(Why do my fingers keep typing 2007?)

Yesterday I went out to take some books to the second-hand store (*gaspshock*). I came home with:

Moving Pictures, Men at Arms and Maskerade by Terry Pratchett
Mouse Guard: Fall 1152 by David Petersen
Fables 2: Animal Farm by Bill Willingham
The Hedge Knight II: Sworn Sword by George R.R. Martin
The Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi

Munson: The Life and Death of a Yankee Captain by Marty Appel, my sister picked up a copy for me at the Yogi Berra Museum, where Appel was doing a signing.

I was very restrained at the Berrima bookbarn. I only bought two books, both of which are useful.

A History of English Dialects Since the Eighth Century
and
Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue - 1811 edition, matching my 1783 Francis Grose edition. (Both are modern reprints, of course).

I already learned a new word: fartleberries - what's left over if you don't wipe properly in the bathroom. :)

Shanra, I hope you like Persepolis. I really did.

My second August Acquisition just arrived by mail from a buddy who picked it up for me at the San Diego Comic Con international, another signed copy.

Did You Grow Up With Me, Too? The Autobiography of June Foray by June Foray with Mark Evanier and Earl Kress.

If you don't know June, you should. She's been the voice of almost every female (and occasional male) cartoon character for the last 65+ years, from Granny and Witch Hazel in Looney Tunes, to Jokey Smurf, to Cindy Lou Who, to Karen in Frosty the Snowman, to Ma Beagle on Disney's Duck Tales, to Grandmother Fa on Mulan, to of course Rocky the Flying Squirrel and Natasha Fatale in the Rocky & Bullwinkle show, and so very many more!

I mean, how many people can say they did voices for Warner Brothers, Disney, Hanna Barbera, Walter Lanz, Jay Ward, just for starters?

I found a complete set of Christopher Pike's The Last Vampire series in the charity shop. Yay!

Yesterday for our anniversary my husband and I took a ride up to Keene, NH and he let me poke around Borders for almost a hour. I came out with two books, one I planned to pick up and the other an impulse buy. The planned one was The Hidden Warrior by Lynn Flewelling and the impulse buy was The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya which I didn't realize started off as a novel before being made into a manga (although I've only seen the anime).

I've had Libyrinth by Pearl North arrive today. (I think I'll be a good girl and stick to my planned read, though...)

I didn't make it out of the local community college bookstore this morning without a couple of books for myself. And that is despite almost fainting at the price of some of my daughter's required textbooks this semester.
Thankfully the two for me are used copies of both decent price and condition.
The Demon-Haunted World by Carl Sagan
Parallel Myths - by JF Bierlein

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#3 Perchance a variation of dingleberries?

I bought two at the library book sale, Interesting Times and Wives and Daughters. I'm looking forward to reading both.

Bought Batman: The Killing Joke and Azumanga Daioh Omnibus. Both are quite good, for different reasons. The Azumanga Daioh Omnibus is out of print, so that was a nice find, but The Killing Joke is always a good chilling read for after dark... HA HA HAH HA HAH HA

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I folded. I went to the sf/f bookshop today, coming home with Accelerando, by Charles Stross, Red Mars, by Kim Stanley Robinson, and Once a hero, by Elizabeth Moon.
Also a small Star Wars toy for son. When we had paid I asked him if he had noticed the light sabres. He was awed, so one of the clerks took one down and he got to test one... at 2000 SEK (US$280) it's hardly something you buy for your 5 yo to trash, though, certainly not since they're the most fun if you have two and can fight each other (they have good sound f/x) ;-)

I managed to get Sailing to Sarantium the first book of the Sarantine Mosaic for 40p. The nice volunteer in the charity shop went down to the stockroom to see if Lord of Emperors was there but unfortunately she couldn't find it.

