New thread for November.
I'm reading Bram Stoker's
Dracula, Wordsworth's Classic, excellent introduction to Stoker and his work.
This is me posting the books I said I wouldn’t buy until next Summer!
So the books that I didn’t buy today are:
Tom Brown’s Schooldays by Thomas Hughes. Because I am reading the Flashman series and I have never read TBS.
The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman. Because it completes the trilogy.
Thinks by David Lodge. Because I enjoyed his book Therapy.
The Shakespeare Secret by J.L.Carrell. Because it sounded intriguing and is based on Shakespeare’s plays.
Blue at the Mizzen by Patrick O’ Brian. Because I am collecting the series of which this is number 20. Now I need to find the other fifteen!
The Crimson Petal and the White by Michael Faber. Because it sounded interesting. But reading the reviews on LT, which say it is either brilliant or disgusting, I am not too sure about it. We shall see.
Now the following two I really didn’t buy!
From the Library:
Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem. Recommended by someone on LT after I posted that I had read The Curious Incident. MB has a character with Tourette’s syndrome.
The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley For the Group Read.
- TT
I haven't brought anything new into the house for a couple of weeks. My shelves are full and I have several on hold at the library, including one that I hope to get from somewhere in the state of PA since my county system doesn't have it.
Borders keeps sending me coupons and notices, though!
My coffee friend gave
The Shack for my birthday. Also, a lovely 2009 engagement calendar, The Reading Woman from another friend. This is so beautiful, with quotes and pictures of reading women. Picked up
Nursery Crimes for the share shelf at Curves.
From Strand Bookstore:
A Pirate of Exquisite Mind-----Yarrrrgh, now i gotta find some bloody time to read the thing!!!! for The Group..The Group!
The Forgery of Venus by Michael Gruber.....too many people have told me this one is good....so i bit/bought
bibbity bobbity boo....too
> Tortoise.....tell me what you think of
Thinks when you can. i have had a copy for a while,,,,it keeps moving from shelf to shelf however. but i know it's here....elusive, like Mr Lodge. ;-)
From Bookmooch:
Le ali della sfinge by Andrea Camilleri
and
Il mistero della sedia a rotelle.
My first Italian books from mooch - very exciting! I feel like practising my Italian and getting through a mystery at the same time. But I gather I'm going to be learning some Sicilian dialect along the way, so the lovely moochee threw in an easier extra book for me!
Oh, the frustration! BN.COM and the United States Postal Service don't care that anticipation frightens me. They still remain my favorites in their respective categories, though.
According to the post office
Danube by Claudio Magris has left Reno but not got anywhere. It was in my mailbox today. I ordered it at the same time I ordered
The Oxford History of English Lexicography because they were both scheduled to be released the same day. BN.COM sent me an e-mail saying the latter book would be delayed a few days; the order history says it will ship at the end of November; the book description says it will be available in January. Claudio Magris was on a list of potential winners of the Nobel Prize in literature at Ladbroke's; this book looked like it might fill a gap I wanted filled.
Meanwhile a two part order (one DVD and three books) has left the regional post office and not made it to the delivering post office twenty minutes away. I'll have to wait at least until Monday.
On the other hand UPS is not even open today, and the local brick and mortars don't have most of these, nor can they get them at these prices.
Robert
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>rdurick
i know how it is...i ordered from Strand Bookstore..and, as of yesterday, the order was in Limbo...i received the books today! USPS bless their pointed heads??!!...i'm talking from October 28th..when i got the e-mail from Strand that the books were sent...some left hands don't know what their RIGHT hands are doing, no?
Patience is a virtue..but such a Pain...no?
it all depends on what we, the biblioholics, will tolerate...vis a vis ..the Shipping Hassle/Hell..(am i right?)..of our books...
Our jaunt to the used bookstore today was successful for hubby. He came home with:
Trapp's Mountain by Robt. J. Randisi
Texas Iron by Robt. J. Randisi
Double The Bounty by Robt. J. Randisi
He just discovered this author and really likes his writing style. These are westerns, but the author also writes detective novels, so we've heard..... will have to check out the rest of his stuff.
I, on the other hand, showed remarkable restraint, and bought nothing. It was hard but I did it. Haha
Good on you porchsitter. I've bougt nothing for a week.
porchy, it has been a while since I have bought anything, too. I have received 4 from vine in the week-ish past. I am waiting for a bunch of mooches ( someone had a special offer) and I have a few coming from bookcloseouts. That seems ages ago. That is the big downside of that site, it takes so long!
I have added several to my amazon wishlist though. That is where I keep my wished for books, and I get them there or elsewhere as I can. I added that vatican book that you spoke of... looks juicy and just my cup of tea :)
So..
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#15 -- TheTortoise,
Thanks! I'm looking forward to it! =)
Except for the fact that the person I mooched it from taped bubblewrap directly to the book covers, so of course, chunks of the cover came off when I unwrapped it. :-(
You have to wonder what they were thinking!
