Are we really acquiring that many more books lately or just talking more about them? August should have had three or four threads! But now, finally, September -- and what gems found their way across your threshold today?

My son received the book The Magician, The Secrets of the immortal Nicholas Flamel today. He went to bed and left the book unattended. Heeehe, mine now. I'm on chapter 15 and I am enjoying the continued adventure of the alchemyst, Sophie, Josh and the shadow.

oooh! I love the cover of that book!

If I saw it in a bookstore it would draw me in immediately.

I refuse to buy it!!!

*flees*

My latest books, which technically were purchased in August, but I saved them for the new thread. :)

Borders:
Time's Eye, By Arthur C. Clarke - Book Group Read
The Painted Veil, By W. Somerset Maugham - Book Group Read
Heaven's Net is Wide, By Lian Hearn
Acacia, By David Anthony Durham
Empire Rising, By Sam Barone

Barnes & Noble

The Eagle's Prey, By Simon Scarrow
Pig Island, By Mo Hayder
Lord John and the Brotherhood of the Blade, By Diana Gabaldon

Non-Fiction

Three Cups of Tea, By Greg Mortenson - Book Group Read
The Good, the Bad & the Ugly New England Patriots, By Sean Glennon
Can't Get the touchstone to work.

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I just received Bleak House (Danish edition) from a Danish second hand book store. It is 89 years old (published 1919) and consists of two volumes (hardback, 511+461 pages). I've got an English paperback edition as well, but I found it a bit difficult to read it in its original language, so I tried to buy a Norwegian version, but strangely enough I couldn't find any. I'll now read my Danish (almost Norwegian) edition and "compare" it with my English one.

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>2 redswirl3...you got me..i checked out the Michael Scott books:The Alchemyst and The Magician...and my TBR pile will soon need its own Zip Code!!!thanks for the mention :)

>3 mckait..if i can find the books i will give YOU a Heads up....maybe i could send them to you On LOan...what say?

my TBR pile will soon need its own Zip Code:

ROTFLMAO!!!!!!!!!!

What a nice offer, jude!

I appreciate you thinking to loan them to me, but I have so many TBR it is just scary. So I thank you and decline...but they sure are pretty!

:D

mckait...my TBR pile no longer "calls out"..she Yells (she really should get a job!)...it's okay, i still haven't found the titles for, relatively, cheap..yet
**smiles to you*
JUDE

>teelgee
yessir..if you could see all the books i own..in nearly every room of my house, you would seriously LOL
thanks for the post!

Received two books on Saturday and finished the first of them today: Lynn Lurie's Corner of the Dead, which I didn't really love. It was too fragmented and, though it seemed heavily workshopped, it had no real structure. Disappointing, to say the least. I also received The Tango Singer by Tomas Eloy Martinez on Saturday. I hope this one is better!

>3 mckait, yes both of the Michael Scott books have nice covers but The Magician is my favorite because of the ruby red color.

>6 jdthloue my TBR pile is now very jealous since The Magician was read before some that have been waiting for weeks. LOL

Awesome young adult book. An excellent mix of fantasy, myth and history.
I wonder how long it will be until the 3rd book, The Sorcerer will hit the shelves?

Patiently awaiting arrival of almost any reading material............Not that I don't have overflowing shelves, desks, and headboards..........but the flow has stopped and it makes me a bit anxious about the state of my literary world....

I picked up 2 books today at Borders.

I got book 2 of a series by mistake. I liked the book and didn't realize it was in a series. So today I went to pick up book 1.

Dawn of Empire by Sam Barone

And I had a coupon for 30% off but had to spend at least $10.00 so I picked up

Reap The Wild Wind by Julie Czerneda

My UK book spent the holiday in Chelmsford, Mass. which is very close, so it may actually be delivered to me at work on Tuesday.

I think I may have posted this on the wrong thread--so I'm re-posting here.

I finished Of Mice and Men yesterday afternoon--which I really loved (5 stars) and which I will review either tonight or tomorrow. However I needed something to give me a "lift" after the Steinbeck so I got out the Georgette Heyer I had brought with me in case of emergency, Black Sheep and I finished that today.

I'll get back to The Killing Floor by Lee Child either tonight or tomorrow--have to finish that fast because as soon as we get home tomorrow night I have to start Poisonwood Bible for the group read. I'm also reading What do We Know by Mary Oliver (poems) which I will probably finish before I go to bed.

I got to go back to B&N today because some friends called and wanted to get together there and then go out to lunch. I was very good--only bought one book: The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman. I love her books of essays that I have. This book is about a clash of cultures between the Hmong and American doctors which took place about a decade ago very near where I live. It was highly recommended by a couple of LT readers. The area in the Central Valley of California around Fresno was one of the main resettlement areas for the Hmong that came from Laos--needing to come here to avoid being slaughtered because of the aid they gave Americans during the war. I've met many Hmong and from from 1998 to 2001 our church had as pastor the first Hmong to be ordained in the United Methodist Church.

After lunch Hubby dropped me off at Borders while he did some shopping at the outlets. I had a 30% off coupon and I wanted to get Brain Rules by John Medina. My other son (in Chicago) called me this morning to tell me about it. While I was waiting I also found The Latehomecomer by Kao Kalia Yang which is a memoir of a Hmong who was relocated to St. Paul. I also saw this recommended on LT and Anne Fadiman had recommended it. Then I stumbled across a paperback volume that had the first 2 Nero Wolfe novels: Fer-de-Lance and The League of Frightened Men. I don't own the first one and my copy of the second one is a ratty used paperback. I'm starting a project to read the Nero Wolfe novels in order over the next couple of years so I grabbed it. I'm surely glad when I went to B&N on Friday I only bought 5 books then instead of the 10 I had selected! Wow--I'd better be careful this month! I still have an Amazon order I'm waiting for.

>14: The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down is so wonderful! I hope you enjoy it.

I got ARCs of Greasy Rider (for Early Reviewers) and My Father's Paradise, both of which I'm looking forward to.

Nothing came into the house today...Waiting on a few books.

My newest additions:

Cranberry Queen-Kathleen DeMarco

A Page Out of Life-Kathleen Reid

Back Spin-Harlan Coben

Mao's Last Dancer-Li Cunxin

The Unknown Errors of Our Lives-Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

I'm going home with a nice pile today. Shadow of Colossus showed up over the weekend for review, but I just got it today. Return to the Middle Kingdom came for review today. A Swiftly Tilting Planet, The Traitor's Wife, and In The Woods all came from BookMoochers, and Marie-Therese, Child of Terror came from a fellow LTer's blog contest.

I am almost finished with Terok Nor: Night of the Wolves. Had to add Terok Nor to the title because Night of the Wolves brings up Nightingale something. Weird!

My library had been closed for renovations and the holiday and reopend today and I know there must be at three on hold for me that came out at the end of August - Laughter of Dead Kings, Hounded to Death and Devil Bones.

Glad to see a new thread was started for this post.

I grabbed a couple of books from my sons room today - Star Trek: Pantheon (again , adding the Star Trek brought down the number of possibilities. I also found The Bible According to Mark Twain. He's away at grad school and said I could read anything he had as long as it went back to his room afterwards - and not to the library booksale box.

I bought three books this week...go me!!

Trickster's Queen by Tamora Pierce
Odd Thomas I actually read four chapters into this in the store...yeah. I think I'm really going to enjoy this book...and then we'll see about the rest of the series.
and
An Abundance of Katherines...I really only got it cuz it was four dollars...and Looking for Alaska was pretty decent. So I figured, why not?
Plus...I recently discovered that you can return books within a two week period...SO COOL!!!
so...I really can't lose

That's it really

Chokay, folks, someone in Book Heaven is in a pet with me. I got **two books** over the last four days. Now I ask you, is that any way for the Book Fairy to behave?!

The 101 Most Influential People Who Never Lived crossed into my zone of influence this weekend. My former partner, The Divine Miss, gave it me.

Oryx and Crake was gifted to me by some anonymous guy in the Buns and Nubile coffee shop. He said he never sees anyone reading that book, it's a favorite of his, and he brought it back to me paid for and made me promise I'd meet him same time, same place in two weeks to talk about it with him. Weird, but nice.

Am now employed as of Monday 9/8. I hate the hours (3p-11p) but what the hell! I am employed in a place where there are a lot of people who AREN'T!

Despite a TBR pile which I calculate will take 29 months to clear and a complete lack of shelf space until my Dad comes to my rescue, I broke out into a cold sweat on Monday because no books had arrived in the post for ages. I also had a panic that I'm running out of sci-fi to read (which I'm really not).

The upshot is that three Alastair Reynolds books should be arriving in tomorrow's post - Chasm City, Century Rain and Redemption Ark. Does anyone know if there's an order I should read them in?

richardderus - that's such a lovely thing to happen. I wish strangers would give me books! Oryx and Crake is great - I hope you enjoy it.

In the mail today from friends came:
The Dud Avocado by Elaine Dundy
A Very Private Eye by Barbara Pym (autobiography)
Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont by Elizabeth Taylor, a Virago.

Delicious!

Anxiously awaiting the arrival from work of my sons......yeah I love them and all, but they bring the mail! My fingers are crossed for the end of the book drought!

nothing remotely resembling a book came to me today.

richard: that's an interesting and slightly creepy story about the B & N coffee shop...I've been tempted to do something similar with The Sparrow, but instead of forcing onto people, I just chat up anyone I see reading it, anywhere.

Yay for being employed!

Will you read the sequel to The Sparrow?
I am not surprised you liked that book, Children of God is not as good, but worth a read. I have read Sparrow so many times, it is a favorite.

I have literally bought that one for others, not like richard's experience, but family and friends.

My daughter and I visited Piermont, NY on the Hudson River today with friends, sort of a last hurrah before the kids go back to school this Thursday. Ate a great burger at a sidewalk cafe. Walked along the river while eating ice cream. Bought earrings at a boutique, and on our way back to the car stopped in at the village's lovely quaint new library where they were selling a few donated hardbacks for 50 cents and paperbacks for 25 cents. For $1.25 I bought Pompeii by Robert Harris, Watchman by Ian Rankin and Simone de Beauvior by Judith Okely, published as part of Virago Pantheon Pioneers series. All in all, a lovely way to end the summer.

Richard--I would love for anyone to give me a free book, creepy or not! As it is though, I still have to dig into pin money for mine.

Russka--Edward Rutherfurd

Conan Doyle's Best Books--Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
( the date on this is 1900! and it's practically pristine.)

Evergreen and Flowering Shrubs for Your Home--Katharine M-P. Cloud

Introduction to Trees--John Kiernan

Plants are Like People--Jerry Baker

Wildflowers of North America--R. Lemmon

All about Landscaping--Jo Kellum

Western Gardening Book

Nature's Design--Carole A. Smyser

Father of the Bride--Edward Streeter

Lisey's Story--Stephen King

World War Z--Max Brooks

mckait: I've read Children of God and agree that it wasn't as good. I thought many of the questions from the end of The Sparrow were better left unanswered, and I didn't like all of the ways that Russell tied things up.

I re-read The Sparrow every year or two and have given it as a gift to at least five people and recommended it to countless others.

Okay, I give up. I am no longer attempting anything resembling a buying ban. I've just got to accept that I am going to buy books whether I try to avoid it or not.

That being said, I picked up American Wife today. I'd wanted it as an ER book, but didn't get it, and I've been enviously watching others read their copies. Now I can finally read my very own copy.