#12 Busifer, if you like Red Mars let me know and I'll bring you the sequels, Green and Blue. I'm back in your neck of the woods for the next couple of weeks and I have a large pile of Peter F Hamilton to go through at the moment so I'm sure I won't need them anytime soon.

#14 - Thanks for the offer - I really like owning my books so if I enjoy part one I'm likely to run to the shop for the rest ;-)
(My husband's latest favourite joke: "I burn CD's so why can't you burn books?!")

#13 - I had some troubles finding Lord of Emperors when I read the duology, apparently it was out of print (at least back then) but I did find a decent and inexpensive copy via Abe.

Tragedy of tragedies...they just opened a charity thrift store down the street from my work which I must pass every day. So of course I went in and got books:

The End of Faith by Sam Harris
Constantine's Sword by James Carroll
Shadowmarch by Tad Williams
Darwin, Marx, Wagner: Critique of a Heritage by Jacques Barzun
Irreverent Guide to New Orleans
and my personal favorite The Pengiun Rhyming Dictionary for $1!!! - anyone need some rhyming?

Wow, a whole book of words that rhyme with Penguin!!!

You never know when they may come in handy.

17 - HA!

I got Libyrinth by Pearl North in today's mail. It was a birthday present from the lovely and amazing shanra, and I am bitterly sorry that I'm in the middle of another book and cannot dive straight in.

I got The Little Prince yesterday for £2 new! Now I can join the discussion. Also got Hocus Pocus and Only Human from Fopp, Devil Bones second hand, Kushiel's Mercy (though still need to get Justice before I can read it) and Zoe's Tale from Waterstones. The last one was bought with my loyalty card points after I bought Mercy and saw on the recipt that I had £4.84 in points so only had to pay £2.15. I like waterstones loyalty card!

Woo! It arrived! I didn't expect it to get there so quickly! ^-^

I got The Strangely Beautiful Tale of Miss Percy Parker by Leanna Renee Hieber in the post today. I dove straight in. ^-^

I was so happy to come home from work and find it in my mailbox! Now if only I could read The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay just a little bit quicker...

Another exciting acquisition: I bought a nice hardcover copy of The Mirador by Sarah Monette the other day. Now I finally have the complete series, all lined up in a row.

I was happy to get six books among my birthday gifts today: the complete Black Magician Trilogy by Trudi Canavan, Memoirs of a Geisha, the Good Husband of Zebra Drive, Investigating Firefly and Serenity.
the TBR pile grows ever higher!

Hippo Birdie two sphenisciforme!

Yes! Happy Birthday sphenisciforme :-)

A very Happy Birthday!

Just downloaded The Magicians by Lev Grossman. Anyone here read it yet? It sounds like it's right up my alley.

Had a lovely day with my daughter today, of course we stopped by Barnes & Noble. :) I found:

Irish Fairy Tales by James Stephens, illustrated by Arthur Rackham

My Life in France by Julia Child, sadly, it has the movie photos all over it, but if nothing else, the movie reminded me that I wanted to read this.

The Big Over Easy by Jasper Fforde. Can't get enough Fforde.

I picked up these two books this week:

Basho: The Complete Haiku

Welcome to the NHK by Tatsuhiko Takimoto.

Basho is incredibly calming, NHK is incredibly chilling. What more can I say other than either one eventually improves how you live your life?

I have had a lovely amount of packages arrive today.

Cotillion by Georgette Heyer (please, if this is a bad choice as introductory novel, don't tell me until after I've finished)

and then two books for my lit course next semester:
The Wings of the Dove by Henry James
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce (so scared of Joyce. Anyone want to convince me it's not scary?)

So I was caused to be aggravated which ended in me at a used bookstore spending money - and ended up with several volumes of :

Deathnote (vol. 4-9)
The Black Cauldron
and a whole bunch of other things
hehe apparently retail book therapy helps

also picked up
Shadow Rising yet again as former copy drowned
and With the Kama Sutra under my arm

The Last Vampire
Tempting Fate
Prophecy of the Sisters
Memoirs of Hadrian

so it has been a good acquisition month so far and though I am ashamed to admit it Dead to the World as I am determined to read one of these things. It just floors me that a watchable HBO series has been made out of what are to me very pulpy books and not in a good way. No offense to anyone who loves them - one mans meat and one woman's book.......

