Books Brought Home November/December 2012

Post'em here! :)

Brought The Elephant Keeper home from the library.

El niño del pijama de rayas

Found a copy of Ramona and Her Father at the Goodwill today...a favorite from the past!

From Open Letter:

Maidenhair by Mikhail Shishkin

I am hoping to be good and not have too many posts or long posts on here, that's not because i don't like you all but i need to be good for a while.

The following books from the library followed me home today:
Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver;
The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach; and
Ancient Light by John Banville
And from my most favorite bookstore
Promise Not To Tell by Jennifer McMahon

The Garden of the Evening Mists brought home from the library on Saturday. Couldn't resist and started it almost immediately.

Just downloaded Reached by Ally Condie.

Found a book that's been on my wish list for years: Sky rocket: the Story of a Little Bay Horse.

I have several other books ordered. :)

The Hobbit - finally giving it a try.

Arrived from Amazon earlier this week:
Help, Thanks, Wow by Anne Lamott
The Firefighters' Thanksgiving by Maribeth Boelts

Atlas of the world De wereld bosatlas
Glad to have my own atlas from now on

I was bored at work (NOT something that happens often, I must say) and was trolling the Amazon site and saw two David McCullough books I don't have. So I clicked.

Brave Companions: Portraits in History
Mornings on Horseback: The Story of an Extraordinary Family, a Vanished Way of Life and the Unique Child Who Became Theodore Roosevelt

I'm excited. Can't wait for them to arrive.

I am new to LibraryThing, will try to keep up!! I thought I was quite a fast reader until I began looking through all the messages and the amount everyone reads, well done to you all. Work and family just get in the way sometimes! :o)

I have a very long wish list, but at the moment I am half way through Searching For Schindler, Tom Keneally.
Couldn't decide whether to read this one first, or Schindler's List, but decided on the research and making of the book and film first.

With summer on the way (I live in New Zealand) I won't have those early winter nights to read but will do my best, may have to have a break from the garden and spend more time sitting on the deck!!

@seitherin, as The Fellowship of the Ring, The Hobbit starts slow. Don't give up too soon...

Welcome FionaWh!

Ordered from Amazon:

The Racketeer by John Grisham

The Last Lion:Defender of the Realm by William Manchester and Paul Reid

Princess Elizabeth's Spy by Susan Elia MacNeal

For Hell and a Brown Mule: the Biography of Senator Millard Tydings

#15 Fiona-welcome! I downloaded a collection of Shirley Jackson stories on my kindle last night

Stopped at the Habitat for Humanity Resale store on the way home...and discovered that a pile of Louis L'Amour books had been donated!

I tried to guess which ones I didn't have, not terribly successfully, so I'm going back first thing in the morning.

Then when I got home, I discovered that my father had sent me some more Louis L'Amour books he'd found second hand as well! (like father, like daughter)

The take:

Utah Blaine/Silver Canyon (combined in one volume)
Hills of Homicide
Over on the Dry Side
End of the Drive
Big Medicine
Education of a Wandering Man
The Louis L'Amour Companion
Beyond the Great Snow Mountains
May There Be a Road
Taggart
Mojave Crossing
Lando
Lonely on the Mountain
How the West Was Won
The Tall Stranger
To Tame a Land

plus my father also sent these:

Bowie's Mine by Elmer Kelton
Three-Ten to Yuma by Elmore Leonard
Riders of the Purple Sage by Zane Grey
The Drift Fence by Zane Grey

And that doesn't include the ones that were duplicates, like Treasure Mountain and Crossfire Trail.

Ahhh....

Non-Louis L'Amour and/or western books I got were The Black Moon and Warleggan by Winston Graham, and a copy of The Black Stallion and Satan, which I'd been wanting as I'm trying to reread the series despite the local library missing a number of the books.

I went back, I saw, I bought...

