What Books Came Into Your Home Today? - #2: JULY. 2008

Continued from previous thread....which was getting quite long!

I popped into the bookstore to pick up a magazine and came home with:

The Keep by Jennifer Egan
Girls of Riyadh by Rajaa Alsanea
Music and Silence by Rose Tremain
Frangipani by Celestine Hitiura Vaite
Fried Eggs with Chopsticks by Polly Evans
The Search for Sana: The Life and Death of a Palestinian by Richard Zimler
How to be Lost by Amanda Eyre Ward
Chronicle in Stone by Ismael Kadare
The Lambs of London by Peter Ackroyd
The Marchesa by Simonetta Agnello Hornby

From the library (I have a new library home, and it's small, so there are plenty of good things to choose from):

Dear American Airlines by Jonathan Miles
Then We Came to the End by Joshua Farris

Book bonanza day for me:

From Goodwill:

On Writing by Stephen King
The Photograph by Penelope Lively
On Beauty by Zadie Smith
Unsuitable Attachments by Barbara Pym

and when I got home, in the mailbox from two faraway friends:

Music and Silence by Rose Tremain
Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali

*does a happy dance*

Wonderful Girl by Aimee LaBrie. Have started it and so far, so good.

From amazon -- by two of my read-everything-they-write authors:

What Now by Ann Patchett
The Botany of Desire by Michael Pollan

From BookMooch:

Lulu on the Bridge

From Feedbooks:

Five Children and It
The Phoenix and the Carpet
The Story of the Amulet
(all by Edith Nesbit)

Wuthering Heights
The Princess of Cleves

From Amazon:

Enter a Murderer
Final Curtain
Hand in Glove
Clutch of Constables
Photo Finish
(all by Ngaio Marsh)

Sword of Shannara Trilogy
Heritage of Shannara Tetralogy
First King of Shannara
(all by Terry Brooks)

From the library:

Garden Spells

Went by the library and picked up Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier and The War at the End of the World by Mario Vargas Llosa.

I went to the bookstore last night to look for I Never Promised You a Rose Garden, and ended up buying After the Rain, The Chronicles of Chrestomanci Volume 3, and Theodosia and The Serpents of Chaos.

I loved Shadow of the Wind and Sparrow, Thread of Grace and am waiting for her current one Dreamers of the Day to go into paper (December I think).

Hated Confederacy of Dunces, thought the whole idea was to make fun of a poor, ill-educated, retarded person with no resources.

I had one of the books I ordered canceled because it is oop. The other is still out there and hasn't arrived yet (both from Adrian Mole series by Sue Townsend).

Still I did have some books come in and others I picked up from the store:

Barnes & Noble:

The Samarkand Solution by Gary Gygax
We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver

Borders - Order

Lucifer's Shadow by David Hewson
House Infernal by Edward Lee
Elizabeth and the Prince of Spain by Margaret Irwin

Borders - Store

Troy: Shield of Thunder by David Gemmell
Halting State by Charles Stross
Vampire Wars: Von Carstein Trilogy by Steven Savile

You know I tried a mojito it sounded so good, but to me its like someone took toothpaste and added alcohol {shudder}. Can't drink them.

In today's mail, I got The Lost Fleet:Dauntless and The Lost Fleet: Fearless plus an audiobook from Recorded Books, Carnal Innocence. And then, I went to the library and picked up The Madonnas of Leningrad and Clear the Bridge!.

bnbooklady, It will be really difficult for my husband and I to share bookshelves because I'm a bit OCD and like arranging my books by genre and alphabetically. E on the other hand, chucks his books on shelves according to where he finds the space. he would so mess up my system after 2 days and then I'd have to murder him and face time in jail ... hmm.. i wonder what the prison libraries are like.....

Uniform Justice by Donna Leon made it's way into my home today

No new adds for me, it's the day before payday and I'm all out of monies D:

Got The Tooth Fairy by Graham Joyce today from PBS.

nothing for me for two days

woe is me

I opened more of my book-boxes today and found my long lost "Geografical encyclopedia", Geografisk leksikon and the series "Time Life - Worlds Wild Places" in Norwegian "Verdens villmarker" and I found among some novels my "World literary history" series in 12 volumes. It has been boxed for about 10 years and it is like fiesta to see them again.

From a friend:

The Titan by Theodore Dreiser
The woman in White by Wilkie Collins
The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins

From a friend:

The Titan by Theodore Dreiser
The woman in White by Wilkie Collins
The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins

Sadly, I found the bookscloseouts.com website and turned into a dehydrated desert wandering coming upon a waterfall .... Ended up acquiring

Coldwater by Mardi McConnochie
The Wolves in the Wall by Neil Gaiman
The Day I Swapped My Dad for 2 Goldfish by Neil Gaiman
The Crippled Angel by Sara Douglass
Mr Muo's Traveling Couch by Dai Sijie
A Gathering of Old Men by Ernest Gaines
The Virgin's Knot by Holly Payne
To Swallow a Toad by P. Weston Wood

I must stay away from this site!!

From the library:

Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd - must read before movie comes out, plus it counts for my Orange July.
When you are Engulfed in Flames by David Sedaris
A Case of Exploding Mangoes by Mohammed Hanif

>21 cameling: cameling, DO NOT EVEN TYPE THAT NAME! Mr. Man encountered the receipt for the order I placed and I came upon him an hour ago, holding it and grumbling about how crazy I am...even though I had it sent to my new address...to add MORE books to the Mt. TBR on the nightstand. I distracted him by showing him the book I got from my friend I just had dinner with: Novel: A Novel (all the touchstones are wrong) by George Singleton. It's a comedy about Gruel, South Carolina, and the wacky denizens therein. I love the first line: "My brother-in-law should've left his car window rolled up when he chose to smoke with his mother besinde him in the passenger seat, oxygen strapped to her nostrils."

Already I like it! And more to the point, Mr. Man laughed and grabbed it from me to read tonight, having given up on The Shadow of the Wind because it was too slow ("Is anything ever gonna happen or are we just gonna talk about it?") and stately ("Take this dude's dictionary away!").

I don't think I'll press The Thirteenth Tale on him anytime soon.

#21 I must stay away from this site!! Good luck with that. I became addicted to that site 2 years ago and it has totally overloaded my TBR.

BTW, I love Ernest Gaines works and A Gathering of Old Men is one of my favorites.

Oops, forgot to add that I found a gift in my mailbox tonight About Alice by Calvin Trillin. What a lovely surprise.

Today from BookMooch I got Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story by Ben Carson
Only one today

24> A year or two ago I read about ten books all themed around love and death. About Alice was the one warm one wherein I could actually see the affection, not just the suffering or irony of morbid vitality.

I ordered a couple of DVD's and couldn't keep from ordering a book among them. The Annotated Innocence of Father Brown came today; I'm still waiting for the DVD's.

Robert

I just got a cup of morning cappucino from my "the man". I plan to open another old bookbox today. And I am happy that I'm not in to buying anything (other than membership in LT) on the net. I do not even go there.

Through Marktplaats.nl I got Ringworld, a book that came very highly recommended by one of my co-workers (he just kept going on and on about it). I told him he would owe me 5 euros if it was crap ^^

Mail Order -

J B Lyons - The Tame Tasmanian by David S Bird;
The Bolter by Frances Osborne;
Fallen Order by Karen Liebreich;
Unfinished Nation - Indonesia before and after Suharto by Max Lane.

From the bookstore

Belong to Me by Marisa de los Santos

Austerlitz by W.G. Sebald

#21 & 23: I am going to start feeling guilty (almost) about mentioning www.bookcloseouts.com on this thread. However, since I have spent a ton of money on their site myself, I might as well share the book wealth.

Little House on a Small Planet: Simple Homes, Cozy Retreats, and Energy Efficient Possibilities by Shay Saloman

From BookMooch:

Fury by Salman Rushdie

#23> I think my formula would go something like this:

(# of days in 50 years) - (days ill) - (wedding and honeymoon) - (childbirth and early childrearing x 4) + (long weeks at the lake doing not much but swimming, sailing, skiing, puzzles, and reading) + (long flights x roughly 20) + (time spent in cars waiting for a child x 4) - (time spent at book club, monthly for 14 years) and of course - (time spent on LT)...................that's the general idea, although each person's formula would vary significantly.