34 - It's OK, I thought it the other way around. I love the book series (except the last couple of books), even though they're pulpy, but I didn't like True Blood much at all, because the atmosphere of the books was transformed. Each to their own, of course! :)

I just splurged and bought two books at Amazon; the first is The Annotated Wind in the Willows and the second is the Harvard University Press edition of The Wind in the Willows: An Annotated Edition . I expect to wallow in the world of Mole and Rat. I do love the book and have re-read it several times. It's tied to being summertime I think. These editions were published for the anniversary earlier this year. (happy sigh)

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I have been rather bad over the last 10 days while i was in France cos i came back with 5 more books than i left with.
Bought Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
The Northern Lights by Philip Pullman
Eragon
In the Hands of the Goddess by Tamora Pierce
and Stormbreaker by Anthony Horowitz.
They're all in french and I do already have them in english but i bought them purely for the reading practice.
Also bought 3 books before i went away which were; This Lullaby, Kiss of Life, and Vampire Diaries, Vol. 1 in a waterstones 3 for 2 offer - that place may be the glorious place of evil temptation i've ever known.

My most amazing August acquisition is a Kindle 2. Won it in a drawing at my national convention and it arrived yesterday. I downloaded Assassin's Apprentice by Robin Hobb (currently available FREE in an effort to get folks to buy the sequels!).

I hope you enjoy Assassin's Apprentice, dulcibelle! I think the whole series is just wonderful.

I broke my TBR Rules yesterday and bought Midnight Never Come by Marie Brennan. I couldn't help it; my local used bookstore had a copy for $5, and it doesn't look like it's ever been read.

Shanra, I loved Cotillion!

I bought A Drifting Life, because I didn't want my life to drift away before I got the chance to read it.

I also bought The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy and Other Stories by Tim Burton. I like Tim Burton, but my brother doesn't. Probably merely because I like Tim Burton.

I had a good mail day. I received an ARC of Raven Wakes the World by John Adcox; it's a collection of four holiday novellas that I've been asked to review on my blog. I also got a lovely copy of Julie & Julia by Julie Powell; I won that one in a giveaway, and I think it's going to be my next read.

#37 LadyViolet, we've forced our daughter to read HP and the PS in French over these summer holidays. I remember finding it one of the best ways to improve my French when I was younger, picking some of my favourite books/authors and reading them in French. Good luck with them!

Our younger daughter decided to brush up her Spanish with The Hobbit and Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. I wasn't sure the vocabulary in those books would help her much in her neighborhood grocery stores.

*sigh* wasn't expecting to be here again so soon but my willpower crumbled in the face of books i rather wanted. Waterstones basically seduced me today into buying 4 books 2 of which were in the 3 for 2 offer at least (i also bought a book for my sister). Got myself: Dead until Dark, Audrey, Wait!, Someone like you and That Summer. Won't be long until i have most of Sarah Dessen's books but i may wait until i can get all of them in the funky covers i have already.

#30, OH! MrsLee, Irish Fairy Tales, AND illustrated by Rackham, now that's my idea of heaven :-)

#36, jillmwo, a while back I was in a Chapters store (Canada's equivalent to Barnes & Noble etc.) and happened upon The Annotated Wind in the Willows. I was there for over 1/2 an hour browsing through that book! Lovely. Truly lovely. And when I came home and checked out Amazon.ca I saw the second Harvard University edition as well. I am very tempted. I already have a wonderful copy illustrated by E.H. Shepard that I love, but there's a Folio Society edition with gorgeous illustrations by Charles van Sandwyk that also calls to me. Hmmm, I wonder if there's a limit to how many editions of a loved book one can justify having?

katylit - I actually thought of you when I was looking at it! :) Oh, and the only limit is your wallet size.

