What did YOU buy today? March 2008 edition

Kleopatra by Karen Essex
Still life with chickens : starting over in a house by the sea by Catherine Goldhammer
Case histories by Kate Atkinson
Where the girls are : growing up female with the mass media by Susan J. Douglas
Away from her by Alice Munro
The loved one : an Anglo-American tragedy by Evelyn Waugh
At the scent of water : a novel by Linda Nichols

The Middle East: A Brief History of the Last 2,000 Years by Bernard Lewis

Last week, while I was busy with concerts and knitting circles and whatnot, I found the time to buy Barnet Schecter's The Battle for New York: The City at the Heart of the American Revolution.

The Golden Tulip by Roslind Laker
Blind Submission by Debra Ginsberg
So Many Books, So Little Time by Sara Nelson
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith

Picked up Half of a Yellow Sun and The Unknown Terrorist with a Borders gift card.

Barking: The Sound of a Language by Turid Ruugas
and
Focus Not Fear: Training Insights from a Reactive Dog Class

Can you tell I am a dog trainer?

These were from last weekend, so not today and not in just one day.

Fairy dust and the quest for the egg by Gail Carson Levine
The secret books of Venus III & IV by Tanith Lee
The undomestic goddess by Sophie Kinsella
Odd Thomas by Dean R. Koontz
Mary Modern : a novel by Camille DeAngelis
At First Sight by Nicholas Sparks
It's a girl thing : the hilarious truth about women
by Jan King
The knight of Maison-Rouge : a novel of Marie Antoinette by Alexandre Dumas
The Club Dumas : a novel by Arturo Pérez-Reverte
The ballad of Frankie Silver by Sharyn McCrumb
The queen's lady by Shannon Drake
Strange true stories of Louisiana by George Washington Cable
Hoot by Carl Hiaasen
Wanted man : in search of Bob Dylan by John Bauldie
The artist's date book : a companion volume to The artist's way by Julia Cameron
The shadow of the wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
The lives of John Lennon by Albert Harry Goldman
Getting rid of Bradley by Jennifer Crusie
Villette by Charlotte Brontë
Plot outlines of 101 best novels; condensations based on original works.… by Edwin A. Grozier
Underfoot by Leanne Banks
Haunted History Tours presents Journey into darkness : ghosts & vampires… by Katherine Smith
Fat chance : a love story of food and fantasy by Deborah Blumenthal
The middle ages by Jennie Fields
The artist's way at work : riding the dragon by Mark Bryan
The shipping news by Annie Proulx
Inherit the wind by Lee Lawrence
Howard Hughes, the hidden years by James Phelan
As he saw it by Elliott Roosevelt
The age of reason by Louis Leo Snyder
New Deal and global war by William Edward Leuchtenburg
The jazz age by Marvin Barrett
The age of Voltaire : a history of civilization in Western Europe from… by Will Durant
Sixties people by Jane Stern
A play of Dux Moraud by Margaret Frazer
Ghostwritten : a novel in nine parts by David Mitchell
Greenwitch by Susan Cooper
Never a city so real : a walk in Chicago by Alex Kotlowitz
Building mental muscle : conditioning exercises for the six intelligence… by David Gamon
Lost by Gregory Maguire

Stopped by Oxfam books on Portobello Road again this week and picked up:

a lovely incomplete set of Jane Austen novels...
Sense and Sensibility
Mansfield Park
North-Anger Abbey
Persuasion

The Woman Destroyed
by Simone de Beauvoir

Tao of Meow

Also I purchased a book off of abebooks (The Rabbi and the Twenty Nine Witches by Marilyn Hirsh) for a princely sum, but it's a childhood favorite of mine and it's signed.

#7 uath - WOW! Sure hope it was a $1 sale for all those books!! LOL

Today I went to the local library and found they were having a sale 3 books for 50 pence. I went a bit mad. 21 books all in very good condition, some look as if they've never been opened, and all for £3.50. Good day for me I think.