Louis L'Amour:

Grub Line Rider
Sitka
The Quick and the Dead
Kid Rodelo
The Key-Lock Man
Under the Sweetwater Rim
Reilly's Luck
Callaghen
Fallon
Comstock Lode
Son of a Wanted Man

And I also found what appears to be a complete collection of Ian Fleming's James Bond novels:

Casino Royale
Live and Let Die
Moonraker
Thunderball
Man With the Golden Gun
Goldfinger
Octopussy/Living Daylights
From Russia With Love
On Her Majesty's Secret Service
For Your Eyes Only
The Spy Who Loved Me
Diamonds Are Forever
You Only Live Twice
Dr. No

And yet more, based upon Dad's recommendation of books by William W Johnstone:

The First Mountain Man: Preacher
The First Mountain Man
The First Mountain Man: Preacher's Quest
The First Mountain Man: Preacher's Fortune
The First Mountain Man: Absaroka Ambush
Rage of the Mountain Man
Return of the Mountain Man
Warpath of the Mountain Man

If I don't like the Bond and Mountain Man books, I'm sure my father will.

The sale is now over...I got these books 4/$1.00!

(And one little copy of A Child's Christmas in Wales...my bookshelves are groaning!)

Wow! What a great haul fuzzi - enjoy them all!!

What a haul there fuzzi, way to go.

November's haul up to now.

Brand new books :-

Educating Jack by Jack Sheffield
The Making of Us by Lisa Jewell
Angels at the Table by Debbie Macomber
Reflected in You by Sylvia Day
I, Michael Bennett by James Patterson

Secondhand and Charity shop books :-

Wellspring of Chaos by L.E.Modesitt jr
The Memory of Earth by Orson Scott Card
Telegraph Days by Larry McMurtry
Hollywood Wives by Jackie Collins
Var the Stick by Piers Anthony
Neq the Sword by Piers Anthony
Toxic Shock by Sara Paretsky
A Man Betrayed by J.V.Jones

New books? What are those...?

;)

And now, the mail just came, with a copy of Beezus and Ramona I'd ordered.

I'm in a genuine biblio-euphoria!

Hi fuzzi, i didn't pay full price for any of the "New" books, forgive me, please. Lol

I keep telling myself no more books.

But when I went by the library like a good girl, I took a quick peak at the FOL shelf.

And for $1 I came home with this little gem from 1966:


The Sinister Garden: A Guide to the Most Common Poisonous Plants

Mmmm ... I need it so I know which ornamentals to keep the horses away from, right??

But mostly I just liked the creep factor of it. :-)

#26- John very impressive! I just came back from my most favorite bookstore and came home with these:
The entire Diary of a Wimpy Kid series;
Women of Silk; and
Life of Pi

Okay, here it is, my Louis L'Amour shelf!



The short shelf underneath is my CJ Cherryh shelf.

# 29 very nice fuzzi!

Thanks! (don't notice the William Johnstone books I have stacked there as well!!!)

#31 you're welcome!

Loving the shelf picture fuzzi.

Thanks, @johnsimpson.

I've now draped my books with odds and ends, see my gallery photo (http://www.librarything.com/pic/3590233).

# 34. That's great fuzzi. You're giving me ideas!

I sense a new thread......

http://www.librarything.com/topic/144810#

@hemlokgang, link not working... :(

Fixed it!

from amazon:

The Yellow Birds by Kevin Powers
The Testament of Mary by Colm Toibin

Three by E. B. White:
Here is New York
One Man's Meat
Essays of E. B. White

I was bad today. I downloaded on my Kindle the following:
The Hunger Games Trilogy by Suzanne Collins; and
Sandman Slim by Richard Kadrey( based on recommendations I saw here)

Since today is support small business day and my favorite bookstore is a small business I ad to pet them and picked up the following:
The Sweetness at the Botttom of the Pie by Alan Bradley;
The Midlesteins by Jami Attenberg; and
Eight Girls Taking Pictures byWhitney Otto

Tomorrow ill be going to the Book Barn in Niantic Connecticut- heaven help me

cdyankeefan let me know how Middlesteins is.. I keep eyeing it for purchase.. Enjoy the Book Barn.. I am so jealous!!