I finally treated myself to Sempe: Nothing is Simple from Amazon. It's a compilation of work by Jean-Jacques Sempe, my favorite New Yorker cover artist and one of my favorite cartoonists overall. But it arrived with a broken hip!! -- :( -- the back endpaper torn halfway up and the back cover already separating from the spine. It's being returned. Very sad.

#19 koalamom

Isn't it fun having free reign in your son's library! I remember those days.

Unfortunately, when we moved from Savannah to California my older son was in the process of getting married and moving to Chicago. I think about a third of MY library now resides in Chicago. He does let me visit them. My younger son finally followed us out here and I have a key to his house--and his books cataloged in my LT listings--so I just call and he brings a book by when I want it. In fact, if he remembers, he's supposed to bring The Alchemist by tonight. (That's the one about Nicholas Flamel--in case the touchstone revers back when I submit.)

#30 bnbooklady

After all those accolades about The Sparrow I used the touchstone to find out about it and discovered my Chicago son owns it. We are going there for Thanksgiving so I will have him put it out for me to read while we are there. It sounds intriguing and y'all on this thread really seem to like it.

#33 MusicMom41

When he comes down to visit from Buffalo where he's in grad school, he'll be bringing a whole bunch of books for me to read.

I have read The Alchemist but by Coelho and my daughter has read it in its original language, Spanish, her third language (Portuguese being first).

I am findng it interesting using the brackets around the title and then getting something other than the book you want.

Are your kids in music, hence your name? Me, I collect koala stuff and I am a mom, obviously, hence mine.

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We just got home from our trip up to the Bay Area where I got to go to B&N twice! and also stopped by Borders. Waiting for me was one of the books I ordered from Amazon just before I left -- this one was form an import seller: The Toll Gate by Georgette Heyer. I refuse to lend this one again--I've lost 3 copies that way (over the years) and I thought I would never see it again because it's not in print in this country.

I've listed my treasure trove from B&N and Borders elsewhere and in dribbles.. I think I will put them here in a big lump--to remind me that I must be much more careful this month--and the next. (A bookaholic going on the wagon!)

Goin into my library as soon as I finish this post:

Poetry:

What Do We Know by Mary Oliver: finished it today and will review soon--it was wonderful and thought provoking.

Red Bird by Mary Oliver: I think this is her latest and I hope I will like it as much as Why I Wake Early.

Non-fiction:

The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks: a book that didn't make it to California--I think it may be in Chicago--and I'd like to read it again.

The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman: I love Fadiman's writing, I've seen a lot of good comments about this book on LT, and I live in an area with a large Hmong population.

The Latehomecomer by Kao Kalia Yang: Anne Fadiman recommended it and see above.

How to Read a Novel Like a Professor by Thomas C. Foster: an impulse buy that seems from what I have read so far was an inspired act. This one is wonderful.

Brain Rules by John Medina: My Chicago (and LT) son called me yesterday just before we left for our bookstore adventures and said that I had to get this book--it will change my life. I'm looking forward to it--it appears to be fascinating but I won't be able to start it until after I get a couple of weeks into teaching because this one will take concentration.

Fiction:

Fer-de-Lance and The League of Frightened Men by Rex Stout: I'm planning to read all the Nero Wolfe's in the next year and i don't own League so I grabbed this dual volume. Now I only have to get 3 more Wolfe books to have them all--mostly in old used paperbacks.

The Final Solution by Michael Chabon: I've wanted to try Chabon for quite a while and this was the 3rd and free book from a e for 2 table. A no risk chance to try a new author--especially since there was nothing else on the table that interested me at all.

I'm off to enter books!

Now that I'm back in New York City and obscenely close to Strand, I bought Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte and Gut Symmetries by Jeanette Winterson. Jane Eyre is one of my favorite books, and I didn't take my copy with me when I moved into my dorm, so I picked up another. I really don't go a month without at least flipping through it (since seventh grade!!!). I really love that book; it has a lot of good memories for me, I guess.

Gut Symmetries I'm really excited about. I love Jeanette Winterson, and I never get tired of her books, even though many of them seem to almost read the same at first. I did a paper on her last year, and I guess even that didn't put me off, so I'm still trying to complete my Winterson collection.

And I bought a book of Mozart etudes, but I don't think that's the type of book you're talking about...:)

#35 koalamom

I've used MusicMom as a user name for years--had to add 41 a couple of years ago when I went to a site where someone else was using it. I'm the musician and being a Mom is important to me. Both my sons do play and sing but not so much now that they are grown.

I assumed koalamom was from Australia. :-)

I don't know the Coelho book. Is it good?

#37 ZanKnits

Are you studying music?

I've loved Jane Eyre since 8th grade and have worn out multiple copies. It was one of my "comfort" books when I was in college.

I was away for 5 days in San Francisco visiting some friends. Had a really really great time at the Dale Chihuly exhibition at the De Young Museum and imbibed too much wine in Napa Valley. It was therefore a super surprise to come home to find a yummy stack of books waiting for me at the post office.

The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekov
The Persian Pickle Club by Sandra Dallas
Angry Housewives by Lorna Landvik
Little Children by Tom Perrotta

From the Book Depository:
The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
500 Things to know about the ancient world by Carolyn Howitt

And from my dear friend, JP, for helping him paint a crib for his soon-to-arrive son,
The Forbidden Daughter by Shobhan Bantwal
The Wednesday Letters by Jason F. Wright

Now is that a bonanza or what?!! whoo hooo!

Yippee..........woohoo.......yeeha...a book finally came in the mail. The drought is over!

From BookMooch: Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga

ah, porchy. Embarrassed by how many books showed up? I do understand the problem. I am awaiting more myself. I recently bought 2 from Amazon, one being about vaccines for pets. At least they have finally confessed that pet vaccines are not necessary as they were given for years, and in many cases harmful. Who knows, maybe someday a researcher will do the same for our children.

I have 2 orders coming from bookcloseouts, too.

eek!

MusicMom - wish I could get to Australia. Closest I got was when a couple of friends went and took a camera for me and took some koala photos.

Yes, Paul Coelho, whose name I always mispronouce (Portuguese, I think) and my daughter corrects me, is a good writer and his Alchemist is excellent. And my daughter is a musician, plays the clarinet, though not as much now as she'd like.

I find it interesting how we all choose our online names!

Yesterday I got a copy of Enemy Women in the mail, for the Missouri readers group read here on LT and today brought Home: A Novel by Marilynne Robinson. I'm so excited - Gilead came out like 20 years after Housekeeping, so I'm glad she's not making us wait another 20 years for this novel.

#31 shootingstarr7--you go girl! Just give up on the ban--us bibliophiles will never be able to not buy books--its just part of our genes!!

Let me know how American Wife is--I've been oogling that one too.

Just got Company of Liars and The Tsar's Dwarf.

I'm not sure if the last one is YA or kid lit. Doesn't really matter either :)

*******ATTENTION: Book Drought in Progress******

yesterday brought only one Book Mooch:
The Rule of Four....

but i have some others on the way...the Holiday slowed the mail a bit....

>41.....put in a Whooo-Hoo- from me, too!

:))

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DHL and FedEx have brought me books today. I'm hoping that, by posting this, I'll encourage our USPS sub to hurry up and get here already.

Here's what I got so far:
Constitution Translated for Kids by Cathy Travis
Why We Hate Us: American Discontent in the New Millennium by Dick Meyer

40: The Dale Chihuly exhibit was packed when I went. It distracted from the art, unfortunately.

One more textbook arrived today:
Los Angeles's Boyle Heights by The Japanese American National Museum

New books that I recently acquired: The Sound and the Fury, William Faulkner & The Castle, Franz Kafka.
I am currently rading The Complete Stories of Franz Kafka.
(I was recently influenced from my step-brother that I should read Kafka, so this week I started)

Book drought in progress here too...I only have 23 books to catalog from my days being a literary agent, and I bought my first-ever audiobooks (four titles) at the West Hempstead public library sale for a couple bucks.

It's depressing to have a lousy twenty-seven books to catalog. I mean, I am supposed to be a serious reader. And now, with a commute to entertain myself on, and a cassette player in my car, I can vacuum up a bunch of audiobooks cheap. I have very few radio stations that I want to bother with, and I can't read while driving (drat!), AND there are plenty of books that I wouldn't necessarily dedicate actual reading time to, so this is about perfect.

The Hindenburg Murders by Max Allan Collins--I think I read the tree book of this some time ago and "loaned" it to my daughter. I haven't seen it since. So why not?
The Moonshine War by Elmore Leonard--I laugh at his books, but honestly I can't see myself spending reading time on them. Too much else on Mt. TBR.
Jane and the Genius of the Place and Jane and the Stillroom Maid by Stephanie Barron--for trips with Auntie, since she likes these.

The others, well, see the "recently added" section on my page. I start work Monday! I get home internet AT LAST on Saturday! Everyone, can I get a witness?? Say "hallelujah!"

>52 Richard

you got a witness, a Halleujah, and may i suggest you pick up the first CD by OLLABELLE (produced by the wondrous T B Burnett- i recommend this because i am on my 3rd copy of such)..hey, it won't kill you, will it?

*smiles, best wishes, and a chaste(!!??) SMOOCH**

Today I brought home, Cotswold Tales by Alan Sutton (social oral history) and Conversations with Ayckbourn by Ian Watson, (theatre studies) both subjects dear to me and both books found in vg condition and v cheap in local Charity (Thrift) shop. Seldom does a day go by without I find something interesting - I only buy what interests me - and I bring it home, am I a biblio-holic or what?

In This House of Brede by Rumer Godden

The Extra Large Medium by Helen Slavin

Middlemarch by George Eliot

From mooch and used Amazon


Atlantis in America: Navigators of the Ancient World by Ivar Zapp

from a sweet friend
ya know who you are!

Thank you so much! it looks fantastic!

Okay, the chiding finally worked and the USPS person came and brought me an ARC Bone by Bone. I don't read many mysteries, but it sounds interesting.

Bookmooched:
Conspiracy of Paper by David Liss. This looks like a terrific read and he seems to be a very interesting author. Can't wait to dive in! Any fans?

>49 DoB: yay for Why We Hate Us. Move it to the top of immediately!

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ahhhh

received an ARC of Dime Novel Desperadoes The Notorious Maxwell Brothers by John Hallwas. Beautiful hardback copy with a nice card from the University of Illinois Press.

Sitting on my night stand waiting patiently while I finish The Brief History of the Dead by Kevin Brockmeier are...

The Garden of Last Days by Andre Dubus

AND

Thomas Jefferson: Draftsman of a Nation by Natalie S. Bober (because I've decided that I have to read a biography of each president in order--see how far I've gotten?)

I got a call today from the library and they have SEVERAL books being held for me. Will pick them up tomorrow - was gone all day today.

>58,

I'm planning on it the second I can finish Henry VI, Part II!

48: jdthloue, I loved The Rule of Four ... it was one of the books I couldn't put down after I got into the first chapter.

50: Shortride, I was lucky I guess ... it was crowded, but not too bad .. perhaps we lucked out and it was an odd time of day for most people. It's made me interested in the art of glass blowing and I found some books at B&N last night to browse through. I don't think I'm going to be attempting this on my own any time soon though.

I love Kerry Greenwood and am very chuffed that Urn Burial arrived in the mail for me today from the Book Depository.

Also in the mail, The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro ... I'm keep thinking that I've read this before, but for the life of me, I can't seem to remember it.

#57> I read Conspiracy of Paper last year and thought it was fascinating on many levels.

Second day in a row...double WooHoo! From BookMooch: The End of the Affair by Graham Greene

#55 mckait

I read In This House of Brede many years ago and loved it. A while back I found a used HC in fairly good condition that I picked up so I cold read it again. It's still waiting for me. When you read yours, let me know and I'll read mine and maybe we can compare notes.

