I haven't purchased anything today; I just wanted to name one of these monthly threads. :D
I haven't purchased anything but i started the book I got for my birthday, Dan Brown's "The Lost Symbol"
I got shots for rubella and measles.
... oh sorry, i thought that said "November Jabs".
KIK MrA!
Well, around midnight I ordered a bunch of books for me and for Christmas gifts through B&N. I had a double membership discount for all the children's books and decided it was time to order those books. Yes, all the children that know me know they will at least get one book for me for presents. That's just the way I roll... (is that the expression they use now a days? ;p ) I'm not sure if it's the reader in me or the teacher in me.
My FIL gifted my his (duplicate) copies of:
Een barbaar in China by Adriaan van Dis, about the author's travels through China.
and
Het Spookklooster by Robert van Gulik about Judge Dee (7th century China) and a murder mystery in a monastery.
And how did he discover these duplicates? Well, because I spent my weekend entering his collection into his brand new LT account :D
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5 - Is that The Ghost Hunter?
Today I ordered a t-shirt for my daughter from the NaNoWriMo website. I hope she will like it (and that she'll be able to finish the challenge).
8 - Oh, of course! Klooster = cloister!
11: Exactly :)
Just picked up two free books from the giveaway bookcase at work, two Week of the Book (Boekenweek) gifts:
Het theater, de brief en de waarheid: een tegenspraak by Harry Mulish and Spitzen by Thomas Rosenboom.
Yay for free books!
katy: I LOVE
Michael O'Halloran. It is so Victorian, so Horatio Alger, so corny...I love it.
I was thinking of you when I bought it MerryMary, it's one of the few of Stratton-Porter's that I haven't read and I knew it was in your library. It's up next on Mount TBR :-)
Actually it was fun buying those books.
Michael O'Halloran made me think of you,
The Living Reed brought clam to mind and her meeting with Pearl S. Buck, MrsLee had recommended another Josephine Tey to me which I enjoyed tremendously and Shanra bought a Paul Gallico last month that we were talking about too. I felt like lots of my Green Dragon friends were with me in spirit at the book sale.
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I've just received all six volumes of
Akira that I purchased online. I probably shouldn't look on online bookstores, but there's so much nice stuff on there...
At the used book store half price sale I finally picked up my hardcover copy of
Melusine by
Sarah Monette which I have been pining after for a while. As an extra I also picked up
Night Life by
Caitlin Kittredge. There were other books I wanted but funds are extremely limited at the moment.
They put up the Kindle version of
Wolf Hall, which I just nabbed, but still no
Inherent Vice. I want my Pynchon, you dopey publishers!
Heat Wave by Richard Castle. - surely fantasy since the author is, uhm, imaginary, LOL
Leviathan since I'm on a steampunk kick
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I'd say for two days that's showing remarkable restraint.
I got two books in the post earlier this week.
Witches Abroad which was a present from a friend (as she had one double)
An ARC of
Dark Moon over Avalon which I want/need to get stuck into ASAP. (First, though, I should finish that pesky coursework reading book I started.)
Here's the book-buying thread! Couldn't find it last night, so I posted my latest purchase in the November food thread instead. Yesterday, I found
Seven Hundred Sandwiches (1928) at a used book sale at a local church (love it when I just happen upon such a sale). The book is so old it assumes the bread you are using won't be pre-sliced. It never occurred to me, but apparently folks used to butter their bread before slicing it from the loaf!
My daughter loves her NaNoWriMo t-shirt! The cranberry color is perfect for her and this year's logo is really cute!
I got some plastic bags in the mail today, to keep my older paperbacks in. :)
I must say that I'm lucky to have understanding housemates- anyone else would have kicked me and my 700+ books out long ago. Anyway, they helped me find four more today:
Maris by Grace Livingston Hill
Spiced To Death by
Peter King (great food mystery series- the main character has no name!)
Hallowe'en Party by Agatha Christie
Chromosome 6 by Robin Cook- this is my first venture into reading him, but I think I've heard great things. Does anyone here like him?
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Got a perma-bound edition of
Lost Horizon in the mail today. One of my favorite stories :)
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I found a
Pictorial History of the World at the markets this morning. I can't date it for sure, but I suspect about 1890. I'm sure there are hundreds of them around in better condition, but I do like it.
I was (pleasantly) surprised today to find
The Magicians and Mrs. Quent waiting for me. Wasn't expecting that to arrive for at least a month!
Ooooooh!! Dracula with Edward Gorey illustrations!!!!!! *green with envy* ooooooh!
You find good books Delirium9!
Today I downloaded the new Paul Auster, Invisible. Which is not available to touchstone. Perhaps I should add it to my library.
It's not as though I need any new books, either, but as my hubby put it, I am amazon's bitch.
Missy,
the Graveyard Book is one of my favorite Gaiman books. The sequel(?)
Odd and the Frost Giants isn't quite as good IMHO, partly because it feels like it was defnitely written for a younger audience, where GB can be read and enjoyed by all ages.
Thanks, DeusExLibrus. I didn't even know there was a sequel! Interesting...
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