copy of
Rite by Tad Williams
Went to Waldenbooks today and picked up
Mansfield Park to complete my Austen collection. Now, as soon as the BM Austens get here, I can have my Jane-a-thon. :-D
I also bought another copy of
A Wrinkle in Time, this one for my nine-year-old. It's a wider book for smaller hands, and it has bigger print in it. I think she'll do better with it than the pocket books. She was upset because she didn't have a copy of
The Giver and couldn't read along. She'll be happy with AWIT.
Hey guys, come join us in
MayThe Hot Flash Club by Nancy Thayer - I needed something lightweight to read after "Dance of the Dissident Daughter" by Sue Monk Kidd. I've got a great local library that keeps up really well with the current lit. So I don't purchase unless it's something they don't have and I just have to read it.
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$14?!?!?!?!?