What Books Came Into Your Home Today? Sept 2008, part 3

Hellloooo there Richard..it is me your fellow Moi

;-D

My smile at Richard's post was in agreement with his sarcasm about the movie--I never even saw it or read the book. Just the thought of it is nauseating. And when you love someone--there are many times you have to say "I'm sorry."

I do, however, stand by my statement that passionate readers shouldn't have to apologize for what they enjoy--even if it's Love Story!

Came home with a few new treasures today.
Goldengrove by Francine Prose
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
Kristin Lavransdatter

Even if I don't do the group read, I am looking forward to reading Kristin Lavransdatter eventually.

Today Books:

5 French Masters
5 Russian Masters
5 Indian Masters
5 American Masters

the last TS is wonky.

ha! found it!

Stopped by B&N just to browse last night. Found a few deals for $5 each.

The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova (one of those books I had from the library and didn't want to return a couple years ago)
Dracula by Bram Stoker
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

The last two mostly because I wanted to shorten my "Classics I Can't Believe I Don't Own" list.

jdthloue.....my feathers are a bit ruffled.

I don't read crap. I enjoy what I call "girl books", and yeah, I'm a 52 year old girl (will be 53 tomorrow ~ great, now I'm having a midlife book crisis). Now, authors like Danielle Steele are not my cup of tea, that's a bit too fluffy for even me. I do like stories that touch my soul. If they don't happen to touch someone else's soul, so be it. Maybe "chick lit" is a bad word here on the forum. I'm not apologizing for what I enjoy, as someone mentioned earlier. I just thought everyone was welcome here. I am feeling a little bit looked down upon...

(I'm not upset about the chit chat about Love Story, either.....that WAS a sappy movie. LOL)

But, in my book, there's nothing worse than a literary snob. Enjoy your Tolstoy.

hmmph.

porchy!!!!!

hiya!

Happy almost birthday!!!

* throws confetti *

thanks mckait!!! ~ woo hoo ~ ......as I run my fingers through my graying temples..... eeeeeek!

Ain't menopause grand?? LOL!

#6 mckait

I'm glad you found it! What was it? I hope it was your enthusiasm for books. :-)

I waited for 5 minutes for this one to show up and then reposted--so of course they both showed up together. this is an explanation so you don't wonder why I would delete--the real post is now #13--my lucky number!

Hi, Porchy (may I call you by your nickname?)

Happy Birthday! Enjoy your day! (Or it is tomorrow? If so, enjoy both days!)

Remember you are only as old as you feel and as I posted a few days ago--

Old Age is ten years older than I am! (And I'm older than you!)

oh Porchsitter..i am so very sorry if i insulted you i any way/shape/form...i tend to forget that i am just typing words on a screen...and there is no real interaction...so forgive me , please

i don't like Girly Books myself...and read Tolstoy years ago...heck, it's hard for me to make headway on any book lately..my mind wanders too much, or else i'm too tired and should be sleeping

i should get out of here now, right?..again, i am sorry

JUDE

happy birthday...:-)

Did well at the Library Booksale yesterday. 22 books at 50 cents each.

Here are half of them.

Not the End of The World

Human Croquet

B.F.'s Daughter

Moral Disorder

Talk Talk

the Inner Circle

The Forest

Blood Hunt

Saturday

Wind, Sand, and Stars Antoine De Saint Exupery

#11 It was a simple sense of inevitability. I knew that I was stuck reviewing books that were not calling out to me. I just decided to suck it up and read them and get it over with.. lol

I read Beside a Burning Sea today and survived. In fact it was much better than I expected.

Well, I just finished Any Given Doomsday.
Now I'm on to reading The Golem's Eye and Magyk. Hopefully I will finish them soon. I'm already about halfway done with both of them.

Finally saw this thread just as I was about to start a new one .... so thanks richard for starting it ... you know full well how blind I can be here and my wonderful talent for posting in the wrong threads! ;-D

Was wandering around Boston this afternoon and .. hello..... a book sale! A reward I'm sure, for helping my mom move furniture around yesterday. So I picked up the following:

And Only to Deceive by Tasha Alexander
The Keepsake by Tess Gerritsen
The Last Pope by Luis Miguel Rocha
Miracle At St Anna by James McBride

porchsitter--Happy Birthday tomorrow!! May you have a wonderful day!!

#19 cameling

Someone gave me Only to Deceive a few months ago. Let me know if you think I should put it on my TBR pile. I know nothing about it.

Happy Bday Porchsitter.

My latest books. They are from my local Borders. Two I ordered, and the rest I just saw and picked up.

Clea's Moon by Edward Wright
Book 1 of the John Ray Horn mystery series set in post WWII LA/Hollywood. A failed B-movie actor who does odd jobs and becomes a PI. Very noir-ish, I think. I bought book 2 from Bookcloseouts, so I ordered book 1.

Interrupted Aria by Beverle Graves Myers
Book 1 of the Baroque Mystery series. It is sent in 18th century Venice and the main character is a castrato, a male who was castrated at a young age to preserve his voice. I am a fan of Venice, so I wanted to try the series. I enjoy historical fiction and Cry to Heaven by Anne Rice also about Castrarti.

Quite a saga to get this book. I saw it mentioned on a mystery thread on LT. I ordered it through Borders on 8/30. They had to contact the publisher, but there was a mix up with a similarly named company. They called the wrong one and never got through, or got a call back. Finally they figured out their mistake and got the right company, and ordered my book. I picked it up Friday, 9/19.

But about a week before, I got tired of waiting and called the publisher myself. Had a lovely chat with a very friendly woman in sales and she was able to tell me the book I wanted, in the format I wanted, had been sent to the Borders in my city. Very cool.

The Art Thief by Noah Charney
About the world of stolen art. It caught my eye in the store, and I was reminded of Provenance by Frank McDonald in the 80s. It was a fabulous look at the art world, and all the forensic stuff they do to determine what is real and who owns it. Of course technology has advanced by leaps and bounds since then, so I hope the new book is as good and as interesting.

The Heart of Valor by Tanya Huff
Book 3 in the Confederation series. It is a military SF series, that I am reading.

Fleet of Worlds by Larry Niven and Edward M. Lerner
a prequel to Ringworld set 200 years before the discovery of the ring. It tells the story of humanity and the Fleet of Worlds.

#14 ~ Jude.....hey, it's okay....all is forgiven, I am probably just overly touchy because I'm getting old and crotchety. Ha!!! Seriously, apology accepted, I am sorry too, for what I said. ***hugs all around*** Let's all just enjoy each other and share the diversity of each other's individual tastes. The world is a big place and everyone has their own niche, their own two cents to share. Each of us is a part of this great big reading "circle" here on LT..... and even though we all don't see eye-to-eye on every book (or genre of book) out there, it's no matter, because it's the joy of reading that is the glue that holds us together.

Sermon over. Amen & Amen. :o)

Thanks, all, for the birthday wishes.....it's tomorrow......and my plans are to lounge about for the entire day with my current book, and be incredibly lazy. Hubby was on vacation this past week so I am ready for a little "alone" time.....to me, that is what I want most. Solitude can be so very delicious!!! Ahhhh... :o)

My husband and I stopped at Target tonight for laundry detergent and under the bed containers. When we walked past the book section, The Other Queen just sort of hopped into my cart...

Porchele, mein shayna maydel, a happy birthday which, when you read this, it will be! Us September babes gotta be the best ever.

Many happy returns of the day.

I know various people get various bugs stuck in their various craws in any social setting. Here on LT, I have noticed, only a very few people get ratty about it, and an apology is virtually always forthcoming from BOTH parties.

This is extraordinary in my experience. It makes me feel so warm and fuzzy. Y'all're great.

# porchsi; happy birthday and happy reading.

You know why menopause is good ay, it is because your body will build up a lot more iron. (And then the gigantic bookstore-magnet works better)

I was drawn into the bookstore today but forgot why so I came out with nothing. :), Anyway the last bookbox I opened had a lot of my old feminist-political books, so strange to see it now 25 years later.

Happy Birthday, porchsitter!

Two Book Mooches:

Mystery by Peter Straub

A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray

...not much more on the way, but my shelves are groaning woefully, so i have to strap on my reading eyes and get to work....such torture....;-0

> IaaS.....i know what you mean about the Feminist/Political books of old....my copy of Sisterhood is Powerful glowers at me from its shelf.....double-daring me to open it...the book itself doesn't scare me, mind you...it's the marginalia of mine that could cause conniptions! yowza!

again..happy B-Day porchsitter (is that you in the picture on your Profile Page????)

;-)

Just one book today, so maybe I'll find a way to fit this onto my shelves...
Hannah's Dream came in from another book blogger. I won it in her contest =)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY PORCHSITTER !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

House by Frank Peretti

A Dark Dividing by Sarah Rayne showed up in the mail...

From a wander in the second-hand bookshop before the movies, Dead Souls by Gogol, in a nice hardback edition.

Via Amazon, Brisinger for my son and Loveless Volume 8 for me.

Happy happy birthday Porchy .. may the day be blessed and the night thrilling. May you enjoy good eyesight and great books for many more years to come.

>21 MusicMom41:: MusicMom41, I will certainly let you know what I think of the book. It looks like a fun and easy read, and I'm considering breaking it out tomorrow.

>22 FicusFan:: FicusFan, I've been eyeing The Art Thief at the store and so far, I've been tempted but given the teetering TBR that I have, I've put off getting it. But if you read it and give it a good review, i could happily squash my bothersome guilty conscience and bring a copy home.

it's getting really scary .. not only do I have 2 tottering mountains of TBR on the floor, but a stack on my coffee table, and 2 mini stacks under a side table in my bedroom... and they're growing!

I just saw that Christopher Paolini's Brisingr is finally out and I must make haste to get myself a copy. I loved Eragon (and hated the movie!) and Eldest so I'm looking forward to this third book. Did I read it right somewhere that he wrote Eragon when he was only a teenager? or am I thinking of someone else?