Middlemarch is one of my all time favorite novels. I hope you like it. I've seen several rather negative comments about it on LT threads.

My "haull" today:

Went to the library as a favor to my son to return some stuff for him and saw on the sale table A Thief of Time by Tony Hillerman. It was the first one of his I read many years ago right after I had visited the Anasazi ruins and that entire area where the novel takes place. I have alsay wanted to own it (I had borrowed) so now I have it for 50 cents and can read it again.

When I got home, part of my Amazon order had arrived:

Letters to a Diminished Church by Dorothy Sayers--I love everything she wrote and am gradually collecting it.

A Shilling for Candles by Josephine Tey, one of the Golden Age of mystery writers. I think I have 3 more to go to own them all. This one features Alan Grant, her series detective. He's in 5 of her books and the other three are stand alones. (I think I've accounted for all I know about)

The Magician by Michael Scott, the 2nd in the Nicholas Flamel series. Ostensibly this is for my son (a gift) and it will live at his house, but I keep track of the books so it goes in my LT catalog and I will read it, also.

edited to for accuracy--forgot about a 5th Alan Grant book!

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Yesterday I found myself in one of the local Barny Noble's brick and mortars. I couldn't find all of the CD's I was looking for, and we were moving on into the month, so I thought I'd better pick up a book or two.

The Leopard by Giuseppe di Lampedusa just because it's one of those novels one should have on one's shelf.
Measuring the Immeasurable with no attested editor. It is published by Sounds True and recommended by Ken Wilber; it is iffy in prospect but may prove substantial.

Robert

I received my first shipment from BookDepository.com today:

1. God's Own Country by Ross Raisin
2. The Impostor by Damon Galgut
3. Mosquito by Roma Tearne

#39: MusicMom41

I'm actually a drama major, but taking piano lessons during the semester. I wish I had the chops for music - I love it, but it doesn't love me back :)

I got an ARC of College Girl by Patricia Weitz, which doesn't come out until January and is currently my ARC with the most distant release date.

Oh dear...I'm a bit run-down and consequently my will-power is low. Even though I knew this I decided to go to the bookstore at the university where I work. It's a great bookstore and I buy a lot of books from there, even though I really should buy them cheaper somewhere else. However, it's 2 minutes walk from my office and I like immediate gratification :-)

So, I went intending to only buy I Dream of Magda by Stefan Laszczuk. I am currently doing the group read of The Poisonwood Bible and loving it, but I need something lighter for a day or two while I'm not feeling well. I did in fact buy that book...along with 5 others. Yikes! Partly it was due to shock. The bookstore had recently received a shipment - I'm in Australia and some of the books are American, and it's unusual to see so many newish American books at once in an independent bookstore. I couldn't choose between them, so gave in and bought them all.

My purchases were:
I Dream of Magda by Stefan Laszczuk - an Australian author (the Magda of the title is the Australian actress Magda Szubanski - for those who don't know her, she played the farmer's wife in the movie Babe)
The Lace Reader by Bruonia Barry - I've been hearing good things about this book here on LT
The 19th Wife by David Ebershoff - ditto
The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson - ditto
The Good Thief by Hannah Tinti - read a good review of this book in a newspaper last weekend
Hamlet by John Marsden (don't think there's a touchstone for that one) - this is a retelling of the Shakespeare play by an Australian author who writes fantastic YA books, and I also read a good review in the newspaper last weekend

I'm so excited to read all these books!

Elee, what a list of acquisitions!

All books that I have seen wonderful reviews of. I have only read The Lace Reader of all of those, and loved it. Most of them are books I hope to read sometime. Well Done!

Yesterday Reading Lolita in Tehran arrived in my mailbox. The Enchantress of Florence in to follow soon.

#72 Eustrabirbeonne

Reading Lolita in Tehran was one of the best books I read last year. At the time I read it my main focus was how they used literature to help them through the perilous times--especially for women--that Iran was going through then. After reading Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali last month I now plan to re-read Nafisi's book in the near future to examine more carefully what was actually happening to rights for women in Iran during this change. I hope you enjoy the book as I did.

I haven't read any Salmon Rushdie yet. Anyone got a suggestion which one I should read first?

The first part of my latest Amazon order has just arrived, containing The Book of Other People, a short story collection edited by Zadie Smith.

>57 msf, I am a big fan of Liss's A Conspiracy of Paper and its sequel A Spectacle of Corruption. I hope he will treat us to more books in that milieu! And if you don't find it an enjoyable read, I will be very surprised. The Coffee Trader, a species of prequel to the two above, is also a pleasure. Right now I am reading an ARC of The Whiskey Rebels but not "feeling it" (a strange locution...my daughter uses it a lot...I don't know if I've got the sense of it with this usage). It's safe to say though that Liss is a very good writer of historical fiction, with an ear, eye and nose for the telling detail.

>64 hemlok, yay Graham Greene!! The End of the Affair is one of those books I loved when I read it and have bought copies for many friends over the years. Consulting my library, I don't seem to have one right now, so it's off to the bookstore later. Poor me.

>65 MusicMom, I love the Golden Agers! Have you any Ngaio Marsh books, or interest in same? I have several I can part with as they're duplicates. Give me a private profile message with details if you'd like some.

Okay, I went a little nuts at the Odyssey Book Shop in Rockville Centre. I haven't even started my job and I'm buying books.

The Rector of Justin
East Side Story--both by Louis Auchincloss, a favorite author of my mother's whose skill as a storyteller I admire greatly; I'm 40pp into The Rector of Justin and loving it already.

Badenheim 1939 by Aharon Appelfeld--I haven't read anything by him before and this is the first of his books to be translated into English. What better place to start?

Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovky--the bookstore guy loves this book, and since I'm there so much and spend money, he gave it to me for a buck on the promise that I'd pass it on if I loved it.

Just finished the Star Trek book and today came home with two books from the library.

Devil Bones and Laughter of Dead Kings.

> 75: richardderus, I loved Suite Francaise and my copy was passed around to friends so often that it literally fell apart. This is a book I'd consider a timeless classic. It is so well written and so full of detail. She certainly brought out the fragility of life and how things can change almost without warning.
I think I'm just going to have to get another copy since it's a book I'd like to read again .... perhaps when I'm halfway down my tottering and ever growing TBR tower.

Received Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World by Jack Weatherford on my front stoop this morning....a very kind and welcome gift from a neighbor. Must be the result of a discussion we had about Mongolian horse racing a couple of weeks ago.

Got Ludmila's broken English by DBC Pierre. I liked Vernon God little, so hopefully this one as well.

#75 Richard -- Did Tinkerbell cover you in "book loving" dust or something? First, a total stranger gives you a new book to read and now a bookSELLER lets you buy for $1 a book on the best sellers' list. What the . . . ! I'm really jealous. No one ever gives me books (except, of course, on birthdays and Xmas) and it's not strangers who are gifting me.

Despite the heavy rain falling on Chicago, I had two books make it into my hot little hands safe and dry:
Legally Correct Fairy Tales made it to me all the way from Singapore in just a month
My August ER book, Tears of the Desert: A Memoir of Survival in Darfur showed up today as well. Even though I'm already reading two not-super-happy books (Blue Genes about family depression and Why We Hate Us about what it is Americans hate about American culture and why), I'm thinking of starting it right away both because it is an ER book and because it is being released on Tuesday. I'm going to have to start reading Some Happy Book next after depression, toxic culture, and genocide.

#40 camiling

I just finished The Book Thief. It's one of the best books I've read in a long time. Enjoy!

Took a trip to Half-Price Books to sell some old books of mine and picked up:

Chocolate by Mort Rosenblum
Jamba Juice Power by Stan Dembecki
and a childrens book about a racehorse (can't remember the title now!

Also received in the mail Dime Novel Desperadoes by John Hallwas for Early Reviewers.

Well, I posted too soon because I wasn't expecting our FedEx guy to come at 4 pm. He and the UPS guy almost always come before lunch, but maybe the terrible weather in Chicago today was slowing them down. Anyway, he brought me Standing Still by Kelly Simmons sent to me straight from Ms. Simmons herself, with a very nice note inside.

#80 DevourerOfBooks

Tears of the Desert: please let me know what you think of it. I am going to a lecture about Dafur in the middle of next month and I'm trying to find out more about the situation there before then. I read The Translator a couple of months ago but I'd like to get something else, too. Until I read that I was really ignorant of what was happening in that area and I'd like to be informed when I go to the lecture so I can better evaluate the speech.

>84,

If you don't mind, can you leave me a profile message to that effect? Also, you should check out Maw Book's blog. She is having a big awareness-raising event right now about the genocide in Darfur. Her main post about the event is here, her recommended media (books and movies) about the genocide is here.

I got an ARC of College Girl, which doesn't come out until January, so I won't be reading it anytime soon. But I am very excited to read it when the time gets closer. It looks good.

Two more books came today from The Book Depository, The Clothes on Their Backs by Linda Grant, and Something to Answer For by P.H. Newby.

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JOB: A Comedy of Justice by Robert Heinlein. A few chapters in and so far, it's okay.

#87 kidzdoc - let us know what you think of The Clothes on their Backs. I'm addicted to her blog, and I've been wondering how her novels are.

# 75: richard, thanks for you comments on David Liss. I'm really looking forward to reading him! But his new book is not up to par, huh?

My UK book has been here for a couple of days. Just savoring the fact that it is finally here. Didn't want to mention the name before it came in case I jinxed it.

It took 35 days to get here in NH. Wouldn't mind if the length of time was really required for shipping. But the time was so they could ship it from London to Nevada first and then back to NH. Don't think I will use Alibrs again.

I have been looking for it for awhile, ever since I saw the documentary,and found out there was a book too. Both are OOP and hard to find, the author has upset many of the powers that be in government, and medicine.

The River: A Journey Back to the Source of HIV and Aids by Edward Hooper. Its about 1100 pages of science and evidence for the idea that HIV/AIDS passed from Monkeys to humans as a result of the practices of Polio researchers in the Belgian Congo in the 1950s.

They were testing a polio vaccine and they used Chimpanzee kidneys as the host to grow the virus. Of course this was before they knew how closely related we are and they did nothing in terms of testing the wild animals caught to see if they were healthy. The storage conditions before they were cut up, also guaranteed to spread disease among them.

The Congo forced people and their children to be vaccinated in the trials, and later when AIDS emerged in people in Africa the sites were the same as the former vaccination areas.

It will be a long slow read, but I plan to start it soon.

For my birthday yesterday I went to Borders and picked out Armed & Magical by Lisa Shearin which is the sequel to the rather campy Magic Lost, Trouble Found that I read last year.

Finally!
one Book Mooch:

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

...it may have only been one book..but what a one it is!!!

>77 cameling, when you come visit LI this fall I will give you my copy of Suite Francaise, which I finished last night. It's a lovely, lovely book and one enjoyed reading greatly, but I don't think I will re-read it soon. And for a buck, sheesh, take the darn thing. I have two itsy little two-shelf bookshelves in my room and the space crunch (BEFORE my books arrive from Texas) is looming. What I will do with over 2000 books in a house with many more than that...oy.

>79 maggie, yeah...my life is weird that way. I met Mr. Man on a bus because he was reading a book and crying. When I was flying here from Texas, my seat mate got asked to move because a guy I chatted up in the waiting lounge about HIS book during our long delay wanted to continue our chat. Just seems to work out that way. Of course, it's such a burden being so shy and socially inept that I can't make myself talk to strangers....