Gail
Oh gosh- thinking ??? :-o
I got
Telex from Cuba from the library. My mom was in Cuba on vacation shortly before the Revolution so I've always been interested in Cuban stories. This is from that era, so I have high hopes for it.
I got
Telex from Cuba from the library. My mom was in Cuba on vacation shortly before the Revolution so I've always been interested in Cuban stories. This is from that era, so I have high hopes for it.
I got my book club's next pick,
The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman. I also noticed 2 Isaac Asimov books on the 1001 Books You Should Read Before you die list, so I picked up
Foundation and I, Robot. I haven't read Isaac Asimov since high school and thought that's been too long.
I got them all with trade and sixty-five cents from my favorite used book store.
I had to spend my 40% Borders coupon. Two hours at the big store in town didn't do it for me Saturday. So Sunday I stopped at the smaller one in my neighborhood on the way home from church. I was not wildly enthusiastic about any of the books that caught my eye, but I got
Maimonides, the Life and World of One of Civilization's Greatest Minds by
Joel Kraemer to fill in any gaps in the biography I have already read.
Robert
Over the weekend I piskced up The Road to Wellville by T C Boyle and The Crimson and The White by Michael Faber
3 big bags came into my apartment today - but they came here from my parents' house, so they aren't really new. I still get the fun of adding them to my LT library! Mostly children's books and classics -
Little Women and
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and the like.
Hotel du Lac came from Bookmooch.
On a sadder note, my beloved old copy of
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn is definitely missing. I am not happy.
The bookshop near to my home had some books for 70% sale. I found two.
Hundehode (Doghead)by
Morten Ramsland Scandinavien magic realism and weird familyhistory.
Dessert, øl og vin by Hylje Mortensen. The book is a dessert- cookbook based on beer as key ingredients. Maybee it's good, maybee not. I've never tried beer in sweet food.
#34 jfetting - I loved
Hotel du Lac. I've bought more Anita Brookner novels since then but haven't got to them yet.
#36 mckait, wow that is a good day's work! I've read
True North by Jill Ker Conway, the sequel to
The Road from Coorain and might have to re-read it. It starts from when she goes to Harvard and I read it when I was a Kiwi at grad school in the US, so a lot of her experiences were familiar. Hope you enjoy it.
I have some books I bought and a couple of Mooches that came in.
Borders:
I ordered: Murder on the Ile Saint-Louis by Cara Black (Touchstone not working)
It is the 7th book in the
Aimee Leduc Investigations mystery series set in France. It is the last one out in paper, so far.
While shopping I found:
The Ravening by Dawn Thompson.
The 3rd in her
Blood Moon series. A vampire romance, enough said.
Mona Lisa Awakening by Sunny
First in the
Monere series, I have books 2 & 3, but was waiting for this one to go into mmpb. Its a modern day paranormal about wolves/vamps as alien beings.
The Undead Kama Sutra by Mario Acevedo
Third in his series of
Vampire Private Eye that just went into mmpb. It has hard-boiled PI, vampires, soft-core erotica and humor.
Midnight's Daughter by Karen Chance
first in a new series about a dhampir (half-human/half-vamp) in the modern world.
Shadow of the Scorpion by Neal Asher
A book that fits into the
Polity/Ian Cormac series in some form that I have yet to figure out. Maybe as a prequel because it is about Ian Cormac's early years ?
Anarchy and Old Dogs by Colin Cotterill
the fourth book in the wonderful
Coroner's Lunch series.
Barnes & Noble:
Disco for the Departed by Colin Cotterill
the third book in the
Coroner's Lunch series - did I mention its wonderful ?
The Fall of Rome by Michael Curtis Ford
About well, the Fall of Rome.
The Return by
Hakan Nesser (Touchstone in Swedish)
A mystery in the
Inspector Van Veeteren series. Yet another Swedish series. A chopped up body is found in a lake and they try to find out who he is, and why he was sliced/diced and dropped in the soup.
In The Woods by Tana French
Another mystery. About 2 of 3 children who disappear in the Dublin woods, and what comes back to the survivor as an adult. As a child he was unable to say what happened to the other 2 children.
The Snake Stone by Jason Goodwin
Book 2 about Inspector Yashim, a eunuch in the Ottoman empire, who works for the Sultan.
Book Mooch:
All Things Bright and Beautiful by James Herriot
Book 2 in his
Yorkshire Vet series. For some reason I have books 1 and 4 and am not sure if I read and lost the others, or just never read or had them. So I am using BM to fill in the missing books.
Non-Fiction:
The Sorrows of Empire by Chalmers Johnson
Book 2 in the Blowback Trilogy.
#51 iwillrejoice - I really loved that book.
#52 -- sydamy,
I'm looking forward to reading it. I've heard so many good reviews!
Gail
Yesterday I went by the used bookstore and got The Gargoyle by
Andrew Davidson (for $6!), Such A Pretty Fat by
Jen Lancaster (for $4!) and a lovely hardcover edition of Casanova in Bolzano by Sandor Marai for $1.
