Books Brought Home September/October 2017

In the Village Where Brightwine Flows: A Shattered Sands Novella by Bradley Beaulieu
I Am Watching You by Teresa Driscoll
The Judgment of Richard Richter by Igor Štiks

The Homecoming of Samuel Lake by Jenny Wingfield..Look to be be a darkish read..Goodreads give it lots of 5 stars!!

David Copperfield by Charles Dickens (audiobook)

Borrowed --
Abducted by T. R. Ragan
The Play of Death by Oliver Pötzsch

The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction May/June 2017 edited by C. C. Finlay

Followed by Frost by Charlie N. Holmberg

Karen Memory by Elizabeth Bear
The Ruin of Angels by Max Gladstone

Yesterday from charity shop..

Burial Rites by Hannah Kent it has won many awards in Australia.

Fine Just The Way It Is by Annie Proulx Wyoming Stories, I love her short stories.

QBVII by Leon Uris

In used hardback:

* The Flanders Panel, mystery surrounding a painting by Flemish Meister Pieter van Huys by Arturo Pérez-Reverte, (translated from Spanish). I find myself immersed in an unofficial reading project in the sub-genre of mysteries about Renaissance fine art. I've read The Secret Supper by Javier Sierra, (translated from Spanish), The Last Painting of Sara de Vos by Dominic Smith, and now this is in my TBR pile.

** In the Country of Men by Hisham Matar. I loved Anatomy of a Disappearance. Both novels share the same theme -- missing and mysterious fathers leave young sons curious, confused, and conflicted.

*** Blind Justice by Bruce Alexander (pseudonym of Bruce Cook, author of biography eponymously titled Trumbo). More about this novel in my topic thread, New-to-Me Authors, #12.

Will save e-book titles for a later entry.

I may be having trouble reading, but I still know how to buy books!

Stay With Me - a novel by Ayobami Adebayo
How to Behave in a Crowd - a novel by Camille Bordas
Dean & Me by Jerry Lewis and James Kaplan I wish I could have read Dean's side of this story, but Jerry's recent death reminded me that my parents used to take me to see their movies back in the late 40s and early 50s; we would laugh and laugh and laugh, and though I didn't pay much attention to them after they broke up, I'd like to revisit those early days again.)
The Burning Girl - a novel by Claire Messud
The One Inside - a novel by Sam Shepard
True West - this is my favorite of Sam Shepard's plays; his death made me long to read it again, but I can't find the copy I was sure I had
A Taste of Blackberries - children's classic by Doris Buchanan Smith
The Collected Poems of Sara Teasdale - I know many regard her as unsophisticated and sentimental, but her poems always take me back to when I was young and romantic and writing out her poems in my copybook; after decades of not reading her, I came upon a few of her poems and found a beauty and joy and depth of feeling . . . and a few gems that speak to me more and more as I grow old . . .

https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/there-will-come-soft-rains

This week Alfred Hitchcock Presents: 16 Skeletons from My Closet and Witches' Brew by Alfred Hitchcock found their way to my home. I guess I'm getting excited for Halloween!

>12 PaperbackPirate: I never realized that Hitchcock had a anthology series.

>13 JulieLill: There are many, but I've only read one.

>11 mollygrace: mollygrace..I join your club.

Today two only!!

Sister by Manette Ansay I enjoyed an earlier novel by Manette Vinegar Hill

Next of Kin by Joanna Trollope

>15 aussieh: New members are always welcome -- I haven't counted, but I sense that there are a lot of us. I'm fond of Ansay and her books -- enjoy.

My reading slump turned out to have been caused by a book I really hated. Put it aside and I've been a reading demon since. On that note, I picked up two short reads today:

The Dispatcher and Muse of Fire by John Scalzi.

Dreams of Distant Shores by Patricia A. McKillip

Latest e-book purchases of note:

The Coldest Night by Robert Olmstead thought his Far Bright Star was stunningly beautiful, though brutal; expect this Korean War novel will be too.
Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward hurricanes seemed to be the topic du jour, hence this one about Katrina in New Orleans.
The Miracle of Dunkirk by Walter Lord for Lime Spouse who is enjoying it on his Kindle.
The Sea, The Sea by Iris Murdoch I've never read anything by her; hope this is a good and fair representation of her writing.
Happy Dreams by Jia Pingwa the latest addition to my library of contemporary Chinese fiction writers
Landscape in Sunlight by Elizabeth Fair I though she'd be a Virago Modern Classic author, but no -- she SHOULD be!

The Husband's Secret by Liane Moriarty

Basil Street Blues: A Memoir by Michael Holroyd

Got hooked on Claire North this summer, so picked up The End of the Day and Touch at my indie's educator sale. Not sure which I'll start with , but the whole stack is an embarrassment of riches.

Never Stop edited by Emmi Itäranta

A very assorted lot yesterday.

