Books Brought Home in March/April, 2013

Just getting the new topic started so the old one doesn't drag on.

Woo! I'm #2!

No books to report today, unless one of my recent purchases arrives in the mail...

Got Jodie Picoult's latest The Storyteller. I hope it's as good as her others.

And something did arrive:

The Tide in the Attic by Aleid Van Rhijn

March 2nd purchases:
The Crystal Singer by Anne McCaffrey
Rite of Passage by Alexei Panshin
The White Mountains by John Christopher
A Novel Bookstore by Laurence Cosse

I received my ER copy of Imperfect Pairings by Jackie Townsend today

@johnsimpson, Crystal Singer is very good, imho. :)

@ johnsimpson and fuzzi...I loved Crystal Singer also! :)

Today I got February's ER book The Thirteenth Rose by Gail Bowen. I also received two books I'd ordered for my son for his birthday in June, The Last Dragonlord and Dragon and Phoenix by Joanne Bertin. Now to pick up the third in the series...Bard's Oath. He's gonna love getting them all in hardcover! :)

Three books arrived today:

Homer's Odyssey by Gwen Cooper
The Mouse That Roared by Leonard Wibberley
Dragon's Lair by Sharon Kay Penman

I bought A Wrinkle in Time and A Wind in the Door by Madeleine L'Engle at a used book shop yesterday. I enjoyed them as a child, and wanted to see if I would still like them.

#10 - And will you read A Swiftly Tilting Planet, too? I had a special fondness for that one, though of course the first two in the trilogy were great also.

@mollygrace Yes, I intend to. In fact, I just put it on my "Wishlist." Unfortunately, they didn't have it at the used book shop. I was lucky enough with the first two to find the editions I read as a child. I don't know if I'll be so lucky with A Swiftly Tilting Planet. I just started reading A Wrinkle in Time this evening.

Coffeehag - Enjoy, enjoy! I used the trilogy with a memorable reading class about thirty years ago. We had such a great experience with those books -- lovely memories of both books and students.

@mollygrace I revisit these books more confidently with your recommendation! I envy your opportunity to read them with a group of students (or any young people). That must have been great fun. :)

Coffeehag - It was my greatest pleasure as a teacher, one of the things I'm proudest of -- introducing books and reading them to or with the children (middle schoolers).

Just downloaded Tanglewreck by Jeanette Winterson and Throne of the Crescent Moon by Saladin Ahmed.

Two today...

With Love From Karen by Marie Killilea
Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie

Latest update.

6-3-13
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
Tangled Lives by Hilary Boyd

8-3-13
Never had it so good by Dominic Sandbrook
Don Quixote by Cervantes
The Demon King by Cinda Williams Chima
A Conspiracy of Friends by Alexander McCall Smith

In real book format, The Last Dragon by Jane Yolen and Rebecca Guay.

@seitherin, I've read some Jane Yolen books in the past, and really enjoyed them!

My additions today:

Light a Single Candle
Lakeland Vet
The Running Foxes

@fuzzi, Light a Singe Candle is such a great book! I've read it a number of times.

@Coffeehag, yep, I agree.

Last night I decided to read some of it before bed...

...and stayed up too late!

Review later. :)

A smiley faced box came today!! whoo hooo.
Black Swan Rising
The Orchardist
The Silence of Bonaventure Arrow
The Memory Keeper's Daughter
Now if only I did not have to work the afternoon.. hmmm which one would I pick to read first?

Noon at Tiffany's by Echo Heron
Appointment on Moloka'i by Aldyth Morris
The White Peacock by D.H. Lawrence
My Beloved World by Sonia Sotomayor

A friend sent me a book I'd never seen or heard of: A Time to Keep: The Tasha Tudor Book of Holidays! I love it.

An Early Reviewer arrived today:

The Burgess Boys by Elizabeth Strout

Recent purchases.

13/3
The Sound of Thunder by Wilbur Smith

14/3
The Dwarves by Markus Heitz
Winter Games by Rachel Johnson
The Street Sweeper by Elliot Perlman
Daggerspell by Katharine Kerr
Spangle by Gary Jennings

Just finished Jodi Picoult's Storyteller, it is fantastic!
Just bought Telling the Bees, Peggy Hesketh -already read, excellent
The Aviator's Wife, Melanie Benjamin
Imperfect Birds, Anne Lamott
Indiscretion, Charles Dubow
Three Graves Full, Jamie Mason

Books bought today:

Lambs to the Slaughter by Graham Yallop
The Baker's Boy by J.V.Jones
Angels Flight by Michael Connelly
Naked in Death by J.D.Robb
Christmas in Seattle by Debbie Macomber
I Should be so Lucky by Judy Astley

A friend recommended The Remains of the Day by Kazua Ishiguro a couple days ago. I bought a used copy, and it's turning into a very good read.

