May's New Books - I Got Some!

I didn't see that anyone started this. Come to think of it, not much mentioned about the 1st of May, which I have always loved. Anyway, I won a bid on eBay and found myself with seven new books by an author I have just discovered!

The Novice's Tale
The Servant's Tale
The Prioress' Tale
The Reeve's Tale
The Widow's Tale
The Bastard's Tale
The Hunter's Tale

All by Margaret Frazer. Sweet, sweet peace, knowing I have at least seven good books on my shelf to read when I need one. Well, I've read the first two already.

You made out like a Bandit, MrsLee.
Are those books based on Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales?

I got The Ice Storm.

2> Bandits are cads, they make out and then never return your calls...

*sigh*

So far no new May books for me. I have to finish reading Anil's Ghost again before I can even consider it.

I have been allowed to download the audiobook of Fragile Things by Neil Gaiman, after much longing for this audiobook, hoping that one day it would be mine, it finally is mine, and I shall listen to it on my iPod happily.

I got Warrior by Jennifer Fallon, I actually allready have it, but the one I have doesn't have the right cover art to match books 1 & 3 on my shelf, so when I saw this one on special I had to. I also got The Mensa Mind Games Pack by Robert Allen (I've been feelin a bit dim witted lately, so got me some brain training) & The Dreamer's Dictionary too :)

I went to the church rummage sale this morning and picked up The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield, The Eight by Katherine Neville, and a first edition, first printing of Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett. I haven't read any of them before, so I'm looking forward to some good reading ahead.

Good Omens at a church rummage sale?!
LOL!!!

Lots of angels, fallen and others, in there (as well as antichrist).
Aziraphale is a fave, as is Crowley!

I bought The Omnivore's Dilemma today from my favorite small book store. She is having to move to a new location because her current rent is going up so much. She is definitely struggling to stay open - is it the economy? is it the fate of small, independent bookstores? Very frustrating. Also, another little store that I once worked at and in which I shop maybe once a year - she too is struggling. Very little inventory in the store - looking like it is on its last legs.

Sad. Big corporations!

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I got Knight: A Noble Guide for Young Squires and the strategy guide for Grand Theft Auto IV.

Aaah Grand Theft Auto IV... I've just been playing that this evening... are you enjoying it Flee?

I have had a couple of books come my way in May...

Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs arrived in the post today
The Valkyries by Paulo Coelho
The Templar Legacy by Steve Berry

So far my only May book purchase was The Geographer's Library by Jon Fasman and of course I'm still reading my way through my giant TBR piles. My purchases have had to slow down over the last month and for the foreseeable future do to my sigi others job crap.

#2 clamairy - They are murder mysteries set in the 1400s. The "detective" is a nun who is the niece of Chaucer's son! So far, I really like them. Witty and somewhat dark.

>10 Tane:
I'm doing the drunk driving mission. It's almost making me nauseous!

I just got Garth Nix's Abhorsen trilogy boxed set in the mail :)

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Yeah, they've captured that "room-spinning" feeling really quite well ;-)

#13 evedeve - I am jealous just from the title, I must look out for that one!

#6 aviddiva - two goodies there, good omens which just is one of the world's best books, I enjoyed the thirteenth tale as well.

I feel like a bit of a thread hog sorry, but I splurged today :)

I had budgeted for a new pair of shoes which would have cost around $250 (ALOT more than I’d usually spend on shoes but they were really nice so I’d decided to splurge on them), Anyhoo, the shoes weren’t as comfy as I wanted & I didnt get them, so I figured spending a bit on books was OK, specially coz they were all pretty cheap, I got ten books for just under $60:

*Dennis L McKiernan’s Tales of the Mithgar never heard of this author, but twas only $5 & had recommendations from Katharine Kerr & Janny Wurts on the front
*Song of the Earth by John R. Dann
*The Child Goddess by Louise Marley
*Shadowgod by Michael Cobley
*Blood and Honour by Simon R. Green
*Thank You for Being You by Bradley Trevor Greive
& a couple of really cute picture books I couldn’t resist:
*The Secret History of Fairies by J. Renison
*The Secret History of Dragons by J. Renison
*Dragonberries by Caroline Formby this is one of the cutest books I have ever seen!
& I got *A Mother's Memories To Her Child by Thomas Kinkade to give to a friend of mine who’s just had a baby

Yesterday I got Deep Ancestry from flee.
:o)

Ok. I got the earthsea trilogy by Ursula Le Guin in omnibus. Does that count as 1 book or 3? Hmmm

#19 - Three!

