Books Brought Home November/December 2013

Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
The Loyal Servant by Eva Hudson

Women in the wall by Julia O'Faolain
Stork raving mad by Donna Andrews
Desire of the everlasting hills by Thomas Cahill

The Princess and Curdie by George MacDonald

It's November 2...and no books yet this month, that has to be a record for me! ;)

Lud-in-the-Mist by Hope Mirrlees

The All-Girl Filling Station's Last Reunion by Fanny Flagg should be waiting for me when I get home tonite. Sweet!!!!

Ten novels:

The Outcasts by Kathleen Kent
The Two Hotel Francforts by David Leavitt
A Long Time Dying by Olga Masters (thank you, hazeljune)
Nostalgia by Dennis McFarland
Night Film by Marisha Pessl
Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl
Subtle Bodies by Norman Rush
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
Jacob's Room by Virginia Woolf
The Waves by Virginia Woolf

Eats, Shoots and Leaves by Lynne Truss. Not fiction but hilarious.

The Black God's War by Moses Siregar III

Downloaded Strike From The Deep by Bob Branco. Gotta support fellow LTers.

Read:
"Shine Shine Shine" Lydia Netzer
"Dust" Hugh Howey

Reading:
"Still Writing: The Pleasures & Perils of a Creative Life" Dani Shapiro
"Island of Dogs" Kate Prudchenko
"The Signature of All Things" Elizabeth Gilbert

Planned for Nov/Dec (tentative ;-)):
"Fugitive Pigments" Ruth Bavetta
"American Society: What Poets See" coeditors: David Chorlton, Robert S. King
"Startide Rising" David Brin
"Dog Lived (and So Will I)" Teresa J. Rhyne
"How the Dog Became the Dog" Mark Derr

So far...

eLPy
LT author of "That Which Lives Within"

Wasn't around much of October, so here is the list for the last six weeks or so:

Barren Lives by Graciliano Ramos
The Ballad of Barnabas Pierkiel by Magdalena Zyzak
High Tide by Inga Abele
The Valley of Amazement by Amy Tan
Change of Heart by Jodi Picoult
Dust by Patricia Cornwell
King and Maxwell by David Baldacci
Billy Watson's Croker Sack by Franklin Burroughs
The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton
The Dark by Sergio Chejfec

Redwall by Brian Jacques

My Family and Other Animals and Horses and Mules of the Civil War both arrived on Saturday. :)

Stitches: A Handbook on Meaning, Hope, and Repair by Anne Lamott

I visited 5, count 'em 5, bookstores over the weekend and only came home with one new book. My husband held himself to 3. It was hard, but with the holidays coming up, making a wishlist was more essential than treating myself.

The Amulet of Samarkand by Jonathan Stroud

#8: I read that one when it was first published and loved it. You're right, it is a funny book for grammar nerds like me!

This month, I got And The Mountains Echoed which I am halfway through and thoroughly enjoying, and The Book Thief.

#16 Amazon was offering that in their specials today. I've already read it or I'd be tempted.

Instead I visited B&N and got a badly needed new dictionary and found The Last Stand on the remainder shelves for $7. Yay!

#18, That's where I snagged this copy from. It sounded interesting and I couldn't beat the price.

Arrived today:

The Man Who Planted Trees by Jean Giono
Lyrics: 1962-2001 by Bob Dylan
A Prayer Journal by Flannery O'Connor
Flannery: A Life of Flannery O'Connor by Brad Gooch

Has anyone else fallen victim to Amazon's Black Friday deals? I got...maybe a tiny bit carried away.

Night of Cake & Puppets by Laini Taylor
The Lotus Palace by Jeannie Lin
Midnight in Austenland by Shannon Hale (no i have not bought the first, but the second was on sale and...)
Why Do Dramas Do That? Part 1 by Javaveans & Girlfriday
Pieces of Paper: A short story set in Tokyo by Jeannie Lin
Warm Bodies by Isaac Marion
Empire of the Sun by JG Ballard
Snow White Sorrow by Cameron Jace
Legend by Marie Lu
Allegiant by Veronica Roth
Wicked Cravings by Suzanne Wright
Feral Sins by Suzanne Wright
Blind Allegiance by Violetta Rand
The Governess Affair by Courtney Milan
The Duchess War by Courtney Milan
My Fair Concubine by Jeannie Lin

Please tell me I'm not the only crazy person today...

I'm leading the Advent book study at my church, so I picked up our selection this year: Child of the Light.

Today I noticed one of our physician assistants had a stack of books on the floor by her office door, so I asked if she was getting rid of them. She said "yes", so I took the book on the top, Submarine by Tom Clancy. It is subtitled "A Guided Tour Inside a Nuclear Warship" and looks very interesting to me. Free is good!

Dangerous Women edited by George R.R. Martin and Gardner Duzois.

This arrived in a happy box yesterday - Dangerous Women edited by George R.R. Martin and Gardner Duzois. :0)

Some of the books I've ordered have begun to trickle in today I received the following:
The Two Hotel Francforts by David Leavitt;
Death of the Black Haired Girl by Robert Dtone; and
The Supreme Macaroni Company by Adrians Trigiani
Still waiting on a few more......

Mad Mouse and Whack a Mole by Chris Grabenstein.

Brought home Holidays on Ice from the library tonight.

I just bought an e-book copy of The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt. It's only $1.79 on Amazon right now.

TooBusyReading. Was so excited to see you post regarding The Goldfinch - that $1.79 price must have ended.. sigh. lol..

Sorry! It was such a low price, I was afraid it wouldn't last long, and I don't know how long it had been at that price before I saw it. Maybe something else wonderful will come up.

Brought home Holidays on Ice from the library yesterday.

