Books Brought Home - September/October 2014

What intriguing, engaging, enlightening books are you bringing home this Fall?

My very first book of the month is "One More River" by Mary Glickman. I've heard good things about this book. The ebook was on sale at Amazon today, so it's mine. :)

I also ordered three print books that I'll tell you about when they arrive.

Just downloaded Sleeping Late on Judgment Day by Tad Williams.

I've just (blush) added the complete Shakespeare and Mark Twain, a major selection of Dickens, and a set of King Arthur tales for 99 cents per collection on the Kindle.

Blushing with pride? Nice haul!

>5 hemlokgang: Thanks... No, actually, for feeling like some sort of sellout, betraying all that's righteously retro. At the very least, a complete Shakespeare ought to come with a gold-stamped faux leather cover. At the very, very least, my Kindle ought to have a little more heft with that added weight.

Nice summer haul:

World Poetry: An Anthology of Verse from Antiquity To Our Time. by Katharine Washburn
The Intuitionist by Colson Whitehead
A Well-Tempered Heart by Jan-Philipp Sendker

An Early Reviewer:

The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell

Did I really acquire 14 MORE books on Sept 1st from my friend who's moving to Mexico?

I fear I have a compulsive book hoarding habit. I do give many away, just not fast enough.

Purchased this week:

The Young Desire It by Kenneth Mackenzie
Nobody is Ever Missing by Catherine Lacey

>#8 nrmay......join the group of book hoarders....I personally have so many TBRs it is beautifully overwhelming!!

Arrived today:
The Happy Herbivore Cookbook by Lindsay S. Nixon
The Oh She Glows Cookbook by Angela Liddon

Arrived today:

Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin

I'm just back from B&N:

Tigers in Red Weather
Essential Tales and Poems
Great American Short Stories

I thought the two anthologies would make nice between books.

Went to the Friends of the Library today and came away with:

The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris by David McCullough (HB)
The Interestings by Meg Wolitzer (trade PB)

They've raised their rates a little - cost me $5 instead of $3.50. I didn't complain.

From Open Letter:

The Last Days of My Mother by Solvi Bjorn Sigurdsson

On sale so I couldn't resist - Neuromancer by William Gibson.

Found Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley among my mom's books and appropriated it.
I've just begun reading it and expect to love it.

>16 nrmay: Sweetness is a wonderful book. I checked it out of the library but I wish I had bought it instead. I know I'll want to read it again.

BookMooch from Israel:

When I Lived In Modern Times by Linda Grant

Arrived today:

Human Voices by Penelope Fitzgerald
The Sound of One Hand Clapping by Richard Flanagan
Death of a River Guide by Richard Flanagan
In Memoriam A. H. H. by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

I liked the show based on Greenwood's Phryne Fisher so I thought I'd give at least the first book a try - Cocaine Blues by Kerry Greenwood.

Bought in the past week and a half:
Storm Front by Richard Castle
Naked Heat by Richard Castle
Police by Jo Nesbo
The Bat by Jo Nesbo

Big fan of Jo Nesbo here! Enjoy!

Two book-bullet acquisitions brought home from the library just now: Farthing and All the Light We Cannot See.

Yesterday the third Sarah Caudwell came in: The Sirens Sang of Murder. Planning to save that one up for a little while.

Meredy I am currently reading All The Light We Cannot See and loving it. I hope you do too.

I just loaded seven new mystery novels into my Nook.
I got the first three of Anne Rice's William Monk Mysteries:

The Face of a stranger
A Dangerous Morning
Defend and Betray

I've read a few random novels in that series and really loved the, so I'm going to start at the beginning and read my way through.

I also got these:

Keep Quiet by Lisa Scottoline
Sleight of Hand by Phillip Margolin
White Fire by Douglas Preston
The Final Cut by Catherine Coulter

I lost my entire library shortly after Christmas last year, and now I'm in such a confined space that I'm going to have to focus on ebooks instead of print.

I went back and got one more. This one is from Jeffery Deaver's Lincoln Rhyme series:
The Stone Monkey

>24 momom248: Thanks. I'm wondering if it's going to remind me of And There Was Light, by Jacques Lusseyran, a true story of a blind resistance fighter in World War II France.

