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Group:	What did YOU buy today?
Topic:	What Did You Buy Today? July 2008 Edition	0 / 10 read
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Jul 1, 2008, 8:29pm (top)Message 1: SanctiSpiritus

I purchased:
The Adventures of Augie March (50th Anniv. Edition)
As I Lay Dying: The Corrected Text (Modern Library)
A Prayer for Owen Meany

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Jul 3, 2008, 8:26pm (top)Message 2: Jenson_AKA_DL

We just got back from Borders and I'm doing a Happy Manga Dance!

They were having their buy 4 get 1 free manga sale, which I never do because they're just too expensive to buy 4 at the same time. However, I agonized so long about picking the one I wanted and was so insistent on showing my husband exactly what I was agonizing over that he snuck back and picked up the other five I wanted:

My one manga was Alcohol, Shirt and Kiss

and the ones my husband picked up for me were:

Black Knight Volumes 1, 2 & 3; and
Mugen Spiral Volumes 1 and 2.

As a little bonus he ever picked up Mad Libs: Indiana Jones for me.

:-)

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Jul 9, 2008, 6:38am (top)Message 3: hjelliot

Back from vacation and have picked up a few goodies...

Funnybones
by Allen Ahlberg

The Mitford Girls
by Mary S. Lovell

A Collection of Beauties
by Whitney Otto

The Book Borrower
by Alice Mattison

In the Wilderness
by Kim Barnes

A Woman Named Jackie
by David Heymann

Pierre and Jean
by Guy de Maupassant

Villette
by Charlotte Bronte

The Infernal World of Branwell Bronte
by Daphne du Maurier

Anne Sexton
by Diane Wood Middlebrook

A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers
by Xiaolu Guo signed

The Solitude of Thomas Cave
by Georgina Harding signed

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Jul 9, 2008, 10:19am (top)Message 4: bostonbibliophile

the Story of French, on sale for $7- the hardcover was marked down from $25! Yippee!!

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Jul 9, 2008, 10:24am (top)Message 5: wonderlake

My OH bought me the new edition of the 1,001 books you must read before you die- yey!

He got for himself Notes from the Underground, Dostoyevsky and Jim Thompson's The Killer inside me.

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Jul 9, 2008, 6:31pm (top)Message 6: stochasticooze

I happened to stop in to the local Barnes & Noble, and in addition to picking up the final volume of Y: The Last Man and a hardcover of The Escapists (by the same writer), I found a few good hardcover titles in the bargain area for $6 each:

Summerland by Michael Chabon
Pontoon by Garrison Keillor
The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana by Umberto Eco
The Areas of My Expertise by John Hodgman

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Jul 9, 2008, 8:26pm (top)Message 7: varielle

Found at the BookNook Suits Me and Status Anxiety.

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Jul 18, 2008, 11:18am (top)Message 8: hjelliot

Ah, some catching up to do...
The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall
Novel on Yellow Paper by Stevie Smith
The Thinking Reed by Rebecca West
The Magic Toyshop by Angela Carter
Thank Heaven Fasting by E.M. Delafield
A Compass Error by Sybille Bedford
The Diary of a Provincial Lady by E.M. Delafield
A Far Cry From Kensington by Muriel Spark
84 Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff
The Iliad by Homer
Elizabeth and her German Garden by Elizabeth von Arnim
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

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Jul 18, 2008, 5:19pm (top)Message 9: bostonbibliophile

I bought Dearest Anne and Fire in the Blood. :-)

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Jul 18, 2008, 9:52pm (top)Message 10: burnett

This afternoon to avoid sitting in traffic I went to B&N and picked up:

Man Walks Into a Room by Nicole Krauss
Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
The Boat by Nam Le.

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