June's Bountiful Book Booty

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I added a couple or three more and was going to start this thread yesterday but forgot.

Triggerfish Twist by Tim Dorsey
Brighton Rock by Graham Greene
Map of Bones by James Rollins

Our Borders store is closing, so I grabbed a couple of things (they're only 20% off atm).

I got Liberator by Richard Harland (no touchstone)
and The Demi-monde: Winter

I'll likely go back again later this week.

The Lifeline Bookfest is coming up this weekend, I usually find a lot of books for a bargain there, looking forward to doing the same this time round.

I went to Cologne for a short weekend break, and found the wonderful English Books and Tea shop... The owner gave me tips on SF reading, and I got:

Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein
A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula Le Guin
The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell (been looking forever for that one!)
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card

I went ahead and bought Progeny the children of the white lion and both Terrene Chronicles for my Kindle app. They make me happy.

I don't know why I have such a hard time getting the touchstone for Progeny. Finally managed to force it.

June's additions to the TBR shelves (so far)

84, Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff
A Very Long Engagement by Sébastien Japrisot
The Cure for Death by Lightning by Gail Anderson-Dargatz

This morning my Kindle app downloaded L.A. Noire: The Collected Stories. It's kind of nice to have a preorder just appear on its release date with no effort on my part. And, it was only 99¢.

At a book fair I got

Three Joe Pickett mysteries by C.J. Box
Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather
Beloved by Willa Cather
Two Meridian graphic novels
The Buddha from Brooklyn by Martha Sherrill
and Death of an Ardent Bibliophile by Bartholomew Gill

Oh, Saturday I got Britain AD via BookMooch. I had to laugh about getting a book on British history from someone in Germany.

My friend showed me an offer in the Book People catalogue on a pack of 10 Mary Stewart paperbacks with gorgeous covers for £9.99. No, no, I said, I can pick up used copies, I don't need to order them new.

10 books by Mary Stewart arrived from the Book People today :-/ What can I say, I have the willpower of a newt.

Also saw that my local library is having a book sale this week . . .

Found a hardback copy of Watchmen for £5. Looks like HMV had overstocked and are trying to offload them. Also picked up The Maltese Falcon, Silence of the Grave and Count Zero. It's entirely possible that I might actually read some of these this year.

I've been trying to cut down on the book buying as I've got so many to read already. But I did pick up:

Retribution Falls - Chris Wooding and
The Edge of the World - Kevin J Anderson

I keep looking at the title for this thread and asking myself..."have I been lurking June's threads? Who is June?" then...duh, I find my brain.

6 - MrsLee

I know you read Progeny a while back - did you purchase a hard copy and Kindle edition? How dedicated of you. :)

PS - The first five chapters in the Kindle edition have been re-edited from the initial hard copy. Plus, any new hard copies purchased get the updates too, (with a few spiffy cover editions). You have one of the orgininals, then. :)

I just bought Eon by Alison Goodman, and A Game of Thrones and A Clash of Kings, so I'm done buying books for a while...agian...again.

Goodwill reached out and yanked my car into the parking lot on Tuesday.

Paintbox Summer by Betty Cavanna
Tales of Time and Space edited by Ross Olney
When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit by Judith Kerr
The Case of the Moth-Eaten Mink by Erle Stanley Gardner
The Case of the Black-Eyed Blonde by Erle Stanley Gardner
The Case of the Long-Legged Models by Erle Stanley Gardner

So then, in for a penny - in for a pound, I stopped by a used bookstore downtown and found

When the Astors Owned New York by Justin Kaplan
"Funny, You Don't Look Like a Grandmother" by Lois Wyse
Evil Wives by John Marlowe

I bought Showing Up for the Golden Years: Resetting the Retirement Mindset by Marielle Higler at a book reading a couple of weekends ago. She is charming and wants to help older women facing an uncertain financial future find their way. And who knows where a certain financial future is, any way?

The group listening to her were charmed by her and decided on the spot to start a little support group for women in her target audience. You will probably hear more about the author and the book, too.

>17 MerryMary:: "Goodwill reached out and yanked my car into the parking lot on Tuesday."

LOL! I walk everywhere, but bookshops are always reaching out and pulling me in. No-one is safe!

#15 sorry to see no epub edition of Progeny... :(

I trieds to get it om Smashwords, but they don't offer DRM. It scares me to put the book out in a format that can be sent about like any other file.

#21 you could try kobobooks.com or the sony reader store. they do have adobe drm but as such not locked into a single reader.

#15 - Yep, I have both versions now, but my hardcopy is busy visiting friends, and I wanted the Terrene Chronicles, so they are like a set on my Kindle. ;)

As long as your hardcopy comes back home, let it visit (especially since you have the first edition cover - new ones started going out at beginning of month). It's little things like what you're doing that spreads the word for a little bitty indie author like me.

