Books Brought Home January/February 2016

Getting the new year started.

I really only meant to get a calendar and a planner at the bookstore yesterday.

A Guide to the Birds of East Africa by Nicholas Drayson
The Wizard of Sun City: The Strange True Story of Charles Hatfield, the Rainmaker Who Drowned a City's Dreams by Garry Jenkins

The Oddfits by Tiffany Tsao
The Color of Magic by Terry Pratchett
The Song of Albion Collection by Stephen R. Lawhead

Spectator Bird by Wallace Stegner 1st ed.

Books that were bought with Christmas money, and which arrived today on my doorstep. More are going to arrive over the next couple of weeks, hurrah!

Jamaica Inn by Daphne DuMaurier
Elizabeth is Missing by Emma Healey
The Road from Coorain by Jill Ker Conway
Blind Goddess by Anne Holt
The Romanov Sisters by Helen Rappaport

Old favorite gothic, found on ebay: Happy Now I Go (aka Dark Legacy) by Theresa Charles.

5 ahef1963
The Road from Coorain by Jill Ker Conway has been on my tbr pile for over 20 years! Maybe you will inspire me to finally read it.

Do read it, PaperbackPirate ! It's a terrific book.

8 aviddiva
Thank you for the endorsement! Maybe this is the year...

Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff came in the mail today. My book club is reading it next.

>7 PaperbackPirate: I will read it, and soon!
>8 aviddiva: Glad to hear that you liked it, it makes me look forward to it even more!

Probably the last of the Christmas present books arrived today. No, wait, that's wrong, I'm still expecting a copy of The Twelve by Justin Cronin.

Arrived/picked up at bookstore:
Prophet's Prey by Sam Brower (about the FLDS)
On the Beach by Nevil Shute
And an absolutely gorgeous edition of H.P. Lovecraft's complete works. Possibly the nicest-looking book I've ever owned. In a slipcase and everything.

>5 ahef1963: >7 PaperbackPirate: Jill Ker Conway wrote a sequel to The Road to Coorain entitled True North. I read both so many years ago that they don't show on this site, which means at least 10 years. I enjoyed both, but my feeling today is that I liked the first better than the second, but I'm unsure what my ratings for the two were because I no longer have any reference to prove it.

Purchased with a gift card:

With Billie: A New Look at the Unforgettable Lady Day by Julia Blackburn
We Think the World of You by J. R. Ackerley
Testing the Current by William McPherson
Summer Will Show by Sylvia Townsend Warner

Words of Radiance
Bread, Wine, Chocolate: The Slow Loss of Foods We Love

Arrived this morning -- purchased with gift cards:

The Past by Tessa Hadley
My Name is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout

#15- hi Mollygrace- just finished Lucy Barton- it's quite good

>16 cdyankeefan: Oh, I'm glad to hear that. I have so looked forward to reading it. Thanks.

Scholastic had a sale, so I got Where'd You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple.

Had 2 hours to kill today between appointments so HAD to go to the local B&N and came away with;

Skink by Carl Hiassen (love his JYA books, but his adult books not so much)
When Books Went to War by Molly Guptill Manning (what reader wouldn't want to read a book about books)

#17 Mollygrace- you're welcome!

>15 mollygrace:, >16 cdyankeefan:

Was waiting to hear what more folks think of My Name is Lucy Barton before purchasing. Just finished The Past.

I brought home this week:
The Folly
When Breath Becomes Air - Currently reading.
Ghettoside
Just Mercy

>21 alphaorder: The Past is sitting atop the tbr pile, right next to My Name is Lucy Barton. I've read some good things about it, and I'm eager to hear what LTers have to say. What did you think?

Arrived in the mail this morning:

Rage against the Dying by Becky Masterman
Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend by Matthew Dicks
A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal by Ben Macintyre

....today arrived a book that I ordered sufficiently long ago that I had forgotten that I had ordered it - Marrying Off Mother and other Stories by Gerald Durrell.

Arrived today:

Old Man Goya by Julia Blackburn
Falling in Love by Donna Leon
Insomnia: Poems by Linda Pastan

From the library:

A Head Full of Ghosts by Paul Tremblay; and
The Past by Tessa Hadley

Delivered from Amazon The Hollow Hills so I can continue the series, one I originally read 45 years ago.

Broke down and bought Mulga's Magic Coloring Book but I'm not sure that counts.

I was doing so good. Hadn't bought a book since the 2nd but I succumbed to temptation today and bought Empire Ascendant by Kameron Hurley. It's the second book in a series of which I already have the first. Oh, well. At least I've read more books this month than I've bought.

Downloaded The Prisoner of Heaven by Carlos Ruiz Zafón. Liked the other two books so I had to snag this one.