Oh and Never Change by Elizabeth Berg arrived in my mailbox today.

I love going to the mailbox and finding books.

From Bookmooch:

Hollow Chocolate Bunnies of the Apocolypse

From Harper Collins First Look an ARC:

The Paris Enigma by Pablo de Santis, The blurb on the back states - Couple The Devil in the White City and The Alienist, and inject with a strong dose of wry humour and you get this wonderful gripping and surprising whodunit set against the backdrop of the 1889 World Fair in Paris.

How good does that sound!! I can't wait. ( I will have to wait though, as I have to read and review The Whiskey Rebels first , but I'm still excited.)

#32 Killeymoon

Oh! What a great find! My copy of Dead Souls got lost in our move many years ago and I want to get another copy--it is one of my all time favorite comic novels. Russian novels usually don't make you laugh out loud--but this one is a scream.

(Can't figure out shy touchstone won't work. Maybe it will when I post.)
Edited to fix it.

Hi 34: cameling. Now I have a goal next time I come to a large bookshop, the book "Brisingr" by Chr.Paolini is on my wishlist too. I altso loved the two first books and hated the film. it was crap.
Paolini was 15 I think when he started to write the first book "Eragon". His webside tells his story:
"http://www.alagaesia.com/index.php"
The triology will be with four books instead.
And I took the test and was most like Saphira.

#36 cameling

Thanks--Tasha Alexandar is a new name to me.

Yes--he was a teenager when he wrote Eragon--so my boys inform me. They've both read the first two. They haven't convinced me to read them yet--mainly because I have so many other things on tap. I understand it was originally supposed to be a trilogy but now there is going to be a fourth one--shades of Hitch Hiker "trilogy." Maybe when they are all done I can borrow them from the son that lives near me and make that a summer project.

Today I went to B&N to bu the new translation of Kristin Lavransdatter & Suite Francaise, and to check out The Name of the Wind to see if I wanted to read it. They didn't have any of them and they kindly called Borders for me (across the street) and Borders didn't have any of them them either. They both had the 1923 trranslation that i already own--probably because no on in this area has read KL since then! (Do I sound frustrated? I AM!)

I didn't want to waste the gas it takes to get there--about 40 miles from my house--so I brought home the following:

Battle Cry of Freedom by James McPherson because I have been planning to replace my lost copy so I could read it later this year or the beginning of next year -- a legitimate excuse, right?

Two remaindered bargains hardcover:

Born in Death by J.D. Robb: I am reading these in order and am on # 13 (waiting for me from the library as we speak!) and this is #23, but when I see one I haven't read that is a real bargain I pick it up so that when I'm ready for it and don't have to wait for the library to order it or to borrow from my one friend who has them all and is the only person in the world outside my family and anyone who reads my posts on LT who knows I read these. What I love about LT--you don't have to apologize for what you read!

Why Orwell Matters by Christopher Hitchens: Like most people my age I read 1984 and Animal Farm many years ago an considered that was Orwell. Not too long ago I went to a lecture by Anthony Bourdain (the chef on TV--much neater in person!) and he highly recommended Down and Out in London and Paris as one of the best books he had ever read. I read it this year and loved it so now interested in reading more of his--and rereading the two I read in my youth.

Which led me to take back the 3 choices I had grabbed from the 3 for 2 table

(basically I wanted to replace my copy of Professor and the Madman so picked up 2 others I was mildly interested in, one of which I though maybe my son already has at his house to which I have a key--and I was right--I catalog his books on my library so I don't duplicate)

and buy instead:

Keep the Aspidistra Flying and a lovely Hard bound edition containing both Animal Farm and 1984 with an introduction by Christopher Hitchins! Sometime soon I will be having an Orwell orgy! I may make that my project for January--what a way to start a year. (can you tell I'm excited? I love having "groups" of books to read and compare.)

Well you can't say i didn't mention a lot of books! (I just looked over at the touchstone list.)

Lucky for y'all, I have to go teach.

Hey many thanks, all of y'all, for the very sweet birthday wishes!!! It's been a lovely day of doing nothing special, which is exactly what I wanted. The weather has been delightfully mild, and I've been enjoying the breeze wafting through the house while I putter around..... I can just barely detect a slightly different "feel" in the air ~ fall has arrived.

The only disappointment is that no books came into my home today.....but wait.....B&N doesn't close until 11pm! :o) HA.

Actually, I am really enjoying The Dive From Clausen's Pier, so I don't feel the pull of the "magnet" too strongly at the moment.

Have a great week, everyone! And thanks again.

#28 ~ Jude.....no that's not me, I found it on google! I thought, how perfect is this??? (me, being porchsitter and all) LOL! I love that picture.

The last of the books from Saturdays library booksale.

Jingle Bell Bark

After This

Child of my Heart

the five people you meet in heaven

Fury Salman Rushdie

Love, Jack

The Passion of Artemisia

Life Studies

Home American Writers Remember Rooms of Their Own

That is it for Now.

Love, Jack

The Passion of Artemisia

That is it for now.

Life Studies

Home Amercan writers remember rooms of their own

I stumbled over a UPS Ground package on my way out this afternoon.

It was Any Given Doomsday by Lori Handeland, an Early Reviewers book that many people have long since received.

Robert

Happy Birthday, Porchsitter! Just in time (11:35pm)!! Hope it was a good one.

No new books for me today........I am trying to read Any Given Doomsday and it definitely ain't my cup of tea so far!

I grabbed my copy of Letter to my Daughter by Maya Angelou as soon as I walked in this morning.

How is there no touchstone for Ms. Angelou?

Happy Belated birthday porchsitter. Happy to hear you had a great day. No books came my way either BOOHOO..Perhaps today.

My little car took me to Goodwill again yesterday to see what new offerings were there.

Theft by Peter Carey

Krik? Krak! by Edwidge Danticat

We Were the Mulvaneys by Joyce Carol Oates. Oates keeps coming home with me even though I'm trying to live the rest of my life avoiding reading her.

The Mystery of the Olmecs by David Hatcher Childress

The Crystal Skulls: Astonishing Portals to Mans Past by David Childress and Stephen S Mehler

More Book Lust: Recommended Reading for Every Mood, Moment, and Reason by Nancy Pearl

I will be starting the first two ASAP..I find both of these topics fascinating

eta

tg, I have never managed to read Oats. I have had a couple and it is like they are locked against me. Both , including Mulvaneys were given away unread. Why is that do ya think?

Recent additions:

The Professor of Desire by Philip Roth
The Meaning of Night by Michael Cox
A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
The Gum Thief by Douglas Coupland
Divisadero by Michael Ondaatje

I got three books today, but only one is actually for me to read.

Miles from Nowhere by Nami Mun that is actually for me to read
The Best Place to Be by Lesley Dormen was sent to me for a blog tour. It was sent back at the beginning of August and never made it, so she sent me another copy. Today the first one finally arrived.
Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely from a BookMooch member for me to send on to the Netherlands

>47 mckait: mckait - I think my early experience reading short stories by Oates wasn't a good one and it's left a bad taste in my mouth. I'm going to give it another chance though.

>47 mckait: snuggle bunny, the Olmec books sound fascinating! Share opinions, please, that I may know whether to Amazon them or not.

Oates: She's very prolific. I think it affects what she produces as a writer. I don't see how it cannot. I liked Blonde well enough and was intrigued by Because It Is Bitter and Because It Is My Heart for its title and then for its involving story. I do not seek out her books because of the OTHER experiences I have had, like that terrible stream-of-consciousness Dahmer-esque thing. Most of her books would have to come extremely highly recommended for me to so much as borrow them.

>50 teelgee: teelgee, her short stories are GHASTLY. I do not get why she is hailed by everyone for the beauty of her stories. I think they're pedestrian at best, and mawkishly sentimental at worst. I have purged all their titles from my head. I own no collection with her in it, to my knowledge, though that seems improbable on a moment's reflection.

mckait: Mulvaneys took me a really long time to read, but I was ultimately very glad I did. I haven't read anything else of hers, but I have a few on my list.

DoB: I had the same problem with The Best Place to Be. The first one never came, so she sent a new one, and then a week ago, the first one showed up, leaving me with an extra. So weird!

I got some books today, by mail from boekwinkeltjes :-)

Kirstin Lavransdatter for the group read (with an awful cover), see my library
Het hermetisch zwart by Yourcenar
Van oude mensen, de dingen die voorbijgaan a Dutch classic
Het gangstermeisje Temple Drake by Faulkner (translation of Sanctuary)
and
Herfsttij der Middeleeuwen by Huizinga, classic work about the end of the middelages, English title: The Autumn of the Middel Ages

Today I got The Lace Reader by Brunonia Barry and it was from harper collins The reading Group...

This week I am celebrating the release of my first book. Poems with a purpose. Published by Publish Today (C)2007

>52 bnbooklady:,
So odd! I need to go home and see if she signed the second one she sent as well as the original. I hope not, because I'm planning to give it away on the old blog.

I had to buy The Given Day by one of my favorite authors, Dennis Lehane. Of course I can justify it by by the fact that I was born and raised near Boston, and I was able to find it at BJ's Wholesale Club for a mere $15.79.

#51 richardear

Only 38 pages in. Olmecs cover is ghastly. Book itself was not well put together, as in print rather too light, sometimes slants a bit?? It contains quotes from wiki, about this and that.

Otherwise... stunningly gorgeous photographs, fascinating maps and text. Is it worth a buy?

I think.. lots of interest here. I suspect that there may be better books about the Olmecs, and I plan to have a look . This book is worth a buy for the pictures and information within. It will never be a treasure on your bookshelf but it will certainly be, for me , a book of interest. Childress has done his homework, I think.. and I do not regret the buy. :)

signed
snuggle bunny

I actually did like We Were The Mulvaneys but her other stuff is hard to get through, I agree.

#57 ~ caroline123......I also LOVE Dennis Lehane, please let me know how you like this book. I've heard it is a bit different than his other work, but I can't imagine that it would be anything less than excellent! I will probably try to wait for a paperback....but if it really is super good I may have to break down and buy it now.

