Books Brought Home May/June 2015

This marks the first time I've opened a thread in this group; I hope I haven't broken any rules, written or otherwise!

Arrived in the post today (is there anything better than books arriving in the mail?):

We Need New Names by NoViolet Bulawayo
The Lost Estate (Le Grand Meaulnes) by Alain-Fournier
The Pyramid by my much-loved Henning Mankell

Got my Kindle First newsletter and picked up Crow Hollow by Michael Wallace. Also picked up Other Worlds Than These, The End is Nigh, The End is Now, and The End Has Come. All these are story collections edited by John Joseph Adams.

No rules broken, ahef!

The Plum in the Golden Vase: Volume 1, The Gathering by Lanling Xiaoxiao Sheng
The Zafarani Files by Gamal al-Ghitani
The Palm-wine Drinkard and My Life in the Bush of Ghosts by Amos Tutuola
Memoirs of a Porcupine by Alain Mabanckou
The Blind Owl by Sadegh Hedayat
Five Spice Street by Can Xue
A Broken Mirror by Merce Rododera

From Audible:
Hard Eight by Janet Evanovich

Arrived this morning:

A Strange Eventful History: The Dramatic Lives of Ellen Terry, Henry Irving, and Their Remarkable Families by Michael Holroyd
Winter Morning Walks: One Hundred Postcards to Jim Harrison by Ted Kooser
On the Move: A Life by Oliver Sacks
The Lunatic: Poems by Charles Simic
The Life of Images: Selected Prose by Charles Simic

Stumbled across these in a Tor newsletter. Sounded like they would be right up my alley.

Under the Skin and Disturbed Earth by E. E. Richardson

Heart Collector by Jacques Vandroux
The Ghost Bride by Yangsze Choo

Arrived today:

Yellow Tulips: Poems 1968-2011 by James Fenton
The Man with Night Sweats: Poems by Thom Gunn
The Railway Children by Edith Nesbit

Added The Light Between Oceans by M.L. Stedman to my phone this morning.

>7 mollygrace: I love The Railway Children. It was a great favourite of mine when I was a child. Have you read it before, or is it a re-read?

>8 ahef1963: I've never read it. I became interested in the author when I read A. S. Byatt's The Children's Book. One of the most important characters in the book is based loosely on E. Nesbit. I'd heard of her before but never read any of her books, so I decided to try this one.

from a thrift shop:

No Logo by Naomi Klein
History of the Donner Party: A Tragedy of the Sierra
by Charles F. McGlashan
The Great Sunflower Book: A Guidebook with Recipes
by Barbara Jeanne Flores
The Voice at 3:00 A. M.: Selected Late and New Poems
by Charles Simic
The Book of the Dun Cow by Walter Wangerin, Jr.
The Virginian by Owen Wister
The Book of Imaginary Beings by Jorge Luis Borges

>10 fyrfly: I enjoyed The Virginian, hope you do, too. :)

I've been reading military novels the last few weeks, and have ordered three...they should be here soon:

Dust on the Sea (sequel to Run Silent, Run Deep)
Cold is the Sea (sequel to Dust on the Sea)
Sink the Bismarck!

And I found The Boat this week at a used bookstore while searching for the above two books by Edward L. Beach!

At B&N yesterday and couldn't resist Memory Man, which I've already started and am racing through.

Got Scandinavian crime from my son for Mother's Day: Jussi Adler-Olsen's The Alphabet House, and Asa Larsson's The Black Path. I am very much a fan of Adler-Olsen, and have never read Larsson.

How frustrating! The two Edward L. Beach books arrived yesterday, but one of them is musty, not badly, but too much for me to read it. The bookseller nicely refunded my money, but I'm searching again for a copy of Dust on the Sea.

Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel

Make Room! Make Room! by Harry Harrison

The Forever War by Joe Haldeman

A surprise visitor brought books!
The Last Magazine: A Novel by Michael Hastings
Four books by Richard Benson:
F in Exams: The Very Best Totally Wrong Test Answers
F for Effort!: More of the Very Best Totally Wrong Test Answers
F this Test: Even More of the Very Best Totally Wrong Test Answers
F in Exams Pop Quiz: All New Awesomely Wrong Test Answers

Also got books from Dogwise. I will add them as soon as I make a list.

