It's all about the new arrivals.
For me September starts out with a course book:
A Passage to India by E.M. Forster
as well as
Beauty by Sheri S. Tepper. I suspect I'll have a steady stream of books coming in for the remainder of the week. (Huzzah for book buying sprees!)
I'm still waiting for my Folio Society Limited Edition of Moby Dick. It was ordered in August, but as it will hopefully arrive in September, I will shelve it under "September".
(Background not included in price)
I was also eying the Encyclopaedia Britannica for quite a while. The latest version is still around US$800, excl. shipping, which is a bit more than I'm willing to pay. I now decided to go for the previous 15th Edition, which could be bought second hand for far less then US$100, incl. shipping (thank you, betterworld).
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What a beautiful edition of
Moby Dick! It almost makes me want to try reading it again. JK!
1 - Shanra - My type of books there. I read
Beauty a little while ago, it was good, but dark (as I'm finding Tepper's books usually are). And I've got
A Passage to India sitting on my shelf waiting for me. If you get to it soon, let me know how you like it.
4 - And wow. That's a beautiful book.
I should get to it soon enough, it being a course book. I'm wary of all the books on the course now, though. I've hated two of them already. :(
my acquisitions are...sporadic
latest/best
Galatea 2.2 by Richard Powers...TBR for too long
Primitive People by the inimitable Francine Prose..'nuff said
In The Palm Of Darkness .....Mayra Montero...born in Havana...lives in Puerto Rico....writes about Voodoo/Voudon....
J
Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters. I read her
Affinity last year, and it blew me away.
Also, I am doing a play, so I have read
The Beaux' Stratagem more times than I wish to count. (I play, get this....a chaplain! Who is also a scoundrel. THAT is a real stretch for me.)
7 - Oh no. Which two were they?
11 - Whew, neither one I would have picked up on my own, not anytime soon anyways.
12 - I've noticed a lot of people mentioning
Catching Fire these last couple of days. Sounds like
Hunger Games was an amazing read.
12 - I'm not supposed to be buying anymore, with my stack of unread either. But
The Drowning City arrived today, just the same. I'm resisting cheating on my currently-reading to start it now.
I had to read
To the Lighthouse for a college course. I didn't like it at all, and I was so disappointed because there were only two female writers we read in the whole class!
#9 - Really? What would the stretch be? ;-)
#13
Hunger Games was fantastic, such an engaging fast-paced and thrilling read with a little something for everyone, IMO! I'm really hoping
Catching Fire is as good.
Here we go again. Why do I have to look every time I go out! (I must admit a weakness for actually owning a copy of a book - no due back date at the library or 50p reservation fee)
So here are today's purchases (For a total of £2.80 from the local charity shop):-
Hans Christian Andersen Fairy Tales
Gael Baudino
Strands of Starlight (not realising it is the first in a series!)
Gillian Bradshaw
Down the Wind (an omnibus of her Arthurian trilogy)
Guy Gavriel Kay
Lord of Emperors (completing the Sarantine Mosaic)
Elizabeth Moon
Sheepfarmer's Daughterand Plato
The Republic (thought I had a copy and couldn't find it!)
Now all I need to do is find the time for reading!
The only book I will most likely be buying this month is
Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters by
Jane Austen (with a little help from Quirk Books).
I encourage everyone who feels so inclined to buy it on its release date (15 September 2009) as it is going up against
Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol. I have nothing against Mr. Brown, but many publishers have been strategically moving their release dates for high-profile Fall titles to avoid having to compete with The Lost Symbol.
As such, good for Quirk Books for toughing it out with their follow-up to
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies.
Today
The Romance of the Rose arrived. (I have to admit I'm far more excited about this class than the modernist one.)
I just received my order from Amazon:
World War Z by Max Brooks - Just love the idea of approaching this as an event in the past, writing an oral history.
The State of The Art and
Use of Weapons both by Iain M. Banks - These are the next books in the Culture series, so I had to have them...
The Lost City of Z by David Grann - Have been intrigued by this book ever since I saw David Grann on the Daily Show, sounds wonderful!
Oh and shhh, but I also got
Coast, the journey continues as a birthday gift for my bf, but as his birthday is not until October 26th, we won't officially have it until then...
>17 littlebookworm - you're going to love
Catching Fire! What a great follow-up.
Hmm... I had a bit of a blowout.
The Authority: Book 3Slayer SlangLirael by Garth Nix (a fun guest speaker)
Sign Language Phrases (I think that touchstone's wrong, but I can't find the right one).
The Sentimental Bloke by CJ Dennis (Australian dialect poetry)
And some Bollywood DVDs, and a chance find of an MST3K DVD (Manos: Hands of Fate and Santa Claus Conquers the Martians - they're hard to get here).
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This is the "everybody is doing it, so it must be OK" thread.
If I'm not careful, my wishlist may grow to be as big as my library.
27 - Welcome! But you're right to be cautious - this place can be dangerous!
Add
Time of Trial by Michael Pryor to my list above, and
The Lovers by Philip Jose Farmer. I'm enjoying not being imminently poor.