Animal Husbandry by Laura Zigman
The Last Ealing Comedy by Matthew Baylis
Life in Shakespeare's England by John Dover Wilson
Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
Carrie's War by Nina Bawden
The Big Nowhere by James Ellroy
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kippling
About A Boy by Nick Hornby
The Undertaking by Thomas Lynch
King Solomon's Mines by H. Rider Haggard
Puppet on a Chain by Alistair MacLean
Monkey House by John Fullerton

The Serpent (Atlan Saga)
Some Summer Lands (Atlan Saga)
Atlan (Atlan Saga)
The Dragon (Atlan Saga)
The City (Atlan Saga) by Jane Gaskell

Hi Allie64 - Yeah, I know, I need an intervention!

I went bookhunting yesterday and here are my treasures.

Sisterchicks in sombreros! : a sisterchick novel
by Robin Jones Gunn
Lincoln : a novel by Gore Vidal
Rusty nail by J. A. Konrath
The shadows of God by J. Gregory Keyes
A calculus of angels by J. Gregory Keyes
Empire of unreason by J. Gregory Keyes
Newton's Cannon by J. Gregory Keyes
Last orders by Graham Swift
The First Amendment in schools : a guide from the First Amendment Center by Charles C. Haynes
Personality : readings in theory and research by Eugene A. Southwell
Life on the English manor : a study of peasant conditions, 1150-1400 by H. S. Bennett
The prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
Great fortune : the epic of Rockefeller Center by Daniel Okrent
Dessa Rose by Sherley Anne Williams
The book of Guinevere : legendary Queen of Camelot by Andrea Hopkins
The long silence of Mario Salviati by Etienne van Heerden
Savannah comes undone by Denise Hildreth
Stories behind the best-loved songs of Christmas by Ace Collins
Girl in hyacinth blue by Susan Vreeland

Good catch, TheBookImp!

Books that have recently arrived by post:

Pagan Rituals II: Outer Court Training Coven by Edmund Buczynski, ed. Herman Slater
A Book of Pagan Rituals ed. Herman Slater

Recently purchased in a bookstore:

In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto by Michael Pollan
Staten Island: Isle of the Bay The Making of America Series by Margaret Lundrigan

The meaning of everything : the story of the Oxford English Dictionary by Simon Winchester
The book of salt by Monique T. D. Truong
Olympia : Paris in the age of Manet by Otto Friedrich
As meat loves salt by Maria McCann
Leonardo : discovering the life of Leonardo da Vinci
by Serge Bramly
Leaves of grass, selected and with an introduction by Christopher Morley.… by Walt Whitman
The bookwoman's last fling by John Dunning
Witchcraft by Charles Williams
Damien the Leper by John Farrow
All shook up by Susan Andersen
Magic, faith, and healing : studies in primitive psychiatry today by Ari Kiev
Pagans & Christians : the personal spiritual experience by Gus DiZerega
The strand : a novel by Ellen Santilli Vaughn
Wifey by Judy Blume
The necessary beggar by Susan Palwick
The Knights Templar & their myth by Peter Partner
The everything leadership book by Bob Adams

Ordered on BN.com last week & received yesterday:

The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron
Shakespeare's Landlord by Charlaine Harris
Grave Sight by Charlaine Harris

Those posts are the reason I've been avoiding my local library book sales for the past 6 months LOL! I really am running out of room in my house already.

Today I picked up the fourth Ranger's Apprentice book by John Flanagan which just recently came out to put into my son's Easter basket. He loves those books even though he's actually getting to be a bit too old for the series.

Catalogue of autographs on the James G. Stahlman historical collection by James G. Stahlman
The murder of Helen Jewett : the life and death of a prostitute in nineteenth-century New York by Patricia Cline Cohen
Transatlantic sketches, comprising visits to the most interesting scenes… by James Alexander
New travels in the United States of America, performed in 1788 by J. Brissot de Warville
Love, Janis by Laura Joplin
Deck plans by Robert J. Beckstrom
Decks
Tricks & treats : the ultimate Halloween book by Deborah Harding
The big book of Halloween : creative & creepy projects for revellers of… by Laura Dover Doran
The papers of Delbert Mann : a manuscripts catalog
by Delbert Mann
The Francis Robinson collection of theatre, music, and dance : a… by Nena Couch
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

Recently purchased:

One Corpse Too Many by Ellis Peters
A Morbid Taste for Bones by Ellis Peters
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini (purchased for the book club I just joined, yay!)

uath, I thought my purchasing habit was bad. You're making me feel a lot less guilty.