From the Open Letter Series:

Post-Exoticism in Ten Lessons, Lesson Eleven by Antoine Volodine

Monster Hunter International by Larry Correia: Not really my cup of tea based on the blurb but I was curious to see what kind of writer Mr. Correia is.

Far Horizons edited by Robert Silverberg

Between Dog and Wolf: Understanding the Connection and the Confusion by Jessica Adams and Andrew Miller
From Hoofbeats to Dogsteps: A Life of Listening To and Learning From Animals by Rachel Page Elliot
The Ethical Dog Trainer: A Practical Guide for Canine Professionals by Jim Barry
Dog Detectives: Train Your Dog to Find Lost Pets by Kat Albrecht
Dog Breeder's Professional Secrets: Ethical Breeding Practices by Sylvia Smart
Building Blocks for Performance, 2nd edition by Bobbie Anderson with Tracy Libby
Carting with Your Dog: Positive Draft Training for Fun and Competition by Laura Waldbaum
Tracking from the Ground Up by Sandy Ganz and Susan Boyd
It's a Dog, Not a Toaster: Finding Your Fun in Competitive Obedience by Diana Kerew-Shaw
Showing Kunga: From Pet Owner to Dog Show Junkie by Alxe Noden
When Your Dog Has Cancer: Making the Right Decisions for You and Your Dog by Lola Ball
Beagles for Dummies by Susan McCullough
Boxers: Popular Dogs Series Volume 11 Editor Lisa Hanks

>20 fyrfly: How to Live With a Neurotic Dog came home with me, yesterday. I had the book as a teen, but it disappeared at some point.

The Chronicles of Master Li and Number Ten Ox by Barry Hughart

The Best of Galaxy's Edge: 2013-2014 edited by Mike Resnick

Arrived today:

Second Act by Barbara Barrie
Illuminations by Walter Benjamin
The Mistress's Daughter by A. M. Holmes
Excursions by Michael D. Jackson
The Assistant by Bernard Malamud
The Magic Barrel: Stories by Bernard Malamud
Old Jules by Mari Sandoz
The Story Catcher by Mari Sandoz

Yesterday I added All The Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr to my phone.

My son came home this morning, having bought a week's groceries, a new case for his phone, a copy of The Redbreast by Jo Nesbo for me, and (also for me), four chocolate bars. He's a wonderful young man.

Went to the used bookstore this afternoon and picked up
Just After Sunset by Stephen King (hardcover)
Nightmares and Dreamscapes by Stephen King (hardcover)
An Event in Autumn by my much-loved Henning Mankell
The Gum Thief by Douglas Coupland
Fragile Things by Neil Gaiman
and
2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke

Books. I have lots of them.

>25 ahef1963: "Books. I have lots of them."

So do we... ;)

>21 fuzzi: I have that book somewhere, along with a similar title. Hopefully, it's funny. I was considering it for a small, light book on the bus.

library trip

Endangered by C. J. Box
The Cloud Forest: A Chronicle of the South American Wilderness by Peter Matthiessen
At Play in the Fields of the Lord by Peter Matthiessen
Oomingmak: The Expedition to the Musk Ox Island in the Bering Sea by Peter Matthiessen
Sula by Toni Morrison

audio
The Bookseller of Kabul by Åsne Seierstad
The Wrecking Crew: How Conservatives Rule by Thomas Frank
NPR Driveway Moments Cat Tales: Radio Stories that Won't Let You Go by NPR
Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal by Mary Roach
Master of the Mountain: Thomas Jefferson and His Slaves
by Henry Wiencek

Home from the library withdrawn shelf

Heretic (couldn't find correct touchstone) by Sarah Singleton
Tehanu and Farthest Shore by Ursula Le Guin

I took the following out of the library:
The Turner House by Angela Flournoy; and
Fourth of July Creek by Smith Henderson

I volunteer at my local library 3times a week which has been great Whats even better is that the director of the library asked me if I'd be interested in running a book club at one of the senior residences here which I'm really excited about

>27 fyrfly: it is funny, although slightly dated. Dogs don't change, however...

