The Mounds* of March

*of new books

Yes, last year I avoided the word, but this year I'm embracing it.

:oD

Today I received my first March book, The Music of The Lord of the Rings Films: A Comprehensive Account of Howard Shore's Scores, as a gift.

YAY!

I'm glad you specified what kind of mounds. I was half hoping you were giving away free augmentations in here.

I wish I had this problem. That would be really nice...

I'm absolutely delighted! I won The Evil Garden by Edward Gorey from LT ER! (touchstone still not working).

I haven't won anything since November, so I'm even more excited than usual. Plus, this will be the THIRD Edward Gorey book I've won thru the program! YAY!
:o)

I just broke down and ordered the Rothfuss Kingkiller Chronicles sequel, The Wise Man's Fear.

I ordered it too clam, and they've shipped it already. Maybe it'll be in the mailbox when I get home this afternoon *fingers crossed, thumbs held etc*. I'm going to have to zoom through that massive Margaret George book (which is very good so far), so I can revel in Rothfuss again - can't wait!

The delights of working in a used book store. Someone brought in a whole collection of P.G. Wodehouse, the older Penguin editions and I swear he never even cracked them open! Even though they're an average of 30 years old, they look brand new. I snapped up Meet Mr. Mulliner, Ukridge, Psmith Journalist, Hot Water, Heavy Weather and The Luck of the Bodkins. *sigh* I did have to stop somewhere, so I guess that's enough for now. Great reading for "feeling down" days.

#5 & 6 - Mine is on the way too! It got great reviews from our own Brandon Sanderson. :)

ETA: #6 - Best job benefits ever!

# 6 - When payday rolls around do you have to give them a check?

LOL, no, but sometimes it's been close. ;-)

My order is supposed to be delivered today! Three big books about ancient languages! I got them on sale for $17 each, which is a great price for here.

#10 - *drool* Enjoy!

>10 Choreocrat:
You can't possibly read all three books at once, so I'll be right over to help you out!

I was supposed to get some books on the annual sale today but managed to escape the SF bookshop with two full price books instead. Watched out for the Rothfuss book but Tor doesn't favour the shop so books from them is always late. As opposed to Daw. Their books are always delivered 2-3 weeks PRIOR to publishing date...

The books that went home with me was The Ouroboros Wave and Inversions. The idea was to possibly get another Culture novel but the Japanese book was pure impulse. Something about it spoke to me, from it's place on the shelf...

New arrival when I checked my mailbox today:

The Resurrectionist by Jack O'Connell

From BookMooch: Realms of the Elves

Huzzah! My books did arrive. Ancient Languages of Asia and the Americas, The Ancient Languages of Syria-Palestine and Arabia and 7489042::The Ancient Languages of Mesopotamia, Egypt and Aksum by Roger Woodard for $17 each (reduced from $60) and a free book 2183763::The Great Pyramid by John Romer for ordering three books. What a deal!

(The problem is, there are two more volumes (one on Asia Minor and one on Europe) that are in the series and weren't on special. I'll have to get them sometime, I guess...

*Skips, dances, bounces up and down*

Came home from a very long day of work to find a package from Amazon! The Wise Man's Fear, by Patrick Rothfuss arrived, and I saved .16 on the preorder, woohoo. ;) Also, Storm Front by Jim Butcher, which I have wanted to read for some time now, out of curiosity.

I won't be cracking either of them open for awhile though, as I'm making my way through The Way of Kings. I am enjoying it, but it's too early on to have any coherence of the story yet. Just some awesome battle/fight scenes so far.

#16 Will, do you have the little brackety things around the two titles you tried to force touchstones with the work #s?

#17 - I got a copy this morning! I'm going to let my daughter read it first, I think. She's the one who bought the first one with her own money many moons ago. So this is for her to keep.

The UPS man brought me both The Wise Man's Fear and my latest ER book, Miss Timmins' School for Girls. (Touchstone for ER book not loading - http://www.librarything.com/work/10940707 )

*sigh*, hopefully MY copy will arrive soon *taps foot impatiently* ;-)

Loads of books came into the store today - maybe I won't have much of a paycheque this time, lol. Anyways I grabbed The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton 'cause it's our next book club read, and an awesome edition (1963) of The War of the Worlds, The Time Machine and Selected Short Stories by H.G. Wells - very cool cover. And the husband found The Motorcycle World when he was in visiting.

