Over the last day or two, I have bought: the new Nick Hornby
Juliet, Naked, preordered the new Jonathan Lethem
Chronic City, and two John Crowley books: an anthology of his early novels, and the first book of the Aegypt cycle. I read the first couple of Aegypt books yonks ago but I want to reread them and I must have loaned them out and forgot to who.
edited because touchstones are wonky
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well nothing yet but the month is barely begun
I picked up
Mijeong by Byung-jun Byun
Bayou by Jeremy Love
Mouse Guard: Winter 1152 by David Petersen
Two of those I wasn't supposed to allow myself to buy...
ETA: And now a complete set of Yeats' poetry arrived as I went down to lunch. Shiny!
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I got
Dead until Dark because I have been watching Tru Blood annd it was only £3.86 anyway and
The Magicians By Lev Grossman because it's been reccomended by Scalzi.
#4 I loved The Magicians! Hope you do, too.
Man, i LOVE Girl Genius and eventually intend to collect these (currently read 'em online).
8 - Almost word-for-word my reply, Groo!
11 - You won't be disappointed by Fool's Errand. I had some rather strong emotional reactions to it.
I bought my first issue of
The Believer Magazine, the "Nod-Crafty" issue which contains a fascinating examination of car salesmen, an interview with Nick Cave, and an examination of whether "Moby Dick in Half the Time" is "all Dick and no Moby".
I also bought an issue of Acclaim Magazine (a street art and design magazine). I would have bought books at Borders but they didn't have anything in the books section that interested me that day. But I have my magazines to read at least.
As a result of finishing
Survival, by
Julie E. Czerneda I ordered the two remaining Species Imperative books -
Migration &
Regeneration. Realised I should had put some more books in that order but by then I had already pressed the button. Hopefully I'll get rid of this fever sometime soon so I can remedy that with a visit to a REAL bookshop :D
Despite the misgivings of my wallet, I bought the new Scott Westerfeld book -
Leviathan. I was thinking that I might wait until it came out in paperback, but then I saw not only the beautiful cover, but also the inside cover illustrations.
*sigh*
It's a beautiful book.
#16 Sounds like
someone is happy with their purchases. ^-~
Arrived today, though I bought them back in September somewhere are a bunch of books I'm not even allowing myself to keep. So I'll only mention the one I
am allowing myself to keep. ^-~
The Hag's Contract by John Betancourt
And yesterday I found a copy of Collins Gem's
SAS Survival Guide, but that's not for actual reading.
Just back from spending a gift certificate and loyalty cheque at the bookshop. Scored
Nation by Terry Pratchett -- wrong touchstone, and
The Greatest Show on Earth by Richard Dawkins
15 - WillSteed, I hadn't known Westerfeld had a new book coming out. Just put it on hold at the library. Sounds/looks very interesting!
I decided to reread John Crowley's Aegypt cycle (I'm on a real Crowley kick these days) and since I couldn't find my old paperbacks, I went to download them to my kindle. They have books 1, 2 & 4 only for kindle. Dude, this is really annoying.
I can't keep up anymore. I found a small local thrift store chain that has well stocked book sections, some of the titles being over a century old. Paperbacks 35 cents, hardbacks $1. They've only 3 locations, but I've been to all 3 several times in the last few weeks since discovering them. I've bought at least 100 old books and spent $30 woohoo
Now of course...where do I put them?
I went shopping today and found a few interesting books :-
for the group read :
People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks (50 book challenge thread if anybody else is interested starts Nov 1
http://www.librarything.com/talktopic.ph...)
3 for £1 offer :
The Incredible Journey by Sheila Burnford (bit of nostalgia here — I loved this book when I was a child!);
Black Venus by Angela Carter (collection of short stories - I read her
Nights at the Circus years ago and always meant to read more but for some reason never got around to it);
Quest for the Faradawn by Richard Ford (as a child I loved reading animal stories and fantasy; somehow I missed this one!).
Charity shop purchases (These three are potential reads in my 1010 categories) :
Possession: A Romance by A. S. Byatt (an author I have never read);
Chocolat and
Blackberry Wine both by Joanne Harris (I just read her
Runemarks, a fantasy for children and liked the way she writes)
As I've mentioned I just got back from a visit to Ottawa, while there I had a "book day". It was lovely. And naturally, airports have bookstores, and I had stopovers in 4 airports, enough said.