Is the other book How to Live With a Calculating Cat? I had that one, as well, many years ago. :)

>31 fuzzi: It's Your Neurotic Dog by Louis L. Vine, D.V.M. This might be interesting or, more likely, a waste of time, in the light of current treatment of behavior problems by applied animal behaviorists or veterinary behaviorists. Some people have progressed, and I love that.

Just added Longbourn to my phone/reading device. I'm a few chapters in, and enjoying it very much.

>33 ahef1963: Longbourn is quite good!

We moved into a new house earlier this month that has A LIBRARY!!!! Plus, built-in bookshelves in the living room, two in the office, one in my son's bedroom, and the length of one of the hallways. It will be *years* before I run out of shelf space!!! (Yes, I realize you all probably are cursing my name by now...) Hence, today's family trip to the bookstore, netting me (not hubby and son; they got more)...

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - I own the complete series in the British editions, but not the American; this brings me one book closer!
Quidditch Through the Ages
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
HHhH
An Everlasting Meal

#35 Grimke-congratulations on the move!! How marvelous that your new home has a library and bookshelves!! Have fun filling them up!!!

>35 grkmwk: I'm not cursing, just am a wee bit jealous. Enjoy.

Feel free to post pictures of your bookshelves, if you like. :)

>35 grkmwk: Congratulations on the house with built-in bookshelves! Like the others, I'm happy for you, and a wee bit envious! Enjoy them!

>37 fuzzi: I did enjoy Longbourn. It was interesting to see what a servant's life must have been like - so glad it's not me!

Downloaded The Enchanted by Rene Denfeld today as I've heard so much about it through this group.

Arrived at my door:
The Blue Girl by Charles de Lint
Barron's 501 Spanish Verbs
Practice Makes Perfect Complete Spanish Grammar

My plan is to be able to speak Spanish fluently.....there's a long way to go, but I'll get there!

These authors are speaking in the Rochester Arts & Lecture Series 2014-2015...have to read something by each, wouldn't you agree?

Bad Feminist by Roxanne Gay
The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire That Saved America by Timothy Egan
The Interestings by Meg Wolitzer

>36 cdyankeefan:, >37 fuzzi:, >38 ahef1963: Thanks! Here it is, fuzzi. :)

>40 grkmwk: OMG! I am so jealous. Right now I don't even have the room to get the few boxes of books I have out of storage. I miss having my books around me.

>40 grkmwk: I am jealous, not in a mean/rude way.

Enjoy your library...maybe some day I will have one. :)

Omg, all it's missing is a cat. So lovely.

>43 framboise: good point: cat on the windowsill, dog on the floor...

# 40 grkmwk- this is so beautiful!! Enjoy!!!

Our Souls at Night by Kent Haruf
The Wright Brothers by David McCullough

I brought home in May The Sportswriter (currently reading), Independence Day and The Lay of the Land all by Richard Ford.
White Apples by Jonathan Carroll
Illumination Night by Alice Hoffman
A Time of Changes by Robert Silverberg
Oracle Night, The Book of Illusions, and Music of Chance by Paul Auster
Abengoni:First Caling by Charles R. Saunders

Alex and Me: How a Scientist and a Parrot Uncovered a Hidden World of Animal Intelligence - and Formed a Deep Bond in the Process by Irene M. Pepperberg
The Dangerous Book for Dogs: A Parody by Rex and Sparky
The Biodiversity Crisis: Losing What Counts by The American Museum of Natural History
Secretariat by William Nack
The Kingfisher Illustrated Horse and Pony Encyclopedia by Sandy Ransford

>48 fyrfly: I read a book by William Nack about Ruffian, Ruffian: A Race Track Romance. It was well-written, so you will probably enjoy his book about Secretariat.

>40 grkmwk: My mouth literally dropped open when I saw the photo. It is even prettier than I imagined. Enjoy!

I have FINNISH crime fiction - Nights of Awe by Harri Nykanen.

I'm so pleased. I am a Scandinavian noir aficionado, and this house boasts crime fiction from Iceland, Norway, Sweden, and Denmark. I've never found any Finnish crime fiction in translation before, and I've been looking for years. I'm happy to the point of giggling about it. :)

A bunch followed me home today...