Mmmm, it's only the 4th today? Looks like March might be a busy, book buying month for me.

"Sorry, but I'm going to have to resign. I can't afford to work here anymore."

LOL!

Even though I have enough unread books to last me 2 years (and that's without visiting the library!), our local Lion's Club holds an annual book sale for charity in March and I have just returned from there with another 10 for the pile. Absolute bargain - each book is only £1. I feel guilty for adding to the pile and then think - Nah - you can never have too many books.

#23 - It's true. There's a quote somewhere in the The Polysyllabic Spree about the need to stockpile books. I don't remember it verbatim, but Nick Hornby gave a list of valid reasons, one of which was the inability to leave the house for months at a time. LOLOL I have at least 10 years' worth of unread books stockpiled at this point... *blush*

So congrats on your haul!

My father-in-law is trying to bury me. In books. He sent another box full and I pulled out at least seven to keep. I don't catalog all my TBR books. If they are not here, they don't count, right?

If I don't catalog my TBR I forget what I already have! Good luck MrsLee and don't drown in books (although not a bad way to go if you have to go).

I recently bought :

The Mysterious Lady Law yikes the touchstone is toadally crazy by Robert Appleton.

Red Wolf Conspiracy by Robert Redick

Johannes Cabal the Necromancer by Jonathan Howard

HAVE GOT TO STOP GETTING NEW BOOKS....

That's usually all of our problems. But will we stop? No we won't. Do we want it to stop? Maybe on the outside, but probably in the very deep inside, we will never stop buying books.

My hubby built for me the greatest library, dove tailed shelving .... But I spent this morning going through my shelves and boxing least re-read titles up.... 4 acid free boxes of pbk and there are piles to be shelved. I need a bigger house, I need more bookshelves. If only he would stop buying books, then I could use his shelves!

#28 - Well, if he built you one, then another shouldn't be too difficult. ;)

I have two huge boxes/bags of books sitting by my front door to leave my house. The very nice condition ones are going to the hotel I work to live in the lobby until guests need them. The others will go to the used book store to be turned in for credit. I'm very careful about the books I save, because of the space issue.

There is also a pile of Twilight books I'm not sure what to do with. I have no interest, but can't just unload them. Some are lovely hardcovers, and I am hoping to find someone, maybe a youth who would love to have them. My son put a cardboard box over them with a Hazardous Materials sign on it. :)

Give your son a kiss on the cheek from me!

Bought a copy of Theodore Rex yesterday. Don't have the Rise of Theodore Roosevelt yet, but got this for $6, so figured I'd grab it and acquire the first third of the biography at a later time.

Another 4 have mysteriously appeared on the tbr shelves:

KPax* by Gene Brewer
The Big Over Easy by Jasper Fforde
Luck in the Shadows by Lynn Flewelling
Douglas Adams's Starship Titanic by Terry Jones

*using correct title of K-Pax brings up something totally different without the option for others

I had the computer game of Starship Titanic years ago, it was so funny and great to play.

#32 - "Oh, look honey, more books on the shelves. I wonder how that happened?"

Hee hee, yeah, I have that problem all the time - it's very puzzling.

Yay! My copy of The Wise Man's Fear arrived today. *sigh* do I really have to read my ARC first? I think maybe I'll read Rothfuss first *grin*.

And another delight at the store today, I found a copy of Web by John Wyndham, a book published 10 years after he died. I've never heard of it before and it sounds good. I love Wyndham's other stories.

I won a copy of The Home for the Friendless by Betty Auchard. It came yesterday!! I'm only a couple of chapters in, but I'm loving it.

I bought Incorruptible vol. 2 the other day, and now I have buyer's guilt. It was a good one to read, and I'm happy to have it, but I really couldn't afford it. I'm not sure I'll have the money to get to my secure income later in the year if I keep spending like this.

Got lucky in the charity shop today and found Monkey by Wu Ch'eng-en and translated by Arthur Waley. The description on the back reminds me so much of the series I watched when I was much younger. Also snagged You're Next by Gregg Hurwitz which will do nicely for my Y read in the Alphabet Challenge that I really should get back to at some point..