I recently brought home:
Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend
Conference of Birds
My Name is Lucy Barton

I had the day off today, so I spent it with Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend, a sweet modern day comedy of manners about books and small towns.

30 seitherin
I read The Angel's Game by Carlos Ruiz Zafón last year. I really liked it, so I plan to read the others too. I hope you enjoy your new download.

>32 PaperbackPirate: Thank you. If The Prisoner of Heaven is only half as good as the other two, it will be well worth reading.

The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume One edited by Jonathan Strahan

Downloaded The Story Hour by Thrity Umrigar

>31 alphaorder: I just ordered The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend, so I'm glad to hear positive reports!

Arrived a few days ago, but forgot to record their arrival:
Watchman by Ian Rankin
Fear the Darkness by Becky Masterman

I was doing well with not buying any books until September but I picked up The Golden Son yesterday I mean it's not really my fault right? I went to Barnes and Noble and forgot to bring something to read and it was there calling to me telling me you know you want me

The Past by Tessa Hadley
The Happy Marriage by Tahar Ben Jellhoun
Complete Stories of Clarice Lispector

>38 gatsby61: I read The Past earlier this month and am reading The Happy Marriage now.

I swear that this is it. No more book-buying for a while, with the exception of replacing The Ocean at the End of the Lane, which I loaned out, and which was not returned.

So, from the used bookstore this morning:
The Reader by Bernard Schlink
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd (also replacing an unreturned loan, to the same person as above)
The Bride Collector by Ted Dekker

and from Chapters at my door this morning:

The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend by Katarina Bivald
A Beautiful Place to Die by Malla Nunn

That is it. I swear, no more. Except for Stephen King's new one when it comes out in June.

Winter Men by Jesper Bugge Kold

>40 ahef1963: Clearly the person you're lending your books to cannot be trusted with them. Point them toward the library.

I just downloaded The Golden Son because >37 cdyankeefan: made me do it. That's my excuse and I'm sticking to it.

#42 whymaggiemay- LOL!!!-love that😂

Just got Kingfisher, the newest Patricia A. McKillip book and Some of the Best from Tor.com: 2015: A Tor.Com Original.

So far this year, I've only bought John Cleese's autobiography So, Anyway and Michael Farquhar's wonder history book, Bad Days in History. I have so many books on my shelves
to be read I'm trying to cut down on buying new books, but I usually pick up one or two every time I hit Books-A-Million. I'm not on speaking terms with ebay anymore lol

The Mechanical by Ian Tregillis

I really enjoyed the exhibit of Frida Kahlo's photos, so I had to get Frida Kahlo by Claudia Bauer from the gift shop.

>47 PaperbackPirate: I go to art museums and art exhibits fairly frequently (living so near Los Angeles gives me many to see both in my own county and LA and the Getty, LACMA, and the Norton Simon are favorites). I frequently buy books from the gift stores but, strangely, not books about art or artists. For instance, I picked up a book about Mary Lincoln at the Huntington and a book about Queen Victoria at an art museum in Santa Fe. Sometimes, their choice of books for their gift shops is a bit puzzling, but seems to fit my reading taste.

The Lady Chapel and The Nun's Tale, books two and three in the Owen Archer series by Candace Robb.

48 whymaggiemay
That's so funny! It's the living, "If you like this, you might also like..."

>50 PaperbackPirate: That's exactly what it is. The Queen Victoria was particularly puzzling because it was a museum for Southwest art. I also picked up a book about Georgia O'Keefe, which was expected in that gift store. I wondered if they'd had an exhibition come through previously about heads of state or something, which would have explained why this 'one off' book was still around.

Cormorant by Chuck Wendig

Just One Damned Thing After Another by Jodi Taylor

All the Birds in the Sky by Charlie Jane Anders
The Lost Time Accidents by John Wray

>42 whymaggiemay: Unfortunately, the person I'm lending these books to is one of my own children, and I get suckered in every time by her big eyes, and by the way her lip trembles. However, I'm not loaning her anything more, no matter how big her eyes get.

Today purchased a copy of Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrel, and am looking forward to reading it. It's even fatter than my copy of War and Peace!

The Beautiful Possible by Amy Gottlieb came in the mail today. I'm excited to read this one because the author is a friend from a long ago job and it's wonderful to get to read her real work.

1Q84 by Haruki Murakami

Midnight Riot by Ben Aaronovitch

Avid diva I just bought The Beautiful Possible myself as it sounded so good.

Every Last Word by Tamara Ireland Stone

>58 momom248: So far I'm liking it a lot.

Arrived in the mail:
Ringworld by Larry Niven
The Slow Regard of Silent Things by Patrick Rothfuss

The Immortals by Jordanna Max Brodsky

A Faint Cold Fear by Karin Slaughter

The World Beneath by Rebecca Cantrell. I loved the books that she co-wrote with James Rollins!

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