Books Brought Home July/August 2012

Feeling sluggish in this heat.....so I combined two months.....what have you brought home?

Nothing yet, it's Sunday.

But I have ordered several and expect them to arrive this week. :) Hopefully!

Downloaded Uncle Tom's Cabin because I haven't read it in ~ 50 years and I'm reading Battle Cry of Freedom which is seriously discussing it's impact on the south. Seemed obvious I needed to re-read it.

From BookMooch:
Mutiny: A Novel of the Bounty by John Boyne

From ER:

Jersey Joe Walcott: A Boxing Biography

And from the public library (today):

Life With Father / Life With Mother (never have read this one)
How Green Was My Valley (a favorite, was on my wishlist)

And the pile grows ever higher...

I LOVED Uncle Tom's Cabin! I read it last summer! Absolutely fantastic!

Today I received my own copy of My Friend Flicka, a reread, and my own copy of Across Five Aprils, which I've never read.

And the library had my reserve ready: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn.

Aaarrgh!

I am reading another mystery by Les Roberts. It is a Cleveland mystery called "Deep Shaker." His mysteries are fun reads & finished in a couple hours.

Somehow I read "Les Roberts" as if it were in French (as in, "The Roberts"). But why would a mystery be credited to a group of people referred to collectively using a shared first name?

>#9. I just did the same thing. Although, I'm studying French in preparation for a move to Montreal, so that probably has something to do with it.

I borrowed the N.K. Sanders translation of The Epic of Gilgamesh from my local library. It has me in the mood for some other ancient works so I might have to revisit some of my Ancient work favourites now.

Found The Anne of Green Gables Treasury this afternoon, looks good!

By combining two months, the books bought list could be a long one. I have just done a check to see what i have bought and i can't believe it, admittedly it was my birthday last friday but i think i should have joined the 75 ers or the 100 books bought club because i think i would have a very good chance of acheiving them. Here goes, let the list begin.

Fallen by Karin Slaughter
Fractured by Karin Slaughter
The Peshawar Lancers by S.M.Stirling
The Chronicles of Morgaine by C.J.Cherryh
Voyage to the City of the Dead by Alan Dean Foster
Slipless in Settle by Harry Pearson
11:22:63 by Stephen King
Eddy Merckx- The Cannibal by Daniel Friebe
Merckx- Half man, Half bike by William Fotheringham
Please Sir by Jack Sheffield
The Decision by Penny Vincenzi
Horus Rising by Dan Abnett
The Desert Spear by Peter v. Brett
The Scarlatti Inheritance by Robert Ludlum
The Red Wyvern by Katherine Kerr
Crossroads of Twilight by Robert Jordan
Exiles Gate by C.J.Cherryh
The Victory by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles
The Hidden Shore by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles
Wizard's First Rule by Terry Goodkind

Rotary club book sale yesterday, and flea market today, both outdoors. I practised restraint and didn't get many books (of course, the fact that the hot sun was beating down on me kind of slowed me down, too).

How to Do Everything: from the man who should know, Red Green by Steve Smith
Things That Go Squeak in the Night by Gregory Clark
13 Clues for Miss Marple by Agatha Christie
The Woman Who Can't Forget by Jill Price
Surprised by Joy by C. S. Lewis
Coming Home by Rosamunde Pilcher
Twenty Wishes by Debbie Macomber

From Open Letter Series:
The Planets by Sergio Chejfec

Got a new one in the mail today (an 'old' book, actually): Lochinvar Luck. It's another collie story by the author of Lad: A Dog, Albert Payson Terhune.

No one buying books????????

Oh, the HORROR!

;)

I have a few on order, but they haven't started trickling in yet. I suppose I could mention my 2 copies of From Farm to Plate : Egg production in Canada, 1972 to 2012, but I don't suppose it would spark much interest.

P.S. I can't even force a touchstone for it.

I came home last Friday to find an early birthday surprise waiting on my front porch: four books sent to me via Amazon by a dear college friend!! My new reads are:
Montana 1948 by Larry Watson
Harry, A History by Melissa Anelli
I Want My Hat Back by Jon Klassen
The Most Beautiful Libraries in the World

I bought 2 The Sandcastle Girls and The Night Circus. No will power when it comes to books...