I visited B & N with my oldest great nephew and bought him one Hardy boys book, two Zelda books, and one book for me: 7-Day Menu Planner for Dummies. I am such a dummy.

They still have Hardy Boys?! Back in the neolithic when I was a lad they were considered Not Quaite Naice and so us lads weren't supposed to read them. We all did, therefore; just didn't admit it.

Yes, there are still a whole lot of books in a series on the shelf at the bookstore, and some are label with a "New" on the cover. Don't know if that means the stories have been updated, or just reissued. I don't think any one thinks of them as "Not Quaite Naice" any longer. heheheh Now, Zelda...a book which you read from the back to the front. I don't know. I might hear from this young man's Dad who is very conservative and a nativist. May not like the "Japanese" flavor of the books.

edit: correcting some misspellings

These are technically February's finds - when I was out of town a few weeks ago I visited several book stores, including one second-hand place that carries a lot of older science fiction and fantasy (mostly in piles on the floor) and sells almost everything for $2. I recently realized that Zelazny is an author I completely missed reading, and I keep seeing comments on his books here. I had checked our library and the new-book stores, with no luck, so was happy to find some of his books cheap and second-hand - I picked up 10 - including most of the Amber books. They're not cataloged yet, in case I hate (or mildly dislike) them and decide not to keep them. (I do that with most new-to-me authors) I also picked up several other used and new paperbacks on that trip.

A new Kindle book: River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey.

New ER book A Trail of Ink by Melvin R. Star, came today. :)

Yesterday I finally got a copy of Alas, Babylon. It's the last of the books in the post-apocalypse to-read list I made last year.

Had a wonderful meeting of the LT book group (real life!) yesterday, sold some used books for credit, and got The Sweet Life in Paris for a mere $6.05! (new). It was a lovely evening.

The Pesthouse just arrived from BookMooch - a discard from the Baltimore County Public Library in wonderful condition.

Just came home with the new Foreigner book - Betrayer!!!
*makes happy dance*

I hit the Borders closing sale for the second (and quite possibly the last) time. My daughter found a couple of graphic novels, and I found a bunch of stuff, but at only 30% off the original hardcover prices I put all but two trade paperbacks back on the shelf.

The Histories by Herodotus
Our Inner Ape: A Leading Primatologist Explains Why We Are Who We Are by Frans De Waal

I got Space Captain Smith from thebookdepository.

It's pretty good so far. I'm not laughing out loud, but I'm well-entertained. It makes me think of Bill The Galactic Hero and Flashman smooshed together.

Added another 5 to the tbr piles and not one of them featured on my wishlist.

Espedair Street by Iain Banks (I've wanted to read an Iain Banks novel for a while and the premise for this one sounded good)
The Master of Knots by Massimo Carlotto (didn't know this was a book in the middle of a series)
A is for Alibi by Sue Grafton (she's getting close to the end of the alphabet so it's about time I started)
King Rat by China Mieville (I will own all his books eventually)
Vurt by Jeff Noon (a Manchester connection is the main reason for this purchase)

Well, I learned one thing today. I really need to get LT up to date with the books I own and get an iphone or some such beast, or make a good list for my purse, because my son is worthless when it comes to texting him and asking if I have certain books on my shelves. I ended up with two extra because he said, "I don't see it." :( The price I pay for a bad memory and lazy bones, I suppose.

Anyway, these are the booty I brought home today.
The Sempster's Tale by Margaret Frazer
A Play of Lords by same
Small Favor by Jim Butcher
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer
Once Upon a Time: The Fairy Tale World of Arthur Rackham by Margery Darrell

I had left the bookstore and happened to glance at the window offerings when I saw the Rackham book. I think I'm going to love it. Lots of his illustrations I haven't seen before in a hardcover book. I love the GL&PPPS book too, it's been on my wishlist a long time.

My friend accidentally bought doubles of Girl Genius, so I agreed to take them off his hands. :)

Oh, and there was a book fair on the weekend (duh! How could I forget that!). I got a modest haul to do with my rather modest income, but it was of good value.