#19 - It's one volume, right? Then it's ONE book ;-)
Or at least that's the way I count.

Hmmm? I think we need a tie-breaker here. Anyone?

One, (I even have box sets as one, The 7 volume box of LoTR and The 7 box set of Narnia.)

But it has to be one, there's only one ISBN on the book.

I picked up Gil's All Fright Diner and Old Man's War today.

#23 - Yes; one ISBN = one book.

went to two bookstores yesterday and had a book binge....

P is for Peril by Sue Grafton
The Mob by Clem Martini
The Golem of Brick Lane by Mr Sutherland & Mr Chalk
Clockwork or all Wound Up Philip Pullman
Follow me Down; Julie Hearn
Freckle Juice; Judy Blume
Are you There God? It's me, Margaret; Judy Blume
The door in the wall; Marguerite De Anjeli
gobbolino the Witch's cat; by Ursula Moray Williams
Premonitions; Jude Watson
The rise of the house of McNally; Philip Ardagh
the one in the middle is the green kangaroo; Judy blume
hatchet; gary paulsen
i know what you did last wednesday; anthony horowitz
public enemy number two; anthony horowitz
the french connection; anthony horowitz
the falcon's malteser; anthony horowitz
south by south east; anthony horowitz
the midnight library; nick shadow

I had an Amazon splurge, and there was this lovely pile of books waiting for me when I got back from lunch break:

Alice's Adventure in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass for my May read
the owl service as it references The Malbogonian which I studied last year
Catherine the Great cause she is just facinating - though the touchstone is wrong
Yasabel
The Dagger and the Cross which is the sequel to Alamat and I have been looking for it for ages...
The Four Queens as a friend recommended it to me ages ago and I hadn't seen it for sale in New Zealand

My 'pile to read' pile just got bigger....
Oh well I have a work trip to Australia coming up which means hours of sitting in airports and on planes. So I will take my i-pod and my books and sit in the corner somewhere and read away...

Picked up a B&N classics version of Alice's Adventure in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass. The introductory material looks interesting.

Yes, one volume counts as one book. I count boxed sets by how ever many books are in the set, though. The box may have ones ISBN, but the individual books also have their own ISBNs, and I scan those in, instead of the one on the box.

I figured that the one on the box was for sales purposes, not library-type purposes.

Sounds like the debate is over. An omnibus is one book. Hey! Now I can go buy some more! Cooool.

#29, when I did that with my LoTR it didn't recognise the books, as the 7 volume set has never been produced without the box, and I couldn't get the right set for the narnia books, but I do have The first Thomas Covenant chronicles in a boxset but listed separatly, hmm, I suppose it's just about what is easiest.

#29, #31 - My pb LoTR box has never been sold as one a piece - I bought it as a boxed set - and I did what Clam describe (a box is more than one volume!!!) and it worked out right...

Box = multiple volumes = multiple books
Omnibus = one volume = one book

:-)

My BFF bought for me (as a random gift!):
Divine Comedy and Don Quixote, both illustrated by Dore! Yay!

My very fist ER book came today: Shades of Glory: The Negro Leagues and the Story of African-American Baseball.

#34 Hey, that one's on my Must Read list. Let me know what you think of it!

My first ER book, The Interloper came this week.
I'm also planning to read:
The Lottery by Patricia Wood (Orange Prize finalist)
Last Night at the Lobster by Stuart O'Nan
The Amateur Spy by Dan Fesperman
Working Fire: the Making of an Accidental Fireman by Zac Unger

My teacher bought M is for Magic for me because she could. Also because tonight I went to a Neil Gaiman book talk and signing.

Squee!! I love Ebay.

Diana Gabaldon's....

Lord John and the Private Matter

Lord John and the Brotherhood of the Blade

Lord John and the Hands of the Devil

I don't like boxed sets as that is extra space that could be used for shelving more books. But Omnibuses are good, because there are less covers hence marginally more space for shelving. I count Omnibuses as one book, and as I would through away the boxes if I bought boxed books, they would count as inidividual books.

I bought and old Dick Francis and a probably rubbish* Ludlum for 50p each as I was passing a charity shop.