>24 momom248: That book is waiting on the shelf. I hope you and >27 Meredy: will let us know what you think.

Season of the Witch just arrived via the big brown truck... :) All The Light We Cannot See is next on the pile of tbr books. It seems to be much loved. :)

>24 momom248:, >28 JackieCarroll: Whoops, cancel that: not going to read it. It's written in the present tense, and I simply don't have the endurance to sit through 530 pages of that. Back to the library. Glad I didn't buy it.

Went to B&N at lunch yesterday and picked up:
Women in Clothes
A Little Salty to Cut the Sweet
Jedi Academy: Return of the Padawan (for my son)

Arrived today:

Gabriel: A Poem by Edward Hirsch
The Unknown Terrorist by Richard Flanagan

Arrived today : 15 seconds by Andrew Gross in audio form

While in NYC this past weekend I acquired

Vampires in the Lemon Grove: Stories by Karen Russell from my son; his book club had read it
and
Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer from the only NY bookstore I managed to visit this trip.

Realized I forgot to add three books of poetry I picked up at our local book festival on Sept 6th:
Anson County: Poems by Joseph Bathanti
Concertina: Poems by Joseph Bathanti
This Miraculous Turning by Joseph Mills

from the used bookstores today -

Mrs. Miracle by Debbie Macomber. romance
Earthquake at Dawn by Kristiana Gregory. YA historical fiction
Torn Thread Anne Isaacs. YA WWII historical fiction
Undercurrents Willo Davis Roberts. J mystery
Iceberg Hermit Arthur Roth. YA historical adventure & survival
Rag and Bone Shop Robert Cormier. YA fiction
Vasalisa and her Magic Doll Rita Grauer. Illustrated Russian folktale

and from my friend who is moving to Mexico-

Boomer Burden: Dealing with your Parents' Lifetime Accumulation of Stuff Julie Hall

To get my book buying juices flowing in anticipation of the Brooklyn book festival I went to Barnes and Noble and picked up the following:
Angels Make Their Home Here by Breena Clarke;
Those who leave and those who stay by Elena Ferrante;

The Giver by Lois Lpwry;
Small Blessings by Martha Woodroof; and
Accidents of Marriage by Randy Susan Meyers

Picked up from the library:

The Luminaries
An Incomplete Revenge

Just received: The Art Spirit, a 1984 reprint of a 1923 work.

Downloaded the second Maze Runner books by James Dashner, The Scorch Trials.

I just got back from the Brooklyn book festival-a wonderful way to spend an afternoon and came home with these:
Suspect; Pushing Up Daisies ; Slugest; and Bitches of Brooklyn by Rosemary Harris;
The Stories of Jane Gardam;
The Thoughts and Happenings of Wilfred Price Purveyor of Superior Funerals by Wendy Jones;
The Lost Daughter by Elena Ferrante;
The Unknown Bridesmaid by Margaret Forster;
Autumn All the Cats Return by Phillipe Georget;
The Orchard of Lost Souls by Nadifa Mohamed; and
Clash of Civilizations Over An Elevator in Piazza Vittorio by Amara Lakhous -the author very nicely autographed my copy and we had a little chat -I also downloaded his Divorce Islamic Style to my kindle

Downloaded the third Maze Runner book, The Death Cure by James Dashner.

The Breast by Philip Roth
The Child: An Audible Drama by Sebastian Fitzek

B&N had some of Wilbur Smith's Egyptian ebooks on sale for $1.99 each earlier this week, so I picked up three of them. I should probably have read one before buying the other two, but I love books about Ancient Egypt, and the "Will I Like It" thing said that I will, so I got these:

Warlock
The Seventh Scroll
River God

Downloaded My Antonia onto my Kindle. Love the free old stuff that's available nowadays.

>44 JackieCarroll: I don't know Wilbur Smith at all, but after a quick lookup I feel as if I'd just taken not a single book bullet but a spray of shot.

Downloaded Foreigner by C. J. Cherryh and borrowed An Innocent Client by Scott Pratt.

>47 seitherin: I loved Foreigner! Is this your first experience with CJ Cherryh?