>90 msf, Liss's new book isn't BAD by any stretch. I just haven't been hooked from the get-go the way I was with his other historicals. I have put it aside and plan to return to it in a different book-mood.

>93 jdt, WOW! As a drought ender, that would bee my choice! I love and adore Their Eyes Were Watching God. Once upon a time, I had a client at the agency who had written a play based on the novel. We tried to get it produced, and even convinced Wynton Marsalis to compose music for it, but no go so far, 15 years on. No one wants to go up against the Oprah Machine, which had movie and television rights to the story. It was sad. The play, "Gleam", is so much better than that TV movie was. Ah well.

>91 Ficus, I read a Rolling Stone article to that effect years ago when Dr. Jonas Salk was still alive. It was odd to me then, and remains odd to me now, that the US medical establishment has said so very little about this provocative and persuasive thesis. Makes one wonder what they are uneasy about, no?

Say, has anyone seen IaaS around here? Shouldn't she be back from Turkey by now? I'm hoping to hear travel stories and book acqusitions.

richard--I thought I was the only one who approached people reading and tried to start a chat about their books. At the beach I only take a walk around to see what people are reading. They must thinking I"m staring, but really I'm just trying to see what they are reading--I'm really not stalking them :)

I have a couple of Liss books which I look forward to reading after your comments.

What a neat way that you met Mr. Man. What book was he reading when you met him that made him cry?

>95 momom, I hope the Liss books give you hours of readerly delight!

Mr. Man was reading The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls. He was fairly early in his recovery from a serious addiction to alcohol. He was crying because the story reminded him of his own past. I sat down to find out why this camo-wearin' gimme-cap-bearin' scraggly beard havin' Good Ole Boy was reading (!) and crying (!!) in public, and he took a while to get it out; we ended up talking for three hours, well okay I listened for three hours and made cooing and humming noises.

From such seeds do mighty oaks grow, eh what?

#95 momom248

I also am always trying to see what people are reading. One of my favorite places is in the airport--sometimes if I get a good look at the cover but can't read the title, I will go to the bookshop and try to find it to get the title. However, unlike richardderus, I AM shy so I don't approach anyone without major encouragement. (Once I'm approached I'm usually okay and can control the shyness.)

Yellow-Lghted Bookshop the author had a term for people like us--"book snoop." Since he is one also I don't think is was an insult!

96: richardderus, I just loved Glass Castle. It's amazing how much a human soul can not only endure but build on and step up to conquer the world. While I cheered for Jeanette, her older sister and younger brother, I grieved for her little sister who didn't appear to have the same inner strength as her older sibs. I also found it interesting that the parents were both soulmates in their off-beat look at life and child-rearing habits.

have you warned dear Auntie yet that 2000 books are enroute to their resettlement? ok, i'll do you a buck and cup of coffee for your copy of Suite Francaise... whoohoo... that means i can tell my nephew to bury my book when he's done with it... it's literally being held together with strips of tape at this point. He's an impressionable 19 year old, and he's finding this book very disturbing and sad ... and he's only a third through.

97: MusicMom41, I'm the same way ... I'm always sneaking a peek at what others are reading when I'm at the airport, on a plane, or sitting in a cafe. I saw someone reading Shantaram at the airport some years ago, and i just had to go up to them to ask them what they thought of the book ... we ended up having a great conversation and have stayed in touch since. I'm usually shy and rarely approach strangers, but that was such a powerful book for me, that I was compelled to speak to the man.

I picked up TR by H.W. Brands today at B&N .. but it'll be making its way out the door again this weekend as my uncle's birthday present.

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i don't know if this is the right place to do...but i just found out i snagged my first Early Reviewers book..and am thrilled..now i can brush up on my writing skills and pay you fine people back for your friendship/tolerance...?????...

oh gosh i gushed and feel dumb
somebody get me outta here
:))
JUDE

No books today, but I did get some lovely booksmarks from LiterateHousewife. She's doing an online book club and sent everyone participating a pretty bookmark with an "I" on it (for Immortal, the book we're reading). I, however, got a very pretty lavender and green one (close to my wedding colors) with my initial and a lovely quote on it in addition to the other one. So pretty!

I got an ARC of the new book from Toni Morrison called A Mercy (no touchstone yet). I'm so excited I could pee! And I *heart* our Random House rep for sending it to me. Yippeeee!

>101 -
That's amaaazing!

Oh boy... I just found www.DearReader.com thanks to a very kind friend (whose murder I shall plan carefully in the next 3 minutes) and it's a site that allows you to sign up for free, and everyday, you'll get 5 minute samples of books in your email for up to about 2 chapters of the book .. by which time, you can decide if you want to get the book and finish it, or if you're going to bag it.

so I've just realized that I've signed up to receive about 5 mins of 4 books everyday in my email. They'd make for good work breaks I guess.... but oh, I am a little petrified about what this is going to do to my book buying budget.

Richard what a great story about how your met Mr. Man. --The Glass Castle is an amazing book--how those children turned out as well adjusted as they did is a miracle. So I bet Glass Castle is a book both near and dear to your hearts as it is the way you both met.

Musicmom--yep I'm a book snoop too. I've also done that at the airport too and I have to say if I see a book cover that looks interesting I try to remember the title and then go look it up online. I also book snoop in drs. offices and I like to hang out near the cashier at bookstores to get a peak at what people are buying!

>102 DoB: I know...I'm stoked. And I'm not sharing :)

Ha! I don't blame you!

How are you doing with Mr. Meyer?

#89 jfetting: Will do; I'll probably start it next week.

Yesterday I told myself that I wouldn't buy any more books this month, as I am practically tripping over the piles of books that I've accumulated this year. So, naturally, I went to my local Borders this afternoon to get coffee, and found four books to add to the piles:

The Conservationist by Nadine Gordimer
Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov
Black Dogs by Ian McEwan
A Father's law by Richard Wright

I also received God's Own Country by Ross Raisin by mail from The Book Depository today.

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>107, We're doing well! It is a bit slow going because I'm trying to read Blue Genes and now also my ER book Tears of the Desert: A Memoir of Survival in Darfur at the same time. I'm getting a bit bogged down going between depression, genocide, and fakeness/bullshit/etc.

Hang in there, DoB...maybe you should just pick one to focus on for now.

I picked up a copy of Cowboys Are My Weakness by Pam Houston. I'd never heard of it, but one of my very favorite clients recommended it, so I have high hopes.

# 103 cameling

Budget? You have a budget! :-)

#104 momom248

Almost sounds like we could start a new thread--"What did you snoop today?" :-)

Rather than a book snoop, I've always thought of myself as a book voyeur. Maybe this has something to do with the fact that I usually do it at the gym where people aren't reading such lofty stuff.

I'm blaming everyone on this sight who has mentioned Nancy Pearl. Was at Border's this evening and bought both of her booksBook Lust and More Book Lust. While I was in that area I also picked up Leave me Alone, I'm Reading Maureen Corrigan. Just love books on books.

One thing (among at least dozens of things!) that I love about LT is how many people here also love books about books--and lead me to new ones. Perhaps someone should start a thread on favorite books about books and we could argue their merits--or lack there-of!

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Just received Eats, shoots and leaves by Lynne Truss

Today was the first day of Wellington's biggest annual book fair. It's huge - there are thousands of books, hundreds of people, and most books are $2 (they retail here for around $35 new). It's wonderful seeing hundreds of people poring over books and all the money goes to charity.

Anyway, I got a bit carried away... I came home with 45 books. I had to have all of them! And we have nowhere to put them. More bookcases!

I'd love any comments or suggestions you have, because I would hate the best to linger in my TBR mountain. I won't type out all the names, but here are a few of them:

White Mughals by William Dalrymple
Helen of Troy by Bettany Hughes
The Madonnas of Leningrad (have seen lots of comments here about this one)
A Good House by Bonnie Burnard (any Canadian readers on here?)
The Idea of Perfection by Kate Grenville
3 Anita Brookners because Hotel du Lac was so good
A history of the world in 10 1/2 chapters by Julian Barnes
The Sunne in Splendour by Sharon Kay Penman
1776 by David McCullough
3 Ramses novels by Christian Jacq
The Cornish Trilogy by Robertson Davies

That'll do for now - time to get off here and find a book!

#117 cmt

What a nice haul! Several there I've read and liked, but I suggest starting with 1776 by McCullough. It is well written, with fascinating with detail about the beginnings of the Revolutionary War from both the political and military views and I found it as easy and fast to read as a good novel. I read that last year as a followup to his John Adams biography (which I also loved) which is what McCullough intended it to be when he wrote it.

The Sunne in Splendour is a favorite of my older son, who is an Lter, and he has been bugging me to read it. When you read it i'd love to know what you think.

I have just read an early release that was fantastic. It is to be out on Sept. 8th by Norton. Here's the review:

Something for the Pain
by Paul Austen

Here is big city ER as you’ve never witnessed it before. Austen rolls the memoir camera giving us a big city reality show that operates twenty-four, seven. With a straightforward narrative the doctor examines himself and what it means to be fully human and medically precise. Snap shot accounts of this fireman, intern, turned ER doc, open us to his family’s delicate vulnerabilities as well as the stressful demands of crisis intervention on the job. With sensitivity and poise, he navigates the trauma of each patient’s details revealing the grueling, and often life/death choices that face him. Often his mangled patient is unable to be revived. What awaits Austen is the anxious family just outside his door. The poignancy and wisdom that is offered reflects a man fighting for his relationships and for ethical standards. I have a new found respect for what a doctor can be and why this writer must bring us more to savor.

#119 - Thanks for the great review. I hadn't heard of it, but I'll be picking it up soon.

A Charmed Life: Growing Up in Macbeth's Castle by Liza Campbell

The Smallest Color by Bill Roorbach

Spellfall by Katherine Roberts

Still Life with Chickens: Starting Over in a House by the Sea by Catherine Goldhammer

Sister India by Peggy Payne

Further Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin

Michael Tolliver Lives by Armistead Maupin

Like Water for Chocolate: A Novel in Monthly Installments with Recipes, Romances, and Home Remedies by Laura Esquival

The Sister by Poppy Adams

posted this in the august thread 'cause I was tricked by smurfs!

>111: MusicMom41, I start out each year with what I think I ought not to exceed spending on books per month ... it's been part of my NY's Resolution for the last 8 or so years. Ask me how well I've been doing on this resolution? go on.. ask me .... *sigh*... I'm a failure! There! I've admitted it. Maybe I should rethink this budget thing and change it to seeing how many books I can borrow from the library vs buying instead.

Lust in Translation by Pamela Druckerman, which I accidentally picked up last night at Borders is pretty interesting. It traces the rules of infidelity across different cultures and countries

#122 cameling

I. too, tend to go overboard when I get in a book store--or, heaven forbid, find a used book sale where everything is a bargain!

My local branch of the library is very small but since they started a couple of years ago having a site where you could not only search the entire San Joaquin Valley library system--even across county lines--and also request any book to be sent to your library I've made much better use of library books. Sometimes I'll read one the I will want to own--but then I'm sure I'm not wasting my money. And several times I've been glad I borrowed and didn't waste my money!

