What did YOU buy today? February 2008 edition

Today, I was killing time at Borders and found that their bargain books in the foyer were half off the sticker price. I only found one I liked:

The Booster by Jennifer Solow

It was only $2 something.

I bought Looking For Alaska by John Green from Borders. My first time in Borders seen as it's only in Brisbane, not on the Gold Coast, and now I know that borders is love.

Bad boy : a novel by Olivia Goldsmith
The true story of Hansel and Gretel by Louise Murphy
Essence of style : how the French invented high fashion, fine food, chic cafes, ... by Joan DeJean
My friend Leonard by James Frey
Water : tales of elemental spirits by Robin McKinley
Catechism of the Catholic Church
The castle in the forest : a novel by Norman Mailer
The last templar by Raymond Khoury
Split second by David Baldacci
Dark harbor by Stuart Woods

Stopped at Borders after xcountry skiing. Bought "501 Must-Read Books. Some I'll never read others, I hope I will be able to find.

Stopped at Borders after xcountry skiing. Bought "501 Must-Read Books. Some I'll never read others, I hope I will be able to find.

Stopped by the used book store after dinner today. Ended up getting:

-The Lake House by James Patterson
-Mariel of Redwall by Brian Jacques
-Sex With Kings by Eleanor Herman

about $14 all told.

The ghost and the dead man's library by Alice Kimberly
Earthly joys by Philippa Gregory
Shopaholic ties the knot by Sophie Kinsella
Winner of the National Book Award by Jincy Willett
Cut by Patricia Mccormick
Define "normal" : a novel by Julie Anne Peters
The music room by Dennis McFarland
The Botox diaries : a novel by Janice Kaplan
Catch me if you can by Stan Redding
While I was gone by Sue Miller
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell: A Novel by Susanna Clarke
The sacred bones : a novel by Michael Byrnes
Significant others by Armistead Maupin
Lottery by Patricia Wood
Easter Island by Jennifer Vanderbes
The bone collector by Jeffrey Deaver
A recipe for bees by Gail Anderson-Dargatz
The ninth life of Louis Drax by Liz Jensen
Casanova was a book lover by John Maxwell Hamilton
Seven types of ambiguity by Elliot Perlman
A history of reading by Alberto Manguel

Uath > you always have such great lists of books! Where do you get them all from? Tell us your secret source!

My January book-buying ban over, I bought two books on the 1st:
The Bridge over the Drina by Ivo Andric
Penguin Lost by Andrey Kurkov

I got a hardback copy of Heart-Shaped Box for 25 cents at a library book sale. This book had been on my wish list since I found out that the author was Stephen King's son.

I also bought Birds of Eastern and Central North America this past weekend as I decided to get into birdwatching again after listening to the library CD of To See Every Bird on Earth by Dan Koeppel.

I bought The Magnificent Ambersons.

The librarian by Larry Beinhart

Hi Killeymoon and thanks!

No secret source really but I do love the search. Used bookstores and thrift shops are some of my favorite haunts.

Happy Hunting!

The uncommon reader by Alan Bennett
Lost and found by Carolyn Parkhurst
The inner circle T.C. Boyle
The book club by Mary Alice Monroe
Dark secret by Christine Feehan
Asylum by Nan Allen
Summer reading : a novel by Hilma Wolitzer
Liar's game by Eric Jerome Dickey
The trials of Tiffany Trott by Isabel Wolff
Into thin air by Cindy Miles
Wife for hire by Janet Evanovich
To catch a cheat by Kelley St. John

Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
Mysteries of the Dark Moon: The Healing Power of the Dark Goddess by Demetra George

Freebie:

Angels and Demons by Dan Brown

I had a scary day when my Barnes & Noble.com account went down, but I'm back up and running!

