Well since it is the beginning of May today I figured I start a thread. I haven't gotten any books yet so if you have brought any books home today you can post them here.
I have some that I added last night, but haven't posted them yet. Probably after work.
It's May! It's May!
The lusty month of May!
That lovely month when ev'ryone goes
Blissfully astray.
It's here, It's here!
That shocking time of year
When tons of wicked little thoughts
Merrily appear!oops
sorry, got carried away.. I just love Camelot! I saw it in Pittsburgh a jillion years ago with Richard Harris...
The Seven Daughters of Eve: The Science That Reveals Our Genetic Ancestry by Bryan Sykes Ph.D. from Amazon market
The Walking People by Mary Beth Keane from Amazon vine.
...
the time for every frivolous whim
proper or im-and also...
it's time to do
a wretched thing or two
and try to make each precious day
one you'll always rue!Lerner and Loewe = genius. Thanks for getting that stuck in my head, mckait!
W/ a whopping 40% coupon and some Borders bucks I brought home
War and Peace and
The House of the Dead, prompting the sales clerk to say "Big fan of Russian literature, eh?". I'm sorry to say I glared at him; it was a very cranky morning.
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Brought The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Steig Larson home from the library yesterday. Really getting into it.
Okay... I was bad today. I went to Big Lots (
Who knew they had books there, too?) and found the book table. I would have been even badder, but their selection was pathetic.
I got:
I Am So Jinxed by Naomi Nash
Cuba by Emily Barr
Perfect Madness: Motherhood in the Age of Anxiety by Judith Warner ~ after reading up on it here, though, I figured it wasn't my cuppa and posted it on PBS and already have a taker ;-)
In Our Strange Gardens by Michel Quint
For shame! I soooo lack self-control! Worse yet, Maggie, my youngest, rolled her eyes at me and said, "Mom, don't you think you have enough books? Why don't you read one of the hundreds you ALREADY have?"
*
squeels of delight* I just found out that "Naomi Nash" (author listed for
I Am So Jinxed!) is one of the pen names used by the author who wrote
Bedlam, Bath and Beyond, one of my favorite books. *
does the happy dance*
>Mckait & Jenn- You go girls! We need some serious sunshine here!!
I'm excited :-) I just got
What's a Ghoul to Do? by Victoria Laurie and
The True Story of Hansel and Gretel by Louise Murphy in the mail this morning :-D
I just wish I could jump right on them. Sadly, they must get in line and wait their turn. *
sigh* So many books, so little time!
Whoa! We could do our own show here BROADWAY & BOOKS......right???
> mckait
you go girl! i got
The Walking People as an eBook free from the Publisher...have been dipping into...it's pretty good ;-)
happy Springtime to one and all! (now if it would stop raining here..i'd feel more joyful, less soggy!
This Just In: What I Couldn't Tell You on TV by Bob Schieffer tody....look fascinating :)
I just finished my graduate degree this week (WOO HOO!) and my brain needed a break so I read the first five of the Sookie Stackhouse novels when my friend gave me them to me and said they were 'vacation for the mind' books.
Definitely are! amusing little books you can read in the park in a couple hours. I've quite enjoyed them.
#8 -
A User's Guide To The Brain sounds really interesting ! I'm probably going to get it this month . It keeps catching my eye whenever I'm at a bookstore .
I've been writing my own memoirs for the past few years, so I read a lot of memoirs now too. Right now it's a really excellent one, This Stubborn Soil, by William A. Owens, who grew up dirt poor in Texas. I have his second memoir, A Season of Weathering, standing by.
Yes, I posted this in the April thread last night before I remembered that it's actually
May, but I bought a book for the first time in months yesterday (and that because I had a 40% off cupon). I came home with
Phyllis Lee Levin's
Abigail Adams: A Biography.
dang just did the same thing as #22 posted my purchase for today in the April thread. never mind and repeat!
Envy: a Luxe novel it was a next-in-series buy so i can be smug and know i have all of them even if it sits in my cupboard for a month or two lol
20: imanivrn
Thank you for mentioning that! I look forward to it even more :)
From Bookmooch:
Fatal Shore by
Robert Hughes. This book has been on my mental wishlist forever, easily over 20 years and now that I have it, I need to squeeze it in somewhere. The ongoing dilemma of an over-burdened reader! Please don't start singing again McKait!!
My Border's 40% coupon. {Fredericksburg to Meridan by Shelby Foote.
I went to Border's to spend my 40% coupon and got more then just one book. With the coupon I bought:
The Rabbit Factory by Marshall Karp I need this book since I just won
Flipping OutI then bought 2 books on sale for 3.99:
the boy by Naeem Murr
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, I bought this one because it also came with a DVD of the classic 1934 production.
Then I bought this book because I have been looking for it for awhile:
A Brother's Journey by Richard B. Pelzer
Now I just need to finish the book I am reading so that I can start one of the many books I have waiting for me...
*turns seven shades of green from intense jealousy for hemlokgang's new toy*
I soOOooOOoo want a Kindle!
I received
Slow Reading in the mail yesterday for the LT Early Reviewers (definitely the fastest I ever received a book).
Congratulations Starfish!
I still have nightmares about college!
#18 dancingstarfish--congratulations on earning your graduate degree. I nursed many a grad student through the birth of their doctorate when I worked for a university. Also know what it is to crave some "eye candy" to read afterwards.
Gilead: A novel by Marilynne Robinson from Amazon for a book club discussion coming up.
That damned Borders 40% coupon:
The Feynman Lectures on Physics by Richard Feynman
The choices were not really good. This maximized the dollar amount of the discount.
Robert
I made one last(?) trip to City Lights tonight, and bought a copy of
Brooklyn by Colm Tóibín, two days before its scheduled release (yay!). I also bought
Sag Harbor by Colson Whitehead, which was reviewed on the cover of Sunday's
New York Times Book Review section,
A Comrade Lost and Found by
Jan Wong, which was favorably reviewed in
The Guardian several weeks ago, and, to my great surprise and delight, the UK edition of
C.L.R. James; Cricket's Philosopher King by
Dave Renton, a book about the West Indian/British activist and intellectual that I had wanted but had completely forgotten about.
hemlokgang: You are not alone on your binges. It is just too easy to hit that little "Buy" button.
My mini-binge for May:
Happens Every Day: An All-Too-True Story by Isabel Gillies-so far I love it.
The Plague of Doves by Louise Erdich
I'm taking
Belong To Me home today to read for a review and giveaway on my blog.
I've been very good today :-) I spent quite a while in Wal-mart's book section while waiting for my scripts, and I didn't buy a single book :-D Petted a few... sniffed a couple... picked up and thought about buying a couple YAs, but didn't.
When I got home, the lawn chair had been filled by the mailman :-D
Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris ~ bloog-review inspired pick, and I didn't know until now that it's the basis for HBO's TrueBlood series.