My willpower is zilch...

I brought home
The Amulet of Samarkand by Jonathan Stroud
The Sanctuary by Raymond Khoury
Small Island by Andrea Levy
The Warsaw Anagrams by Richard Zimler
Dead Over Heels by MaryJanice Davidson
Walking on glass by Iain Banks
The Steep Approach to Garbadale by Iain Banks
The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
... I also got another copy of Brave New World because it looked like new and my copy is pretty much falling apart, so when I've located it, that will probably go out and I'll have just one again!

Nice haul, Peace2!

From Open Letter:

A Thousand Forests in One Acorn: An Anthology of Spanish-Language Fiction by Valerie Miles

>48 fuzzi: Oh, gosh, no. I've been a C. J. Cherryh fan since practically the beginning. The first thing of hers I ever read were the Faded Sun books. Loved them. I actually have several of her Foreigner series books, but they are in storage so I decided I would slowly collect them for my Kindle.

peace2 there is no such thing as willpower when it comes to book buying.

>51 seitherin: glad to hear it. I feel that CJ Cherryh is terribly underrated, and, like Rodney D., she "don't get no respect!"

Speaking of my favorite author, after dropping off 21 books at David's Used Books, I failed to find anything written by CJ, and had to content myself with one acquisition, Belles on Their Toes. It will be a reread, but since it's probably been about 35-40 years since I read it the first time, it'll sorta be like a new read. :D

>52 momom248: In which case maybe I should stop worrying that I don't seem to have any then! I am in danger of being lost beneath a the teetering mounds of TBR which is somewhat of a worry! "Death by book" would be an interesting headline!

Peace2 I too have a towering TBR piles. Lol on death by book..my headline would be ..she never met a bookstore she didn't like 😃

# 54 and 55 mommom and peace 2 - I too have a towering tbr pile I have two completely full bookcases with books on the tops of the cases ad the shelves were sagging 26 books on a room divider and countless others on an end table

I also have two bookcases of TBRs....I am a bit embarassed when non-bibliophile friends come by and comment on how much I must read....they just wouldn't understand.

No they wouldn't-one of my friends said I had too many books and I said you can never have enough books

I have friends who would understand - although they've both transferred almost completely to Kindles now so the physical TBR pile is less life-threatening, but they also both speed read so when they read they get through things much faster, than I do. We regularly chat about and rec or loan books to each other - although less so now in my direction as I'm still Kindle-free. The majority of friends do read a bit, however wouldn't get the sheer size of my TBR pile. I have only a couple of almost-completely non-reading friends.

Apart from family, no one has ever said I've got too many books, although apart from family I guess no one knows how many boxes and piles there are in less public areas of the house!

>58 cdyankeefan: ... the end of a friendship???

I am enjoying The Pass by Thomas Savage this is the third of his books that I have not long finished, he is a wonderful writer, most of his novels are set in Montana. His best was The Power of the Dog.

My next may be, from my op shop The Third Life of Grange Copeland by Alice Walker.

# 60 fuzzi- nah we've been friends for a long time and she was never much of a reader to begin with. I would just feel so barren if I didn't have a bunch of books around me

A Little Love Story delivered by the big brown truck. :) love it so far!

In addition to the book buying I did before the Brooklyn book festival and at the book festival I also went to my favorite indie bookstore and these arrived today:
E L DoctorowWaterworks;
Marine Park -Mark Chusano;
Wise Men-Stuart Nadler
;
Shadow Country-Peter Matthiessen;
Anne Frank-Diary of A Young Girl;
Paula Blackstone-The Midnight Witch;
And
Sarah Waters- The Paying Guests

I also received Queen Bee Comes Home Again from The Reading Room. As much as I'd like to think I'm done book buying for now I really don't think that's gonna happen

The mail man has just delivered another book by Thomas Savage, The Corner of Rife and Pacific, my reader friends, I would so like to see one and all follow up on Thomas Savage, you will so enjoy his novels, especially The Sheep Queen it is a wonderful autobiography, again set in magical Montana.