Bizarre books by Russell Ash
The worst-case scenario survival handbook : travel by Joshua Piven
Marley & me : life and love with the world's worst dog by John Grogan
Yesterday will make you cry by Chester B. Himes
The innocent mage by Karen Miller
The awakened mage by Karen Miller
Banewreaker by Jacqueline Carey
Godslayer by Jacqueline Carey
Warrior's bride by Gerri Russell
The blood king by Gail Z. Martin
The face by Dean Koontz
First dance by Karen Kendall
Blood brothers by Nora Roberts
Shock by Robin Cook

Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell for class. Not too thrilled about the 1000+ page book.
And since I've been watching the Tudors lately, I bought a few books:
The Six Wives of Henry VIII by Alison Weir
The Boleyn Inheritance by Philippa Gregory.

I wasn't intending to really buy it, but Interpreter of Maladies sort of leapt into my outstretched hand (and for £2 it seemed wrong to put it back)...

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What a good catch!

Fragile Things
Sandman: The Doll's House
Sandman: Dream Country
Sometimes a Great Notion ($3, old copy).

and I was given, by my cousin who wrote it, The Discoveries of Mrs. Christopher Columbus

Two guys from Verona : a novel of suburbia by James Kaplan
Dance of the gods by Nora Roberts
Mozart's sister : a novel by Rita Charbonnier
Daughter of the Queen of Sheba by Jacki Lyden
The man in my basement : a novel by Walter Mosley
Greek religion by Walter Burkert
The plot against America by Philip Roth
The other Boleyn girl : a novel by Philippa Gregory

I bought two books yesterday.

One is Alison Weir's The Children of Henry VIII. (And that would make how many of her books blanketing my shelves?)

The other is Barbara Tuchman's The First Salute.

The other day I bought...

Abundance by Sena Jeter Naslund
Atonement by Ian McEwan
Choke by Chuck Palahniuk
Oedipus Rex by Sophocles

And I received these in the mail (via Paperback Book Swap)...

The Corset Diaries by Katie MacAlister
The Poyson Garden by Karen Harper
Tulip Fever by Deborah Moggach

I'm excited. Now if only I could read all the books as fast I buy.

Today I found a used copy of a book I first read while in college, but sadly lost when I loaned it out years later: Romantic Revolutionary: a biography of John Reed by Robert A Rosenstone I don't know when I'll get around to reading it, as I just started The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich.

This month so far -
The Reasons I Won't Be Coming - Elliot Perlman (B&N sale)
Steel Guitar - Linda Barnes (charity table for $1)
Rolling Stone Cover to Cover - B&N sale - so addicting
The Good Earth - Pearl S. Buck (borrowed from mom)
Gun With Occasional Music - Jonathan Lethem

Valley of silence by Nora Roberts

G. by John Berger
Shanghai Baby by Wei Hui
The Complete Polysyllabic Spree by Nick Hornby
The Curious Incident of the dog in the nighttime by Mark Haddon
The Age of Reason by Jean Paul Sartre
The Golden Gate by Vikram Seth

:)

My haul from the used book store:

1. Mother of Sorrows by Richard Mccann

- Looked interesting. I've never heard of the author.

2. Runaway by Alice Munro

- I've never read anything by this Canadian author, but she comes highly recommnded.

3. Gotz and Meyer by David Albahari

I remember this book being on my wish list so I got it. I came home to find it that it's now my second copy of the very same book! :-(

4. Sombrero fallout : a Japanese novel by Richard Brautigan

My best find! I collect 70's paperbacks by Richard Brautigan. This is the first time I ever found this particular book.

Took a trip down to Barnes and Noble yesterday to pick up a couple manga I had on hold. Also, I found a novelization based on the anime/manga of Gravitation which I just had to pick up because I was really surprised to see something like that.

Showing a complete lack of restraint, yesterday I bought:

The Good Husband of Zebra Drive by Alexander McCall Smith
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day by Winifred Watson (The Persephone edition I've alwas wanted!)
Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov
The Needle in the Blood by Sarah Bower

No non-fiction though - that's because I couldn't go downstairs! They were having a book signing with John Barrowman of Torchwood, and access down there was strictly controlled!

