The Secret Founding of America: The Real Story of Freemasons, Puritans, & the Battle for the New World… by Nicholas Hagger
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
Kindred by Octavia E. Butler
Chosen by a Horse by Susan Richards
The first one looked intriguing.
The other three were on the buy two get one free table..
I wanted a new copy of Tree Grows in Brooklyn.
Chosen by a Horse was suggested to me by someone here, sadly I can't remember who. and Kindred, because I have read Octavia Butler before and love her writing..
Oh goodness yes, isn't OEB a wonderful literary craftswoman? Gorgeous stuff!
Just making myself known for updates ;-)
I brought home LAST FULL MEASURE by Jeff Shaara to finish the Civil War trilogy.
I might have to celebrate the snow and the start of a new month by having a little wander onto Amazon... it's been so long. :-)
oh! Amazon.... evil, wonderful place isn't it?
Mwahahaha.... (yes it is!)
Time passes differently there.. even more differently than regular computer time.. and a fog comes over you.. and a fury.. and you keep clicking add to cart!
Scary.........
btw I do love your name.....!
You do? Why?!
I get that too - only then I find I have £300 of books in there and have to slowly, painfully but firmly chop some out again until it's down to an amount I can bear to part with...
yep.. I do that .. pop them into save for later.... then sometimes I just get over it.. lol
As for your name.. Ellie Potten, are you kidding? You sound like the heroine of a British novel! Are you?
Well (*preens a little bit*)... No, that's my name - actually I don't like my surname, maybe I'll feel better about it now! I'm an English country lass, not quite an English rose but maybe one day...
All English country lasses are roses, dearie... every one!
Now I am off to read, I look forward to getting to know you a little.. we have several books in common... what good taste we have!
eta
I am convinced someone will write a novel about your one day!
:P
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I have been led to believe by this site that Haruki Murakami bears reading. I took my 25% coupon to Borders and looked for paperbacks. It took me two homings in, but I came away with
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle.
mckait, I have a recently acquired
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn which I hope to read soon and propose as the subject at my church book group. I wish us well with it.
Robert
Checking in to add this thread to my list. I still have some books to add, but I spent the day reading. They will have to wait to be added.
No new books today, but I want to add my endorsement of
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. I remember it fondly from my younger days, and I recently gave a copy to my 17-year-old. She also liked it a lot.
# 14
I daresay that I have read that book dozens of times. I remember little of it, as that was decades ago. I do remember connecting with the girl, almost feeling part of the story. It was one of the few books that I owned that made it through
losing our home when I was a child. It was precious to me, but somehow..managed to disappear.
Kon d'Ark was another :)
right now I seem to be reading
Team of Rivals, but may pick up something else as well. I am thinking
Kindred.
Let me know what you think about Brooklyn, okay? I wish you well with it, too!
eta touchstone
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The Bear Went Over the Mountain just arrived. I've been looking forward to this since a friend recommended it a little while ago. Can't wait to get started!
Just checking in for the month......
I need help. I just ordered
Tom Jones by Henry Fielding (I can't believe I didn't have a copy in the basement, but gave up after an hour of digging through boxes) and
The 900 Days: the Siege of Leningrad by Harrison Salisbury.
Now I know that's not so bad, and Alibris has been practically begging me to give them some money. The bad thing is that somebody in one of these threads mentioned bookcloseouts. I went there back in November. And I went again, and again. Then in January they had their dollar for dollar sale - spend $20, get $20 worth of free books thing - and I went a little crazy right before it ended. I think I ordered something like 30 books (half were free though!). I'm going to have to have some sort of 12-step program. I might need more than 12 steps.
Now I have to go read.
One Book Mooch"
In the Presence of the Enemy by the Elizabeth George (now i have them all..the Linley/Havers...except for the brand new one!!
and ARC (and i'm not sure from whence this came)
Bones of the Dragon by Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman...this is not my usual drug of choice...but i'll give it a fighting chance
>20......don't feel bad...most of us here are in need of a 12+ step Program for the Seriously Book Addicted..i know i am..but Feh! i'd rather read 'em and collect 'em
;-p
20
I think that, at three books a step, you could get by with ten steps.
Robert
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I seem to respond best to personal economic and financial struggles by buying books, and so today found me killing time at B&N. I got:
The Enchantress of Florence by Salman Rushdie
Victoria Victorious by Jean Plaidy
The Flying Troutmans by Miriam Toews
I didn't need them, but it felt good to buy them. Lord knows I'll have plenty of time to read for the foreseeable future.
#27 Ah, yes - great book! Just had to leap in and agree with you!
I just won an Amazon gift certificate (!!) so I now own all of these for free :
The Blue Girl by Charles de Lint (my first by him, I heard it was a good place to start)
Alanna, the First Adventure by Tamora Pierce (same here)
The Blue Sword by Robin McKinley
The Hero and the Crown by Robin McKinley
Spindle's End by Robin McKinley (her
Beauty was good and I heard her Damar stories were the best)
My book buying habits have changed so much since last year - I absolutely never bought or read fantasy on purpose up till last month!
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Secrets of the Unified Field: The Philadelphia Experiment, The Nazi Bell, and the Disgarded Theory… by Joseph P. Farrell
Shattered Air: A True Account of Catastrophe and Courage on Yosemite's Half Dome… by Bob Madgic
came today...
#31.. Anywhere is good place to start with deLint.. make sure to read his Newfords too....
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Went to the bookstore to use up the last of my Christmas Gift Cards, of course, I spent all that and more. The following books found their way to my house:
The Picasso Scam by Stuart Pawson,
The Mushroom Man by Stuart Pawson,
A Killing Frost by R.D. Wingfield,
Ten Thousand Lovers by Edeet Ravel,
One Under by Graham Hurley,
Borkmann's Point by Hakan Nesser, and
Dead Lovely by Helen Fitzgerald
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It took TWO hours to get home from work today (usually takes 20 minutes). Stupid snow. They predicted an inch and we're looking at about 8. That figures.
Anyway, needless to say it made me REALLY happy to get home and see two packages. One with a bunch of clothes I ordered, and another had a book that I didn't request from the publisher... but they sent it to me anyway!
Land of Marvels by Barry Unsworth. It looks so interesting!
From a friend, a couple of serious ones:
What's the Matter With Kansas by
Thomas Frank A tale of Evil Republicans...sounds scary.
Reclaiming History by Vincent Bugliosi. This comes highly recommended but it's a mammoth read, almost 1500 pages. Doorstop or lethal weapon? Anyone here tackle this baby?