Yesterday was lots of fun. When I got home, I had 3 books:

Amazon - A Key into the Language of America byRoger Williams, the purchase of which was inspired by my reading of The Wordy Shipmates by Sarah Vowell.

BookMooch - The Audacity of Hope by Barack Obama and Green Tea and Other Ghost Stories by J. Sheridan LeFanu.

And, Thursday is the Friends of the Library Book Sale and I'm taking the day off as a vacation day to buy books!!!

Just a few today. I must be slipping.

Lost City Radio by Daniel Alarcon
The Floating Opera and the End of the Road by John Barth
Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov

Armed with a 30% coupon and $5 in Borders Bucks, I purchased the following books today:

Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal by Christopher Moore
The Year of Living Biblically by A. J. Jacobs
Choke by Chuck Palahniuk

Reading Kristin Lavransdatter must be doing strange things to my mind - suddenly, I had a strong need for humor. (Those of you reading Kristin for the group read will probably know what I mean - she's a bit weepy and wail-y.)

From the library (for sale books):
China Lake by Meg Gardiner. I remember Stephen King mentioning this book a couple years ago and raved about it.

The Mermaid Chair Sue Monk Kidd I loved The Secret Life of Bees.

I purchased The Cellist of Sarajevo today.

>63 msf59:: msf59, I think you'll enjoy The Mermaid Chair. I found it as delightful as The Secret Life of Bees

Waltzing the Cat by Pam Houston arrived in my mailbox today. I do so love it when I take in the mail and amidst the annoying junk mail and bills, I am rewarded with a book package.

8 books came into my home yesterday - I was in a funk and they cheered me up, so it was well worth it.

From The Book Depository (nicely packaged this time too):
The Broom of the System
Girl with Curious Hair
A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again
Consider the Lobster: And Other Essays
Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
all by David Foster Wallace

I read Infinite Jest earlier this year and have been inspired to read more of his work. Sadly his death was the inspiration for me to purchase so many of his books at once.

From the bookstore at the University where I work:

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
The Consolations of Philosophy by Alain de Botton (not specifically because I had a bad day, although perhaps philosophy could have helped me if I'd bought the book sooner?)
The Mother Tongue by Bill Bryson (I think I remember somebody on LT mentioning it recently. It sounds interesting anyway.)

These last three books were all "Popular Penguins" and were quite cheap. However, they do have horrible orange covers, and I'm tempted to do what my Mum used to do for my school books and cover them with pretty coloured paper :-)

>66 Elee: Elee, OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!

That haul was chock-a-block with wonderful stuff that I would encourage EVERYONE to read! "Brief Interviews with Hideous Men," the story, is one of my all-time favorite pieces of short fiction, and I hope you get a big thrill out of the collection.

Lolita. No more need be said than, on the first page of the book, the author has the narrator report the death of his entire family in a parenthetical aside: "...(picnic, lightning)..." One of the great books in any language. I have named my big Buick Humbert Humbert in honor of this book.

I have mentioned The Mother Tongue here several times, with high praise and approbation, so perhaps it was me that influenced you. In any event, may it delight you.

>66 Elee: & 67: I haven't read The Mother Tongue yet, but his collection about American English Made in America, is absolutely wonderful and chock full of interesting random trivia.

4 books came into my home today:-

The Last Good Man - Patience Swift
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly - Jean-Dominique Bauby
What Was Lost - Catherine O'Flynn
Peter Pan in Scarlet - Geraldine McCaughrean

I have a dilemma and hoping my LT friends can give me their input--I can only buy 2 of these 3 books at this time--has anyone read them and what did you think.

Sweet Life by Mia King, Beside a Burning Sea, and lastly Nothing is Quite Forgotten in Brooklyn. I"m leaning toward Burning Sea & Brooklyn.

edited for title fix.

>69 Teresa40:: The Diving Bell and the Butterfly is one of the best books I've read this year. Amazing & touching...enjoy!

>70 momom248: momom, consult mckait about Beside a Burning Sea since she reviewed it recently. To me your choices sound like the most appealing of the three, FWIW.

Mom... Burning Sea was good. It was a good story. I didn't love it, but I did enjoy the read.

The Bookshop by Penelope Fitzgerald turned up today.

I am reluctant to step in on a day that gave me no new books, but I can.

I wish more people had read or would read more of Penelope Fitzgerald. The metaphorical use of lapidary was invented so people could use it about her novels.

Robert

Dirt Music by Tim Winton and loving it

Ok I'm torn between the thrill of receiving books in my mailbox or picking up a book from the library or bookstore and making a decent dent in my TBR pile. While I get really excited with the additional books, I despair at ever getting the time to read all the books I'm eager to get to in my TBR pile.

It's a nice dilemma though .. and I'd rather have it then not. :-)

The Lost Choice by Andy Andrews made it's way to my mailbox today. And dear hubby surprised me with Brisingr -- what a sweetie!

>75 happyanddandy1:..if you enjoyed Dirt Music..you might like The Riders..i loved the latter...

>67 richardderus:, thank you Richard! You've made me even more excited than I already am with my haul of books. Honestly, sometimes I feel sorry for people who don't get excited about books or about reading. They don't know what they're missing.

>75 happyanddandy1:, I read Dirt Music last year and thought it was excellent. Hope you continue to enjoy it.

What I Loved was waiting for me in the mail from BookMooch this afternoon.

I never heard of Dirt Music or Tim Winton and thanks to LT, I have to go out and search for this intriguing author. You people, you are relentless!

From Bookmooch: The Driftless Area by Tom Drury. The only other book I've read by Drury was The End of Vandalism and I thought it was excellent.

mckait and richard-thank you. I did pick up Beside a Burning Sea and Nothing is Forgotten in Brooklyn. I am looking forward to reading them both.

Today was a great day. I met jhedlund for coffee/tea and then I spent the rest of the day at our wonderful local bookstore/Denver institution The Tattered Cover. I've never been able to have an all-day leisurely browse in there before, but with both kids in school all day...

Okay, well, my credit card is whimpering, but I do feel good about supporting my local, independent bookseller. And on the plus side, I can now give up vacuuming forever, as now my piles of unread books cover the remaining carpet patches. My new acquisitions:

Toys Go Out by Emily Jenkins
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan
Fingersmith by Sarah Waters
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
The True Story of Hansel and Gretel by Louise Murphy
The Summer Book by Tove Jansson

The No.1 Ladies' detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith I put it on my wishlist after reading a review about it this morning, then during my lunch break I entered a bookshop and I couldn't curb my wish to buy it right away

masgar

Picked up Kristin Lavransdatter toady; seeing all the comosion has made very curious. Also brought home Eragon by Christoffer Paolini.

Books acquired today:-

The Informer - Akimitsu Takagi
The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
The Cider House Rules - John Irving

I got The Gifted Gabaldon Sisters in the mail at work from the remarkably quick Hatchette Book Group. I'm HOPING to go home and find two books my husband bought me from Amazon, but we may have to go and pick them up from the post office, so they may have to wait until Saturday.

When I was at walmart i picked up keeping Faith by Jodi Picoult.

The mail man brought Escape from Oblivion from Bostick.

#82 AMQS - I once attended a conference STRICTLY because it was in Denver and would give me a chance to visit The Tattered Cover (which I'd heard about but never visited). I set myself a budget of $200, spent 2 hours there (I wanted to take longer but had promised friends I'd meet them for lunch), and was impressed by the fact that I only spent $120 (all of it on hard back books). My only complaint -- the bookshelves were painted a dark walnut stain and it made it harder to read the titles of the books up high. Not much of a complaint when they provide you with step stools all over the store.

I spent an hour and a half at the Friends of the Library Book Sale today and got:

The Agatha Christie Who's Who by Randall Toye
In the Absence of the Sacred by Jerry Mander
The Years with Ross by James Thurber
O Pioneers! by Willa Cather - a 1929 edition!
92 Stories by James Thurber
Outfoxed by Rita Mae Brown
Mayflower by Nathaniel Philbrick
Blue Smoke and Murder by Elizabeth Lowell
No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
The Birth of Venus by Sarah Dunant
Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie
Lady Susan, The Watsons and Sanditon by Jane Austen
Mistress of the Elgin Marbles by Susan Nagel
The Club Dumas by Arturo Perez-Reverte
Where Dead Voices Gather by Nick Tosches
The Oxford Book of English Ghost Stories chosen by Micael Cox and R.A. Gilbert
Scottish Ghosts by Lily Seafield
Five Victorian Ghost Novels edited by E.F. Bleiler

>90 karenmarie: karenmarie, I am writhing with envious jealousy. Writhing. I love the fact that you scored a 1929 edition of Willa Cather at a library-friends sale! It seems depressing on the surface that someone would value the book so little. On further reflection, MORE FOR US!!

hey richardderus: it's funny because I found it in the stacks for $3.00. I just looked on AbeBooks and one of comparable quality is $24.00. Plus shipping, of course.

They have a special section for more valuable books at the book sale, but they didn't suss this one out! I wouldn't have paid $24 for it.

I love scoring big.

Two other big scores:

Busman's Honeymoon by Sayers, first American Edition, for $.50 about 3 years ago. At the time, on E-Bay, was being sold for $50.00.

The complete Harvard Classics, 1928 edition, for $8.00 at the Thrift Shop. Several have scorch marks on the bottom of the spines, but the books themselves aren't damaged.

I had a *ton* of time to kill today, and wandered into Borders. I came home with The Welsh Girl by Peter Ho Davies (longlisted for the Booker last year), and, from the bargain shelves, a hardcover copy of The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid. It's funny, because I'd decided on the trade paperback of The Reluctant Fundamentalist and happened to wander over to the bargain shelves by chance when I saw the hardcover version. Let's see, a trade paperback for $14 or a hardcover in beautiful shape for $3.99? I know what I'll go with every time.

#90 karenmarie

What a neat selection. Let me know how you like Agatha Christie Who's Who--because i'll look for that if it;s good; I assume it talks about the characters in her novels?