ETA: just bought The Fault in Our Stars on my Kindle for $3.99. Too good a deal to pass up!

Thanks, grkmwk. I just bought The Fault in Our Stars. Amazon has some great deals, but the best of them don't last long, so even though I won't get to this one right away, I didn't want to wait until the price went up.

(Of course, that was my theory when I bought Sycamore Row, but the price went down after I bought it. :( But then up again. Timing is everything.)

I received my ER copy of The Widow's Guide To Sex and Dating by Carol Radziwill today

#33 - You're welcome! And thanks to your post about The Goldfinch, I started nosing around Amazon, which is how I found the deal on The Fault in Our Stars!! I also won't start reading it anytime soon, but it was too good to pass up. Hmm, now I'm remembering why I generally stay AWAY from Amazon this time of year... ;)

I really didn't mean to do this but I went to Barnes andNoble and somehow these followed me home:
Local Souls by Allan Gurganus;
Jeeves and the a wedding Bells by Sebastian Faulks;Stella Bain by Anits Shreveport; and
Bellman and Black by Diane Setterfield

I also donated 3 Dr. Seuss books to the Milford Lieracy Center

Hmmm...a box showed up at my house today, with a couple tomes that were not on my Wishlist...so hopefully they are not duplicates of SantaThing choices:

The Eighty-Dollar Champion
The Case for the Real Jesus

Powell's drew me in with their Cyber Monday deals...

#32: Both books are great! Savor the reads.

Received a package from BN with the following:

The Good Lord Bird by James McBride
Theodore Boone: the Activist by John Grisham
I Am Half-sick of Shadows by Alan Bradley

For a National Book Award winner, I haven't heard much discussion of The Good Lord Bird. I am excited to read it though.

> I usually mean to buy books when I enter a book store. Rare exceptions to that rule. Recently I went in to get two calendars as gifts and, of course, a book followed me home The Last Stand by Nathaniel Philbrick, but I didn't feel badly because it only cost me $7.

I brought home a big bag of books from the bookstore the other day and when I finished unpacking them realized that not one of them was for me -- they're all books I'm giving as gifts for Christmas. I try to choose gift books from the list of those I've read during the year and it's often a surprise to me which ones I wind up selecting.

I bought several copies of three of my favorites from the year: Turtle Diary, Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin, and Someone by Alice McDermott.

For friends who have retired and are planning to spend the next couple of years traveling: The Towers of Trebizond and A Time of Gifts.

For a colleague who is interested in the cultural history of the 20th Century (particularly as it relates to women and to the years between the two world wars): All We Know: Three Lives

For a niece who likes reading quirky or surprising books she might have overlooked: Special Topics in Calamity Physics.

For a cousin who loves tales of the Old West, especially if they're set in Texas: The Outcasts

I'm still searching that shopping bag, hoping there's a book for me in it, but I think I'll just have to wait until Christmas to see if my family will be giving me some of the books on the wish list I've been handing out to anyone who asks for it (and to all the ones who haven't).

From B&N, my RL book club selection for January 2014.....Stoner by John Williams.

My office gave me a $50 Visa gift card and I've held on to it for a whole week without using it. Today I spent most of it on:

The Soloist
The Warmth of Other Suns
The Man in the Empty Boat

Grkmwk, I bought The Fault in Our Stars after you mentioned it, started it today, and am about 70% through it already - love it!

Whymaggiemay, I thought The Warmth of Other Suns was terrific.

Happy reading!

Just picked up the ebook version of The Bat by Jo Nesbø.

#45 Me too. Some really good deals lately!

#44: Glad to hear it, TooBusyReading! Depending on why I get for Christmas, it might be my next read, once I finish A Constellation of Vital Phenomena.

I loved A Constellation of Vital Phenomena, but one of the people to whom I recommended it didn't like it at all. Oh well.

From Open Letter Series:

Everything Happens As It Does by Albena Stambolova

My family gave me these books for Christmas:

The Cartographer of No Man's Land by P. S. Duffy
Death of the Black-Haired Girl by Robert Stone
Enon by Paul Harding
W is for Wasted by Sue Grafton
A Day at the Beach by Geoffrey Wolff
Levels of Life by Julian Barnes
Country Girl by Edna O'Brien

Books I received this Christmas:

The Complete Tales of Winnie-the-Pooh
A Night to Remember
Another Paws for a Moment with God
I, Saul

Plus my sweetie gave me a gift card from Barnes & Noble...

Books I received for Christmas:
Goodnight Carolina
The Signature of All Things

Just finished Still Alice and now reading Orphan Train. Both are book club picks. I really enjoyed Still Alice. It has been on my too read list for a while.

My to read pile had shrunk so much that I bought some books in case I didn't get any for Christmas:

Close to the bone by Stuart MacBride
Blackhouse by Peter May
The Wyrd sisters Mort and Sourcery by Terry Pratchett
Dead water by Ann Cleeves
A room full of bones by Elly Griffiths

Turned out I needn't have worried, for Christmas I got:

Miracle and other Christmas stories by Connie Willis
Watching the dark by Peter Robinson
American Gods by Neil Gaiman
Believing the lie by Elizabeth George
The light fantastic and Equal rites by Terry Pratchett
No mark upon her by Deborah Crombie
The haunting of hill house by Shirley Jackson
Dead man's grip by Peter James
Well of lost plots by Jasper Fforde

Not really that many, but that's because my "to read" pile is still there to work on..

Yokohama Yankee by Leslie Helm
11/22/63 by Stephen King
Hostage to the Devil by Malachi Martin

Bought Bread & Wine: A Love Letter to Life Around the Table with Recipes for $2.99 on my Kindle this afternoon. It's been on my print wishlist for some time now, so if I like the ebook, I'll likely pick up the print copy, too... :)