>19 momom248:

What do you mean "no will power". You bought 2 books. You could have bought 4. Or 6. Or 8. And you bought only 2 - this is called will power. :)

I received the copy of Major Works of Sir Philip Sidney through PBS this week. I've been cutting back on buying books, since they would just end up in the box until I can get yet another bookshelf.

AnnieMod, that was just one store and just one day this week..you could say the week is still younger.. for book buying :-)

A collection of essays by Marilynne Robinson "When I was a Child, I Read Books." So far, very good. Like everything she writes.

>22 momom248:

Still - I suspect the store had more than 2 books :)

I ordered four books through AbeBooks on July 2nd. Three books from three different stores in the UK all arrived yesterday, while the one book that only had to come 140 miles across the border from the US has not yet appeared, although they shipped it on the 3rd. Guess the Royal Mail wins over the USPS on this one. (Couldn't possibly be Canada Post messing up, could it...?)

The three that have arrived are:
Henrietta Sees It Through : More news from the Home Front, 1942-1945 by Joyce Dennys - I recently discovered Henrietta, and I wish there were more than just the two books.

Summerhills by D. E. Stevenson - a hardcover replacement for my battered old paperback.

A Chalet Girl from Kenya by Elinor M. Brent-Dyer - only two more and I'll have the whole series!

#19 mom mom just two books is will power my late husband always tested me and said Ty to come with a handful instead of a flatbed of books......I read the night circus interesting......I just got an iPad and downloaded the sandcastle girls haven't started it yet

Judged a book by its cover and bought home Apocalypse Cow from Dymocks. No idea if it's any good but I do like a good zombie tale and how can you go wrong with a title like that?

From BookMooch:
Person of Interest by Susan Choi

From amazon:

A Recipe for Bees by Gail Anderson-Dargatz
Wystan and Chester by Thekla Clark

While I am glad that the wonderful Russell Books of Victoria, BC, exists, I am perhaps even gladder that it is normally across the continent from me. Made the pilgrimage today and came out with the following:

The Last Frontier, by Alistair MacLean (I know it's the wrong touchstone, but my laptop has a really fussy trackpad and I forgot my mouse, so clicking things is a right nuisance)
Where Eagles Dare, by Alistair MacLean
The Ship, by C.S. Forester
The Gun, by C.S. Forester
Postern of Fate, by Agatha Christie
An April Shroud, by Reginald Hill
A Dustbin of Milligan, by Spike Milligan
The Looney, by Spike Milligan
The Dam Busters, by Paul Brickhill
Three Bits of Fry and Laurie, by Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie (now THIS was a find!)
Scotchman's Return and Other Essays, by Hugh MacLennan

And the scary thing is I'm considering a return trip, despite being in town for only a couple more days.

I resolved to buy fewer books in 2012, which I've mainly adhered to, but I visited our local charity shop yesterday and couldn't resist A Time of Gifts and Between The Woods and The Water by Patrick Leigh Fermor. I've heard so much about these books and at just £1.99 the pair, the offer was too good to miss.

Another day, another bookstore. This time it was Munro's Books of Victoria. I was more restrained this time, picking up A Trick of the Light by Louise Penny in hardcover (I had wanted to get a trade paperback, since it's out now, but the hardcover was in the bargains section. Seven bucks!) and Afternoon Tea, by Muriel Moffat, which is about tea at the Fairmont Empress Hotel in Victoria. (There are a million touchstones for "Afternoon Tea" and none of them appear to be what I want.) The tea book is actually a gift for my grandma so I feel somewhat virtuous in my book buying today :P

July has been a really bad month for me with all the books bought, i need to stop buying and increase the reading but hey i like buying books.