But we biblioholics just have to get our "fix" that only buying fulfills on a regular basis. :-)

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Just returned from our Friends of the Library book sale with 2 full bags.
In the first bag:
The Solace of Open Spaces by Gretel Ehrlich
Women in the Global Factory by Annette Fuentes and Barbara Ehrenreich
Why We Eat What We Eat: How Columbus Changed the Way the World Eats by Raymond Sokolov
The Darling by Russell Banks
Sex Wars: A Novel of Gilded Age New York by Marge Piercy
Vamps & Tramps: New Essays by Camille Paglia
Love At Large by Sue Ann Jaffarian
Chocolat by Joanne Harris
Half the Way Home by Adam Hochschild
Four Souls: A Novel by Louise Erdrich
Literary New York: A History and Guide by Susan Edmiston
Assassination Vacation by Sarah Vowell
Giving: How Each of Us Can Change the World by Bill Clinton
What Liberal Media?: The Truth About Bias and the News by Eric Alterman
I’ll inventory the second bag after I’m done playing with his pile.

Today was full price day (I think $1.50 per harcover, .75 for paperback). Tomorrow is $8 a bag day. I’ll be going back for round 2.

Added to Mount TBR today:

A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
Because it’s a 1001 Book
Girl with a Pearl Earing by Tracy Chevalier
Because its about Vermeer and has sold 2m copies!
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
Because its an LT recommendation.
The Impatience of a Parson by H.R.L. Sheppard
Because it is a critique of Institutional Religion
The Big Fisherman by Lloyd c. Douglas
Because I like dear old Pete.
The Office of Innocence by Thomas Keneally
Because he wrote Schindlers Ark (List)
Recollections of the Last Days of Shelley and Byron by Edward Trelawny
Because they are fascinating. I had not heard of this book. It was first published in 1858. This edition was published in 2000. Trelawny actually knew Shelley and Byron and so this is a first hand account. Trelawny was one of those who cremated Shelley on the beach. Can’t wait to read this!
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton A Talking Classics on tape.
Because it’s a 1001 book and I am too lazy to read the book. Narrated by Gayle Hunnicutt
Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope A Talking Classics on tape.
Because I loved the book and the TV series and it is utterly delightful and is being read by Christopher Timothy who played the Vet James Herriot in the TV series “All Creatures Great and Small.”

Total cost £8.35 (Approx $16-17)

My book buying for this year is now over until next summer. (You do believe me, don’t you?!)

-TT

For my birthday, in addition to a couple of Powell's gift cards, which I haven't used yet:

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
The Inward Garden

Both yummy books.

# 94 Richard
I read a Rolling Stone article to that effect years ago when Dr. Jonas Salk was still alive. It was odd to me then, and remains odd to me now, that the US medical establishment has said so very little about this provocative and persuasive thesis. Makes one wonder what they are uneasy about, no?

Oh they said something, they sued Rolling Stone. Don't know who exactly. RS folded and made the author write a retraction, on some point. The author wanted to fight it, and felt they didn't have a case, but RS said no.

They don't want their heroes tarnished, they don't want people to stop getting vaccinated for various things, and the real biggy, they don't want any real scrutiny of the same type of practices going on today.

A UK medical society had some sort of big meeting and claimed they proved the author wrong because, (seriously) They tested a vial of vaccine, not used in the Congo, and found it had no virus in it. Almost out of Hitchhickers Guide: Asking someone who was not present at a murder to give definitive eyewitness testimony.

I got my first Book Mooch book. Yeah ! It wasn't even the first one I requested, which has been a slow affair (now delayed).

Tech-Heaven by Linda Nagata

Still waiting for my shipments from Bookcloseouts. First shipment will be 21 days middle of next week. Second shipment, the one I had the computer error with: didn't charge my card twice, but took them from 8/29 to 9/5 to pack the books and charge my card. They say the shipment has gone, but I can't get even the minimal tracking info on the site. Just says the data is not available, so I don't know what day it shipped, or if its really even gone. Sent them an email and hope they will answer. Ever notice how what-ever time or day the 'Live Help' Button always says no one is available ?

#121 Mckait -- I have Sister India in my first shipment from BookCloseouts , it was one I got in $1.00 sale.

Tortoise: A Prayer for Owen Meany is one of my absolute favorites. I hope you love it!

Hit two independents today (one with used books) and came away with:

From Emperor to Citizen, the Autobiography of Aisin-Gioro Pu Yi by Henry Pu Yi (Volumes 1 & 2) (had to buy it, it's the first time I've seen both volumes offered)
Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain (a really nice HB, illustrated copy)
Sweetsmoke by David Fuller
Confederates in the Attic by Tony Horwitz
Blue Latitudes by Tony Horwitz

114 I am blaming YOU cindy.. just bought them second hand at Amazon

I am also a book snoop and have been known to go straight up to someone at an airport or whatever and ask them what they are reading. Nothing ventured nothing gained.

Its a terrible affliction. I also try to see what people in line at the bookstore are buying, and I will ask them too, if need be.

ficus fan, see that? great minds... It went straight to TBR though, not on my imminent reads stack. That has In This House of Brede on top.

mckait--

In this House of Brede is in my TBR pile. When you read it let me know if I should move it up.

I moved mine up due to what I read here, LOL
I will try to remember to let you know...
I promise I will try..
( menopause mind may interfere) sigh

I have In this House of Brede and tried it a couple times. Just couldn't get into it. Also have Kingfishers Catch Fire by her and loved it. So wonderfully evocative. Both were my mother's and are old.

At Barnes & Noble today:
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
The Likeness by Tana French

From the library today:

Master of the Delta by Thomas H. Cook
More Than it Hurts You by Darin Strauss

From AudioToGo: The Whole Truth by David Baldacci

From BookMooch: Roxana; or The Fortunate Mistress by Daniel DeFoe

#130 mckait; This sight is as addictive as books. I ordered the Michael Scott books that everyone has been talking about. They are coming from pagemaster-books. Both hardbacks with dustjackets and with shipping was less than $10.00. They were cheaper than getting paperbacks. Received in the mail.
The Glorious Cause Jeff Shaara. A novel of the American Revolution. Hope it is as good as the Civil War series.

These are all from the library. My book buying has left me broke and this is back up for my fix. Naturally, most of these are LT recommendations, and one unrecommendation that I had to find out about for myself.

Justinian's Flea by William Rosen
The Cave by Jose Saramago
Lost City Radio by Daniel Alarcon
The 351 Books of Irma Arcuri by David Bajo
Alfred and Emily by Doris Lessing
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
Man Gone Down by Michael Thomas
The Sex Lives of Cannibals by J. Maarten Troost
Enduring Love by Ian McEwan
The Black Tulip by Alexander Dumas

(Wow, only four of ten author touchstones. Bummer.)

Okay. I refuse to read any more posts extolling books I can't afford yet. Nope, nope. Not gonna do it.

*sigh* I feel like The Tortoise saying she's taken The Pledge for the rest of the month. Oh! Sorry! I said that out loud, didn't I? Oh dear.

My first ER came today. I have no memory of asking for this book: Tai Chi Dynamics by Robert Chuckrow. It looks very serious.

I also have now Time and Again by Jack Finney, which I have been enjoying in my few leisure moments during this dreadful, terrifying tropical storm Hanna. *yawn* I am devoutly grateful to have home internet access again, I must say, and the cable guy who installed the wiring was scared that he'd get struck by lightning.

It was cloudy, it rained some, the wind blew a little. Long Island dodged this bullet for sure and certain, and I couldn't be happier about that. I feel for the folks in Jersey who weren't so lucky.

I came back yeasterday morning at five o'clock, from 15 days vacation in Turkey, Marmaris town.
It was so cold here, just 10 C., brrrr- freezing.

During that time you folks has been so busy buying books, you have bought hundreds of books.
Richard have moved, been unemployed and got new job. Good for you.

We have been at trips to Archelogical sites, like Ephesos, Temple of Artemis, Virgin Marias last home in the hills overlooking Ephsos, The ruins of the town Kaunos and Lykian graves in the cliffs. Bathingtrips with riversaling on the Dalyan delta and saling in the Mediterranean sea.

Our hotel had no TV, but entertainments in the evenings and a bookshelf with free books to lend. We were aloud to take books to the swimmingpool so even if they were spashed full of water it was so hot that they dried up very fast. I read three books at the swimming pool between swimming about 1000 m a day. And I lost 2 kg (ca 4 pound), replaced with muscels. Good ayy ?

Temperature was 45 C when we arrived Turkey, a shock from Norwegans 15 C at the same time. In a few days it sank to between 35-38 C and that became nice. Nights was about 10 degrees lower.

I did not find any bookshops in Marmaris. The town closes down in the fall and 200 000 inhabitants go down to 30 000. The rest goes home to other places in Turkey, mostly eastern Turkey for the winter.

On our trip to Ephesos I found two cookbooks and bought them. Just saving this first. I'll come back.

Turkish Cuisine by Tugrul Savkay (http://www.librarything.com/work/6180938...)
Turkish Cookery by Inci Kut (http://www.librarything.com/work/1791297...)

The Turkish food are absolutely delicious and healthy.

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richard, I read Time and Again 2-3 times, love that one!
I find my wishlist at Amazon growing every day. Any book I want I just pop in there. I will then look for them here and there and everywhere... and may end up buying it used right there. That list has grown and grown.
I added 2 today because someone here added one that caught my eye and that one led to another. Woe is me.

Nothing new for me today! I am looking for an order from Amazon to show up by tuesday though.

>128 bnbooklady I think I will wait for a Group Read on this one as I gave up on The World According to Garp many years ago. I might need some help with the Baseball stuff and other American cultural related references. I have heard good things about it so I hope I can get past the beginning and into the story.

-TT

>138 Richard, my full name is Thomas Henry Edward Tortoise. So, I am a male Tortoise!

-TT

Okay, it's really, really, REALLY time to quite buying books. (Yeah, like that will ever happen.) This morning I played shifting games with my books in order to get some more room for my TBR. All it got me was stuffed shelves upstairs and very little room downstairs. *Sigh*

>139 IaaS, glad you're back! And 10C must feel like torture after 20C in Turkey (and that's at night)! ;-)

>140 mckait, it was a chat we had about that book that made me pick it up. I love the idea of the book and I have no idea why I hadn't picked it up and read it before now. It was a perfect day to read here, too. I sat on the patio under a dogwood (not blooming, obviously) and drank tonic and read and read. It was The Remains of the Day, not Time and Again, though. Each is a wonderful read, but Ishiguro called to me today after puttering around the garden.

>143 MISTER Tortoise, oh dear. I do apologize for my assumption. Please to forgive?

Oh, and maggiemay...amen, sister woman. (PLEASE tell me I'm not wrong about your gender like I was about MISTER Tortoise's!) I worked a chunk of yesterday on the lower floor bookshelves trying to make space for a few of the books I'm expecting from Texas. Got rid of about 200...only needing to find room for another 2300....

A couple more birthday presents:

Grandmothers Counsel the World: Women Elders Offer Their Vision for our Planet and
True Nature by Barbara Bash (NOT Bush!)

A couple more beautiful books!!!

#145: richardderus. Thank you. The lowest night temperature was high abowe 20 C, never lover than 26 C. We had the climamaschine on 24 C in the nights and it felt cold. I already miss the hot climate and the sun. Here it is raining.
I'm in the prosess of making me another cookbook with Turkish recipes. I'm scanning the net to find as many authentic recipes possible and shall write out and bind me a book with it. Maybe I shall register it when its finished ?

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whymaggie, I feel your pain....I do.

I am reading In This House of Brede. I can hardly put it down. I had to force myself to set it aside to sleep last night. I love it madly! It is an old battered book, the dust cover was literally coming apart in my hands, and will need attention. I love it and wonder who and how many have read it before me, and what their thoughts were, and why they chose it... now I have to go to work, drat it.

eta

richard, have a good first day at work. I will be thinking of you .