>38....never tackled
Reclaiming History....and at 1500 pages that would be a Tackle!.....but Bugliosi is one of my favorites
Helter Skelter will always have a place in my gnarly heart....;-/
Jude- I'm also a big fan of Bugliosi! He's one of best criminal non-fiction writers, ever! That would be the only reason I would attempt that monster!
>40
soldier on then.....monster or no...i got your back if the task be treacherous! ;-
I got a replacement of Ray Bradbury's
The Illustrated Man which, although I've already mentioned this on the Most Disturbing thread, I'll mention again, contains the most frightening short story I ever read -
The Playground. Also got (as prompted on the First Line Game thread)
The Dead Secret. And I have to mention that they both came from The Book Depository and arrived practically before I'd finished ordering them!
Nothing this month , just gonna work on my TBR pile . Of course that might change , LOL !
After being good for so long and only buying charity books, I've had a vice-ridden day today: jam donuts and chocolatiness at the supermarket, and a huge online book and DVD trawl (Amazon UK and Marketplace, and used my supermarket Nectar points on their website, and all my Amazon gift certificates as well!). So I should have lots of lovely books to add to my library soon!
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Bought
The Bonfire of Vanities because I vaguely remember the title and think 700 pages for $3 is a pretty good deal. :)
700 pages for $3 is a pretty good deal
Ahhh a reader after my own heart... :)
I have been so good, not bought a book for weeks.
I have, too. I even spent part of the afternoon yesterday in Barnes and Noble, and bought only gifts for my daughter to take to birthday parties (the boring book-giver strikes again!)
Oh, the silliness! Sunday I had to spend a Borders coupon and got the novel I was after. I noticed a couple of other books that might interest me enough actually to buy.
Yesterday I went to another Borders to look for the book and write down the ISBN. I had it in my hand, and I bought it.
The Next 100 Years by
George FriedmanWith a little delay I could have saved nine dollars ordering it from Barny Noble.
There are several other copies on LibraryThing. I don't recognize the names of any of the other owners.
I would like to have a serious, long review of the book.
Robert
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42> janoorani24, I have
The Feeling Good Handbook bought at the recommendation of a professional. It proved valuable to me insofar as I used it; I have been backed into corners where it got me out. I carried, for awhile, a Moleskine notebook, into which I had summarized a procedure from the book and into which I could write out my responses.
I am ready to recommend it to folk who need it and will actually do it.
Robert
A book came unexpectedly into my possession this afternoon. Up in the loft looking for some framed childhood photos for our newly-decorated bathroom walls, we came across a bag of books that had been thrown together for a charity shop run ages ago. And lo, I found that my sister had chucked one in that I wanted -
The Footsteps of Anne Frank by Ernst Schnabel, about what happened before and after her time in the secret annexe - so it's on my shelf now... ;-)
#53, I've actually read that before, initially in an academic paper I found on-line. The book
Children of Kali ends up coming to a similar conclusion, though it's not the main argument of the book. (It is a pretty interesting book, still.)
Yesterday my copy of Andrea Levy's
Small Island arrived via BookMooch -- from Portugal! I was so excited. It's the British version, too, which is what I wanted! I've never successfully completed an overseas mooch. Yay!
I'm going to Borders after work and Ann Brashares's
3 Willows will be coming home with me. I have a coupon :)
And it's a great book too, writemeg (Small Island). Have fun!
Two ARCs:
Secrets Unveiled by Sheshena Pledger (Crime Family runs seriously amok)
The Towering World of Jimmy Choo by Lauren Goldstein Crowe & Sagra Maceira DeRosen (the picture on the cover screams Foot Fetish!)
;-/
oh, my error: SECRETS UNVEILED is not an ARC!
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From the wonderful folks at Amazon-The Perlandra Trilogy by C.S.Lewis and The Yankee Years by Joe Torre
>52 I, too, bought
The Feeling Good Handbook under the advice of a professional. It's actually for my daughter. She has a couple of Moleskin notebooks, so I'll suggest she use them to jot her thoughts.
A nice bookmoocher in Singapore sent me
Sprig Muslin by Georgette Heyer. It arrived yesterday and the postmark saying Singapore gave my daughters and I a thrill.
> From Bookmooch:
A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry. This was strongly recommended to me quite some time ago, hopefully I'll get to it this year!
#67....I love Peter Blauner!! Good choice.
10th Anniversary Edition of
The Amber Spyglass. (Replacing one I loaned out to someone a while back and never got back. I don't want to ask for it, though, because I gave it to her with a couple other books I told her she could pass on when she was done with them, and I may not have been clear that I want
The Amber Spyglass back. My fault.)
Animal Farm and 1984. Nice hardcover edition, and I want to reread
1984.
"Everyman" edition of Orwell's
Essays.
Folio Society edition of
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, mint condition for $10 + $4 shipping on eBay. (True FS aficionados might disapprove, but FS membership seems a little to steeply priced for me. I stick to whatever I can pick up on eBay.)
Campbell & Corns,
John Milton: Life, Work, and ThoughtJane Eyre: The 'Graphic NovelA whole bunch (about 15-20, and some I'm still awaiting shipment) of modestly priced sci-fi classics from eBay in hardcover editions (some lightly remaindered), all in pretty decent condition, among them the bookclub edition of
A Canticle of Leibowitz and a copy of
The Ringworld Engineers. Now I can toss my old paperback of
Leibowitz.
Then there are my Kindle purchases. Between this month and last, I've gotten all of Kim Harrison's "The Hollows" series and I'm just finishing up book 6,
The Outlaw Demon Wails.
The mailman brought me a package today that I had forgotten I had ordered. I had just decided that I will rein in my book spending for a little while too. I got
Blood Spilt,
Blue Heaven,
The Kitchen Boy, and
Midwife of Blue Ridge. So now I will try to not buy any more books for at least till next month!
Another batch of books from last week.
Valiant by Jack Campbell
Book 4 in
Lost Fleet series. Military SF
Kitty and the Silver Bullet by Carrie Vaughn
Book 4 in the
Kitty Norville series. It is set in the modern day, and the POV character is a werewolf, who has a radio show.
The Snow Empress by Laura Joh Rowland
Book 12 in the
Sano Ichiro series. Historical mysteries set in 17th C Japan.
Captain's Fury by Jim Butcher
Book 4 in the
Codex Alera series. A fantasy with elemental forces of nature taking physical form.
Host by Faith Hunter
Book 3 in the
Rogue MAge series. A post-apocalyptic setting with devils and angels, and in this one a dragon.