The Curious Case of Benjamin Buttons by F. Scott Fitzgerald ~ short book, should only take a couple hours to read. S. Krishna could read it on her lunch break, to be sure :-D
King Rat by China Mieville ~ funny story on this one. The BM'er I'd mooched it from moved and couldn't find the book, so he rejected the request. Then I got an email from him a few weeks ago telling me he'd found the book and asking if I still wanted it. Of course :-D
The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton ~ My oldest daughter's favorite book, I missed this one in high school, and thought I'd like to read it to see why she likes it so much :-) I'm going to give her the book when I'm done since her copy is falling apart from all the rereads.
American Gods by Neil Gaiman ~ I'm not entirely sure if I want to read this one. I didn't care for the short story Gaiman based the book on. But I like Gaiman, so maybe.
>29 hemlokgang you go girl.....we Kindle owners must stick together..i've had mine for a while and love it!!! and have no intention of Giving Up Real Books...but some of us need out Techie Toys too....and you got a very good haul ;-)
>25...i hope you love
Fatal Shore as much as i do..it's well worth the wait..and the time you'll need to read it....;-)
rdurick I'm with you--dam Borders coupon--40% ones are rare so when you get one you just have to use it right? So I did and instead of just one I got 2--
The Gift of Rain and
Stealing Athena. They lure you in for 1 book and next thing you know you buy more.
#48 you are in for a treat! good read.
After being so good yesterday at Wal-Mart, where the book prices are @ $10, I was very bad and lost my self-control at the Catholic thrift store today. I bought:
It's For You, Snoopy and
I'll Throw the Book at You, Beetle Bailey, both comic strip books.
About a Boy by Nick Hornby ~ my first Nick Hornby book.
Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy ~ I loved
Tess of the d'Urbervilles, also by Hardy
Pack Up Your Gloomees in a Great Big Box, Then Sit on the Lid and Laugh by Barbara Johnson ~ I love her, she's so funny! and, coincidently, my oldest daughter's paternal grandma was once a Barbara Johnson... twice, actually!
Luna by Julie Ann Peters. This looks really interesting, especially since it's a YA. Possibly controversial, even.
I also bought
TruthQuest Student Bible for my oldest. The Bible she's been using is from middle school and is starting to fall apart, so I thought she'd like a new one. And I got a decorative hardbound journal that was blank.
Then I indulged in my fascination with older copies of The National Geographic Magazines and bought 4 books: January and March of 1941, September of 1947, and January of 1950. The articles are interesting enough, but my REAL pleasure in reading them is the advertisements. They were soOOooOOoo NOT P.C.!
For all this loot, I paid $5 :-)
Then I stopped at a friend's nearly-new store and bought a copy of Dune ($1) for my permanent library. I loved the book, but mooched it away after reading it a couple weeks ago. Now I've got one for keeps :-D
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re 52: Congrats mckait!!! I'm waiting for the french translation which will only be out some time in the fall...
Enjoy!!!
Kathy
The mail man dropped off two ARCs today:
Valeria's Last Stand by Marc Fitten
and
Perfection: a Memoir fo Betrayal and Renewal by Julie Metz
#52 mckait: I am so jealous. Oh well 5 more weeks and counting for it to be in the stores:0)
Cindy, I got my Spanish copy at Borders. I also got a Spanish-English dictionary there back when I bought Don Quijote in Spanish. I haven't read either yet, but it keeps me from longing for the English edition.
Robert
My belated list of early May books. Mostly catching up on a bunch of series. These were from Barnes & Noble.
The Born Queen by Greg Keys, Fantasy
Book 4, the final book in the
Kingdom of Thorn and Bone The Ruby Dice by Catherine Asaro, SF - Space Opera
Book 12 in the
Skolian Empire series
The Grand Conjunction by Sean Williams, SF - Space Opera
Book 3 in the
Astropolis series
Zoe's War by John Scalzi, SF - Military SF
Book 4 in the
Old Man's War series. Turns out I missed book 3, so I need to get it.
Escapement by Jay Lake, SF- Steampunk
Book 2 in the
Mainspring series
Queen of Candesce by Karl Schroeder, SF
Book 2 in the
Virga series.
The Laurentine Spy By Emily Gee, Dark quasi-Historical Fantasy
Book that is a standalone. It is set in a fantasy realm, but with strong historical trappings. About spies and those who are trying to trap and kill them.
The Secret War by M.F.W. Curran, Historical Fantasy
Story of ages long battle between Angels and Demons. Story starts after the battle of Waterloo.
#58
FicusFan: I still have
Zoe's War on my ARC pile (bad me, I know), but I never new it was part of a series of books, especially a fourth book. Not sure I want to read it now, since I haven't read the others. Is it good as a stand alone?
59/60
Zoe's Tale is totally fine as a standalone.
John Scalzi wrote it with that intention and I think he succeeded, as I hadn't read any of his other work when I read
Zoe's Tale.
Picked up two today from the library, Brethern by Robyn Young (touchstones not working for this) and
Faro's Daughter by Georgette Heyer.
From the Unitarian Universalist Bookstore:
A Wind Swept Over the Waters by
John Nichols. I have three more on hold at the library, but I just didn't feel like dealing with the incessant rain anymore after work today.
Monday, I received an email from Eva Etzioni-Halevy, offering me a copy of her book
The Triumph of Deborah to read and review for my blog
In the Shadow of Mt. TBR. She even threw in a second copy for a giveaway :-) I received them today, pretty swifty!
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Stopped at B&N this morning. just for a look see. Well, what a pleasant surprise for me when I found out Elizabeth Berg was going to be there this evening for a reading and signing of her new book
Home Safe. So I went back this evening saved her new book for later and picked up the day i ate whatever i want. There was close to 100 people there. What a very pleasant and humorus woman. She spent an hour reading and answering questions. Close to another hour signing books.
# 51, DeltaQueen50,
Do make sure you read
A Far-Off Place by Laurens van der Post, as well. It's the sequel to
A Story Like the Wind and I love it even more.
They're both books I've read over and over again, but the second one more times than the first.
Beautiful books. Good choice.
#69 Teazle - In my backwards way of doing things, I had already purchased
A Far-Off Place and so now I have both - I just have to find time in my reading schedule to fit them in - in the right order of course! :)
Just ran over to Borders on my lunch break to get Megan McCafferty's
Second Helpings! I finished the first book in the Jessica Darling series earlier in the week and then started two other books to distract myself from eagerly grabbing the next novel... but I failed. So I have it sitting in my car, waiting for the work day to end!
I'm currently reading The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.
I received a review copy of American Eve from the publisher today. Why is it that with every book I get I want to drop everything in front of it in line and read it that very second? I must wait until I make a little headway in these library and other review books.
I received my ER book today,
Holy Roller by Julie Lyons and also
Katka by Stephen Meier, which I'm reading as part of a blog tour (I think my day on that one is June 9th).
JolieLouise, how about telling us some of the ways described in 1001 Ways to Make Money If You Dare. And could you tell us if
Hippie fails you; as a hippy manque I have been tempted by Edward R. Hamilton's offering of it over and over.
mckait, I have owned that Tesla biography for-nearly-ever without having read it. I'll be looking forward to some report on it. Yesterday as I failed to find any books at Borders that I was willing to give them any money for, I spotted two other, newer biographies of Tesla.
