Your Library Increases in June

"Common sense tells us that the things of the earth exist only a little, and that true reality is only in dreams." - Charles Baudelaire

What dreams will you be exploring this month?

:) I was gonna call it Joon Bugs at my Door. For our clammy.

:)

Very clever! I like it. Joon bugs on my shelves, too.

*snork*

(Except it was JONE... :o/ which isn't as cute!)

I bought Blackout by Mira Grant yesterday. 3rd book in her Newsflesh trilogy. I'm not normally a fan of zombie books but I stayed up to 2AM finishing this one and it was great. If you haven't run across them before, the other two books in the series are Feed and Deadline.

Oh, forgot to mention The Master and the Margarita showed up in the mail yesterday. :o)

Oh! That is one great book! And the second time I read it it was a whole another experience, compared to the first time...

Downloaded a whole bunch of books from Project Gutenberg for my ereader. Also bought a new Mercedes Lackey in paperback - Beauty and the Werewolf, but haven't read it yet.

I've gone to a stop on ordering online for the moment, because I can't guarantee it won't arrive before I go overseas. I don't want to make it someone go to the post office and collect it for me (that reminds me, I still have to ask someone to do that...).

#10 - Where are ya going? Nosy people want to know.

Not a book, but I couldn't resit. ThinkGeek is selling pint glasses with The Green Dragon pub emblem from the movie etched into the glass. Not cheap, but also, not cheaply made, so the design will last. I am thinking that these glasses will spend a lot of time with me and my books, filled with something lovely and cool. Yes, they come in pints. Flagons, too, only they are calling them steins.

http://www.thinkgeek.com/homeoffice/mugs/e4f8/?icpg=bise

Gah! I definitely need a Green Dragon pint glass! Or two... but as you say, not inexpensive.
Should I thank you or curse you for alerting me of their existence?!?!?!

Those glasses (and mugs) are quite fine!

11 - To visit the potential in-laws in Spain. We're arriving in Europe on the dreaded 1st of July. Yikes!

I bought Bear, Otter and the Kid on Kindle based on reviews. It's good so far. It feels like a mix between the movie Shelter and Falling off the Edge of the Earth (JF Smith)

#14 - Oh! Exciting and terrifying simultaneously. :oD

#14 - The day of The Finals (European Football Championship)!!! Will Spain take the cap? Oh wow, to be there if they win yet another one! Are your potential in-laws into football you'd better read up before arrival ;-)

Were in Spain are you going?

I've finally got a Kindle by means of the great iPhone app, so have been seeking new books out like crazy. I'm about to start Lindsay Buroker's The Emperor's Edge and from the good things I read, I'll probably be working through the rest of the series :)

#14 - I agree with clamairy! :) Hope it is a lovely trip.

#13 - I know, right? I weaseled my way around in my mind until I could justify the cost! Can't wait to give them a test run, and the pints come two to a package, so you could come visit me and drink out of one (for slightly more than the cost of the glasses ;).

Cost including delivery to Sweden is $29.99 (2 pint glasses) + freight $36.84 = $66.83. I'm still trying to find a way to justify the expense but seriously...
*sigh*

Holy BLEEP, why are the shipping costs so terrible? I know you're in Sweden, but still! That's just ridiculous. :o(

Yes, seriously ridiculous. And that was the CHEAP alternative. The expensive was over $42!!!
:(

Was someone going to hand carry them the whole way? On a silver tray or something? :oP

I wouldn't expect anything less ;-)

You can get TWO pint glasses for the price of one stein.

EDIT: oops, that's already been mentioned...oh well...

(19) That's just INCREDIBLE. It's only about $6.00 for me.

I wonder how much it would cost to ship them from here to you....you could order them and send them to me. Then I could (might) send them to you. Hehehehehe...

fuzzi ~~ two minds with the same great thought.

Better yet, Busifer could just come visit us and pick them up. :-)

GMTA, millhold! (great minds think alike)

ok, I did it. I ordered two glasses. I forget but I think the shipping was not cheap, but not like to Sweden. My shipping was in the neighborhood of $8 I think.

If I ordered a pair to Aus, it would be $27 -$40 shipping. I won't be ordering a pair.

I'm seriously considering to ask my local SF bookshop, which also sell SF, F and manga merchandise (like light sabres, hehe) to import/sell those pint glasses.
Would be expensive but not THAT expensive, I hope!