I bought 2 books today:
One Part Angel by George Shaffner and The Breakdown Lane by Jacquelyn Mitchard.

Oxfam Books again

a nice old hardback edition of Animal Farm by George Orwell

Quartet
four stories by Vladimir Nabokov

From Books for Cooks

2 thin pamphlets about Elizabeth David (both share a title as well)

Favorite Recipes (books 1,2,3) by
Books for Cooks

The Men's Guide to the Women's Bathroom by Jo Barrett
The Plague by Albert Camus
Slaughterhouse-five by Kurt Vonnegut
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

Just received my very first book from Bookmooch: Snow White, Blood Red, edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling. =D

A Badly Flawed Election: Debating Bush V. Gore, the Supreme Court, and American Democracy edited by Ronald Dworkin

Diving In by Kate Cann
The Death of Ivan Ilych and Other Stories by Leo Tolstoy
Angels and Demons by Dan Brown

Oh lord!

Life Before Man by Margaret Atwood
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
City of Ashes by Cassandra Clare?

I've only finished one so far...
I actually bought two others, but decided i didn't like them, so I sold them already. I only bought them because they were on sale, and I had been interested in them.

"Love, Freedom and Aloneness - The Koan of Relationships" by Osho and

Tantric Love : A Nine Step Guide to Transforming Lovers into Soul Mates
By Ma Ananda Sarita

Feeling frisky...srping is in the air...lol

Gypsy Tears by Cora Schwartz. Actually I just ordered it but I think that counts!

A blowout. I went to the friends of the library sale, habitat for humanity and got an arrival from book mooch.

The Tale of Genji
Traveling on the edge: Journeys in the Footsteps of Graham Greene
Burnt Water
The Year of Living Dangerously
Barcelona
The Pilgrim's Progress
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
This Cold Heaven
Silas Marner
The Soong Dynasty

Stopped in at my favorite used books store. Here's what I got:

The Catcher in the Rye
The Vampire Lestat (my original copy is all but destroyed =>)
The Goddess Pandora
The Club Dumas

I went to a convention last night and one of the authors was Lynn Flewelling. I didn't even realize at the time that she wrote a book I had been looking for last week. (I'm really bad at remembering names) When I saw the cover of the book in the dealers room, I remembered. So, I picked up Luck in the Shadows but I'm kind of bummed I didn't get it signed.

poetrybookshop hay-on-wye

New Selected Poems
by Edwin Morgan

Perhaps
anthology edited by Jan Fortune-Wood

abebooks.com

Ceremonials of the Common Day
by Abbie Graham

and a childhood favorite

Bunnicula
by James and Deborah Howe

I got used library copies of the following at the bargain bin of a local bookstore:

Eleanor Rigby by Douglas Coupland
Tapping the Dream Tree by Charles de Lint

Yesterday afternoon, I went to go get a button for one of my knitting projects.

I left the yarn store with a pretty little purple globule, which suits said project very well, thank you, and barely managed to avoid coming home with more yarn.

But despite my success in avoiding more yarn purchases -- or was that because of said avoidance of yarn purchases -- I came home with a book. I spent close to $30 on The Knitter's Handy Book of Sweater Patterns.

In a gap between events at Cambridge Wordfest yesterday, I popped into the town's chief bookshop Heffers (nowadays part of the Blackwell's chain - how the Oxonians must gloat) and came out with not one, not two but three 3 for 2 purchases:

The Post Birthday World by Lionel Shriver
Engleby by Sebastian Faulks
South of the Riverby Blake Morrison
The Carhullan Army by Sarah Hall
Illywhacker by Peter Carey
Shakespeare by Bill Bryson
On 'The Wealth of Nations' by PJ O'Rourke
Slam by Nick Hornby
Persepolis I & II by Marjane Satrapi

plus I bought a copy of Jon Ronson's What I Do for him to sign after his appearance.

Last books of the month: received my Connie Willis books, Bellwether and The Winds of Marble Arch today.

#31: I read Bunnicula about a thousand times when I was a kid.

Pick up a copy of Enemies: A Love Story at a used bookstore on Saturday.

The new thread for April is up:

http://www.librarything.com/talktopic.php?topic=33984