What did YOU buy today? January 2008 edition

Two days in and I've already bought three books. It was at a DVD, CD and Book sale at the convention centre nearby, so I thought I'd check it out.

I got:

Tom Jones by Henry Fielding
Eclipse by John Banville
Lucky by Alice Sebold

I went to a used bookstore and purchased:

The Regulators by Richard Bachman
The Bachman Books by Stephen King
Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh

Oh my gosh I love Christmas gifts! But even better, honestly, is returning Christmas gifts, getting store credit, and buying books! I got two copies of Fragile Things this year and a duplicate of Gilmore Girls season #4, so I took them back and, voila, had $90 to spend at B&N. I bought:

Princess Academy
Book of a Thousand Days
Here There Be Dragons
Shakespeare: the World as Stage by Bill Bryson (not sure why the touchstone isn't working)
The Night Before Christmas cut paper edition (really cool)
two hardcover Batman dailies collections
and a couple of gifts for other people.

Hooray for book shopping!

A stop at my favorite used book shop and a thrift store scored these treasures:

Focus on : The seventh seal by Birgitta Steene
Damnyankee in a Southern kitchen : a revival feast by Helen (Levison) Worth
Dry: A Memoir by Augusten Burroughs
Bloodroot by Susan Wittig Albert
Cut and run by Carla Neggers
The grey beginning by Barbara Michaels
Highlander in her bed by Allie Mackay
A babe in Ghostland by Lisa Cach
Finding my voice by Diane Rehm
Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
Tomorrow by Graham Swift
Dissolution by C. J. Sansom
King of the vagabonds by Neal Stephenson
Odalisque by Neal Stephenson
The lost constitution by William Martin
The Spanish bow by Andromeda Romano-Lax
The girls he adored by Jonathan Lewis Nasaw
The Poe shadow by Matthew Pearl
The killer angels by Michael Shaara

I purchased The Blind Assassin and For Her Own Good the other day.

Latest aquisitions:

Stuart Maconie - Pies and Prejudice: In search of the North
Joe Boyd - White Bicycles: Making music in the 1960s

I just joined this group and love the idea behind it! I am guilty of buying books that I will not get to reading anytime soon (even though I should maybe stop this behavior in order to make some inroads!). That said, I bought two books today:

The English Patient - highly recommened by my cousin
Health Care Meltdown: Confronting the Myths and Fixing Our Failing System - Since I work in healthcare I find it beneficial understanding the indsutry.

I picked up
Zoli by Colum McCann
The Fourth Bear by Jasper Fforde and
Fables of Brunswick Avenue by Katherine Govier at a discount book store.

From B&N online sale & a sale at BOMC

The French Lieutenant's Woman - John Fowles
Briarpatch
Twilight at Mac's Place - both by Ross Thomas
What Was She Thinking - Zoe Heller
Deeper
The Reckoning - both by Jeff Long
The Witness at the Wedding - Simon Brett
and
The Video Hound's Golden Movie Retriever 2008

Yay!! Ross Thomas. I'm such a dork that I hugged them upon arrival.

I bought Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson
The Interpretation of Murder by Jed Rubenfeld
The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory
Family by Karen Kingsbury

caroline123 -- Housekeeping is beautifully written. So many amazing passages!

I have not bought any books (yet) today.

My most recent purchases, from a local used book store, were:

Coastliners by Joanne Harris
The Dress Lodger by Sheri Holman
The Hob's Bargain by Patricia Briggs

A lotus grows in the mud by Goldie Hawn
Kitchen privileges : a memoir by Mary Higgins Clark
A good and happy child by Justin Evans
Deceptions and myths of the Bible by Lloyd Graham
The princess bride by William Goldman
The queen's fool by Philippa Gregory
30 days of night : a novelization by Tim Lebbon
1984 : a novel by George Orwell
Eaters of the dead by Michael Crichton
Burning up by Caroline B. Cooney
Blind instinct by Robert W. Walker

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon.
Atonement by Ian McEwan.
Runemarks by Joanne Harris.

Costco gets me every darn time.