Mother Love by Edited by Debra Adelaide
Alfred & Emily by Doris Lessing
Still Alice by Lisa Genova
Injustice by Kirsten Austin and Janet Fife-Yeomans

All purchased from my favorite charity shop.

The Wind in His Heart by Charles de Lint

I had a book buying binge this weekend, kicked off by a sale at my local independent bookstore.

Birdology by Sy Montgomery
Cowboy & Wills by Monica Holloway
The Horse Dancer by Jojo Moyes
The Spy by Paulo Coelho (for book club)
The Lovecraft Compendium by H. P. Lovecraft
Savvy by Ingrid Law
The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick
More Stories from The Twilight Zone by Rod Serling

And from Early Reviewers:
The Color of Pixar by Tia Kratter

I also finished reading one book over the weekend, so, justified.

Fortress in the Eye of Time and Fortress of Eagles by C. J. Cherryh

As I walked Out One Morning by Laurie Lee
To The Wedding by John Berger
The Buddha of Suburbia by Hanif Kureshi
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
Leviathan by Paul Auster
The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli

Part 1 of my haul from the Brooklyn book festival:
Goodbye Vitamin by Rachel Khong;
Return to the Dark Valley by Santiago Gamboa;
Ties by Denice Starnone;
The Nakano Thrift Shop by Hiromi Hawakami;
Pride and prejudice by Jane Austen; and
The Burning Girl by Claire Massud

Waiting for me from Amazon:
The Virginia Woolf Collection; and
To Be Where You Are Jan Karon

Part 2 from the festival to follow at some point this week

Bought online:
In the Land of Invented Languages by Arika Okrent
Hum if You Don't Know the Words by Bianca Marais
A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness
Rubyfruit Jungle by Rita Mae Brown

Bought in the Isles of Scilly, England:
The Life of a Scilly Sergeant by Colin Taylor

Bought at Heathrow for reading on the plane (there was a "buy one get one 50% off" sale)
Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote
Into the Water by Paula Hawkins

<30 hi ahef-love love LOVE Hum if you don't know the words-one of the best books I've read all year

Just two little titles.

Cover Her Face by P D James, the first of the Adam Dalgliesh mysteries
The Stolen Bicycle by Wu Ming-Yi a novel set in Taiwan

Have 2 of my haul from the Brooklyn book festival courtesy of the Book Mark Shoppe:
The Party by Elzabeth Day;
Spoon endears b Daryl Gregory;
Love and Other Consolation Prizes by Jamie Ford
Girl in Sow by Dana Kukafka;
Augustown by Kei Miler;
Circe by Madelne Miller;
Before We Were Yours by Lsa Wngate;
Emma by Jane Austen;
Mansfield Park by Jane Austen;
Sense and Senseability by Jane Austen;
Persuasion by Jane Austen;
Northanger Abbey by Jane Asren;
The Sworn Virgin by Kristopher Dukes;
Sing, Unburied Sng by Jesmyn Ward; and
The Hearts Invble Furies by John Boyne

The Girl in the Polka dot Dress by Beryl Bainbridge

>33 cdyankeefan: Happy Jane Austen splurge!

Stephen and Owen Kings new book Sleeping Beauties arrived yesterday

The Nine Tailors by Dorothy L. Sayers arrived in yesterday's post.

Collected Poems: Donald Justice
Finding Magic: A Spiritual Memoir by Sally Quinn
My Absolute Darling by Gabriel Tallent
Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward
Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward

<38 hi Mollygrace-loved my absolute darling-tough to read at times but really really good

>39 cdyankeefan: Thanks for your comment. I've read a couple of glowing reviews, but somehow it's always the more personal recommendations from friends here at LT that mean the most. I think Gabriel Tallent's book will not have to spend too much time on Mt. TBR.

>40 mollygrace: mollygrace- you're welcome. I write book reviews for my local library and My Absolute Darling got a 5 star review-I'm thinking of changing my designations to bookmarks i.e. 5 bookmarks etc but I'm not sure how the good folks will take it. If you don't have this one on your Mt Tbr here's another great one- Hum Of You Don't Know The Words by Bianca Marais. It's about the unlikely bond between an orphaned 9 year old girl and her black caretaker during the Soweto uprising in 1976. Absolutely fantastic!!

>41 cdyankeefan: Thanks for recommending the Marais book. I saw another I hope to read soon on your Best of Q3 list -- Stay With Me Try your "bookmark" designations -- people who hang out in libraries and love to read ought to be flexible enough and daring enough to try something new!

>hi Mollygrace- you're welcme and I will definitely change my designations!! Really , really loving Stay With Me- very well written

Thief of Time by Terry Pratchett

I picked up Sleeping Beauties by Stephen and Own King this weekend. :)

The Honest Spy by Andreas Kollender

Nearly finished: Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? by Frans de Waal

Halfway thru: The Juice: vinous veritas by Jay McInerney

Just Started: Just One Damn Thing After Another: the chronicles of St. Mary's by Jodi Taylor

Yesterday my preordered copy of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban: The Illustrated Edition by J. K. Rowling arrived. Time for a reread with illustrations!