Face and Refugee Boy by Benjamin Zephaniah
The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
Stones into Schools by Greg Mortenson
Conspirators by Michael Andre Bernstein
The Glass Books of the DreamEaters by Gordon Dahlquist

One today, from a yard sale:

Sergeant York by John Perry

I've heard of this person, before, and I am looking forward to reading about him.

Followed my e-reader home....

Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid
The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
The Dying Hours by Mark Billingham
Sun and Shadow by Ake Edwardson
Elizabeth is Missing by Emma Healey

For my eReader, both by Diane Mott Davidson =

Dark Tort
Crunch Time

Thanks, y'all! Needless to say, the library was a HUGE selling point for the house. ;)

To celebrate our son's above grade level reading comprehension results last week, we had a family trip to BN, where I picked up:
Bellman and Black
The Bone Season
Wildwood

That's good to know. I've had real estate agents tell me that buyers don't like books and to hide all your books before showing a house. An impossible task for me.

>56 varielle: Oh no! That's awful.

From BookMooch:

The Crabwalk by Gunter Grass

#56 varielle-that's terrible. Books add warmth to a room and realtors should understand that

I had a blind date that lasted all of 30 seconds-if that-at Barnes and Noble yesterday. After accidentally throwing the s'mores cookie I bought to drown my sorrow on the floor I decided to buy these:
The Ice Twins;
Eight Hundred Grapes; and
The Grace!eepers
I can't remember the authors as these are one on the next to last shelf in my new bookcase

Sorry about the date and the cookie, but congrats on the books.

#60 varielle thank you!!

>60 varielle: I agree with you.

@cdyankeefan, sorry it didn't work out.

#62 fuzzi-thanks!

Life After Life by Kate Atkinson arrived today! Just in time for vacation. This has been highly recommended by so many friends/family had to see what was what with it. :) Oh and from the library At the Water's Edge by Sara Gruen. I started it this morning... like it very much so far. Happy Thursday all!

Being a John Scalzi fan, I just downloaded The Human Division.

>40 grkmwk: Lovely library/reading room. But I'm noticing that you've got several empty shelves there. What the...? But the setup is...well..stirring. As in stirring up ideas.

My newest acquisition is a used copy of The Van by Roddy Doyle. I'm commited to reading his Barrytown Trilogy this year, but I only had The Commitments, which I raced through in a day. Still need The Snapper.

Bum Rap by Paul Levine

A Dirty Job by Christopher Moore

I got a package in the mail yesterday, from a fellow LTer, rehoming some D.E. Stevenson books, woo!

The Four Graces
Amberwell
The Enchanted Isle

I am not a big "romance" fan, but other books I have read by this author are nice reads, with lots of humor.

Went on a binge. Someone please tell me I need to stop.

The Hidden Child by Camilla Lackberg
Naked in Death, Glory in Death, and Immortal in Death by J. D. Robb
The Misremembered Man, The Disenchanted Widow, and The Godforsaken Daughter by Christina McKenna

>70 seitherin: *fingers crossed* you need to stop! (Sorry, given how unsuccessful I am on that front, I really can't make it sound convincing *grin*)

I've acquired The Winter Soldier : The Electric Ghost by Jason Latour et al on Friday and have read it already.

I've also been given about 15 books in a box - I've listed about 8 of them so far, but I'm not sure I'm going to keep them...

>71 Peace2: Thank you for trying, but I fear I am lost.

>73 seitherin: I fully understand and am currently holding back an impending avalanche myself, trying to read with one hand while using the rest of my body to brace the pile.

>70 seitherin: why? Who are you hurting with your binges? :)

>75 fuzzi: ~smirk~

Picked up two more books: Illegal and Paydirt by Paul Levine.

> 66 Thanks, weird_O! The empty shelves are so there's plenty of room to grow... ;) We bought a house that was custom built for two English professors, and our current collection nowhere near totals theirs! Maybe one day...

Newly arrived in envelope through the door today Hugo Pepper by Paul Stewart (final part of a children's series Far Flung Adventures).