Black Magic Woman by Justin Gustainia
The first book in the
Morris and Chastain Investigations series. Another modern day, urban fantasy series with a supernatural investigator and white witch partner who battle evil and travel though the underworlds of Boston, NYC, SF, and NO.
I have 3 more books from last week, then I can start on the bag from last night.
I received an ER book today -
Soft Spots by Clint Van Winkle. It's only the second Early Reviewer book I've been able to snag.
Again from the wonderful folks at Amazon I received Lark and Termite by Jayne Anne Phillips-I love Amazon- just love it!!
I browzed through many books today at the library and chose to bring home "Social Intelligence"-by Daniel Goleman-seems very interesting!!Hes a bestselling author so im sure a winner by me!
Out of all the books I ordered the other day, the first one arrived today courtesy of Nectar, to thank me for shopping at Sainsbury's...
Spitfire Women of World War II by Giles Whittell, I've had my eye on it for a while and it should be an interesting read.
On top of that the snow had thawed enough to get to town, so I got a couple of charity shop books as well -
Marley and Me by John Grogan and
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly. There was a new hardback copy of Germaine Greer's
Shakespeare's Wife for only £1 but I resisted since it's had such mixed reviews, and I didn't buy Gardam's
Bilgewater either. That's the closest to balance and restraint I could ever get!
My Amazon Marketplace order from the other day has just arrived -
Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine. I know it's a YA but I love the movie and I thought it'd be a good girlie read! Now I'm just waiting for the ones from Amazon itself which should be here next week, yay!
I finally got the last of my January books posted:
Iron Angel by Alan Campbell
Book 2 in the
Deepgate series. Fantasy/steampunk about a city suspended by chains over an abyss. The city has developed a religion about fighting the nasties from the abyss. Book 2 continues after major changes in book 1. Don't want to say more to avoid spoilers.
Night Work by Thomas Glavinic
Saw this in the store and the cover and the premise intrigued me. Man in Vienna goes to bed, wakes up to find he appears to be the only person left on the planet.
The Last Flight of the Scarlet Macaw by Bruce Barcott
Non-Fiction about a woman in Belize who fought to prevent a dam that would have flooded the only nesting area of the Scarlet Macaw in Belize. I once had a Scarlet and am just in love with them, so I wanted to read this book.
My father-in-law was nice enough to send me a copy of
First Man in Rome by Colleen McCullough. He was reading it this past summer, I mentioned that it was on my wishlist, he remembered and sent it along to me.
Then I had a big "thing" I had to do yesterday and rewarded myself with some non-serious reads from Borders: Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman,
The Old Fox Deceiv'd by Martha Grimes and
Faro's Daughter by Georgette Heyer. I'm ready for a week of fluff and fun!
My daughter's boyfriend gave me this book because he bought a boxed set that had this one included with it. It was cheaper buying the 4 books together then just buying the 3 he needed.
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
>96 It's only 7th! Plenty of time to make February a month of bounteous harvests...
I had a coupon, so I leafed through some Holocaust memoirs at Borders for something I can use in a paper for my class this semester. I ended up with
Survival in Auschwitz by Primo Levi. It was referenced in quite a few of the texts I've been reading.
Interesting selection, rdear...
I am going to try to get my sorry a$$ upstairs with my laptop
to catalog some books. I was moving them around yesterday ( long story) and really need to get them in here. I can do some rearranging at the same time.
I will not be listing them here, but they will show up in my library.
I have been wanting to do that for a long time. Lazy is my middle name, I guess.
To read Survival in Auschwitz by Primo Levi, I would need a vat of valium or something, I think.. I wish you well.. :p you are far braver than I .
Bought at Walmart because I had an hour to kill:
Inkheart by Cornelia Funke
> cameling- I have
People of the Book high on my tbr pile. She's such a good writer!
From the library:
Lark and Termite-yesssssss!! So looking forward to this one ! Should get to it mid-week.
I'm feeling incredibly guilty about this purchase, but I couldn't seem to resist. I bought
Confessions of a Shopaholic by Sophie Kinsella today.
Nbr. 109 Janoorani - just think of it as research. We here on LT are bookaholics, and the heroine of your book is a shopaholic - not much difference :)!
El Juego del Angel by Carl Ruiz Zafon; I had a Borders coupon, and I liked
Shadow of the Wind. If I am struck over the head by literacy in Spanish before the middle of the year I can lord it over the folks reading the translation.
The Leopard by Giuseppe di Lampedusa; I talked my church book group into reading this; then a LibraryThing group took it up. Then I couldn't find my copy, so I had to buy another. Barny Noble had it, and I was in there with a coupon.
A Guide to the Good Life by
William B. Irvine; there I was in Barny Noble's store with a coupon, and the book leapt off the shelf at me to claim the coupon. I'm a neophyte (after eight or ten years) stoic; it fits.
Comfortable with Uncertainty by
Pema Chodron; commentary on stoicism from outside the tradition, although I'm sure she didn't intend these selections as that. I needed it to complement the Irvine book.
But, meanwhile, I want to read the
Mahabharata. So little time!
Robert
I've answered my own question; according to Amazon UK, it will be coming out in English on June 1, with the same title, The Angel's Game.
>114 Thanks kidzdoc, that's another book gone straight on my wish list! :-)
I love
The Chase by Louisa May Alcott! It was one of the first 'adult' books my mum ever picked out for me at the library (along with a Wodehouse or two) and it was only recently I finally happened upon a copy in one of the charity shops, having been unable to find it anywhere over all those years...
Recieved a mooch today-
A Guide to Tea, which seems like a perfect read right now as it's been raining for two days.
Yesterday from Borders:
Scat by Carl Hiaasen (I've already read it but wanted my own copy)
A Wild Sheep Chase by Maruki Murakami because it was recommended to me and because apparently reading 600 pages of Murakami in January wasn't enough.
>117 ellie
it's funny, in an ironic sense, that Louisa Alcott could write something like
Little Women....yet write something like
A Long Fatal Love Chase....that one "adult' for sure compared to... i have not read UNMASKED but friends have told me she was a very fine Thriller writer...
117, 120 "it's funny, in an ironic sense, that Louisa Alcott could write something like Little Women....yet write something like A Long Fatal Love Chase.."
Alcott thought is was funny, too, in the ironic sense. I think she's a fascinating person.
The Associate by John Grisham
was waiting for me today when i got home
jude
those Alcott books sound really good, let me know what you think, ok?
