Books Brough Home - Feb. 2012

I caved and purchased Defending Jacob at B&N last nite w a coupon. And downloaded on my Kindle Walk Across The Sun.

Oops a typo in the thread title... that's not good for my first time posting a thread :-(

I think you can fix that, momom. Try editing your message and see if there's an option to edit the title.

If not, no biggie.

My weekend gathering .....

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
The Heart of the Family by Elizabeth Goudge
The Dressmaker by Rosalie Ham
The Habit of Loving Doris Lessing (short stories)
The Story of a Non-Marrying Man and other stories by Doris Lessing

If I Loved You I Would Tell You This by Robin Black (short stories) from the library. This one I know will be very special.

Wicked Beyond Belief and Somebody's Husband, Someone's Son - both non-fiction books on the Yorkshire Ripper, which I am researching for a new novel.

Fuzzi I tried to edit--no go. Oh well..I tried to fix it.

You have ten minutes from posting a botched title to fix it. My understanding is that you do it through editing the first message. After ten minutes the title sticks.

Robert

It's okay, momom, none of us are perfekt. ;)

Thank you Robert & Fuzzi. I will know for next time :-)

Snagged at B&N - A Play of Heresy by Margaret Frazer and Blood of the Prodigal by P. L. Gaus.

Perfume From Provence by Winifred Fortescue

Small Ceremonies by Carol Shields from my library, this is her first novel and I have the companion to read after this The Box Garden, I am looking forward to both reads.

I received Lothaire through Alibris today

Plain Girl by Arthur Miller, a very short novella 52 pages!!

Innocence by Penelope Fitzgerald, the only other of Fitzgerald's books that I have read was The Book Shop and it was a real gem.

The BF and I went on a day trip today and met up with a university friend of ours for lunch and a bit of shopping. Naturally this included what I called a "bookstore crawl"...

At the first store, I finally managed to get a movie tie-in edition of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, which I've read a couple of times and like, and I LOVE the cover.

At the second store, I completed my Martin Beck collection with The Man on the Balcony and picked up the first book in David Downing's John Russell series, Zoo Station (the library doesn't have it for some reason).

At the third store, I ended up taking advantage of the "buy 2, get 1 free" deal twice, picking up six books:
- XPD, by Len Deighton (really into the WW2 stuff these days)
- The Human Factor, by Graham Greene (they had a good selection but this was the most interesting-sounding one. Also it was a Penguin edition with the orange spine, which I like)
- Poor Caroline, by Winifred Holtby (I liked South Riding so thought I'd pick this up. A VMC edition)
- In Spite of Thunder, by John Dickson Carr (this one doesn't really count toward my personal total because I bought it for a friend who collects "Carrsteries")
- By the Way, by Gordon Pinsent (his autobiography... hahaha the first suggested touchstone was the Red Hot Chili Peppers)
- The Face is Familiar, by Ogden Nash (Grandpa has a copy of this but mine is in better condition)

And I may have gone to the library yesterday as well :P No shortage of entertainment, that's for sure.

Books arriving this week:

Three by Graham Greene:

The Heart of the Matter
The End of the Affair
The Quiet American

The Man Within My Head - Pico Iyer's book about his fascination with the life and work of Graham Greene

Latecomers by Anita Brookner
Against a Darkening Sky by Janet Lewis
The Selected Works of T. S. Spivet by Reif Larson

By Nightfall by Michael Cunningham
Flesh and Blood by Michael Cunningham

1Q84 by Haruki Murakami

Leaving the Atocha Station by Ben Lerner

From Audible:

Mystery by Jonathan Kellerman
The Prime Minister by Anthony Trollope
The Duke's Children by Anthony Trollope

For the Kindle this morning:

The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate
Chomp will be delivered 3/27/12
At Canaan's Edge I actually own this in HB, but it's so heavy I decided to use it for viewing the notes, etc. and read it from Kindle

For my granddaughter, I found....