DevourerOfBooks, a criterion I sometimes use to decide whether to buy a book is whether I want to set the other stuff aside and read it right now. Often enough I have come home with a bag of six or seven books all of which I would read through that evening if I could.
My Border's coupon turned into DVD's rather than books.
My Barny Noble's instore coupon got me into some trouble. I still have to use the online one.
The End of Food by
Paul Roberts. This fits my amateur apocalyptician status. Also I like to eat every day or even more, and I have come to like food.
Eddie Would Go by
Stuart Holmes Coleman. Accidents of location or fame nowadays has given us, say in the press, a plethora of false heroes. Eddie did good. In a crunch, he went. He disappeared at sea. He was or is a hero.
Nietzsche and Asian Thought by
Graham Parkes. These are two of my happiest pretensions in one book. I showed it at my book group last night, and a couple of people expressed interest; the others booed it down.
In Search of Time by
Dan Falk. Time is a mystery that fascinates me. A lot of psychological drivel is written about it, but good philosophical or cosmological writing about it is hard to find.
Julian Barbour was mentioned several times in the index, and I wanted to read the book as soon as I got it home, so I bought the hardcover (and didn't read it as soon as I got home). This appealed to one of the people in my book group.
Robert
>65 As if anyone here can intervene with book buying. The best that you could hope for is that we will have book envy and mug you on the way home.
Let the mugger take my purse but don't touch my books :-)
I know no one can intervene--we are all enablers of each other with all these book recommendations!
Well I finally received one of the member giveaways I have been waiting for. I received it yesterday but am now getting around to posting it. The book I received was Peter Carrot Top by
Yolanda Jackson I am still waiting for 2 other ones. One I just go notified about but the other one has been a month now since I was notified.
In the mailbox after I posted last there were two packages comprising four fifths of an order from Barny Noble.
Grimoires: a history of magic books by
Owen Davies. My interest in the left hand path has ebbed and flowed over the years, and I have settled permanently into the right hand path. I still sometimes feed the old interest, and this is for that.
The Master and Margarita by
Mikhail Bulgakov. I fan the flames of my hatred of tyranny. This book is repeatedly mentioned favorably here, and one group is going to discuss it. I thought I ought to get it. This is the Penguin Classics edition translated by Pevear and Volokhonsky. Two have been recommended, one for readability and one for accuracy of translation; this is the readable one.
The Master & Margarita: a critical companion edited by Laura D. Weeks. So as to understand the novel if I actually read it.
Reading the OED by Ammon Shea. I missed pre-ordering the paperback and so missed the extra 5% discount, but... I love words. I love dictionaries. I love the Oxford English Dictionary. So here it is.
I am off to use a 15% coupon at BN.COM.
Robert
LOL @ cal :)
I just this second got back up to school after dashing downtown for a random book hunt and came back with four books. 3 library books and one charity shop find that i'm totally overjoyed with. I now *adore* charity shops and i will have to scour all 7 or 8 that are lurking around the town's high street for anything i might like.
Library acquisitions
Parasite Positive by scott westerfeld
Sabriel by Garth Nix
Warwick the Kingmaker by
Michael Hicks (i went to warwick castle recently and thought this looked interesting)
Charity shop find
The Bronze Horseman by Paullina Simmons (so totally ecstatic at finding this and for £3!!!)
i'm pretty chuffed with myself for getting four books and spending only 3 quid - its got to be a record!
#87--I just saw the movie version of
Let the Right One In. Let me know how you like the book. It was an interesting take on a vampire stuck in a child's body.
Good grief! That should keep you busy for some time.
(looks guiltily at large bookcase stuffed with TBRs)
Just one in the mail today to cpmlete my last book order.
The Cipher Garden by Martin Edwards.
Received my ER book this afternoon.
Gold of Kings by Davis Bunn. Library book sale tomorrow :0)
The UPS man brought me
Darling Jim by Christian Moerk, which I had won from a blog contest.
Then, the mail man brought me two books from PBS:
The Essential Rumi by Jalal Al-Din Rumi, a 13th century Sufi mystic and poet. I've started the first few pages of this book, which I was drawn to... I had no reason to want the book, I'd never heard of Rumi, but there was just something that pulled me to it. It'll be an interesting thing to read it, coming to it as I did.
and
The Harp of the Grey Rose by Charles De Lint. I first heard of De Lint a couple weeks ago when reading various Booking Through Thursday blog posts... I forget
who had wrote about reading everything he'd written, but it made me want to read a book or two by him, as well.
might stop at a rummage sale or two tomorrow... Dunno if I can hold back on book-getting if I do. Funny, it seems like I get MORE books now that I've decided to NOT get books. LOL.. it's like a diet, I guess... I never want cake and chocolate near as much as I do when dieting :-)
I am reading Highland Scandal by Julia London. I am on page 225. It is not a bodice ripper so far so I am recommending it and am pleasantly surprised.
I received Finding An Unseen God reflections of a former atheist by Alicia Britt Chole. It is an ARC. Also Annie's Ghosts by Steve Luxenberg which is an ARC. I figure since they came in the middle of Highland Scandal I am going to finish that off first.
The lawn chair was full of books when I went out this morning. The mailman came early today! It was like reindeer prints in the snow on Christmas morning :-D
From BookMooch:
Sworn to Silence by Linda Castillo. It's an ARC and included a promotional audio sampler :-)
From PaperBackSwap:
My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult. This is my first Picoult book. A friend of mine raves on her, so I finally relented; this one seemed like the most interesting of the Picoult books.
The Way to Write for Children by Joan Aiken.
Heavens to Betsy! by Charles Earle Funk. It's a book about the origin of some quirky and bizarre expressions of the English language.
Psychic Academy by Katsu Aki. My first official manga book... yay! :-)
Picoult is pretty good. She sort of writes chic lit with substance. I have read quite a few of her books..
Vanishing Acts and
Plain Truth were okay..
Keeping Faith,
Second Glance too. She is someone who provides light reading that doesn't make you want weep for having chosen the book.
I would read more of her books...
#101: Did you order your copy of
Nocturnes from The Book Depository? My copy is supposedly on the way, so hopefully I'll get it today, too.
yes, I did!
My next batch of May books. I got some from Barnes & Noble, Borders, and BJs warehouse.
In a Time of Treason by David Keck, Fantasy
Book 2 in the
Eye of Heaven series, Traditional fantasy, politics, battles, a kingdom divided.
Agent to the Stars by John Scalzi, SF -Humor
Story of first contact between humans and aliens. Turns out they are funny looking and smell bad, so they get a Hollywood agent to spin their problems and smooth their acceptance by humans.
The Betrayed By Lisa T. Bergren, Religious Thriller
Book 2 in
The Gifted series. They are after an illuminated letter that has historical and religious significance. Good (the Gifted - people with special spiritual gifts) vs evil. It was $3.99 at borders and I have book 1, which I bought before I realized they were serious about the religion thing.
The Last Colony by John Scalzi, SF - Military SF
Book 3 in the
Old Man's War series. Military SF.
Frostbite and
Shadow Kiss by Richelle Mead, YA - Vampire
Books 2 and 3 of the
Vampire Academy series. About teens and vampires in high school.