OOOOOO John Grisham....let me know how you like it mckait. I have loved John G. for a long time, but I heard that this new one is very similar to The Firm?? I hope he's not fizzling out. I mean, I can understand how a best-selling author might fizzle after churning out hit after hit after hit, year after year after year....maybe he's lost his passion. I still want to read this new one. Let us know.
I have never read Grisham. :P
So it doesn't matter to me... lol
I will let you know.. how are you my friend?
My daughter Reads Grisham , maybe she will want to take it.. we will see...
she is visiting wed -sat :)
There is one thing worse then Amazon or B&N for a compulsive book buyer/lover and that's a locally owned well sourced indy book store one minute's walk from work, that also has a sandwich/lunch place attached to it. Try and resist THAT temptation.
So this week's buys were
All the King's Men because it's been on my 'always meant to read that' list for ages, and the new Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman book
Long Way Down because their first book was such a good fun read.
yikes, bronwen! impossible to resist.. so sorry :(
I wouldn't stand a chance! I'd work hard all morning then spend the equivalent earnings on books, every day. Kind of like when I was a poor student working at Sainsbury's but ended up spending all my wages after my shift on delicious food I'd seen other people buy! And also, thinking about it, like when I was volunteering in a charity shop, only then I wasn't being paid but was still buying books and clothes every time...
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WHAT?? NEVER read Grisham?? **blinking in disbelief with mouth hanging open**
Wow. I... I'm speechless. lol
Seriously.....I hope you enjoy the book. I hope it's a good one for your first time. LOL
Re: how am I? I am recovering from a sinus infection. I'm on some serious drugs ~ prednisone and a very potent antibiotic. Unfortunately, being the sensitive little flower that I am, the addition of these strong meds to my regular pharmaceutical "cocktail" has thrown me into a very strong fibromyalgia flare up. I've got back spasms from hell right now. It'll pass. I've had fibro for 27 years, so even though this was unexpected, it's not surprising to me. With fibro, one can expect the unexpected on a daily basis. Oh well.
Hope all is well with you. Have fun with your daughter!!
I was very pleased to have picked up two hefty hardbacks from Poundland today, which sells everything for, well, £1, so pleased as punch!
I'll be itching to read
Vishnu's Crowded Temple, by
Maria Misra, once I've finished The Scent of Dried Roses by
Tim Lott. And then a leisurely stroll through
Well-Remembered Friends: Eulogies on Celebrated Lives collected by Angela Huth.
Porchsitter55: hope you're feeling better before too long; sounds like a perfect opportunity to get some reading done though! :)
Omg I get back spasms too.. valium or ativan helps if I have some. I rarely do.Back spasms while driving.. bad...any other time, not much better, but less life threatening.. :P
Right now I have a wicked cold, and feel plain miserable..
I am so sorry about the fibro thing. From what I know it is
a terrible thing to deal with.
:(
we really do have to talk, girl.. we do.
yea.. never read Grisham.. hehe
I bought this one because of Duquesne University getting their
collective panties in a twist over it... couldn't resist.
I received a copy of The Cobra's Heart by Ryszard Kapuściński from The Book Depository today, which is about his travels throughout Africa in 1958, before many of the countries gained their independence from European powers.
Whoopeee... a windfall at the post office brought me:
The Garhole Bar by A. Hardy Roper which I have to read for my book club this month
Blood Brothers by Nora Roberts
Bangkok Haunts by John Burdett
The Survivors Club by Lisa Gardner
Run by Ann Pachett
The Creator's Map by Emilio Calderon
Apart from the Crowd by Anna McPartlin
Bee Season by Myla Goldberg
A Secret Alchemy by Emma Darwin (the touchstone doesn't seem to be working for this .. brings up a different book and author. how weird)
Ahh.... super nice long reading sessions ahead are envisioned .............if only work didn't get in the way.
> cameling- Have you read the 1st two Bangkok books? What a terrific crime series! I can't wait for the 4th!
From the wonderful people at Amazon I received The Chocolate Lovers Club by Carole Matthews and The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
From the wonderful people at Amazon I received The Chocolate Lovers Club by Carole Matthews and The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
I wouldn't say I've brought them home with me, but Mum's lent me Val McDermid's
The Wire in the Blood - I don't normally read this kind of stuff but Mum liked it and I thought it would make a change - and
Bearded Tit by Rory McGrath, which I bought her for Christmas...
Today I received
The Wild Hunt from an order from Chapter's. One more book to come from this order, and then I am not ordering anything more for a month or two.
Again from the wonderful people at Amazon I received The Women by TC Boyle
From Barnes and Noble:
Soultaker by
Bryan SmithWicked by Gregory Maguire
and
The Handyman by Carolyn See
My husband read Wicked and really liked it. So, I decided to get a copy. He has a copy but I haven't gotten to the point, yet, where I'm willing to combine libraries.
My husband is also a handyman and so I felt inspired to read a book with that title. I love my hubby so much! He's such a cutie! And a great guy!
Along the Grisham conversation - the only Grisham I've ever read was The Firm. It was good but I never felt like reading another Grisham.
I won £10 in a charity shop Valentine's Day sweepstakes today, and while I was collecting it I noticed they had a hardback sale on. So I got Germaine Greer's
Shakespeare's Wife and Marcia Preston's
The Butterfly House for £1 each. If I don't rate them they're in great condition so I can always sell them on eBay afterwards!
{Angel of Repose {{Wallace Stegner}}. Had this for awhile.Read
Rock Candy Mountain Really enjoyed it.
>135: msf59, I read the first 2 Bangkok books some time ago and really enjoyed them. The first one got me hooked and I've been on the look out for the rest of the series ever since. Oddly enough, I haven't met anyone else besides you who seems to have heard of this series.
For those who are interested, John Grisham has written many truly good books in the past......
A Time To Kill was especially memorable, which was made into a movie starring Matthew McConaughey, Sandra Bullock, Samuel L. Jackson.
Unfortunately, I think the books he's written in the last 5 years or so have not risen to his previous high standards, and I also feel that the constant pressure from his publishers to continue to churn out brilliant bestsellers is probably not helping the creative juices to flow.
I still plan to read his latest book
The Associate as soon as I can get it.
>146...i have to agree with Porchy...
The Firm was the first Grisham i read...then someone told me to read
A time to Kill....can't remember who but i am forever in his/her debt...seems after ATTK poor John's been writing the same book...which gets old after a while..oh, the Movie of ATTK is(!) great....
Because of the Darwin year: the autobiography of Charles Darwin.
Interesting read.