I love how we think of each other when we see books that remind us of our GD/LT friends :-).

Well...then I guess I'm kinda limited *sigh* ;-) I think I'll need to get a job...in a bookstore (lol).

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Don't do it, katylit! You'll never bring home a paycheck!

that is the exact reason I have never pursued a bookstore job....I'd come home in debt every day - owing my soul to the company store (so to speak) Doomed doomed

Love Wind in the Willows :)

The annotated editions of The Wind in The Willows arrived today -- okay, last night but I got in late. At any rate, these are wonderful. I almost want to insist on a group read of the text just so that I can contribute all the tid-bits in the annotations. And the illustrations are wonderful!

I may burble about Mole, Ratty and Toad for the next month.

Really. Gorgeous.

Poop, poop!

You're wicked jillmwo, an enabler, that's what you are. My fingers are twitching on the buy button on Amazon.ca now, just twitching!!! Wicked, wicked woman ;-) LOLOL.

"Messing about in boats" that's the life for me *sigh*. Burble on dear lady, Mole, Ratty and Toad are dear friends.

And yes, I know it jennieg, but that's the only reason I'd want to work...to buy more books! But then we'd need a bigger house to store them all!

katylit - It's like if you give a mouse a cookie.

>51 I am so jealous, jillmwo! I've decided to put this on my birthday wish list instead of indulging instantly.

MrsLee - :-) exactly...the whole cookie jar!

And just because I want to further enable each of you, I will tell you that both of the editions of The Wind in the Willows were worth it. The Harvard Press annotated edition is decidedly more scholarly in tone than the Norton edition, but the Norton has *fantastic* array of illustrations.

Quick, someone had better come up with a new acquisition soon to divert all of us or this thread will become the "All Kenneth Grahame All The Time" thread!

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Yesterday I ordered Dewey by Vicky Myron. Its not my usual type of read (its not fantasy), but its about a cat & a library & I love both so I figured its worth a read - plus its got pretty decent reviews on here...

I have started tracking how much money I spend and...ugh, it's too much. So I said I wouldn't buy any books this month (at least).

So far I've managed it, but I wonder if that applies to used bookstores if I'm exchanging books for credit...

If you can find something new to read and get it just on the basis of credit extended from bringing in OTHER books previously or gently read, that would seem to me to put you in the clear. Money has not changed hands so technically, you haven't bought anything.

I'd second Jill's comment on that, Blue. Technically you're not spending any money on the books and just trading in one/some for others.

I actually got so distracted that I forgot to tell about Tuesday's (18 Aug) amazing acquisitions!

Huge range of genres and subjects - haven't got everything added to LT (yet)

Reward for non-smoking was book buying on a budget (£30) so all used. Mostly for my attempt at a challenge next year (1010 category).

I went maybe £5-10 over and got around 35 books.

I must admit that the fact that the last place I looked before coming home had an Amazing deal -10 books for £3. Perks of living near a university town. If lucky (right week/day to visit during tourist season!) I get first picks between batches of students!

I am still picking up and admiring, trying to catalogue and live real life! Also wondering which is next on the TBR !

Wow, what a haul! More information needed (titles, authors, publishers - the usual bibliographic stuff). But I'm excited for you. 35 books at one fell swoop!

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#62 jillmwo

Let us start with The New Yorker Book of All New Cat Cartoons which is sitting by my desk for those times the computer needs to think!:)

Most of the fiction I have managed to catalogue! and shelve (put in TBR pile!)

Lots of history; classic literature (including children's and translations); ancient history and mythology; and some political theory, philosophy and religion; also golden era SF without ISBN's!