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak, YA - Historical Fiction
Book about books, and WWII, hiding books and people from the Nazis. Saw this on LT so much that when I saw it discounted at BJs I picked it up.
Beside a Burning Sea by John Shors, Historical Fiction
Book set in WWII in South Pacific, a medical ship is sunk and an American nurse and a wounded Japanese prisoner end up on a deserted island trying to survive. This was also a $3.99 book at Borders so I took a chance that it won't be a cheesy romance.
Midnight Never Come by Marie Brennan, Historical Fantasy
It has 2 threads set in the real world in Elizabethan times, and then the second set in Faerie. There are 2 queens, the real Elizabeth, and the darker Faerie queen. The 2 courts have become entwined and the darkness of Faerie threatens the real court.
I have been hunting this book for years !
I saw this years ago and couldn't commit to buying it, I wanted to think about it. Of course I forget the title and author so I couldn't get it. Then last week I saw it again at B&N, and again put it off since I was buying other books, and wanted to wait ($). It was right next to Chris Marie Green's books (mis-filed) and I thought she was the author, so I didn't write the title down. And again I forgot the title ! Could remember the cover, but that was it. I went through Borders trades and found it.
I happened to be near a B&N so dropped in to find a sale table. I picked up-
Cotillion by Georgette Heyer
Serge Gainsbourg: A Fistful of Gitanes by
Sylvie Simmons. I was very surprised to see this bio in my little local store in Arizona. I'm a big fan of Gainsbourg's but most American's have never heard of him (maybe why it was on the sale table).
While garage saling, I found a copy of
Garibaldi by Jasper Ridley. It was on a table marked, "Skinny $1. Fat $2."
I asked if they meant ME or the book, skinny or fat...lady looked at me, said, "The book."
Ha. Ha. Ha. ~!~
#107 I always find it easier to read a book when the wrap is off....
It looks like you all scored some good books yesterday~
Richard, don't you hate it when folks don't have a sense of humor??
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Friday brought an ARC of
Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi by Geoff Dyer.....looks like it will fill part of the Quirky Quotient...whenever i get to it.....*take a number, you!* ;-p
Just stopped by at my favourit book shop where they sold books that could not be sold for full prizes (whyever, I couldn't see what was wrong with them, but well...) and as there's this silly book price control thing that's the only possibility (beside fleamarkets or such) to find some cheap German books. So I bought:
Das Zeitalter der Fünf: Priester and Das Zeitalter der Fünf: Magier by
Trudi CanavanElbenzorn by
Susanne GerdomDrachenbrut,
Drachenzorn and
Drachenglanz by Naomi Novik
Nijura by
Jenny-Mai Nuyenand Tad Williams'
Der BlumenkriegAnd I also bought some English books via amazon.de as they are really, really cheap compared to German books (German paperback edition would cost me about 13€ whereas English hardcover edition of the same book just costs about 7€. F***ing book price control). So I bought the final book of
Cassandra Clare's
Mortal Instruments series as well as the third book of the
Blue Bloods series by
Melissa de la Cruz.
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mckait, I took the cover off. It looks like the book has never been read:0( So I may be its first reader.
That is a good thing, right?
:)
A book left unread sounds sad to me.
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Robert - Actually, '1001 Ways to Make Money If You Dare' is kind of cheesy. I was thinking of returning it. I was feeling a bit desperate when I bought it.
Hippie by Barry Miles is an interesting book to flip through which is probably all I'll do for awhile. Not sure when I'll get around to actually reading it. I was in a "hippie" mood the other day and didn't have a book to match it. I don't know if you can understand what I mean, there, but . . . . .
JolieLouise, a fellow (a member of the band, The Fugs) named Tuli Kupferburg wrote a book on getting rich; one of the suggestions which I've been meaning to work on for about 40 years was find a million dollar bill in a toilet and be the only one who dares to fish it out; is your book cheesy like that or in some worse way?
Does
Hippie bear the flipping? That is probably what I would get it for, a quick reflection of the decade in which I reached my majority and had to choose among exclusive options. I think I do understand what you mean there.
Robert
two Book Mooches today:
Back Roads by Tawni O'Dell-in spite of OPRAH, this is a pretty decent read ;-p
The Jukebox Queen of Malta by Nicholas Rinaldi-i actually had a copy of this book, for about 10 minutes, a couple of years ago..have no idea what happened to it....
I received
Gold of Kings by David Bunn in the mail yesterday which I'm dying to get to, but I've promised myself that I'll do a bit of non-fiction for a change, although I'm not sure how long I'm going to be able to resist getting back to my fiction TBRs.
a mooch =
Witch by Barbara Michaels looks like a fun read.
#105 mckait, Thanks for the heads up on
Beside a Burning Sea. Now I just have to find the time to fit it into my reading schedule.
Robert - Now THAT is cheesy! No, my book isn't quite as cheesy as that. Really, who wouldn't fish a million dollars out of a toilet?!? How does one set oneself up to be in a situation like that? :)
Yes,
Hippie bears the flipping. I really enjoyed the time I was looking through it at the bookstore. I was kind of young during the "hippie" years but they keep coming back (sort of), don't they?
ahhhh the hippie years...... *fond memories*
> 126: jmaloney17, I really enjoyed
The Crimson and the White and I know you're in for a treat when you start reading this.
>127: AMQS : I look forward to your review of
The Enchantress of Florence. I've been debating whether or not to get this book for quite a while now.
I agree with Cameling.
The Crimson Petal and the White is a fantastic book, full of richly drawn characters and vivid descriptions of Victorian London. The first Faber book I'd ever read and one of my favourites!
#132, Cameling, I'll let you know what I think of it. I have to read
Lark and Termite first because it's in high demand at the library.
The members of my book club are all ladies who are current or former colleagues (performing arts), and range in age from 30-70. The husband of a member read and enjoyed
The Enchantress of Florence, but said it wouldn't be suitable for the ladies of the book club because it was very sensual. Well. It was the very first one we selected.
one Book Mooch:
Tumbling by Diane McKinney-Whetstone...i have always wanted to read her books...
If I were a proper college student I'd celebrate the end of term with a kegger, but being me I instead wandered down to the bookstore and purchased
The Aran Islands by J. M. Synge -- mainly because I went there a few years ago and thought the locals were unintentionally very entertaining. When requested to give us a tour of the island, the van driver said he couldn't do that because he'd have to cut through a few grave yards and he "didn't want to be distairbin' the spirits".
Ex Libris by Anne Fadiman
Orient Express by Graham Greene
Old School by Tobias Wolff -- just finished his
This Boy's Life and enjoyed it immensely.
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I got one lonely little book yesterday and none today... boo-hoo!
Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser.
You got more then me koolaidmom.. No new books in a long time...