(paying for freight is still cheaper than an US holiday, much as I'd want to visit, lol)

That is too depressing. I want all my friends around the world to have them! :(

*Gleeful that maggie does, though!*

Just bought a used copy of Something Wicked This Way Comes so I can read it along with my Green Dragon buddies.

I'm going to buy those pints for everyone in the family for Christmas! Lovely.

And I too bought a copy of Something Wicked This Way Comes but the system tells me I may not receive it in time to participate in the group read.

How long is it going to take? When is too late?

(33) I think that Jill and I are related...at least until after Christmas!

Jill, there isn't a time limit on the group reads in the GD. We simply add our thoughts and ideas to the Spoiler thread when we finish reading. It works even years after! :) Mine is coming by mail too, and won't be here for a while.

*Hmm, I'm going to have to consider the Christmas gift idea too, only, I think my daughter would prefer The Prancing Pony.*

When I was out of town I stopped at three book stores, 2 new and one used. I brought 9 books home with me! These include a copy of Tea with the Black Dragon because it sounded interesting and the library didn't have a copy, a couple of Georgette Heyers I didn't have, a series by Kevin Hearne, and Wonder, the final book in Robert J. Sawyer's series.

I purchased and just finished reading River Marked.

Northernstar ~~ Which Georgette Heyer books did you get? I am in the process of replacing all of my old ones with new editions. My old ones are falling apart.

I love Tea with the Black Dragon, @NorthernStar! Hope you enjoy it too. :)

I really enjoyed Tea with the black dragon too and just finished the sequel, Twisting the rope which I liked even better!

Woot! My copy of Something Wicked This Way Comes arrived today! Hmmm, I have a couple of other reading obligations before I begin it, but I will start this week.

I have been far too bad to talk about it...

You are among friends, and probably we've all done it before, too.....

(44) @majkia: Bad! Bad! Bad!

Okay, you've been scolded, now tell us what you got! :)

I'm trying very hard NOT to make any book purchases, so I can pay my air conditioning bill this summer. I'm borrowing lots of books from the campus library. :-(

I'm actually quite proud of myself for making it almost 2 weeks into the month without purchasing anything! (I'll confess that this afternoon at lunch, I almost left Half Price Books with a $1 copy of I Am Legend and put it back on the rack only because I didn't find anything else to buy with it.)

Ahhh, Half Price Books--one of my favorite places in the entire world, especially the corporate hedquarters one on Northwest Highway in Dallas.

*Sigh*

I have a HPB by my house, a HPB by my work, and one halfway inbetween on my commute. It's a dangerous, dangerous place, especially the clearance racks (hardcovers for $3, TPBs for $2, MMPBs for $1)...

saltmanz ~~ and it's even more dangerous at the end of the year, when they have the end-of-year inventory clearance.

My second husband and I were married on January 1, just so we could celebrate at HPB every year, then go out to a nice dinner. We went other times as well, but on our anniversary, we'd each leave the store with hundreds of dollars of books. It was grand!

We don't have a HPB here, not that I'm aware of. Probably a good thing!

Today my library was increased by two books: Winds of Fate and Winds of Fury. As I already had book number two in the trilogy, Winds of Change, I now can reread the books in order...

...and it's all the public library's fault! If they hadn't "withdrawn" that series, I could have borrowed it yet again. They made me buy more books!!!

;)

fuzzi ~~ there's a rationalization if I ever heard one. I recognize them, because I almost invented them: when it comes to books, anyway. :-)

:D

A rationalization or even a justification?

(I love LT, we get to use BIG words here!!!) ;)

:-)))

(That emoticon is a double chin laughing.)

=0 (a look of surprise)

I'm feeling very sanctimonious today. Amazon was selling SG1 and Stargate Atlantis, full sets for 80% off, but I forbore to buy it. I don't really need it. I have to replace my car soon, and I need that more than DVD watching pleasures.

MrsLee, you are temptation itself. I don't want to own SG1 or Atlantis (much...) but my sister LOVES those shows and doesn't own either of them yet.

Speaking of my sister, I have a box from her (well, from Amazon) because it's my birthday. Tomorrow. So I have to let it sit there. Until tomorrow. I know there are at least two books in it. I'm pretty sure I know what both of them are. I want my boooooks!

(At least it's not like last year, when I got the package a week early.)

Happy Birthday a day early, Sal. How young are you?

Thanks, fuzzi! I'll be 31.