Njal's Saga, a freebie from Penguin Group if I review it in 6 weeks. I requested it, oh, probably 2 months ago, and it just showed up. I had given up on it.

Oh man its been 8 days since I went into a bookstore or had a book come home with me. I am in withdrawal--hyperventilating--ok calm down, deep breath, bookstore stop on the way home!! Wow I feel so much better now.

From Half Price Books:

The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
The Woman In White by Wilkie Collins
all lovely copies....
and for my husband:
A River Runs Through It by Norman Maclean

In today from those culprits at Book Closeouts: Genealogy 101, 18 Seconds and Last Breath. This is only my third shipment from them this week!

Well, I was good about not buying books for a week.

From B&N:
The Accidental by Ali Smith (I had this as an audiobook, but it's slightly complicated, and I don't spend enough consistent time in the car to justify continuing to listen to it that way)
Secret Society Girl, Under the Rose, and Rites of Spring (Break), all by Diana Peterfreund (Read the first two books last year and liked them, and now that the third is out, I figured it wouldn't kill me to invest).

Although, sometimes I will tell myself anything to justify purchases.

Got The Journey Home by Olaf Olafsson from a moocher today. Starting Little Women though so it'll have to go on my tbr pile.

I got Passage by Connie Willis. I will start it soon. I am trepidatious, mckait, I will keep you posted.

Came home from a business trip to some pleasant surprises:

months and seasons by Christopher Meeks
Happy Hour is for Amateurs - finally!
So Long at the Fair by Christina Schwarz

A friend of mine has me reading all sorts of manga/anime, so i've been mostly getting those. but that's just in the last week or so.

DeathNote Vol.s 1 through 7
His Majesty's Dragon by Naomi Novik and the next three in that series.
The Well of Ascension by Brandon Sanderson

I have faith in that book RD and expect you to mooch Lincoln's Dreams from me when you finish. You just will not be able to help yourself.

>44 mckait: mckait, don't buy postage just yet...I'm slugging through the first 50 and it's a rough sled on snowless snaggle.

Having not made a substantial book run since last year, my friends and I went to dinner Thursday and I came back with the following:

The Shop on Blossom Street by Debbie Macomber

Naked in Death,Immortal in Death and Rapture in Death by J.D. Robb

The Traveler by John Twelve Hawks

Wicked! by Jilly Cooper

The Deptford Trilogy by Robertson Davies

Vector by Robin Cook

Lisey's Story by Stephen King

Deadly Embrace by Jackie Collins

Mr. Murder by Laura Van Wormer

Motion to Suppress, Invasion of Privacy and Obstruction of Justice by Perri O'Shaughnessy

Misfortune by Wesley Stace

The Best Laid Plans by Sidney Sheldon

and The Android's Dream by John Scalzi as part of a Christmas gift...

--kmbooklover: I'd have to say that The Best Laid Plans is probably one of my favorite Sidney Sheldon books. I went through and read all of them after someone gave me that as a gift one year. Enjoy! Looks like you got some really good ones.

Just placed an order for What I Loved by Siri Hustvedt

Star Trek; The Lost Years-J.M. Dillard

Jitterbug Perfume--Tom Robbins

Ringworld--Larry Niven

Julia--Peter Straub

The Grasshopper Trap--Patrick F. McManus

Family Book of Best Loved Poems

Star Trek: Triangle; Imzadi II--Peter David

The Mediterranean Caper--Clive Cussler

The Robin Hood Stories--William Kottmeyer

The View From Here-Brian Keith Jackson

Crawfish Dreams--Nancy Rawles

Steffie Can't Come Out to Play--Fran Arrick

Rules of Engagement--Gordon Kent

Reinventing the Woman--Patty Rice

Came a Cavalier--Frances Parkinson Keyes

I got one book from BookMooch in the mail today:
Here Be Dragons by Sharon Kay Penman

I went to the library sale today Yay! and got a bagful for $5.00.

The Spy Who Came in from the Cold and The Little Drummer Girl, both by John Le Carre

Confessions of a Shopaholic and Shopaholic Takes Manhattan, both by Sophie Kinsella

The Empress of India: a Professor Moriarty novel by Michael Kurland

The Scottish World, which is an oversized book about -this will shock you- Scotland.

Twelve Sharp by Janet Evanovich

Rubicon by Gail Black Kopf... I thought this one was the Rubicon: on that everyone on here's been reading... NOT.

Daughter of Joy by JoAnn Levy

The Gilded Chamber by Rebecca Kohn... it's about Queen Esther.

Two books that are translated foreign novels:
Death and the Penguin by Andrey Kurkov, a Unkrainian novel
Just Like a River by Muhammad Kamil al-Khatib, a Syrian novel

and Maggie, my 9yr old, picked up two:
Grimms' Fairy Tales and Great Ghost Stories of the World

Aren`t library sales wonderful? After a trip to the Apple River Fort near Galena, Il..I am beginning the Life of Black Hawk

They had new and nearly new ones, and a couple of them are on my wishlist, but they wanted 7 dollars for them. Thanks, but I'll wait until they come up on BookMooch. It's not like I'll be stuck without anything to read until then!

I'm out of room on Mt. TBR, and now have to mark everything unread. *sigh*

most of The Green Knowe books..the series....and most of theBloody Jack series as well...but i am expecting Queenpin any day now....plus some of Meg Gardiner's work

rd... I wonder if it is sheer attitude?? lol

The Man Who Ate the 747 by Ben Sherwood

A two volume set of David Copperfield in a slipcase.
Pristine condition....$2

The Wild Wood by Charles de Lint

Bush At War by Bob Woodward

Irish Poems a collection for children inscribed "For Emily
Christmas 2006 Love Grandma."

Finally brought Watchmen into the house, and I picked up a copy of Under Enemy Colors. I lucked out on that second one, as I've been looking for it for ages, and I found a perfectly decent hardcover in a bargain bin at Borders!

Also, received Fragile Things as a gift. My friends know my tastes well! I look forward to reading it.

edited to fix touchstone

I made one last trip to City Lights Books in San Francisco this morning, and picked up the following:

Senselessness by Horacio Castellanos Moya
Pale Faces by Charles L. Bardes
Bananas: How the United Fruit Company Shaped the World by Peter Chapman
The Flowers by Dagoberto Gilb

My latest haul, all from Borders. I had one book I had ordered come in, and then they had boxes of PB/TP for $3.99 and I found a couple I wanted, and then I found 2 on the buy 1 get the 2nd for half price table.

Order:
Adrian Mole and the Weapons of Mass Destruction by Sue Townsend

from the Store

Mona Lisa Craving by Sunny
Queen of Shadows by Edith Felber
The Man with the Golden Torc by Simon Green
Once Upon a Time in the North by Philip Pullman

Non-Fiction

Charlie Wilson's War by George Crile
Getting Stoned with Savages by J. Maarten Troost

Gifts from kind people (aka my family) brought me:
Impressionism
The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy
Facial Expressions: A Visual Reference for Artists
Under the Black Flag
Tuesday
The Hobbit, on audiobook

edited to fix touchstones

My very nice next-door neighbor gave me a book she had just finished and highly recommends:

Beautiful Boy by David Sheff

That does sound like a good one Catie... I would like to read it someday, and I am hoping that someone at work comes up with it soon :)

I spent a good deal of last night cataloging a few of the books I won't be selling. It's sad how very small a dent that sifting-of-boxes made in the pile of coming-with-me boxes.

Today I say that every one of the 473 books I entered came into my home. THey are NOT on Mt. TBR! Even I have polybibliovorous limits.

Now to get to describing or finding the ones too old to have ISBNs, SBNs, LoC numbers, or anything much else in the way of identifying bibliogrpahical information.