Another Early Reviewer arrived:

TransAtlantic by Colum McCann

Couldn't resist downloading Moth Smoke by Mohsin Hamid. He has a new book out, but this older one was cheaper and I wanted to read his older work first. I loved The Reluctant Fundamentalist.

I did too, maggiemay!

From BookMooch:

And Ladies of the Club by Helen Hooven Santmyer
Musical Moment and Other Stories by Yehoshua Kenaz

Another BookMooch arrival:

Shelter Me by Juliette Fay

I am beginning to think every has been cured of bibliomania except me..........anyone out there?

Another March purchase.

The Drop by Michael Connelly

#35 hemlokgang I'm still here except I'm doing kindle buying more than anything else

Still addicted...

"You're gonna have to face it, you're addicted to books..."

Today I added the following to my library:

Groundwork by Roger B. Swain
Cruel as the Grave by Sharon Kay Penman

and from the public library's discard shelf, for 25 cents, a first edition of Hans Brinker, published in 1924!

It's in very good condition, too, aside from library markings.

Borrowed from the library, The Beggar King by Oliver Pötzsch. And downloaded Glimpses: The Best Stories of Rick Hautala edited by Joe Morey. I had not heard of Rick Hautala until I read about his passing in an authors newsgroup I lurk in. One of them mentioned this collection for the Kindle and I thought I'd give it a shot.

From Audible:

The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith
Her Royal Spyness by Rhys Bowen
The Last Refuge by Chris Knopf

I wave sworn off amazon.com, abebooks.com and thriftbooks.com until the end of April. I have bills I need to pay.

However, books for $1 are still 'okay' to buy. :)

So what you're saying, fuzzi, is that bookbub.com is still acceptable? I find myself looking at books for Kindle (especially histories and science) and thinking 'If I wait for 6 months or a year (and God knows I have plenty of other stuff to read), that book will be $3.99.'

Yes, bookbub is acceptable!

If I order one book from amazon, etc., I'll wind up ordering 5, and that's $20. I can't do that frequently anymore...

...at least not for a while... ;)

Fear the worst - Linwood barclay

I'm learning something new every day on Librarythings. First time that I heard about BookBub, signed up and got first 3 free e books today! Thank you!

I just went to my favorite book store and picked up the following:
The End of the Wasp Season by Denise Mina; and
The Burgess Boys by Elizabeth Stout

#45 dianekeenoy-there's a fantastic site called tuebl.ca where you can find new releases and all sorts of interesting things and download them for free

I bought 84 Charring Cross Road by Helene Hanff today. I'm so excited! I read half the book already when I was supposed to be studying. Back to work!

I LOVE THAT BOOK, @Coffeehag!

You're welcome, @Dianekeenoy ...but beware: it's easy to download a lot of free or cheap books, but you still have to find the time to actually read them!

There is no way that I will read all of the books that I have before I die, and I will continue buying books. This BookBub business which I just learned about in the past few messages may just inflate numbers on my Nook in unexpected ways.

Robert

I've not long finished The Harper's Quine, by Pat McIntosh - I was a bit surprised to discover a whole series just up my street that I hadn't even heard of! Very enjoyable historical crime, set in Glasgow, Scotland - well written and cleverly plotted.

Why are books so addictive, by the way? All you people compulsively buying books - I'm right with you! Secondhand or charity bookshops are the worst - if it's a charity one you can even tell yourself it's in a good cause!

There is something about having an object you can hold, and own...that can and will open up an entirely new world to you, that will take you away from the world's disappointments and frustrations.

I like books.

Elizabeth Hay's first novel, A Student of Weather.

My December 2012 Early Reviewer (ER) book arrived today, finally!

More Anti-Inflammation Diet Tips and Recipes by Jessica K. Black

Today I also received a book I'd ordered a couple weeks ago: Maggie By My Side by Beverly Butler, the author of Light A Single Candle.

@ fuzzi: Wow! I never even knew that Beverly Butler wrote anything besides Light a Single Candle. I can't wait to hear how you liked it; maybe I'll have to look for it myself.

@Coffeehag, did you know about the sequel to Light A Single Candle? It is titled Gift of Gold, and I believe it takes place while she's in college.

Both of those books are based upon the author's life.

Maggie By My Side is non-fiction.

fuzzi, no I didn't know about Gift of Gold. I will definitely have to look for that! I have read Light a Single Candle several times, and loved it each time. Thanks for the info!

You are so welcome, @Coffeehag!