MrsLee - I take it back. Did you look at the reviews? There is a reason the prices are so low. Apparently the packaging is terrible and many of the discs come damaged. I was talking to my dad about getting them for my sister, but we decided against it because of the hundreds of negative reviews.

Ack! My daughter will be 31 in Dec...I feel old...

;) Have a great birthday!

#40 - the Georgette Heyers are Regency Buck and Faro's Daughter. I have quite a few of her books, but would like to eventually get the ones I don't have. The used book store actually had about 5 that I was missing, but since I was flying home I restrained myself.

#41, 42 - Tea with the Black Dragon sounded good from all the comments in the group read thread, so I was happy to find a copy, even if it is a bit late.

I just received Fundamentals of Psycholinguistics. I'm thinking of using bits of it for readings in class.

Hmn, on first read my brain interpreted that as "psyching fundamentalist style by use of language". I hope I wasn't even close ;-)

So I couldn't wait any longer and I opened the box. My sister sent me three books: one I knew I was getting, one I suspected I was getting, and one was a complete surprise. I love them all.

Bitterblue by Kristin Cashore - I've already read it, but I love this series and will definitely read it again (although probably not soon as it is an upsetting book)

Redshirts by John Scalzi - Scalzi is one of my favorite authors and I'm starting that one as soon as I finish typing this post

Space Chronicles by Neil deGrasse Tyson - He's so awesome!! I'm excited about this one too! It's rare for me to be this excited about nonfiction!

So far this month my badness:

Cypress Grove by James Sallis

A Plunge into Space by Robert Cromie - free!

The Sherlockian by Graham Moore _ I've been lusting for this for some time.

A Kiss Before Dying Ira Levin

The Concrete Blonde Michael Connelly

Stealing Trinity - Ward Larsen

Lonely Hearts John Harvey - Charlie Resnick 1

The Cater Street Hangman Anne Perry

Six Days of the Condor James Grady

The Hammer KJ Parker

All of these are ebooks and were marked down, so there is that. However, I paid full price for

The Winter King by Bernard Cornwell - just because I want to read it NOW. Well, after I'm finished with the two books I'm reading at the moment.

I rec'd two Green Dragon glasses from Think Geek, yesterday. I feel so special.

#60 - No, I didn't get that far! Thank you, now I feel better about not purchasing!

#67 - :( Mine haven't come yet. I did end up purchasing more for Christmas gifts. It's good to spread purchases throughout the year, right? I also am getting two cool things for free, for stocking stuffers. A tardis mug and a clicker that you can play havoc with around people watching TV. The clicker was a special coupon item.

I got an email today. The Teaching Company wanted to inform me that they have a limited time sale on literature courses. I needed a diversion from work so I checked what courses were included and lo and behold, there was a new course taught by John McWhorter! How could I not buy that, at a bargain?!?!?!
So now I have 24 lectures concerning the Myths, Lies, and Half-Truths of Language Usage to listen to :)

Oh MrsLee, you are a terrible influence! Those Green Dragon glasses are wonderful! Christmas present suggestion perfection.

I received two Persephone books in the mail yesterday, Lady Rose and Mrs. Memmary (supposedly the Queen's mum's favourite book), and Harriet, a fictional re-telling of an actual murder case in 1877. I do love Persephone books, they're so elegant looking and just the perfect size.

Still haven't made any purchases this month (good boy!) but yesterday my ARC of Ian C. Esslemont's Orb Sceptre Throne (that I won from Tor.com back in early April) finally arrived!

My recently ordered copy of Something Wicked This Way Comes has arrived. Woop! woop! horray!

So, I swore I wasn't going to indulge in buying more books until I read at least a few more from the piles of unread ones I already own. But... well... my daughter and I went to visit this newish book store in the mall called Bookmark It. (Get it, sounds like Book Market?) Anyway, everything is a remainder from elsewhere. Most of them are in pristine condition but have that swoosh on the pages that some stores add when they sell remainders by the pallet. It's $3 a book or 2 for $5, which isn't bad. They've gone to a decent effort to sort by genre and keep things alphabetized. I have browsed in there before but never found 2 books I had to have. But I spent a little more time yesterday and I found the 4th in the Mistress of the Art of Death series, called A Murderous Procession, which I guess is the last thing Ariana Franklin wrote before she passed away. :o( I have listened to the first three and really enjoyed them. I also found a copy of The Emperor of All Maladies that was a slightly bent in one corner. So, I increased my TBR (aka Mount Toobie) by two.