* a couple have been really enjoyable thrillers, and most of the rest of his that I've read have been really poor.

I bought The Jane Austen Book Club and Northanger Abbey.

I really enjoyed the movie of Book Club and it (the movie) has inspired me to read both the book it was based on and Austen's books, most of which I've never read. I grabbed Northanger Abbey because...I don't know, exactly. I had to pick one to start with, I guess, and I'm assuming the scriptwriters for Book Club did their homework and it's true that Abbey was Austen's first-written book. Besides, it's the only one I've never seen a movie version of, so I have no preconceived ideas about it.

I got given £150 on sunday, I told my mum "I'll only spend £30 on books, yeah, today I spent £96.

Jack Vance, Tales of the Dying Earth £1.50
Feist, Honoured Enemy £1.50
Dan Simmons, Olympos 99p
Robert Jordan, Knife of Dreams £1.49
So far so good - all of the above from charity shops
Then I walked past Waterstones
T H White, Sword in the stone
Tolkien,The Children of Hurin
and Neil Gaiman, M is for Magic 3 for 2 so this added up to £15.98
Then I had to go to Manchester to buy Lavinia by Le Guin (they don't have american imports in Stockport, and that was £15.99 itself) While I was there I also picked up Owlsight, Owlknight and Owlflight by Lackey, (Now I have all of the Valdemar books) and Sharing Knife 2: Legacy by Bujold - Total £42.48

Grand Total £63.98, and the other ~£30 is an amazon order (5 books) that I made at 2:00 this morning.

Oh well.

From Borders on Charing Cross Road:

When We Were Romans by Matthew Kneale
Rant by Chuck Palahniuk
An Utterly Impartial History of Britain by John O'Farrell

#16 - I just picked it up at Costco (I know I know but I can't help it....mmm books) and I must admit the title is what grabbed me

I went into Borders yesterday (big mistake) and found that the new Deverry book is out - The Shadow Isle. But I got a bit crankypants because she's gone all Isobelle Carmody and extended it out to another book, which we'll have to wait for. Aaargh!

And I bought a DVD, too - Joyeux Noel. Depressingly beautiful.

That's a great DVD, WillSteed. Depressingly beautiful, indeed.

My Amazon order arrived yesterday -- the latest Percy Jackson and the Olympians book for my son and The Stolen Child by Keith Donohue for me. Now to read some of this bounty!

don't talk me to me about reading - I made the mistake of opening the first page of Ysabel yesterday when I got home at about 9.30 pm, yes well sleep is an optional extra isn't it?

It has been a while since I have stayed up to the wee small hours reading (at least it wasn't until sunrise), but my alarm going off at 6.30 am was most unwelcome. I am sure I slept walked through most of the day, and now my plans for an early night have been twarted by the news that Summer Glau is a Terminator in the Sarah Connor Chronicles (which are only just starting tonight in NZ)

It is not often you see my flatmate bounce, but he is doing it in anticipaton...

Now i will have to find something else to read on my flights

don't talk me to me about reading - I made the mistake of opening the first page of Ysabel yesterday when I got home at about 9.30 pm, yes well sleep is an optional extra isn't it?

It has been a while since I have stayed up to the wee small hours reading (at least it wasn't until sunrise), but my alarm going off at 6.30 am was most unwelcome. I am sure I slept walked through most of the day, and now my plans for an early night have been twarted by the news that Summer Glau is a Terminator in the Sarah Connor Chronicles (which are only just starting tonight in NZ)

It is not often you see my flatmate bounce, but he is doing it in anticipaton...

Now i will have to find something else to read on my flights

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The Stolen Child is one of my favorite Fantasy books ever written!

I hope you enjoy it!

Amazon dropped off On a Hoof and a Prayer.
I received No 1 Ladies Detective Agency and Perfection Salad from Bookmoochers.
And I checked out The Lady Elizabeth, One for the Money and Mist of Prophecies from the library, along with 3 YA 'encyclopedia of dinosaurs' books.

Oh, and I also received Davy Barry's books Tricky Business and History of the Millennium on audio from Booksfree

>49 Jakeofalltrades: Thanks, TA -- it's great so far!

Went to the Charity shop again

Yarrow By Charles De Lint
The Legend of Deathwalker by David Gemmell
The Many Coloured-Land by Julian May

I forgot to mention that I bought a gorgeous book about our valley the other day, called, originally, The Comox Valley Wow, the touchstone even works, cool! It has the most fantastic photos and lots of interesting little tidbits of information that I never knew about my own town and surrounding area. I'm loving it.

I went out and picked up In the Company of Ogres by A. Lee Martinez today.

I have had a lovely day shopping for books and am really happy.

I found a display of the 6 Virago Modern Classics released for the 30th Birthday of the first release and bought the most beautiful one.

It is The Diary of a Provincial Lady by EM Delafield and it promises to be a lot more fun than it might sound. Sort of like a 1930's forerunner for Bridget Jones. The cover design is by Cath Kidston and the whole book is beautiful, almost too lovely to read. It came with a lovely booklet introducing the eight books chosen to celebrate this birthday with and I think I might have to invest the £10.00 price for a copy of 84 Charing Cross Road too. There was a lot of squeeking and sighing from me over this display in the store.

I also bought Garden Spells by Sarah Addison Allen, The Girl Who Stopped Swimming by Joshilyn Jackson (one of my favourite authors and the source of my second squeeky/sighing episode) and Novel About My Wife by Emily Perkins, which sounds a bit creepy and stalkerish.

I have had a lovely (slightly too expensive) day.

Oh Jody, I love The Diary of a Provincial Lady!! It is a wonderful book. Actually I was going to mention it in clam's silly books thread, but it's not really silly, just funny and delightful. I hope you enjoy it as much as I have. I think I've read it at least 3 times and I know I'll be revisiting it many times again. There is a sequel too The Provincial Lady in London, if you find you can't get enough.

My mum phoned me from the shop and got me Waylander and The king beyond the gate

I picked up The Host by Stephenie Meyer and a new manga last night.

It was very cool that the cashier at Borders reads the same kind of manga I do and we had an impromptu chat about them (luckily there was no one in line behind me). I've only ever had the opporunity to talk to one other person about manga/anime stuff so I really enjoyed it.

katy I am not too far into The Diary of a Provincial Lady yet but already I love it too.

Those poor Woolworths bulbs and the not being able to buy the evening shoes because of the letter from the bank. Having a dog who likes to dig things up and a shopping weakness of my own I know just how that poor woman feels.

I will certainly be looking out for the sequel.

Okay, now I just have to read it again. Such a great book :-)

Just got my April ER book, Love Marriage by V.V. Ganeshananthan! Took a while to make it's way here.
:o)

Today I picked up:

Soul Circus by George Pelecanos
A Nameless Witch by A. Lee Martinez (I discovered his books a couple of weeks ago and I've been on a buying spree ever since)
In the Eye of Heaven by David Keck (got a good review on Patrick Rothfuss' blog)

My Mum had £15 of WHSmiths vouchers she said she's had for a few months and said she's never gonna use so when she went through there she phoned me and got me Stolen and The Autumn Castle. I have such a nice mum, she seems to like buying me books.

I grabbed up The Mill on the Floss for $1 at Stop & Shop!

Score! Clamairy.

I bought a French beginner's dictionary, a French Grammar Drills workbook, and 2000+ Essential French Verbs.

Guess what I am doing when I am not posting/reading on LT or LiveJournal or Flickr or baby holding/feeding/changing.

Yup. Reading. or maybe studing French. My class wants me to write a paper - omg. Welcome back to school, I love it.

#65 - What's your paper's topic, maggie?

Every time I go grocery shopping at Wally World, I end up buying 2 - 5 books.
I tell myself I'm going to take a break from buying and try to get through my tbr pile,
but nooooo...I've just got to go take a stroll down the book aisle, where I see a new book
in a series I'm reading. *sigh*
The Harlequin by Laurell k Hamilton
Dark Needs at Night's Edge by Kresley Cole
One Foot in the Grave by Jeaniene Frost
Rules For Being a Mistress by Tamara Lejeune
When Demons Walk by Patricia Briggs
Ghost Moon by Rebecca York

I just finished Beggars in Spain by Nancy Kress. Really liked it.
I'd rank it right below Stranger in a Strange Land for making you think.

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
The Prince by Machiavelli

Mum insisted on buying me some books, and referred to me as "dangerous" whenever I took her to a bookshop.