#40 - I also supported a small, independent bookstore for small business Saturday!

We came home with:
The Once and Future King
Unholy Night
Thomas Jefferson's Creme Brulee

Bad! Bad! You're all bad!

;)

(...wish I could go to The Book Barn with you...)

-#41 mommom and #43 fuzzi- I will be thinking of you as I peruse the shelves and any thought of restraint just flew out the window!

Found a copy of It's Like This, Cat for $.75 at the Goodwill.

It was recommended to me a while back.

The Book Barn in Niantic is beyond description. Not only for the books bit it's also extremely user friendly. There are bencheas all over the place-they have a lot of outdoor stalls-and places to sit in the barn itself. So I came home with the following:
Playing with Boys by Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez;
Possession by A S byatt;
Make Him look Good by AlisaValdes-Rodriguez;
Can you keep a secret by Sophie Kinsella;
Faith by Jennifer Haigh;
The dirty social girls club by Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez;
Wedding Belles by Haywood Smith;
Death Comes to Pemberly by P d James; and
The Master by Colman Toobin
There were so many others I would have gotten but once I realized the books were going to Brooklyn I needed to show some restraint

Whadjagetme? Huh? Huh?

;)

#47 LOL fuzzi. It is such a fun place and the staff is very welcoming. There are cats in the main barn. And lots of stalls on the grounds that are full of books. It's very well organized and they buy books too. It's not that close to where my friends live so we can't go there that often but there are other places

Sigh... book barn... I picked up The Snow Child at Bull Moose Music Saturday... thanks to whom ever it was that recommended it here! :) I am on vacation next week and plan on a bit of "have the house to myself, read time!" =:)

#49 good for you se ago!! Enjoy!

Nice haul cdyankeefan!! I love that place and must also show restraint when going there. I might have to go there sometime soon.. I only live 45 mins. away.

#51- thanks mommom. It's really worth it. Honestly I only showed restraint because I would never be able to bring everything I wanted home;however when I move to Connecticut that will be a different story

Got In the Shadow of the Banyan from the library - and -
Mornings on Horseback from Amazon

I have resigned myself to the fact that i will purchase more books than i can seem to read, here goes with the latest purchases.

30/11/12
These are all new books.
Kursk, The Greatest Battle by Lloyd Clark
On Basilisk Station by David Weber
The Vintage Tea Cup by Vanessa Greene
The Man Who Forgot His Wife by John o'Farrell
The Potter's Field by Andrea Camilleri
How it all began by Penelope Lively
The Hundred-Year-Old man who climbed out of the window and disappeared by Jonas Jonasson
Thursdays in the Park by Hilary Boyd

1/12/12
Fear in the Sunlight by Nicola Upson (A new book)
Shadow of the gun by Ralph Compton
Dead man's canyon by Ralph Compton
Len Hutton, the autobiography by Gerald Howat
Temeraire by Naomi Norvik
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

#v54- very impressive John!!! I read the 100 year old an-quirky but good

I downloaded The Art of Racing in the Rain, based upon the reviews I have read here.

It wasn't free, but I figured it was worth $2.99 to try out. :)

Couldn't resist tho I tried really, really hard . . . Cold Days by Jim Butcher and The Desecrator by Steven Brust.

From Audible: Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn

From the Open Letter Series:
Dark Times Filled With Light by Juan Gelman

#56 hi fuzzi - it's worth it Art of racing is really really good

#58, hemlokgang - I'm reading Gone Girl right now and am captivated. Hope you enjoy!

#58 and 60 hemlokgang and grkmwk-I read Gone Girl and had an OMG moment practically every chapter. It was just amazing

Today I discovered a "new" used book store. I stopped in, started browsing, and casually asked "How much are the books?"

The owner answered "All the books are one dollar each."