Finds include:
Dialectology by Trudgill and Chambers
Historical Linguistics by Bynon
Learn Zulu
Introduction to the Twi Language
Teach Yourself Punjabi
Languages of the World (touchstone wrong, but I can't find the right one - it's older than this one)
a(n immediately) post-tsunami map of Banda Aceh
a large satellite photo print of Canberra twenty years ago

I missed out on a book about Bazaar Malay by a couple of seconds, but I know who has it, and she'll lend it to me sometime.

Finally snagged a copy of Before Green Gables.

Oh, sweet unadulterated bliss of new additions to my collection! It has been Sooooooooo long since I have been able to revel in this pleasure! *delighted sigh*

I made a trip to one of my favourite used bookstores today and was able to trade in enough duplicate copies of books (gleaned from my hours upon hours of unpacking and shelving My Entire Library in my new house) to bring home, most triumphantly *a nod to WillSteed for the Bill & Ted's quotation :) *
these three:

Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
The Girl Who Played With Fire by Stieg Larsson
The Bookman's Wake by John Dunning

I have been longing for what feels like FOREVER to read these three, so I am thrilled beyond measure to have gotten them! YAY! *squee!* :O)

55 - Those movies are part of my formative years.

I received two new textbooks for the next quarter of classes. They look pretty bland. :(

I'm enjoying my e-book of Little Women, though.

Message 56: WillSteed
" Those movies are part of my formative years."

Me too, Will! *big grin*. HEAVY METAL!! *does a quick air guitar in your direction* :O)

Also, am a bit disconcerted ATM...

Have just discovered that The Bookman's Wake by John Dunning is NOT in fact the first in the series! Even more disconcerting is the fact that I originally HAD picked up the first book, only to be told when asked that the one I got was the first... And then, sadly, turned into the 2nd once I brought it home!

Anyone else as confused by own incoherent ramblings as I am? LOL. Ah well. Perhaps tomorrow it will magically morph into the 1st again and all will be well in my little Kingdom. :O)

ETA: The first in the series is called Booked To Die... *prays to Book Faeries fervently to switch them back again*. Hey, it's always worth a try!

#53 Sawubona, numzan!

Bought Meg Rosoff's What I Was today from a 2nd hand bookstall. I read How I Live Now and really liked it, but then read Just in Case and wasn't entirely gripped so wasn't sure whether to bother with this one, but as I had knocked the man down to 50p I thought I'd give it a try.

Just bought a YA Monster Blood Tatoo by D.M. Cornish for $3.95 (hardcover). I bought it simply because of the cover, and the fly leaf description. Hope I like it.

Sawubona, Doktor.

*air guitars back at Pandora*

*squeee* New Robin Hobb book! The Inheritance by Robin Hobb and Megan Lindholm. It's a book of short stories by both authors (who are the same person, but different writing styles) from the Six Duchies. I went straight to the store to buy a copy, and will devour it as slowly as I can (yes, that doesn't make sense, but I'm going to attempt it anyway).

#59 That's when you need that LT app on your smart phone!

I forgot to post that the other day the UPS man brought us:
The Social Animal : the Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement
Bird at the Buzzer: UConn, Notre Dame, and a Women's Basketball Classic

Plus my latest ER book Dolci di Love showed up yesterday!

Edited to link to touchstones myself. GRRR!

I don't remember if I announced that I'd gotten the following children's book for the Nook.

Colors by Richard Scarry; Tawny Scrawny Lion; I Saw an Ant on the Railroad Track; and The Elephant's Child. These are in color! and when I open them there is an option to have the Nook read them aloud - perfect for getting a toddler to sit still for a few minutes. I love it!

Three new additions to see out the month:

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz
The Fourth Bear by Jasper Fforde
South of the Border, West of the Sun by Haruki Murakami

After getting Remarkable Creatures, Major Pettigrew's Last Stand, Garden Spells, The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind, and The Chicago Way as presents for my sisters and dad who all have birthdays in April, I rewarded myself by picking up the latest graphic novel in Takehiko Inoue's Vagabond series, based on the life of famous swordsman Miyamoto Mushashi.

Shhh! Don't let them know what I got them.

WOW! # 52, Mrs Lee - that Rackham art book sounds fabulous...another on my wishlist, thanks to you! :)

The postman brought me The Flavor Bible today. It's fabulous!

#71 sounds magical! Enjoy it!