I couldn't even make it a day without buying a book. This time it is Fated by Benedict Jacka.

Since I volunteer at my local fabulous library it seems that books follow me home. I recently took out the following:
the Sympathizer by Viet Thank Nguyen;
Elizabeth is Mossing by Emma Healey; and
the Dog by Joseph O'neill

I'm still working on the other three-Day Snift by Charlaine Harris; Fourth of July Creek by Smoth Henderson and The Fifteen Lives of Harry August by Vlaire North-that I took out last week

Arriving today:

The Collected Plays of Noel Coward Vol. III
Elizabeth Bishop: Poems, Prose, and Letters
The Walking Tour by Kathryn Davis

Here I go again...

Queen of the Trailer Park by Alice Quinn
The River Is Dark by Joe Hart
Morgue Drawer Four by Jutta Profijt

Bought earlier this week, in print:
Re Jane
Funny Girl
To Kill a Mockingbird (shameful that I did not already own this!)

Bought today, for my Kindle:
Outlander (own in print, but was cheap and will be nice to have for backup ereading when traveling)
The Martian
The Girl on the Train
Daughter of Smoke & Bone
The Handmaid's Tale

At a local thrift store I found a bunch of Westerns, including:

12 Louis L'Amours
3 Zane Greys
1 Elmer Kelton (Stand Proud)
and 1 omnibus including a Max Brand, a Louis L'Amour, and a Zane Grey

I already have most of the Louis L'Amours, but might swap out one of my worn copies for one in better shape. The rest I will read, then pass on to my father, who loves 'em!

And they were ten cents each...

library trip

Biophilia by Edward O. Wilson
The Biophilia Hypothesis by Stephen R. Kellert
Fences and Windows: The Front Lines of the Globalization Debate by Naomi Klein
The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell
Natural Experiments of History by Jared M. Diamond
The Snoring Bird: My Family's Journey through a Century of Biology by Bernd Heinrich
and a couple of field guides

The Garlic Ballads by Mo Yan
Shifu, You'll Do Anything for a Laugh by Mo Yan
The Hunting Wind by Steve Hamilton
The Risk Pool by Richard Russo
The Wolf in Winter: A Charlie Parker Thriller by John Connolly

audio

Another Side of Bob Dylan: A Personal History On the Road and Off the Tracks by Victor Maymudes
Armed Madhouse: Who's Afraid of Osama Wolf?, China Floats, Bush Sinks, the Scheme to Steal '08, No Child's Behind Left, and Other Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Class War
by Greg Palast
Hotels, Hospitals, and Jails: A Memoir by Anthony Swofford
Runny Babbit: A Billy Sook by Shel Silverstein
Shrinks: The Untold Story of Psychiatry
by Jeffrey A. Lieberman, MD
The Divide by Nicholas Evans

..................................

thrift shop find

Full House: The Spread of Excellence from Plato to Darwin
by Stephen Jay Gould

Just got The Very Best of Tad Williams by Tad Williams.

I brought home Lisey's Story by Stephen King and The Mackerel Plaza by Peter De Vries this week.

>86 seitherin: !!!!!!!

I see it includes Child of an Ancient City, which I recently reread. :)

>88 fuzzi: What can I say? If Tad wrote a shopping list on a napkin, I'd buy it. I've already read most of the stories in the book in other places, but it's nice to have them all collected like that.

>89 seitherin: I loved his Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn series, but after three tries I gave up on Otherland. It just did not interest me.

>90 fuzzi: I think MST is Tad' seminal work, but I became a fan with Tailchaser's Song and I've hung steady. He's returning to Osten Ard for his next set of books. I'm really looking forward to those.

The Mother Tongue: English and How it Got that Way by Bill Bryson,

>22 seitherin: Funny, funny, funny book -- what I got to read of it. Only Part I, I believe. Didn't know what to think. . .the Chinese Laurel & Hardy came to mind. Or a mini-Confederacy of Dunces. Would love to hear your thoughts.

Brought home from the e-library, The Buried Giant, which I MUST begin today. Brought home from Amazon e-books: Vindication: A Life of Mary Wollstonecraft and a memoir, Oxford Revisited. They should cycle to the bottom of my Mighty TBR Stack, but probably won't.