20/07/12
The Litigators by John Grisham
Bared to You by Sylvia Day

23/07/12
The Cat who saw Red
The Cat who played Brahms } by Lilian Jackson Braun
The Cat who talked to Ghosts

24/07/12
Miss Silver comes to Stay by Patricia Wentworth
The Exception by Christian Jungersen
Blood of the Fold by Terry Goodkind
Burley Cross postbox Theft by Nicola Barker
The Sword from Red Ice by J.V.Jones

27/07/12
Beyond Black
Wolf Hall } by Hilary Mantel
A Place of Greater Safety

The Beach Hut
The Birthday Party } by Veronica Henry
Just a Family Affair

A Countryman's Lot
The Luck of a Country Woman } by Max Hardcastle
This Country Business

An Auctioneer's Lot
Sold to the man with the Tin Leg } by Philip Serrell

Some Tame Gazelle
Less Than Angels
Jane and Prudence } by Barbara Pym
A Glass of Blessings
An Academic Question

Shakespeare's Landlord
Shakespeare's Champion
Shakespeare's Christmas }by Charlaine Harris
Shakespeare's Trollop
Shakespeare's Counselor

It Ends with Revelations
The Town in Bloom } by Dodie Smith
The New Moon with the Old

The Singing Sands
The Man in the Queue
Miss Pym Disposes
A Shilling for Candles
Brat Farrar } by Josephine Tey
The Franchise Affair
The Daughter of Time
To Leave and be Wise

Frederica in Fashion
Diana the Huntress
Daphne
Deirdre and Desire } by M.C.Beaton
The Taming of Annabelle
Minerva

Watson's Choice
The Mystery of a Butcher's Shop
Death and the Maiden
The Twenty - Third Man
Death at the Opera }by Gladys Mitchell
Tom Brown's Body
The Saltmarsh Murders
Come Away, Death

Tuffers Cricket Tales by Phil Tufnell
The Limpopo academy of Private Detection by Alexander McCall Smith
Changeling by Philippa Gregory
Deadlocked by Charlaine Harris

>33 johnsimpson: johnsimpson - That's impressive!

The Lord Peter Wimsey Cookbook, the last book from my July 2nd order arrived last week, followed immediately by my July 15th order from AwesomeBooks—only 9 days from UK to Canada. Royal Mail is outdoing itself this summer. In the latest batch are:

My Friends the Miss Boyds by Jane Duncan—Jane Duncan is in so many of my similar libraries that I thought I should check her out;
The Talisman Ring by Georgette Heyer—hardcover replacement for an old favourite;
The Empty House by Rosamunde Pilcher;
The Illustrated Lark Rise to Candleford by Flora Thompson;
What Killed Jane Austen? : and other medical mysteries, marvels and mayhem by George Biro and J. H. Leavesley;
A Summer Plague : Polio and its survivors by Tony Gould;
Countdown! : or, How Nigh is the End? by Patrick Moore;
Henrietta's Dream by Henrietta Spink;
The Cat's Pyjamas by Norman Thelwell.

@33: I am agog! A very impressive list indeed.

Visited another bookstore today: Books on View, the secondary store of Russell Books. It has a ridiculous amount of books -- seriously, it's like the book version of the bank vault in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, just overflowing with books of every shape and size.

Anyway, I got five books there:

Dave Barry's Only Travel Guide You'll Ever Need, by Dave Barry
Dave Barry is Not Taking This Sitting Down!, by Dave Barry
Dave Barry's Money Secrets, by Dave Barry
The Dilbert Future, by Scott Adams (hardcover for five bucks? yes please!)
THE PRECIPICE, BY HUGH MACLENNAN (this gets all caps because I've been looking for it for a good long while and am so glad to have finally found it.)

It's a very good thing I'm going home tomorrow! My haul over the past couple of days ought to scratch the book-buying itch for a while.

>33 johnsimpson: "July has been a really bad month for me with all the books bought, i need to stop buying and increase the reading but hey i like buying books. "

Says who? :)

Scored an ER copy of The Lincoln Conspiracy. Looking forward to it!