Consequently I now have added to my bookshelves:
Childhood's End by
Arthur C. Clarke. This has been on my wish list a long time, recommended by clamairy, MerryMary and Busifer, just to name a few. I was delighted to find a good, used copy, can't wait to read it!
The Enormous Room by e.e. cummings. Another one that has been on my wish list a long time, that I've been searching the used bookstores for.
The Complete Guide to Middle Earth by Robert Foster. Very fun to refer to.
Charles Lamb and the Lloyds by
E.V. Lucas, a gorgeous, old, leather bound book, just a treasure.
Edward Wilson of the Antarctic by
George Seaver. I am always fascinated by polar explorers.
The Frozen Ship: The Histories and Tales of Polar Exploration by
Sarah Moss. A good companion book for the Edward Wilson biography.
The Last Kashmiri Rose and
Ragtime in Simla by Barbara Cleverly. A couple more in a mystery series taking place in India, after WW1.
A Little History of the English Country Church by
Roy Strong. Again, if I can't go to England, I'll continue to read as much about it as I can.
Fastyngange by Tim Wynne-Jones. Subtitled A ghost story for grown-ups, perfect for the season.
I also got
An Echo in the Bone by
Diana Gabaldon on audio just before I left on my trip, so I would have something to listen to while travelling.
Such riches!
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I have spent the last couple of months boxing and sorting books for my library's first ever used book sale. I ended up buying quite a few books over that time. (The volunteers got fist dibs, so I had to show some restraint!) You can check out most of my loot here:
http://www.librarything.com/catalog_bott... I'm posting it in this thread because I didn't actually pay for everything until yesterday, though I have been bringing it home in drips and drabs since some time in September.
#28 - Already commented on FB, but I think it's a hoot that we would call 44 books restraint! And I do call it that, because I've been to library sales. :) That was a great thing you did, helping get ready for the sale, hope you can get some rest now.
#28 Good choices!! I recall what fun it was to be there working AND being able to snag some before the sale began.
#29 - Well, the first dozen or so came home onesies, twosies, so it didn't seem like much. Between my daughter and I we brought home 4 bags on Friday and Saturday, though. Heh heh.
Oh, I loved
The Snow Goose! I'm not familiar with the other story. You got them in one volume?
Shanra, at your used book sales are there a mixture of English and Dutch books? And French, too? Just curious.
Those are great books clam! Lovely to add to your collection like that isn't it?
I love
The Snow Goose too Shanra, wonderful story, inspired me to read all kinds of other accounts of Dunkirk. But like clam I've never heard of
The Small Miracle. I'm always on the lookout for Paul Gallico's books when I'm in the used bookstores, he's hard to find.
They're in one volume, yes. I remember someone blogging about
The Snow Goose and it's been on my wishlist since, so of course when I saw it I
had to take it with me.
The Small Miracle is about a boy from Assisis who takes his donkey to Rome, but that's about all I know about it so far.
Clam, it might depend a little on the book sale in question. I don't go to many of them, but they'll be predominantly Dutch with a section for foreign language books: English, German, French, (Spanish) and the rest of the languages.
Of course in the course of a sale they all get mixed up too. It's a nightmare. Some of the secondhand stores here think it's a good idea to throw different language books together. Marvellous when you're trying to find English fantasy books and you keep picking up Dutch ones because your mind switches too easily to notice the difference until you get something longer than the title. Nnggnn. *whinge*
Katylit, I hope you'll get lucky finding Gallico soon!
After last month's school book-buying extravaganza (which I did not come here and confess, but I'll just say that
Goodkind,
Bradbury, and ancient Greek documents were involved- good times), I had no business getting more books. But I'm on break, today was shopping day, the store was there, and, well, why not?
Sort of random picks this time (the store seemed understocked in the worst possible way), but I got
The Confession of Fitzwilliam Darcy- my fourth or fifth of such "Darcy" tell-alls,
Espresso Shot because I can't make it through a day without my 4-12 shots, and
The Men's Guide to the Women's Bathroom which looks to be a silly little novel. I also got some books for Christmas for friends, but in case they are snooping around, I'll be silent on that score.