Added
My Colors: Mis Colores by Rebecca Emberley
Lightning Thief Rick Riordan
Gift of Magic by Lois Duncan
Beside a Burning Sea by John Shors
Fix-It and Forget-It: Slow=Cooker Magic by Springhouse
Ghost Riders by Sharyn McCrumb
Night of Many Dreams by Gail Tsukiyama
Give the Dog a Bone by Leslie O'Kane

For a total of 33 books added in Sept. I'm hopeless . . .

>66 nrmay: you might be "hopeless", but you're in good company. :)

I finished the month with a parcel from Amazon - When the Tripods Came by John Christopher - the prequel to a series that I already own the other parts for, so I'm okay with this. :)

Love the little brown truck... I think the delivery guy is almost as happy as I am when he brings a package.
A Different Kind of Normal
The Giver

Arrived today:

Max Perkins: Editor of Genius by A. Scott Berg
In Reach by Pamela Carter Joern (I couldn't get the touchstones to work for this one)
Short Stories by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
The Swan Gondola by Timothy Schaffert
Love Me Back by Merritt Tierce

>69 sebago: love your description (little brown truck)!

:) 71 fuzzi... do so love to see the little brown truck pull up outside. I have to say that we have the most fantastic drivers both UPS and FEDEX. They are wonderful.

Big brown truck:

The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher by Hilary Mantel

The Glassblower by Petra Durst-Benning

Yesterday's from my Vinnies Last Ferry to Manly by Jill Neville very Australian!! I know the locations so well.

No "little brown truck" to thank for this one, a public library discard:

Mistress Masham's Repose by T.H. White

Finally broke down and bought The Princess Bride by William Goldman.

I told myself I would b good when I went to Barnes and noble today-well that didn't happen and I came home with these:
Love Me Back by Merritt Tierce;
The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher by Hilary Mantel;
You by Caoline Kepnes;
Norah Webster by Colm Toibin;
The Stories We Tell by Patti Callahan;
Bittersweet by Coleen McCullough ; and
Asylum and Sanctum by Madeline Proux

I think I need an intervention

>78 cdyankeefan: Something tells me the only interventions available in these parts seem to encourage more book buying! It's that or the backlog of people needing them (I certainly do!) is too great for the number of people available to help. *grin*

#79 peace2- you are so right! :-)

Cdyankeefan forget the intervention, you and I have similar book tastes..many you bought are on my wish list. I might cave to temptation and buy some of them. So I guess I might need an intervention as well......

# 81 mommom-I've tried many many times to restrain my book buying. It got to be a joke between my late husband and I. Once he saw I couldn't stop buying he'd tell me to make sure not to bring a flatbeds worth of books home which I was able to do

My intervention: guiltis unhealthy......banish it! Now!

From a trip to my favourite used bookstore last week. So grateful that I had store credit and that I didn't need to spend a single penny!

Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood
The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
Rose Madder by Stephen King
The Christmas Carol and other Stories by Charles Dickens
The Left Hand Of Darkness by Ursula K. LeGuin
Frozen Heat by Richard Castle
The Wench is Dead by Colin Dexter
The Secret of Annexe 3 by Colin Dexter
My Soul to Take by Yrsa Sigurdardottir

.....and I also went to my local retail book seller and purchased Diana Gabaldon's Outlander as well as John Grisham's Sycamore Row.

I think I need an intervention as well. :)

#83 and 84-now that I've had a good nights sleep I realize hemlokgang that guilt is an unnecessary emotion and if book buying is the worst thing I do so be it. Let the book buying continue!!!

Cdyankeefan there are so many other bad vices..book buying is not one of them!

Just downloaded a copy of Armageddon by Leon Uris.

>87 seitherin: I've not read that one yet, but I loved QB VII and Exodus.

I had lunch near one of my favorite used bookstores yesterday and persuaded my very tolerant husband to let me dash in for ten minutes max and I wouldn't buy more than one book. Twenty minutes later I came out with these, all from the $1 table!