>34 SylviaC:,35,36, i'm not sure impressive is the term i would use and to cap July off i bought another 4 books today but two of these are for my cricket collection and i have missed 5 books from the above list as they were being used to increase the height of a tower fan in our bedroom. With these books above and the ones in post 12 and 33 it would seem that i have purchased 89 books at a total cost of £122.00 which according to my calculations is about $191.50. My problem is that i love secondhand and antiquarian bookshops and general bookstores and can't resist going in them, the bulk of the books listed in post 33 were because we had 6 Book People.co.uk catalogues on the dining room table and knew we had seen books we wanted so just logged on and managed to order them and then a day before they came the latest book people catalogue came thru the post, needless to say we put it in the bin. I am seriously going to try and not buy any in August and then see how it goes to the end of the year. Wish me luck.

Downloaded for my Kindle . . .

David Copperfield, Oliver Twist, and A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens;
Invisible (Ivy Malone Mystery Series #1) by Lorena McCourtney;
The Colored Lens: Summer 2012;
Matched by Ally Condie;
The Silmarillion by J. R. R. Tolkien.

On my way home from Concord NC, I stopped at a Goodwill store...and I wuz baaad:

Son of a Hundred Kings
Pilgrim's Progress (second copy to give away)
Two Dogs and a Horse
Reagan in His Own Hand

And the TBR mountain grows ever higher...

From the Friends of the Library for $1:

Five Quarters of the Orange

Just ordered from Amazon...
Broken Piano for President
Meet Me at the Moon

Oh! I forgot I got an advance copy from a local publisher to review...
The Politics of Barbecue

Re >38 johnsimpson:, i have already failed, gone to the supermarket to get some meat for the cricket tea and went down the book aisle and picked up two books, i could have gone down any aisle to get to the meat but an unknown force guided me there, why? I need to be strong and resist, yeh like that's going to happen, i'm a lost cause it seems.

>43 johnsimpson: johnsimpson: But now it's a new month, so you get to start fresh.

From the Goodwill Bookstore:

Krakatoa by Simon Winchester
Journey into the Deaf-World by Harlan Lane
The 13 and a Half Lives of Captain Bluebear by Walter Moers
Giles Sunday Express & Daily Express Cartoons Twenty-third Series
With Axe and Flask: The History of Persephone Township from Pre-Cambrian Times to the Present Day by Dan Needles

Thanks Sylvia C, i'll bear that in mind when i'm perusing in a bookstore or antiquarian shop, my heart feels a lot lighter now.

It's just a matter of putting things into perspective (otherwise known as self-delusion).

Yes i am a self-delusionist.

Johnsimpson.. when I go into Barnes & Noble to pick up just 1 little book I have on hold, I can easily just walk in, turn right, and go to cashier and get that 1 book and leave. However, I always somehow get pulled and turn left and have to walk by the new paperback & hardcover tables.. thus I end up always w/ more than 1 book in my bag when I leave. Last time it was 4 books....

The real problem with Kindle is that it seriously enables my book addiction. It constantly sends me emails about cheap books, new books, books in my reading taste, etc. Today it was cheap books. Under $3 is great, but when you go nuts and by lots, it means . . . .

The Boy in the Suitcase
Finding Emma
The Lotus Eaters
Mrs. Dalloway
To the Lighthouse

Very relieved at the google images of cricket tea.

Hi beth, what did you imagine a cricket tea was before you googled it.

#49 whymaggiewhy I couldn't agree more with you about the kindle enabling my book addiction I've had mine for a little over a month and I have around 35books waiting for me what hasn't helped me either is the free book sites I found. Oh well que sera sera

#3 Thanks! :) I just loaded Uncle Tom's Cabin on to my kindle. I am not sure how I got through school without reading this but I did. Also picked up New York by Edward Rutherford (loved this book!!) and The Art of Fielding which I have just started. Good month so far! :)

John, I don't really like tea much and pictured tea made of crickets. On another note, my husband's name is John Simpson and I just checked your profile to make sure he's not trolling librarything :).

We received a box of books from an elderly neighbor who was doing some housecleaning. Amongst the standard westerns-and-romances fare were a few gems. I'm currently embroiled in Small Town Odds by Jason Headley.