We also got The Painted Veil, two copies of Breath by Tim Winton that were freshly signed (sadly he came and went as we were in the movies seeing The Painted Veil) and some other book my Mum bought.

Better Half went to a book launch while i was away and came away with Free Bounds by Iain Guthrie. This is a scanned-and-printed reproduction of a final-year schoolboy's account of the wildlife adjoining his expensive private school not far from here. Said school is now converting that land to a nature reserve, using funds raised from the sale of the book.

Clam (Msg 66) - said paper can be about anything I just need to use reflexive verbs. It is so funny that the French say "I myself excuse" when we say excuse me. Or I myself wash. Anyway, I have two weeks to write a short couple three paragraphs so I am cramming the French back into my brain. It is remarkable how much I remember. Last night I was studing vegetables and fruits and trees. hehehehehehe

#70 - Best of luck with it, maggie!
:o)

L'Apprenti Assassin, an anglo saxon grammar, A greek grammar from 1884, The Men from PIG and ROBOT by Harry Harrison (it has special meaning for me), Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler and The Bridge of Lost Desire by Samuel Delany. I like having sunday morning markets around the corner.

Today I bought The Rough Guide to the Universe by John Scalzi, Pride and Prejudice, and Lost in Austen by Emma Campbell Webster, which I swear to you is a P&P choose-your-own-adventure. It is absolutely hilarious (though I wish I could have gotten the UK edition, which has a prettier cover and a better name - Being Elizabeth Bennet).

Happy Mother's Day to all --my mother's day gift was The Sharing Knife, Volume Three: Passage by Lois McMaster Bujold. Think I'll go snuggle up in bed and start it tonight.

I went to a local used book store and nabbed Magic Bites and two vamire novels by SP Somtow, Vampire Junction and Valentine, which are books 1 and 3 of a trilogy for which I have book 2 but had no idea until recently that it was part of a trilogy. Then I saw Hawkes Harbor, which is apparently a horror novel written by SE Hinton that I had no idea existed.

75. Hawkes Harbor is a good book. I'm not that into vampire reads. I expected more of her early style of writing and bought it just because of her name.

My Amazon order arrived today with Empress, Belladonna, Coraline, One upon a time in the North, by Phillip Pullman and Deluge (Mccaffrey)

#68 - I just told my boss she should read The Prince - she asked me about The republic and I told her it was a wee bit on the philosophical side (knowing her), thinking Machiavelli would be more useful to read, for reflection ;-)

Last week I snagged Into Thin Air and Cryptonomicon for 75¢ (cents) a piece!

I have finally bought a copy of Dune!! Something that i should have bought ages ago. I picked up The Enchantresses, never heard of Vera Chapman before but an Arthurian retelling is usually good. and Tales from Grimm which immediatly got mixed up with a Grimms Fairy Tales that I already have, and then half an hour later - after a lecture from my dad - I came back to sort out, it had already been sorted out.

#80 - I've been meaning to pick up Dune for a very long time now. Definitely going to be in my next Amazon order if I can't turn up a copy at the local used bookstore.

New to me, from an Oxfam shop:

The First Five by Henry Rollins
The Collected Stories Volume 1 by W Somerset Maugham
Child of God by Cormac McCarthy
The Dwarves of Death by Jonathan Coe
The Little Man from Arkangel by Georges Simenon

I got 1491 from BookMooch. That may also be the number of books in my TBR pile.

Yiddish with George and Laura and Captain Alatriste from the Co-op seconds sale.

I picked up two DVDs yesterday:

My Neighbour Totoro
R.O.D.: Read or Die (OVA Series)

The second one has a book reading schoolteacher who's also a secret agent that commands paper to bend to her will. And she wears glasses well... she should be the Official Green Dragon Anime character, considering how she's explicitly a book loving secret agent.

Also, My Neighbour Totoro has a Cat-bus. A friggin' Cat-BUS. How cool is that?

What is a cat bus???

I got sucked in to another “5 books for $25” sale & got:

Divine Endurance by Gwyneth Jones
Perdido Street Station by China Mieville
The King Imperiled by Deborah Chester
Vigilant by James Alan Gardner
Beneath an Opal Moon by Eric Lustbader

As usual most of them are parts of series so I’ve added more books to my wishlist as well as adding books to my library…

What is a cat bus???

Just what he said. It's a cat that is also a bus. It's anime, just nod and smile.