I'd also like to know about Mistress of the Elgin Marbles--I assume it's about the wife of the man who brought the marbles to England.

Mayflower is already on my :to Buy: list. I'd love to get it for a bargain!

Lots of good books on that list!

>90 karenmarie:, Please tell me about it when you've read Mistress of the Elgin Marbles, that seems like something I'd be interested in after reading Stealing Athena.

>92 karenmarie: karenmarie, I. Am. Not. Speaking. To. You.

Fifth Sacred Thing, The by Starhawk

Five Mile House by Karen Novak

The Longest Trip Home: A Memoir by John Grogan

ABC3D by Marion Bataille

The first two used from Amazon.
The next two from Amazon Vine.

Possession by A.S. Byatt
Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood

A nice reward awaiting me after a really horrid day at work today.

#94 musicmom41 - Yes, the Agatha Christie is "more than 2000 colorful characters from the world of Agatha Christie, completely cross-referenced and elegantly illustrated." It has the character's name, a description of their role, and what book they were in. Since I have all her American editions and just read her Autobiography, this was a great find.

I bought Mistress of the Elgin Marbles because I recently read and thoroughly enjoyed and appreciated Karen Essex's wonderful historical novel Stealing Athena.

I bought Mayflower because after reading The Wordy Shipmates I got a recommendation from user owlmoon. And, today, there it was! Just waiting for me.

#95 DevourerOfBooks Don't know when I'll get to Mistress, but when I do I'll let you know how it was. (Come to think of it, my 888 Biography/Memoir category could be switched a bit. Ah ha. Out Funny in Farsi, in Mistress).

#96 as mckait would say, "richard dear" - c'mon - tell me one or two of your big scores. I want to hear about them. Somewhere out of your self-admitted 17,000 volumes, there must be some fantastic stories. Pretty please? With sugar on it?

Could you walk by a remainder book table on the sidewalk at Harvard Book Store and not stop to look? Could you look and NOT buy?

So I came home with
Free Pages and Hard Times: Anarchist Musings by Manuel Gonzalez Prada (purchased for $2.50)
and
On Liberal Revolution by Piero Gobetti (also purchased for $2.50).

I'm reading Cathedral of the Sea by Ildefonso Falcones and Death with Interruptions by Jose Saramago.

Enjoying Cathedral.. was a little put off by the first part of Death with Interruptions and haven't picked it up again since I started Cathedral of the Sea. But I'm hoping to go back to it when I'm done!

Scored tonight from both Amazon and bookcloseouts.com:

Baghdad Without a Map
Big Cherry Holler
Water for Elephants
About My Sisters
East of the Mountains
Sounder
Getting Near to Baby
The Fellowship, the Untold Story of Frank Lloyd Wright & the Taliesin Fellowship
The Battle of the Labyrinth (which is book 4 of the series -- where's book 3--I ordered it-- Yikes!)
The Teahouse Fire

Should be another Amazon order coming with the other two Rick Riordan books I've ordered.

>99 karenmarie: karenmarie...well...just one...I found a copy of Happy Birthday, Kurt Vonnegut, in its slipcase, in the trash when I worked at Delacorte Books for Young Readers. A designer was clearing out their office and chucked it out.

Conservative street value about $500.

#89 whymaggiemay, thanks for sharing that great story! I love that you came to Denver expressly to visit The Tattered Cover. Spending only $120 in two hours there shows heroic restraint.

Well, I went back......again. I have three books in my Shopping Cart at Bookcloseouts.com.....they've been in there for about 5 days. I keep going in and looking at them, and then logging out again.

This seems to be a good opportunity for a study in psychology...."the mind of a book addict"..... Why won't porchy just buy the three books in the shopping cart?? Why does porchy keep going back to check the books in the shopping cart??? (OCD??) Is porchy waiting for more books to add to the shopping cart, as if three measly books aren't enough?? Does porchy feel excessive guilt over buying more books when she already has a gazillion just sitting here, waiting??

Hmmmm.....

???

.................um..............uh oh.

Now there's seven books in the Shopping Cart.

**blush**

heeeeee

Porchy:

*chants*
"Proceed to checkout, proceed to checkout, proceed to checkout..."
You know you want to :)

OMG porchy! me too!

terrible.

In my own defense, they are kids books .. I will probably try to buy them for my nieces baby shower... I have some other books for her too..

porchy just hit the checkout button!! Quick do it before its too late!!!

Okay I knew I shouldn't have gone to Chapters to return The Story of Edgar Sawtelle. I returned it because I got it cheaper at costco. Since I was there shortly after it opened I ended up walking around. Not a good thing LOL

Walked out of there with:

The best halloween Hunt (for my son)
Corduroy (for my son)
Flight of the singing pilot -Backyardigans (for my son)
I want to be a Wizard (on sale --for my son)
2 magazines for me
The gargoyle (it was 40% off)

Went to the library and borrowed a whole bunch of things too

Two new friends in the mail today:
An ARC of Nation by Terry Pratchett from a book blog contest and a review copy of Broad Street by Christine Weiser from the new publishing arm of Philadelphia Stories.

I just wish to thank those of you who responded with such encouragement and gentle nudging......I DID order the books!!! YAY!

AND, as if it was a confirmation from the heavens above, this very afternoon I received my box of books from Bookcloseouts.com, from my LAST order!!!! It's serendipity!!! Here's my list:

The Painted Drum by Louise Erdrich
Becoming Strangers by Louise Dean
Torch by Cheryl Strayed
Person of Interest by Theresa Schwegel
Black Fly Season by Giles Blunt
Panic by Jeff Abbott
The Memory of Running by Ron McLarty
The Used World by Haven Kimmel

I am nearly drooling....when I received my box today, I really felt like a kid at Christmas. I was practically smacking my hands together and jumping up and down. Do I have a problem? Should I see a therapist? Heeee!

Oh Porchy..you lucky one...and it's good you placed that recent order..isn't it? less stress (or more? )but where are you going to put them puppies??? sorry if that question caused more stress??? i know my problem is shelving????

concerning Bookcloseouts.com..i'm fortunate there..they don't take checks as payment and i don't have a Credit Card..hey..it keeps me sane, tracking down places that Do accept checks

anyway, happy reading

i have not received anything in a while but 3 orders are on their way

;-)

Jude......the shelving issue.....exactly what I was just thinking as I was carrying this stack around from room to room, in search of a place to put them!!! I am going to have to do some rearranging within some of my cupboards.....I have antique cupboards galore in the house but all are already full of stuff. I am sure I can compact, or toss, what's already taking up precious "book space"!!! Looks like I have my work cut out for me today..... but it will be a labor of love. :o)

A coworker who convinced me to step outside my usual genres gave me a romance novel, To Taste Temptation, that I'm not so sure about....but I said I'd read it, so I guess I'll have to find some time.

Porchy--if you need to see a therapist, then we all do!! Enjoy all the great reads. Don'tyou love it when you get new books and you can sit and hold them, and smell them and persuse them!! Oh my gosh we are addicted.

#116 ~ momom248........oh yes!! There is something about handling new books, that tactile experience.....I just want to dive right in and read everything all at once. Delicious!!

I'm so glad to have discovered LT, and to see that I'm not the only person with this lovely obsession! :o)

>115 bnbooklady:, I'd probably give that one the 50 page test. I'd also have something literary with a serious subject lined up to read after it. But that's me. Good luck with it.

>116 momom248: momom248

a therapist? i think not...the sessions would take too much time away from book buying..and reading..no?

and you Smell your books..oh man , i am not alone..especially used books..smell like life and experience..and words and possibilities..and Hope...or am i Crazy?

;-0

I have visions of porchy tossing clothing out in the backyard.. to make way for books

It is almost that bad here. I used to have a shelf with four baskets on it.. it now has three... as soon as I can figure out what to jam those babies into or under, it will be more bookspace!!!

yay!

I just loaned a book to a friend who is a reader, but not quite the same level of biblioholic I am. When I was going on and on about how it felt in my hands...
she looked at me rather oddly..no very oddly.

like porchy said it is good to be here .. congrats on the arrival of that box J!
Nothing came for me today ......

boo hoo

mckait et al

"she looked at me rather oddly..no very oddly."

I have finally figured out why I spend so much time with the groups on LT--finally a place where I can rave enthusiastically about books as much as I want and as often as I want and no one thinks I'm weird! What a relief it is to know there are so many of us. I've known a lot a readers in my life but only 2 or maybe 3 who have that passion--obsession?--that I've been trying to keep in check my whole life. How much fun it is to indulge--and to discover so many treasures to get "drunk" on by sharing what other people are reading and loving.

Just thanks for all of you being here!

"Just thanks for all of you being here!" yes!

shootingstarr: I plan to do just that....I promised to read it in the spirit of "do something different," but I don't know that I can bring myself to finish something so utterly mindnumbing. I'm definitely not going to get to it for a few weeks, at the earliest, but I'll let you know how it goes.

#120 mckait. When I was at the friends of the library book sale yesterday, I had so much fun just touching all the books. Just running my fingers over them, pulling them out, looking at them, putting them in the bag or back in the box..... I felt compelled to touch them.

I do the same thing at bookstores and my own shelves, too.

and smell.. the way the smell like books. Walking into a library...ahhhh :)

I received two Kazuo Ishiguro books in the mail from my friend who works for his publisher, The Unconsoled and When We Were Orphans, I'm looking forward to reading them and then discussing them with her. She also sent me an interview of him in the Paris Review to go along with them.

An on an entirely different note, I received Fallen by Erin McCarthy from PBS.

#126 I'm so envious, ktleyed. I want two Ishiguro books and an interview with him to show up in my mailbox! Instead I got The Story of Lucy Gault from Bookmooch.

ETA: Which I am also excited about, don't get me wrong!

>125 mckait:,
I work in an old library, and the first time I went into the city's new branch library (open less than a year), I made a comment to the supervisor about how it smelled new in there. His response was "Isn't it nice?" I hesitated and said yes, but I much prefer the older, slightly musty smell of my library.