WOO! I went hog-wild...see below:

Amy and Laura by Marilyn Sachs
Amy Moves In by Marilyn Sachs
Lion Hound by Jim Kjelgaard
A Nose for Trouble by Jim Kjelgaard
Desert Dog by Jim Kjelgaard
The Conquering Family by Thomas Costain
The Magnificent Century by Thomas Costain
The Three Edwards by Thomas Costain
The Cat Who Came for Christmas by Cleveland Amory
Seabiscuit: An American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand
Dune by Frank Herbert
A Legend of Wolf Song by George Stone
Elfquest: Journey To Sorrow's End by Wendy Pini
The Light in the Forest by Conrad Richter

And if that weren't enough, when I got home, these had arrived in the mail earlier in the day:

Red Chameleon by Stuart Kaminsky
Man Who Walked Like a Bear by Stuart Kaminsky
Rostnikov's Vacation by Stuart Kaminsky
Black Knight in Red Square by Stuart Kaminsky
Death of a Russian Priest by Stuart Kaminsky

I need more shelves......

From BookMooch:
Savage Lands by Clare Clark

#62-hi fuzzi-what a great haul!!! Where is this ? I must know

Here it is, @cdyankeefan:

http://bookstoregreenvillenc.com/

Here's a short video showing the inside (or part of) the bookstore!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v77f8YBCY-o

As he just opened in November, David's still working at organizing the books...

...I offered to help, lol.

#65 thank you fuzzi-it looks amazing-love the homey feel of it with the big soft chairs

Picked up one from the library 'for sale' shelves:

My Name is Asher Lev

My mother loved Chaim Potok's books, but although I own a couple (three, now), I've yet to read any of them.

Love Chaim Potok! Enjoy!

>67 by @fuzzi, You need to get on that, RIGHT NOW! hahaha. Seriously I've never not loved anything I've touched of his. I've read... hm, something like 10? of his and they're all excellent!

I'm on The Angel of Darkness by Caleb Carr and so far just as good as The Alienist. Also threw in a quick read of Black Bird, Vol. 1 by Kanoko Sakurakoji last night. My first Manga ever and found it quite good. I'll probably continue that series.

Okay, okay! I'll check out Asher Lev this weekend.

I'm stalled on the James Herriot bio, and I'm not sure. It's quite readable. Just not in the mood, I guess.

Was extremely tired last night, and wanted something very light to read, so I picked up Amy Moves In. It was quite entertaining, and relaxing!

I bought recently:
- Del amor y otros demonios from Gabriel García Márquez
- Nana from Emile Zola
- Fables from De Lafontaine

Collected Stories by Frank O'Connor
Toilers of the Sea by Victor Hugo

My most favorite bookstore celebrated its 10thannive rosary today and had very nice discounts. So I picked up the following:
This is how you lose her by Junot Diaz;
The devil in silver by Victor lavalle; and
Beautiful ruins by Jess Walters

Over the weekend, my mom bought our family The Wild Christmas Reindeer. I just love Christmas picture books!

From BookMooch:
One Good Turn by Kate Atkinson

From B&N:
Big Breasts and Wide Hips by Mo Yan
The Sound of Waves by Yukio Mishima

Someday I'll learn to shop for Christmas gifts without buying a few items for myself:

The Address Book by Sophie Calle
A Journey with Two Maps: Becoming a Woman Poet by Eavan Boland
Object Lessons: The Life of the Woman and the Poet in Our Time by Eavan Boland
The Revolution was Televised by Alan Sepinwall
Life on Mars: Poems by Tracy K. Smith

I really am going to have to behave, this is getting out of hand. This is a review of purchases over the last eight days.