Just finished if all the Seas Were ink. Just brought Emily tje Strange, Daughter of Fortune (though Ive already read it).

Akata Witch by Nnedi Okorafor

Borrowed The Bookseller's Tale by Ann Swinfen.

Took out Salvage The Bones from the library

war for the oaks came in the mail, based on recs of several fellow fantasy readers around here. Also found a book at a used store that I thought I'd read ages ago, but I never did: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close.

Went to a yoga book event last week and bought The Yogi Assignment: A 30 day Program for Bringing Yoga Practice and Wisdom to Your Everyday Life by Kino MacGregor. A beautiful book full of color photographs, ideas for bringing yoga off the mat and into your life and detailed explanations of poses from a master ashtanga teacher.

So, I foisted 4 volumes I finished reading on my son, using my grandson as innocent courier and then chose to reward my wickedly clever self with a few new books. Heh, heh, heh.

Demian by Hermann Hesse
Daughters of the Samurai by Janice P Nimura
Shroud for a Nightingale by P D James
An Unnecessary Woman by Rabih Alameddine
The Honest Spy by Andreas Kollender

>55 Limelite: fwiw I really liked An Unnecessary Woman by Rabih Alameddine. The character was so interesting and the background well told

Walden by Henry David Thoreau and Am I a Jew by Theodore Ross both bargains from my thrift shop.

The Book of Swords edited by Gardner Duzois

>56 cindydavid4: It's worth a whole lot as I find most of the LTers are thoughtful readers. Thanks for your endorsement, I feel more confident of my purchase and look forward to reading it.

When my son moved out west last year he borrowed the first three Harry Potter books, and never returned them. I ordered them and received them a couple of days ago in the mail.

From library The Man In The Wooden Hat by Jane Gardam and The Red Garden by Alice Hoffman this will be a reread for me I have read most of her novels and loved the all, my favorite was Blackbird House she always adds a little bit of magic to her writings.

Vallista by Steven Brust

Somehow, these books snuck themselves onto my Kindle recently.

Grand Ambition by Lisa Michaels (newlyweds in 1928 raft the Colorado in the Grand Canyon)
The Battle for Leyte Gulf by C Vann Woodward (for Lime Spouse)
A Stillness at Appomattox by Bruce Catton (NBA '54, classic history)
The Birth of Venus by Sarah Dunant (art, scandal, religion, and politics in 15th C Florence)

Bought at my mother's foot doctor's office (book sale): Darkly Dreaming Dexter and Hidden Depths.

The Warlock in Spite of Himself by Christopher Stasheff

Changing Places: A Tale of Two Campuses by David Lodge
Small World: An Academic Romance by David Lodge
The Lost Words by Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris
Draft No. 4: On the Writing Process by John McPhee
Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
The Family by David Plante
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder

The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden
Evil is a Matter of Perspective edited by Adrian Collins and Mike Myers
The Fifth Doll by Charlie N. Holmberg

Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania by Erik Larson

>68 JulieLill: Really enjoyed this historical narrative. Larson has a talent for "putting you there." Hope you find it enthralling, too.

>66 mollygrace: Oh I remember reading Changing Places: A Tale of Two Campuses and
Small World: An Academic Romance by David Lodge during my first trip to England and couldn't stop laughing (much to the chagrin of many tube travelers, I imagine). His books tend to sound the same, but I do enjoy those in particular.

>70 cindydavid4: There's a third book in the trilogy - Nice Work - which I believe I've ordered. Good to know they're funny -- I could use a few laughs. Seems I've been reading a lot of very serious books lately -- good ones, but I think I've been frowning or wiping away tears too much in recent weeks. And I'm about to read Lincoln in the Bardo. By the time I finish reading that one, I imagine I'll be in need of Lodge's humor. Thanks for your comments.

I got 3 copies of The Grandest Ride by Tom Brownold at Grand Canyon on Saturday. My sisters and I are planning to ride the mules down Grand Canyon in 2 years so I thought this book will help keep us pumped up while we wait.

>69 Limelite: I have read most of his books and I think this one and The Devil in the White City are some of my all time favorite books and I am not even finished with Dead Wake.

Lighthousekeeping by Jeanette Winterson

The Slow Natives by Thea Astley

Too Much Happiness by Alice Munro

JulieLill & Limelite - I'm going to hear Erik Larson speak tonight. :)

>75 varielle: Please report back!

I just left. He was wonderful. I've heard he talked about it in his twitter feed so now I've got to go find that.

I am so excited for you and jealous. Hope you haf a great time.

NEW THREAD: http://www.librarything.com/topic/273223