26th March purchases:

Sharpe's Fury by Bernard Cornwell
Tanequil by Terry Brooks
Full Dark House by Christopher Fowler

Lovely morning -- the UPS man just delivered three books by three favorite authors:

Benediction by Kent Haruf
The Burgess Boys by Elizabeth Strout
The Happy Life: The Search for Contentment in the Modern World by David Malouf

The Malouf book doesn't sound much like something I'd buy, but I've heard some good things about it and I trust the author, so we'll see.

Downloaded On Basilisk Station and The Honor of the Queen by David Weber yesterday and today bought a for really real paper book with pages and everything, The Heroes by Joe Abercrombie.

Having finished The Laughing Sutra made me want more by Mark Salzman, so I ordered from Amazon and have already received Lost in Place: Growing Up Absurd in Suburbia and True Notebooks: A Writer's Year at Juvenile Hall.

How I love those smiley faced boxes. :) Clockwork Princess arrived today!

World War Z was just delivered - sooo many books soooo little time :) Happy Hump day!

I'm currently reading The cat Who lived High By Lilian Jackson Braun; always a fun, furry read. After getting a much needed hair cut, I ambled into the public library and picked up F. Scott Fitzgerald's book The Great Gatsby. I thought I would join the group reads in the 75 Book Challenge group. I plan to read a little bit of that book tonight before my eyes close on me; especially if I'm close to a pillow!

#46 cdyankeefan - thanks so much. I bought Benediction and Life After Life today.

#49 you are so right fuzzi. I'm going a little crazy and think I should retire early so I can read full-time! Then, of course, I couldn't buy all the books I need!

#67. You're welcome

I'm sick, I have an addiction...

...from today, after work...

Familiar Birds of North America: Eastern Region
Birds of the Carolinas
Tunnel Through Time by Lester del Rey

and the pièce de résistance...

The Original Water-Color Paintings by John James Audubon for The Birds Of America (a coffee table book too large to fit on my flatbed scanner!)

Today I went to Chapters with a friend who was looking for a birthday present for a mutual friend of ours. I ended up buying two presents for myself:

Rivers of London, by Ben Aaronovitch -- it was on the bargain books table; how could I resist?
Starter for Ten, by David Nicholls -- I am desperately trying to track down a copy of the movie so am hoping the book will tide me over in the meantime.

Two more arrived today, but what two they were:

A Country of Strangers (previously read)
and
The Sea of Grass

Both were written by Conrad Richter.

Went to the library yesterday to pick up two on hold and found more at the Friends of the Library:

Speaking From Among the Bones
The End of Your Life Book Club

for me from FoL:

The Innocent by David Baldacci
Band of Brothers
Nothing Daunted

Double Dexter - jeff Lindsay

An ER book arrived today:

Unsolved Mysteries of the Old West

Four books arrived today:

Harvard Square by Andre Aciman
Life After Life by Kate Atkinson
Alice in Bed: A Play by Susan Sontag
One Green Field by Edward Thomas

Early April purchases.

3-4-13
Portrait of a Spy by Daniel Silva
The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach

9-4-13
Foundation and Empire by Isaac Asimov
Deadly Decisions by Kathy Reichs
Break no Bones by Kathy Reichs
The Devil's Edge by Stephen Booth
A Stone for Danny Fisher by Harold Robbins

Recently bought Mr. Penumbra's 24 Hour Bookstore and A Dog about Town for Kobo, The Golden Egg, The Tooth Tattoo and Dying Fall for Kindle. I have The Sound of Broken Glass as an actual book.

From Member Giveaways I received A Life Less Ordinary by Victoria Bernadine.

Also I picked up hardcovers of Naked Heat and Heat Wave by Richard Castle and Paths of Glory by Jeffrey Archer which is a fictionalized story that I'm reading a non-fiction of, Ghosts of Everest by Jochen Hemmleb. This is an account of an attempt to reach the peak of everest in the 1920's and the climbers that were lost in that attempt, and the follow-up climb to try and find any evidence of the bodies or their equipment and to try and determine if they actually made the summit.

Must be the book fairy was looking out for me that I happened across the Archer book while I'm reading the Hemmleb book!

The bookstore cats received a book in the mail as well! I Could Pee on This by Francesco Marciuliano. Wonderful Marketing!!! LOL

From the library, Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore

Just arrived today, hot off the press:



The Book of Luke (fixed)

Okay, why doesn't that touchstone work for me? When I go to it, it cuts off the work number and brings up a blank page. I copied it with the work number from Internet Explorer into Chrome, and it did the same thing.

Robert

PS Here's the link to her edition: http://www.librarything.com/work/13738653/96995258

R

I don't know why the touchstone doesn't work, I followed the example for 'forcing' a touchstone?