From Random House for an Early Reviewer selection: A Week in October by Elizabeth Subercaseaux

My library selections for this week:
Dear American Airlines, Jonathan Miles
Lost Dog by Michelle de Kretser
Slip of the Knife by Denise Mina

So far, I was disappointed by the first, am loving the second and need to return to the last after having nightmares.

# richardderus
Those without ISBN could be tricky. It is not always easy to find old Norwegian books, without ISBN in the Norwegian librarybases. What I try then is "LIbrary of Congress", and there you are, they have it, in Norwegian. Fantastic library, from my point of view.
I need a brake from registering old books and will read a bit in Friends, Lovers and chocolate, Alexander McCall Smith before making dinner. The rain is pouring down.

Yesterday I got The God of Small things by Arundhati Roy.

>64 IaaS: IaaS, the Library of Congress is amazing! Just AMAZING! I am always astonished at how much information they keep track of on every book.

Friends, lovers, chocolate was a delightful read, though I can't say I was ever puzzled or even engaged by the mystery. I just love Isabel Dalhousie, and want her to be MY neighbor.

Rain pouring down sounds like heaven to me. It will be 40C today for the fourth straight day and not a cloud in sight. (That's ~103F for us in the US.) Have a lovely dinner. I will be eating cold cereal so as not to expire from heat stroke.

I've entered 17 more books since last post, all found via Amazon and without recourse to ISBNs or LoC numbers. I found cover/jacket images for most of them there, too.

I live presently in a town that supports several indy bookstores, including a very very good generalist indy called BookPeople. I shop there regularyl, though my primary book-buying money goes to Half Price Books since I believe in "reduce, reuse, recycle" with all my heart.

But I loves me some Amazon. I feel guilt...actual Catholic-school-strength guilt...when I order from Them, the Corporate Monolith Tree Destroyers and Indy Bookstore Eaters. Even so, I can find things there and get them so supremely easily. I can rely on their guarantees of satisfaction, and the sellers in their marketplace have uniformly been terrific about addressing such minor complaints as I've had.

So I *shudder* use them at least 30% of the time for book buying. It would be...and probably will be, when I get to Hempstead in August...80% if I wasn't so het-up about buying local.

Hey, I'm weird. I actually worry about these things, since it's the era I was raised in I guess. Proof of my strangeness: At least 110 of the books in my library are shared by "no other member" so what can one expect....

From BookMooch:

The World to Come by Dara Horn
Beaverbrook: A Shattered Legacy by Jacques Poitras
O Pioneers by Willa Cather

While on vacation recently, I visited the wonderful Mosaic Books in Kelowna, BC. From their discount table I got:
Stardust, by Neil Gaiman
White Noise, by Don DeLillo, and
Black Dogs, by Ian McEwan

>55 SpiraledStar:: SpiraledStar, I loved Watchmen and I've found myself re-reading it every other year or so. Never gets old.

>57 FicusFan:: FicusFan, Your trip to b&n sounds exactly like so many of mine! I ALWAYS think I'm just going in to browse or perhaps pick up 1 specific book .. and then I leave with an armload and a much lighter wallet. Thank goodness for their bargin shelves .. I shudder to think much more I would have spent there otherwise after all these years.

While shopping at Costco today I brought home, from their book table
My Father's Secret War by Lucinda Franks
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

I'm blue though... my favorite used bookstore in town has folded under pressure of higher rent and will be replaced by Starbucks! How many coffee cafes does 1 little town need ... seriously? I'm now desperate to find another used bookstore as close to where I live as possible so I can sell the books I don't want to keep and re-read in order to make some room for all the books I keep bringing into the house.

Has anyone tried Kimble from Amazon yet? I can't even read a newspaper online, so I'm wondering what reading e-books are like, and if there's anything lacking in the experience, or if it's just as good as reading print.

69--You would love the Kindle!. it is a big chunk of money, but-----For the third time, I ordered the Sunday New York Times for 75 cents. Today, added Dime Novel Desperadoes written by my friend John Hallwas and Taco Titan. My sister works for the Bell family in Calif. She brought all of us siblings a copy. We all had Sunday dinner at the Nauvoo Hotel on the Mississippi. The barges are again plying the river loaded with grain.

70 kerrlm, I guess it would help if I could even spell the gadget properly! ;-) What about page refreshes though? I was listening to a program on NPR a few weeks ago on e-books and someone said that it takes a while for a page to refresh, and that it's quite a sensitive gadget, so if you finger hits a particular part of the screen by accident, the page will flip over.

Do you miss smelling the ink on print pages?

seitherin: The God of Small Things is such a lovely book and is one of my all-time favorites. Enjoy!

cameling: The Handmaid's Tale is on my TBRs and should be coming up within a month or so...I'll look forward to seeing what you think about it.

I have managed to exercise incredible restraint and did not purchase any books this week, much to the pleasure of Mr. Booklady, professional finance man.

#70, Kerrim

On the other hand you could equate the purchase of a Kindle to 6 or 7 tanks of gas ;)

I must admit I love a REAL book more, but I find no difficulties reading with the Kindle device. If you read in the car while DH drives, it is wonderful. Tomorrow, my grandson and I will make a big hit at a BN. He will be off to college soon, so I will treasure this day with him. It will probably be an expenseive day. Ha!

Went out to buy groceries and somehow came home with:

A Wedding in December and The 150 Best American Recipes

I really don't know how it happened.

# 66: richardderus. It's not weird, not to share 100 books. I'm not weird, I think, but I have among my registered books 1237 books that non other than me has. I comfort myself that maybe most of it is technical/scientific literatur and cookbooks.
I am not weird I am special and that is a good thing to be, but it can be expensive.
Now I shall try to avoid all bookstores because it is impossible to get out again without books, so for a week or two maybe I can stick to my old boxed books. I do not dare to try bookwebsites with used books. Even if it is cheap, it is expensive. I ordered a new shelf.

>76 IaaS: IaaS, only one new shelf? You're doing very well! I am impressed at your restraint!

>72 bnbooklady: booklady, "congratulations" and blessings on Mr. Booklady for watching out for your money.

I came home from selling the unwanted and unloved to Half Price with another new book: The Right Attitude to Rain, UK edition hardocver. Mr. Man said Not One Word. Pointedly Spoke Not At All.

Well, I have the first two...why shouldn't I get the next one? I ask you.

Ha! I just bought four new bookshelves. Already full and overflowing. Now, how to convince my husband that another is needed? It is a neverending problem.

>78 emaestra: emaestra, you figure out how to do it, give me a shout and share. I meed help in that direction constantly.

Saturday afternoon, prompted by a 30% discount coupon and a $5 credit, I went to Borders. It was excruciating as expected, but I came away with Sustainable Homes by James Grayson Trulove. More wishful thinking.

Robert

I just ordered The Watchmen, I saw the trailer for the movie and I want to be up to speed.

Came back to work today after a week of being gone and found a nice pile of packages waiting for me, all containing books! There are review copies, BookMooch books, and a book from a swap with another LTer. They are:

So Long at the Fair by Christina Schwarz
Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo
Sweet Mandarin by Helen Tse
The Unheard by Josh Swiller
Charlie Wilson's War by George Crile
Til We Have Faces by C.S. Lewis
Dervishes by Beth Helms

The Photograph by Penelope Lively from a lovely moocher who sent it first class, its a beautiful copy.. and it was sent about ten minutes after I mooched it, I think...also mooch cards included.

http://www.bookmooch.com/m/bio/absorptionlines

After hearing great things from a few of you, I snagged a leftover ARC of The Boat by Nam Le from our breakroom...not sure when I'll get to it, but it looks good.

I loved The Boat! of course... you knew that ;-)

I got Chuck Palahniuk's Invisible Monsters from the UK in an internat'l mooch. Internat'l mooches are fun, because they often have a cover you don't get here in the US, and this one is an ex-library book covered with a plastic sleeve that's great. I wish we could buy these sleeves at the bookstore to cover our paperbacks. It's fantabulous!