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I haven't bought anything, but I've just moved home (to New Zealand) and have been going though all my boxes that I shipped from the UK. Fortunately I had the foresight to do some book buying before I packed the boxes, so I'm rediscovering what I bought back in March. It's like Christmas! They should keep me busy for a while.

Surprisingly, none came into my collection yesterday. (Though I did get a card with a picture of a bookstore on it...)

I went and bought Keeping Faith by Jodi Picoult

#149 mckait

I remember reading In this House of Bredefrom the library many years ago and loving it. A couple of years ago I ran across a hard bound used edition in pretty good condition and bought it thinking I might like to see if I still would be so enamored. You have just encouraged me to pull it out and put it on my TBR (after Poisonwood Bible group read!).

One lone book came today, along with some DVDs/CDs courtesy of eBay Stores:

Die A Little by Megan Abbott
now i have all of her fiction, i think

#146 Richard You're quite right about my gender. And, you obviously have a much larger space problem than mine. I'm the only person living in my house, so if I decide to add more shelves, whose to stop me. I just keep hoping that somehow my current shelves will magically accommodate all my current books (and more). Ain't happenin'. Also, I hope you have a very good "first day". I personally usually hate the first week or two at any job because I feel so lost and useless.

Picked up two at the library yesterday:
The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan
Fish Can Sing by Halldor Laxness (the Global Read for September).

#155 maggie

What is a Global Read?

>148 IaaS, I think you SHOULD rergister it here on LT and maybe even offer us here a chance to get an electronic version from you.

>149 mckait, I am so pleased that you're enjoying In This House of Brede. I enjoy Rumer Godden books greatly, she is one of those mistresses of craft whose books allow the reader to relax and just bob along in her wake, enjoying and appreciating her prose's loveliness and her storytelling's effortless forward momentum.

And thanks for the good wishes for my first day. It should be interesting, since it doesn't start until 11p. Yech.

>150 Killeymoon, welcome home...but isn't it madly confusing to leave spring and then have it come again so soon?

>154 jdt, hey there...how you...I've heard praise for Megan Abbott before, should I sample her work? Which one would be good to start with?

>155 maggie, whew. "Mr. Maggie" would be a brain-bender for me. While I'm living in a generously scaled home, it's also full of 60+ years' accumulation of Stuff. I am sorting the books already here into "keep" and "out" piles so I don't have to catalog then un-catalog a raft of books. I expect to come up with a few thousand more entries for the library. THEN there are the books I left here eons ago.

I think I have a problem. Several, in fact.

I know I am keeping one novel I found yesterday:

The Man Who Got Away (all touchstones wrong, drat it) by Sumner Locke Elliott, a thriller from the early 1970s that I read and enjoyed as a teen. It is about the hole a man, successful and interesting and at the peak of his powers, leaves behind when he vanishes on the evening of a party he and his wife are giving at their country home. I hope it will stand up to a re-read 35 years later.

From BookMooch - The Blind Watchmaker - fills another gap in my Dewey Decimal Challenge list

From PBS - Beyond the Dark Portal - fills a gap on my World of Warcraft shelf

From PBS:
Mormon America by Richard Ostling and Joan Ostling
Beautiful Shadow by Andrew Wilson

From bookcloseouts.com (to all of you who mentioned this website, GRRRR):
Mosquito by Roma Tearne
Jesus Freaks by Don Lattin
Raven Black by Ann Cleeves
Jar City by Arnaldur Indridason
Broken Verses by Kamila Shamsie
Under the Loving Care of the Fatherly Leader by Bradley K. Martin
The Sad Truth About Happiness by Anne Giardini

I admit I'm excited about all of this bounty. This cheap, cheap bounty. Still, I don't need any more books in my house!!!

From the university bookstore:

The Remains of the Day, Kazuo Ishiguro
Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov (50th anniversary edition)

From B & N: Kristin Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undset. Looks wonderful!

hemlock, I read that one ages ago~ very good!

>160 Nickelini, having just finished that re-read, I applaud your good taste.

>161 hemlok, ooo I read that back in the middle ages. Enjoyed the story, but the translation I read was from the 1920s, so I wonder if I should read it again in a newer version. Who translated your book?

>162 mckait, eat your heart out! The Big Brown Sleigh brought me an ARC of The Charlemagne Pursuit by Steve Berry! Actually, I don't know that you'd like this book, but I GOT A BOOK and you didn't nyah nyah!

My god, am I five again or what??

I go away, well, actually my computer went away, for a few days and I come back to 77 messages!

I got from the library and have already read and returned Laughter of Dead Kings and Devil Bones

and right now I am almost finished with Indiana Jones and The Crystal Skull which Touchstones better then I do.

I've seen some comments lately related to books about books, so I picked up a couple from the library:
So Many Books So Little Time by Sara Nelson
Ex Libris by Anne Fadiman
And this one from the library bargain bin:
The Angel Maker by Ridley Pearson This is a crime author I've never read!

I picked up The Blue Star by Tony Early from the library. It is the sequel to Jim the Boy which I loved. I think that will be next after I finish Captain Blood.

Ordered these two books last Thursday. Was surprised to see them in the mail today.
A Spectacle of Corruption Davd Liss
A Conspiracy of Paper David Liss

Cindy- I've also recently acquired A Conspiracy of Paper and I'm really looking forward to reading it. Have you read him before?

I received the last two books I ordered from The Book Depository in my mail box today: Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga and Agamemnon's Daughter by Ismail Kadare.

#165 msf59

Oh, I hope you like Ex Libris--it's one of my favorite books. This first time i read it I could hardly believe how much fun it was. Now it is one of favorite "comfort" books--to read when nothing else will "take me away."

I don't know So Many Books, So Little Time but I identify with the feeling. I'd love to hear how you like it when you read it. I'm crazy for "Books about Books."

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I jumped off the Wagon into Sweden. My Cat-watchers has given them so much tinfood when we where gone that we went to Sweden yesterday to buy more Swedish-produced cat food. My three cats no longer want to eat Whiskas after tasted the Swedish food.
The shop with everything, other than freshfood, has an ongoing booksale (What is the English name of theese shops)
I found 14 books, two of them for presents:

Pause, i'll be back with the books:

Ruiz Zafón, Carlos, Vindens skugga

Saylor, Steven, Arms of Nemesis,I Hades käftar

Grisham, John, The Broker, Agenten

Didion, Joan, The Year of Magical Thinking, Ett år av magiskt tänkande

Allende, Isabel, El Bosco de los Pigmeos, Pygméernas skog

Connelly, Michael, I lagens limo

Larsson, Stieg, Flickan som lekte med elden

Larsson, Stieg, Luftslottet som sprängdes

Larsson, Stieg, Män som hatar kvinnor

Gibbins, David, Atlantis hemlighet : historiens största gåta på väg att lösas

Young, Robyn, Brödraskapet

Amandonico, Nikko, La pizza : den sanna historien från Neapel

Bellahsen, Fabian, Turkiet Mediterrana delikatesser (Déliches de Turquie)

Bellahsen, Fabian, Marocko Mediterrana delikatesser (Délices du Maroc)

It's impossible to make all the links right.

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richardear, you made me laugh... silly you.
No books yesterday and though I had high hopes for my Amazon order, tracking shows this:

Date Time Location Event Details
September 6, 2008 07:16:00 PM WARRENDALE PA Arrival Scan
September 4, 2008 11:55:00 AM WARRENDALE PA Shipment has left seller facility and is in transit

So for more than two days it has apparently been languishing in a corner??

boo hoo

I'm still unloading my car and logging in the purchases from this weekend's library book sale. Added to my catalog:

Old School by Tobias Wolff
Nature by Ralph Waldo Emerson
The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century by Thomas L. Friedman
Fish (Williams-Sonoma Kitchen Library) by Joyce Esersky Goldstein
Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky
An Unspoken Hunger: Stories from the Field by Terry Tempest Williams
A Question of Choice by Sarah Weddington
Great Books by David Denby
The State of Women in the World Atlas by Joni Seager
America and I: Short Stories by American Jewish Women Writers by Joyce Antler
Touching Fire: Erotic Writings by Women by Louise Thornton
Introducing the Lapps by Asbjorn Nesheim
A Time for Trolls: Fairy Tales from Norway by Asbjornsen and Moe
Tepper Isn't Going Out: A Novel by Calvin Trillin
Desert of the Heart by Jane Rule

Only 3 more bags full to record. When will I actually have the time to read them?

My Penguin Classics edition of Kristin Lavransdatter is translated by Tina Dunnally. It looks highly likely that it will be the selection for the next Group Reads book. We are in the process of voting now.

My earlier post in which I stated that my book buying was over until next summer proved to be a bit premature! Because added to MOUNT TBR today:

Four Hardback Books in the Readers Digest The World’s Best Reading series all with illustrations and inserts:

Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain: Because it will give me some background to The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.

The Virginian by Owen Wister: Because I remember all those cowboy films I saw at Saturday morning cinema when I was a child..

Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne: because I remember seeing David Niven in the film and it is a 1001 Book.

The Song of Hiawatha and Other Poems by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Because I remember taking part in a school production of Hiawatha – “By the shores of Gitche Gumee, By the shining big sea water, Stood the wigmam of Nokomis, Daughter of the moon, Nokomis!” Some things just stick in the mind, even after 50 years!

The above cost 50p each!

Three more 1001 Books:

The English Patient by Micahel Ondaatje. Because it is a Booker Prize winner.
Daniel Deronda by George Eliot. Because I enjoyed Middlemarch, The Mill on the Floss and Adam Bede.
Sexing the Cherry by Jeanette Winterson. Because I have known about it for years and it’s on the list.

Three more:

The Poetical Works of Thomas Hardy. Because I am in a poetical mood.
The Life of Thomas Hardy by Florence Hardy. Because it was written by his wife with Hardy’s co-operation. Would you believe that this two – volumes in one work cost only 17p!
Green Darkness by Anya Seton. Because it is about one of my favourite historical periods – The Tudor Period.

All six books in paperback cost £1, not each! In total. At these prices, no wonder I can’t stop adding to MOUNT TBR! That’s my excuse anyway!

-TT

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I received a copy of The 19th Wife in preparation for the author's book blog tour on my blog October 17th.

No Books Today...*sob*..but

>#174 hemlokgang...i read Kristin Lavransdatter way back in 1965, when i was 14...then again 10 years later..god what a wonderful read! i don't have the Tina Dunally translation, however..mine is an old pukey green cloth covered edition i got at the Goodwill in Akron, OH..in 1965...it has always smelled a llttle funny but i will never give it up. i do want the newer translation, though

>157 Richard...Megan Abbott writes hard-boiled Noir, with strong women as leading characters...melodrama abounds!...i'd start with Die A Little, then go to The Song is You, and finally Queenpin...if you want a good sampling of Female Noir (sounds kinda
thrilling that, no?) check out A Hell of a Woman: An Anthology of Female Noir...it's rather uneven, but i like it just fine
:)

>172 mckait, it's time to have a strongly worded conversation with that Warrenton facility. Outrageous!

>175 MISTER Tortoise, what a haul for a pound. What a haul in geeneeral!! What is that pound worth now, sixty US dollars? Feels like it, anyway, when filling Humbert Humbert (my big Buick) costs seventy-five dollars.

>177 jdt, I've Amazonned Die a Little and will proceed accordingly.

ETA: good heavens I forgot that I got a book! The Big Brown Sleiegh stopped here again (nyah nyah mckait) and left me Earth Honoring: The New Male Sexuality.