I have been trying to add to "my library" but, unfortunately, I kept getting *try another source* and a lot of the time only Amazon would recognise the book:(

So I couldn't possibly try to enter another book title in this computer today. I promise when they are catalogued I will think about a brag thread! Along the lines of

"Your Best Ever Pub Book Shop Crawl!"

Any takers?

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It's been over a month since I bought books. It's scary!

Eeks. I miscounted!

I have already added 40 books to my catalogue (ISBN's) since my book haul. (one from the library)

I have another 12 sitting by the desk waiting to be added. I only got 2 or 3 more on Friday and a new bookmark!

Darn shop for not counting!! I thought I picked up maybe 12. I guess they really wanted to clear the shelves!

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I am reading DEWEY and love it. My girlfriend works at a library near where Dewey resided, and she got to meet him. Does anyone have a copy of the library documentary about library cats around the country, called PUSS IN BOOKS, that I could borrow? I would take good care of it and send it right back to you after watching it.

Before I went on holiday I stocked up the Sony just incase I'd run out of reading material:

hammerfall
slant
little brother
gone tomorrow
the philosophical strangler
turn coat
and the little prince

then bookshopping with GDers in london. I was doing so well. Until we met Forbidden Planet. SO so dangerous shop.

dragonhaven
species imperative
the black company
looking for jake
the myriad
the dispossessed
blood music
fevre dream

and 1 non-fiction, from a massive Waterstones. I was heading to cookbooks but didn't get that far dry store no. 1

No more buying books for me, for a long time. Do free ebooks count?

As acquisitions - free books always count

The best kind! :)

My package finally arrived! In it were three seasons of Dr. Who DVDs and Spymistress: the Life of Vera Atkins, the Greatest Female Secret Agent of World War II by William Stevenson. I have wanted that book for a long time and now I can't wait to finish one of the books I'm reading so I can begin this. :)

I just treated myself to a visit to the used book store. I traded in Don Quixote and came away with:

David Copperfield
Dead Souls
Inspector French's Greatest Case
Tenant for the Tomb
Death Casts a Long Shadow
The Black Seraphim
The Long Journey Home - Michael Gilbert
Living with Aliens
Appleby's End
Better Off Dead - Mary McMullen
Counterfeit of Murder
Gideon's Way
Watcher in the Shadows
The Sleeping Car Murders

Very pleased, and under $30

Woohoo for anniversary present - pile of books!

Le Bernardin Cookbook - great seafood.
Rising Tide - my grandfather lived through the flood and had all these amazing stories about the experience. my mom has been telling me to read this for years so it is high in the TBR now.
Nine Lives: Death and Life in New Orleans - biographies of nine residents.
Elemental Magic - four romantic fantasy stories including one by my favorite fantasy author Sharon Shinn.
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay - I checked this out of the library last year and loved it so much I wanted my own copy.
The Craftsman - nonfiction about the process of making things.

I LOVED Nine Lives. I look forward to hearing how you like it.

Syllabus collecting season is upon me again!

Thankfully/Unfortunately, because of where I live and the amount of time it takes university to actually produce the syllabi, I always get my first semester books incredibly late.

Anyway, shopping includes:
Inferno by Dante
Decameron by Boccaccio
The Death of Bunny Munro by Nick Cave
The Suspicions of Mr Whicher by Kate Summerscale
Ink Exchange by Melissa Marr
Ysabel by Guy Gavriel Kay
Gods and Pawns by Kage Baker
Captivated & Entranced by Nora Roberts (these are actually a present)

Only the first two are for my classes, alas.

Your syllabus is much more exciting than mine, Shanra. I just received in the mail, Intermediate Accounting, Vol 2, Ed 4. I'm not even going to try and touchstone it!

I wish I could give you my syllabus, Sandragon! I'm taking a course on medieval literature this semester. It's all over the place. (No, really, it is. Other books on the list include "Tristan and Isolde", "Saga of the Volsungs", "The Fox Reynard", "Romance of the Rose", Arthurian legend. But they'd run out of those copies, alas.)