I also got Caesar: The Conquest of Gaul from Penguin Classics to review, which I'm not too happy about. The book I was supposed to get, Fortress Beseiged, is out of print. Meh.. I guess I should be happy to have a free book... I just wasn't prepared for a military campaign book.

AND from Hyperion, The Richest Season. It looks lovely, and I have a question for y'all: Is it a guaranteed chick lit book if the cover art makes me want to cry?

thekoolaidmom, Invisible Monsters is my favorite Palahniuk book, I read it like once a year and my fiance always looks at me and says, "You're reading that book AGAIN?!"

I'm excited for the movie.

today i received China Lake and Mission Canyon thereby rounding out (most of)my Gardiners...alsoThe Children of Green Knowe and Under the Jolly Roger...thereby rounding out those two series..now i'm all set i guess...but which to choose???

bazook CRAP! there's a movie? dang, I'll have to get on that book! :-o

I think RANT would make a pretty cool movie IF they got the right screenwriter and director for it. Whoever did Fight Club could do Rant I think.

My personal book fairy (Irving the mailman) stopped by today with presents for me. From bookmooch:

The Lions of Al Rassan by Guy Gavriel Kay
Muggie Maggie by Beverly Cleary (which I think was a totally free, unasked for surprise. yay!)
Runaway Ralph by Beverly Cleary
The Return of the Indian by Lynne Reid Banks
America: The People and the Dream, Volume II

Also, from Bloomsbury Press:
Guernica by Dave Boling

From B&N:

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick

From Borders for the Group Reads - Literature next books:

Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
Bleak House by Charles Dickens

and from the $3.99 box:
Potty Train Your Child in Just One Day by Teri Crane (Cross your fingers that this actually is possible!)

Nancy, let me know if that potty training book helps. I really don't want to wait until she's three! Okay, she's not yet 2 1/2, but we are just starting. Once upon a time I bought a book called something like Train Your Dog in Three Days - and it actually worked. It could work for humans, right?

thekoolaidmom, the movie hasn't been released, all I know is that Mila Jovovich (sp?) is going to play the main character and Brooke Shield's is going to be Brandy Alexander.

Well, I went on a book buying holiday this weekend, in addition to staying at a hotel on the Oregon coast that caters to book lovers. Met up with a couple of other LTers from faraway places! I stayed in the Alice Walker room; one of my friends was in the Tennessee Williams room, and another in the F Scott Fitzgerald Room (all appropriately decorated).

In addition to hitting two Powell's stores in Portland, we found a couple of fabulous bookstores at the coast. I feel fortunate my haul was only a dozen and a half books (I should say, my bank account feels fortunate).

The haul:

Quincunx by Charles Palliser

Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie

Bleak House by Charles Dickens

Restoration by Rose Tremain

Old Filth by Jane Gardam

All Over Creation by Ruth Ozeki

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark

In a Summer Season by Elizabeth Taylor

A Pale View of Hills by Kazuo Ishiuguro

The Sea by John Banville

Ursula Under by Ingrid Hill

The Master by Colm Toibin

Fifth Business, The Manticore and World of Wonders (the Deptford trilogy) by Robertson Davies

The History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey

All Passion Spent by Vita Sackville-West

I just picked up Love is a Mix Tape and might have to bump it toward the top of the TBR pile...oh, the difficulty of having all these choices!

ETA: Also picked up The Sex Lives of Cannibals. yay!

A Bound Man by Shelby Steele made it's way into my mailbox today - anniversary present for DH so I'm glad I got to it before he got home.

I'm feeling guilty .. DH spent the entire afternoon yesterday clearing out half the basement, and what do I do? After I wiped down 2 empty shelves ... I proceeded to cart books from my room upstairs that were piled up on the floor. So now the shelves are full again!

Picked up 3 at my local used bookstore: Blue Latitudes, The Lost Continent, and The Farfarers. Also received in the mail Bel Canto CD and All The Rage. Not a bad haul for the day.

I got home from work today to discover the BookMooch fairy very kindly left two presents in my mailbox:

The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Garden Spells by Sarah Addison Allen

I'm *really* looking forward to reading both of these... I might have to upset the balance of the TBR pile.

Annals of America--a 22 volume set I believe, and she threw in the Britannica yearbooks for '79-'83 for free.

Me and Emma--Elizabeth Flock

The Jungle--Upton Sinclair

shootingstarr77--enjoy The Shadow of the Wind. It's marvelous!

>98 shootingstarr7: bnbooklady has a point. That should definately move up on your TBR pile.

I just put in an order for They May Face The Rising Sun.

An unnecessary completely impulsive stop at Goodwill brought:

The Piano Tuner by Daniel Mason
A Room With a View by E.M. Forster
Behind the Scenes at the Museum by Kate Atkinson
Bringing Out the Dead by Joe Connelly
Brother and Sister by Joanna Trollope
Vegan Freak by Bob Torres
Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
Evensong by Gail Godwin
Father Joe by Tony Hendra

Queenpinby Megan Abbott...now i just have to find Die A Little and The song is You..and i will be, moderately, happy...anyone have copies of these last two to spare?

I picked up a couple of cozy mysteries at my local Goodwill for 50 whole cents: Latter End and The Ivory Dagger, and in today's mail I received 3 more Repairman Jack books and A Life in Secrets.

Dreamside by Graham Joyce promising looking.....used from Amazon

20 of july I wrote. "Now I shall try to avoid all bookstores because it is impossible to get out again without books, so for a week or two maybe I can stick to my old boxed books."
My self-restraint didn't work.
To day my husband found out he wanted to drive a trip to the shoppingsenter. I know he wanted cake because, except for parties, this is the only place he gets it. I try to serve only healhy, but good food at home.
After sandwich, cakes and coffee we ended in the bookshop. We found a giftbook for our granddaughter "1000 word and picture in Norwegian and English". She is 8 year and have started to learn English at school.
Two Books of Tom Clancy; ruthless.com and Divide and Conquer in Norwegian very cheap.
My husband paid, I got them as a gift from him.

It could have happened to any of us........Chin up!

I just got one book today... boo-hoo... I only have 200 books on Mt. TBR and Mt. TBarc... what will I do when I run out? JK... :-D

from BookMooch: Clown Girl by Monica Drake. It's a recommendation from Chuck Palahniuk.

Courtesy of Amazon . . .

101 Dog Tricks: Step-by-Step Activities to Engage, Challenge and Bond with Your Dog by Kyra Sundance
The Garden and Farm Books of Thomas Jefferson by Thomas Jefferson
The American Woodland Garden: Capturing the Spirit of the Deciduous Forest by Rick Darke

#109: Trust me on this one, koolaidmom, you will never run out. Mt. TBR grows and multiplies when you are not looking!!

Just in from my library trip this evening:

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, which shamingly I have never read

Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimimanda Ngozi Adichie

Bound for the Promised Land by Kate Clifford Larson

The Code Book by Simon Singh

The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde - audiobook

I'd Tell You I'd Love You, But then I'd Have to Kill You by Ally Carter

The Demon Breed by James H. Schmitz

By the Time You Read This by Giles Blunt

and finally, Watchmen by Alan Moore

When I returned from the supermarket, there was a package at my front door. It was a stray from Edward R. Hamilton: Literary Feasts: Inspired Eating from Classic Fiction by Sean Brand. I had some ice cream and looked into it.

Robert

I was so proud of myself. I walked all the way through B&N without even touching a book. I went and did my shopping(our B&N is in our mall), and almost made it back to my car when I realized that the new Artemis Fowl book was out. So although I tried, I came home with Artemis Fowl: The Time Paradox by Eoin Colfer and Death Note, Volume 8 by Tsugumi Ohba.

I got Rosemary's Baby in the mail yesterday through Marktplaats.nl. Part of my goal to read everything by Ira Levin. I already read Rosemary's Baby, but that was so long ago I decided I could give it a reread.

Then a collegue gave me The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho to read. Not something I would have picked up myself, but he thought it would be just right for me. So far not a bad read at all.

I just ordered An Obedient Father and Elizabeth Costello via Amazon today. My TBR pile is growing. It's still small, but it's growing.