I recently bought A Murderous Procession too, from BookCloseOuts. I've only read the first one so far, but now have the complete set, so I'm looking forward to reading the rest of them. I do like the main character, she is great.

She is! Adelia kicks some serious medieval buttocks! I was brokenhearted when I found out the author had passed. :o(

Yes, me too, I was hoping for a long series. :(

I received my last book for June (or at least I'm going to try my very best to make it the last), The Victorian Chaise-Longue. A friend lent it to me last year and it's such a great story that I wanted my own copy. And it's another Persephone publication, again, these are simple, lovely books.

I'm going on vacation tomorrow (10 days!), so I've been downloading free books (Pixel of Ink is checked daily), and downloading books from the two libraries I have cards from. So far, I've added the new Nora Roberts book The Witness (paid full price, but used Mother's Day gift card); Artifacts: a Faye Longchamp Mystery, Mending Fences by Lucy Francis; Girl in the Gatehouse by Julie Klassen. And a few others. I'll check the libraries again tonite. Hopefully, the free reads are decent. I've gotten these solely on reading the reviews, except the Roberts one. Sometimes even with good reviews, I've gotten some duds...but since they're free, what the heck.

I usually set my book budget limit to $30 a month. But I haven't bought anything for several months. Either I used the library, or free downloads. And I've been in a sewing mood rather than a reading mood for quite some time. Should get lots of reading done, as 4 of the vacation days will be spent on Amtrak.

My library has been increased again by one, but I am puzzled: I ordered and received Winds of Fate and Winds of Fury last week, but today I received an additional copy of the former book. My account shows just the original two ordered and paid for...what gives?

I wandered into a thrift store this morning and came away with Uncharted Territory by Connie Willis. One step closer to having them all!

Well, my county library gave up The Woman in Black for me to read. I am surprised as the last book I asked for took them well over a month to cough up, and by then the group read was finished, and most did not like the book, so I did not check it out. So, this one I did check out and I have next to read. Most reviews I've seen are pretty good.

I have been given the use of an i Pad through work, and have discovered free e-books!

(like I needed MORE books????)

Because I am a geek and because I was too excited to be there again to not buy something, I bought The TARDIS Handbook before the board game meetup at B&N yesterday. It is kind of hilarious to read, because things that sound almost reasonable spoken one line at a time in the tv show sound absolutely ridiculous when strung together on page after page in a kind of pseudo-serious history/manual format.

>80 Choreocrat: Choreocrat, I adore Uncharted Territory. One of my favorite Connie Willises. I hope you'll enjoy it too.

For Father's Day, I order myself some stuff off of AbeBooks:

Mary Gentle's Ash: A Secret History omnibus
Randall Garrett's Lord Darcy omnibus
Ricardo Pinto's The Standing Dead
Terry Moore's Strangers in Paradise: Immortal Enemies

Here's my quite modest haul from my Virago book group meetup in Oxford:


In addition, my sister bought me the Everyman hardcover collection of Ray Bradbury's short stories for my (belated) birthday present.

I have loved Archy and Mehitabel forever!

A friend's library increases by one book this June. I bought her a copy of The Harper Hall to help her get back into the swing of reading. She's been a busy woman over the past 6 years, and she's finally catching a break.

Technically, there are three books in that binding, but why quibble over specifics?

(88) That's my favorite McCaffrey series. :)

>87 maggie1944:: I've been wanting to read it forever - can't wait!

>88 justjukka:, 89: Mine too. Great choice Rozax, those books are impossible to put down. Hope your friend enjoys them.

Picked up a 20 Volume set of Patrick O'Brians Aubrey Maturin books in Trade Paperback at a booksale for $20 alltogether. Lovely condition. Always meant to read these. Totally the best bargain of the year.

Needed some grocery shopping today so just happened to go via the charity shop. Picked up another four books:

The Coroner's Lunch by Colin Cotterill
Automated Alice by Jeff Noon
Canticle by R.A. Salvatore
The Fire Engine That Disappeared by Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo

>89 fuzzi:, 90: Mine too! The first McCaffrey story I read was The Smallest Dragonboy, but this is the story that sealed the deal!