Just started Massie's bio of Catherine the Great that I bought last month, in HC. It and My Father's Notebook (also bought last month, HC), that I plan to read concurrently, reduce by two the two dozen tomes in my MTBRS.

>91 seitherin: well, a recent reread of the original MST was as good as I'd remembered, my first read being when it was published, so a return to Osten Ard is intriguing!

I need to reread Caliban's Hour, too. It's been a while.

>93 Limelite: It will be a while before I start the book. It will be my read before I sleep book and the one I'm currently working on still has at least a week, maybe even two, before I finish.

>94 fuzzi: I tend to forget about Caliban's Hour even though I've read it twice already. I rather like that one.

Had some time to kill yesterday and I visited B&N; I had a list of books I wanted to look for. Got inside, flipped through the notebook I brought along, and realized my book list was on a notepad still at home. Bah... I did remember some of the titles, but I held off buying 'cause, you know, Father's Day. Search through a B&N always impresses on me how out of the mainstream my book interests are.

But I did leave with a remaindered copy of George Saunders recent story collection Tenth of December. Saw a piece about him on CBS Sunday Morning just the day before.

Silence by Mechtild Borrmann

Affliction by Russell Banks
The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating byElisabeth Tova Bailey
The Deptford Trilogy by Robertson Davies
Nothing Daunted: The Unexpected Education of Two Society Girls in the West by Dorothy Wickenden

Dead Man's Folly, Crooked House, and The Pale Horse by Agatha Christie.

Shoot the Moon by Billie Letts
The Secret Voyage of Sir Francis Drake by Samuel Bawlf
The Log of Christopher Columbus translated by Robert H. Fuson

It was a surprise attack orchestrated by a small used bookstore.

Lol

Received an ARC of Dark Orbit by Carolyn Ives Gilman.

From BookMooch:

Desert by J.M.G. Le Clezio

Received my Early Reviewer's copy of In Wilderness today

Arrived today:

Painted Horses by Malcolm Brooks
The Season of Migration by Natalie Hermann
Becoming a Poet: Elizabeth Bishop with Marianne Moore and Robert Lowell by David Kalstone
Life Studies; For the Union Dead by Robert Lowell
Sidney Chambers and The Shadow of Death by James Runcie
Shyness & Dignity by Dag Solstad
The Sunken Cathedral by Kate Walbert

>100 nhlsecord: LOL @ the surprise attack...

I found a copy of I Capture the Castle while visiting family in Connecticut. We always check out thrift stores when we travel.

#106-hi fuzzi!! I live in Milford ct and have discovered books by the falls which is great and the book barn in niantic which is freaking fantastic

>107 cdyankeefan: no time for real book browsing this trip, but maybe next year. If you like, we might arrange a meetup in Niantic? :)

We did stop by a used bookstore while in Leesburg, VA ("Books and Other Found Things"), but it was closed, waah!

Two brown envelopes arrived through the post containing : Bookworms, Dog-ears and Squashy Big Armchairs by Heather Reyes and The Black Cauldron by Lloyd Alexander.

Then today was given a copy of The Help by Kathryn Stockett and told it was a must read.

The UPS left a package with a new thumb drive and The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage, a graphic book by Sydney Padua.

Hi fuzzi-Ithat sounds great!! I don't drive so I have to figure out a way to get there. How disappointing that the bookstore was closed!!

Glimpses by Lewis Shiner
Great Jones Street by Don DeLillo
Shadrach in the Furnace by Robert Silverberg
Tower of Glass by Robert Silverberg
Downward to the Earth by Robert Silverberg

I think this belongs here:

http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/jun/26/umberto-eco-antilibrary-oliv...

Retired May 18th so I treated myself with the boxed set Abraham Lincoln: A Life by Michael Burlingame. It came today!! Should keep me busy a while.

>111 cdyankeefan: if you don't drive, then something will need to be done, to get you there... ;)

Absolutely!'

for book club:

A Replacement Life by Boris Fishman

Artful: A Novel by Peter David

The Harder They Come by T. C. Boyle

Ready Player One by Ernest Cline

Gifts of Darkover edited by Deborah J. Ross