Books Brought Home January/February 2019

Getting the new thread started.

Some sale books jumped in my bag today while shopping for calendars:
Gwendy's Button Box by Stephen King and Richard Chizmar
Martian Time-Slip by Philip K. Dick
A Spot of Bother by Mark Haddon
Go Ask Alice by Anonymous

My indie book seller had their yearly New Years sale, where everthing in the store is 25% off. I came away with

overstory

the echo maker

Little by Edward Carey (touchstone not working)

People of Paper

reputations

My Dear Hamilton

French Exit I loved Sisters Brothers

Wild Swans one of my fav books, this is a beautiful hardback used copy for $2.

Think my reading for 2019 is off to a great start!

>3 cindydavid4: Maybe we were in line together!

I picked these up on a recent trip to North Carolina:
Water Witches;
Winter People;
Pride and Premudice and Zombies;
Salem’s Lot;
Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters;
Pet Semetary;and
Up in The Old Hotel

This is just a partial list- more will be coming in this week

You in Tempe?

>6 cindydavid4: At Changing Hands!

My first 2019 purchase: The Scarred Woman by Jussi Adler-Olsen.

Heh, small world!!! Been going religiously for a few decades. I was there first thing in the morning, waited in the cold for an hour, but it was worth it coz I got what I was looking for pretty quickly. Then i came back at 6 and just browsed and found all sorts of treasures!

We should try to meet up there sometime!

I did have to laugh that you got Go As Alice. I was one of its target audience - 16 and very gullible, the book scared me to death. Found out the story it self wasn't true, and should have been sold a fiction. Be interesting to read it as an adult.

Bad Dirt by Annie Proulx a collection of short stories.

>2 PaperbackPirate: I enjoyed A Spot of Bother.

Blood for Blood by Victoria Selman
Smoke and Summons by Charlie N. Holmberg

>11 JulieLill: I found it for $1.50 and since I loved Curious Incident I thought it was a good bet! Nice to know you liked it!

Received an uncorrected proof for The Wall by John Lanchester. (There doesn't seem to be a touchstone for book currently, so here's the link: https://www.librarything.com/work/22303700).

Going Postal by Terry Pratchett

Steelheart, Firefight, and Calamity by Brandon Sanderson

The Fate of the Tearling by Erika Johansen

With a Christmas bookstore gift card, and some Christmas money (my parents are too old to shop. They just give me cash.) I've bought a bunch of books, the last of which arrived today.

In total I've bought:
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Becoming by Michelle Obama
People who Eat Darkness by Richard Lloyd Parry
The Woman in the Window by A.J. Finn
Macbeth by Jo Nesbo
Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts
Less by Andrew Sean Greer

Cat O' Nine Tales and Other Stories by Jeffrey Archer

The Neutronium Alchemist by Peter F. Hamilton

From Library The Book Shop by Penelope Fitzgerald, Reading the preface makes me want to follow up on this author.

>21 aussieh: Penelope Fitzgerald's 9 novels and 3 biographies (her collective biography of her father and his three brothers, The Knox Brothers, is a special favorite of mine) are terrific. Her life and work (there is also a book of short stories and a book of essays) are definitely worth exploring. Hermione Lee published a biography of Fitzgerald a few years ago -- it is excellent and gives insight into each of her novels. I hope you enjoy The Book Shop -- it was my introduction to this author, too.

>22 mollygrace:
Thanks Molly I look forward to following thru with Penelope's work I am very keen on Novella size writings which seems to be her style.