Had a book I ordered come in, and I had $10.00 Borders Bucks, so it only cost me $2.00 !!
Thirty Three Teeth by Colin Cotterill. The second book in the
Dr. Siri Paiboun mystery series set in 1976 Laos.
Not sure why the touchstone brought up a signed hardback, but my book is neither.
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#51 -
No Country For Old Men is a fantastic book and thoroughly deserves all the excellent reviews. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.
#59 - The Gargoygle is an incredible book, it completely blew me away. It's one of the best books I've read this year.
I went to church yesterday morning to fold newsletters and to discuss
Doubt: a History. A woman there said she was going to be recommending
Oracle Bones by
Peter Hessler at the book group discussion last night.
I went to see the movie
Religulous which was underneath a Barny Noble's brick and mortar, so I bought the book and carried it back to church to support her nomination of it.
Robert
Got another Borders coupon in the mail. Since I had commented yesterday that I wanted to read some Michael Crichton again, I took it as a sign and picked up
Jurassic Park and also
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch by Alexander Solzhenitsyn (to get the total high enough for the coupon, of course.)
I got two books today.
One was a Book Mooch
Geisha by Liza Dalby. It came from the UK, and the cover is so much more beautiful than the US one.
This is a non-fiction book, and Liza Dalby is the only foreigner to become Geisha. This is supposed to be the authoritative work (in English) on Geishas.
Then I got a used book from Amazon Marketplace (Bookcloseouts didn't have it). I have been waiting for it to go into paper, but it hasn't. I have had it on my wishlist at Amazon since 1/03.
Cheops by Paul West. a Harcover
It is about the end of Cheops' life and reign, and while he is focusing on his journey to the Gods, his relatives are seething with plots and intrigues. The narrator is the god Osiris.
Finally, a couple of months after I ordered it, Scientific American Book Club sent
Death From the Skies by Philip Plait. Apocalypse lives!
Robert
Yesterday I got:
Lion's Pride by Debbie Jordan
A lone Book Mooch:
She Walks These Hills by Sharyn McCrumb...i am trying to buy the entire set of Ballad Books..by Ms McCrumb. if you haven't read them....they are wondrous fair..full of Appalachian ghosties from the past...and nefarious shenanigans that are all too contemporary...
;-p
While I was out at lunch, two books appeared on my desk in the office: Robyn Sisman's
Summer In the City and Khaled Hosseini's
The Kite Runner -- mooches from New York and Florida. Very exciting! I've put off buying
The Kite Runner for a while but jumped at the chance to mooch it.
On Thursday, on my way out of town, I picked up
The chocolate Puppy Puzzle as an Interlibrary Loan. Not sure what county it came from but it's not mine.
I am still trying to read
Name of the Rose and
The First Jesuits, though I think I do the puppy one first. I need a break from thinking when I read.
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I got a Mooch in today that came from Australia and took 2 months ! My first Mooch from there, so I wasn't sure how long it would take to get to me. The sender said it could be up to 4 months on her profile.
Out of the Sun by Robert Goddard
It is the second book in the
Harry Barnett books, and is oop in the USA.
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Today I received, via BookMooch:
The Pearl by John Steinbeck
and 2 British anthologies of Middle Ages & Early Modern literature for an angel mooch.
I found these three fab books from Goodwill today:
How People Live in the U.S.S.R.How People Live in Canada
How People Live in Central America
HPLICanada described Canada as America's admiring little brother. *snorfle*
From Audible: Classic German Short Stories, Volume I by Schiller, Mann, Goethe, Hebel
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89> Canada is my second favorite country.
Today after church including an unplanned stint at the dishwasher I went book hunting with coupons.
Borders:
The Oxford Companion to American Law edited by Kermit T. Hall at 30% off.
Mind of the Raven by
Bernd Heinrich, buy one...
How to Read Novels Like a Professor by Thomas C. Foster, ...get one half off. I liked his literaure book and thought this was likely to be readable too.
Barny Noble's:
Dilbert 2.0 by Scott Adams at 20% then 10% then 15% off. I have given up that life, but sometimes it is still funny.
Robert
PS Touchstones are squirrelier than customary.
R
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Troubleshooter by Gregg Hurwitz,
Last Shot by Gregg Hurwitz,
The Battle of the Villa Fiorta by Rumer Godden,
Expecting Adam by
Martha Beck and pretty much everything
Elizabeth Goudge ever wrote. And weirdly, the autobiography of John Denver. All from the library.
Message edited by its author, Nov 10, 2008, 11:52am.
Now that you're Back by A. L. Kennedy. A rare mooch. I need to pick up the pace a little; I seem to only make 1 mooch for every 7 I send out:-)
Oh, my, I don't even know where to begin. Something came over me to want to read everything so I've got:
Just Gus
Amazing Gracie
One Perfect Day
The Paper Bag Christmas
A Stranger for Chrismas
All I Have to Give
Lost & Found
The Lucky One
A Covington Christmas
A Cedar Cove Christmas
Bliss to You
My hubby won't see me unless he comes to my little reading corner whee I plan to spend the winter. If it snows, it will even be better as I can watch the snow flakes come down as I dive into yet another book.