From PBS 10 Books that Screwed up the World

The FedEx guy, the UPS guy, and my favorite mailman Irving all brought me presents today!

From BookMooch:
When We Were Gods by Colin Falconer

From a blog contest:
The Host by Stephenie Meyer

From a publisher:
Just Jane and Mozart's Sister, both by Nancy Moser

Forbidden History: Prehistoric Technologies, Extraterrestrial Intervention, and the Suppressed Origins of Civilization came from PBS today. This one had been on my wish list for a very long time, so I'm excited that it finally became available.

Went out to eat Chinese food and do grocery shopping, and when I got back The Book Fairy had dropped off First Daughter...

My fortune cookie said my present plans are going to succeed. :-D

>112 alcottacre: alcottacre, I see that a gazillion folks have, and many of those have read, Half of a Yellow Sun; now you. What is this book?! Why does no one heap praise or contumely upon it in my hearing, here? I don't mean a synopsis, I know what the book's about since I have to know these things and looked it up; but no one sings out about it here lately anyway.

I feel out of it. Whassup and why's it up?! Spill!!

ETA: Oh yeah, been too busy doing miscellaneous stuff to get any books.

Again, through Marktplaats.nl, I got Children of Men by P.D. James yesterday.

From ebay: Watch Me Disappear by Jill Dawson. I read a blog review of it a few weeks ago, but when I tried to get it at Waldens, I was told it's out of print. So I had to go ebaying for it.

ARC in the mail: Swimming With Strangers by Kristen Sundberg Lunstrum.

Books 17, 18, and 19 for this week are:
Briar Rose by Jane Yolen, via bookmooch
Matrimony by Joshua Henkin, from the author
Henry VI, Part II by William Shakespeare (really? no touchstone for Shakespeare?), from Penguin classics for their review program thing

>121 richardderus: There are 58 reviews so far on the working page for Half of a Yellow Sun. http://www.librarything.com/work/856564/reviews

#125 I may have to pick this one up because of all the buzz.

#121: I have not yet read it, so I cannot comment on all the buzz regarding Half of a Yellow Sun. I picked it up because of all the buzz.

From Recorded Books today I got Oceans of Fire by Christine Feehan. I do so love listening to audiobooks while I am working!

I'm between jobs, so I promised myself I'd only spend $10 in Borders. Thank god for the bargain racks! I spent $11 on:

Lisey's Story by Stephen King
Last Days of Summer by Steve Kluger

>128 melissagridley: asixgrid, I read Last Days of Summer - it's a fast light-hearted read. Has some side-splittingly funny moments. Enjoy it!

I'm in the middle of a tragicomic novel - A Dubious Legacy by Mary Wesley now

I just ordered Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey and The Devil & Miss Prym LT has a bad effect on me, all I want to do is buy books D:

axisgrid: Lisey's Story is my favorite Stephen King. It's the first book review I posted on my blog. :-D

bazooka: I loved Rant. It was really weird and cool.

thekoolaidmom: I've read everything of Palahniuk's except Rant and Snuff, so I'm pretty excited.

So, yesterday I had a dental appointment in town. I drove in early so that traffic would not be a problem, and I browsed in Barnes and Noble until time to go to the dentist. It was a mistake:

Interrogating the Real by Slavoj Zizek
The Universal Exception by Slavoj Zizek
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig
Guidebook to Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Ronald L. DiSanto and Thomas J. Steele
The Buddhist Handbook by John Snelling
The Taoist Experience edited by Livia Kohn
Sacred Florence: Art & Architecture edited by Antonio Paolucci
Christian Theology, fourth edition by Alister E. McGrath
Jesus: Uncovering the Life, Teachings, and Relevance of a Religious Revolutionary by Marcus J. Borg
JOB: a Comedy of Justice by Robert A. Heinlein; this is the book I thought I would come away with if they had it, a mass market paperback that I could've bought with cash in my pocket, but, no, I had to keep browsing.

I didn't even get into history, biography, or science. I didn't have my wishlist with me, so I was not productive in the fiction section.

I didn't bring them in from my car until today.

Robert

I borrowed a larp rulebook from a friend. Trying to see what it's all about.

I got The Accidental by Ali Smith and The Romantics by Pankaj Mishra, Children of the Alley by Naguib Mahfouz and A Room with a View by E. M. Forster.

The mailman just brought 253 by Geoff Ryman from Bol.com. I'm so excited, this sounds like an awesome book!

(for those interested:)
Since a fully occupied London subway car would have 253 seated passengers (including the driver), Ryman's diverting experimental fiction contains 253 character sketches of 253 words each. Taking place on a Bakerloo-line train heading south toward the Elephant and Castle station, this interconnected series of vignettes fills a seven and a half minute journey with amazing richness. Ryman, whose novel Was deconstructed The Wizard of Oz, displays a Chekhovian touch with mundane reality, coincidences both absurd and poignant and life's inexhaustible surprises. Among the cast of Londoners, tourists, exiles, immigrants and other passengers is Margaret Thatcher (not that one); an ice-cream manufacturer self-styled "Bertie Jeeves"; a mass murderer's former co-worker and a near-victim of his; Henri Matisse's heir; somebody named Geoff Ryman on his day off; a band of actor-buskers called "Mind the Gap"; and a pigeon. 253 was originally a hypertext posted on the Web, but it makes the transition to print without losing fascinating structural appeal (readers will have to provide the links between the characters for themselves).

Today held packages from Amazon and two publishers, and a publicist bearing these books:

Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
The Seduction of the Crimson Rose by Lauren Willig
Creepers by Joanne Dahme
First Daughter by Eric Van Lustbader
A Harvest of Miracles by Mike Thomas

Edit: spoke too soon, before the DHL man came

I'm a mystery reader. So, I was very happy to receive ARCs of Angel's Tip by Alafair Burke, and The Laughter of Dead Kings by Elizabeth Peters.

>136 Vonini:: Vonini
verrry interesting, thanks for the description. If you like it, take a look at Severance by Robert Olen Butler -- streams of consciousness of famous people who died by decapitation (!!), each exactly 240 words (the estimated number of words someone would be able to think between injury and unconsciousness). A gruesome premise but not gruesome in content.

#188 - Last Days of Summer is one of my favorites. Hysterically funny.

The mail person jammed a big box from Christian Book Distributors into the package mailbox. I had to pry it out.

The Geneva Bible
The Interlinear Bible in four volumes

These, I hope, will provide a little background to the faith of (some of) our ancestors.

Robert

La Nuit des calligraphes / Calligraphers' Night arrived this afternoon. I think Attempt #3 to read David Copperfield is about to become Failed Attempt #3 to read D.C.

>141 Mr.Durick: rdurick, four volumes! You have stick-to-it-iveness. I made it all the way through the KJV when I was 21 and had just lost my son. That pretty much did it for me. Fascinating stuff, but four volumes! Whew!

>142 Leseratte2: aguntherc, Charles Dickens is simply not worth the trouble if it's not something that hits your readerly aetheric body just the right way. Can't make yourself love it if you're not the Dickensian type, I think; I am not, and won't even pretend to be sociable any more. You are herewith absolved of the duty to try. ;-)

Two exciting finds (for me, at least) from a newly discovered used bookstore:

The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas - the Pevear translation, that I've been wanting forever, remaindered hardcover for the bargain price of $6.99

Pomp and Circumstance by Noel Coward. I'm on a bit of a Noel Coward kick right now, and when I saw this on the shelf I started jumping up and down. I'm such a dork sometimes.

I'm such a dork sometimes.
Aren't we all??

>139 detailmuse: detailmuse

Thank you for the recommendation. If I like 253 I will definitely look into it!

Yesterday the mailman brought me When we were orphans by Ishiguro. After reading Never let me go and The remains of the day, I decided to read everything he wrote.

In the meantime, this purchase has lead to a semi-serious ban of one week on Marktplaats.nl from my boyfriend... :)

Vonini, I too got hooked on Ishiguro after reading those two. I've since read An Artist of the Floating World, an earlier one and not quite as polished but still wonderful. I just found A Pale View of Hills and am looking forward to that one.