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#168 msf59; I haven't read any Liss. I thought I would try the ones I have received,Before I try any others. Have you started Ex-Libris ?. She also wrote Rereadings. Her husband also wrote The Big House George Howe Colt. It is a family memoir of their century old summer home on Cape Cod. A fun read.

I'm not feeling so deprived today, because I got three BookMooch books and one totally unexpected ARC:
The Quince Seed Potion
The Good Wife
A Conspiracy of Paper
and The Fire by Katherine Neville, from Random House who evidently told Abby they had extra books from Early Reviewer, because I wasn't chosen for it but got a letter that said "Dear LibraryThing Member"

#73 MusicMom41 : Actually I hadn't really read any Rushdie book until now : I didn't manage to read Midnight's children some ten years ago (but am planning to try again sometime). I picked The Enchantress of Florence because I absolutely couldn't resist the entrancing cover of the Jonathan Cape edition and, in order to approach it successfully I'm finishing Haroun and the sea of stories, which was more or less written for (rather big) children. It's a colourful, funny, lovely piece of work : I just loved the Plentimaw fish, General Kitab (book) and his army of Pages and Khattam-Shud the villain, who reminds us that the book was written just after the 1989 fatwa.

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#173 sisaruus

Nice haul! Move Tepper Isn't Going Out to the top of the pile. You'll be exhausted from all that unloading and you deserve a pick-me-up. So pour yourself one and read Trillin's hysterically funny book--I had never read anything by him and only bought it because it cost a dime. I very seldom laugh out loud when reading--this one I practically rolled on the floor! I've lent that book to everyone I know who has a sense of humor.

>179 richard, you remind me of Sidney Poitier in The Heat of the Night when he tells Rod Steiger: I am MISTER Tibbs!

Anyway, this Tortoise is meandering back to that shop for some more of those goodies tomorrow! Just don't tell Mrs. Tortoise! - I just hope that when she returns from abroad that she doesn't notice the increase in my now double-parked bookshelves!

Watch this thread!

-TT

My first Book Closeout order arrived a few days ago, but this is the first chance I've had to post them. A shout out to mckait, who mentioned this madness that is the dollar-a-book (one dollar!) sale:

The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
A School of Night by Alan Wall
My Lover's Lover by Maggie O'Farrell
War Crimes for the Home by Liz Jensen
Good Faith by Jane Smiley
The Tentmaker by Clay Reynolds
Walking Money by James O. Born
Blue Ridge by T. R. Pearson
Pushkin and the Queen of Spades by Alice Randall
Sacrament of Lies by Elizabeth Dewberry
My Very Own Murder by Josephine Carr
Pictures from an Expedition by Diane Smith
The Marriage of the Sea by Jane Alison
What Happened to Henry by Sharon Pywell
While I Disappeared by Edward Wright
Murder Never Forgets by Diana O'Hehir
The Neon Smile by Dick Lochte
Mr. White's Confession by Robert Clark
If I Never Get Back by Darryl Brock
The Sweep of the Second Hand by Dean Monti
Cloudsplitter by Russell Banks
The Master Butcher Singing Club by Louise Erdich
Tender is Levine by Andrew Bergman
Three by Annie Dillard

Now, winter may begin.

#73 MusicMom41> I've always enjoyed Calvin Trillin and had put Tepper Isn't Going Out in my mental TBR list. Now I'm going to move it to the written one!

#174 hemlokgang

Is that going to be an LT group read? I've had Kristin Lavransdatter (3 volumes, translated by Charles Archer & J.F. Scott, Vintage PB edition) on my shelf for nearly 20 years! I would love to get that one off my TBR list--I'd put off Anna K. until next year. Are you doing all three or just the first one? Is it open to anyone? Do I sound excited? :-)

Once I get through this week I will have more time for reading and Poisonwood is not a difficult read so I'd like to try to do it--especially if you don't start for a couple of weeks.

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An Arsonist's Guide to Writers' Homes in New England: A Novel by Brock Clarke

Grange House: A Novel by Sarah Blake

Savannah's Little Crooked Houses: If These Walls Could Talk by Susan B. Johnson

What Vets Don't Tell You About Vaccines by Catherine O'Driscoll

seems that facility was not updating. The book about vaccines and Savannah's houses came from them. One from Bookcloseouts, (more came but they are gifts) and one ( Grange House) from mooch.

Not a bad haul for today.

Glad you got a book rd, now.. hows the new job?

Looks like a few of us had good luck with books recently :)

#187 mckait

Is that Savannah, Georgia? I lived there for nearly 25 years and love that place. Where did you find that book? I'd love to locate a copy. I have a collection of books about Savannah.

It came from Amazon.. I have had my eye on it for a while, and decided to go for it when I bought the book about vaccines.

Looks good to me , but I have never been to Savannah :P

Just received Nine stories by J.D. Salinger and Brazzaville beach by William Boyd by mail. The last one was an LT recommendation.

186 MusicMom - answering for hemlok -- it will most likely be the group for the Group Reads - Literature group. Don't know yet if it will be all three volumes. Of course you can join us!!! Just come over to the group and sign on: http://www.librarything.com/groups/group...

>184 MISTER Tortoise, your secret is safe here, promise. No one will make it a point to hunt down Mrs. Tortoise. Unless you don't behave. ;0

>187 mckait, got more than that...see below...but the job is the job, just like it was in Texas only with a LOT fewer docs to remember. I like the dealings with them, unlike most people who do this job. I was chatting with the docs before my training period was even up. How startling, I know. I was there about fifteen minutes before I took a live call. No kidding. They have a lot of confidence in my abilities, it would seem, and the fact that it was midnight and not very busy might have played into it.

For the rest of my daily book-fix, I went to Buns and Nubile and spent freely.

Victory of Eagles by Naomi Novik--latest in the Temeraire series.
Making it Up by Penelope Lively--memoir of what DIDN'T happen, which I found intriguing
The Courage Consort by Michel Faber--heard good things about this book but wouldn't have risked it if it hadn't been $5...I didn't like The Crimson Petal and the White
Poplollies and Bellibones by Susan Kelz Sperling...another book about words, can I resist them, no I cannot.

So.

Bookmooched:
Divisadero by Michael Ondaatje. I haven't read anything by him since The English Patient quite a few years ago.
From Amazon, used: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Murakami. I'm slowly building a collection of this incredible author's work.

#186 MusicMom: All are always welcome on Group Reads. The decision making process is currently in progress. Please join in at:

http://www.librarything.com/talktopic.ph...

From B&N: Lighthousekeeping by Jeannette Winterson

From BookMooch: The Nautical Chart by Arturo Perez-Reverte
The Book of Illusions by Paul Auster

From Amazon:
The Meaning of Sunglasses by Hadley Freeman
The Beak of the Finch by Jonathan Weiner (the subject of this book is giving a talk later in the semester and many people have told me I need to read this)
Excellent Women by Barbara Pym - the Anglophiles group's most active thread is the Barbara Pym one, and I've never read her before, and everyone raves about these books. So, I'm giving her a try.

richarddear: I loved The Courage Consort and found it to be very different from The Crimson Petal and the White, though I loved that one, also.

No new books for this book lady today.

nice list of books for this day for all of us :)

richard...I worked with/for doctors for 30 or so years.
better you than me. I would rather dig ditches.

bleh

glad you are liking the job though.

Thanks teelgee and hemlokgang for the info about the Group Read. I've checked it out and plan to try to join in the next read--especially if it's Kristin since I've wanted to tackle this one for a long time and i will actually finish it if there is a group to discuss it.

The Road Home by Rose Tremain landed on my porch this afternoon! I've heard great things about this Orange Prize winner. Can't wait to read it.

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that one looks good tg~

Went back for another bite of the cherry, So added to MOUNT TBR today:

Six more volumes in the Readers Digest The World’s Best Reading Series.

All illustrated and with their inserts. The lady in the shop said that someone told her to throw them in the rubbish (garbage) because no-one buys Readers Digest books! She must have been confusing them with the Condensed Books series. Anyway at 50p each, I carried them off triumphant!

The Adventures of Robin Hood by Paul Creswick Because I remember Errol Flynn in the film – wasn’t he great? And Richard Todd in the TV series: “Robin Hood, Robin Hood, Riding through the Glen, Robin Hood, Robin Hood, With his merry men”! I can relive my lost youth!

Twice Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne Because it contains reviews by both Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Edgar Allan Poe. And it has a wonderful picture of a Puritan on the front cover.

Lost Horizon by James Hilton Because I loved Goodbye Mr Chips, one of my favourite films, played by that wonderful actor, Robert Donat and the gorgeous Greer Garson!

The Legend of Sleepy Hollowand Other Tales by Washington Irving Because Sleepy Hollow is legendary and Rip Van Winkle is one of my favourites about a man who slept for a hundred years – part of the collective consciousness.

Tales From the Arabian Nights by Scheherazade. Because she was a clever girl and gave us Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves (Open Sesame!), Sinbad the Sailor ( remember Douglas Fairbanks Jr., and Maureen O'Hara, in the film?), and Alladin and the Wonderful Lamp (Your wish is my command!). And it has a lovely Oriental picture of Scheherazade on the front cover.

A Christmas Carol and Other Stories by Charles Dickens Because it is a beautiful edition in green and burgundy and will replace my children’s classic edition.

Also arrived in the post today: How to Read the Bible for All Its Worth by Gordon D. Fee &Douglas Stuart Because it was recommended on LT and because one can never plumb the depths of the Bible, so any help is appreciated. This paperback book cost me £5.08. Which is 8p more than the ten Hardback Readers Digest books I bought yesterday and today. What a crazy world we live in!

Don’t you just love books?!

-TT

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#201 TheTortoise
I love books, and I love the way you talk about why you buy them.
Have a nice day to you all, I just got back a bunch of Wilbur Smith's books my Mama had borrowed.

#156 - In my case it's the Reading Globally Group to which I belong. One month we read a book from/about a country (Iceland/Greenland for September) and the following month we read on a topic (Immigration, Myths). We're currently discussing October/November reads here: http://www.librarything.com/talktopic.ph... All readers welcome, of course.

>202 IaaS - Thank you for your kind comment. I do like to try and make my posts a bit different, and amusing. Actually, I think I am trying to justify to myself why it is necessary to add to my already huge MOUNT TBR! Mrs T. returns from abroad next week so my book buying forays will have to cease until next summer. However, I might try and sneak in the odd one or two!

-TT

Cryptonomicon By Neal Stephenson
The Rake William F Buckley
Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Suzanne

and also

then we came to the end by Joshua Ferris

which i reviewed here:

www.autumnrouse.com

@ 205 arouse77: I'm curious about what you think of Cryptonomicon because I'm thinking about buying it.

I just got Marie Antoinette: The Journey by Antonia Fraser. I love her stuff, hadn't read this one, and had my curiosity piqued by catching part of the movie on tv last night.

Also in the mail today Joseph Addison's Sociable Animal which is a look at--well, Joseph Addison.

I got Capote in Kansas: A Ghost Story today for a blog tour. It is the story of Truman Capote and Harper Lee. I had no idea that they knew each other or that she helped him interview people for In Cold Blood. I don't want to wait until late October to read this!

I seem to be getting new books by the truckload lately. Today I got Tea Party by Tracy Stern. I collect tea books, and this one has some good ideas and recipes, but the author (I assume) in the cover picture looks slightly Stepford Wife. Will try not to be assimilated.

@208 DevourerOfBooks

someone correct me if I'm wrong--

I vaguely remember one of the many time I read To Kill a Mockingbird was for a book group and the reviewer said it was based on a true incident and that Scout was based on Harper Lee and Dill (the boy that was visiting) was Truman Capote--so they knew each other from childhood.