Oh, my, I don't even know where to begin. Something came over me to want to read everything so I've got:
Just Gus
Amazing Gracie
One Perfect Day
The Paper Bag Christmas
A Stranger for Chrismas
All I Have to Give
Lost & Found
The Lucky One
A Covington Christmas
A Cedar Cove Christmas
Bliss to You
My hubby won't see me unless he comes to my little reading corner whee I plan to spend the winter. If it snows, it will even be better as I can watch the snow flakes come down as I dive into yet another book.
I'm trying to decrease my TBR pile, but those three came across my way last week:
4:50 from Paddington by Agatha Christie
The Liar by
Stephen Fryand the new Anna Gavalda book, sorry but I don't know the English title yet...
And the actual aim was NOT to buy any new books this month...yeah right :)
Last night was 20% off at the used book store for teacher appreciation! So I couldn't help but pick up
Water for Elephants since everyone I know won't stop telling me how great it is (on top of someone stopping me in the store to tell me how great it is). My impulse purchase was
The Last Witchfinder.
I received
The Glass of Time by
Michael Cox today! This was a win for me from GoodReads First Reads! My first win! I'm so excited and can't wait to finish the two books I'm currently reading so I can start it.
I received
Dawnthief as a mooch that I couldn't even remember I'd asked for!! Oops.
>110 msf59
have not read
This Book Will Save Your Life but did read
Music for Torching several years ago...a wonderful tale that puts Suburbia in its place...with a flamethrower!!!.now i have another old friend to Re-read..thanks a lot!!!
;-p
>106,
If you like historical fiction you should enjoy it, I've read about 2/3 of it since lunch yesterday. It is solidly good and I would read more by her. It isn't anything super special and is fairly representative of the genre, but it seems to be well done.
From a trip to Concord, MA:
The Remarkable Mrs. Ripley: The Life of Sarah Alden Bradford Ripley by Joan W. Goodwin,
Woman in the Nineteenth Century by Margaret Fuller,
Louisa May Alcott's Civil War by Louisa May Alcott (hmm, touchstone links to Hospital Sketches, which is included in this book along with other writings),
L.M Alcott: Signature of Reform edited by Madeline B. Stern,
Alcott in her Own Time edited by Daniel Shealy and
Civil Disobedience and Other Essays by Henry David Thoreau.
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Trying to inch through
The Falls by
Joyce Carol Oates, my first delve into her work and I'm not too sure if I've started with the 'right' one.
Today arrived
Beckwood Brae which I'm definitely looking forward to reading
On my hunt for used bookcases in the Salvation Armys CharityShop; Fretex I did not find any bookcases. On the other hand I found three very cheap books:
Hjemmets kokebok til daglig bruk (Home Cookery for daily use) by Sarah Dekke from 1938, about food from the coast-districts in Norway. Never seen or heard about this book so I had to have it.
De arabiske folks historie (
A History of the Arab Peoples) by Hourani, Albert
To do my historycollection better, I must have this one.
Zero Game by Brad Meltzer. Very Cheap, brick of a book 10 Nkr.
And at last in the foodstore they had:
En uskyldig mann (
The Innocent man) by John Grisham, one of the few books of him I didn't have so....
Maybee I just should stay home.
Just to fix touchstones
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A couple of mooches, a new book, and a used one:
The Republic by Plato
Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle
The Trial by Franz Kafka (for the groupread)
The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
I'm still confused about why I had to buy another copy of
The Trial. I was sure that I had one, but there's nothing in my catalog -- or in the house, for that matter. Very strange.
I am reading time out of joint by philip k dick
and spook country by william gibson
Read
Inkheart and
Inkspell and
Brisingr on the plane a few days ago, I thought young adult fantasy would be fun for a change and they were! Definitely passed the time easily.
Just finished
Last Night at the Lobster by Stewart O'Nan, today and am now I am starting in on his
Snow Angels, which looks interesting but got only OK reviews on Librarything which nows makes me look at it wondering if I should start it or try another. Has anyone read this author? I had never heard of him before, but maybe he was just hidden among the shelves.
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Today I received
Brain Lock for an angel mooch for someone in the UK.
Through Marktplaats.nl I received
The Glass Key by Dashiell Hammett. Thought I could give it a try because it's on the 1001 list.
From Better World Books (my first order!):
Troll: A Love Story by Johannna Sinisalo
The Midnight Band of Mercy by Michael Blaine (historical...rife with cats ;-) )
Colors Insulting to Nature by Cintra Wilson (the title grabbed me on this one back when it was originally published)
Rats:Observations on the History & Habitat of the City's Most Unwanted Inhabitants by
Robert Sullivan...the title says it all!
The Green and the Gray by Timothy Zahn (Shadow War in NYC!!yippee!)