Grotesque by Natsuo Kirino
The One from the Other by Philip Kerr
The Secrets of the Chess Machine by Robert Löhr

Yesterday, I went to Borders to get

The Rising Tide by Jeff Shaara for my husband.

While I was there, I got for myself:

A Woman in Jerusalem by A. B. Yehoshua
Coyote Blue by Christopher Moore
The Reformation by Diarmaid MacCulloch, and
The Invention of Everything Else by Samantha Hunt

Today, I received my B&N mail order, thus adding:

The Good Soldier by Ford Maddox Ford
Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein
The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid
A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe
The Impressionist by Hari Kunzru
The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox by Maggie O'Farrell, and
The Ice Queen by Alice Hoffman

At Barnes & Noble and bought:

The Price of Pleasure by Connie Mason
People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks
Vegan Italiano by Donna Klein

Literary Nashville by Madison Jones

Today at Books-a-Million:

The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory
Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank

and from PaperBackBookSwap in the mail:

Marrying Mozart by Stephanie Cowell

#35 sunnygirl34685: I hope you love Alas, Babylon! I read it last year for book group and it was one of the few we all LOVED!

Stuff I got today:

Birds Without Wings by Louis de Bernieres
Lipstick Jihad by Azadeh Moaveni
The God of Animals by Aryn Kyle
The Emancipator's Wife by Barbara Hambly
Q by Luther Blissett
Collected Letters of C. S. Lewis
The Witch of Cologne by Tobsha Learner

Honestly. Does the compulsion to buy books, even when I know I may never get to them during the remainder of lifetime, ever stop?

alaskabookworm, I hope you will enjoy Q. I read it years ago, when it came out, and loved it! Apart from the plot, it is very interesting from the historical point of view.

Absinthe : history in a bottle by Barnaby Conrad

and for my daughter

Peeps by Scott Westerfeld
Uglies by Scott Westerfeld
Pretties Scott Westerfeld
Valiant by Holly Black
Tithe by Holly Black
New Moon by Stephanie Meyer

In Chicago this weekend, I bought faulkner`s Light in August using a 30% coupon and remainder copy of What came before he shot her by Elizabeth George.I am on a Faulkner kick again and had always missed this one. Very strange book, of course, but his genius is evident.

The true and outstanding adventures of the Hunt sisters : a novel by Elisabeth Robinson
Uncommon arrangements : seven portraits of married life in London literary circles by Katie Roiphe
The emotional brain : the mysterious underpinnings of emotional life by Joseph Ledoux
Being geniuses together, 1920-1930 by Robert McAlmon
Paging Aphrodite by Kim Green
The tale of Despereaux : being the story of a mouse, a princess, some soup, and ... by Kate Dicamillo
Many things have happened since he died by Elizabeth Dewberry Vaughn
Oswald's tale : an American mystery by Norman Mailer
The gift bag chronicles : a novel by Hilary De Vries
The madonnas of Leningrad by Debra Dean
An odyssey in print : adventures in the Smithsonian Libraries by Mary Augusta Thomas
Christmas cookies and candy
The fatigue artist : a novel by Lynne Sharon Schwartz
Yankee magazine's living well on a shoestring
Life of Pi : a novel by Yann Martel
The favored child : a novel by Philippa Gregory
The brat by Lynsay Sands

My boyfriend got me Cat Counselor for Valentine's Day. I just added a second cat to my home, so it was a sweet gift.

Library Book Sale 10 boooks for $5.00

The Companion by Ann Granger
March by Geraldine books
End in Tears by Ruth Rendell
The Garden of Eden by Faye Kellerman
Book Doctor by Esther Cohen
Slow Man by J.M. Coetzee
Thirteen Moons by Charles Frazier
The Way Murder Lies by ann Granger
The Cherry Bloosom Corpse by Robert Barnard
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen which is a very nice 1st edition that someone donated to the library.