Oh, and I'm new to the message boards here and haven't figured out how to provide links, yet. Sorry.

>55 mister.write:

When you write your message, look to the right from where you are writing. There is an explanation of how to do a touchstone (which will end up as a link in your message)

Welcome to LT.

Hi Beth, Cricket is a game that baffles Americans as most of your sports end up with a result at the end, whereas in cricket, a Test Match is played over five days and can end in a draw as happened over the weekend when England played South Africa mainly due to bad weather. The cricket tea we did was for my sons team and it's just sandwiches, savouries, cakes and buns and fruit. Hope this clears things up.

I'm afraid that John Simpson is a popular name, i get mistaken quite often with other John Simpson's, what a coincidence.

Early Reviewer:

Tenth of December by George Saunders

The combination of online sales and local book sales are creating a perfect storm of book acquisition this summer. If things don't slow down soon, I'll have to sell my son's Lego to make room for books.

In the last week:

Picked up at the post office,
A is for Armageddon by Richard Horne
Find Asterix
The Diary of a Provincial Lady by E. M. Delafield
Letters by C. S. Lewis
The Guardian Book of Wartime Country Diaries
Lady's Dressing Room 1892
The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart
Turned Out Nice: How the British Isles will Change as the World Heats Up by Marek Kohn
Charles Addams: A Cartoonist's Life by Linda H. Davis

From a local discount bookstore,
Scourge : the once and future threat of smallpox by Jonathan B. Tucker

From two charity book sales,
Penny Plain by O. Douglas
The Table Talk of Samuel Marchbanks by Robertson Davies
Christmas Stories by Charles Dickens
Pompeii by Robert Harris
A Passage to India by E. M. Forster

The Brown Study, sent to me by an LT friend!

I just can't resist browsing for books but it would help if i only browsed and not browsed and bought, here is August's tale of woe. I was determined to have a good month.

04/08/12
Angel by James Patterson
The Secrets of Pain by Phil Rickman
Both these were from Asda (Part of Wal-Mart) 2 for £7

12/08/12
The Poet by Michael Connelly
The Concrete Blonde by Michael Connelly
These were from a local car boot sale, 2 for £1

14/08/12
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Bluebirds by Margaret Mayhew
These were from Wakefield Market, 2 for £1

15/08/12
The Plantation by Chris Kuzneski
Gaslight Geezers by Gary Kilworth
These were from a newly found secondhand bookshop in Tadcaster, both for £2.50

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy by John Le Carre
Mason and Dixon by Thomas Pynchon
These were from a charity shop in Tadcaster, 2 for £1

#61 John well give yourself credit for trying since I got an iPad I've been downloading books like crazy -even though a lot are free- so I am really kind of nervous when the credit card bill comes in

Downloaded The Sun Never Rises in the Big City by Jeremy C. Shipp.

A Field Guide to the Butterflies of North America, East of the Great Plains by Alexander B. Klots arrived today. Published in 1951, it is a hardcover library discard in good condition.

Now I just need to figure out how to make a proper Touchstone for this edition...

Woo! It works (the touchstone)!!

I'm preparing to go back to school next week so I downloaded several books to tide me over the semester:

N. K. Jemisin - The Killing Moon, The Shadowed Sun, The Kingdom of Gods, The Broken Kingdoms, The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms

Ally Condie - Crossed

Glenda Larke - The Last Stormlord, Stormlord Rising, Stormlord's Exile

Jim C. Hines - Libriomancer

Dowloaded to the Kindle:

Hello, Goodbye, Hello The library wasn't getting a copy, so I couldn't resist!

I was very bad today. I went to a used book store in Connecticut and came home with the following:
the Hours by Micharl Cunningham;
Back When We Were Grownups by A nine Tyler;
I know This Much Is True by Wally Lamb;
The Bean Trees by BRbara Kingsolver;
girl in Hyacinth Blue by Susan Vreeland;
The 19th Wife by David Bebershoff;
Case Histories by Kate Atkinson; and
nights of Rain and Stars by Maeve Binchy

Doesn't sound bad to me...not unless you spent the rent money? ;)

#69. hi fuzzi glad you're. Feeling better. The rent money is safe lol I spent less than $15 on that haul. BUT a friend of mine wants to take in a movie this week and if we go to the place I'm thinking of its right near the Strand a most amazing bookstore

Thanks!