I also picked up:
- This is your brain on music by Daniel Levitin
- The age of turbulence by Alan Greenspan
And some Dutch books I won't bother anyone with.
I guess I have to add
A Time to Kill to the list....
How can I not when both porchy and jude agree????
yikes!
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......>150
Aw, Kath...are we ganging up on you?
;-
Yesterday, from a kind fellow Book Moocher:
Forty Words for Sorrow by Giles Blunt.
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>131 mckait, why is Duquesne getting its knickers in a knot over a Grisham book? Am I just iggermunt of a controversy that could make me want to buy a book? And porchy, I too have never read a Grisham. I think. I have a cold too, so I could simply be delirious with antihistaminic doses of red wine....
After attending the local LibraryThinger's book discussion last night at Third Place Books (we're called the ThirdPlaceThingers), I ended up getting the following:
The Wordy Shipmates by Sarah Vowell (next month's book)
The Enchantress of Florence by Salman Rushdie
Nickel Mountain by John Gardner
Jimmy Hendrix Turns Eighty by Tim Sandlin (touchstone not working)
and
Mistress of the Monarchy: The Life of Katherine Swynford, Duchess of Lancaster by Alison Weir
>153.....ah, Richard...the medicinal benefit of a good Red!!! or, if worse comes to...make some very strong tea and add a good slosh of Bourbon (your choice)..may not clear your head but at least you'll sleep for a while...
oh...today i got a Book Mooch:
Cheri and The Last of Cheri by Colette
;-/
Falling Man: A Novel by Don DeLillo
A Trip To The Stars: A Novel by Nicholas Christopher
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
Timetwist: Timewalker by Aimee Thurlo
Okay these books were hunted down on Betterworld directly due to mention here. One makes me shudder because of its storyline.. one because of its cover. What was I thinking???
As for Duquesne's knickers... Apparently something dastardly happens in the book.. and of course no such thing would ever happen on their campus...
It was on the news, and so of course off I went. I am glad to see that I am in such esteemed company, rdear.
I too have a cold. I also had an episode of vertigo.
I was pushing a wheel chair and clinging to a preschoolers hand.. and started to feel as if I was going to faint. I managed to get the wheelchair to the correct classroom ( barely) and held on till I made it to the nurse. I made it to the couch just in time. I was so lightheaded and dizzy it was a miracle I made it, seriously.
Then when I tried to sit up, it was clearly vertigo. I tried to wait it out and go back to work, but it wasn't passing so they sent me home. OH had to come for me and BF had to collect Piper ( my car) .
I slept a couple of hours away, and feel better .. not wonderful but better.
:P I hate causing drama, and believe me, I did.
>155 jude, I have to go collect auntie-scrips, so no more boozohol just yet. Bourbon for din-din, though! *hic* I won't CARE how I feel!
>157 mckait, oh YIKES! That isn't a good day. That is a bad day. Isn't vertigo the absolute stinking end of the cigarette awful?
Oh. Duquesne's upset because someone famous mentions their nowhere-much little school, and doesn't make it sound glamourous. Idiots. I thought I would have a reason to buy, if not read, a Grisham novel if something truly juicy was hap'nin.
Yeah, Duquesne is a bit of a snooty school.. a lot of our students are from there or Geneva.. these days mostly Duquesne.
Yeah, that wasn't much fun...had issues two or three other times. This was far from the worst, but didn't want to have to use sick time. They wouldn't let me stay though.. just as well. Good however, my daughter is coming home tonightfor a few days..so I am happy.
I saw this article on the PPG (
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette) web site about the Duquesne controversy:
Grisham's latest fiction provokes Duquesne UniversityTruly, this is much ado about nothing. This could have happened -- and, unfortunately, probably does happen -- on any college campus, he just happened to pick Duquesne. I doubt that Duquesne students are any rowdier than the ones at Pitt or CMU, right mckait? Do you think that the Duquesne officials may be overly sensitive because of the shooting of the basketball players at a campus party a couple of years ago? Again, that could have happened anywhere.
I agree do, much ado about nothing,
and as you say, it is nothing more than cand and sometimes does happen on college campuses everywhere.
The tempest was enough to get me to buy the book though, probably not what Duq had in mind .. lol
The students that come to train where I work are anything but rowdy..
( one was a little startling, but that was due to her ( gorgeous) amazonian appearance and the high heeled shoes she was partial to. Not my idea of functional wear for a PT, but not my call... lol.
From Half-com: (sorry Bookmooch, could not wait any longer!)
The Guards by
Ken Bruen. I have heard so much positive on this author, I had to give one a try. Any fans out there?
I have never read a Grisham either, and I also have read and enjoyed the
Bangkok series, though I thought the 3rd book was the weakest.
I was at B&N last week and I brought home the following goodies:
The Unreals by Donald Jeffries, This was an impulse, it just looked interesting. It seems to be a romp in the real world that bends into the surreal. But it seems light and fun, rather than dark and dangerous.
The Reaper's Gale by Steven Erikson
Book 7 in the
The Malazon Book of the Fallen Big Fat Epic Fantasy.
Season of the Witch by Natasha Mostert
Witches and a haunted house set in the modern day real world.
The Dogs of Riga by Henning Mankell
Book 2 in the
Kurt Wallander Swedish mystery series.
Duplicate Effort by Kristine Kathryn Ruscg
Book 7 in the
Retrieval Artist series, It is SF, set in the future with human and aliens interacting. The series is a mystery type due to the problems that happen regarding the interactions and the law.
The First Death by Laurell K. Hamilton
This is a comic/graphic novel. I am not a fan of the form, but this is a new story that pre-dates
Guilty Pleasures and explains how Anita and Jean Claude meet.
Less Than Shadow by David Chacko
Book 1 in the
Jason Ender series, a modern day thriller set in Instanbul, Turkey. I picked it up because I am reading his other series, about a police detective in Istanbul. Onur Levent, and he is introduced as a minor character in this book.
Devil's Feathers by David Chacko (Touchstone not working)
This is book 2 in the
Onur Levent mystery series. The POV is a police officer in modern day Istanbul.
Needle in the Blood by Sarah Bower
A story about the creation of the Bayeaux Tapestry around the time of the Norman conquest. I saw this on Tag Watch and had to have it.
Not political for me, merely a matter of reading preferences.
Me too. I have never had any inclination to read him. Don't know anything about him or his books, though I have heard the name.
I received City Above The Sea by
Stephen Alan Saft. This was from Bostick Communications.