Ex libris : confessions of a common reader by Anne Fadiman
An alphabetical life : living it up in the world of books by Wendy Werris
Thursday Next in first among sequels : a novel by Jasper Fforde
Sixpence House : lost in a town of books by Paul Collins
Science and the social order by Bernard Barber
A child's night dream by Oliver Stone
The new Atlantis : a journal of technology and society
Bibliotherapy : the girl's guide to books for every phase of our lives by Beverly West
Disease and history by Frederick F. Cartwright
The Cinderella pact : a novel by Sarah Strohmeyer
Lost & found by Jacqueline Sheehan
A quick bite by Lynsay Sands
A dictionary of literary and thematic terms by Edward Quinn
Aphrodite's passion by Julie Kenner
Letters from a slave boy : the story of Joseph Jacobs by Mary E. Lyons
The Faraday girls : a novel by Monica McInerney
Letter perfect by Cathy Marie Hake
The prize winner of Defiance, Ohio by Terry Ryan
Holy fools by Joanne Harris
The savage garden by Mark Mills
Guilty feet by Kelly Harte
Off the wall : the art of book display by Alan Heath
Napoleon & Josephine : the sword & the hummingbird by Gerald Hausman
Fangland : a novel by John Marks
The gentle axe by R. N. Morris
Sleep, pale sister by Joanne Harris
The bookman's promise : a Cliff Janeway novel
by John Dunning
I don't know how she does it : the life of Kate Reddy, working mother : a… by Allison Pearson
Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones
Original sins by Lisa Alther
The forgetting room : a fiction by Nick Bantock
The grand complication by Allen Kurzweil

In the company of the courtesan : a novel by Sarah Dunant
Talking to the dead : a novel by Helen Dunmore
The virgin's lover by Philippa Gregory
Wideacre : a novel by Philippa Gregory

They Call Me Naughty Lola :personal ads from the LRB.

Morning Star: Nick Bantock

13 Little Blue Envelopes by Maureen Johnson
The Echo Maker by Richard Powers
Gertrude by Hermann Hesse

I got The Book Thief by Markus Zusak and People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks.

Morrigan's Cross by Nora Roberts

Gods in Alabama by Joshilyn Jackson
Saturday by Ian McEwan
Listening is an Act of Love by Dave Isay
Watchdogs of Democracy? by Helen Thomas
Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami

A raisin in the sun : the unfilmed original screenplay by Lorraine Hansberry
The unprofessionals : a novel by Julie Hecht
Best friends by Martha Moody
Writing : grammar, usage, and style by Jean Eggenschwiler
Reflections in a jaundiced eye by Florence King
Charms, spells, and formulas for the making and use of gris-gris, herb candles, ... by Ray Marlbrough
The crone's book of charms & spells by Valerie Worth
Practical candleburning rituals by Raymond Buckland
Modern magick : eleven lessons in the high magickal art by Don Kraig
Morality play by Barry Unsworth
Reflections in a jaundiced eye by Florence King
Best friends by Martha Moody
The unprofessionals : a novel by Julie Hecht
To kill a mockingbird by Harper Lee
Chain of fools by Steven Womack
Twelfth night, or, What you will by William Shakespeare
The taming of the shrew by William Shakespeare
Cujo by Stephen King
The Mist by Stephen King
Salem's Lot by Stephen King
Brazil : paradise of gemstones by Jules Roger Sauer
Cry, the beloved country by Alan Paton
Open house : a novel by Elizabeth Berg
Cerulean sins Laurell K. Hamilton
Guilty Pleasures Laurell K. Hamilton
Burnt Offerings Laurell K. Hamilton
Tears of the giraffe by Alexander McCall Smith
The Kalahari typing school for men by Alexander McCall Smith
The full cupboard of life by Alexander McCall Smith
Writing : grammar, usage, and style by Jean Eggenschwiler