Bought two books at the 'book club' I'm a member of and had still to buy my seasonal selection, two Dutch one, well, the second actual Belgian:
Je moet niet denken dat ik altijd bij je blijf by Hans Münstermann
Groener Gras by Annelies Verbeke

And received two books by mail which were inspired by LT:
Prodigal summer by Barbara Kingsolver
The final solution by Michael Chabon

I should now really shut down my computer and do some reading before going to sleep....

What kind of library supervisor was that!!!! humph!

hey-um what are you reading now. i just joined your group!!!!

Hi. I just joined. what r u reading

porchsitter, mckait, et al

You guys are wonderful and you make me feel wonderful! I've been doing the exact same thing on the bookcloseouts site. Every day I go back and look in my cart to see if those books are still there and think 'Today will be the day.... But what about all those tbr on my shelves... Arggg!!!' and put it off another day.

But now I can put the order through, after all, they're not going to be there forever and they're so cheap. I'll just blame it on the LT enablers :o)

#131 and #132 Welcome to the group. Come back often there is always some very interesting discussions
and always a place to find out about something new and different to read.

sandragon.. you are pretty wonderful too! Nothing like a room-pub-forum filled with bibliomaniacs! We get each other... I wish we could have one great big get together.. and transport our way to it with portals like in Camber of Culdi. We may not always agree on things, but most of us are willing to discuss and agree to disagree when it comes to most things.. even books!

and ditto what #134 said :)

>130 mckait:, The young kind. Granted, I'm a bit younger than him, but as someone who majored in history in college, I'm a fan of old things.

ETA: I had two books waiting for me in the mail. Going Down South by Bonnie J. Glover, which was sent to me by the author to review, and Music & Silence by Rose Tremain, from BookMooch.

#90 Karenmarie - great haul of books!

#93 shootingstarr - I read The Welsh Girl last year and really enjoyed it. It was beautifully written, and the plot was interesting, but I'm sitting here a yeaer later and I can't remember what happened... It's very, very English (or Welsh...).

#110 - Corduroy!! I loved that book when I was little and now my kids love it too. There's a children's booksho here with a classics section. Very, very bad lace for me to go with a credit card...

Shelving? You guys actually still have shelf space for new books entering your home?! I'm jealous! I've just about given up on the prospect of adding more shelving, and my TBRs are now piled up on the floor, on tables, my bedside table and on an armchair in my study. I wonder if I should just convince my husband to drink some of our wine more quickly so I can get rid of some of the bottle racks in our cellar, and replace them with .... yup, you got it ... bookcases instead.

My mom came for a visit and commented that I have too many books lying around ... I am now deathly afraid that she's going to give some of my books away.

From Bookmooch:
The Book of Illusions, my first Paul Auster. I have no idea why I have not read this author before but thanks to LT, I am NOW!
Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult. I've enjoyed a couple of her books and this one has got some good press!
One last thought: I love Bookmooch. I have received at least 18 quality books from them in just a short time. Now back to the debate!

jdthloue, mckait, musicmom, sandragon and all my bibliomaniac friends!! I love it here --I feel at home w/ everyone who feels like I do about books. Cheers (raises a glass of wine) to all us bibliomaniacs!!!

BIBLIOMANIACS RULE!!!!

and the way things are going in this, our country, i think we are damned lucky!

i am listening to The Debates (political..McCain/Obama)..i am a die hard Democrat..but i am a Reader..beyond that..Give Me Books i love and that touch my brain/heart..or give me DEATH..or expatriate status

;-(

A retrospective account of what came into my library this month:

Embedded Linux
ARM System Developer's Guide
The Fall of Berlin 1945
The Keepsake
From Stalingrad to Pillau
An Infantryman in Stalingrad
The Role of Intelligence in Soviet Military Strategy in World War II
Watchers

Debates. Feh. I watched the whole damned thing and wished the whole blinkin' time I could have asked the only question that could change my vote: "What did/do you read to your kids at bedtime?" A better question to determine character I can't imagine.

Biblioholics. Of course we rule. No one else can understand a blessed word we say so they elect us out of intimidation.

Libraries that are too new. Don't, please, get me started on the criminal behavior of the San Francisco library that landfilled its collection of 19th-century books on science because they were outdated, along with the popular fiction of every era but our own sad little one. And, in building a larger new building, they managed to provide LESS space for books because tree books are obsolescent and e-books are the future.

Damn, I got myself started. Time to get some Scotch and a GOOD book. I'm thinking Life by Gwyneth Jones again.

While hiding from Ike, I picked up Beasts of No Nation by Uzodinma Iweala, The Final Solution by Michael Chabon, and Stardust by Neil Gaiman.

>143 richardderus: Richard Dear

Debates, Feh..yeah i guess..but(t)..i want to ask them what their weekly grocery bills are.. .if They know

Libraries are at the bottom of the bottom..;.but i worked at my tiny Branch Library in Akron Ohio 1968-1969 (yes i am old) when there were no computers and Books=Pages..God i miss that..

now that you are started..go for Cutty Sark..and my empathetic shoulder to weep on...OMG..

JUDE

>145 jdthloue: jude, thanks for the shoulder. I feel out of place in a world that thinks of tree books as bad, or old-fashioned, or just uncool. Bah. Humbug.

Y'know what...Scrooge was right about a lot of stuff.

*eep* Did that just come out of my keyboard?!

>Richard..i hope..yep whatever sprouted from thy keyboard was righteous and maybe not holy vis a vis the Right Wingers but..what the hell

i have always been the fish out of water..but my books and reading have educated me unto the ways of this scurvy world..i am smarter than the nay-sayers..and spit in their eyes...sans apology

JUDE

I picked up Margo Lanagan's novel Tender Morsels today. I really liked her collection of short stories Black Juice. Neil Gaiman and G. K. Wolfe are quoted on the cover so I'm intrigued.

I think your lack of restraint in promiscuously buying books is a disgrace!
I have not bought ONE SINGLE BOOK, since my last measly 50 a few weeks ago. My masterly seamless integration into my bulging book shelves and bookcases has so far gone undetected! The best place to hide new books is in full view!

Did I tell you I am under house arrest? She Who Must Be Obeyed has returned and I am under constant surveillance! However, I managed to sneak to the library today (Saturday) to pick up a copy of A Pirate of Exquisite Mind for the Group Read beginning on the 3rd of November.

Check out the thread here, and come and join us:

http://www.librarything.com/talktopic.php?topic=46186

Also picked up Collected Poems of T.S Eliot and Poems by George Herbert. Because I am reading Reading Between the Lines and the author mentioned these two.

Also Selected Poetry and Prose of Shelley. Because I am reading Recollection of the last Days of Shelley and Byron.

Also picked up Essays of Elia because Anne Fadiman mentioned him in her book Ex Libris and I wanted to read his essay “Detached Thoughts on Books and Reading”, again.

>121 MusicMom41: MM: “I have finally figured out why I spend so much time with the groups on LT--finally a place where I can rave enthusiastically about books as much as I want and as often as I want and no one thinks I'm weird!”

My feeling exactly!

-TT

I am thinking of putting aside Ghostwalk for a bit, as I am getting nowhere with it. I will read The Longest Trip Home and review it, later today.
Then? Not sure.

richardear, you said "I feel out of place in a world that thinks of tree books as bad, or old-fashioned, or just uncool. Bah. Humbug."

I say.. ditto

cameling, I have a few inches of shelf space if I move some other things, but there are piles. At the minute only two.. one behind the tv..lol and one stacked on top of a bookshelf that is meant to be mooched out. I wish they would go already.

mooch! I am wishing these books would move. I usually only have a few at time up, and usually good and recent books. The ones there are languishing at the minute. I want to get rid of that stack! lol..I am about to put up a copy of Heart in The Right Place. If you are interested in it let me know and I will reserve it for you. I ended up with two copies....don't ask.

Richard, I have to run now, but remind me sometime to tell you about my experience seeing Obama talk to a literacy group for elementary school teachers and how he talked about books.

Enslaved by Ducks by Bob Tarte came today. I bought it used, read the first page about characters in the book and rushed to buy the next one fowl Weather.

I can hardly wait to read this one. I looks hilarious.

I had a book order from my local Borders come in, I picked them up, and a couple extra that caught my eye. Several were due to mentions on LT.

Order:
Amuse Bouche by Anthony Bidulkan, I am looking at you Richard. My book is a mmpb, and has 415 pages. The last line is: It was time for Amuse Bouche. Hopefully that is the correct ending, and I am not missing the end pages as have been reported here.

While searching for this book on Amazon I came upon another interesting series. It is set in Hawaii (which I love), so I also ordered it.

Mahu Surfer by Neil S. Plakcy
This is the second book in the Kimo Kanapa'aka series. The first book Mahu is out of print but being reprinted in 3/09. There is a 3rd book out already Mahu Fire. I will see about getting the others if I enjoy the book I just got.

Mahu is a bad slang word for gays in Hawaiian. The main character is a detective in the Hawaii police, and has been outed. In the 2nd book he is trying to regain his respectability in the department with the investigation of the murder of 2 surfers.

Non-Fiction:
Into the Land of Bones Alexander the Great in Afghanistan, by Frank Holt
Saw this on my Tag Watch. It looks at the major incursions into the area from Alexander to the modern day (includes Russians and the British).

The Lion of St. Mark by G.A. Henty
I found this because there is another book: The Lion of St. Mark: The Venetians, Book 1 by Thomas Quinn, which I am trying to find. I got book 2 of Quinn's series through Bookcloseouts.com. I lost book 1 because someone else purchased it during my computer error.

So I was looking to see about getting Quinn's book 1, and found Henty's. It was first published in 1894. It took a while but my Borders found an in-print copy (Echo Library, UK Print on Demand) for $12.90.

Then when I was in BJs looking at their books I found one I had been thinking about, but a the BJs discount price.