IaaS, I worked at Delacorte when
The Client came out. I am allergic to hype, it has the precise opposite effect on me that it's supposed to have: I avoid the hyped thing like it has Black Death on every part.
So I never read Mr. G's work. I also never read Danielle Steele's work. She was Delacorte's other big, big author. It's just a case of my innate resistance to popular things. (I never dated cheerleaders, or football players for that matter, for the same reason.)
After he a) dies or b) becomes unfashionable, I will probably devour his every word and bemoan his passing/desuetude. The Divine Miss tells me I'm stubborn. Pshaw, say I.
The Divine Miss have be on to something rdear. I do have to say that I must have the same issue, though.
The Shack, the dastardly
Edgar, the Potato Peeling Cow book.. and some others do not usually make to to my TBR stack unless a good friend is kindly (?) trying to be nice and share with me . From this batch I have managed only to avoid the cows.
No book snobbing allowed though... ( Doomsday) ... or snogging either for that matter. Although with some books it is hard to resist . I am looking forward to your take on
Trip to Stars.
A good read is a good read. I think I eventually get to some of the hyped ones... Curious Incident,
Pi, no... no.. but those have possibly dying animals so they are out of the running anyway.
babble babble
Oh, and I never dated football players or cheerleaders either, dear....
we do have so much in common! *.*
Three books today, all via bookmooch:
Popcorn and
Dead Famous - I've not read any Ben Elton before, so I'm not too sure what to expect, but I fancy a bit of 'light-hearted' reading at the moment.
Swimming - I read a review on this and it sounded really good. I hope it lives up to my expectations!!
Ho hum, three more for the TBR pile...
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I'm currently reading 101 Things Every Man Should Know How to Do. Its lighthearted and funny, I'm thinkin its gunna be a perfect Valentines gift!
The Norwegian Book springs to mind, too, mckait...I recall a certain someone resisting its gravity while the rest of us were reading
KRISTIN LAVRANSDATTER.
As to stubborn...I read
The Lace Reader and liked it, all because you convinced me to...well, convinced Mr. Man to, which amounted to the same thing! Stubborn? Faugh! Why, I even read that Guernsey thing without curling my lip! (It says here.)
Doomsday Book is not me being stubborn, either! I just didn't like it, I didn't say it was crummy or unreadable or any of the other things I thought...I mean, could have said! Stubborn. Hmmmf.
The mailman (yes, he's a man, he likes being called the mailman, and he's a nice guy, too) brought a strange present for me:
Second Chance Pass by
Robyn Carr, which Mira Books seems to think I would like to read. Why, I have no idea. What the hell, it's free.
So Richard you are a bit stubborn, it's your loss. I have it like this with works of "Jane Austen" after seen some BBC-films of her books. Never wanted to read any of them.
I fall of the "wagon" today.
At last in paperback:
The Miracle at Speedy Motors, by
Alexander McCall SmithAnd some IQ-books on sale for birhdaypresents for the familys children and some very cocky teenagers who know everything.
"
Mensa Improve Your Mind Power"
"
Mensa Mind mazes for Kids"
"Mensa New Number Puzzles"
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IaaS, come closer...I have to whisper this...I don't like Jane Austen either, and I also don't like reading, seeing, or being told about Shakespeare's plays
I swear you to secrecy and will call you a liar if you tell anyone this!
I'm being really well behaved again and not buying any new books for myself. I just made an exception for one, so that doesn't count (neither do the 6 exceptional books on the January thread...). I found
Day by A L Kennedy for a ridiculous NZ$12 in hardback.
And the ban doesn't extend to books for my kids and husband, so the kids got
Greek Myths by Deborah Lock (one of the DK Reader series). So far, I'm keener on it than they are;)
I bought my husband
The Heirloom Tomato: from Garden to Table by Amy Goldman - 250 beautiful pages of every kind of heirloom tomato to look at while we wait for ours to ripen. Hmmm...I'm wondering if there's a gardening books group on LT?
Thanks!!! I've just joined the gardening group.
Edited to add "the gardening group"...
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#187 Know what you mean there! I have both editions that, for convenience, live on the floor under the table I use my laptop on. Every time I have to come up with the next book in the 'I've read that!' game I very nearly rupture something. I wonder if that book has actually put anyone in hospital yet?
>167 sisaruus - I really liked
The Jane Austen Book Club - if you like the book, the film's really gorgeous too!
I went to the garden centre at Chatsworth today and my grandma very kindly offered to buy me a new copy of
The Portrait of a Lady after I wrote all over mine studying it at uni. Since they were good-priced Wordsworth Classics I bought myself
Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe, and managed to slide
The Thirty-Nine Steps in there as well... I'm going to town to the charity shops tomorrow and Saturday too, so I'm sure there'll be more to come!
31 The Hero and the Crown was my very first Fantasy book. I checked it out from the school library on whim. I think I was 12 or 13 when I read. It made me feel like a whole new world had opened up. I still have a copy and try to re-read it occasionally. I hope you love HC and all her others as much as I do!
131/129
I've had serious back and problems too. Best advise i ever got was to prop the book up to eye level instead of looking down to read it!
I took a look at my January expenses and the category "fun" didn't have enough in it so i bought 2 brand new books. I usually stick to trades and other used bookstores because i have a serious habit to support. both were good but not the best by the authors.
Bone Crossed Patricia BriggsDark of Night Suzanne BrockmannOkay, I'm totally shocked Suzanne Brockmann isn't catalogued here. I'm waiting for my scanner then I'll get busy adding my library. If you haven't read Suzanne Brockmann and you like Suspense/romance, Check her out. She rocks!
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I'm also not typically a fan of things that are hyped. I read
The Lovely Bones when I kept hearing people say that it was the most unique book they had ever read. It wasn't a bad book but it was nowhere near the most unique book I had ever read. It just led me to believe that they hadn't really read many books.
The same thing happened with
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time and
The Time Traveler's Wife. Again, the books were fine but they didn't live up to the hype for me.
richardmeanie. *peeling crisped skin away from eyes*
was that nice? When have I ever shouted at you, huh?
and mean it is. I never read the potato peel book. I would never suggest that you do. AND, you liked
Lace Reader. admit it.
I was not being mean to you, if you would read my post again.. I was being agreeable ( with The Divine Miss) . You are stubborn.. but as I said so am I.
Now I am going to take my thermos ad go home. No more soup for you.
And I am going to read
A trip To The Stars VERY slowly... very, very slowly..
ha! take that!
*dabs at eyes with cloth soaked in lavender water*
Now when you are finished being an old curmudgeon, let me know and you can tell me all about what is wrong and I will sympathize.