>138 kabrahamson - I would have done the same thing! I left uni before I graduated, but where other people would go out and get hammered after they'd finished their essay/done their exams/done ten minutes' work, I would head for the bookstore or Amazon and 'treat myself'... again... :-D
So far I've been quite good this month, what with all this intensive shop painting and Mum hanging over me all the time telling me to behave myself - but I've managed to acquire (by stealth, mainly):
Sahara by Michael Palin
Frost/Nixon by David Frost, with Bob Zelnick
Alentejo Blue by Monica Ali
For One More Day by Mitch Albom
Stonehenge: Neolithic Man and the Cosmos by John North
Madame de Pompadour: Mistress of France by Christine Pevitt Algrant
I've also discovered a book stall on the market in town which has some very interesting looking history and biography books at bargain prices, which bodes badly for my bank balance unless I confine myself to the shop on Mondays!
Hi Ellie! Good haul. I hate you. All of you, actually, going out and buying books like there's no tomorrow, and SOME of us are forced to exercise caution and restraint!
Who'm I kiddin'? I'd be out there supporting the economy too, had I the funds!
Soon though...
very soon rdear
From Bookmooch:
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon. Up until about 2 months ago, I had never heard of this book and thanks to LT ,it sounds like a "MUST" read.
My books are trickling in pretty slow too but I'm a firm believer in quality over quantity.
I went part way into town today to see a movie. I took a Borders 25% coupon with me in case I had time to fill in town. I didn't, but I went into my neighborhood Borders on the way home.
With the coupon:
The Broom of the System by David Foster Wallace.
From the buy one get one half off table:
Better by Atul Guwande.
Stuff White People Like by
Christian Lander.
I put the receipt away so I don't know which one is half price.
When I got home there was a package on my front porch; I've ordered a DVD from Barny Noble that is coming by mysterious means, but this turned out to be my Early Reviewer copy of
The Rough Guide to Happiness by
Nick Baylis.
I don't need any more books, but I have a wishlist.
Robert
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I received my copy of
Nocturnes by Kazuo Ishiguro from The Book Depository yesterday.
I feel myself going through book purchase withdrawal.. I really need to get to the book store or even the library to check out there books on sale. I haven't bought any books in about 3 weeks, I think.
I guess feeding the family has come first plus prom costs and soon to be graduation party costs.. I could always buy my daughter some books...
porchyporchyporchy!!!!
MSM rules!!!! It like turbocharges your pain resistance, seriously, and what once made you sit in a chair and sob now hurts like fire but doesn't make you crave death!
Side effects: allergy resistance goes up too, oh boo hoo; intestinal methane production becomes commercial grade and quantity. I guess there had to be some unpleasantness.
*ahem*
Full disclosure: I take MSM daily. Have for 12 years. Ain't stoppin'.
One of the surprising causes of chronic pain and arthritis is sugar intake. Sugar breaks down into these sharp-edged crystals that destroy the body's tissues.
I'll have to check out MSM more, though, I've never heard of it. I take omega-3 capsules, which also help with joints.
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Today, the mailman had to make 2 trips to my house, making up for not getting anything yesterday.
from PBS:
Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman - I love Gaiman, and am getting ready to start
Neverwhere after bit.
The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty - I'd never heard of Welty, but when I saw it on the front page of PBS, the description sounded really good, so I grabbed it.
From Shelf Awareness:
Neil Armstrong Is My Uncle by Nancy Marino ~ an adorable sounding book, and the author recommends you read it in one sitting. Dunno if I'll be able to do that, but it's short so maybe.
From Fresh Ink Spots blog contest:
The Girl Who Stopped Swimming by Joshilyn Jackson - I actually won 2 contests for this book, but declined the second one so someone else could have a chance :-)
From Amazon.com:
Janeology by Karen Harrington ~ Woot! I've been DYING for this book forEVER and no one's wanted to give their's up at BM or PBS. *
Doing the happy dance*
koolaidmom, I loved Anansi Boys so you have something wonderful to look forward to there. The postman made 2 trips to your house? You have a nice postman. Mine grumbles at the amount of mail we get because of our magazine subscriptions as well as the odd book or 4 that we get sometimes. So much so, that if my husband's Sports Illustrated or our Economist is late, my husband is convinced it's the postman deliberately holding it back before delivering it to us.
Mercyby Jodi Picoult
to add to my fluff shelf.. ya never know when you are going to need a bit of fluff
#151.....richard!! Hey!!! Thanks for the thumbs up on the MSM. I've been taking a Glucosamine/MSM combo for several weeks now and I will be darned, I think I am actually feeling better. I mean, like really!! I am astounded that something simple & over-the-counter could actually help me, since I've had fibromyalgia for 27 years and never found anything, save narcotics, to help the pain.
I tried Lyrica & Cymbalta, and although they helped my pain significantly.... mentally I felt like a drooling lobotomy patient while on the stuff.
I like MSM not only for the pain relief, but that it has minor side effects & no interactions with my other meds. So YIPPEE! I am glad to hear your recommendation, it just gives that much more validity to what I have been noticing in my own body. (except for the gas, thank god I haven't had a problem with that yet LOL)
Would beano help with the gas MSM causes? or is it only effective on the food-produced kind?
You could always take the dog with you where ever you go... :-D
#157....LOL
Just came home from Miss Maggie's choir concert and found a couple books came in my absence.
From PBS:
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy. I'm sure this has been an LT inspired acquiring, but can't remember who suggested it or what the conversations were.
From Amazon.com: Neil Gaiman's first Sandman book,
The Sandman : Preludes and Nocturnes. I'm so excited :-D
The mailperson brought my recentest order from Barny Noble except for a DVD that they've gotten very confused about.
In Me Own Words by
Graham Roumieu. There is acrimonius dispute about whether Bigfoot exists. I went to an authority, Bigfoot himself. I read the book while I still had this stack of books in my hands and lap. He seems real.
Indo-European Poetry and Myth by M.L. West. I used a coupon on this one. How could someone with significant Indo-European heritage not want this book?
Drink: A Cultural History of Alcohol by
Iain Gately. The tiniest bit smaller than
Indo-European Poetry and Myth at one quarter the price; I couldn't pass it up. I have not had a drink in a couple of decades, but some interest in the sociology and psychology of drink remains with me. I was surprised to see that this is the first book I have tagged 'booze.' I'll have to catalog the books upstairs.
Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout. I'm following the crowd; this is the recentest Pulitzer Prize winner. Also it is about a crank. I am a crank; I joined the fogies and curmudgeons group when it was formed here, and I alienated the other members. Olive and I may get along.
The Oresteia by
Aeschylus. When Urquhart asked what to read after Homer I suggested
Hesiod. Others suggested this. Also one of the members of my church's men's group thought our meetings should have topics. I offered 'the inexhorability of fate' facetiously, not because I'm not interested in it but because I didn't think they would be willing; then I saw it mentioned that
The Oresteia is about the inexhorabality of fate. So, there were two good prompts to buy this.
Edward R. Hamilton has deposited my check; I have more to look forward to. And AAA has sent us an online coupon for BN.COM. It never stops; hurray!
Robert
PS most of the touchstones took until I submitted the post, then they disappeared. So I italicized. I may try again later.
R
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Well yesterday i found myself wandering around the various book-selling places in town and eventually picked up one book from the library that looked rather interesting.
Prep by Curtis Sittenfeld - i started reading it last night and i'm rather enjoying it so far although its quite hard to describe what the book is *actually* about.