Ted and Friends by P. Roxbee Cox
Miss Marbles's Marvelous Makeover by Sheila Walsh
Brainy Baby: My Right Brain Book by Edith Reynolds
Curious George Takes A Ride by H. A. Rey
Franklin's Friendship Treasury by Paulette Bourgeois
Tom Mouse by Ursula K. Le Guin
The Wishing Bone by Stephen Mitchell
Fisher-Price Phonics Storybooks: A Pal for Pat by Fisher-Price

And to share with my Granddaughter...

Cooking with Mickey & Friends by Pat Baird

Then for myself....

Simple But Perfect Salads by Beverly Le Blanc
Creating a Traditional Christmas
The Relaxation & Stress Reduction Workbook by Martha Davis

Not a bad haul! :)

(18) Nice haul!

Glad to see that Curious George is still around. :)

Yes, Curious George is hard to find, but not impossible. :) When my son was young, he loved watching Curious George on TV, so it's a given that when I find the books, I'm going to get them for his daughter. :)

I found some Curious George books in Spanish for my daughter's Spanish 1 classroom. She said the kids loved them.

The books are starting to trickle in from my latest round of ordering. When I order from AwesomeBooks, they split the order into small packages. So today I received two Nevil Shute books: What Happened to the Corbetts and The Rainbow and the Rose.

From the library:

American Gods by Neil Gaiman
The Ministry of Special Cases by Nathan Englander
The One from the Other by Philip Kerr

I love Philip Kerr's Berlin Noir series, and I also really enjoy Neil Gaiman, especially Neverwhere (for a real treat, listen to him read it on the audio version). Never read any Nathan Englander.

Dogs Never Lie About Love by Jeffrey Masson

The Old Devils by Kingsley Amis

New on my NOOK: The Marriage Plot

Madame Tussaud by Michelle Moran
Three Weeks with My Brother by Nicholas Sparks and his brother Micah Sparks
Dissecting Death by Frederick Zugibe
Learning to Breathe by Andy Cave
Raising A Thinking Child by Myrna B. Shure
Singing at the Top of Our Lungs by Claudia Bepko

Nice haul! :) Question now is....when am I going to find time to read them!

#26..I know how you feel, for me it seems to be an addiction, and an enjoyable one!!

The post office has been busy this week.

Some hardcover replacements for old paperbacks:
The Chequer Board by Nevil Shute
On the Beach by Nevil Shute
Then There Were Five by Elizabeth Enright
Return to Gone-Away by Elizabeth Enright
The Family Vault by Charlotte MacLeod

Read before, and delighted to find my own copy:
The Lights of London by Lucilla Andrews

Not yet read:
Giles: 46th by Giles
The Grub-and-Stakers Pinch a Poke by Alisa Craig
The Acorn People by Ron Jones
Going to Town: Architectural Walking Tours in Southern Ontario by Katherine Ashenburg
The Lady or the Tiger? by Raymond M. Smullyan

@22

I don't know if I should thank you or yell at you:) I'll go with thanks--but if my DH strolls by I'll swear it was all your fault:)

I just checked out the awesomebooks site and they had needed copies for several series that I had been looking for. Wow-- I had to use a lot of restraint!!

>29 debavp:

You're welcome. I find they have a huge selection, and the lowest prices for used books I've found online, when you factor in the free shipping. And their service seems to be good, too. The only quibble I have is that their definition of "Used - Good" is very broad, especially with older paperbacks.

I bought this month:

Defending Jacob, Quiet by Susan Cain, No Mark Upon Her, and Before I go to Sleep. oh and Catch Me by Lisa Gardner.

From Amazon The Hearing Trumpet by Leonora Carrington, oh what a great cover!!!

I brought home two new books:

The Morgaine Saga by C. J. Cherryh
Deerskin by Robin McKinley

Both were very cheap! :-)
Cherryh's one is new (though the bookstore was almost giving it away), and McKinley's book is second-hand!

Giving away CJ Cherryh??????

Morgaine books are very, very good. Once you read those three, you need to read the final, Exile's Gate.