Non-Fiction:
The Zookeeper's Wife by Diane Ackerman
It is the story of how a zoo in Poland, after it was bombed during WWII, started hiding refugees in the empty cages. It says they saved over 300 people. They gave animal names to the 'guests' and human names to the animals. The zoo's code name became The House Under a Crazy Star.

And speaking of book obsession and BJs. As I was going to the book table, I passed this tall, deep wooden box with a glass door, on an endcap. All I could think of was what a wonderful box to stack lots of books in. Turns out it was a personal home Sauna. :)

#153 FicusFan, loved the sauna story!

I love library book sales. Today's Granby (CT) buys (totaling only $20):
The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox by Maggie O'Farrell
A Woman's World by Marybeth Bond
Women's History of the World by Rosalind Miles
Messages from My Father by Calvin Trillin
Classic Scandinavian Cooking
Falling Man: A Novel by Don DeLillo
Imperial America: Reflections on the United States of Amnesia by Gore Vidal
The Women of Afghanistan Under the Taliban by Rosemarie Skaine
Vegetarian Four Seasons by Rose Elliot
Schoolgirls: Young Women, Self Esteem, and the Confidence Gap by Peggy Orenstein
The Mighty and the Almighty: Reflections on America, God, and World Affairs by Madeleine Albright
The Storyteller's Goddess: Tales of the Goddess and Her Wisdom from Around by Carolyn McVickar Edwards
The Sea Wall by Marguerite Duras
The Future of the Book by Geoffrey Nunberg
James McNair's Cold Pasta by James McNair
Evening by Susan Minot
The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx
Written on the Body by Jeanette Winterson
How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents by Julia Alvarez
Myth and Sexuality by Jamake Highwater
Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools by Jonathan Kozol
Rick Steves' 2005 Europe Through The Back Door

And the piece de resistance:
Block Island Lore and Legends by Ethel Colt Ritchie published by Mrs. Frances M. Nugent

One Book Mooch, but it's a title i have been interested in for a while:

To Err is Divine by Agota Bozai

From Friends of the Library for $1.50: In the Fall by Jeffrey Lent. When I got it home I saw that it had a beautiful metal bookmark in it.

Three in the new Popular Penguin series, Alain de Botton's Consolations of Philosophy, John Mortimer's Rumpole and the Penge Bungalow Murders, and The Surgeon of Crowthorne by Simon Winchester.

There was an event at church, in town, to go to last night. To get more mileage, so to speak, I took along a 30% Borders coupon and went to the big store in my area. Of course I found books that I wanted, but I did not find a single one that I was willing to give them my money for. I left empty handed and went to church to watch the opera The Love for Three Oranges.

Maybe I'll stop by again tomorrow after church and pick up the deluxe edition of Black's Law Dictionary, but I am not bursting with enthusiasm for it.

Robert

In the mail today:

From Amazon:
Sweet Life by Mia King
The Disorder of Longing by Natasha Bauman
Matrimony by Joshua Henkin

from BookMooch:
Wild Roses by Deb Caletti

Today my husband went to the post office and picked up the Amazon package of books he ordered for me earlier in the week.

He got me My Mistress' Sparrow is Dead, edited by Jeffrey Eugenides and then Maus to get the free shipping.

What a good husband!

153> FicusFan, my experience of mahu in Hawaii is to mean a man in a feminine role. It applies not only to gays but to transvestites. I have never heard it applied to a woman; a woman, if mannish, is likely to be referred to as a tita regardless of her sexuality. I am not Hawaiian or studied in the language so I don't know whether it could be used of a woman.

As far as its use to disparage, that seems to depend on the user much as homosexual or lesbian on the mainland. In its use, I have seen people use it with much less disparagement than "fag." A hate filled person could pour their hate into the word, but that hatred is not necessary.

Specto

In the mail today (from cashing in remaining QPB points) The Fortune Cookie Chronicles: Adventures in the World of Chinese Food by Jennifer Lee and The Night Watch by Sarah Waters (really been wanting to read this one) from the remainder table (the remainder table!) at B&N.

We went to our local antique mall to shop today and hubby found The Phantom of Manhattan by Frederick Forsyth for a buck! It's a $20 hard cover book in pristine condition. (I have taught my man well) :o)

I however, found no books to purchase, but I did find a good haul of antiques for resale. It was a business buying trip for me so I was not in the book buying "mode". I just force myself to turn it off when I am antique hunting. I have to or we'll be there all dang day. :o/

I'm still trying to find somewhere to put the 4 growing stacks of books, some of which arrived this week from bookcloseouts.com., and some others that have not found a resting place to wait their turn in line...... I'll have to clear out those cupboards, or else lug in the last empty bookshelf from the garage, and it's ugly as hell. I don't want that thing in here. But I may have to eventually break down and bring it in. I guess I could paint it first.... See all the work we create for ourselves??? All the turmoil??

...OH what a tangled web we weave, when more books we do retrieve.....

(yeah I know, that was bad.) :oD

Ficus, you'll love Amuse Bouche. I am not, repeat not, guilty of the implied influence to buy same, nope nope nope.

Well, maybe a little.

Who the hell needs a personal sauna? Book storage is far more important!

sisaruus, I am revoltingly jealous of your $20 haul. I love several of those books and have involuntarily loaned them to my daughter over the years.

mckait, hmmm. Interesting, and I look forward to hearing more.

porchy! your self restraint is awe inspiring!!!

I got bubkes, but I had a great dinner and a lovely evening so who can complain?

I'm guilty, I've been in Sweden again and got a haul of books. I have no time to register it yet, will be back with that and you'll see the list.
The Pizza-book I have now as a side-dish, and are reading one of the new ones;"Vem vill bli miljardär= Q & A by Vikas Swarup (no touchstones) This is about an Indian young man who is arrested after answering right on 12 questions in an TV-programme and won one milliard rupies. His life from the start as a newborn who is left on the pavement, and how he grew up is rolled up. Very fascinating story from the Indian miljeu. If you find it, buy it. I love this book.

I was in Sweden visiting a good friend to find muscherooms in the wood. I went home with 5 kg Cantarellus cibarius, 1 kg Cantharellus tubaeformis and xanthopeus and 1 kg Hydnum repandum. All cleaned and ready. I think I deserved a haul of books.
And to Porchy, isn't it mush cheaper to by books for joy than to pay a therapist ? A therapist are maybee needed when you no longer can live in your home, when the books take over.
Have a nice sunday to you all, I love you guys.
Sorry for bad language, I must go for breakfast.

rdurick,

Your really and truly left the bookstore empty-handed? How did you do that?

Seriously IaaS, porchy needs no encouraging when it comes to book buying. She is a whiz at it, you see.

I think I will be reading it today richardear.. I read John Grogans's book yesterday and will review it today. Then on to reading Enslaved by Ducks and I am going to make some tabouli.

yum

I know that. but she joked about therapy and I came to think about the cost/benefit side of it. Books are surely the cheapest.
Tabouli sounds delicious. I love that kind of food.

# 161: Dubito

I have been to Hawaii several times, but don't know anything about the language.

I got the information on the word from the Editorial Review on Amazon, from one of the books.

Haven't started the book, so I don't know what it says about it. It may not even mention it, because this is the second book in the series, and I imagine that would have been discussed in the first book. The book says the author lives in South Florida, so who knows if he even knows about how Hawaiians actually use it.

No, no therapist yet....but if my books do start edging hubby, the cats, and I out of living space, then I may have to cave and make a phone call to set up an appt. Heeee!

Just got home from the bookstore. I gave myself a $30 limit and didn't go very far over. I bought:

The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester
The Great Divorce by C.S. Lewis
Fruits Basket Vol. 14
His Majesty's Dragon by Naomi Novik
Throne of Jade by Naomi Novik and
Black Powder War by Naomi Novik

The first two were in a box of $3.99 books, and the three Temeraire books were a boxed set that I used a 30% off coupon to purchase. (This is how I make myself feel disciplined even though there's no room on the shelves anymore.)

Heeelp, my hubby has made order in the bookboxes in the storeroom today and found about so many books that I have already registered. Now I has to be really creative to make shelves for them. I already have two rows in evey shelves.

Had a 30% coupon AND a $5 frequent buyer coupon, both about to expire, so I hurried down to Borders and came home with
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz and
Brief Encounters with Che Guevara: Stories by Ben Fountain.

As if that's not enough, the Sunday afternoon library-book-sale clearance sale is on. More later.......

Iaas, hopefully your hubby is a booklover too?

mckait, no he isn't, but he must love me with my books (the whole package) otherwise he wouldn't have paid for many of them I think. He is really good. And he was with me and found chantarelles in the wood, and helped pack them for the freezer. The very best man.

thats wonderful Iaas! You are lucky to have each other..

:D

I went to NYC this morning by train, stopped at Strand Book Store, and bought the following:

The Customs of the Kingdoms of India (Penguin Great Journeys) by Marco Polo
Dawn Dusk or Night: A Year with Nicolas Sarkozy by Yasmina Reza
Equal Danger by Leonardo Sciascia
The House at Sugar Beach: In Search of a Lost African Childhood by Helene Cooper
The Duel: Pakistan on the Flight Path of American Power by Tariq Ali
Chicago: A Novel by Alaa Al Aswany
Happy Families: Stories by Carlos Fuentes
The Island of the Day Before by Umberto Eco
The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana by Umberto Eco

#163 porchsittter55 I like your litttle slogan.It should be on a plaque for
every bibliophile :)

I picked up off the Bargain Table.
The Gettysburg Gospel Gabor Boritt

#165 - IAAS - I loved Q & A, too, and recommend it. I thought the ending was weak, but otherwise a very good read.

Oops, I forgot to add the books that snuck into the house:

Bret Harte's Gold Rush
The Man Who Would Be King
The Titan's Curse
The Maze of Bones

I want a house where books sneak in. I promise them I won't tell on them!

After a delicious dinner that I didn't cook (whee!), we watched the movie Charade again. Audrey Hepburn is, of course, spectacularly beautiful. She's also very, very talented. Cary Grant, well, what else need be said?