8/12/12
Lucifer's Hammer by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle

14/12/12
The Black Pearl
The Homecoming } Cynthia Harrod-Eagles
The Measure of Days

15/12/12
Child 44
The Secret Speech } Tom Rob Smith
Agent 6
500-1, The Miracle of Headingley '81 Rob Steen and Alastair Mclellan
The Torment of Others Val McDermid
Winter Prey John Sandford
The Executioner Chris Carter
Tongues of Serpents Naomi Norvik
No Way Out David Kessler
AjaX, The Dutch, The War (Football in Europe during the second world war Simon Kuper

The above ten books were from a garden centre book sell off, 80p each or 10 for £6.00, well it was too good to miss.

@johnsimpson, The Executioner on your list is showing up as "The Executioner's Song".

Try typing in (11516304::The Executioner) but with square brackets instead of parentheses.

#78 nice haul John!
#79- hi fuzzi!

::waves at @cdyankeefan::

:: waving back at fuzzi::

The Hogwarts Express group here on LT did a Secret Santa gift exchange, and my Santa gave me books!!

Beautiful Lies
The Namesake
A Conspiracy of Paper
The Whole World Over
The 101 Most Influential People Who Never Lived

She also included a tin of homemade cookies and fudge to enjoy while reading! :)

Just finished and reviewed The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce. A bit discomfitting but very enjoyable.

Just finished Sea of Poppies - loved it - and started The Ihaka Trilogy (always try to support New Zealand writers.

Used a gift certificate to download some reading stuff:

The Hunter and the Hunted by Kelley Armstrong,
Interlude in Death and Midnight in Death by J. D. Robb,
The Alloy of Law by Brandon Sanderson, and
Perfect Shadow by Brent Weeks.

Well, I didn't bring them home, but they found their way to me as of yesterday and today.

From the Members Giveaway:

Trust: A New Beginning by Cristiane Serruya ~ All the way from Brazil!

In a care package from a good and dear friend:

White Wolf Moon by Mike Grant (Touchstones not working...probably because I'm the only one on LibraryThing who has this book!) :)
Healthy for Life by Ray D. Strand, MD
Positive Words, Powerful Results by Hal Urban
Arnaud's Creole Cookbook by John DeMers
Elvis and the Dearly Departed by Peggy Webb
Hooked on Murder by Betty Hechtman
Fudge Cupcake Murder by Joanne Fluke

So many treats it's hard to know where to start! :)

From the Open Letter Series:

A Thousand Morons by Quim Monzo

From amazon:

Essential Pleasures: A New Anthology of Poems to Read Aloud edited by Robert Pinsky
The Best Spiritual Writing 2011 edited by Philip Zaleski
The Best Spiritual Writing 2012 edited by Philip Zaleski
Genesis: The New Cambridge Bible Commentary by Bill T. Arnold
When I Was a Child I Read Books by Marilynne Robinson

Album of Horses by Marguerite Henry and Wesley Dennis
Harris and Me by Gary Paulsen

I. Went to my most favorite bookstore and picked up the following:
The Dog Stars by Peter Heller;
The Man in the Wooden Hat by Jane Gardam ;
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell; and
Game of Thrones by George R R Martin

Downloaded Phantom by Jo Nesbö.

From a friend:

The Mighty Queens of Freeville by Amy Dickinson

Just discovered and downloaded a new Tad Williams ebook, Diary of a Dragon. Also snagged ebook editions of Curse of the Mistwraith, The Ships of Merior, and Warhost of Vastmark by Janny Wurts. And took a chance on Theft of Swords by Michael J. Sullivan.

We did Christmas today, due to our son's work schedule.

I snagged a boxed set of Roald Dahl books, and a copy of Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH. Oh boy!

From BookMooch:
Les Nuits de Strasbourg by Assia Djebar

Library trip:

Tubes: A Journey to the Center of the Internet by Andrew Blum
When God Talks Back by T. M. Luhrmann
Failing Law Schools by Brian Z. Tamanaha
Exam Schools by Chester Finn
Kingdom Come by J.G. Ballard
Canada by Richard Ford
Why Waco? by James D. Tabor

I took 19 books to the used book store to trade, and came home with eight...and still have credit for two more. :)

The Magician's Nephew by CS Lewis
Tex by SE Hinton
Tawny by Thomas C. Hinkle
The Audubon Guide to North American Reptiles and Amphibians
Crystal Line by Anne McCaffrey
The White and the Gold by Thomas Costain
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
Warriors: Into the Wild by Erin Hunter

For Christmas I received Food and Faith from my husband.