Home workspace idea book by Neal Zimmerman
Cell : a novel by Stephen King
The midnight tour by Richard Laymon
Black order : a Sigma Force novel by James Rollins
Book business : publishing past, present, and future by Jason Epstein
Six questions of Socrates : a modern-day journey of discovery through world philosophy
by Christopher Phillips
Mapping the edge : a novel by Sarah Dunant
Halfway to the grave by Jeaniene Frost
Straight talking : a novel by Jane Green
The Knights Templars & the key of Solomon the King by A. Bothwell-Gosse
The Italian secretary : a further adventure of Sherlock Holmes by Caleb Carr
100 vicious little vampire stories edt. by Stefan R. Dziemianowicz
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides

I'm getting so much better. *snicker* I only bought one book today!!!!
The Stand by Stephen King

The Guardian by Dee Henderson. just got it and already read it. It is the second book in her series and I loved it.

Developing and maintaining practical archives : a how-to-do-it manual by Gregory S. Hunter

I purchased A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini. The Kite Runner was great and I'm really looking forward to this one.

Arrived today from Chapters online:

The Golden Compass, The Subtle Knife, and The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman.
Sepulchre by Kate Mosse.
Thomas Paine's Rights of Man by Christopher Hitchens.
5 Minute Face by Carmindy.

I won't list all the books I got this weekend. It was over 50 from a thrift shop book sale at Yesterday's Rose in Fairfax, Virginia. Most of these books will be given away to new BookCrossers at some upcoming book festivals or meetings, but a few I'm saving for family and friends. I also scored two pristine copies of The Kite Runner! Each of the 50+ books I got cost me about 16 cents!

Each of these books are hardcovers bought this week at the used outlet at my local library and at the adjacent White Elephant for $0.50 to $3.00:

The Shock Doctrine: The Rise Of Disaster Capitalsim - Naomi Klein
Made In America: An Informal History Of The English Language In The United States - Bill Bryson
Everyone Is Entitled To My Opinion - David Brinkley
100 Birds And How They Got Their Names - Diana Wells
Surviving The Island Of Grace: A Memoir Of Alaska - Leslie Leyland Fields
Another Country: Navigating The Emotional Terrain Of Our Elders - Mary Pipher, PhD

A pound of paper : confessions of a book addict by John Baxter
A dictionary of literary symbols by Michael Ferber

Mystic River by Dennis Lehane
The Da Vinci code : a novel by Dan Brown
Rival crock-pot cooking by Marilyn Neill
Human croquet by Kate Atkinson
The last town on earth by Thomas Mullen
Hometown killer by Carol J. Rothgeb
The fourth hand by John Irving
Married to murder by Robert Scott
The Templar legacy : a novel by Steve Berry
Lakeside cottage by Susan Wiggs
Start sculpting by John Plowman

Confessions of Rick James:Memoirs of a Super Freak by Rick James

Fast women by Jennifer Crusie
Touching the rock : an experience of blindness by John Hull
Making history : the struggle for gay and lesbian equal rights, 1945-1990 by Eric Marcus
The dwarf by Par Lagerkvist
White oleander : a novel by Janet Fitch
Virgins of Venice : broken vows and cloistered lives in the Renaissance convent by Mary Laven
Understanding fiction by Cleanth Brooks and Robert Penn Warren

took a trip to B&N & got -
Antony and Cleopartra by Colleen McCullough, the latest in the Masters of Rome series
The Senator's Wife by Sue Miller
Valley of Bones by Micheal Gruber
More Twisted by Jeffery Deaver

and at the donation table at the supermarket
Naked Prey by John Sandford

some touchstones won't load. shocking.

Hee! A Border's near me is closing, so in addition to almost everything being marked down, everything in the store was 40% off, AND buy 4, get the 5th free.

I bought:

-Cravings by Laurell K. Hamilton, MaryJanice Davidson, Eileen Wilks, and Rebecca York
-Extras by Scott Westerfeld
-Sharpe's Tiger by Bernard Cornwell
and two cross-stitch books

Have you read The Shock Doctrine yet? I'm thinking of reading it and would like to know what other people think.

I really picked these up yesterday but the elephants were raging and my post was lost.