I decided I have been too hard on Terry Pratchett so I finally bought Snuff. Don't expect much more than a laugh, these days, but sometimes that's enough.
And why stop at one book? I decided I'd bring In the plex home with me - I have been in the process of getting it - and reading it - ever since I read Inside Apple earlier this year but somehow I have always put it off.

Received, read and reviewed Christmas Horse. :)

Got Casket of Souls for my birthday. Big Smile.
If my willpower can handle it though, I'd like to keep it to read when I have a week off work in July.

Blitz arrived, woo!

Nothing else is expected, except a giveaway book.

Copper Canyon Press gave me "The Sea and the Bells" by Pablo Neruda in return for a donation. It's a collection of poems he wrote when his death was near. Beautiful poems (and a splendid introduction by translator William O'Daly).

I got Existence by David Brin, Sanctus by Simon Toyne and an ebook of Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham

I found The Heart of a Woman for $1 at the library!

As in I found a copy of a book with that title... not an actual heart. ;o)

I picked up The Prayer of Jabez by Bruce Wilkinson yesterday for a group read with a non-profit organization that I'm on the board of. A couple members of the board want us all to read it and see if we can apply it to the organization.

Fun after work tonight!

Far Side of the Mountain by Jean George

The Silver Chair, The Horse and His Boy, The Magician's Nephew and The Last Battle by CS Lewis

The Empty Schoolhouse by Natalie Savage Carson

The Will to Win by Jane McIlvaine

Science and the Bible By Henry M. Morris

I got The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore which was taken from the Academy Award winning short movie! Love it.

#103 - I'm jealous!

#103, are you going to write about it on your reading thread? I want to hear your reaction.

From the 3 for £5 range I managed to snag:

For the Win: Organize to Survive! by Cory Doctorow (really liked Little Brother so looking forward to this one)
Rebellion by James McGee (already read the first 3 in the Matthew Hawkwood series)
Prophecy by S.J. Parris (first in this series is sitting on tbr shelves so added this to make up the three)

ETA correct touchstones

Just acquired:
The Beauty and the Sorrow: An Intimate History of the First World War by Peter Englund
O Jerusalem and A Monstrous Regiment of Women and A Letter of Mary, all by Laurie King because I am SO loving The Beekeeper's Apprentice
Bombay Anna, about Anna Leonowens of "The King and I" fame

I'm SO glad you love The Beekeeper's Apprentice!

That and O Jerusalem are probably my favorites, but not by much. Locked Rooms was also great...but don't read out of order!

Just downloaded Martyrs Mirror and The Complete Tales of Uncle Remus.

I ran across something somewhere saying that O Jerusalem belonged between Apprentice and Regiment in the internal chronology of the series, even though it wasn't written until a few books later...so should I read it next, or wait and read it in the order in which it was published?

O Jerusalem takes place during The Beekeepers Apprentice...so wait until you read the other two. :)

Will do--thank you!

>104 clamairy:, 105: I'll go write a review of it right now. Hint: loved it, and 6 year old boy loved it, too.

I realised that I wanted to read some Iain M Banks on my vacation and detoured to the SF bookshop today to get Player of games. Had also intended to pick up Redshirts, inspired by talk here in the pub, but was devastated to learn that they were out of stock!!! Looked at some of the Old Man's War sequels but decided against. I didn't like that one THAT much and there's still a lot of unread books on my shelves...

I am SO PROUD of my self-control!
;-)

I borrowed Fuzzy Nation on audio from the library and really enjoyed it. Wil Wheaton's reading was a little fast, to my ears, in the beginning but I quickly got used to it. Loved the dog and the Fuzzies. One of the rare times an audio story kept me up all night listening rather than gently lulling me to sleep. I want to listen to Wheaton read Redshirts but the library doesn't have it *sigh*

Maybe I should had picked Fuzzy nation; it was on the shelf? Hmn, maybe next time...

Fuzzy Nation - fluffy with those currents of deeper thought we were talking about in GeorgiaDawn's thread. Reminiscent of the movie Avatar.

I've not read Fuzzy Nation, but I have read the book it was based upon, Little Fuzzy by H Beam Piper. It's a real gem.

I won an ER book, Jersey Joe Walcott: A Boxing Biography by James Curl. I'm looking forward to reading it. Maybe I should read The Fight first, which has been sitting on my TBR shelf for about 8 years...oops!

I loved the H.Beam Piper Fuzzy books, and was a bit leery of Scalzi's re-boot, but it's actually very good.

I got a copy of The Long Earth. It was enjoyable.