I always wondered if that was why she wrote only one novel--she had a story she wanted to tell and she told it brilliantly so she then could go on to other types of writing.

>210,

I had never heard that before, but you are quite likely right. The dust jacket of this book and Wikipedia both list Capote and Lee as childhood friends.

210 - MusicMom, 211 - Devourer:

It is true that they were friends, and that Capote was the inspiration for Dill. I also read somewhere that Harper Lee, when asked why she did not write anything else, replied that she had said all that she had to say.

i just purchased:
Home by Marilynne Robinson
the girl who stopped swimming by Joshilyn Jackson
the prophet by Kahil Gibran
more book lust by nancy pearl

Bookmooched:
peony in love by lisa see
the space between us by Thrity Umrigar
Girls by frederick busch

@212 AMQS

You know--I've always been kind of glad that she didn't write another novel. To me that book has always had such a quality of genius that I think anything else by he might have dimmed it brilliance for me. (IMHO) I've read it about a dozen times and I never tire of it.

#214> MusicMom41

To Kill a Mockingbird is one of my favorite books, too, and the film version is one of the few movies, I think, to even come close to doing the book justice. I've read it at least a dozen times. The first time I read it I was 12 years-old. I just bought the audio version, read beautifully by Sissy Spacek, for my 12 year-old daughter and I to listen to while we travel around this fall.

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#139 Iaas - your holiday sounds wonderful! I haven't yet read Arms of Nemesis/I Hades käftar, but have recently finished a binge of other books in the series. I read the 8th one first (Last Seen in Massilia) and had to read more!

The movie Capote (done a few years ago) shows the relationship between Lee and Capote. It was a lifelong friendship, though not an easy one!

Hmmm, I didn't see that, but perhaps I will need to after reading Capote in Kansas. Thanks all who contributed information!

From BookMooch:

The Underpainter by Jane Urquhart
Fear and Trembling by Amelie Nothomb
Senor Vivo and the Cocoa Lord by Louis de Bernieres

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From Goodwill:

We Are All Welcome Here by Elizabeth Berg
Kristin Lavransdatter I: The Wreath by Sigrid Undset
When We Were Orphans by Kazuo Ishiguro

Mooched from a friend:

When We Were Orphans by Kazuo Ishiguro (oops - forgot it was on the way!)
The Inland Island by Josephine Johnson
Island Year by Hazel Heckman

Buying frenzy! Now that I need a new roof, it might be the last book binge for awhile. A nightmare is having this many books and a leaky roof. Shudder.

New Books:

Room with a View/Howard's End, Maurice--E.M. Forster
Kydd-Julian Stockton
Breakfast of Champions--Kurt Vonnegut
Slaughterhouse Five--Kurt Vonnegut
Sirens of Titan--Kurt Vonnegut
Madam Bovary--Gustave Flaubert
Have His Carcase--Dorothy L. Sayers
Red Dragon--Thomas Harris
A Perfect Spy--John Le Carre
Tis--Frank McCourt
The Bowl is Already Broken--Mary Kay Zuravleff
On Beauty--Zadie Smith

Library Sale Books:

A Swiftly Tilting Planet--Madeleine L'Engle
On People Management--Mary Kay Ash
Chrome Circle-Mercedes Lackey/Larry Dixon
The Demon Lover--Victoria Holt
Thuvia, Maid of Barsoom--Edgar Rice Burroughs
The Codex--Douglas Preston
Wielding a Sword--Piers Anthony
Organic Health Food Cookbook--Rory marcus
666--Jay Anson
Agatha Christie, and Autobiography
Night of the Seventh Darkness--Daniel Easterman
Bang the Drum Slowly--Mark Harris
Saraband for Two Sisters--Phillipa Carr
The Heart of Boswell ed. by Mark Harris
Uhuru--Robert Ruark
Dave Barry's Book of Bad Songs
The Foundation Trilogy--Isaac Asimov
The Winthrop Woman--Anya Seton
Bone Song--John Meaney
Origins of the Modern World--Robert B. Marks
Themes in Science Fiction--Leo P. Kelley

DoB: The Capote film was fantastic (especially if you love Philip Seymour Hoffman...and if you don't now, you will after you see it), and it explores the friendship between Capote and Lee as adults, but yes, they were also childhood friends.

Having grown up in Kansas, though not nearly as far west as the murders took place, I heard all about this case in history classes year after year. I'd love to know more about the book or potentially host a stop on the tour.

#215 theaelizabet

I have that audio version or To Kill A Mockingbird but I haven't listened yet. I'm saving it for a long road trip sometime. I know once I start listening I won't want to stop. I'm glad to know it's well read. Sometimes they are not and it spoils it for me.

I read it first when I was in college, which was also when the movie came out. I loved the movie--whole chunks of dialog right out of the book and Gregory Peck fit my idea of Atticus Finch very well. But the book has so much more in it than can be put in a movie I would rather read it.

#221 Oklahoma

What a great selection. Several there I'd like to read.

A word about the Dorothy Sayers--Have His Carcase: You probably know this, but you should read Strong Poison before reading Carcase because these are the first 2 of the 4 novels that feature Harriet Vane and should be read in order to follow the developing relationship.

yesterday Fed Ex brought my first ever ARC:

THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO by Steig Larsson

now,,to make time to read the darn thing.

Thanks MusicMom! I didn't know that about the Dorothy Sayer book, actually, I just picked it up because my mother likes her mysteries, and I thought I would try one once my Agatha Christie collection was exhausted. I appreciate the heads up so I can keep a lookout for the others!

On Tuesday from B&N:
Fourth Comings by Megan McCafferty
Hope Was Here by Joan Bauer

and today from BM:
Oranges are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson

#221 nice list of books!

jude, congrats!!

3 books in an Amazon package for me:

- Blindness - Saramago (LT recommendation - thanks guys, had never heard of it before, which is a bit ignorant I know!)
- Kafka on the Shore - Murakami
- Sputnik Sweetheart - Murakami

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From B&N:

The Strongest Tribe: War, Politics and the Endgame in Iraq by Bing West
The Fish Can Sing by Halldor Laxness

While the Cat’s away the Tortoise will play!
Soon She Who Must Be Obeyed will return and then this naughty Tortoise must hibernate for the winter!

Meanwhile, added to MOUNT TBR today:

Lucky by Alice Sebold Because The Lovely Bones were feeling lonely and needed company.

Star of the Sea by Joseph O’Connor . Because it reminded me of English Passengers only going in the opposite direction!

Cat’s Eye by Margaret Atwood Because it’s on the 1001 Books list and only cost 10p (17c)!

A Creed for the Third Millenium by Colleen McCullough. Because I loved The Thorn Birds (Do you remember Richard Chamberlain in the TV series, wasn’t he wonderful? with Rachel Ward and Barbara Stanwyk.)

Rebecca’s Tale by Sally Beauman. Because I remember Laurence Olivier, Joan Fontaine and George Sanders in the film of Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier. And this old Tortoise is a big romantic softy underneath the hard shell!

Angelique and the Demon by Sergianne Golon. Because I have a soft spot for aristocratic French ladies of the seventeenth century and the picture on the front cover shows a young woman with bazzookas to die for!

Colin Dexter Omnibus containing The Remorseful Day and The Wench is Dead. Because I loved John Thaw as Inspector Morse and Kevin Whately as his sidekick, Inspector Robbie Lewis in the TV Series.

Morse’s Greatest Mystery and other stories by Colin Dexter. Because having bought the omnibus, I thought why not? And I like short stories.

Three Fates by Nora Roberts Because sometimes a bit of romantic escapist nonsense is all that the brain requires and someone mentioned her on LT.

The Reef by Nora Roberts. Because I thought I might as well have a double dose!

All the above: Cover price: £59.66 ($104.40) Cost £1 ($1.75)

Also:

Atonement byIan McEwan . Because its on the 1001 Books list. A book with mixed reviews and so it sounds like a challenging read.

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon. Because its on the 1001 Books list and I was curious! Also it sounds kind of quirky, eccentric and different. I hope that’s a plus!

Sovereign by C.J.Sansom. Because its an historical mystery set in the time of Henry VIII, my favourite historical period, and its got a lovely cover, like parchment!

The above three: cover price: £22.97 ($40.19) Cost £2.20 ($3.85)

>221 Oklahoma - I would envy you The Heart of Boswell if envy wasn't a sin! Six journals in one! I lost all my Boswell and Johnson collection in South Africa, now I have only the London Journal of Boswell and the Life of Johnson. Boo Hoo!

-TT

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>231 TheTortoise
ooohhhh Angelique, red them all and saw all the movies, but don't own them, sigh...

Ok, TheTortoise put us over the top. Here's Part Two for September.

#183 MusicMom,
Thanks for the recommendation. I will move it to (near?) the top of the pile.

And you would think that with all the library book sale purchases yet to be unpacked and logged in that I would just stay by the computer. But no.... I had to go (just had to go) to a poetry reading last night and came home with a copy of Same Life by Maureen N. McLane.

Reading Lolita in Tehran arrived last Monday. I initially planned to read it after The sorrows of an American by Siri Hustvedt but having been somewhat disappointed by her husband's book, I'm now delaying it (the woman pays, Thomas Hardy would say) and will probably start reading Reading Lolita (uhuhuh) tomorrow night.

Yesterday Shirley arrived in my mailbox together with a new Oneworld edition of Wuthering Heights to replace my old and somewhat creased Penguin.

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#231 TT - I loved Star of the Sea. Be advised that there is a sequel newly out in PB. Unfortunately, I can't remember the name right now. Also, I thought Lucky was very good, though not an easy read.

Sorry, got an error code from the first post, so re-posted. Then, of course, the first post showed up. *Sigh*

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#231
About The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time:

Yes, it's a plus that it is "kind of quirky, eccentric and different".
An excellent novel and a page-turner, imo.
I read it in two or three days some weeks ago, and I'm not a very fast reader.
Very easy to understand to a Norwegian reading English.

My first package from bookcloseouts--
Every book its Reader by Basbanes
Through a Glass, Darkly by Donna Leon
A Bigamist`s Daughter by Alice McDermott I have enjoyed her Irish stories!
You all are a bad influence for one with TOO large a MTR. Ha! Actually, how could anyone have TOO many books??

I, unfortunately, have been away attending a funeral for a nephew of mine - so sad - so young. He had a two year old son and a daughter who is due any minute.

I did read while I was a way but not much. I got through half of CSI: NY Blood on the Sun.

A friend dropped off Abhorsen and Warriors: Eclipse while she was taking care of my cat (she has four of her own that I was watching last week).

Hope things settle down now - yeah, right!

Please post on Part 2 now - thread has reached capacity! Thanks.

http://www.librarything.com/talktopic.ph...

eta - sorry to read about your nephew koalamom. Our messages posted at the same time, I hope I didn't seem heartless!

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Just bought The color purple. Always promissed myself to read it in English, but this Dutch edition was too cheap not to buy, as I never find cheap English versions.

#226 Oklahoma

I'm a huge Sayers fan--both her fiction and non fiction. If you would like me to leave you a list of her fiction, in order of publication and noting the "Harriet Vane" ones (which are the only ones that need to read in order) just leave me a reminder on my profile page and I will be glad to do that. I'll also let you know which ones are my favorites. :-)

(edited to put message # and name to which I'm replying)

(edited again to say-- NOW I SEE WE MUST GO THE THE NEXT THREAD! tHANKS #241 TEELGEE

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