Music guide : 1,000 top albums of all time by Betsy Andrews
VideoHound's guide to three- and four-star movies, 1997
Every book its reader : the power of the printed word to stir the world by Nicholas A. Basbanes
The joy of books : confessions of a lifelong reader by Eric Burns
VideoHound's DVD guide by Mike Mayo
The book of video lists by Tom Wiener
Basic bookbinding by A. W. Lewis
Reel romance : the lovers' guide to the 100 best date movies by Leslie Halpern
Boswell's presumptuous task : the making of the life of Dr. Johnson by Adam Sisman

These were in the free bin:

Playing with trains : a passion beyond scale by Sam Posey
Fierce attachments : a memoir by Vivian Gornick
Looking for Mr. Goodbar by Judith Rosser
A more innocent time : a novel by Eugenie Hill

barnes and noble is having a great warehouse sale online and i snagged all these titles on my wishlist for less that 4 bucks each!!!
The Forest Lover by Susan Vreeland
The Giant's House by Elizabeth McCracken
The Ice Queen by Alice Hoffman
The Wonder Spot by Melissa Bank
Saul and Patsy by Charles Baxter
Four Spirits by Jeter Naslund
The Full Cupboard of Life by Alexander McCall Smith
Heir to the Glimmering World by Cynthia Ozick
Almost There by Nuala O'Faolain
What Was She Thinking? Notes on a Scandal by Zoe Heller
Winner of the National Book Award by Jincy Willett
The Miss America Family by Julianna Baggott
Thirteen Moons by Charles Frazier
Love by Toni Morrison
The life all around me by ellen foster by Kaye Gibbons
Keepers of Truth by Michael Collins

The glass castle : a memoir by Jeannette Walls
Why girls are weird by Pamela Ribon
The widow of the south by Robert Hicks
Tobacco road by Erskine Caldwell
The awakening by Shannon Drake
Kitty and the midnight hour by Carrie Vaughn
Sex and the single witch by Holly Chamberlin
The rules of seduction by Madeline Hunter
Outsider by Diana Palmer
Lawless by Diana Palmer
Undead and unwed by Mary Janice Davidson

The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein
Roxana by Daniel Defoe

And Freebies!

Black Dahlia by James Ellroy
Deception Point by Dan Brown
Digital Fortress by Dan Brown
Haunted America by Michael Norman & Beth Scott
The Lonely Life by Bette Davis
On the Road by Jack Kerouac

Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin

Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
Witch way to murder : an Ophelia and Abby mystery by Shirley Damsgaard
Codex by Lev Grossman
The books of magic by Neil Gaiman

Came home with Duma Key today. 100 or so pages in and it's quite good. I have high hopes for the remaining 500 pages.

Picked up Tales of the City at a used bookstore.

...well, the books I bought today are both graphic novels, and I had a coupon to use on one of them (thank god!), but still...

-Buffy The Vampire Slayer Season 8: The Long Way Home
-Serenity: Those Left Behind

Both Joss Whedon shows/comics. What can I say, I'm a fangirl. (Except of Angel...the show. Ew. Loved the character; hated the show.)

So many books, so little time : a year of passionate reading by Sara Nelson
Thursday Next in The well of lost plots : a novel by Jasper Fforde
Thursday Next in Lost in a good book : a novel by Jasper Fforde
The Eyre affair : a novel by Jasper Fforde

My first and only batch of purchases in January:

The Dark: New Ghost Stories edited by Ellen Datlow
Douglas Adams's Starship Titanic by Terry Jones
Shampoo Planet by Douglas Coupland

sacred time, intrusions, the worst thing I've done all three by Usula Hegi

hope and other dangerous pursuits by Laila Lalami

the sparrow by Mary Doria Russell

Went by the SPCA Thriftstore this morning; Monday is 50% off books-day. Feeling cocky about getting the following:

The Glass Key by Dashiell Hammett
Naked in Baghdad by Anne Garrels
Thunderstruck by Erik Larson
Slapstick by Kurt Vonnegut
Rivers Running Free edited by Judith Niemi
Fraud by Anita Brookner
Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs
Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser
It All Adds Up by Saul Bellow
Plum Lucky by Janet Evanovich
Dictionar of the Khazars by Milorad Pavic
Skin by Roald Dahl
The Discomfort Zone by Jonathan Franzen
The Audacity of Hope by Barack Obama
Dark Wind by Gordon Chaplin
Respect by Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot
The Greatest Generation Speaks by Tom Brokaw
Glass, Paper, Beans by Leah Hager Cohen
Almost Perfect by Alice Adams
Climbing High by Lene Gammelgaard
Too Far Afield by Gunter Grass
In the Company of Cheerful Ladies by Alexander McCall Smith
and
The Ladies of Grace Adieu by Susanna Clarke

(I also picked up six kid-VHS tapes, a jigsaw puzzle, and 47 books for my kids that I didn't put into LT. Total cost for everything: $29.)