I haven't even seen a book today. Too busy running around and accomplishing nothing.

I have an idea: why don't you start a Gathering Place or Coffeehouse thread in this group and have these conversations there about debates and football and so forth...then that will free up the threads for What Are You Reading and What Books Came Into Your Home for the on topic posts. What do you think?

166> Hemlokgang, I just found myself resentful at Borders's treatment of customers and thinking that promotions rather than service were the way out of their cash flow problems. Then I didn't want to give them any money even with a 30% discount.

I had the coupon with me again today and didn't stop at either of the Borders more or less along my route.

It was a different situation in Barny Noble's today. I was sleepy and unwilling to pore over bookshelves. So I didn't buy any books, but I came away with two periodicals.

Robert

181: teelgee
You missed the point with this particular thread. This is the thread for the books you take into your house, what you are reading now and a little general chitchat. This is the spice. We have had this discussion before and everybody here want it as it is. Don't you ?

I'm back with my Sweedish haul.
Citrusköket by Hofberg, Caroline, because it looked so nice and I didn't have it.

Orientens mat & kultur by Lutterbeck, Barbara, because I'm in the mood for this kind of food coming back from Turkey.

Shan by Lustbader, Eric Van, because I have seen his books but never read them. Time to try.
Jian by Lustbader, Eric Van
Miko (The Miko) by Lustbader, Eric Van

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Clarke, Susanna, because I was intrigued by the historical plot.

Frihetsdrottningen / 1, Skuggornas rike (La raine liberté, L`empire des ténèbres) by Jacq, Christian
Frihetsdrottningen / 2, Kronornas krig (La raine liberté, La guerre des couronnes) by Jacq, Christian
Frihetsdrottningen / 3, Det flammande svärdet (La raine liberté, L'épée flamboyante by Jacq, Christian, because I like to read about old Egypt.

Hundra och en dag : en reportageresa by Seierstad, Åsne, this is my hubby's find.

Hieroglyfernas gåta : Champollion, Napoleon och sökandet efter Egyptens hemlighet by Meyerson, Daniel, because I have seen the film and want to read about him.

Legenden om Bagger Vance : en roman om golf och livets spel by Pressfield, Steven, because I know nothing about golf.

Döttrarnas rike (Leaving Mother Lake by Namu}, Yang Erche, because I gave it to my granddaughter last year and want to own it myself.

Vem vill bli miljardär? (Q & A) by Swarup, Vikas, strange and colourful story from India

Mysterious, all the touchstones I had working disapeared when I edited Q & A. I laid in the parentesis again, but Q & A disapeared. Who cares.

>183 IaaS: I wouldn't be so sure that "everyone" wants it this way. Over the past 3-4 months, I've noticed a lot of people who used to be regulars no longer participate in this thread, which is very unfortunate because I used to get great ideas about books to read from them.

I agree with teelgee, it would be nice to have a separate "chat" thread - which I would also very much enjoy - and leave this one to it's original purpose.

And just for a little history, for a long, long time "the point" of this thread was What Books Came Into Your House Today along with a bit of chatter about the books listed, not all the rest. There is already a weekly thread for what you're reading, but there is no Coffehouse-type thread, which would be a great idea. Many of the groups here on LT have a general chat threat which is usually used quite extensively.

This is the list of books that came into my house today:

borrowed from the library:
-James and the Giant Peach (rereading this)

Got
-still life by Louise Penny (she will be at the local library in Oct for a conference)
-Bang Crunch Stories by Neil Smith (he will be at the local library in Oct for a reading)
-more by Austin Clarke (he will be at the local library this weekend talking about his book and signing)

>183 IaaS: IaaS - I don't think I've missed the point at all. I've been in this group for over a year and a half and my understanding is that this wasn't meant to be a chat thread per se other than chatting about the books that came into your home. Talbin is right, a lot of people don't come here anymore because of the chatter, it feels overwhelming to sort through the huge volume of posts to get to the talk about books.

I certainly don't want to censor anyone or chase anyone away! I'm simply proposing another forum for off topic chats.

So -- I will be happy to start a Coffeehouse thread for the group and since it's so close to a new month it seems like a good time to do it.

ET correct really stupid spelling error.

Well, I wanted to say that I was one of those people who stack books two deep on their shelves to get more out of them and it works fine since I put a location tab on each book, but if it's only supposed to be about books that came into my home here's the answer:

I'm with teelgee and Talbin. I like to chat too, but I think separation here would make the group more comprehensible, especially to newcomers.

New book in my house today! My neighbor just brought down Tribute by Nora Roberts.

Just picked up Margaret Atwood's new non-fiction book Payback Debt and the Shadow of Wealth.

Two new to me books via BookMooch arrived today:

No Regrets by Shannon Butcher; and

Your Movie Sucks! by Roger Ebert

A quick trip into B&N to kill time between going to the dentist and work wound up with me leaving the store with The Matters at Mansfield, the 4th in Carrie Bebris' Mr. and Mrs. Darcy Mysteries series.

>188 teelgee: teelgee - I'll just point out my LT user name is Talbin - I don't want anyone to get the wrong idea from the name you used by accident! ;-)

And teelgee, I think the Gathering Place thread is a great idea. Thanks for thinking of it.

Fresh from the Amazon box:

Plugged In by L.Timmel Duchamp and Maureen McHugh
Mary Modern by Camille Deangelis
Alanya to Alanya, Book 1 by L. Timmel Duchamp

All LT recommendations, thanks!

eta, teelgee, I think another thread for off-theme digressions is a terrific idea. I was just thinking that the general thread was going to need one but it seems to have quieted down. I like friendly book banter, but I'm not interested in sifting through other non-book related subjects. Although I've never contributed to this particular thread much (OMG, it would make me crazy to try to catalog and then list every book I bring home or arrives on the doorstep), I do stop in here once in a while to skim through what others have acquired and maybe post.

I have been apart of this group for two years. It is the place I met my oldest LT friends, at least one of which I traveled 10,000 miles to meet in person recently. We met here over books we both were reading/had read and over book talk not over children, recipes, soccer or the current hemline of skirts & dresses. What an awesome thing that is for any book person!

Anyway, I think alternate threads for informal, non-book-related chat is good; they've been employed successfully in a lot of groups (often called 'kitchen', 'pubs', 'message boards', and yes, 'gathering places'). But you all (members who frequent this thread) will be deciding where the balance is.

eta to fix touchstone and to say ...LT rocks!

Visited the library today and picked up Hot Mahogany by Stuart Woods and a lovely book of Dashiell Hammett featuring Red Harvest, The Dain Curse, The Maltese Falcon, The Glass Key and the Thin Man.

I do have a fondness for tomes, the Dashiell Hammett is over 700 pages, but how I will enjoy it!

Came home to a stuffed mailbox. I love online used bookstores. Of course, my mailman probably hates me.
Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids by Kenzaburo Oe
The Cave by Jose Saramago
An Arsonist's Guide to Writers' Homes in New England by Brock Clark
He Died with a Felafel in his Hand by John Birmingham

A great day for books:

The Pamela Aidan Darcy trilogy - An Assembly Such as This, Duty and Desire, and These Three Remain. I took them out of the library last week, but I liked them enough that I had to own them. These were initially a LT "member recommendation", so thanks to whoever recommended these.

A Feeling for the Organism - a biography of Barbara McClintock (the superstar geneticist and Nobel Prize winner)

Schooled by Anisha Lakhani - my ER book from June, which finally arrived and is a beautiful hardcover, not an ARC.

I am happy.

re: 199, jfetting:

I totally misread the name of your second book! *very embarassed*

I love member recommendations from LTers - everytime I enter a library, I'm usually so overwhelmed that I never know where to turn, so it's handy to be able to scan books and go "hey, that one is supposed to be good..."

re #200 lol. I was very, very careful not to misspell anything.

>hey, you kids, settle down..we'll have none of THAT here..cybersex is....somewhere very Else, no??? LOFL

>teelgee..brilliant idea...The Coffeehouse of the Curious Mind (very curious, some of our minds)..

;-0

OMG!!!Great Day at the Book Store!!!
Vampire Stories: Classic Tales by Bram Stroker, Anne Rice, D. H. Lawrence, Ivan Turgenev, and others
Wicked Game by Jeri Smith-Ready
Aphrodisiac by Allyson Roy
Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris
Noah by Jacquelyn Frank
All Together Dead by Charlaine Harris
++Hope Hubby don't find this list!!++

My friend is letting me borrow New Moon for the time being.

I visited a used bookstore today and came home with The Emigrants by W.G. Sebald and Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons.

Got a book from the Mooch today, it appears to be more of a book hubby would be interested in, so I presented it to him tonight after he got home from work and he was very pleased. (I'm trying to butter him up before the next box of books arrives from Bookcloseouts.com, which are mostly MY kind of books. :o) Heee!)

The book that came today ~ Deep Storm by Lincoln Child.

I stopped by the library to drop off some books, and came out with Lust for Life by Irving Stone.

Since they are still sitting on my desk here. . .
From Friday's library sale:
The House of the Scorpion, Nancy Farmer
The Children, Edith Wharton
Hudson River Bracketed, Edith Wharton (catchy title, don't you think?)
Black Dogs, The Cement Garden, The Comfort of Strangers, Enduring Love and The Innocent all by Ian McEwan. (I couldn't resist, they were all new reprints and all matched)
Good Night, Willie Lee, I'll See You In the Morning, poem by Alice Walker
The Observations by Jane Harris
Another dozen books for friends and a few choice titles I put on BookMooch (an Eco, Kundera, Auster...)

My husband has started to bring home, a few boxes at a time, his stockpile of 30 boxes of books from his storage facility (they predate 'us')
So, last night was a box dated 1997, an interesting mix but mostly SF. He kept about a third of what was in there. I rescued a Kenzaburo Oe collection from the giveaway pile.

#203 SusieC418 - I love Charlaine Harris! Hope you enjoy her books.