*picks up omnibus of JANE AUSTEN to read before continuing on with
Trip to The Stars, and saunters away*
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>195 Cruel, cruel mckait! Cruel! To taunt me with a new
Nicholas Christopher and then withhold it, and all because I take exception to being called a stubborn curmudgeon!
Oh wait...I
am a stubborn curmudgeon....
Never mind. *mumbles* Austen-lover I swanNEE these crazy women around here *fadeout*
>194 JolieLouise, so so true! I read
The Time Traveler's Wife with pleasure, likewise
The Lovely Bones, but in neither case did I feel like opening up a school dedicated to the study of Seboldism or Niffeneggerness.
Well rdearie, that is much better. We really do have to accept ourselves as we are, you know.
I enjoyed
Time Travelers Wife, too. Have you read
Birth House? I keep hoping for a sequel to that one, I loved it.. I also enjoyed
The Lovely Bones.
And look, I think you have frightened everyone off with your little tantrum. Build a fire for us now and make nice. I will mix up the toddies...
Really, richardear... you
can roar when you put your mind to it~
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From the library:
Crossroads of Freedom:Antietam by
James McPherson. The two other Civil War books I was looking for (to meet my monthly C.W. quota) were not available, so I went with the stalwart, McPherson. I'm sure I won't regret it.
Well I finally got a hold of a book that I have seen mentioned on LT. At Borders today I bought:
Book Lust by Nancy Pearl
I am waiting for
The Associate by
John Grisham to be delivered. It was just shipped out the other day. It was on back order from one of my book clubs.
#194 JolieLouise--I agree w/ you on all 3 books. Especially The Lovely Bones. While I enjoyed them all, they were not spectacular as some of them were made out to be. Glad to hear I"m not the only one that feels this way.
mckait & richard--I do love your back and forth banter. Can I have some toddies too? :)
momom, pull up a toadstool and toddy away! mckait and me, just warmin' our socks by the ol' Franklin stove here.
I cannot believe I lost my copy of
The New York Times Cookbook! I have gone out and found another forthwith, of course, but I had a small attack of the fantods when I figured out it was lost. Cooking in a house without Claiborne...! Simply not done, you know. And this copy, which was at a yard sale marked 25 cents, is suitably battered and stained. Pristine cookbooks are so...sad, somehow...I feel they exude a sense of wistfulness at not being used and abused as they are made for that.
mckait, I think it's time to play the lottery again...winner sets up a readers' collection-building subsidy, and we ask the IRS to make it tax-exempt as part of the stimulus plan. Eh what?
Oh dear, I was a bit naughty today. I was on a bit of a high this morning - a good sunny day in town, you know how it is - which was only made better by the arrival in the post of my Amazon order:
How I Lived a Year on Just a Pound a Day by Kath Kelly
A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
AND (my guilty pleasure)
Twilight: The Complete Illustrated Movie Companion to keep with the novels on my shelf!
Then while I was actually IN town, I managed somehow to buy another four books without Mum batting an eyelid (much):
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne
A Spot of Bother by Mark Haddon
Rat Pack Confidential by Shawn Levy
Passion by Jude Morgan
I have my first volunteering shift back at Mind tomorrow so I'll be scouring that and the charity shops I missed today in celebration, before I bury myself in the pile for the rest of the weekend!
Ellie, I really do despair of you and your book buying. There's no hope for you at all you know?
At least I only bought two and got one via bookmooch (which doesn't actually count):
Inconceivable by Ben Elton
Lost in a Good Book by Jasper Fforde
The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields
I'm staying in tomorrow...
IT WAS AN ACCIDENT! Haha, I was quite impressed that I got away with so much - tomorrow I'll be let loose alone without any maternal eyes watching me, so I'm looking forward to a bit more book shopping (hopefully) in celebration of my Agoraphobia-Busting Big Step going back to volunteering! Anyway, my sweet little grandma bought six Mills and Boon books too, and I did get a useful jacket and a skirt as well...
I received my mooch of
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (still surprised I managed to get such a heavily wishlisted title), which means I have the whole series now (granted, Book #5 has no dust jacket...).
Also, those two books I mentioned in Message 46 were shipped up to me, so into my bookshelves they...oops, I've run out of room.
"The sums of the vices is constant", (or something like that) we say in Norway. So as far as your Agoraphobia gets better the bookbuying gets worse ?
momom, and anyone else... you are all invited to our cozy little haven..
I have become very fond of that dear curmudgeon.. ( don't let on, though)
mckait--I promise I won't tell richard!! And the toddies were delicious!!
Ellie - you bought clothes?! Think of the books you could have got with that money!
#217 I loved
The Graveyard Book! Silas is one of my favourite characters ever, and graveyards will seem much less sinister to me from now on.
For some reason the touchstone is coming up with an entirely different book.
I bought three books today, which is a bit naughty as I'm trying (and clearly failing) not to buy them. That said it's been a good few weeks since I bought any, which is good going for me...
Anyway, I got
Case Histories by Kate Atkinson (I realised that over the last few months I've bought books 2 and 3 in that series but didn't have 1), Q & A by Vikas Swarup (which I want to read before I see Slumdog Millionaire) and
Blink by Malcolm Gladwell.
>209 IaaS - I wouldn't call agoraphobia a vice, but yes, as it gets better I can reach out into the charity-shop-laden local towns and buy lots and lots of books in the spirit of *ahem* charitable donation...
>215 Booksloth - Actually I'm taking the jacket back so that's another £3 for next time! Two books, right there. And I've lost quite a lot of weight since uni so if I don't buy some skirts and things now I'll be in jeans all summer! Don't worry though, I'm spending my heating and food money on books instead... :-)
OK, I had to edit it because I forgot that I've actually acquired books today as well! First day back volunteering at a, er, charity shop (here we go!) so I bought
Eragon and Dostoevsky's
The Idiot from there (I did actually buy it a few weeks ago but this copy is nicer, less tatty, haha), and Oscar Wilde's
The Happy Prince and Other Stories from across the road at the Sue Ryder Cancer Care shop. Jeez, I have to stop buying this month!
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OK so I know I shouldn't bitch and complain, I LOVE amazon.. but today I got a box with two books in it from them, and one of them was a hardback with the cover ripped. The box was not padded, and therefore they rattled around and the hardback was a bit worse for wear when it arrived.
Sigh, so with sadness but also excitement I received:
Book of Obituaries and
Darkmanscontact Amazon, they will make good on it, They have never failed me...