Birdman by Mo Hayder
Eeny Meeny by M. J. Arlidge

Evening in Paradise: More Stories by Lucia Berlin

Everything Under by Daisy Johnson

The Death of the Necromancer by Martha Wells

Public Power in the Age of Empire by Arundhati Roy
How to Eat by Thich Nhat Hanh
How Propaganda Works by Jason Stanley
Native American Herbal Remedies
The MasterMind Journal by Jack Boland
Interlinear Bible
Greek New Testament
African American Bible
1611 King James

The Only Harmless Great Thing by Brooke Bolander

Late in the Day by Tessa Hadley

The Baltimore Book of the Dead by Marion Winik
First Comes Love by Marion Winik
The Glen Rock Book of the Dead by Marion Winik
My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh
The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd
Elvis and Gladys by Elaine Dundy
The Day That Went Missing: A Family Story by Frank Beard

Don't Shoot The White Swans by Boris Vassilyev
The Book Of Emmett by Deborah Forster
The Crystal Bucket by Clive James
Days Without End by Sebastian Barry

Borrowed The Fourth Monkey by J. D. Barker.

Today I went to my favorite locally owned used bookstore and I got Good Omens by Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett for my book club.
While there I also picked up The Hero and the Crown by Robin McKinley. It was almost chosen for book club, but I still wanted to read it even though it wasn't selected.

Pirate, I can't wait to hear what you think about it! BTW its supposed to be a TV series David Tennant and Michael Sheen in March on Amazon Prime. Might just be worth my while to finally sign up for Prime....(which book club btw?)

Still waiting for the new Richard Power book - they were out when I went for the New Years Day sale, sold out of another shipment and are now waiting for a third. I know its popular but man its taking a while (yeah as if I didn't have 6 books precariously stacked on my TBR shelf already)

>35 cindydavid4: Glad to know you liked it! I think some people wanted to read it before the show started, so that might have encouraged the votes to read it now.
My book club consists of teachers I used to work with and currently work with. We have been together for almost 15 years. You're welcome to join us!

The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal

>36 PaperbackPirate: probably depends on where and when (if its the weekday night in phx, won't be able to go)

Ghost Wall by Sarah Moss
The Quantum Spy by David Ignatius
Our Spoons Came from Woolworths by Barbara Comyns

I love the tv show Pit Bulls and Parolees so I had to get a copy of My Life Among the Underdogs: A Memoir by Tia Torres.

On Canaan's Side by Sebastian Barry

Temporary Gentleman by Sebastian Barry

A Bigamist's Daughter by Alice McDermott

The Unit by Ninni Holmqvist

Notes from an Exhibition by Patrick Gale

The Elephant Whisperer: My Life with the Herd in the African Wild by Lawrence Anthony
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

I found out Netflix is releasing the next part of The Expanse series soon, so I got Abaddon's Gate by James S. A. Corey so I could stay ahead.

Where the Forest Meets the Stars by Glendy Vanderah

The Railway Man's Wife by Ashley Hay

Sisters By A River by Barbara Comyns
The Only Story by Julian Barnes
An Odyssey: A Father, A Son, and an Epic by Daniel Mendelsohn
The Iliad -translated by Robert Fagles
The Odyssey - translated by Robert Fagles
Where Reasons End by Yiyun Li
Bowlaway by Elizabeth McCracken

An interesting little selection from my charity shop.

The Cat's Table by Michael Ondaadje
Red Leaves by Thomas H. Cook
Katharine the Virgin Widow by Jean Plaidy

Really enjoyed Cats Table!

My library had its fundraiser at Barnes and Noble yesterday and these followed me home:

The Dreamers- Karen Thompson Walker;
The Lost Man- Jane Harper;
You Know You Want This- Kristen Roupenian;
The Last Romantics- Tara Conklin;
BlackmLeopard, Red Wold- Marlon James; and
The Current- Tim Johnston

Downloaded from Amazon:

Behind Japanese Lines: With the OSS in Berma
Bound for Canaan: The Epic Story of the Underground Railroad
Since Yesterday: The 1930s in America, September 3, 1929 - September 3, 1939
The Forgotten 500: The Untold Story of the Men Who Risked All for the Greatest Rescue Mission of World War II

I read Only Yesterday and Since Yesterday years ago, and used to return to them as i got more attuned th the history Both of them are really brilliant. Probably should reread it to see how it compares with today but suspect that would be too depressing

Lost Children Archive by Valeria Luiselli

Crossover by Joel Shepherd

Be Near Me by Andrew O'Hagan

The Spare Room by Helen Garner

A new short story by Charles de Lint available as ebook: Horsepower & Medicine.