A Carnivore's Inquiry by Sabina Murray (have heard many differing opinions on this one..yum yum,let's eat!)
...some of these will probably be Christmas gifts..so i won't add them to my Library until they are Sorted.
;-p
Late night delivery last night from MiB:
The Shack by William P Young
An American journey of Barak Obama
Nothing as of yet has come for today.
Today the wonderful UPS man brought me the boxed set of Dead after Dark the Sookie Stackhouse books...and within a week or so I will be getting the newest books by Stephen King and Wally Lamb
wonderful mooches:
The Simarillion and
LegendMessage edited by its author, Nov 13, 2008, 1:36pm.
The Last Days of the Incas, autographed from the author. I can't remember if I won this or promised to review it, I shall have to go back and check...
#143 mckait: I love, love, love owls, and
Wesley will be on my Christmas wish list. I'd love to know what you think of the book when you get to it.
AMQS put a reminder note on my profile. It will be near the top of my tbr pile. I have to read the two ARCs first.
I couldn't resist this one! It sounds great. I will send it to my daughter when I finish.. she has an owl that lives outside her back porch :)
I showed great restraint at the used bookstore today and bought just one mere book:
The Black Dahlia, by James Ellroy.
I'm wondering if this is similar to the Joy Luck Club...let me know how you like it! It looks like a good read :)
A few hours ago, I pulled
Quicksand out of the box, hope it's good. Didn't get my "don't send" reply card back to the book club in time, so I'll read it anyhoo.
#144-- jdthloue I've read all but the latest of the McCrumb/Ballad series. Very enjoyable. The next-to-last one (
The Songcatcher) was my favorite. Hope you enjoy them!
sorry folks, forgot to mention this was for Message #5: RedBowlingBallRuth who just got
Friday Night Knitting ClubMessage edited by its author, Nov 14, 2008, 10:21pm.
117: hazelk
Trying to inch through The Falls by Joyce Carol Oates, my first delve into her work and I'm not too sure if I've started with the 'right' one. Hazel, I too read this book as my first JCO. Didn't really enjoy it, and can't say I am eager to read any other JCO. I read it for a RL book group.
What is it about JCO?
I simply cannot read her books. I have had a few.. and been unable to get past the first few pages. They always sound so good, but it is almost like a wall pops up on page 15 that keeps me from going any further. weird. I am sure that there are those who love her work, but I just can't read her.
I found the book bland, and the characters didn't seem any better. Then the story was rather ho-hum, in fact there really wasn't one, it was more of a slice of life. It was mostly boring and bland.
One of those books, that I kept looking at the page numbers to see when I would be done.
Ficus, remember the Pearl rule!!! lol
Remember the thread, Life is short, don't read crap!
One persons crap is another persons treasure..pass it on.
:D
*makes note to follow that advice more often herself*
Although it was just handed to be, this book came into my house in the middle of October, but my husband got to it first -
On Many a Bloody Field.
I just found these "What came into your home" threads.
I am glad to see that people are brave enough to say that their shelves are full, there are piles everywhere, and yet they acquire more books! It is for sure a very strange disease. I just built a new shelf unit to get some off the floor!
So far this month *grin*, I have acquired some books about books:
The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop by
Lewis BuzbeeEx Libris Confessions of a Common Reader by Anne Fadiman
And:
Renovating Old Houses by
George NashMessage edited by its author, Nov 15, 2008, 11:02am.
#163 - Welcome! Add me to those who have books in every room. I enjoyed The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop, especially because the author spoke about two of my favorite bookstores, City Lights in San Francisco, and Printers Inc. in downtown Palo Alto, which, unfortunately, closed several years ago. It was connected to a cafe that my best friend & I would go to on Sunday mornings when I visited him there. We would have breakfast, read the Sunday
New York Times, walk from the cafe to the bookstore to find a good book or two, and come back to the cafe for more coffee. Sigh...
My mail carrier was especially kind to me today! My two free books were an ER copy of
The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett, and an Advance Word copy of
Man in the Dark by Paul Auster from
The New Yorker.
From Amazon.com came
Healthcare, Guaranteed: A Simple, Secure Solution for America by
Ezekiel Emanuel and
The Oldest Orphan by
Tierno Monenembo.
Finally, Book Culture (which used to be Labyrinth Books in NYC, close to Columbia U.'s campus) had a sale on
New York Review Books classics, and I bought
A High Wind in Jamaica by
Richard Hughes, and
Memed, My Hawk &
They Burn the Thistles by
Yashar Kemal. I also bought
Admiring Silence by Abdulrazak Gurnah.
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Today I received
Jemima J thru BookMooch.
wandered into Borders while running errands this morning and came out with:
Death With Interruptions by Jose Saramago and
Outlander by
Diana GabaldonHaven't read Outlander, but a good friend with reliable taste ordered me to read it.