My latest books. All from Barnes & Noble. I had to order 2 at the store, and they would only do it if I paid for them first. So they are from B&N.com. Never had to do that before.
Ghost Ocean by S.M. Peters, Dark Fantasy
Main character works for a paranormal Investigator. A strange murder leads them to find that the murdered man was keeping something ancient an malevolent in check. Now its free.
Burnt Shadows by Kamila Shamsie, Fiction
Starts during WWII and the dropping of the atom bomb and goes up to modern day, and Guantanamo. Saw it on LT and it looked interesting.
The Last Warrior Queen by Mary Mackey, Historical Fiction
Set 5,643 years ago in Mesopotamia, it follows a woman with healing powers to one of the cities. She becomes a great warrior queen. Saw this on LT also and it was one of the books I had to buy.
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie, Historical Fiction
Set in China during the Cultural Revolution. Story of surviving and reading and learning in the face of official prohibition, physical danger and hardship.
Psycop: Partners by Jordan Castillo Price, Fantasy Mystery
This is a book that contains 2 of the books in this series:
Among the Living &
Criss Cross. It follows a gay psychic medium who is part of a police duo. The stories are mysteries with fantasy trappings (hints at gay romance and sex). This was the other book I had to buy to order.
The Secret Life of Lobsters by Trveor Carson, Non-Fiction, Science
Looks at lobsters from the viewpoint of scientists, fisherman, and the lobsters themselves. Saw this on LT.
Augustus by John Edward Williams, Historical Fiction
An epistolary novel with letters, diaries, and reports by and about Augustus, the first emperor of ancient Rome. Another LT inspired book.
Color by Victoria Finlay, Non-Fiction, Art History
A look at the history and composition of the colors on the palette used for art. LT again.
Nancy
I have
The Obesity Myth on its way to me :)
I ordered it a few days ago...
eta
I read
Nineteen Minutes but I don't remember what I thought of it.. :)
picoult is usually a dependable read.
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I rather liked
The Road,
Bridget, and am looking forward to the movie of it.
I got a lonely book (but a good one) in the mail today:
The Secret Holocaust Diaries by Nonna Bannister.
I went to Border's today to use my coupon and to also earn a gift card. Here are the books I purchased:
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott; I have been wanting to read this book so I finally decided to purchase it.
Those Who Save Us by Jenna Blum; I had seen this a few times on my many trips to Border's and I always pick it up and then place it back down because it isn't the book I went there for. This time I had no list of books so it came home with me.
Girl With A Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier; I am trying to read a lot of books that have been made into movies.
Santa Cruise by Mary Higgins Clark & Carol Higgins Clark; On sale so that is why I bought it plus I love Mary Higgins Clark
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen; This may shock some of you but I have never read any of her books and I have been wanting to try different authors and genres.
Now this next book is for my daughter. This is her favorite author and the only one she didn't have:
Lock and Key by Sarah Dessen; I am going to have to borrow these books from my daughter just to see why she likes them so much.
Hmm.. Touchstones aren't showing up when I submit the post yet they are working.. Very interesting...
Message edited by its author, May 16, 2009, 4:59pm.
My employer got a little less far behind in paying its staff this week. In my case, some of that extra money went towards a copy of
American Lion.
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I went shopping yesterday since it was the first saturday i've had off work in nearly 2 and a half years. Damn 3 for 2 offer at waterstones duped me into buying three books i've heard loads about on here.
I bought
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies which i've started reading already and loving so far.
The Uncommon Reader which looked pretty funny when i glanced at the first few pages yesterday. And
Company of Liars which i'm sure i've seen mentioned somewhere around here.
Overall i was pretty chuffed with my acquisitions :)
OOoh, sibylle, Much Ado is one of my favorites! I love Beatrice!
Hey, Koolaid :) I enjoyed the movie adaptation starring Emma Thompson and Kenneth Brannagh which I saw a few years ago (the opening scene in which Thompson delivers the "Sigh no more" part in her gorgeous white dress is to die for) and since I try to read at least 3 Shakespeare plays every year, I thought I'd finally read the play. Can't wait to receive my parcel, I adore Shakespeare.
Message edited by its author, May 18, 2009, 9:33am.
I picked up the following while I was on vacation
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
Tea Time for the Traditionally Built- Alexander McCall Smith
Hold Love Strong by Matthew Aaron Goodman
Baeball: A Literary Anthology by Nicholas Davidoff
Sag Harbor by Colson Whitehead
Brooklyn by Colm Tolbin
I got a surprise in my mailbox today. I had forgotten to respond to my Doubleday book club books and I received the following two books.
Just Take My Heart by Mary Higgins Clark
The Geometry of Sisters by Luanne Rice
An ARC came today from B&N
of BEES and MIST. I vaguely remember requesting it, but didn't expect to get it ... lol
eta It looks darn good, no wonder I asked for it..... :P
Message edited by its author, May 18, 2009, 5:24pm.
I also got my ARC of
Of Bees and Mist by Erick Setiawan for the Barnes&Noble First Look book club. It looks quite good, and I wish I could start on it right now... *
sigh* Unfortuneately,
Bees and Mist will have to get in line.
I also received:
Haunting Bombay by Shilpa Agarwal. Also, a fascinating sounding read.
Esperanza Rising by Pam Munoz Ryan ~ Looks like one I can read with my kids :-)
Mr. Mailman brought me
With Music and Justice for All: Some Southerners and their Passions by
Frye Gaillard, a Member Giveaway book.
I love the way the book looks, feels, and smells. It's got real cloth binding! Colored endsheets! A pleasant jacket design!! Let's have a moment of silent gratitude that university presses still make books the old-fashioned way, for now at least. Vanderbilt University Press, y'all done good.
#188 - I agree completely! Books are a pleasure for all the senses... not just the literary mind. Your post makes me want to venture out (rain storm and all) to seek this pleasure!
Post edited to correct for grammatical errors caused by exuberance!
Message edited by its author, May 18, 2009, 7:42pm.
I was in Seattle and went to the Eliot Bay Book Company, which has great staff recommendations. One of them was The Odyssey: A Dramatic Retelling of Homer's Epic by
Simon Armitage. It looks like fun - commissioned for BBC radio, recast in play form as dialogue.
From the library today: Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer, and
Montana, 1948 by Larry Watson -- a recommendation from msf59. Thank you!
Was out paying the gas bill and Goodwill is almost next door to the payment center... and of course I had to stop in and see what they had...
for 75c a book, I got:
The Thief Lord by Cornelia Funke ~ saw the movie a while back and was meh, but a friend of mine said the book was great, so I guess I'll give 'er a go.
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift.
The Kidnappers by Willo Davis Roberts ~ hope it's not too scary for Mags.
That Was Then, This Is Now by S. E. Hinton ~ my oldest daughter is a big Hinton fan
McTeague by Frank Norris ~ Signet Classic, looked interesting... we'll see.
Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell ~ I may have had this book (not
this particular copy, but
a copy) when I was a kid and never read it. The title keeps coming up in talk and recommendations, so maybe I should read it.