Funny story though. The store was amazingly well-organized this trip; everything was in its correct place. Except, that is, for one little shelving error. Nestled right under the "Christian Fiction" sign between those never ending Amish books and sappy romances were.... the
Jasper Fford books. There's a shock waiting to happen! :)
I bought
Twitterature because the idea just seemed interesting to me, and it's one of those things that speaks to my generation, interpretation of literature or not.
i found 'Rangers Apprentice by John Flanagan a few weeks ago, thoroughly enjoyed the Ruins of Gorlan, and have so far got all now waiting to read The Sorcerer in the North, although these are for 8 - 18, they are a great read. Also have The Final Empire(Mistborn book one) author Brandon Sanderson and Fire by Kristin Cashore.
Twitterature sounds interesting.
I bought 6 books new, which is a luxury in the Year of Book-Abstinence:
Holy Fools by Joanne Harris - I've just read
Chocolat (which I noticed Calm bought) and it was so beautiful, so much better than the movie, that I can see another author addiction in the makings.
Digging to America by Anne Tyler - one of my aforementioned author addictions.
Bloodheir by Brian Ruckley - number two in a trilogy, the first book of which I adored, although it met with mixed reviews.
Last Argument of Kings by Joe Abercrombie, who is a very cheeky fantasy writer indeed.
And my two humourous books:
Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters and
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies 'by' Jane Austen. Snicker. I read the first part of these...oh my gosh I was in hysterics. Love it!
#39 - Oh, Severn, if you loved Chocolat then you have to read the sequel! It's called
The Girl with No Shadow or
The Lollipop Shoes. Not sure if you which title you will have there.
Edited to add that both titles link to the same book on LT.
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It's the Lollipop Shoes here (so I would assume the same for NZ). I think
Holy Fools was actually the first Joanne Harris I read. I loved it even more than Chocolat.
Meanwhile, I'm just taunting myself by looking at this thread. I'm on a book buying ban for the rest of the year (except Christmas presents for other people). I really need to reduce my TBR pile.
Ooooh, Shannon Hale! Ikeep meaning to pick up more of her works, Mary!
And
Chocolat is on my TBR pile! I'm determined to start getting said pile down to reasonable levels!
In the post from Amazon today, I got 2 sequels to 2 debut books -
Wildfire by Sarah Micklem and
Fire by Kristin Cashore. And I have 2 new instalments in long standing series -
Unseen Academicals and
Foundation: A novel of Valdemar. A nice balance between the new and the old.
These are actually early christmas presents from my parents, my mum is very nice, I have her credit card on my account at amazon so I can order whatever I want (within my christmans present budget)
Took a detour past the SF bookshop yesterday and arrived home with
Reap the wild wind and
Riders of the storm, both by
Julie E Czerneda. Unfortunately they did not have the concluding part of the trilogy in stock so I'll have to get that one later.
#45 - I was very unimpressed by
Unseen Academicals...
#46 -
Gifts is a good start, and the rest is just as good or better. But the third one (
Powers) was... disturbing.
Lots of violence and abuse.
just spent the month moving and struggling with my arm in a cast so i've been rereading anything i could get out of a box including Frog and Toad are friends and back numbers of bon appetit. november will be more exciting i hope.
>Mary dang you've reminded me how much I want to get
Forest Born but i'm resisting firstly because i am not quite sure if it's actually available here yet (possibly Amazon has imported some copies i can't remember) and secondly because I want the british paperback so it'll match my other Hale books (I have practically all of her fairytale books) gah it's not fair! *stomps foot childishly*
I might be really naughty tomorrow and go spend the WHSmith gift card I got for my birthday earlier this month because I need to get
The Girl who Played with Fire and I'm sure I'll find some other books I want when i search properly ;)
I'm still waiting on my ER book from last month. I want to read it already! *more childish footstomping*
*pouts*
Picked up
The Gathering Storm by
Robert Jordan/Brandon Sanderson yesterday. I know it's a series that people either love or hate, but at this point I've been reading it for nineteen years so I couldn't resist.
Also bought two steampunk novels,
Mainspring by Jay Lake and
Boneshaker by
Cherie Priest both of which seem pretty promising.
Oh, I got my ER book in the mail yesterday,
Ostrich Feathers by Miriam Romm. The first peek in the pages was encouraging.