From BookMooch: And the Band Played On: Politics, People and the AIDS Epidemic by Randy Shilts. A beautiful hardback, dust jacket intact. Thank you, Beth!

I get pretty much all of my books sent to my office. Why do they always all come on days I'm not there?

I got in this morning and found this pile from yesterday:
Crossed: A Tale of the Fourth Crusade by Nicole Galland
Devil in Winter by Lisa Kleypas (this one's going back out in a couple of days, it was an angel mooch)
The Last Colony and The Ghost Brigade by John Scalzi
When a Crocodile Eats the Sun by Peter Godwin
The Robber Bride by Margaret Atwood
and
The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger, which was being returned by the coworker who borrowed it awhile back.

Okay, two more books came today:
The Heretic Queen by Michelle Moran from Harper Collins' 'Read it Forward' program
Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin via an LT BookMooch angel who should have just told me no! I didn't realize just how big and heavy that book is.

Out of today's Amazon box:

The Reshaping of Everyday Life 1790-1840, Jack Larkin (social history)
Daughters of the North, Sarah Hall (oh crap, it says I already have it. It's a US retitling of The Carhullan Army). Might have to save it for a gift.

And from another BookMooch member (thank you!):

Hope Leslie, Or, Early Times in the Massachusetts by Catharine Maria Sedgwick. Early 18th century American fiction. Yum.

I got a Mooch today......Durable Goods by Elizabeth Berg.

Two books from eBay Stores:

The Vampire Tapestry by Suzy McKee Charnas
Jericho Point by Meg Gardiner

and, from a pile of books at PAMIDA (that's my small town's version of WAL-MART):

Good Faith by Jane Smiley
The Mammoth Cheese by Sheri Holman
Jonathan Strange & Mister Norrell by Susanna Clark

.....these last may end up as Christmas gifts..

teelgee--If you start a chat thread could you put a link on this one so we computer illiterates can find it. Please. I think it is a good idea--but I hope we can also mention books there !

new books (for me, anyway)

yesterday I returned several books to the library; I didn't have time--or need--to check out any more (my reading plate is full!) but glanced at the Friends sale table a snagged 3 books for 2 dollars: (these have no due dates so I could take them home--HeHe)

I Am What I Ate...and I'm frightened by Bill Cosby--like new HC with perfect Jacket. It's for Hubby (he comes home from China tomorrow!) and I feel like I could wrap it for a gift.

The Sword of Lincoln by Jeffrey D. Wert--excellent condition Trade PB; it's for my plan to have a nice collection of Civil War books that Hubby and can read together whe he retires next year. He has gotten out of the habit of reading because his joob as a resarch scientist requires that he reads and review manuscripts all the time. But he is a huge history buff--so it's a plot to keep the TV from being on all the time!

Lost Horizon by James Hilton for me. I read and loved this when I was about 19 and I'm wondering if I will still love it now.

\(chit chat ahead--!)
This book is a puzzle to me. When I tried to enter this into LT I discovered it it a very strange PB edition--no copyright information, no date of publication--in fact the page that the information should go on isn't in the book. The ISBN # doesn't work with LT. The book has a title page with the name of the publisher, Yunnan Publishing Group Corporation, Yunnan People's Publishing House, the next page says Prologue and then you are into the book. Each section has a nice full page illustration a the beginning, the book ends on the last page in the volume and on the backside of that page there is something written in Oriental characters--I would expect Chinese except that the name of the publishing house has two syllables. The illustrations are really lovely--black, and white and shades of grey. No clue who the illustrator is or if it is only one because the style varies according to subject. Definitely worth the 50 cents I paid for it.

Today my Amazon order appeared:

Kristin Lavransdatter in the new translation finally arrived and now I can take off on that. The new translation is far superior to the 1923 version I have so well worth the expense. I bought the massive volume--just about half the cost of buying the three volumes and a bargain at Amazon. I'm used to carrying large books so I like it.

I needed to buy another book so I could get free shipping (I can feel your tears of sympathy over my plight!) so I bought a treat for myself: Meet Me in St. Louis by Sally Benson. I didn't even realize the movie was based on a novel. I am so excited. I hope it is as good as I remember Mama's Bank Account being when I was young.

>215 MusicMom41: MusicMom41
I am not teelgee, but here is the link to the The Gathering Place, where we can chat.
And I am glad your Kristin Lavransdatter finally arrived, I just finished it today.

Went away for the weekend to attend a friend's wedding and was pleasantly surprised when I got home to receive 3 books in the mailbox.

Eleven on Top by Janet Evanovich
Pope Joan by Donna Woolfolk Cross
Miss Julia Speaks Her Mind by Ann Ross

Thanks FAM for the link. MusicMom, of course you can talk about books there!!

Me and hubby was in town today and popped in to the biggest bookshop.
Some books on salesdesks and one McCall Smith. Today I had to pay myself, but Hubby carried them home.
And just lists of books without coments are pretty dull reading. I'm glad a little chit-chat is back. Thanks to you guys who hasn't been scared away.

Ildfloden (River of Fire (Aag ka darya)) by Qurratulain Hyder. A story from India. A colourful expedtion through 2500 years history.

Toget til Fort Humboldt (Breakhart Pass) by Alistair MacLean, because I did not have it.

Ved sjøen (By the Sea) by Abdulrazak Gurnah. Because the author are born and raised in Zanzibar. I have lived there.

Himmelsjøen (From Heaven Lake - Travels trough Sinkiang and Tibet) by Vikram Seth.
For my fascination for the authors other books and India and for hubby who loves travelsprogram on TV.

The Right Attitude to Rain by Alexander McCall Smith, because it is an Isabel Dalhousie novel and I did not have it.

fixed touchstones

The House at Riverton by Kate Morton

The Animal Dialogues: Uncommon Encounters in the Wild by Craig Childs

The Secret Knowledge of Water : Discovering the Essence of the American Desert by Craig Childs

House of Rain: Tracking a Vanished Civilization Across the
American Southwest by Craig Childs

I am really looking forward to the Craig Childs books...

Got home to a box from bookcloseouts.com with, of course, a coupon so I can go buy more sometime between now and the end of the year.

Marike's World by Catherine M. Rae

The Circus in Winter by Cathy Day

If I Never Get Back by Darryl Brock

Zanna's Gift: A Life in Christmases by Scott Richards

My son got his scholastic book order from school. I ordered him 2 french books (he is in an immersion school and they don't give out english book flyers)

-Les ecureuils (squirrels)
-Les feuilles d'automne (fall leaves)

On my way home today, I decided to check out a small charity book sale. What a good decision!! Amid the usual books that I've come to expect at such sales, I found a stack of 14 books on women in WWII (all with the same initials--ROH--written on the inside cover). Too good to pass up. Plus I can tell myself it was all for charity. :)

Code Name 'Mary': memoirs of an American woman in the Austrian underground by Muriel Gardiner
Cast No Shadow: the life of the American spy who changed the course of World War II by Mary S. Lovell
The women who lived for danger: the agents of the Special Operations Executive by Marcus Binney
Between silk and cyanide: a codemaker's war, 1941-1945 by Leo Marks
Outwitting the Gestapo by Lucie Aubrac
Nancy Wake: SOE's greatest heroine by Russell Braddon
Code name Christiane Clouet: a woman in the French Resistance by Claire Chevrillon
Jacqueline: pioneer heroine of the resistance by Stella King
The wolves at the door: the true story of America's greatest female spy by Judith L. Pearson
Flames in the Field: the story of four SOE agents in occupied France by Rita Kramer
A Life in Secrets: Vera Atkins and the Missing Agents of WWII by Sarah Helm
Violette Szabo: the life that I have by Susan Ottaway
Spy Princess: The Life of Noor Inayat Khan by Shrabani Basu

>219 IaaS: Iaas - I'll say again, it's not chit chat that I (and others) object to; it's many many many posts of off topic chit chat, which is what the new thread is for. Chit chat all you want about books here - I didn't say only make lists of books. sheesh.

I love it, love it, love it when the mailman comes and brings me books. So apart from the 3 books I got this morning when my neighbor delivered the mail that came in while I was away, I now received 2 others this afternoon ....

Wild Rose, the True Story of a Civil War Spy by Ann Blackman
Rise to Rebellion by Jeff Shaara

I'm not sure about Rise to Rebellion because I think it's more novel and less historical, but I saw it on a mooch list and decided to give it a try .... one day .. so for now it's on my TBR list. If anyone's read this, I'd be glad to get your opinion on what you thought about it.

#223 christieguc

What a wonderful collection! I'm trying very hard not to be jealous! ;-) It would be such fun to find out about that period of history through what women were doing. WWII is always fascinating.

(edited for spelling)

Via Audible.com: Uncle Vanya by Anton Chekhov

I have another book that I got at Borders but forgot to post:

Necropath by Eric Brown.

I also got a couple of Book Mooches in from the UK

The Talisman of Troy
Tyrant

A short content-free list.

Came home with a booklet of knitting patterns: Debbie Bliss Luxury Collection.

223 I agree with MusicMom, what an interesting collection.

From the library this..er... yesterday afternoon:

The Salem Witch Papers : Verbatim Transcripts of the Legal Documents of the Salem Witchcraft Outbreak of 1692, edited by Paul Boyer and Stephen Nissanbaum. (two out of three volumes) and...

Good Wives : Image and Reality in the Live of Women of Northern New England 1650-1750 by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich. Because - now, don't laugh - I can't find my copy in the house.

Maybe we should start a thread for What Books Left Your House Today? I think it would be shorter:-)

#223 I have the Russell Braddon Nancy Wake book! What a great collection Christiguc!

I had an order come in - The Girls: A Novel and Kate Grenville's The Lieutenant.

October thread is up here: http://www.librarything.com/talktopic.php?newpost=1&topic=46630#top

#230 avaland

"Because - now, don't laugh - I can't find my copy in the house."

avaland, I admire your restraint and thrift--you borrowed it from thelibrary instead of going out and buying it again! (Just don't tell my Hubby that's an option!)