I wish I knew which of the courses had Maus I on its syllabus, though...

75 - Most of those would have public domain transcriptions/translations online that you could get started on, I suppose, but you wouldn't have the accompanying notes.

I've recently acquired:

Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World by Vicki Myron

Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats by T.S. Eliot

I have Dewey, but oh, I do so want Old Possum's Book.

Dewey was on sale at work (we have social club book sales every now & then, I'm not a social club member, but still get to see the sales & there is some good stuff there sometimes).

I hunted Old Possum Book down online, someone mentioned it in one of the cat naming threads & I just had to have it, there were a few copies available at www.bookfinder.com - an amazing site! There have only ever been 2 books I wasn't able to find on there...

# 76, they would, but I plain prefer printed books. Not to mention that there's the which translation issue. I know the tutor of the course. He'll have chosen them deliberately. (As I think one should anyhow.)

I'm in the process of deacquisiting some books that no one in the household will ever read, and celebrated by doing some searches on Bokbörsen (think Abebooks, in swedish) where I found an YA book (Mexikanen) that I loved when I was a teen and which sequel (Befriaren) I have owned since back then. It's a duo about an boy in Chiapas, Mexico.
I'm thinking I will be greatly disappointed when I reread them, I think they're stuck full of write it out big politics, but I think it will be fun anyway ;-)

I also found Hammerfall and Voyager in Night, both by Cherryh and neither available through my RL sf bookshop.

According to the respective sellers the books are en route to me, and I hope they are!

*keeps a steady look at the mailbox*

#67 - The Dispossessed is a favourite of mine, but I have to admit I put it down the first time I tried it. Almost too much of ideas/cause and too little story/character development. But only just ;-)

Good luck, Busifer!

I've had some more arrivals today, all early birthday presents.

Spiritwalk by Charles de Lint
The Complete Maus by Art Spiegelman
Daggerspell by Katharine Kerr
Darkspell by Katharine Kerr
Whiskey and Water by Elizabeth Bear
Blood and Iron by Elizabeth Bear

Love your list, Shanra!

Personally, I ordered a second-hand copy of a Folio Society edition of Excellent Women, I have two copies of it in paperback, but we all know how quickly paperbacks wear out.

I was very excited that my copy of Strange Brew came in via BookMooch. It is a new release and in pristine condition!

Shanra - I hope you like Daggerspell and Darkspell. The first four books are some of my favourite comfort reading.

Oh Katharine Kerr's Deverry Series has been on my mental "To be re-read soon" list for a while, but the TBR shelf has been guilting me out of any re-reads... I think you've inspired me Shanra & Will, I've been trying to decide which books I'm gonna read over the next month & a half or so, so that I know what not to pack & I think I'll keep these out :)

Will, I've read the Deverry series years ago, so I know I'll enjoy them. They seem of the "hard to track down" variety of books over here, so I snatched them up for series-collecting and eventual rereading. (Besides, my mum was paying. ^-~ Gift horses and all...)

Ooh, and Seanie, enjoy! ^-^ Glad to be of some deciding help. I know what you mean about reread-guilting. My TBR pile does the same.

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I spent the last of my mad money today on Mastering the Art of French Cooking, by Julia Child, Simone Beck and Louisette Bertholle. I simply needed it after reading My Life in France, they seem a part of each other. Can't wait to read it.

Think how you'll liven up the thread in the GD about "What we're eating NOW"! Full reports and pictures if possible.

#89 - That is if I ever find time to cook any of it! Usually I can't resist though when I'm reading a cookbook. :)

I suppose it isn't technically an August acquisition, but I did uncover today something I had purchased back in '08 but never added to my library on LT. I had even gone so far as to recommend the book to someone here on LT, but then realized that I hadn't seen it in awhile. I hadn't even had a chance to reread it after having bought it last October! It's Humphrey Carpenter's Secret Gardens:The Golden Age of Children's Literature. Having read the annotated editions of The Wind in The Willows, I wanted to refresh my memory of what Carpenter had said about the work.