My mom came home for the rest of the summer from Germany, and brought me The Other Side of the Bridge by Mary Lawson and A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley.

As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
Grimm's Fairy Tales by Jacob Grimm
It's Kind of a Funny Story by Ned Vizzini

#146 Vonini - I'm doing the same thing, I brought home Never Let Me Go from the library and intend to read all of his books before long, An Artist of the Floating World will be the next after Never Let Me Go. I can't believe my library doesn't have it!

I am a bit behind on posting my books. I got them on 7/23-24, listed on LT, then just today on Goodreads and my Access DB. I use my monthly book list on Access to copy the books here, so I don't have to type anything.

Some I had ordered, and while picking up, I did some browsing. Then I had a book group meeting and was in the store, and had to pick up the next book, and did some browsing. You get the idea.

Borders:

Vampire Kisses by Ellen Schreiber
First Among Sequels by Jasper Fforde
Burmese Days by George Orwell (Ordered - RL Book Group Inspired)
The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins (RL Book Group)
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins (Ordered - RL Book Group)
Gunpowder Plot by Carola Dunn (RL Book Group)
Snakes and Earrings by Hitomi Kanehara ($3.99 Bin)
The King of Attolia by Megan Whalen Turner (Ordered)

Non-Fiction
Truman Capote by George Plimpton (Basis for movie Infamous)
Cork Boat by John Pollack (RL Book Group Read)
The Elephant and the Dragon by Robyn Meredith
King Leopold's Ghost by Adam Hochschild (LT Inspired)
The U.S. Constitution for Everyone by Jerome Agel (From the $3.99 bin)

Barnes & Noble

The Vampire Survival Guide by Scott Bowen
The Aztec Heresy by Paul Christopher
The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents By Terry Pratchett (RL Book Group Read)

Non-Fiction
The Perfect Summer by Juliet Nicolson ( RL Book Group Read)

Now I have a bag from last night to do (payday) :)

I got in a couple of audiobooks today, Light in Shadow and Holiday in Death and then I made a trip to my local library and picked up: The Plague of Doves, The Reading Group, Nine Coaches Waiting, Suite Francaise, River Town, and Olive Kitteridge.

I went to a church rummage sale this morning and got Intern by Doctor X and a Chicken Soup for the Soul book for 25 cents each. Then I went out to meet a friend to give him his book back and he was late so I went to B&N and bought Death Note Vol. 9.

Wow! Talk about Christmas in July! I returned from vacation and look what was waiting for me:

From BookMooch:

The Ebony tower by John Fowles
Mantissa by John Fowles
Amsterdam by Ian McEwan
The Crow Road by Iain Banks

From Audiotogo:

The Race by Richard North Patterson
Compulsion by Jonathan Kellerman
Six Sacred Stones by Matthew Reilly

From B&N:

O Pioneers by Willa Cather
Gentlemen of the Road by Michael Chabon
Scotty by James Reston
The Border Trilogy by Cormac McCarthy
Robber Baron by George Tombs

From a trip to the library yesterday:

Rhett Butler's People
Cures for Heartbreak
Stones from the River

Just ordered Thursbitch

I found a great 50% off sale of manga at Toy City today and picked up:

Hybrid Child
Gerard and Jacques
Clamp School Defenders Duklyon Volume 2
Shirahime-Syo

Also for sale at Borders I picked up Between You and I which looked interesting because I'm always making those little grammatical errors and 101 Cataclysms which my son fell in love with. We had a lot of fun looking at all the cat pictures.

My Friday haul from Borders:

An Imaginary Life by David Malouf (LT Inspired, Ordered)
Blood Spilt by Asa Larsson
Grotesque by Natsuo Kirino
A Betrayal in Winter by Daniel Abraham
Feast of Souls by C.S. Friedman
The Final Sacrifice by Patricia Bray
A Certain Chemistry by Mil Millington (Ordered)
A Pound of Flesh by Susan Wright

The library sale was $5 for a bag, so my husband and I went and filled two Trader Joes bags:

Heart Healthy Cooking for All Seasons
The Accidental Pope by Raymond Flynn
The Last Days of Pompeii by Edward Bulwer Lytton
Weight Watchers Fast and Fabulous Cookbook
The 99% Fat-Free Cookbook
Vegetarian Cooking for Diabetics
Healthy Heart Cookbook
The Complete Short Stories of Mark Twain
The Good Fat Cookbook
Family Tree by Barbara Delinsky
The Bread and Circus Whole Food Bible
Girls in the Back of the Class by LouAnne Johnson
Adolescents and ADD
Sams Teach Yourself C++
The Ragamuffin Gospel by Brennan Manning
Bad Teachers
Mom's Guide to Raising a Good Student
Positive Discipline The First Three Years
101 Activities for Kids in Tight Spaces
Secrets of the Vine for Kids by Bruce Wilkinson

And to put on BookMooch:
Plum Lovin' by Janet Evanovich
The Good Husband of Zebra Drive by Alexander McCall Smith
Love in the Time of Choleraby Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Jazz by Toni Morrison
Song of Soloman by Toni Morrison
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
The Red Tent by Anita Diamant

Yes, all of those books about raising children were picked out by my husband of two weeks. I'm not sure if he's trying to tell me something....?

tell him to slow down, devourer...isn't it nice just getting to call him "husband" finally? it took me a while to get used to, but it's so much better than boyfriend :)

It was fiance for 18 months, and it is lovely to use 'husband' now. We are still getting a big kick out of calling each other husband and 'wifey' or 'wifelet'.

The funny thing is that he is the more freaked out of the two of us about having kids, he says he wants to wait longer than I do, which is why I don't get why he was buying all these kids books.

After a long afternoon in the storage unit, Mr. Man and I took books and all my vinyls to Half Price. I bought two books for myself:
Three Hainish Novels bu Ursula K. LeGuin
Gutenberg: How One Man Remade the World with Words by John Man (we had a chuckle about the fact that this guy really IS Mr. Man)

And Mr. Man got The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins

Then a visit to our favorite Indian food restaurant, homeward, and bedward. Night all!

I was able to head out to the local Half Price Books store and picked up:
The Complete Novels of Guy de Maupassant
The Masquerade
The Pirates! in an Adventure with the Scientists (also includes An Adventure with Ahab)
Goodbye to All That
The Meaning of Night: A Confession
The Prestige
The Lady and the Unicorn
And none of the books were over $10! :)

My man and I spend a weekend visiting a friend in Sweden. We were on a local rural cabaret one evening and bading (gulp- I ment bathing you can't say bading, can you? )in a large lake in the days. 30 degrees celcius in the air, and good bading temperature. We, our friend and her dog had a grate time.
A came home with only 3 books this time:
"En smak av Sverige, Recept för manga gäster": a taste of Sweden, recipes for many guests.
"Utflykter i det gröna, guide til Svenska trädgårdar och parker": Journeys to the green, guide to Swedish gardens and parks.
and
Chilipeppar, a book of chili, where it come from and how to use it.

Wow, I love those Swedish titles! I can almost understand them, that is so cool!

From BookMooch:

They Whisper by Robert Olen butler

From Shelf Awareness: An ARC of Swimming With Strangers

From author Christopher Meeks, who contacted me about book reviews: Months and Seasons and The Middle-Aged Man and the Sea

Received Mine Till Midnight by Lisa Kleypas via bookmooch today.

Well, a friend in South Bend needed my help with some business things today and we ended up at the St. Joseph County main library... big place, I'm jealous! They have a wall of books that are for sale... all the time! not just a once a month thing, but perpetually...

So, I broke my "no more books until I get Mt TBR down to a manageable level" resolution. I wasn't too bad and only bought four:

Identical Strangers, which was on my wishlist anyway, so that one doesn't count against the rule.
Exit Ghost by Philip Roth... I've never read any of his books, but I've heard things...
Love Over Scotland by Alexander McCall Smith... I've never read any of his books, but I've heard a lot about the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency books.
Julia by Ana Maria Moix. I seem to be gathering a collection of translated internat'l books.