I had been doing so well, but I struggle to convince myself that Ebooks count, hence because it's so easy I've bought:
migration,
regeneration, and the moment I saw that HarperCollins had finally got themselves soughted out,
Traitor's knot and
stormed fortress. I've been waiting for these for ages, HC having released books, 5,6, and 8 as ebooks. What happened to 7!
oh and
Royal Assassin and
Assassin's quest was probably this month as well.
At least I'll read them and not just TBR pile.
#54 - I saw you just thought
Migration average; it's interesting to see how perceptions vary (I just blazed through it and went on to the last book without a second breath)!
Regeneration was even slower than Migration (which I didn't think slow at all - on the contrary I remember feeling grateful for the lack of needless 'recapturing')... ;-)
Edited to say that Regeneration is slower, in the beginning. Then the action takes off...
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Like >52 bibliophool I picked up
The Gathering Storm by Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson; I've read the lengthy series to this point and feel a bit like Charlie Brown looking to kick the football Lucy is holding - will I never learn? But I have a lot of respect for Brandon Sanderson, so I'm maintaining my optimism.
I also purchased and started reading the 4th
Inspector Gamache book in the series by
Louise Penny, called
A Rule Against Murder in the USA. It's already a great read, as good as its predecessors.
Bought
Faust Volume 1 and
Faust Volume 2. It really isn't what you'd expect it to be, what I actually bought was Japanese short stories, not Goethe. Good reading though!
#55"it's interesting to see how perceptions vary "
Oh it is. I've started Regeneration, and found it much faster than the beginning of Migration. I enjoy the whole alien politics different views thing, much more so than the human security and moping that was Migration. It would be a very dull world if we were all a like.
#58 - Exactly. I think one reason I liked Migration was I felt it wasn't as bad/weak as the 'bridge' part of a trilogy is wont to be. Which might not be the best of reasons to think it was 'awesome', logically ;-)
I came home today with both volumes of
The Outline of History by HG Wells. Two, large hardbacks printed in 1925... makes for a very interesting read. Mr Wells certainly knew how to string a few good words together, and the illustrations are fantastic.
I had been so good this month and yet today I went totally mad in Borders. Because Will Steed had been talking about steampunk, I picked up
The Invention of Hugo Cabret, realizing that it fits into the genre because of its themes of automatons and mechanization. I also picked up Mary Gordon's new book
Reading Jesus as well as a New Testament (new approach to the translation). Then because it was on the bargain rack, I picked up
The Illustrated Battle Cry of Freedom. I wonder how rapidly I'll get to read any of them, but they all seemed to speak to me while browsing!
And now I can't buy ANYTHING during November for sure.
I got a pretty good haul on the last day of my library's sale, when you get a bag full for $7.00. I haven't had time to enter them yet, but they include some Jane Smiley, Richard Adams, some bridge books, and a handful of mysteries.
Akira Club came in the mail yesterday (technically two days ago, being past midnight as I post this). It's an artbook that accompanies the Akira graphic novel series, and has lots of interesting stuff which I won't detail here, but mentioned in my review that I posted on LT.
All graphic novel series' should have a "Club" art-book to go with them.
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Despite my budgetary issues, I still bought books.
My name is Will, and I'm a book addict.
I bought the new Ranger's Apprentice book,
Halt's Peril. Nasty publishers changed the cover style! The previous eight books all match nicely on my bookshelf.
I also bought a beautiful new graphic novel by the wonderful Bryan Talbot -
Grandville. Steampunk with anthropomorphic animals.
#66
"My name is Will, and I'm a book addict"
GD chorus: "Hello, Will."
Hello Will indeed! Whenever I'm feeling a little down my instincts are either to come here or to go to a book store and buy books!!
Hence, yesterday I showed great restraint and only bought two books, used ones at that, Essays and Sketches by Charles Lamb, 'cause these ones aren't covered in
The Essays of Elia ;-) and I'm finding I love Lamb, and
Ramses, the Son of Light, I love escaping to the heat of ancient Egypt.
I saw another old book that I was tempted to buy just for the inscription. The subject matter didn't interest me, it was written by Disraeli, but it was inscribed "To Sonny on the occasion of his first two teeth. Much love Mother and Father"
Imagine giving a, what? 1-2 year old? a novel written by Disraeli??? Had to laugh when I saw that.
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