*nods & smiles*

Today from BookMooch, I received a book I fell in love with at B&N, but never thought I'd have the extra money to buy for myself. It's The Landmark Herodotus - almost 1000 pages of historical goodness. And it only cost me $3.58, instead of $36.

#87 - Is this it?

Wow! Some people have WWAAAYYYY too much time on their hands.

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I never knew there was cosplay for vehicles...

I just came home from B&N with Upton Sinclair's The Jungle, which has been on my wishlist for over a year. The B&N editions were priced this way: Trade paperback for $6.95 and hardcover for $7.95. The hardcover looked like it had better quality paper and larger font, so I snapped it up.

Just ordered The search for the perfect language. I got kind of a warm happy feeling inside when I found it.
I was looking for a Liebniz bio and searching the nation-wide library catalogue on random turned up this instead!

I picked up Bloodheir by Brian Ruckley. It's very dangerous having a bookstore in your train station. Even is it is only a crappy B. Dalton. I'm tempted twice a day at least four times a week.

ETA: I later picked up a copy of Daemons Are Forever and A Dangerous Man.

From Books Etc

Radio Free Albemuth by Philip K Dick (quite excited to find this; it has been out of print in the UK for a while)
Death Message by Mark Billingham - new DI Thorne novel

Picked up R.O.D. Vol. 1 as well as Vol. 3 and 4., I've ordered Vol. 2 at Kinokuniya. Good fun!

Went on a bookstravaganza on Saturday with my best friend (we went to 2 Half Price Books, 2 Barnes & Nobles, and a Borders!) and came home with these:

The Slow Cooker Bible
The Stand
A Daughter's Daughter and Other Novels
The Origin of Species
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn
Arabian Nights
Anansi Boys
The Scarlet Letter
A Murder Is Announced
The A.B.C. Murders
Death on the Nile
Cards on the Table
Blueberries for Sal
Make Way for Ducklings
Days on the Farm

A rare spur of the moment acquisition for me - Jack Faust by Michael Swanwick

Amazon description:
Jack Faust is a breathtaking and masterful new spin on Goethe's story of a scholar who sells his soul to the Devil for the gift of unlimited knowledge.

But unlike the classic Mephistopheles, the seductive demon who approaches Swanwick's Johannes Faust is not the devil as we know him, but rather a representative of a mysterious race that seeks nothing less than the extermination of the hated human animal. And the wisdom this creature offers the disenchanted thinker goes far beyond anything known or imagined in Goethe's day: the secrets of flight and the cosmos, the principles of economics and engineering, the mysteries of medicine and the atom.

I decided to splurge today. Picked up Titus Groan by Mervyn Peake and Devil's Cape by Rob Rogers.

Bibliophoo;, I hope you enjoy Devil's Cape. I read it as an ER book and really liked it.

I got Speed of Dark, by Elizabeth Moon, Beauty by Sheri S Tepper and Mrs Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert O'brien, All new writers for me, . Plus another myth and legend book The Golden Age of Myth and Legend all second hand

the black tower by PD James - having actually catalogued my PD James just the other day I could remember which ones of the series I was missing and there it was at the second hand book store - destined to be..

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I started it last night, and so far, I really dig it. Dark, kinda creepy; my kind of book!

Just snuck in under the bar!
Used a loyalty voucher to get The Science of Doctor Who by Paul Parsons (wonky title touchstone); then went back to the bookshop (long, dull story) and got The Children of Húrin by the late great J.R.R. Tolkien.

Am now about 1/3 way through the first, and 1/10 through Húrin. Dr Who is fascinating, but I fear I know why Tolkien didn't publish Húrin -- unless the writing eases up soon! I have a problem with "relaxation" books that require my mind to stay in 4x4 low ratio all the time.

I finally got Europe and the People Without a History. I love BookMooch.

Rising Stars: Born in Fire - the first part of Rising Stars. Now I know where they got all the ideas for Heroes from!

Purchased yesterday, so these sneak in:

Ukridge by PG Wodehouse
Leave it to Psmith by PG Wodehouse
After Dark by Haruki Murakami
Moonraker by Ian Fleming
Michael Tolliver Lives by Armistead Maupin
Sabbath's Theater by Philip Roth
Attack of the Unsinkable Rubber Ducks by Christopher Brookmyre

I think I'm going to start the June thread.