Books Brought Home September/October 2016

The Blinding Knife and The Broken Eye by Brent Weeks
Exhume by Danielle Girard

Today I picked up Dark Matter by Blake Crouch from my local independent bookstore.

Borrowed the last Joe Dillard book: Judgment Cometh (And That Right Soon) by Scott Pratt

The LostHusband by Katherin Center; an ERbook Eleanor by Jason Gurley ad The Good Marriage by Stephen King

How Much for Just the Planet? by John M. Ford

Arrived this week:

All at Sea: A Memoir by Decca Aitkenhead
Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, The Flesh, and L. A. by Eve Babitz
In Gratitude by Jenny Diski
The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing

Our city's annual book festival was this past weekend, so I picked up the following:
The Underground Railroad
Brown Girl Dreaming
A Court of Mist and Fury
Nagasaki: Life After Nuclear War
The Republic of Imagination: A Life in Books

And on my Kindle, I recently purchased:
Short Stories from Hogwarts of Heroism, Hardship, and Dangerous Hobbies
Short Stories from Hogwarts of Power, Politics, and Pesky Poltergeists
Hogwarts: An Incomplete and Unreliable Guide
The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend
Lacey Luzzi: Sprinkled
The Fifth Season

The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel by Deborah Moggach

Magic Bitter, Magic Sweet by Charlie N. Holmberg

I just discovered Louise Penny - I picked up
Still Life
The Cruellest Month
The Brutal Telling
Bury Your Dead

Also
Midwives
We are Unprepared hmm there is one other - can't remember lol.

Happy Autumn All!

The Takeover by Muriel Spark

Borrowed from my library:
They Came Like Swallows -- The influenza epidemic of 1918 in the American Mid-west.
People Die: A Novel -- A debut work by Kevin Wignall about an assassin who goes from predator to prey.

Bought from my library:
The Stone Diaries -- Pulitzer and NBCCA winner that I've never read.
A Distant Trumpet -- First ed. modern classic of historical fiction about the American SW, a real saga.

I finally got House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski off of my wishlist and into my hands. I'll start reading it in October for a readalong on Instagram.

A Barnes & Noble store jumped in front of me this morning and sucked me into the store, where I was forced to purchase the following:

The Accidental Book Club
The Underground Railroad
Leave Me
and two 2017 calendars

I circumvented the evil Genii who impressed me into the purchases by refusing to walk though more than the front of the store or, no doubt, the financial damage would have been far greater.

That's my story and I'm sticking to it!

Finished A Spool of Blue Thread and also The Amateur Marriage, both by Anne Tyler. Checked out one from my local library that has 4 of her older books in one volume. I'm working my way through them all.

Fiction-wise, I have just finished the hilarious satire Lady Thatcher's Wink by David Arscott
As usual, I also have a few history books on the go - Venice - A New History, by Thomas F. Madden and The Story of Ireland: in Search of a New National Memory, by Neil Hegarty

Still Life by Louise Penny
Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell

This is my haul from the Brooklyn book festival:
The Carousel of Desire- Eric Emanuel Schmitt;

Shelter in Place- Alexandder Maksik;
Eleanor &spark- rainbow Rowell;
House of Mirrors- Debbie Boswell;
Behold the dreamer- Imbolo Mbue;
Vassa in the Night -Sara Porter;
Bilgewater- Jane Gardam;
Troubling Love-Elena ferrante;
Necessary evil- Kareem Hayes;
I regret everything- Seth Greenland;
The Penalty area- Alain gillot;
Eva sleeps- Francesca melandri;
The days of anandonment-Elena ferrante; and
After the parade -Lori Ostlund

And if that wasn't enough I'm expecting a othe book bundle from my favorite bookstore the book mark shoppe in brooklyn

Oops I forgot these. From the library:
The Underground Railroad- Colson whitehead;
Commonwealth-Ann Patchett;
Thrice the brindled cat hath mew'd -Alan Bradley; and
Whistling Padt the Graveyard-Susan Crandall

Fed my obese Kindle today. No, I'm not fat-shaming a device!

Bought Kokoro, by Natsume Soseki. A classic that I heard is usually read by Japanese high school students as a school assignment. Does anyone know if this is true?

Four new novels arrived today:

The Wonder by Emma Donoghue
Here I Am by Jonathan Safran Foer
Nutshell by Ian McEwan
Commonwealth by Ann Patchett

I just got Underground and Vintage Murakami by Haruki Murakami from my local independent book store.

>21 mollygrace: I have Nutshell on hold at the library but there are ton of holds so not sure when I am going to get it.

>23 JulieLill: I've read some nice things about Nutshell and I've been a McEwan fan for a long time, so I'm really looking forward to it. Good luck with the library queue -- the book isn't very long, so perhaps you'll get it more quickly than you think.