Servants, misfits, and martyrs : saints and their stories by James C. Howell
The unconsoled by Kazuo Ishiguro
Tuscany, art & architecture by Anne Mueller von der Haegen
The lady in question by Victoria Alexander
My hero by Marianna Jameson
Gerald's game by Stephen King
Warrior and witch by Marie Brennan
I am legend by Richard Matheson
The prince and the pilgrim by Mary Stewart
Blood lust : portrait of a serial sex killer by Gary C. King
Nobody's child by Marie Balter
Hate crime : the story of a dragging in Jasper, Texas by Joyce King
Forgive the moon by Maryanne Stahl
The second assistant : a tale from the bottom of the Hollywood ladder by Mimi Hare
Kinds of minds : toward an understanding of consciousness by Daniel C. Dennett
K.I.S.S. guide to organizing your life by Donald Wetmore
The working life : the promise and betrayal of modern work by Joanne B. Ciulla
Rimbaud in Abyssinia by Alain Borer
The way the crow flies : a novel by Ann-marie Macdonald

Lame Deer, Seeker of Visions: The Life of a Sioux Medicine Man by John (Fire) Lame Deer and Richard Erdoes

The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
Burning Bright by Tracy Chevalier

The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood
Origin by Diana Abu-Jaber
Bad Monkeys by Matt Ruff
The Book Thief by Zusak
The Space Between Us by Thrity Umrigar
Ghostwalk by Rebecca Stott
Medicus by Ruth Downie
After Dark by Haruki Murakami
Three Bags Full by Leonie Swann
Divisadero by Michael Ondaatje

Well, I really bought this stuff yesterday but didn't have time to post:

Child of God and Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
The Golden Ratio by Mario Livio
Fingerprints of the Gods by Graham Hancock

Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
Into the Wild, by Jon Krakauer

Hi - new to Librarything and still finding my way around.

Arrived today from The Book Depository - who I freqently buy from after browsing on Amazon then clicking into Marketplace)-

Radical Artifice: Writing Poetry in the age of Media by Marjorie Perloff

It has a great section on 80 Flowers by Louis Zukofsky - a work I'm enjoying trying to decode! - which has made the purchase worthwhile already.
This purchase is proof of the power of Google Booksearch - I would never have known of its existence if Google hadn't pointed me to it.

Welcome, SheilaWB!!!!!!!!
:-))

Thank you aluvalibri. I love your picture of the Flat Iron Building. I looked down on it from the top of the Empire State building the day before Book Expo in May last year! The chief exec of St Martin's Press used to have his office in the pointy end - but I'm not sure if the building has any publishing/book connections these days...

No books bought today, but the weekend's coming and I can hear my favourite second hand shop calling...

Hosted a booksigning last night and bought a copy of Guide to the Battles of the American Revolution by Ted Savas

Sheila (#61), it is not the Flatiron (which, incidentally, is my favourite building in NY), but the Times Building at Broadway & 42nd. Quite frankly, I don't even know if it is there any more.
:-))

I had my doubts after I posted the message! Anyway - very NY and made me smile! I guess you've given me an excuse to go back to NY - to check whether the Times building is still there! (Any excuse will do really... :-).
Back to books - not technically today - but this week picked up Rocket Boys by Homer Hickman (pub in the UK by Fourth Estate...) in a second hand shop - looks interesting

The secret books of Venus I & II by Tanith Lee
People of the book : a novel by Geraldine Brooks
The Alexandria link : a novel by Steve Berry
I'm proud of you : life lessons from my friend Fred Rogers by Tim Madigan
Bless your heart, tramp : and other Southern endearments by Celia Rivenbark
Secret society girl : an Ivy League novel by Diana Peterfreund
A kiss of shadows by Laurell K. Hamilton
Seduced by moonlight by Laurell K. Hamilton
The body in the library : a Miss Marple mystery by Agatha Christie
Transgender warriors : making history from Joan of Arc to Dennis Rodman by Leslie Feinberg