Then, when I got home I found the Book Fairy stopped by and left me presents:
How to Be Lost (I won this one in a blog contest)
plus 3 ARCs: RuneWarriors, Forbidden Tales: Sword, and two copies of Mishka: An Adoption Tale, one's for a book giveaway. :-D

Okay, now seriously... no more books!

>164 IaaS: IaaS, I personally think English *needs* the word "bading" and plan to introduce it as a term for being mildly naughty...like bading at the bookstore, or bading at the ice-cream shop, or the like. Very useful term! Like booklady's "craptastic", which Mr. Booklady created to his eternal credit.

Okay, everyone...what kind of bading did y'all do this weekend?

bading sounds like a perfectly good word to me, too!

Today I received:

Angelica: A Novel by Arthur Phillips
Living History by Hillary Rodham Clinton
The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry
We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant by Anne Tyler

So that brightened my day!

The Wild--Whitley Strieber

Summer of Monkeys--Wilson Rawls
A nice even dozen.

Majestic--Whitley Strieber

Standing in the Rainbow--Fannie Flagg
( bought this one as a gift for my grandmother, but she always gives them back after reading them.)

The Scandalous Mrs. Blackford--Harnett T. Kane

Nunaga; Ten Years of Eskimo Life--Duncan Pryde

Sliver--Ira Levin

Goat Song--Frank Yerby

The Running of the Tide--Esther Forbes

The Butcher's Theater--Jonathan Kellerman

Usher's Passing-Robert McCammon

Bats--Theresa Greenaway

Family Matters by Rohinton Mistry from Amazon

Oklahoma, I loved Standing in the Rainbow----just a nice feel good type of story.

0bazooka0 let me know how Family Matters is--I have A Fine Balance which I hear is wonderful. Haven't read either one.

In today's mail, I received The Death of Literature by Alvin Kernan and 3 volumes of Ancient Egyptian Literature by Miriam Lichtheim.

Then, I went to the library and picked up: The Summer of 1787 by David O. Stewart, Visions of Jazz by Gary Giddins, The Byzantine Achievement by Robert Byron, Darwin by Adrian Desmond and James Moore, Each of Us is a Book by David Drake, Disquisitiones Arithmeticae by Carl Gauss, The Little Country by Charles de Lint, and Child of an Ancient City by Tad Williams and Nina Kiriki Hoffman.

Thanks for the heads up, momom248--Maybe I'll read it myself before passing it along!

Signed copy of The Garden of Last Days by Andre Dubus III

Mr. Man ordered me a copy of The Lace Reader by Brunonia Barry to arrive today, and it did. He's just read me 31pp of it. We are both hooked, and so glad that Skybo's home!

Picked up a copy of Olive Kitteridge at Powell's today in anticipation of a group read. Looking forward to this one!

I was shipped books to my work by a friend, an amazon box just showed up on my desk with 3 books in it that they wanted me to read.. 2 of which were the continuing of a series I started. Nicest way to start your day at work EVER!

So I'm reading the first of my presents The Sword of the Lictor by Gene Wolfe..

yay :)

I received an ARC of The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows. I've only read 22 pages, but I love it! If you loved 84, Charing Cross Road, you'll like this one!

Stopped at the library on my way home from work and borrowed The Monsters of Templeton. They also had a never-been-read copy of Wuthering Heights on their used book shelf that I couldn't resist - it's an old favorite of mine.

The mailperson left a box from Edward R. Hamilton.

The Cambridge Companion to Harriet Beecher Stowe edited by Cindy Weinstein
What Every Body is Saying by Joe Navarro
Edith Wharton by Hermione Lee
The Cherokee Nation and the Trail of Tears by Theda Perdue and Michael D. Green
The Trail of Tears by Gloria Jahoda
The Road to Disunion: Secessionists at Bay by William W. Freehling

The Hermione Lee link is hardwired. It wouldn't work as a touchstone. She has enough of my respect to merit the extra work.

I now have only seven books on order and no coupons at hand.

Robert

*whispers*
The mailman dropped off The Trial by Franz Kafka yesterday. I got it through Marktplaats again, it might be an addiction! I was home first, so I snuck it upstairs. Ssshhht, don't tell my boyfriend... :)

#185: *Typing very softly*: I promise not to tell your boyfriend if you promise not to tell my husband, lol.

I have ten coming from mooch.. and five from Amazon. I also have about 4-5 ARCs on the way. I just hope that I am here for the mail when they come.

Then! I am not going to order or mooch any more for.... a while. Well, I will pick up my hardback copy of The Lace Reader tomorrow. I need that as I sent the ARC to my daughter...

Then thats it!

I am going to go on a book buying sabbatical.

I hope .

Guilt-free, from my favorite second-hand bookshop:
A Tiler's Afternoon by Lars Gustafsson
Heartbreak Tango by Manuel Puig Mourning Is Not Permitted by Leslie Wilson
Mothers and Shadows by Marta Traba

And new, The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles, shh...

mckait --- riiiiiiiight.

Seven continents and forty years: A concentration of memoirs by C. L Sulzberger from BookMooch

* raises eyebrow at doubting teelgee*

*Secretly admits to self that teelgee is right to doubt*

Flips through used copy of Are All The Giants Dead that arrived today..........

Once upon a time, payday meant new clothes, new shoes... now it just means MORE books. Is this a sign of maturity, or dementia?

Oroonoko by Aphra Behn
Coming Through Slaughter by Michael Ondaatje
Veronica by Mary Gaitskill
Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh
Wide Open by Nicola Barker
Laments for the Living by Dorothy Parker

(I got 4 of 6 author touchstones - not bad.)

From BookMooch:

The Human Factor by Graham Greene
Travels with my Aunt by Graham Greene

Just picked up from the Library today:

The Lady Elizabeth by Alison Weir - Historical Fiction

Cookie Craft by Valerie Peterson - cookbook

The Last Days of Krypton by Kevin J. Anderson - Science fiction (obviously)

Sex With Kings by Eleanor Herman - Historical Nonfiction

The Gilded Chamber by Rebecca Kohn

Wildwood Dancing by Juliet Marillier - YA Fantasy

In from a BookMooch contact:

The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy

And it's birthday time, which means I should be getting a few more before the week is out (and they're gifts, which is all the better because it doesn't weigh on my conscience).

>192 emaestra: emaestra -- it means you've finally achieved sanity.

From Chapters, I picked up:

Confessions of Max Tivoli, by Andrew Sean Greer
A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson

And my very first books from Bookmooch came in the mail today:

Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton
The Clique by Lisi Harrison (for my daughter)

shootingstarr: The God of Small Things is so, so very wonderful. Enjoy!

No new books in the Booklady house today...I'm trying to join mckait on the book-buying sabbatical...

Today I found Captain's Fury by Jim Butcher waiting for me at the post office.

I'm a bad bazooka D:

My local Safeway is having another $1 book sale!

I got Angela's Ashes, The Hours and Girl With a Pearl Earring. I almost got The Memory Keeper's Daughter but I've heard too many bad reviews.

today the mailman brought:

Illumination Night by Alice Hoffman
Winter's Tale by Mark Helprin -this is one of my all-time favorite books..finally scored a used copy!
Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman
The Whirlpool by Jane Urquhart
Midnight Blue:The Sonja Blue Collection by Nancy A Collins

......

still more books on the way...i can never seem to take a book-buying Sabbatical. and i'm still unpacking my library that's been stored upstairs for nearly three years, while i got the downstairs made liveable...oh well...thank god for second hand furniture stores (read: used bookshelves!!!)

I got books for my birthday from my parents:

Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
The Sea, The Sea by Iris Murdoch
When We Were Orphans by Kazuo Ishiguro

Can't wait to read them all!

My wanderings in the SF Bay area yielded the following:

Teatro Grottesco by Thomas Ligotti
Kindred by Octavia Butler
Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges
El Escarabajo by Manuel Mujica Lainez
More Annotated H.P. Lovecraft by HPL

I loved Memory Keepers Daughter ! Angela's Ashes? So So sad.