FYI - the next bundle of stories in the Terrene Chronicles will be out in a few days. 'Rivals' takes a look at the cultures of Sudash and some of the 'bad guys' within Progeny. It's a good read - I think #7, Ascension, is my favorite of all nine I've written.

Plus, it's as big as Merchant and Family combined. These three got a little out of hand...Combined, all nine short stories are nearly half the length of Progeny. :)

PS - Taking a break from the Terrene Chronicles for a bit - back to editing #2 in The Children of the White Lions series again. It's like seeing a long lost friend after not looking at the manuscript for 3 months.

June is extra employee discount days at the bookstore where I work, so it's impossible not to come home with at least a few!

An Echo in the Bone by Diana Gabaldon
The Bronze Horseman by Paullina Simons
One Day by David Nicholls
The Passage by Justin Cronin
Claimed by the Wolf by Charlene Teglia

And I got my ER book today, too: The Wild Rose by Jennifer Donnelly. :)

Broken one of my own rules - I still have a lot of ebooks to read, but accidently strayed into a charity shop and then a bookshop and ended up with:

Terminal World
I shall wear midnight
the cobra
our kind of traitor
Encounters with animals
Birds beasts and relatives

which is sufficently varied to keep me entertained for a while.

Well somehow I drifted into a couple of shops that sell books and ended up coming out with The Songlines by Bruce Chatwin and Behind the Scenes at the Museum by Kate Atkinson.

I liked The Songlines a lot. Hope you find it a good read.

I saw a copy of The Phantom Tollbooth and the 2nd book in the Parasol Protectorate series, Changeless, on the shelves of a 3 for £5 display. Made up the 3 with Hollywood Moon.

As mentioned elsewhere, I snagged a pristine, autographed, hardcover copy of Taking Sides by Bernard Levin at the library's sale yesterday -- for the equivalent of under US$1!

#28 - Thanks Joe, I hope so to.

#29 - Dave - wow great deal. I loved The Phantom Tollbooth.

#30 - Hugh - that is another great deal. Good for you:)

Wednesday I picked up Dragon Soul by Jaida Jones that I special ordered from my local Indie bookstore in anticipation of the ER book I won in the May batch. Via bookmooch this week I received Sword-Born by Jennifer Roberson and The Dragon Earl by Jade Lee.

I've been really good about not adding to my sagging shelves and standing piles, but I visited the sale shelf at the library yesterday. The newish trade paperbacks are only $1 so I snagged:

The Full Cupboard of Life
In the Company of Cheerful Ladies
Revolutionary Road

I finished Liberator by Richard Harland that I got the other day. I suggest those of you who read Worldshaker put it on your wishlists. It's a sequel that improved on the original!

The library near where I work had its quarterly book sale last week and I picked up
The Virago book of ghost stories
Volumes 2 & 3 of C. S. Friedman's Coldfire trilogy
The chronicles of Amber first 5 stories
The silver mage by Katherine Kerr
Warrior by Jennifer Fallon.

With books at 50p each, I made several visits during the week!

After seeing it mentioned on another thread I picked up The Castle Omnibus by Steph Swainston. The first book of the trilogy has been on my wishlist for a while and as the omnibus was quite reasonably priced I thought I might as well.

>36 AHS-Wolfy:: That is sitting on my tbr pile. I always buy omnibus editions when I see them because they seem like such a good deal, but then I am really slow to read them because they are so physically huge that I can't carry them around!

I finally found Before They Are Hanged and Last Argument of Kings in epub format for the US so I snatched them up. I've had book one for some time and was furious when they stopped selling the others to the US.

Also picked up (on special) the epub of The Edge of the World

I finally folded and bought a book today - Embassytown, by China Miéville.
Also some Asterix albums, one of which is a replacement for one I have that is falling to pieces.

I'm a bad person, but I just felt I had to ;)

I think I forgot to brag that I found Janny Wurts' That Way Lies Camelot at the Half Price book store! Woo hoo. I've read the first short story and loved it, wishing it were a novel length long story.

Today I visited my friend Carol's Santoro's Books and bought: 1. Zombie Economics A Guide to Personal Finance, Paris to the Moon, In the Garden of Beasts and The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris. Zombie Economics is funny and serious, just what I need! I wanted the hardcover copy of In the Garden of Beasts for the photographs (hahahahah, there is only one). And, the David McCullough The Greater Journey just looks great! I am happy, if a bit more poor. Oh, I got a great deal, 20% off all but the personal finance book, and that I got with a frequent buying credit at Carol's great store.

If you are in Seattle, go find it. Well worth the effort.

I bought books 2, 3 and 4 in the Temeraire series. Instead of paying A$50, I paid A$15 by buying online. No wonder the bookstores are going under here.

Just got a copy of the 7 Habits of Highly Effective People in the mail from Powell's.

Just treated myself to Corona, by Thomas Thiemeyer. He is a German writer in the style of Preston and Child... Yay!