Bought:
The Constant Princess by Philippa Gregory
Darcy's Story by Janet Aylmer
Everyone Worth Knowing by Lauren Weisberger
Letters from Pemberley by Jane Dawkins
The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells
Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
Looking for Alaska by John Green

Borrowed from library:
My Favorite Midlife crisis (yet) by Toby Devens
Bridget Jones's Diary by Helen Fielding
Bermudez Triangle by Maureen Johnson

Kavik the Wolf Dog, signed by the author.....to add to my dog book collection. :)

Went to a half-priced book store & got:
The Terror Dream by Susan Faludi
A Much Married Man by Nicholas Coleridge
Visiting Life by Bridget Kinsella
The Robber Bride by Margaret Atwood.

Was at a local book store & had a coupon so I got:
Atonement by Ian McEwan

New moon by Stephenie Meyer
Misfortune : a novel by Wesley Stace
The book of witches : a spellbinding guide by Tim Dedopulos

The Window Style Bible: Over 500 Inspirational Ideas for Curtains, Blinds, and Fabrics by Gina Moore

Custom Slipcovers Made Easy by Elizabeth Dubicki

I know...boring. But I need to redecorate.

Working by Studs Terkel

Got my next Early Reviewers book, Danny Gospel by David Athey today in the mail.

At the library, picked up the following from the "freebies" bin:

never drank the kool-aid by Toure
The Bruce Trilogy by Nigel Tranter
Next by Michael Lewis
Monkey Girl by Edward Humes
Torn Between Two Cultures by Qudrat Aseel
Honor Lost by Norma Khouri

I bought The Magnificent Ambersons because it is on so many must read lists.

Did my weekly trip to the SPCA Thriftstore to get used books for 50% off. Got numerous books (25 or so) for the kids, and for me, the following:

The Crime of Galileo by Giorgio de Santillana
For Love of Evil by Piers Anthony
The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing
Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne
Heaven Cent by Piers Anthony
Demons Don't Dream by Piers Anthony
Dragon on a Pedestal by Piers Anthony
Man from Mundania by Piers Anthony
With Shuddering Fall by Joyce Carol Oates
The Queen of Zamba by L. Sprague de Camp
The Love of a Good Woman by Alice Munro
The Last Life byClaire Messud
Fancies and Goodnights by John Collier
Shannon's Way by A.J. Cronin
The Time Machine by H. G. Wells
Vale of the Vole by Piers Anthony
Being a Green Mother by Piers Anthony
The Bounty Hunters by Elmore Leonard
Lucia, Lucia by Adriana Trigiani
Wonderland by Joyce Carol Oates
The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury
War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells
Son of the Morning by Joyce Carol Oates
The Color of Her Panties by Piers Anthony
Marya by Joyce Carol Oates
Question Quest by Piers Anthony
Hawaii by James A. Michener
Feather Crowns by Bobbie Ann Mason
The Caveman's Valentine by George Dawes Green
The Day of the Locust by Nathanael West
Longitude by Dava Sobel
Expensive Habits by Maureen Howard
Rootie Kazootie by Lawrence Naumoff
Enormous Changes at the Last Minute by Grace Paley
The Center of Winter by Marya Hornbacher
The Queen's Man by Sharon Kay Penman
Absolutely Normal Chaos by Sharon Creech
Immoral by Brian Freeman
Very Far Away From Anywhere Else by Ursula K. LeGuin

Spent $17 on the above-mentioned, including kid books.

Then, because that just didn't seem like enough, I ordered two by Matt Haig from abebooks.com. Spent $12 on those.