I Heard the Owl Call My Name by Margaret Craven ~ What can I say, this book
called to me :-D
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator by Roald Dahl ~ We loved the first one, thought I'd give this'n a try.
Batman: The Doomsday Prophecy by Richard Wenk ~ it's a choose your own adventure type book starring Batman. SuperHeros and control, just a few of Mag's favorite things :-)
Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle's Magic by Betty MacDonald
The Great Mom Swap by Betsy Haynes
and
Alice in Blunderland by Phyllis Naylor ~ Sounded like something Mag's would love.
Now, I wonder what the mailman will bring? (besides
Paul Blart, Mall Cop and
Valkyrie from Netflix... Yay!)
yesterday i got
Gerald's Game from Book Mooch too...great minds think alike, Porchy!!!!
.....and an ARC
The Wet Nurse's Tale from shelf Awareness that looks veddy interesting
;-p
I come home from work to see a nice padded envelope on my table. The joys of having a son in cyber school he opened it up for me. Inside was my Member Giveaway book:
With Music and Justice For All by Frye Gaillard The book looks interesting and I can't wait to start reading it
I nicked a book from out of a stock box, kindly 'donated' to our shop efforts by a fellow volunteer at the charity shop in town:
Sea Trek by Martha Holmes. If it's rubbish it can go straight back into the shop again - no one will ever know!
#197
jnwelch: Cool, it's always good too know I've picked a good one on instinct :-)
I just got two from the mailman, but after the Goodwill haul, two's good :-)
From a Finnish BookMoocher:
Grave Sight by Charlaine Harris
and from Amazon... I danced for joy, and I've already started reading it:
Fruits Basket, volume 1 by Natsuki Takaya
Friends of the Library Sale:
Shelter by
Jayne Anne Phillips. After
Lark and Termite, I will follow this author anywhere. No, I'm not a stalker!
The Brief History of the Dead by Kevin Brockmeir. With all the books in my tbr stacks, I rarely pick-up a book and read the back, but this one I did and it sounded good. Anyone give this book a try?
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Today I received the newest two books published by
Archipelago Books, as part of my 2009 subscription. I've included summaries from the publisher's web site.
Wonder by
Hugo Claus:
In his novels, Hugo Claus lays bare the haunted underbelly of twentieth-century Flanders with portaits of a shattered society and warped psyches rising to a mythic pitch. In Wonder, Victor-Denijs de Rijckel, a bewildered schoolteacher, is led to a distant village in pursuit of a mysterious woman. Tracking her to an underground political conference in a remote castle, he poses as an expert on Crabbe, a messianic Belgian fascist who disappeared in World War II. Drifting into a dense fog as his sanity begins to crumble, de Rijckel soon finds himself trapped among a handful of desperate individuals still living out the consequences of their collaboration with the Nazis decades earlier, all of whom are united by their belief that Crabbe's return is imminent. The subtle cadences of the prose and the dense emotional texture of characters lost in complex moral labyrinths make Wonder a symphony only Claus could have composed.Plants Don't Drink Coffee by
Unai Elorriaga:
Four stories narrated from four different perspectives criss-cross throughout this powerful and lighthearted novel. The young Tomas—who wants above all else to be intelligent—draws us into the web of his curious mind, magnifying misdventures and stumbling upon all sorts of small wonders. Through an omniscient narrative, we learn all about his eccentric entourage, from their surrealist creation of a rugby field on a golf course, the mystery of why a couple of forty years never married, and the intrigue surrounding his grandfather's role in a European carpentry competition.YAY....sounds like
Gerald's Game by S. King is a hit! Thanks for the recommendation JolieLouise! And Jude! That's cool that you got the book at almost the same time I did.....almost spooky! LOL Enjoy!
While visiting my Mom I was able to drop into one of my favorite bookstores and I picked up the following:
Silence of the Grave by Arnaldur Indridason
A Good Day To Die by Simon Kernick
Empire of Sand by Robert Ryan
The Forgotten Legion by Ben Kane
and to read aloud to my granddaughter - Little House In the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder
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My latest book haul, from Borders and Barnes & Noble
The Turning Tide by Diana Pharaoh Francis, Fantasy
Book 3 in the
Crosspointe series. Politics and magic that swirl around Crosspoint, the center of the inland sea.
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society by Mary Ann Shaffer, Fiction
Book set on Guernsey, one of the Channel Islands during WWII and German occupation. It is an epistolary style. It has also been raved about on LT, so I picked it up when it went into paper.
Interred With Their Bones by Jennifer Lee Carrell, Mystery/Thriller
Have been eyeballing this for while. It was in the Borders $3.99 bin, so I splurged. It is about a missing play by Shakespeare, and murder to get it. It is split between his time and modern day.
Cry, The Beloved Country by Alan Paton, Fiction
This is about an African father an son living in South Africa under apartheid, It was highly recommended by several people on their 100 book read threads. It was also a $3.99 Borders book.
The next 2 books are also from a 100 book read thread recommendation. One of the books I went looking for because of the recommendation, and then I found another book by the exact same title. It looked interesting, so I got both.
How the Dead Live by Will Self, Surreal/Satire
This was the book recommended and it is about a woman who dies and the book follows her into the land of the dead, which turns out to be based on the suburbs.
How the Dead Live * by Derek Raymond, noir mystery
Part of the
Factory series, about a nameless London-based detective, who goes to a remote village with a hellish country house to investigate the disappearance of a doctor's wife.
* turns out you can't have touchstones for 2 books of the same name in the same post, even if the authors are different. It just points to the original book touchstoned.
Oops fell into a charity shop again and found another bargain. I bought a really pretty copy of
Pride and Prejudice even though i do own an Austen compendium already. But i couldn't help myself it looked so lovely and pristine and it was only £2 so i bought it and now i have to hope my sister doesn't drop me in it with my parents later (i'm not supposed to be buying books atm since i should be concentrating on exams)- ah well it was worth it :)
Just one loney book... but big enough to be 3 books... in the mail today.
A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth
>#203 the inimitable Porchy....great minds DO think alike....i had a copy of
Gerald's Game...once upon a time...but it's been gone for a while..this is one of my favorite of Old Weird Steve's books...i'm glad i own it now. Spooky? that's the whole point!
>205 FicusFan..i have been meaning to tell you how great i think your posts are...those mini-reviews are so good..thank you..
>209 mckait...as if life isn't a big enough Pain-in-the-Neck....*snort*.......;-p
>207 koolaidmom....
A Suitable Boy is one of my all-time favorites...worth every page...
;-)
>210 Thank you. I try to give an idea of what its about so you can check it out if you are interested. I am just a wordy so and so.
ficus.. I agree with jude..
I love to read your little book capsules..
they do tell the tale!
Message edited by its author, May 20, 2009, 6:27pm.
Just brought home from Sam's Club a copy of The Guernsey and Literary Potato Peel Pie Society. LT made me put it in the cart. If it's great I don't want to miss out! Now, about finding the time to read it...
> Cindy- I hope you enjoy it! It's quite the page-turner!
From Half.com:
Noir by
Olivier Pauvert. I read a review on this awhile back. It's a French futuristic thriller. Sounds good!