{96995258::The Book of Luke} (with square brackets)

Sorry...

The Book of Luke

Aha!

I noticed the work number that shows up when I hover over the link is different from the work number of the book in your library, namely 16777215 versus 13738653. It could be that you put in the wrong work number when you forced it.

Robert

I did, see post#84.

Thank you for bringing it to my attention. :)

We were solving it at the same time. Hurray!

Robert

From BookMooch:

How To Get Filthy Rich In Rising Asia: A Novel by Mohsin Hamid

Got another real life book with pages in the post yesterday - River of Stars by Guy Gavriel Kay.

I had an orgy of book buying at the Friends of the Library Sale yesterday - my twice-a-year indulgence:

Doctor Fischer of Geneva or The Bomb Party by Graham Greene
The Eye of the Leopard by Henning Mankell
Belladonna by Karen Moline
The Organ Grinders by Bill Fitzhugh
Murder in the Marais by Cara Black
Murder in the Sentier by Cara Black
Fever of the Bone by Val McDermid
The Missing Manuscript of Jane Austen by Syrie James
Blackberry Wine by Joanne Harris
Snobs by Julian Fellowes
Past Imperfect by Julian Fellowes
The Monsters of Templeton by Lauren Groff
Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey
Restless by William Boyd
North of Montana by April Smith
Death Comes as Epiphany by Sharan Newman
No Trace by Barry Maitland
Outrage by Arnaldur Indridason
Jar City by Arnaldur Indridason
Hypothermia by Arnaldur Indridason
Mind's Eye by Hakan Nesser
Sun and Shadow by Ake Edwardson
61 Hours by Lee Child - CDs, unabridged
Worth Dying For by Lee Child - CDs, abridged

I received my ER copy of Nowhere Is A Place by Bernice McFadden yesterday

More recent purchases:
11/4
Good Husband Material by Trisha Ashley
Zoo by James Patterson
The Bangkok Secret by Antony Grey
The Black Raven by Katherine Kerr

13/4
206 Bones by Kathy Reichs

14/4
A Cottage by the Sea by Carole Matthews
My Animals and other Family by Clare Balding

Selected Poems of Gabriela Mistral by Gabriela Mistral

B is for Burglar (4/17/13)
Ghosts Who Went to School (4/22/13)
Poldark's Cornwall (4/22/13)

:)

I picked up Sophie Kinsella's new one Wedding Night today

Couldn't resist any longer. I've got $65 in Amazon credit and The Burgess Boys was whispering to me.

Witch & Wizard -James Patterson
Dragonsong-Anne McCafferey
The Brethren-John Grisham

I picked up The Flamethrowers today

I wuz bad...

These Happy Golden Years by Laura Ingalls Wilder (4/25/13)
The Loving Cup by Winston Graham (4/25/13)
The Miller's Dance by Winston Graham (4/25/13)
Stranger From the Sea by Winston Graham (4/25/13)
The Angry Tide by Winston Graham (4/25/13)
The Twisted Sword by Winston Graham (4/26/13)
Emily of New Moon by LM Montgomery (4/27/13)
Lassie Come Home by Eric Knight (4/27/13)
Cheaper by the Dozen by Frank Gilbreth Jr. (4/27/13)
Xenocide by Orson Scott Card (4/27/13)

So far in April:
Dead Water by Anne Cleeves (Kobo)
Help by Oliver Burkeman (non-fiction, Kindle)
Mr. Penumbra’s 24 Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan (Kobo)
A Dying Fall by Elly Griffiths (Kindle)
Dog About Town by J F. Englert (Kobo)
The Tooth Tattoo by Peter Lovesey (Kindle)
The Frozen Shroud by Martin Edwards

On hand but not yet read:
Waterlog by Roger Deakin
Zoobiquity by Barbara Natterson-Horowitz
The Sound of Broken Glass by Deborah Crombie
Dog among Diplomats by J F.Englert
The Golden Egg by Donna Leon

My remaining April purchases.

17/4
Magician's Gambit by David Eddings
Digital Fortress by Dan Brown
Angels and Demons by Dan Brown

23/4
He knew he Was Right by Anthony Trollope
Dating Game by Danielle Steel
Amazing Grace by Danielle Steel
Safe Harbour by Danielle Steel

26/4
Brown Owl's Guide to Life by Kate Harrison
The Secret Servant by Daniel Silva

27/4
Elegy for Eddie by Jaqcueline Winspear
Heartstone by C.J.Sansom
The Outsider by Gerald Seymour
Wool by Hugh Howey

Orphan Train came via AMAZON can't wait to start it.... I have a couple of books that I need to review but after that... :)

May/June thread:

http://www.librarything.com/topic/153703