Picked up Dirty Havana Trilogy from the local charity shop and as I can never seem to leave with just one book I also added The Bird Room to the tbr shelves as well.

My Handbook of the International Phonetic Association finally arrived. I decided it was high time I owned my own copy.

Peacock Spring
Two Under the Indian Sun
In This House of Brede
Kingfishers Catch Fire

All by Rumer Godden of Black Narcissus Fame. All Hardcovers! and a dollar each...go me.

You don't see much of her stuff around here in the U.S.A

Also continued to build my mountain of Arthur W. Upfield with:

The Bachelors of Broken Hill 2 Copies Different Editions
The New Shoe
Sinister Stones

Another author that I haven't see around much.

You don't see much of her stuff around here in the U.S.A

...except at my house. I love her writing, and I have several.

48 MerryMary

Great Stuff! Did you ever see the BBC TV version of Peacock Spring? That's Awesome, still waiting for it to come out on DVD.

I pick her books up whenever I see them. Finding 4 at once was like finding treasure (although I already had the paperback of Peacock Spring)

Haven't seen that one, cosmicdolphin. I'll be on the lookout.

A quick trip to the library yielded A Natural History of the Chicago Region and Taking Dutch Further

#49 Yes I liked Peacock Spring too, both book & TV version, and I've been looking for a copy of Black Narcissus for years (since I saw the film, in fact).

I am tickled. Just was reminded by the Mystery Survey that I have been trying to find mysteries by E. C. Bentley Trent's Last Case and The Woman in Black for quite some time without success, then thought of Gutenberg and found them there! They now await my reading pleasure on my netbook. Also added The Woman in White so I could have that Taj Mahal thing going on.

Library books which have arrived this month:
Wise Man's Fear
Treason Keep
Painter of Shanghai - reading group book
Hell's belles
Hand of Isis

It was my birthday this month and I'd asked for Seer of Sevenwaters, knowing that I would not get it until September when it was published in UK. It does not seem to have been published in hardback here. But my lovely brother managed to get a copy from Canada and though it didn't quite make it for my birthday he managed to magically produce it 2 days later! Isn't that lovely?

That is a lovely and understanding brother! :)

I've just bought Dragon Haven by Robin Hobb, as I'm reading the first one in that trilogy, and have just finished rereading the other 9 set in that world. Just love them, favourite books.

I also bought The Poison Diaries - I'm not sure why. It seems a bit young for what I usually like, and full of pathos. But the writing seems so beautiful, and I guess I couldn't resist a story of true love.

Damn, Goodwill. Drove up to the back door to drop off a bin full of clothing and books...and then went in the front door and bought some more books.

Snowbound With Betsy - Carolyn Haywood
The Star Fisher - Laurence Yep
Essentials of Children's Literature - Carol Lynch-Brown
My Life as a Book - Janet Tashjian
Mannheim Steamroller Christmas: A Night Like No Other - Chip Davis
The Rose Without a Thorn - Jean Plaidy
Life is Just a Chair of Bowlies - Mary Engelbreit
Sex Lives of the Kings and Queens of England - Nigel Cawthorne
Married to Laughter - Jerry Stiller
Baby Angels - Jane Cowen-Fletcher
Best-Loved Children's Stories - illus by Barbara Lanza

I'm hopeless.

Just 'found' a whole pile of classic SF that was once my (late) dad's. Asimov, Heinlein, Le Guin, Clarke, Bradbury, Zelazny... I am very happy as I am getting more and more into (classic) SF and it's nice to 'get' these from my dad. :-)

I decided to participate in a book club read arranged by a professional organisation I belong to which meant that of course I needed to get the book. So - Subject to change: Creating great products and services for an uncertain world is now on its way to my home.
Guess I need to add it to my Summer Stack because the discussion is scheduled for August 22nd...

Got a book from the UK today: Clear Waters Rising: A Mountain Walk Across Europe

Two of the books I ordered online have arrived - Temeraire books 3 and 4. Pity I'm waiting on no. 2 before I start 3 and 4... :P

Downloaded to my Kindle 11 Alexandre Dumas books today, including all of the Three Muskateers sequence.

Even on holiday I managed to stumble into some charity/2nd hand shops and came home with a dozen additions.

The Long Ships by Frans G. Bengtsson
The Devil and Blitz by Ken Bruen
The Death of Bunny Munro by Nick Cave
Lullaby Town and Free Fall by Robert Crais
Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said by Philip K. Dick
Inconceivable by Ben Elton
The Good Angel of Death by Andrey Kurkov
The Curse of Chalion by Lois McMaster Bujold
Fool by Christopher Moore
The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness

Latest additions to the overflowing TBR shelves and the last for June

Bee Season by Myra Goldberg
The Kingdom of the Wicked by Anthony Burgess
Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories by Oscar Wilde
Enchantment by Orson Scott Card
The Earthquake Bird by Susanna Jones
Divine Endurance by Gwyneth A. Jones