I too, love A Winters Tale! and everything Alice Hoffman ever wrote.

>181 dancingstarfish: Hi there dancingstarfish...you have the coolest name on LT, by the bye. Since you're reading Gene Wolfe right now, let me acquaint you with a group we're starting to discuss our reads of SciFi books. It's called Group reads-SciFi and it's down to a couple of books...INCLUDING Gene Wolfe's The Book of the New Sun! PLease check it out and think about joining us!

So...many...good...books...must...buy...more....

Mr. Man must never be told this, but I ordered more books to be sent to my New York address. I have to make sure the address changes worked at Amazon, Daedalus, and BookCLoseouts, didn't I? I'll catalog in the August thread.

mckait, booklady, Vonini, alcottacre, oh please. Give it up. Y'all (okay, us'ns) not buying books is like King Alfred telling the sea not to crash on the shore. We're addicts, dears, and at least what we're addicted to is fabulously wonderfully fascinatingly important to the transmission of culture to future generations, unlike crack or heroin. So there nyah, grumpy spouses.

Not Mr. Booklady, of course, since he's so smart he came up with "craptastic." FOr which I may try to steal him from booklady, if she's not careful....

Mr. Man must never be told this, but I ordered more books to be sent to my New York address. I have to make sure the address changes worked at Amazon, Daedalus, and BookCLoseouts, didn't I? I'll catalog in the August thread.

Perfectly sound reasoning to my mind. I just went through this in June when we moved, so it makes perfect sense to me.

Ah, the powers of rationalization! Bravo, Richard! I actually did the same thing with my j.crew orders when we moved last year, and Mr. Booklady hated the bills but thought my new duds were far from craptastic.

And don't you be tryin' to steal my man...

>208 bnbooklady: booklady, hey can't hang a boy for thinkin' oh wait these are conservative times so yes you can. Have you looked at this post yet? I am sore afeared.

But don't worry. My days of converting "straight" men are over...Mr. Man is the last, I swear.

richard: that's a very scary post...and no, I can't blame you for thinking. Mr. Booklady is pretty appealing, though I doubt he could be converted.

Not sure I really want to know, though, you know?

We are culturebearers, not addicted. It could be a heavy load, but we take the responsibility anyway.
Today I tried to get "bading" into the local bookshop, but came out with nothing.
I am still registering my old bookboxes and and are amazed of how many serious books I have and has read in my younger days. Much fun to open the boxes.

>210 bnbooklady: booklady, I file under "Questions whose answers I really don't want" the late-night worry, "Would Mr. Man go back to the woman he left just before we met?" so I am with you all the way. LucretiaMcEvil, aka his older sister, has eben pushing HARD for that to happen for the past three months.

>211 IaaS: IaaS, I am proud to shoulder the awesome burden with such a companion as you are.

Just two today:
Superdove by Courtney Humphries from a fellow LTer (we swapped)
Immortal by Tracy L. Slatton to review

richardderus I'm chuckling at your response to mckait, bnbooklady, etc.--yes give it up. It just cannot be done! (well at least I can't do it).

mckait, bnbooklady--if I had $1 for every time I said I am not buying any more books, I'd be rich :) It just doesn't happen.

Now having said the above I went into Borders for one book, Lace Reader and left with 5--Guernsey LIterary and Potato Peel Pie Society, Shadow Catcher, Fire in the Blood and Land of a Hundred Wonders. Next week will be The Gargoyle purchase on Tuesday and then I'm going on a book buying freeze!!! Really I am (HA HA HA).

214: mckait, you wouldn't be rich because you'd use all those dollars to buy more books.

it's not a permanent vacation from book buying..just a temporary moratorium until the TBR pile becomes more manageable.

richard: It's a good thing I wasn't drinking anything when I read your post because "Lucretia McEvil" made me laugh out loud. OMG. Let's carry on in our "ignorance is bliss" moment.

ETA: today, I received a nice hardback of Bitter Sweets from a request I made to the publisher and a galley of American Wife. Guess my August reading list just got rearranged...

0bazooka0-214--you are so right all that $ would go to buying more books.

I just hate it when I have to wait for a new book to come out that everyone is raving about who got ARC's. I wish I could just stop on my way home tonite and purchase it. Waiting til next Tues--torture for The Gargoyle. I want it now! :)

momom248, I'm so sorry I misidentified you D:

well, richardear and momom, & Obazooka , can't blame a gal for trying.

I picked up my hardback copy of The Lace Reader today. I also accidentally picked up Candles Burning and Two Old Women, and came home to Digging to America. That is one of the ones that have been ordered.

Starting August first, seriously.. moratorium.

um

ARCs don't count.. right? I am waiting for several....

and rd

"LucretiaMcEvil" rofl

I got Children of Men in the mail today from BM.

The Adventure of English: The Biography of a Language has been on my wishlist for almost two years. It came today via PBS.

When I go to Half Price books I either find nothing that entices me or far too many books to justify buying at one time. Today was an over the top day:

Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader by Anne Fadiman
Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell
A Passion for Books edited by Rob Kaplan
and for gifts:
Sense and Sensibility and
The Complete Jane Austen
I had to tear myself away from lovely copies of
Here at the New Yorker
Fierce Pajamas
The Count of Monte Cristo but we have to eat around here!

0bazooka0 #218--don't be sorry--it happens with so many posts. Have a great day!

Yay! Mr. Booklady just called to inform me that my paperback of Matrimony just arrived at the house, courtesy of Joshua Henkin himself. Woohoo.

Why Not Women: A Biblical Study of Women in Missions, Ministry and Leadership by Loren Cunningham
Oswald Chambers: Abandoned to God by David McCasland

I got a present of Crazy February by Carter Wilson from Mr. Man, to apologize for Lucretia McEvil's horribleness to me this past eventide.

Sorry to have caused discomfort, mckait and booklady, all that dry milk-snorting and rolling on floors, but I figured the old Blood Sweat and Tears song "Lucretia McEvil" would be familiar to a few of you...

I didn't really think of it as funny, but rereading the post, I guess it was. She's such a sow. She had the brass ovaries to bring the ex by our house today. This is all I will say on the subject.

I had to go to Waldenbooks to pick up the extra gift cards for my blog giveaway prizes (tonight's the last chance to win!), and I wanted to pick up an extra spoecial something for the Grand Prize winner. OF COURSE... the longer you stay in a bookstore, the more likely you are to buy some for yourself. So I walked out with $70 spent for:

2 $10 gift cards and 2 $5 gift cards for blog prizes, and a copy of Dogs Do the Silliest Things for the grand prize (along with the $20 Borders gift card).

And off the bargain table I got:
You Suck: A Love Story by Christopher Moore
Blaze by Richard Bachman
Speeches That Changed the World
Quotationary

I love the bargain table, but even THAT can break my bank! Cheap books = MORE books!

I found what is quite possibly the best used bookstore in the Sacramento Valley today, at least in terms of ambiance. I walked in the door and was immediately offered a cup of tea! The whole store was warm and inviting, and I didn't have nearly as much time to browse as I would have liked, but the owner was very sweet, and I took the opportunity of plugging our dear LT with her.

I'll go back when I have some time to kill. In the meantime, I walked out with a copy of Midnight's Children.

Checked out of my local library (which I am sure saves me a ton of money) last night: In the Woods by Tana French and The Candy Bombers by Andrei Cherny.

I did it again. Very limited selfcontrol. I was "bading" into the bookstore where they had some decluttering and sold one shelf of books for half price. I found some interresting paperbacks.
Hesse, Hermann: Eventyr
Silva, Daniel:Den engelske leiemorderen (The English Assassin)
Walters, Minette: Slangemønster (The Shapes of Snakes)
Walters, Minette; Krutt (The Tinder Box)
Calvino, Italo: Klatrebaronen (Il Barone Rampante)
Hornby, Nick: Fritt fall (A Long Way Down)
Eggers, Dave: Dere skal merke vår hastighet (You Shall Know Our Velocity )