#166 jfetting
I would recommend
Outlander as well, its very good and captivating if you like historical/romance. However, I personally would say that don't expect ALL of the books in the series to live up to the first one. Its a fairly long series and by the last one, I wasn't enjoying them nearly so much! However, others have disagreed with me on this.
But back to the beginning,
Outlander is a fantastic book.
84, Charing Cross Road is excellent!! Try anything by Helene Hannff and "Q" - the Cambridge professor from early 1900's. He as you probably already know was the one who inspired Helene Hannff.
I had an hour to kill before a hair appointment, so wandered into B&N and came out with:
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (which I've heard both great things and not so great things about, but couldn't resist it)
The Forever War by
Dexter Filkins (which I'd never heard of, but which looks like a good one on the current "conflict")
Tried By War (which I've been wanting since before it came out and decided I wasn't going to resist any longer)
eats, shoots & leaves, a jim morrison book that I hadn't yet read, and a Tupac poetry book (from books a million's clearance sale) and from the Miami bookfair: Shaun Thompson's surf saga, "Busting down the door" and Cinco Puntos Press variety of cool books.
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#168.......I loved
White Oleander by Janet Fitch. I have another book by her in my TBR pile,
Paint It Black.
Hubby brought home five new western novels today:
Four by Robert J. Randisi:
The Widowmaker #1
The Widowmaker #2
Backshooter
Tin Star
and one by Ralph Compton:
The Deadwood Trail***previous post deleted due to malfunctioning touchstones....the Randisi books didn't come through right.
I often buy used books from Amazon. I have a couple of favorites among the sellers. One of them has been BetterWorldBooks. They raise money for literacy. Thus I am not only feeding my addiction but hopefully enabling a future reading addict.
Following up on an email that came my way, I went to the Better World site
http://www.betterworld.com/This will become a fave for book buying. I placed one order already. They have books new and used.
They say:
Regarding Us:
The Online Bookstore with a Soul
Who we are. What we do. And why on earth it matters.
How it All Began
From a community book drive to a thriving social enterprise.
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I often buy used books from Amazon. I have a couple of favorites among the sellers. One of them has been BetterWorldBooks. They raise money for literacy. Thus I am not only feeding my addiction but hopefully enabling a future reading addict.
Following up on an email that came my way, I went to the Better World site
http://www.betterworld.com/This will become a fave for book buying. I placed one order already. They have books new and used.
They say:
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I have never ever had an issue with them in all the years I bought from them through Amazon. You might want to have a look...
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>175
i discovered Better World Books through Biblio.com (BWB is one of their Sellers)..i got my first order From BWB last week...at last, i can buy books from these fine folk and feel a little less guilty..now i am helping to fund Literacy Programs worlwide...and filling my shelves to boot...what a world! what a life!
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Went into town yesterday and stopped at both bookstores. From BN I got:
Love by Toni Morrison (love the bargain racks) and
The Vampire's Seduction by Raven Hart (a friend insisted it was good, but we'll see). From Borders, I got Bloodsucking Fiends and
You Suck, both by Christopher Moore.
I bought
Suite Française by Irène Némirovsky today at the library's store.
#178 cameling: I'm so glad you have
Bitter Lemons! Not many people read about Cyprus.
Oveer the weekend, using a 40% off coupon from Borders I picked up A Mercy from Toni Morrison and The Night of the Smoking Gun by David Carr and byAmazon today Just After Sunset by Stephen King and The Hour I First Believed by Wally Lamb
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I had to go to the Eye-doctor for the 4. time sins summer and used it as an exuse to go to a good bookstore nearby.
I found 3 books of Alexander McCall Smith;
44 Scotland StreetThe World According to Bertie (44 Scotland Street 4)
The Careful Use of Compliments, v. 4 (Sunday Philosophy Club)
Very optimistic though since I have some problems with reading before getting tired in my eyes. The habit of buying books is harder to stop.
>186: cdyankeefan- That's a great haul! All those books our on my wishlist. Enjoy!
Bookmooched:
She Walks These Hills by Sharyn McCrumb. An Lt recommendation. Are you out there Jude!
The Darkest Evening of the Year by Dean Koontz. This is for my daughter, although I was a big fan of
Watchers and this also has a Golden Retriever, so maybe I'll check it out too.
From a friend:
How the Light Gets In byM.J. Hyland. I have not heard of this title or author, has anyone else?
Received my Early Review
Soldier's Heart Elizabeth D. Samet. Inside was a little card.
Asking me to send a review to them and to let them know be email if I have friends who would
interested in receiving this book. If you would like this book sent to you send me a private comment
at my profile, with your name and address.
Today I got via MiB
Cross Country by James Patterson (which I am dying to read! Love reading James's books.
Christmas Around the World A Pop Up Book by Chuck Fisher
>196 hemlokgang...i love Steven Milhauser
>193 msf59...of course i'm here..i am Jude..not obscure....
other than these...DUH
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In June I found five books that I wanted at BN.COM, that were coming out in paperback, and that were discounted an additional 5% if preordered. On November 11 the last one matured, and all were shipped late on November 10. They came to town quickly but then languished for several days in local post offices. They were in the mailbox today:
Krazy & Ignatz, He Nods in Quiescent Siesta by George Herriman. Krazy Kat and Pogo are the greatest comic strips of all time.
Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler by Robert Gellately. More on twentieth century totalitarianism, it will contribute to our book group discussion of One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich.
Ad Infinitum: a Biography of Latin by Nicholas Ostler. Latin is a language that I like to pretend I will sometime learn. Also I am a linguist manqué with some interest remaining in things about language.
The Spiritual Brain by Mario Beauregard and Denyse O'leary. Is my faith an artifact of my physiology?
In a Cardboard Belt by Joseph Epstein. I like essays, and this book got multiple favorable reviews.
Random House used to have a subscription program for the Anchor Bible. I was in the program then volumes stopped coming. After awhile I heard, I think on LibraryThing, that Yale University Press had taken over the Anchor Bible. In September I got a letter from Yale asking me whether I wanted to continue in the program; I responded yes; they responded with a welcoming letter.
When I went out for my walk today I found a box on my front porch. It was not marked with the name of the carrier:
First Corinthians: A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary by Joseph A. Fitzmyer as it says by Joseph A. Fitzmyer.
Now I have to decide what I'll read tonight. It is nice if one's problems are like that.
Robert
PS None of the touchstones wants to finish loading, and I am not up to hard wiring them all.
R
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one mooch:
Millroy the Magician by Paul Theroux....one of the quirkiest novels i have ever read!!!
UPS brought an ARC of
The Lost City of Z by David Grann...i think i requested this from Shelf Awareness..but it's been awhile. it sounds interesting..."deadly obsession in the Amazon" at least it's warm there, and not 30 degrees outside...Brrrr....
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Today I got
Charm City by Laura Lippman thru BookMooch.
Today I got The Fireman's Wife from Ballantine Books to review for the Early Reviewers group. Just skimming some - I realized the author grew up in a small town just south of me. The book also has settings in the South Carolina Low Country -- which I love.
Looking forward to reading!
and now I have The Light Fantastic by Terry Pratchett...
I don't think I've ever bought this many books in a month... and it doesn't look like this will stop any time soon...
*giggle* Vampir, when I am in the mood to buy.. look out..
Today 3 hardcover volumes in a slipcase of
Kristin Lavransdatter published in 1946. Very good condition.
MiB just threw this onto the steps
Lost and Found by Carolyn Parkhurst
no books
125$ worth of book cards as gifts for my son.
sigh
There was a United Way book sale fundraiser at the university today and I bought:
The Temple of My Familiar, Alice Walker -- this book looks untouched, which is nice, but unfortunately it's a mass market paperback :-( The good thing about it is though is that it replaces the really ugly and heavy library copy that I am currently reading.
Far From the Maddening Crowd &
A Pair of Blue Eyes, both by Thomas Hardy. These are both lovely old editions with gold embossed titles. The super-bonus: when I examined them later I found that they had belonged to a favourite professor of mine, who died two years ago at the age of 51.
Also got:
A Prayer for Owen Meany, John Irving
Elementals, AS Byatt (a beautiful little hardcover)
The Book of Illusions, Paul Auster
Veronika Decides to Die, Paulo Coelho
That s a wrong Link from
Lieben to Noll's book and not to Struck's!! How can I correct that?
got my LT Early Reviewer win:
Rocket Man by William Hazelgrove
....now to find time to read it, and its ARC siblings that all showed up at my door this week begging shelter and food...oh boy!
218> select it from the list:
LiebenNothing yet today, but my Early Reviewer book,
The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett came yesterday. I'm about 3/4 of the way through it already and I love it (which is a first for me, as I've thought previous ER books were just okay).
I had five dollars in Borders Bucks and a 30% coupon for a minute of my time, and I was in the neighborhood:
A Visual History of the English Bible by
Donald L. Brake.
It was the most expensive of the lot that I actually thought I wanted to buy. That criterion may be wearing thin.
Robert
Went to the city today and paying the usual visit to Waterstones, I brought Wuthering Heights (Waterstones Exclusive, Penguins Classics).
I just got
Close Calls in the mail, a used copy from Amazon. It's lesbian short stories. Interesting.
Went to B&N last night and surprised myself with my will power. I came away with exactly the book I went in to get ....
Blue Ginger a present for my mother.
Perhaps my inner strength stemmed from the fact that I had received 2 books in the mail yesterday afternoon .... ;-)
The Shop on Blossom Street by Debbie Macomber and
Aphrodite by Isabel Allende were nicely wrapped and sitting in my mailbox when i got home from work.
I have some books that came in during the last week or 2 and I haven't had a chance to post them until now.
From Barnes & Noble
Radio Freefall by Matthew Jarpe
This is a book for a RL SFF group. He is a new author and a friend of one of the group members. The book is supposed to be a cyber-punk, rock and roll updated version of Heinlein's
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, set on Earth. I am dubious and hate when authors/publishers use Heinlein's name and/or work for themselves.