> 212 mckait, Thank you. I didn't mean to ignore you but was at one of my RL book groups.
Happy Beltane! I see you've got the spirit down.
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good heavens ficus :)
I am pretty sure that most of us visit here at LT, not live here..
no offense taken at all!
book group.. hope you had a nice time :)
Yes, though there were only a few people who showed up. Either the good weather seduced them, or they hated the book (which I did).
Yesterday I acquired another two for my towering stacks of bookish loveliness. One came from a fellow charity shop volunteer: 'The Complete Wolf' by
Liz Bomford (a rather lovely-looking natural history hardback). Then at the supermarket I noticed that
For Crying Out Loud by Jeremy Clarkson had finally come out in paperback and added that to my shopping.
Plus I grabbed two library books while I was waiting to renew my current pile:
What the Tudors and Stuarts Did For Us by the endearingly enthusiastic Adam Hart-Davis, and 'Pompeii' by Alex Butterworth and Ray Laurence. Like I need any more books coming into my flat right now... :-D
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My dearest darling husband picked up these books for me to learn more about his favorite composer Gustav Mahler
The Mahler Family Letters by Stephen McChatchie and Letters to My Wife- a collection of letters that Gustav wrote to his wife Alma
221- Does he know Tom Leherer's song about Alma? Here are the lyrics.
The loveliest girl in Vienna
Was Alma, the smartest as well.
Once you picked her up on your antenna,
You'd never be free of her spell.
Her lovers were many and varied,
From the day she began her -- beguine.
There were three famous ones whom she married,
And God knows how many between.
Alma, tell us!
All modern women are jealous.
Which of your magical wands
Got you Gustav and Walter and Franz?
The first one she married was Mahler,
Whose buddies all knew him as Gustav.
And each time he saw her he'd holler:
"Ach, that is the fraulein I moost have!"
Their marriage, however, was murder.
He'd scream to the heavens above,
"I'm writing Das Lied von der Erde,
And she only wants to make love!"
Alma, tell us!
All modern women are jealous.
You should have a statue in bronze
For bagging Gustav and Walter and Franz.
While married to Gus, she met Gropius,
And soon she was swinging with Walter.
Gus died, and her tear drops were copious.
She cried all the way to the altar.
But he would work late at the Bauhaus,
And only came home now and then.
She said, "What am I running? A chow house?
It's time to change parters again."
Alma, tell us!
All modern women are jealous.
Though you didn't even use Ponds,
You got Gustav and Walter and Franz.
While married to Walt she'd met Werfel,
And he too was caught in her net.
He married her, but he was carefell,
'Cause Alma was no Bernadette.
And that is the story of Alma,
Who knew how to receive and to give.
The body that reached her embalma'
Was one that had known how to live.
Alma, tell us!
How can they help being jealous?
Ducks always envy the swans
Who get Gustav and Walter,
you never did falter,
With Gustav and Walter and Franz.
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Good lord...Tom Leherer!!!
oh. one Book Mooch:
Retribution by Jilliane Hoffman...someone told me this was a good 'un...
It is truly amazing what you can find on the 'net.
Oh, how I love James Patterson!! This is a good book. Have you read the
Quickie?
# 221 - Has your husband heard Mengelberg's recording of Mahler's 4th symphony? It is so lovely and has been reissued on CD.
>228: IndyReader- It's been quite a few years since I read
A Simple Plan but it's a terrific crime thriller and the film version wasn't half bad either. I say go for it! I'm also looking forward to
Olive Kitteridge, I hope to get to it early this summer, if I can snag a copy!
You are absoultuely right!!
A Simple Plan was a terrific read and the film version was not bad. My imagination is always greater than any film version, but I always watch all of them to see how well my imagination compares with the book!
msf59 and saratoga99......I loved
A Simple Plan!
I couldn't put it down once I started it and couldn't believe how outrageous the story got!!! It is amazing what people will do for money. I was a tad bit disappointed in the movie ending though, although most books are better than the movie counterpart....this one left a bad taste in my mouth. They skipped a HUGE piece of the plot in the movie. (The liquor store, etc.)
Another REALLY engrossing book was
The Blue Zone by Andrew Gross. I thought it was a GREAT read. Have either of you read it?
(Cemetary Dance) by (Douglas Preston) and (Lincoln Child). A long-awaited read! it was great! (if you like these authors and i do)
also reading (Death match) by (lincoln child)
IndyReader - I haven't read
The Blue Zone, but I will snag my brother's copy while he is in his Hemingway period. I love books that you can't put down.
My latest books from B&N and Borders:
A Case of Exploding Mangoes by Mohammed Hanif, Satire
Story of the Pakistani military and bureaucracy with a funny, paranoid twist. About the different circumstances leading up to an assassination. Has been compared to
Catch-22.
The Commoner by John Burnham Schwartz, Fiction
Story based on the real life. Tracks the experience of a commoner marrying into the Japanese royal family and becoming Empress and her impact on the institution.
Ancients by David Lynn Goleman, Thriller
The cover and title sucked me in. Turns out it is book 3 in the
Event Group series. I don't have books 1 and 2. The story seems to be about some ancient mystical society that has some kind of power and it is either needed in the modern day, or is a danger to the modern day.
Sins and Shadows by Lyn Benedict, Paranormal/Urban Fantasy
Start of a new series
Shadows Inquiries about a PI in a world with magic. In this story the god of justice shows up and demands Sylvie find his lost lover. This author is really Lane Robins, and I love her other stuff.
Victory of Eagles by Naomi Novik, Alternate History/Fantasy
This is book 5 in the
Temeraire series. It is about England during the Napoleonic wars, with dragons.
Bad to the Bone by Jeri Smith-Ready, Urban Fantasy/Vampires
2nd in the
WVMP Radio series about vamps who run a radio station and play the music of their era.
Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollop, Historical Fiction
This was recommended by several people on LT in one of the 100 book reading challenges that I thought I would give it a try. It is set in the fictional cathedral town of Barchester and is about the social and political ramifications of an outsider being appointed new Bishop.
the Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck, Historical Fiction
Replacing a copy that somehow never made the journey to my new place (8 years ago). It was my mother's book originally. About peasants in rural pre-revolutionary China.
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#230- my dearest darling has many recordings of Mahler's symphonies but he's never mentioned this one- I'll have to ask
#238 cdyankeefan - Not only is it my favorite Mahler 4th, it is also my farvorite recording of all the Mahler symphonies. The Mengelberg Mahler 4th was recorded live in 1939 with the Concertgebouw orchestra and soprano Jo Vincent. Mengelberg and Mahler were good friends, so this is perhaps the definitive interpretation of the 4th. I think Mengelberg was also the first to conduct the 4th symphony. It is also the only Mengelberg recording of any of Mahler's symphonies. I became quite smitten with Mengelberg this past year and bought up every CD I could find. Amazing what he and the Concertgebuow were able to achieve during the late '30's and '40's amid the turmoil in Europe. Also, these recordings sound surprisingly modern due the superb acoustics of the Concertgebouw Music Hall. Some of what I have is listed in my LT library under Mengelberg and Mahler if your husband is interested.
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