From Audible:

Murder in the Marais by Cara Black

Fuzzi, yes, it was VERY cheap! Compared to other english pocket books at least! I don't know when I'll read it (I have some books in front of it in my TBR pile), but the story seems nice so I brought it home!

I'll see if I can find Exile's Gate too! I didn't know there was a fourth book!

abebooks.com has a copy for only $3.95 with s/h, and it's in good condition:

http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=6424947280&searchurl=an%3Dc...

For those who worry that they have too many books, or that the tbr pile is too high . . . you may find some solace at this link. And if you haven't already discovered Book Haven, you might want to explore -- of course, you'll end up wanting to buy more books, but you were going to do that anyway, weren't you?

http://bookhaven.stanford.edu/2012/02/fondle-them-%e2%80%93-peer-into-them-let-t...

#38 mollygrace, Thank you for the site, I have it in my Favourites and shall read at my leisure.

I recall a book that I once read where the woman was not concerned about night time burglary as the floors of her main rooms were piled high with her books, it was one big booby trap!!!!

I thoroughly enjoyed reading that blog, molly. Thank you for sharing it.

#39.....Now feel totally safe.....I like the book booby trap concept!

My latest arrivals:

Visible Light by CJ Cherryh (TBR)
Angel with the Sword by CJ Cherryh
Cyteen III: The Vindication by CJ Cherryh (TBR)
The Paladin by CJ Cherryh
Serpent's Reach by CJ Cherryh (TBR)

and

Falls the Shadow by Sharon Kay Penman

Now, where am I going to get the time to read these??

Gift card purchases:
What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank by Nathan Englander
Luka and the Fire of Life by Salman Rushdie
Cain by Jose Saramago
The Fifth Queen by Ford Madox Ford
The Prague Cemetery by Umberto Eco

Arrived from Amazon yesterday: Bread and Wine: Readings for Lent and Easter

Just back from B&N. Picked up--

Oath of Fealty by Elizabeth Moon,

The Ice Princess by Camilla Läckberg,

Spider Bones by Kathy Reichs, and

Flash and Bones by Kathy Reichs.

Two BookMooch books arrived today:
The Orchard: A Memoir by Adele Crockett Robertson
The Blackwater Lightship by Colm Toibin

#46 hemlokgang - The Orchard: A Memoir is a special favorite of mine. I hope you like it. I'm a big fan of Toibin, too. I read the other day that he has a new book coming out later this year, a work of nonfiction about writers and their families:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/feb/17/colm-toibin-how-i-killed-my-mother?n...

Finally managed to get out to one of the library's monthly book sales (they used to have one big annual sale, but this year they're doing several smaller sales). The haul:

The Princes of Ireland, by Edward Rutherfurd: borrowed from a co-worker but wanted my own copy. And now I own all of Rutherfurd's books!
The Four False Weapons, by John Dickson Carr: my Carrstery-collecting friend who was with me already has this one, so I kept it for myself.
Athabasca, by Alistair MacLean: even if it wasn't by MacLean I would have picked it up anyway -- I'm a sucker for older thrillers set in Canada.
Oh Canada! Oh Quebec!: Requiem for a Divided Country, by Mordecai Richler: probably dated a bit but I do like Mordecai's work.

Meanwhile my friend managed to pick up the entire Karla trilogy by John le Carré (Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, The Honourable Schoolboy, Smiley's People) in varying editions, meaning now she doesn't have to borrow my copies!

In Country by Bobbie Ann Mason

The Lighted Rooms by Richard Mason..I am looking forward to this after reading a brilliant review with Amazon.

#49 I love In Country - one of my favorites. And they actually managed to make a good movie out of it, too. I hope you enjoy reading this, hazeljune.

From Audible:
The Passage by Justin Cronin

For the Kindle, one of three books being read for One Book, One San Diego:

Sky of Poppies

The Europeans by Henry James

The Attack On The Mill and Other Stories by Emile Zola , (another for my very big short story collection).

For The Patriarch by Angelo Loukakis

A Man Made Of Smoke by Stanley Middleton