Before You Leap by Keith Houghton

I couldn't pass up Dawn of the Dinosaurs: The Late Triassic in the American Southwest by Christa Sadler after meeting the author at a science festival today. She was also kind enough to autograph it for me.

I don't know what compelled me to do this but e recently discovered the Aunt Dimity iseries by Nancy Atherton and took out 7. My Mt TBR is getting higher and higher....

Went on a bender and binge bought the following:

Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
The King Must Die
The Book of Kells
Heart of the Country

Looking forward to spending cool Fall evenings in front of the fire and escaping to all those fascinating worlds.

Tor.com's free ebook of the month: Range of Ghosts by Elizabeth Bear

Crosstalk by Connie Willis

From Amazon:
The book that matters most by Ann hood; and
The city bakers guide to country living by Louise Miller

Still waiting on another Brooklyn book box

Walk on Earth a Stranger by Rae Carson - finished it yesterday! 4.5 stars. Off to pick up the sequel Like a River Glorious after work. :)
Triple Threat - James Patterson (no touchstones) sequel to Zoo included in this 3 bookshot.
Happy Wednesday all!

River Road by Carol Goodman. My first by her.

I received my ER copy of The Roanoke Girls by Amy Engel and took t The Woman in Cabin 10 byRuth Ware from the library

Downloaded:

Thrice the Brinded Cat Hath Mew'd
The Hammer of Thor

>36 whymaggiemay: I usually love the Flavia mysteries but I did not like the last one so I am hoping the newest one is better.

#36 hi whymaggiemay- just finished thrice and it was good

My second box of Brooklyn books came and it contained the following:
Here I Am -Jonathan Safran Foer;
The Wonder- Emma Donoghue;
The Nx- Nathan Hill;
Nutshell- Ian McEwan;
Truly, Madly,Guilty- Liane Moriarty;
You'll Gow Out of It- Jessi Klein;
How To Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia-Mohsin Hamid;
Where They Found Her and Recnstrucing Amela- Kimbery McCreigh;
The Witchs Daughter-Paula Brackston;
Rules of Civilty-Amor Towes; and
Closed Casket by Sophie Hannah

From the Lbrary-
The Bookshop on the Corner- jennyColgan; and
The Tea Planers Wife -Dinah Jeffries

I think I'm done for awhile

Swapped the unread after the first ch., Unbroken because it seemed YA for Dead Wake. Both CDs, both disaster books. Is this the beginning of a weird reading kick?

The Dreaming Void by Peter F. Hamilton

Fellside by M. R. Carey

The Sudden Appearance of Hope by Claire North
Touch by Claire North

Uprooted by Naomi Novik

Borrowed: The Werewolf of Bamberg by Oliver Pötzsch

The Hanging Girl by Jussi Adler-Olsen

Found a bunch of Disney books and little golden books last weekend :)

Just bought three new books for my e-reader:

Charm City by Laura Lippman, book 2 in her Tess Monaghan series; I finished book 1 earlier today and am eager to read more.

An Excellent Mystery by Ellis Peters to add to my growing collection of Brother Cadfael stories.

The Stand by Stephen King. This will be my third attempt at reading this novel, and is the third time I've bought it, books 1 and 2 having been returned to the used bookstore from whence I'd bought them. This time I will see the story through and find out why this novel is lauded as his best. It can't get better than The Shining, that's my opinion.

Last week I bought and (re)read Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets: The Illustrated Edition (Harry Potter, Book 2) by J. K. Rowling.

Today I went to my locally owned bookstore and bought Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichi for my book club.

>45 ahef1963:: I read The Stand ages ago. Not my favorite King, I had to push through it.

The Blood Mirror by Brent Weeks

Sun Storm by Åsa Larsson

Less Than Angels by Barbara Pym

The Braque Connection by Estelle Ryan

Horns, Heart-Shaped Box, and The Fireman by Joe Hill

The Jewel That Was Ours by Colin Dexter

>50 seitherin: I really liked Horns. Enjoy!

I just picked up The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón from the sale table at the library. I already read one book from the series and loved it.

MiddleMarch

Received Goodbye to All That from Amazon for my book club read this month and pre-ordered the new Fanny Flagg book which is coming out next month. I can't wait!

Have Becoming Ellen by Shari Shattuck and Anybody Can Do Anything by Betty MacDonald just waiting to be opened.

X (Kinsey Millhone Book 24) by Sue Grafton

The Mirror of Her Dreams by Stephen R. Donaldson

Received And Every Morning The Way Home Gets Longer and Longer by Fredrik Backman in the mail today.

#56 hi whymaggiemay- I picked that up too and really like it

currently reading Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World

>58 toast_and_tea: I really liked that book. Unfortunately, due to complaints, I am afraid that the day of library cats is ending.
Checkout this interesting article on library cats-

http://www.chicagotribune.com/lifestyles/pets/ct-library-cat-new-family-0722-201...

NEW THREAD FOR NOV/DEC: https://www.librarything.com/topic/238822