I splurged this weekend:

Ariel by Steven R. Boyett (in purchasing this, I broke one of my own rules; never read a book with unicorns. But Cory Doctorow wrote a glowing recommendation, so I took a chance).
Trigger City by Sean Chercover (I read the first book in this series a couple of weeks ago and really liked it).
The Sword of the Lady by S.M. Stirling (BIG fan of this series).
The Mexican Tree Duck by James Crumley
Bordersnakes by James Crumley
First Lensman by E.E. "Doc" Smith (A purchase inspired by The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao).
The Killer Inside Me by Jim Thompson
The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
The Blue Hammer by Ross Macdonald

Splurging! ^-^

I've had two books arrive today:
Twilight of Avalon by Anna Elliott (which I'm hoping I may end up able to use in one of my classes. It'd be fascinating if I could.)
A Company of Swans by Eva Ibbotson, recommended by a friend as a better introduction to Ibbotson's works than the one I've already read.

Suffice to say I'm very excited!

The books mentioned in#81 arrived today, on the very last of August :D

Voyager in Night turned out to be a wonderful 1984 yellowspined DAW paperback. I have a certain thing for them, they have that archetypal sf 'pulp' feeling... the smell and the texture and the cheezy cover art... and the typography... wow!

Very happy!

I just received my copy of Collected Ghost Stories by Mary E. Wilkins-Freeman in the mail today from Arkham House.

http://64.227.162.73/miva/merchant.mv?Sc....

Excellent, another writer of ghost stories from the late 19th-early 20th century whose works I have only found scattered through anthologies.

It's a curious book. No ISBN, just a LC Card Catalog number. The only contact info for the publisher is a mailing address on the back of the dust jacket, which also lists current (at the time I would guess) titles available for $5.00 to $7.50. The price listed in the book is $6.00. According to my research, it is a first edition published in 1974.

I'm quite pleased overall and am putting it away until October, to savor the stories in the right season.

Check out Arkham House, support independent publishers.

http://www.arkhamhouse.com/

Only cost me $20.45 including postage. Well worth it.

#93 Shanra - Which Ibbotson books have you read? I've got 2 of her books on my TBR list (well kinda 3, one of them is 2 ooks in one), I've got The Star of Kazan & Which Witch & The Secret of Platform 13...

Journey to the River Sea is the one I read. I wasn't much impressed, but a friend urged me to try another (and I go by a 'second chance' policy unless I really hate what I read) and well... This one has 'swan' in the title and deals with ballet... I had to give it a try. (Well, have, since I haven't read it yet, but details!)

Yesterday I picked up The City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau, Artimis Foul, Stardust by Neil Gaiman, and The Great Deluge by Douglas Brinkley.

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I am always searching for new (to me) authors and collected works of those both known and unknown.

Here are two that I have just received in the mail today. Again to be put aside until the end of September.

Mr. Gaunt and Other Uneasy Encounters by John Langan.

http://www.prime-books.com/catalog/detai....

Supernatural Buchan-Stories of Ancient Spirits, Uncanny Places and Strange Creatures by John Buchan.

http://www.leonaur.com/books/booknumber.....

http://www.online-literature.com/john-bu....

In the process I also discovered two publishers that I'm sure those here will find of interest.

Leonaur Books: http://www.leonaur.com/index.php

Prime Books: http://www.prime-books.com/

We went to visit our older daughter last weekend and within ten minutes of setting foot in her door, I three books pressed on me: a loan (The Elegance of the Hedgehog, a gift (The Know-it-all) and a return (House of Scorpion). Since I was attempting to travel light, getting them packed was an issue, but we dealt with it.

#42, I hear that's really good. ;-)