Arrived today from amazon:

A Death at the White Camellia Orphanage by Marly Youmans

Christmas books:
The Eagle of Toledo, The life and times of Federico Bahamontes by Alasdair Fotheringham
Stephen Roche - Born to Ride by Stephen Roche and Peter Cossins

Bought today:
Stone Cold by David Baldacci

For Christmas:

The Gospel Side of Elvis by Joe Moscheo

Foundlings on the doorstep yesterday:

Wishful Sinful by Tracy Dunham
Murder with Peacocks by Donna Andrews
We'll Always Have Parrots by Donna Andrews

Returned from a lengthy loan:

Start and Run a Retail Business by Jim Dion
Specialty Shop Retailing by Carol L. Schroeder

and a shopping stop at Goodwill gained me:

A Child Called 'It' by Dave Pelzer
Friendship Bread by Darien Gee
Wisdom of the Peaceful Warrior by Dan Millman
The Life You Were Born to Live by Dan Millman
The Outlandish Companion by Diana Gabaldon

Quite a nice haul if I do say so myself! :)

>101 johnsimpson: Although it has been a while since I read it, I enjoyed Stone Cold. It is definitely a "buckle your seat belt" read. But I also appreciate Baldacci's addressing of our country's inadequate attention paid to treating the critical incident(s) stress issues faced by many returning combat veterans.

Thanks Betty30554, looking forward to reading it.

From B&N, both for RL book club reads:

Molokai by Alan Brenert
The Yellow Birds by Kevin Powers

Christmas books
Knit Along with Debbie Macomber "A Charity Guide for Knitters
Never Again: Securing America and Restoring Justice
Book of North American Birds
Roald Dahl Magical Gift Set (4 Books)
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh

Member Giveaways
"Horse" by Leon Berger
The Lives of Norman Mailer: A Biography

I went to my friendly neighborhood bookstore today and came home with the following:

Billy Lynn'sHalftime Walk by Ben Fountain ; and
Fragile by Lisa U ger

#105 - My RL book club is reading Molokai in 2013, too, hemlokgang! I'd not heard of it until it was suggest by a fellow member, although it seems quite promising.

I've been sick since Christmas Eve and am starting to get quite antsy. This is a "bad" sign, as it generally means I'm about to place a book order to lift my spirits... ;)

Books received as Christmas presents today (we exchanged gifts a bit late this year due to travel plans having been disrupted by the recent winter storm):

Toby's Room by Pat Barker
The Bartender's Tale by Ivan Doig
Astray by Emma Donoghue
Solo by Clyde Edgerton
Round House by Louise Erdrich
Drawing Conclusions by Donna Leon
Sweet Tooth by Ian McEwan
Eight Girls Taking Pictures by Whitney Otto
Joseph Anton by Salman Rushdie

#108...Molokai was a fabulous book!! It's a very emotional ride, and it paints beautiful images in your head of Molokai and Hawaii that you will never be rid of. It's a hard idea to wrap your head around, that they shipped people, including children, off to basically a deserted island for the rest of their lives.
Anyway, hope you enjoy it as much as I did!

A half dozen more books found their way to me today. :) Gotta love books that act like heat-seeking missles!

The Celtic Spirit: Daily Meditations for the Turning Year by Caitlin Matthews
The Trouble With Magic by Madelyn Alt
Wicked Fix by Sarah Graves
Repair to Her Grave by Sarah Graves
Wreck the Halls by Sarah Graves
Tool & Die by Sarah Graves

At the tail end of the year, I bought Evolving in Monkey Town for my NOOK. Planning to start it sometime today!