Hi Mommom- I hope you see this. I’m going to Rj Julia on Thursday to hear Pam Jenoff speak about her new book The Lost Girls of Paris. Will you be there? I’d love to meet you

cdyankeefan I am too!! That would be awesome. As long as the weather is good I will be there. I look forward to meeting you. I should be with one of my book club friends. I am excited to hear Pam.

Alliance Rising by C. J. Cherryh and Jane S. Fancher.

All the Lives We Ever Lived: Seeking Solace in Virginia Woolf by Katharine Smyth
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
The Weight of a Piano by Chris Cander
William III & Mary II: Partners in Revolution by Jonathan Keates

I was on my way to knitting the other day and passed a box of books. (This is a normal way of accessioning books in my neighborhood; there are a lot of readers here and it's easier to put a few books on the stoop wall along the sidewalk than it is to figure out where it's most "impactful" to donate it.) So, of course, I went through the books and went to knitting with a new book, The Lais of Marie de France -- because that choice is not the least bit nerdy at all.

O Pioneers! by Willa Cather
House Of Names by Colm Toibin
White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
Not Withstanding by Louis de Bernieres a delightful short story collection.

I went to hear Pam Jenoff at RJ Julia last night and somehow these followed me home:
The Accidental Further Adventures of the 100 year old man by Jonas Jonasson;
The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls by Anissa Gray;
The Lost Girls of Paris by Pam Jenoff;
Bowlaway by Elizabeth McCracken;
Lost Children Archive by Valeria Luiselli; and
Old Newgate Road by Keith Scribner

Mouthful of Birds by Samanta Schweblin
The Library Book by Susan Orlean
McGlue by Ottessa Moshfegh
Nobody's Looking at You by Janet Malcolm
The Next to Die by Sophie Hannah
Leading Men by Christopher Castellani

I had the pleasure of meeting cdyankeefan at RJ Julia's the other night during the Pam Jenoff event. I had these follow me home:

The Things We Cherished, At the Wolf's Table, and Daughter of Molokai.

#67 hi mommom- the pleasure was mine!!

A House for Mr. Biswas by V.S. Naipaul
We by Yevgeny Zamyatin

I'm Fine and Neither Are You by Camille Pagán

Go Down Moses by William Faulkner it is a short story collection.

Thrice the Brinded Cat Hath Mew'd, The Grave's a Fine and Private Place, and The Golden Tresses of the Dead by Alan Bradley. I decided to fill out my collection.

I got 21 books from a used book sale for $39 and all of the money goes to charity! I was going to list them all but I just haven't had the time.

Born a Crime by Trevor Noah

Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls: A Memoir by T Kira Madden

The Other Mrs Walker by Mary Paulson-Ellis

Burning Bright by John Steinbeck

Forest of the Pygmies by Isabel Allende

All God's Children by Thomas Eidson

Evil Under the Sun by Agatha Christie

I'm going on holiday in two days, so I added some books to my e-reader:

The Complete Works of Jules Verne
The Complete Stories by Flannery O'Connor
Ngaio Marsh's first three Roderick Alleyn murder mysteries
Lucy by Jamaica Kincaid
Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome
The Wings of the Dove by Henry James
The Stranger She Loved: A Mormon Doctor, His Beautiful Wife, and an Almost Perfect Murder by Shanna Hogan

Touchstones don't seem to be working at the moment.

>78 ahef1963: The complete works of Jules Verne!! That's a very long vacation! :)

The Naked God by Peter F. Hamilton

The Haunting of Tram Car 015 by P. Djèlí Clark
New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color edited by Nisi Shawl
Seveneves by Neal Stephenson

Could someone who knows how -- I don't -- please start a thread for Books Brought Home March/April?

NEW THREAD: https://www.librarything.com/topic/304761