A treasury of great mysteries Vol 1. by Howard Haycraft (I'll have to put Vol 2 on my wish list)
The Reader's Companion to American History by John A. Garraty
Daddy's Girl by Lisa Scottoline
Silent Night by Mary Higgins Clark
All Through The Night : A Suspense Story by Mary Higgins Clark
Santa Cruise: A Holiday Mystery at Sea by Mary Higgins Clark
Dashing Through the Snow by Mary Higgins Clark.
Thought I'd give these last 4 to my mom for Christmas; she is a big MHC fan.
By the way, it's always ok to buy any book you think you might give away.
Love You More by Lisa Gardner. My FREE book with purchase of the above!

>88 fuzzi: I'm a huge Leon Uris fan from way, way back in the dark ages when I had to read by candlelight while huddled in the straw that made up my bed. I've read quite a few of his books. The only one that pops to mind that I haven't read is The Haj and that's because my copy wound up in storage before I could get to it.

And on a completely different note, someone from a group I've belonged to for years (I am a proud Tad Williams' Smarcher) had his first book published and my copy downloaded this morning - Falling Sky by Rajan Khanna.

>90 seitherin: I do recall someone named @seitherin in a Tad Williams list serv. ;) I think we've discussed that before.

I've reread Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn and Child of an Ancient City, and they still hold up.

No new books today, yet...

Arrived today:

Gould's Book of Fish by Richard Flanagan
The Children Act by Ian McEwan

>91 fuzzi: We have talked about it before. Do you know that Tad is working on another trilogy set in Osten Ard?
http://www.tadwilliams.com/2014/04/from-tad-the-last-king-of-osten-ard/

Actually, NO! I did not know...

...thanks for the "heads up". :)

One of Ours by Willa Cather - Kindle freebie. Couldn't resist.

From my women's group book sale for $1 or less each -

Adam and Eve and Pinch Me by Ruth Rendell
Mrs. Whaley and Her Charleston Garden by Emily Whaley
Distant Waves a Novel of the Titanic by Suzanne Weyn
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
311 Pelican Court by Debbie Macomber
Valley of the Shadow by Charlotte Hughes

I like bargain books!

I picked up
The Wind on the Moon by Eric Linklater
and
The Water Babies by Charles Kingsley today

From BookMooch.com:

The Summer Without Men by Siri Hustvedt

I picked up The Mummy Case by Elizabeth Peters. It's one of the early books from the Amelia Peabody series that I missed.

I also downloaded War of the Whales by Joshua Horwitz from Amazon when it was on sale a few days ago.

ETA: I opened this thread thinking that I had only purchased one book--The Mummy Case--Since my last post. Then I remembered the ebook, and now I just remembered that I bought three gardening book. Where is my brain this morning?

Gardening in Miniature
Succulents Simplified
Handmade Garden Projects

Bought Fairest by Gail Levine off the bargain shelf at Books A Million today

Inheritance by Christopher Paolini

Fantasy Magazine, October 2014: Women Destroy Fantasy! Special Issue and Lightspeed Magazine, June 2014: Women Destroy Science Fiction! Special Issue

Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer

Arrived today:

Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families by J. Anthony Lukas
This State of Wonders: The Letters of an Iowa Frontier Family, 1858-1861
The Emerald Light in the Air: Stories by Donald Antrim
Mr. Tall: A Novella and Stories by Tony Earley
Swing Low: A Life by Miriam Toews
A Complicated Kindness: A Novel by Miriam Toews

The Granny Square Book by margaret Hubert, for my crafting stack.

I got a coupon for a free ebook from B&N, and I choose I Am Malala by Malala Yousafzai. I'm currious about her, and also about the parents who brought up such a remarkable child.

>105 seitherin: That looks like a great catch.

I went to a huge charity book sale at the weekend with two things in mind - crocheting blankets and Henning Mankell who my Dad's been enjoying recently. Needless to say I found nothing for either... It didn't stop me coming away with too many books though.

The Diamond of Drury Lane by Julia Golding
Why did the Heavens not Darken? by Arno Mayer
The Nation's Favourite Love Poems by Daisy Goodwin
Major Pettigrew's Last Stand by Helen Simonson
Mr China by Tim Clissold
The Smart One by Jennifer Close
Not Married, Not Bothered by Carol Clewlow
A Girl's Best Friend by Elizabeth Young
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
The Secret Crown by Chris Kuzneski
Out of Eden by Stephen Oppenheimer
Rise of Empire by Michael J Sullivan

Gray Mountain by John Grisham - we have a new driver of the big brown truck - she said she feels as though we are friends now. :) WE have incredible delivery folks here!

