Books Brought Home July/August 2013

Here's to some great summer reading.....or winter if you are in the Southern Hemisphere!

Received Hot time in the old town from Bookmooch for the historian/wonk in me.

I knew having a Barnes and noble across the road was going to be a problem. here's my haul from today:
A Hundred Summers by Beatriz Williams;
The Rithmatist by Brandon Sanderson;
The Other Typist by Suzanne Rindell;
The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells by Andrew Sean Greer;
Core Four by Phil Pepe-about my beloved Yankees;
The Third Sun by Julie Wu;
Brooklyn Girls by Gemma Burgess; and
The Life List by Lori Nelson Spielman
Heavy sigh-the allure was too strong -my resistance was weak

Went to Chapters today and two books fell into my basket:

The Ocean at the End of the Lane, by Neil Gaiman
The Beautiful Mystery, by Louise Penny

Only two, though. I would have bought more if I'd remembered to bring my gift card :-/

You are going to have to move, @cdyankeefan...

From the library came:
Daring Greatly by Brene Brown
Factory Girls by Leslie T. Chang
and a few others that I haven't started yet

#5 fuzzier-I did-three months ago!!

Downloaded Dun Lady's Jess by Doranna Durgin and Unfettered by Shawn Speakman, editor.

Picked up Harvest of Rubies by Tessa Afshar yesterday. Looks interesting.

Snagged Lore of the Witch World by Andre Norton.

(7) But...you moved closer to the B&N???

"Danger, Will Robinson!!!"

(10) Was that the freebee copy offered online? I snagged one, too.

#11 fuzzi-the b&n was there when I got here. Totally coincidental!

Yeah, right, sure, fine...

#14 -fuzzi I mean it most sincerely

(12) Yep. Couldn't resist replacing the copy I had that was ruined and getting an ebook instead was a plus.

(15) Okay, I believe you. :)

Speaking personally, if I had the opportunity to live in close proximity to a book store or library, I think I'd jump at it!

(17) I do fuzzi I do!! I'm at B&N at least twice a month-same thing with the library-the library has a friend of the library table near the entrance where they are many many books to explore

Just picked up 14 books - 8 from http://storybundle.com and 6 from http://www.humblebundle.com:

Santiago by Mike Resnick
Hopscotch by Kevin J. Anderson
Deeper Than the Darkness by Gregory Benford
High-Opp by Frank Herbert
In Hero Years... I'm Dead by Michael Stackpole
Swarm by B. V. Larson
The Disappeared by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
On My Way to Paradise by David Farland

Just a Geek by Wil Wheaton
Shards of Honor by Lois McMaster Bujold
The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle
Little Brother by Cory Doctorow
Spin by Robert Charles Wilson
Boneshaker by Cherie Priest

Have added to my collection today...

Heaven is for Real by Todd Burpo
Giant George by Dave Nasser
Dancing on Broken Glass by Ka Hancock
Unsaid by Neil Abramson
The Four Ms. Bradwells by Meg Waite Clayton
Beyond Belief by Jenna Miscavige Hill
Safe Haven by Nicholas Sparks
The Weight of Silence by Heather Gudenkauf
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
On Mystic Lake by Kristin Hannah
Little Girl Gone by Drusilla Campbell

From Audible:

Telling The Bees by Peggy Hesketh
The Intercept by Dick Wolf
Bootstrapper: From Broke to Badass on a Northern Michigan Farm by Mardi Jo Link

I've finally broken down and gotten Elizabeth Moon's The Speed of Dark.

Mix of ARCs and published works picked up at a recent conference:
The Daylight Gate
Let Him Go
Guests on Earth
Foreign Gods Inc.
The Garden of Evening Mists
Provence, 1970
Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking
One Summer: America, 1927
The Summer of Beer and Whiskey
The Double (new Pelecanos, no touchstone)

And today from the library:
The Interestings
Arcadia
You Are One of Them

Gone a little Bookmooch crazy lately trying to use up points. These came today:

The heart of the order by Tom Boswell
Hating Alison Ashley by Robin Klein

From Open Letter Series:

A Short Tale of Shame by Angel Igov

Back from vacation, where I picked up:

Et puis, Paulette... by Barbara Constantine
Le chapeau de Mitterand by Antoine Laurain
La Comtesse de Cagliostro, the first of the Arsène Lupin series by Maurice Leblanc, and a freebie for having gotten the 1st two
La Promenade des Russes by Véronique Olmi
Khrushchev of the Ukraine: a biography by Victor Alexandrov

I just discovered that A. A. Milne wrote a mystery - The Red House Mystery - so I downloaded it. Also picked up The Unburied Dead by Douglas Lindsay.

Went browsing in one of my favourite used-book stores and was delighted to find an Eleventh Doctor adventure: The Forgotten Army, by Brian Minchin.

It's always nice to find The Doctor :D I know those books are what I hunt for on any trip in the UK (and I hit the motherload with 14 books I did not have in one store, that also had a 2=1 sale :D)

Another from Open Letter Series:

Two or Three Years Later: Forty-Nine Digressions by Ror Wolf

Four books arrived today:

Turtle Diary by Russell Hoban
I Hate to Leave This Beautiful Place by Howard Norman
Isak Dinesen: The Life of a Storyteller by Judith Thurman
Thomas Hardy by Claire Tomalin

Yesterday at one of my favorite used book sources I found...

Our Lady of the Lost and Found by Diane Schoemperlen
The Valkyries by Paulo Coelho
The Spellbinder's Gift by Og Mandino
Thanks for the Memories by Cecelia Ahern
Started Early, Took My Dog by Kate Atkinson
Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister by Gregory Maguire

I just received my ER copy of The 50 Greatest Yankees Of All Time by Robert Cohen and am already reading it despite the other books crying out for my attention

Couldn't resist and downloaded The Cuckoo's Calling.

I'm blaming this haul on the heat:
Fin& Lady by Catherine Schine;
The Drowning Lady by Elizabeth Black;
Together Tea by Marjan Kamali;
Instructions for A Heatwave by Maggie O'farrell-kind if ironic since its 94 degrees here;
The Last Summer of the Caperdowns by Elizabeth Kelly; and
The Wednesday Daughters by Meg Waite Clayton

The Great Bridge by David McCullough

Picked up Bride of the Rat God, The Ladies of Mandrigyn, The Witches of Wenshar, and The Dark Hand of Magic by Barbara Hambly.

Revisited a lovely local bookstore chain (3 stores) in Corolla, on the NC Outer Banks, last week, and picked up the following:
The Bookman's Tale by Charlie Lovett - local author whose book was partly inspired by the special collections & archives department at my library!
The World's Strongest Librarian

My son also selected a couple of books, as did my mom. Love supporting local bookstores!

From Library of America:

William Maxwell: Early Novels and Stories
William Maxwell: Later Novels and Stories

W. S. Merwin: Collected Poems 1952-1993
W. S. Merwin: Collected Poems 1996-2013

Mollygrace, I'm reading a William Maxwell novel later this month.

I got the following from Bookmooch:

The curate's awakening by George Macdonald
An acceptable time by Madeleine L'Engle

Bjace, I've been reading Maxwell's correspondence with Eudora Welty, What There Is To Say We Have Said -- such remarkable letters, such a remarkable friendship. Over the years I have enjoyed many of Maxwell's short stories, especially some of the autobiographical pieces, and several of his novels. I've been thinking it's time to read So Long, See You Tomorrow again.

A friend recommended this book:

Ten White Geese by Gerbrand Bakker

Ok -here's the latest splurge-
A friend gave me Love and Lament by John Miliken Thompson

From Barnes and Noble:
Schroeder by Amity Gaige;
The Universe Versus Alex Woodsby Gavin Extence;
& sons by David Ilbert; The Shining Girls by Lauren Beukes; and
The Drowning House by Elizabeth Black

From the library-
Eight Girls Taking Pictures by Whitney Otto; and the following all by Haywood Smith
Wife-in-law; Waking Up in Dixie; and Queen Bee of Mimosa Brunch

From my favorite book store Murder By The Book:

Sherlock Holmes and the Needles Eye by Len Bailey
Kiss Me First by Lottie Moggach
The Shining Girls by Lauren Beukes
The Never List by Koethi Zan
Letters From Skye by Jessica Brockmole
Close My Eyes by Sophie McKenzie

And from Costco:

Unseen by Karen Slaughter
Bomb Shell by Catherine Coulter
The 9th Girl by Tami Hoag

OK, I folded and bought The Cuckoo's Calling by Robert Galbraith/J. K. Rowling.

#45 - Seitherin, I'm very close to doing so myself!

#46 - grkmwk, As soon as I finish either of the books I'm currently reading, I plan on tackling The Cuckoo's Calling. Have you tried Rowling's other book, The Casual Vacancy?

Arrived yesterday from amazon:

Dear Life by Alice Munro

So I attended a presentation by a book store for a lake bok club and then binged a bit......:
Life After Life by Jill McCorkle
Impossible Lives of Greta Wells by Andrew Sean Greer
The Mirrored World by Debra Dean
Blood & Beauty by Sarah Dunant
The Butler by Wil Haygood
The Vicomte de Bragelonne by Alexandre Dumas
Louise de la Valliere by Alexandre Dumas
The Cove by Ron Rash
Serena by Ron Rash
Woe to Live On by Ron Rash
Nothing Gold Can Stay by Ron Rash

#47 - seitherin, I did read The Casual Vacancy last fall when it came out. I only gave it 3 stars, not because it was poorly written, but because it was just depressing. However, I disagreed with some of the criticisms I heard that the story was too far-fetched, that no small town/village could possibly have that much happening behind the scenes; I'm from a small town, it can - and does - happen. I thought overall, despite the story, Rowling made a solid first foray into adult literature.

Hmm, this is making me want The Cuckoo's Calling all the more...

Hemlokgang I loved The Cove. Excellent choices for books. I caved and bought Cuckoos Calling.

Okay okay okay....I caved and got Cuckoo's Calling

#50 - grkmwk, Thanks for the info on The Casual Vacancy. I think I'll pick that one up later this morning.

#51 momom248 & #52 hemlokgang, Welcome to the cave gang. ;-D

OK, picked up The Casual Vacancy by J. K. Rowling.

#54 - I'll be curious to know what you think!

#55 - Will do.

A friend sent me The Dud Avocado by Elaine Dundy.

I also purchased a pamphlet I've been wanting to get my hands on since seeing a reference to it in the letters exchanged between William Maxwell and Eudora Welty. She was a visiting professor at Smith College in 1962 and gave the series of lectures that are published in this 46-page pamphlet, Three Papers on Fiction. There is so much to learn here, and of course, they are delightful. She refers to that "ever-miraculous thing, the opening sentence" and in the lecture on Words in Fiction reminds us that "We start from scratch, and words don't; which is the thing that matters, matters over and over again."

I haven't been reading much the last couple of weeks, but I acquired books, mostly from other LTers!

from SqueakyChu:
Stories of love, courage and compassion Warwick Deeping 1930
The Forsyte Saga -- with a Preface By Ada Galsworthy John Galsworthy 1933
America's national parks; a photographic encyclopedia of our magnificent natural wonderlands Nelson Beecher Keyes 1957
The book of furniture and decoration: period and modern Joseph Aronson 1952
The Mother's encyclopedia 1933
Leonora Arnold Bennett 1910
If I were you P. G. Wodehouse 1931
The wreck of the Mary Deare Hammond Innes 1956
The White Nile Alan Moorehead 1966
William the Conqueror Thomas Bertram Costain 1959
Stories to remember Thomas Bertram Costain 1956
More stories to remember Thomas Bertram Costain 1958
Madam, will you talk? Mary Stewart 1958
A dog on Barkham Street Mary Stolz 1960
Singing waters, a novel Ann Bridge 1945
Celia Garth Gwen Bristow 1959
Girl Scout Handbook Girl Scouts of America 1953

Ordered:
Ever After Elswyth Thane Thane, Elswyth 1978
Found in the Attic - Touchstone doesn't work yet D. E. Stevenson 2013

From from SylviaC:
Prester John John Buchan 1922
John McNab John Buchan 1949
The head-girl of the Chalet School (Armada) Elinor Brent-Dyer 1988
Frontline 1940 Lucilla Andrews 1993

The Rathbones was just delivered to me here at work!! I am in the middle of Clash of Kings so I might be able to hold on to this one until vacation.... sigh.. well I will try anyway. =:)

Downloaded Surface Detail by Iain M. Banks.

New Collected Poems by Eavan Boland
Eat the Document by Dana Spiotta

Happened to be near a Chapters and picked up Linwood Barclay's latest, A Tap on the Window.

Downloaded a copy of Cards of Grief by Jane Yolen.

Bought books last weekend from our local book festival office - they're now selling directly! - and a favorite indie bookstore in the NC mountains:
Shadow and Bone
Soil and Sacrament
A Different Sun
The Cassoulet Saved Our Marriage
Tiny Beautiful Things

From Open Letter:
L'amour by Marguerite Duras

and

Archangel by Andrea Barrett

Downloaded Earthlight by Arthur C. Clarke.

Just received my signed copy of Happy Hour in Hell from Tad Williams. Can't wait to dive into it.

As much as I try to avoid Barnes and Noble over the last two weeks I've picked up the following:
The Thinking Woman's Guide to Real Magic-Emily Croy Barker;
Five Star Billionaire-Tash Aw;
The Irresistible Blueberry Bake shop and Cafe- Mary Simses;
The Rathbones- Janice Clark;
Winds of Salem -Melissa De La Cruz;
You Are One of Them-Elliott Holt;
Paris Was The Place-Susan Conley;
Tampa-Alissa Nutting;
The Sound of Things Falling -Juan Gabriel Maquez; and
The Panopticon-Jenni Fagan
I'm actually blaming the Yankees for this-if they didn't have a west coast trip and an 8 o'clock start I would have been absorbed in the game and not heard Barnes and noble call come...come... Many many books to pursue

I've been in a book-buying frenzy of late, but I'll have you know it's not my fault. I blame it all on three books I read a month or so ago -- by the time I finished them I had a long list of other books I needed to read. The three books were Turtle Diary by Russell Hoban (and especially the excellent introduction by Ed Park), A Journey with Two Maps by Eavan Boland, and, the worst of the bunch, Howard Norman's I Hate to Leave This Beautiful Place -- unbelievable how many references Norman made to other books, writers, music, films, art . . . Actually, I think I showed remarkable restraint in buying as few books as I have.

Books lead you on to other books:

A Man in the Zoo by David Garnett
What Light Can Do by Robert Hass
The Apple Trees of Olema by Robert Hass
Charlotte Mew: Selected Poems
Charlotte Mew and Her Friends by Penelope Fitzgerald
Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
The Mezzanine by Nicholson Baker
Collected Shorter Poems (1946-1991) by Hayden Carruth
Capital of Pain by Paul Eluard

I have no excuse for buying the following books except that I have admired other works by the authors and couldn't resist the chance to read more:

Brewster: A Novel by Mark Slouka
The Last Runaway by Tracy Chevalier
Water, Carry Me by Thomas Moran
Ardent Spirits: Leaving Home, Coming Back by Reynolds Price

Excuse? No excuse needed!!

Thank you, hemlokgang -- I hardly ever feel the need to make excuses for buying books, but I've been exceptionally naughty lately. I'll be making a couple of other entries here as soon as the other packages arrive. And where to put them all? I ran out of shelf space quite some time ago. It's time for a major "weeding" but I still miss the ones I discarded the last time I did that. And besides, I like weeds -- they have character. (Just like books.)

Books arriving today:

Hothouse by Boris Kachka (about Farrar Straus & Giroux)
The Sweet-Shop Owner by Graham Swift
The Persian Boy by Mary Renault
Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter
The Living by Annie Dillard
Stone Arabia by Dana Spiotta

I got these today from Barnes and Noble:
After Her- Joyce Maynard;
The Good Lord Bird- James McBride;
The Girl You Left Behind - JoJoMoyes;
The Purchase -Linda Spalding; and
clavier of The Sea Light-Edwidge Danticat
I was momentarily reminded of the commercial the screamed "Stop The Insanity" but then I thought why????

New thread is up....

http://www.librarything.com/topic/158363#

73 cdyankeefan I too also bought the other day After Her and The Girl You Left Behind. I am looking forward to reading them both and I agree with you why stop the insanity....

75 thank you mommom. I'm going to Barnes and Noble tomorrow for-ahem-lunch and may bring back a tome or two or.....

On the last day of August, we visited my favorite used book store while vacationing in the NC mountains with my mom's extended family (30+!). Came home with:
Cooked by Michael Pollan
Harvest Poems by Carl Sandburg
The Princes of Ireland by Edward Rutherfurd (this for my husband)
Plus three books for my son, whose titles I can't recall...

Cdyankeefan enjoy your, ahem, lunch 😉

We're into September now, as I downloaded The Husband's Secret because it looked intriguing

# 78 mommom-lunch-ahem- was delightful and somehow 7 books followed me home. I have no idea how that happened .... Seriously

Cdyankeefan in the Sept/Oct thread do tell what followed you home

# 81- I will I will

I went to Barnes and Nobel for lunch-ahem-and these just followed me home:
DivergentVeronica Roth;
Insurgent-Veronica Roth;
The Wishing Thread-Lisa Van Allen;
Brewster- Mark Slouka;
Ostrich- Matt Greene;
Lookaway, Lookaway-Wilton Barnhardt; and
Tumbledown-Russell Boswell

Picked up The Last Runaway on Sunday! Loving it so far. Need to go visit Bull Moose Music and pick up the next book in the Game of Throne Series Dance with Dragons :).

New thread is up - http://www.librarything.com/topic/158363.

Bought in August. The Ear of the Heart
Brought home in august:
Always too soon
Simply Magic
The Passion of the Purple Plumeria
Anatomy of Hope

I claim that all of these followed me home....

Life Before Man
Oryx and Crake
MaddAddam
The Time in Between
A Brewing Storm - EBook
A Raging Storm - EBook
A Bloody Storm - EBook
Storm Front
The Butterfly Plague
Coppermine
As Birds Bring Forth the Sun and Other Stories
Consumption
Irish Country Christmas
Contemporary Canadian Women's Short Stories

New thread is up - http://www.librarything.com/topic/158363.