Collision Course by William Shatner and Judith & Garfield Reeves-Stevens
This is a guilty pleasure, that I may regret if it sucks.
It is a Star Trek book. It is the start of a new series set at the
Star Trek Academy , looking at the original cast's early years. I am a fan of the original series. I read a bunch of books based on the TV episodes when I was a kid. As an adult I am not fond of media tie-ins. Its too much like predigested food, and nothing can change from the cannon.
I haven't read any of Shatner's other books, apparently he is a bit wacky and his books are separated and set in what is called The Shatner-verse. Because this is about the original cast and their early years in the Academy, I am going to give it a try. If not worthwhile, I won't read the rest of the series.
The Black Ship by Diana Pharaoh Francis
It is book 2 in the
Crosspointe series. A swashbuckling fantasy with sailing ships, magic, politics and adventure.
Butcher Bird by Richard Kadrey
A fantasy with the mixing of magic and mythical beasties with the modern day. The magic realms are parallel to ours, and kept in balance and from mixing by the Black Clerks. But there is a conflict between them, and the realms are starting to mix, and things are leaking out into our world.
Heart and Soul by Sara Hoyt
Turns out this is the 3rd book in a series. I was enthralled by the cover (dragons, pagodas, flying junk), and I confused the author with another ( Sarah Ash) so I bought the book. It is a fantasy that is set in a version of the Victorian British Empire that never was. So now I need to get the first 2 books of the series.
Soul of Fire by Sarah Hoyt
This is the second book in the series. I have had to order the first book.
I had my Early Review book arrive
Tengu by John Donohue
Book 3 in a modern day mystery/thriller martial arts series
I also had a Book Mooch from Austria arrive:
True Confessions of Adrian Mole by Sue Townsend
I now have all the books in the series. This one is oop in the US.
>242 Ficus, correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't the Academy called "Starfleet Academy" in each of the series? I see the publisher has billed the book "Star Trek Academy" and am now thoroughly confused.
The Shatner-verse isn't very appealing from my brief visits. The Reeves-Stevens menage almost always fails to disappoint, so I expect you'll derive some pleasure from the read. Please to post opines so I can determine the buy-ability of said book?
Recent addition to library:
The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham.
ETA: And how dumb am I, my sainted aunt gave me a book she got from Harlequin that's been a pleasure to read...
Murder at Plimoth Plantation by
Leslie Wheeler. An historical mystery set in...wait for it...the restored Plymouth colony! How unusual, yes?
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It was called Starfleet Academy. I suspect they changed the name in the Shatner book because he goes off the approved reservation in terms of what is known about the characters, and events.
I haven't read any of his before, but I wanted to try this one because of the subjects (early years, academy).
I will post my thoughts here, and I always do reviews of the books I read, on the book main page.
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I always found the Shatner books to be overly Shatner, though I thought they were pretty good when he first started writing. They just got to be too much after a while.
One of my ER books arrived -
Phraseology. (I've pretty much given up any hope of ever getting Doggone.)
This week:
Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
An Imperfect Offering by James Orbinski - also saw the recent doco about him called Triage, I highly recommend it if you're interested in humanitarian aid.
Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood
happy :)
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#236 - mckait, I read
Salt Dancers many years ago in book club. We all loved it, and went on to read all of
Ursula Hegi's works.
#s 236, 248,
Salt Dancers was the only Ursula Hegi book I did not like, though I suspect that's more me than the book. It was my worst childhood nightmare in book form.
Southern Living`s forty years of our best recipes arrived today. I wish I didn`t want to cook so much. This looks like a terrific book.
It's been so long since I've purchased or received a book, I am getting all itchy with hives and having bouts of uncontrollable sweating. Reading all the posts here also has me drooling with book envy. (going cold turkey isn't a pretty sight.)
Hey! I haven't visited bookcloseouts.com in awhile......hmmmm........be back later...... :o)
#214 Nickelini
I'm sure others have already mentioned this--but what a wonderful serendipity to find two great books that were once owned by someone you were fond of and admired. Books often have a way of being more than "just books!"
Are we going to have a new thread ? This one is over 250, and slow to load.
At a recommendation from my Aunt to try some of Charles Dickens works, I took a few moments in Chapters and chose
Bleak House. Another Classic to add to my 999 Challenge.
Yep, Dickens went on my 999 challenge. Not sure yet which but I think that since I seem to already own an old copy of
The Curiosity Shop that I'll go with that.
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My supplier came home for Thanksgiving with lots of stuff including 3 Star Treks, a Star Wars and the latest Xanth. I haven't been able to get to the previous ones of any of these as yet! Maybe once the reruns start next month I'll be able to read more! Or maybe if my life stopped being so busy - ain't retirement fun?
an ARC of
The Glister by John Burnside..."a fascinating exploration of innocence and evil'..i ask myself..Hmmmm?
Happy Thanksgiving, y'all!!!
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