I brought
dreamhunter on holiday, while it is Young Adult I really enjoyed it and would recommend it as a good read for a teenage girl, or an adult looking for a lighter read. Of course I then had to buy the sequel
dreamquake when I got back home which i finished this morning.
I also found a discount copy of
the lighthouse, another good holiday read.
I just received
The Daughter of Time in the mail. My emergency copy to make up for the used one I bought which didn't have all the pages. :)
Just got back from North Platte this afternoon with my most recent gleanings from Goodwill:
West from Singapore by Louis L'Amour (uncommon non-westerns)
Baby by Patricia MacLachlan
Alien Child by Pamela Sargent
Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle by Betty MacDonald
Miss Pickerell on the Moon by Ellen MacGregor
And - the piece de resistance -
Chicks in Chainmail by Esther Friesner. Needless to say, bought mostly for the title. But it looks like it might be fun.
Mostly YAs and kiddy lit this time, but I like it all.
I just bought almost $100 worth of books and none of them are for me! However, I have a niece who is expecting in November, and a nephew whose spouse is also expecting in November, so far be it from me to let them arrive without books! I purchased:
Boynton's Greatest Hits: Volume 1 -board books, nephew's baby
A Child's Garden of Verses - illustrated by Brian Wildsmith, nephew's baby
and two copies of
Insectlopedia by Douglas Florian - one for each baby
Animals (Baby Touch and Feel) - niece's baby
and a boxed set of
Beatrix Potter - only 7 books, niece's baby Wow, those are spendy!
Hello again!Back from summer vacations and ready for new adventures!It's Greek tragedies for me
(Medea) and ''we are not amused''!
Very nice, katylit! I really like the Attolia series so far. I read
The Hunger Games for book club and then found out that the sequel,
Catching Fire, was only $10 at Costco. So I had to go buy it last night!
Heheh. I must admit, we weren't very good at restraining each other. I positively gloried in everyone else's purchases as well as my own. Can't wait to see what you get from Ottawa, Katy!
My own purchases this past weekend:
The Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb, my own precious find of the weekend, wouldn't let go of it for the rest of the afternoon!
Familiar Fields by Peter McArthur
An Urchin in the Storm by Steven J Gould
The Reluctant Mr. Darwin by David Quammen
Diary of a Nobody by George Grossmith
Graceling by Kristin Cashore
Winter Rose by Patricia McKillip
The Duchess of Bloomsbury Street by Helene Hanff
84 Charing Cross Road, since I gave my copy to my SIL
Conrad's Fate by Diana Wynne Jones
Starclimber by Kenneth Oppel, for my niece
The Wyrm King: Beyond the Spiderwick Chronicles for my 8yo
Rereadings by Anne Fadiman, which wasn't actually a purchase but a very nice gift.
I already looking forward to next years meet up!
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Wow. Look at how good we've been!
I'm (not) sad to say I'm breaking the trend. ^-~
Today I've had three books arrive:
Poison Study by Maria V. Snyder
Faery in Shadow by C.J. Cherryh
Of Reynaert the Fox: Text and Facing Translation of the Middle Dutch Beast Epic, which probably won't Touchstone.
I received my ER copy of
Guernica last week. I've been reading it at work. It is breaking my heart, not only because of the horrific events, but the writing is very good.
For my birthday yesterday I received
The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde and
The Library at Night by Alberto Manguel. Also a big illustrated book about Louis Comfort Tiffany and his masterpieces. And a gift card for more books for € 10 :D
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Ooh, belated happy birthday, Divinenanny! May you enjoy the books!
And another belated happy birthday wish, Divinenanny!
Thanks for the birthday wishes!
I went to the book fair. *huzzah*
I got some cool bargains, including
An Introduction to Old Norse by E V Gordon
Old Icelandic: An Introductory Course by Sigrid Valfells
Eglantine by Catherine Jinks
Neveryona by Samuel R Delany
and a book by Octavia Butler I'd never heard of before, but have forgotten the title, because I'm not near my new book pile.
My SIL gave me
Please Don't Eat the Daisies by Jean Kerr. I thought the movie was cute, but then, anything with David Niven in it is good in my book.
I've always loved Jean Kerr's writing. She was instrumental in the development of my admittedly warped sense of humor.
Nothing new, because I forgot about the Friends of the Library sale this past weekend :o( Nuts!
Just picked up
Other Lands from the library. This series is goood. Number 2 of... I don't know how many it will be, but I'm really liking it so far.
Ok. I'm really embarrassed. I just finished three days of pursuing the 200+ mile long garage sale known as the Junk Jaunt. So much fun. So much stuff for sale. It's inspiring!
I just finished listing most of the books I bought. Now, keep in mind most of them were $1 or less, but still.... So far the list is 71 titles long. (I still have a box in the van that I haven't sorted out. I don't want all of them, but it was cheaper to take the whole box than to pick out specific items.)
*slinks off to hide behind the tottering stack of books in the middle of the floor*
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