This seems to be the month of books for me. I never buy books and yet suddenly I'm being flooded with them!
Today I bought:
Oil! by Upton Sinclair
Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky
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>218: Moomin2009- You "have " to get started on the
Kate Atkinson books! I've read the 1st two and I think she is a terrific talent! Enjoy!
From the library:
Shakespeare Wrote For Money by
Nick Hornby. This is his 3rd and final book about books. The 1st two were a lot of fun.
#217 and #218 - I was also absolutely enchanted by
The Graveyard Book and #218, I second msf59 - get going on those Atkinson books - they are a treat as well. I have the first two in the series in my reread pile.
Cameling - one of my co-workers just read "Dog On It" (the Touchstone was bringing up the wrong book) and he loved it.
Moomin - The year that
Case Histories came out I was reading Stephen King's article in Entertainment Weekly. He writes an article for them at the end of every year and lists his favorite books of that year. I think
Case Histories was his #1 favorite that year. I waited for it to come out in paperback and I THOUGHT that I bought it but I've been looking for it ever since I got married and have been moving things from my house to OUR house. I can't find it. I hate to buy something twice. It's hard to tell. I start to lose track. That's what's so cool about LT but if I have it I have to find it before I can catalog it. Sheesh!
> Sibylle.Night
I LOVE Patricia McKillip! Her writing is just so gorgeous!
Books that are coming home with me:
Well, not a book, but...I want a Kindle.
I really, really, really want a kindle.
And used 1.0 Kindles are only 250 (new ones are 360)...
And my birthday is coming up...
But I'm a student. I really shouldn't spend my birthday money on a Kindle. I should spend it on groceries.
But I want one...
DILEMMA!!!
I've looked at he Kindle's many times, but there is something holding me back from getting one.... mainly the thought of not being able to prop a book open and smell that new (or library) book smell... that is some of the enjoyment in sitting down to read...for me anyway.
#230, cindysprocket: That was wonderfully sweet of him! :-)
#232 Sibylle.Night: You feel bad how? Under the weather? Depressed? or Guilty for buying all those books?
#235
Buying all those books when I should save up for a laptop and a camera!
#233
I've only heard wonderful things about her, lots are praising her writing style and I'm very much looking forward to reading the book :)
#237 Congratulations on that new job! Worth working any number if hours for the sublime
Captain Corelli - hope you love it too.
#238 I hope so Booksloth!
In 2007 I had the pleasure of reading Birds Without Wings... it's definitely one of my favorites of all times.
I'm looking forward to reading
Corelli's Mandolin and in the future, The Partisan's Daughter
Congrats on your job, Lhea :)
Thanks guys!
(This is why I love LibraryThing!)
I am reading The Working Poor: Invisible in America by David K Shipler. I am a graduate student in education, and am reading it to get a better perspective on the children I may be teaching someday. It really opened my eyes to millions who live in this plight from day-to-day.
Lhea congratulations on your new job!!
Congratulations Lhea, I'm glad your job hunt is over. the bookstores are, also, I'm sure, cheering you on. ;-)
Definition of tragedy : Going into a beautiful and large bookstore, spending 2 hours in there, and walking out without buying a single book despite them all calling out to you to give them a home ... all because your conscience has been pinching you to stop buying new books until you read more books off your TBR tower. :-(
Smart Questions by Dorothy Leeds was given to me by my aunt today. Phooey -- it's a work book.
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Phooey~ indeed
>msf59 - Maybe you know, is 'The Complete Polysyllabic Spree' all three of the books of columns put together? I don't know whether I should be buying the other collections or whether this one covers them all!
>233 ZanKnits - think how many actual lovely papery books you could buy for the price of a Kindle... something enduring, without batteries!
I was passing by my front door today and lo & behold, I saw a box waiting out on the porch....I thought, Hmm, whatever could it be?? I picked it up and brought it inside, laid it on the dining room table and carefully opened it up. Surprisingly, there were BOOKS in there! What a great surprise! It was cool because each book really looked good to me. I have no idea how this box of books arrived here.
**looking up at the ceiling and humming innocently**
The Fields of Grief by Giles Blunt
The Broken Souls by Jack Kerley
Missing Mom by Joyce Carol Oates
Manic: A Memoir by Terri Cheney
The Given Day by Dennis Lehane
Life Inside: A Memoir by Mindy Lewis
Oxygen: A Novel by Carol Cassella
The box had a return label of BookCloseOuts.com......hmmm. It was really nice of them to send these to me! Such a nice gesture. :o) I'll have to stop over to the website and visit for awhile. Maybe I will find even MORE books that interest me! **rubbing hands together in anticipation**
Porchsitter55 - In today's political climate, it's not wise to open suspicious packages. In the future I suggest that you forward them to me for proper vetting. From the package that you described, turn around time shouldn't take over a couple of months. :)
#253 If you like
The Penelopiad I bet you'll also like
Achilles by Elizabeth Cook. Have you also tried the other books in the
Canongate Myths series? I'm working my way through at the moment and finding them very interesting and also enjoyable.
#252....sageboy ~ **snort** Nice try!!! LOL
new shelves ?
*turns green with envy*
Yes, that is what he said now I just have to wait and see if and when it happens. He bought a little table for a printer and it has two shelves on it and he said that should do you. I just walked away. It will help but won't make it any neater.
I hope he was kidding about those shelves! I would love to have built in shelves in every room. As of Now I just have them in the living room, and stand alone shelves in the dining room, my bedroom and two bedrooms upstairs. Built in would be so much nicer! Or even nicely made stand alone shelves.. sigh..
I think I've fallen behind with this!
This week I bought Spell Hunter, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and
Temeraire which I fell so utterly in love with I had to immediately purchase
The Throne of Jade.
I spent the morning at the annual Times Colonist book sale (my city's local newspaper) and came home with 51 good as new treasures to add to my TBR collection. All the proceeds from the sale go towards local literacy programs, so it is guilt-free spending. The only reason I stopped at 51 is because the boxes were getting too heavy... next year I think recruiting the neighbor's son to do the heavy lifting is in order!
Instead of recreating the list here, it can be viewed in my library under the tag '2009 TC Booksale"
#259> he is joking for now. The shelves he is going to put up are just shelves on a wall. That will be nice. I have shelves in a closet which I love. I just wish I had more like them.
The White Tiger just dropped through the door - been waiting ages for the p/b. And what an amazing cover! (the black one with the tiger and the rooster). I love it already!
"The Broklyn Follies" by Paul Auster
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