Uh oh, an "amazing bookstore"????

Oh oh. Better World Books is having a 20% off sale for two days. My husband told me to back away from the computer before I get myself in trouble, but I don't know if I can resist.

From Open Letter Series:

The Future Is Not Ours edited by Diego Trelles Paz

#71 lol fuzzi the strand is a book store that states it had 8miles of books...and the mean it! There are books all over the place new releases used books all different sorts of books. The nly problem with the Strand is that it's not user friendly there's really no place to sit and take a break. All that said it is a most amazing experience any thoughts on coming to NYC?

It seems that August is not going to be much better than July on the book buying front, here's the latest purchase.

20/08/12
Angel with the Sword by C.J.Cherryh
Darkspell by Katherine Kerr
Dawnspell by Katherine Kerr
Tokaido by Lucia St Clair Robson

These were from a lovely hidden secondhand bookshop in Ossett which is just a few miles from where i live. I was on my way to my daughter-in-laws when i was dragged into the town centre and then the shop, what happened to my willpower, ah that's right i haven't got any, lol.

From Library of America:

Henry James: Novels 1903-1911
Henry James: Novels 1901-1902
The Age of Movies: Selected Writings of Pauline Kael
Cole Porter: Selected Lyrics
Ira Gershwin: Selected Lyrics

(74) Thanks, but no plans at this time to go to the Big Apple. I had to use my vacation time for a recent illness, and so we can't do the New England trip in September as we'd planned. :(

Instead we're thinking of spending a long weekend on the Crystal Coast of NC, AFTER Labor Day when the crowds are gone and the rates are cheaper. I've got enough vacation time for that. :)

Ordered two more butterfly, er, caterpillar books (it's all @qebo and @SqueakyChu's fault!!!):

Caterpillars of Eastern North America: A Guide to Identification and Natural History

and

Peterson First Guide to Caterpillars of North America

:)

#77. So sorry you had to use vacation time for illness but noth Carolina sounds good have a great time!

Went to Chapters to buy a gift card for a friend's birthday (giving the gift of shopping :P) and also bought a gift for myself: Nation Maker, Volume 2 of 2 in Richard J. Gwyn's biography of Sir John A. Macdonald. It just came out in trade paperback this week. I was waiting for the paperback because I wanted it to match my copy of Volume 1. A most satisfying purchase.

Went to the Hospice warehouse and came out with The List by Steve Martini and Treacherous Waters by Teresa Crane. I need to avoid these places but can't see that happening, i am going to the Cotswolds next saturday for four days and i know i will come home with at least 6 books and that's being conservative.

I went to my favorite bookstore to pick up one book and wound up with three which are
God On The Rocks by Jane Gardam;
Collusion by Stuart Neville; and
Where'd You Go Bernadette by Maria Semple

(79) Thank you! And I found the perfect place...complete with a small kitchen, short walk over the dunes to the beach, quiet, dog friendly.

How does $65 a night strike you? :)

On Friday I found an OLD copy of Bambi, I think from 1939. I've not read it since I was a child, probably close to 40 years ago, so it was overdue for a reread. So far, so good.

Downloaded on kindle:

Moby-Dick
Heart of Darkness

Purchased:

Age of Insight
Wanderlust; a History of Walking

purchased from amazon:

The Battle of Pollock's Crossing by J. L. Carr
All We Know: Three Lives by Lisa Cohen
Writing Down the Bones by Natalie Goldberg
Things I Didn't Know: A Memoir by Robert Hughes
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce
My Poets by Maureen N. McLane
New Ways to Kill Your Mother: Writers and Their Families by Colm Toibin

Two books by Maeve Brennan:

The Visitor (a novella)
The Springs of Affection: Stories of Dublin

From the library:
The Witch's Daughter
Everyone Loves a Good Train Wreck