After buying a ton of books at the used bookstore two weeks ago, I swore off book-buying until after Christmas, until I went into Value Village last week. I was looking for (and found) a good-quality clutch (dark purple, faux lizard-skin, $4.99), and they had a book sale on. Those are dangerous words, "book sale".

For $23.00 (that's all), this is what I brought home:
Divisadero by Michael Ondaatje
Three Junes by Julia Glass
I am David by Anne Holm
The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
No Great Mischief by Alastair MacLeod
Snow by Orhan Pamuk
A Certain Justice by P.D. James
The Ghost Road by Pat Barker
The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst
The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo

Very pleased with my haul.

This morning, as my son has been more than usually kind to me, I ordered him a Richard Castle graphic novel - one of the Derrick Storm series. He doesn't read, usually, but he really enjoys these Richard Castle novels. Of course, to get free shipping, I had to order a second book, so I bought another of Jussi Adler-Olsen's - name forgotten.

>109 ahef1963: That is a fantastic haul! Enjoy.

I got Sherwood Anderson: Collected Stories for my Library of America collection.

I also picked up two ebook special offers from the HarperCollins website for $1.99 each. I got A False Mirror by Charles Todd, and Halloween Party by Agatha Christie. Halloween Party is a Hercule Poirot mystery, and I know I'll love it.

>110 JackieCarroll: Thanks for the heads up on Hallowe'en Party. Just downloaded it as well.

From my op shop.

The Fitz Osbornes In Exile by Michelle Cooper

Remarkable Creatures by Tracy Chevalier

Didn't add my two (so far) :

The Call of the Wild

James Herriot's Dog Stories

The former is the first edition of The Call of the Wild that I read, at age 6-7. I saw it in a bookstore, and, based on the cover, wanted to read about the dogs and wolves. My parents bought that book for me, and through reading it, I found myself interested in Jack London books, reading the unabridged version of White Fang at 9.

I love anything James Herriot. His works have never failed to please me. :)

Addendum: touchstones are screwy on the first, so check out the edition abridged and illustrated by Olive Price (http://www.librarything.com/work/12261545/book/76509081).

I just ordered some ebooks from B&N:

The Ghost Bride
Every Dead Thing
Help for the Haunted
Fear No Evil by Debbie Johnson

I also downloaded free Manybooks copies of all of the Scarlet Pimpernel novels by Baroness Orczy. These are really just placeholders for the print copies that I hope to find. I really enjoyed them as a kid but had forgotten all about them until the name came up in an internet search for Zorro.

Early Reviewer:

Small: Life and Death on the Front Lines of Pediatric Surgery by Catherine Musemeche MD

I went to my favorite bookstore in Brooklyn and picked up A Place at the Table by Susan Rebecca White and The Hot Flash Club by Nancy Thayer. I did order some other things but the titles escape me now

My latest at 50cents each from my municipal library, both in mint condition!!

Restoration by Rose Tremain

The Keys To The Street by Ruth Rendell.

The Slow Regard of Silent Things by Patrick Rothfuss

>118 seitherin: Thanks! I didn't even know that was available.

My son went shopping yesterday and came home with The Marco Effect by Jussi Adler-Olsen, fresh off the press, hardcover, lovely lovely lovely lovely. Couldn't be happier! He spoils me.

This morning A Conspiracy of Faith, also by Mr. Adler-Olsen, arrived in the mail; I'd ordered it last week along with my son's Derrick Storm graphic novel. So now I have all the Department Q novels, and am thrilled.

>119 jnwelch: You're welcome. Are you a GRRM fan? I just ordered The World of Ice & Fire: The Untold History of Westeros and the Game of Thrones as my birthday present to myself. It's out today.

Picked up A Cruel Wind by Glen Cook and The Rithmatist by Brandon Sanderson.

Books by two of my favorite authors arrived today:

Lila by Marilynne Robinson
Nora Webster by Colm Toibin

The World of Ice & Fire: The Untold History of Westeros and the Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin