What did YOU buy today? Message Board #2

Acquisitions, gifts, new books purchases, anything added to your library...

The other thread was so unwieldy, took too long to load, etc, time for a new one I thought.

A couple of interesting things in the mail today: a copy of Gary Shteyngart's Absurdistan, along with the new Penguin classics edition of The Portable Dorothy Parker, edited by Marion Meade, and which appears just totally irresistible. ("The sun's gone dim, and the moon's turned black, for I loved him, and he didn't love back.")

Well done, Louis!
In the mail today: Gaslit Nightmares a collection of horror stories edited by Hugh Lamb, Tales from a gas-lit graveyard, ditto as above, Maria, or the wrongs of a woman by Mary Wollstonecraft.
And YES, Louis, Dorothy Parker IS irresistible!

I just recently picked up The Future of the Brain: The Promise and Perils of Tomorrow's Neuroscience by Steven Rose

A friend of mine gave me a few books that had belonged to her mom. Then I bought a couple more.
Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
Voyager by Diana Gabaldon
A Breath of Snow and Ashes (Outlander) by Diana Gabaldon
Queen of Swords by Sara Donati
The Last Wife of Henry VIII: A Novel by Carolly Erickson
Abundance: A Novel of Marie Antoinette by Sena Jeter Naslund
Dark Angels: A Novel by Karleen Koen

Was given Imperial Legions: a novel by Andrew M. Seddon

Bill

In today's mail from Amazon, a copy of Century Girl: 100 Years in the Life of Doris Eaton Travis, Last Living Star of the Ziegfeld Follies, the new graphic biography by Lauren Redniss, and it's just a gorgeous book.

I've just mooched a couple of books: Tottie by Rumer Godden, Flat Stanley, and The Gorilla Who Wanted To Grow Up by Jill Tomlinson. The first two replace childhood books that were lost, the third is one I've never read, although I still know The Owl Who Was Afraid of the Dark by heart.

I also bought some books from Amazon but they're Christmas presents for other people. :(

BoPeep - My 9-year-old says "Who would put Flat Stanley on BookMooch? It's one of the best books in the world!"

Just got in the mail The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood and The secret city by Fred Goodman.
I am curious to see how the first one compares to Homer's daughter by Robert Graves, and I am intrigued by the second, whose subtitle is "Woodlawn Cemetery and the buried history of New York." (Yes, I have an interest in cemeteries and funerary art).

This week I recieved a couple of books in the mail via BookMooch: The Thousand Orcs by R.A. Salvatore and Mirror, Mirror by Gregory Maguire.

I used my Borders Savings to buy a history book I have had my eye on:

Ancient Cities of the Indus Valley Civilization by Jonathan Mark Kenoyer. I had to order it, but it took less than 10 days.

Just bought these two from the library's "sale" shelf;

Press On!: Futher Adventures in the Good Life by General Chuck Yeager
The Fifth Child by Doris Lessing

$5.00 for two hardback books in good conition! Man I love the library!

usually 1 weekend day is our bookshopping day. today hit 1 independent, 1 Borders',and 2 used bookstores.
The Sad Variety by Nicholas Blake-semi-obscure British mystery
1st edition of The King's Buccanneer by Raymond Feist
See it in my Outfit by Peter S. Beagle
The Scholars of Night by John M. Ford
The Book of Lost Things by John Connolly
Star Trek Ships of the Line
Memory and Dream and The Gate of Ivory by Charles de Lint.

In yesterday's mail, from bookseller Dan Pope in W.Hartford, Ct., an as-new, signed copy of Charles D'Ambrosio's collection The Dead Fish Museum.

Went to Wolfmueller's books (http://www.wolfmuellersbooks.com) so my wife could buy my Christmas gift. Walked out with;

Icewalk by Robert Swan
Artic Passage: The Turbulent History of the Land and People of the Bering Sea 1697-1976) by William R. Hunt
John Adams by David McCullough
The Path Between the Seas by David McCullough

She wanted to spen $20 and ended up spending $18-something with tax. Wish she had $200 to spend. LOL

Just had a box from Zooba delivered which contained Inès of My Soul by Isabel Allende, Ship of Ghosts: The Story of the USS Houston, FDR's Legendary Lost Cruiser, and the Epic Saga of her Survivors by James D. Hornfischer, Not Your Mother's Slow Cooker Cookbook by Beth Hensperger and Julie Kaufmann, Field of Blood and The Dead Hour by Denise Mina, One Good Turn by Kate Atkinson, and Death of a Writer by Michael Collins.

From a local store called The Elegant Garage Sale (yesterday) I picked up We All Fall Down by Eric Walters and Twelve by Nick McDonell. I did go back there today, but they had nothing new and after inspecting the shelves for anything good I may have missed, I came up empty handed. I was very tempted to pick up a second copy of Last Orders by Graham Swift but couldn't think of anyone I knew who would want to read it.

It's Christmas bonus time!! What else but a bunch of books would I spend my bonus on?! I had fun today shopping for books.
Mozart's Sister by Nancy Moser
The Last Van Gogh by Alyson Richman
The Hidden Diary of Marie Antoinette
by Carolly Erickson
Return to Me by Rosemary Rogers
The Lady and The Unicorn by Tracy Chevalier

I just received Helen of Troy by Margaret George, I love her other books and look forword to reading this one.

I've been buying entirely too much lately. So far this month:

Isaac Asimov: Four of the six Lucky Starr books (completing my collection), Robots: Machines in Man's Image (with Karen Frankel), and Understanding Physics
Brian Augustyn: Batman: Gotham by Gaslight
Dave Barry: Dave Barry's Greatest Hits
Philip K. Dick: A Scanner Darkly (replacing older copy), Radio Free Albemuth, and Time Out of Joint
Harlan Ellison: Deathbird Stories (replacing older copy), Mefisto in Onyx
Bobby Fischer: Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess
Neil Gaiman: Neverwhere, Sandman Vol. 1
Stephen Jay Gould: Full House
Brian Greene: The Fabric of the Cosmos
Stephen Hawking: Black Holes and Baby Universes
Larry Niven: Destiny's Road
E. Radford: The Encyclopedia of Superstitions
Ed Regis: Great Mambo Chicken & the Transhuman Condition
Mark Twain: Life on the Mississippi
Roger Zelazny: Unicorn Variations

All used, thank goodness.

Wait, I also bought a new copy of Strunk and White's The Elements of Style. That was new.

Today at the replica of hell that is Wal Mart 4 days before Christmas I bought:

The Pursuit of Happyness by Chris Gardner
Fat Girl by Judith Moore

I guess I've been getting a little nervous lately at my resolution not to buy any books in January or February, so I've been going a little crazy in December, and since I have food on the brain ('tis the season), they're all cookbooks.

Today I ordered:
Calciyum!: Delicious Calcium-Rich Dairy-Free Vegetarian Recipes
The Whole Soy Cookbook
Horn of the Moon Cookbook
Vegan Vittles
Table for Two

I bought a huge batch of books today but sadly most of them are presents for other people. :-(

I did grab The Historian for myself in the three-for-two, though, and A Wayne In A Manger, which should be a giggle.

Just bought The Jennifer Morgue by Charles Stross. Liking if not loving it.

For $7.00 from the Friends of the Library bookstore:

Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
The Giver by Lois Lowry
The Awakening by Kate Chopin
Diplomacy of Wolves (The Secret Texts, Book 1) by Holly Lisle
In the Hand of the Goddess (Lionness Quartet) by Tamora Pierce
Lioness Rampant (Song of the Lioness) by Tamora Pierce
The Woman Who Rides Like a Man (Song of the Lioness) by Tamora Pierce
Knight of a Trillion Stars (Futuristic Romance) by Dara Joy
A Fistful of Charms by Kim Harrison
Encyclopedia of Fantasy and Science Fiction Art Techniques by John Grant
Inkheart by Cornelia Funke
Confessions of a Shopaholic by Sophie Kinsella

(These are my husband's, NOT mine.)
No Man's Land (Star Trek Voyager: Gateways, Book 5) by Christie Golden
Gateways #7: What Lay Beyond (Star Trek) by Diane Carey

For $3.00, at Half Price Books

Alanna: The First Adventure (Lionness Quartet) by Tamora Pierce

I bought A Game of Thrones, Through a Glass Darkly, Fistful of Charms, A Knight in Shining Armor,The Dream Thief by Shana Abe (no touchstone), and One of Those Flings.

I recently picked up:

Next Man Up by John Feinstein, a behind the scenes look at the Baltimore Ravens (NFL football ) team. He spent a year with them and then wrote about life in the NFL.

And Hell to Pay by Simon R. Green, the 7th book in the Nightside series. Dark Fantasy as if Purgetory becomes an invisible section of London.

Well, got a Border's coupon for $20 off $100 or more,so Cursor's Fury by Jim Butcher, My Big,Fat,Supernatural Wedding which has a Dresden Files story in it, and a bunch of graphic novels,some from the Fables series.

Had to make a quick run to the drug store yesterday and of course made a pit stop by the book rack.
One Night with a Prince by Sabrina Jeffries
Wishmakers by Dorothy Garlock

Edlib at #25: that's one of the books I'm giving myself for Christmas. Really enjoyed his The Atrocity Archives

Picked up two new cookbooks, one for French's French Fried Onion Rings and another on Irish cooking.

Also picked up two "Great Classics for Children' books, one for Tom Sawyer and the other for Huck Finn.

-Rob

So, on the day after Christmas, despite books being given and received, we trotted off to the used book stores. I was restrained, I admit, coming home with only two:

The National Trust's Of houshold stuff : the 1601 inventories of Bess of Hardwick, and Beneath the Skin: the collected essays of John Rechy

Hi all, I am new to LT, and have read with envy, since I haven't been out to purchase anything... until today:

The Diary of a Madman, The Government Inspector and Selected Stories Nikolay Gogol

The First Man in Rome
Colleen McCullough

The Alchemist's Daughter Katharine McMahon

The Leper's Bell
Peter Tremayne

This should keep me occupied for a while.

Stopped by the local thrift shop today to see if they had anything interesting. I came out with 8 paperbacks by Rex Stout, a copy of Fatal Burn by Lisa Jackson and a hardcover of Homing by Elswyth Thane that still has its book jacket and looks scarcely read though it is decades old.

The best part is that when I took them to the counter I found out that this weeks 'on sale' category is books. So I acquired the 10 books for a total of $1.49 US.

I bought Dragonfly in Amber and Voyager because I read Outlander and found myself hooked on this saga.

Today, five of the J. D. Robb "in Death" series and Terry Pratchett's Wyrd Sisters, for $2.95 apiece (half-price, essentially).

That's after going to the same store two days ago and finding Janet Evanovich's first Stephanie Plum book (One for the Money) and Nora Roberts' Blue Smoke, which I'd read good things about here.

I've got to stay out of that place.

Today, while strolling around Asheville, N.C.'s old town area, I went into a used book store and found the historical fiction trilogy of Here Be Dragons, Falls the Shadow, and The Reckoning by Sharon Kay Penman which I bought for myself as a late Christmas present.

The Stupidest Angel by Christopher Moore
I got this on the sale table for half price.

Storeetllr, I read them quite a while ago and LOVED them! I wish you the same enjoyment in reading them.
:-))

Thanks, Aluvalibri ~ I've read a few of her historical novels ~ my favorite is The Sunne in Splendour.

yep, I like that too, but the series you just got, about Llewellyn Prince of Wales, is probably my favourite.

I went to Borders and got (out of the bargain section) The man who mistook his wife for a hat by Oliver Sacks and The secret history of the pink carnation by Lauren Willig.
I will probably go to The Bruised Apple, a cool used bookstore not far from here, and see what else I can find. After all, I only got two books for Christmas
(:-((), and so I have to make up for it.....(any excuse for buying books is good)

I made use of a portion of a gift certificate and got Elfquest: The Discovery by Wendy and Richard Pini. On the way home I stopped into the thrift store and came away with Shopaholic Ties the Knot by Sophie Kinsella; a mindless read, but a very fun one.

...and I DID go to the Bruised Apple....and came out with five books, four Virago Modern Classics (urrahhhh!!) and another one.
Here they are:

Mirror, mirror on the wall: women writers explore their favorite fairy tales
The Brontes went to Woolworths by Rachel Ferguson
On the side of the angels by Betty Miller
The knight of cheerful countenance by Molly Keane
Young entry by M.J.Farrell

Now I am happy!

In today's mail, from an Amazon 3rd-party bookseller, a copy of Onions in the Stew by Betty MacDonald.

In the last week or so I got:

Capacity by Tony Ballantyne, SF
The Thrall's Tale by Judith Lindbergh, HF
The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett, HF - because of recomendations on LT
Blood Lines by Eileen Wilks, DF/PR
Full Moon Rising by Keri Arthur, DF/PR
Hell to Pay by Simon R. Green, DF
Next Man UP by John Feinstein, NF,SP, NFL
No Dominion by Charlie Huston, DF
Frangipani by Celestine Vaite, FI
In the Walled Gardens by Anahita Firouz, FI
The Dawn Stag by Jules Watson, FA
Fledgling by Octavia Butler, FA

All in paper, and all from either Borders or Barnes and Noble. I have 2 books from Amazon on the way, but they haven't arrived yet.

I spent over $90 on books at Goodwill this week!

3 Matthew Bartholomew mysteries -- Susanna Gregory
9 Redwall books -- Brian Jacques
The Hero with a Thousand Faces -- Joseph Campbell
Jung: His Life and Work -- Barbara Hannah
Grandmothers of the Light -- Paula Gunn Allen
Meditations with the Hopi -- Robert Boissiere
Rituals for Our Times: Celebrating, Healing, and Changing Our Lives and Our Relationships -- Evan Imber-Black
Body Wars -- Margo Maine
Called into Her Presence: Praying with Feminine Images of God -- Virginia Ann Froehle
Wicca: A Comprehensive Guide to the Old Religion in the Modern World -- Virginia Crowley
Eon -- Greg Bear
Cruel Sanctuary -- Brad Reynolds (signed)
The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, and The Return of the King -- J.R.R. Tolkien
Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants -- Ann Brasheres
The English Patient -- Micheal Ondaatge
Nights of Rain and Stars -- Maeve Binchey
A Primer of Freudian Psychology -- S. Hall Calvin
The Basic Writings of Sigmund Freud -- Sigmund Freud

There were about 10 more, but that's all I can remember right now...

I've had a great few days for book acquisitions - for my birthday I got my other half to take me book shopping!
The Complete Short Novels by D.H. Lawrence
The Child that Books Built by Francis Spufford
What Good are the Arts? by John Carey
The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
Hell's Angels by Hunter S. Thompson
Brighton Rock by Graham Greene
Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis
Go by John Clellon Holmes
Crome Yellow by Aldous Huxley
Goodbye to Berlin by Christopher Isherwood
The Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac
The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon
Fun Home by Alison Bechdel
Book Lust by Nancy Pearl

Plus... books I bought for the other half, but I'll probably read too...
The Plot Against America by Philip Roth
The Fourth Bear by Jasper Fforde
Something Happened by Joseph Heller
The Good Soldier Svejk by Jaroslav Hasek

My favorite Christmas gift: B&N giftcards!

With them, I bought Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader, which I have been devouring and delighting in already; Short History of Myth; and An Irish Christmas Feast for myself.

Also bought The Robber Bride and The Penelopiad for my sister who, like me, is an Atwood fan; One for the Money (Stephanie Plum) and Two for the Dough for my other sister, who needed some brain candy; The Things They Carried for the guy who will probably soon be my brother-in-law, and a writer's thesaurus (Oxford, of course) for the guy who is already my brother-in-law.

I gave almost everybody books for Christmas this year. Woohoo, yay books!

> 47

What are SF, HF, DR/PR, DF, NF, SP, NFL, FI, and FA?

I'm going to guess:

SF - science fiction
HF - historical fiction
DF - dark fantasy
PR - paranormal
NF - nonfiction
SP - sports
NFL - National Football League
FI - Fiction
FA - Fantasy

Aluvalibri - I am so glad you picked up some good Viragos to make up for the sad lack of Christmas books (I love The Brontes went to Woolworths if only for the title - it was why I had to buy it!

I am almost ashamed to post (rather belatedly) my Christmas haul:
I want those shoes by Paola Jacobbi (somebody knows my other obsession apart from books)
I say Nothing by Sandy Balfour
all of Naguib Mahfouz's Cairo Trilogy, which I have wanted for a while, especially with the new covers)
Venice revisited ahead of my next visit
and a load of cookbooks/food related books (they know my other love!) including The Virago book of Food, Life is Meals, the new Jamie Oliver and Amy Sedaris I like you: hospitality under the influence.

And then I picked myself up Tamasin Day-Lewis Tamasin's Weekend Food at the discount bookshop near my mother's.
So no need to go book shopping in January, though I don't suspect that will stop me!

Morphidae,

You got them all. :)

Lilithcat,

Sorry for the confusion, they are just codes for different genre types. Too lazy to type them all out.

FicusFan,

Where's my cookie?

finebalance, it seems you had a good Christmas booty!!! I only had two books at Christmas...:-((( but, what can I say? Sometimes it happens...
The bookstore I went to last night (and bought the Viragos at) is wonderful. Used books, but very well organized and plenty. Not like the Strand (what other store can compete?), but quite large and musty smelling and etc. etc. You would LOVE it! It is called Bruised Apple Books, and is ten minutes from my home. What more would I want?

FicusFan,

Where's my cookie?


Morphidea,

Imagine it :)

It wasn't today, but yesterday I purchased 6 books on sale through my book club. They are:

The Horse and His Boy by C.S. Lewis
Dead Aim by Iris Johansen
Goodnight Nobody by Jennifer Weiner
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
The Last Battle by C.S. Lewis
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis

Had a nice roam through Brookline Booksmith this morning and found two remainders (a nice copy of Oliver Wendell Holmes' The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table and The Explorer King by Robert Wilson) and downstairs in the used book room, a nice copy of Alberto Manguel's A History of Reading.

(Touchstones seem to be on the fritz for me, apologies)

Today I bought . . .

A Gentle Madness: Bibliophiles, Bibliomanes, and the Eternal Passion for Books
Every Book Its Reader: The Power of the Printed Word to Stir the World
Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading: Finding and Losing Myself in Books

These will be the last books I buy for a couple months. It's time to work on the TBR pile.

Took my son to B&N as he still had a Christmas gift card to use and ended up leaving with two books.
Death at La Fenice by Donna Leon, the first in the Guido Brunetti series, as I heard it praised by many people, and Monopoly by Rod Kennedy, which is "the story behind the world's best-selling game".
Now, no more books until next year! ;-))

There are too many thrift stores in my town...for my pocketbook, anyway! I spent $19...

Today I bought:
Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren
Matilda by Roald Dahl
M. C. Higgins, the Great by Virginia Hamilton
Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier
The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury
Acorna's People, Acorna's Search, and Acorna's World by Anne McCaffrey
An Introduction to Theories of Learning by B. R. Hergenhahn
Introduction to the Counseling Profession by David Capuzzi
The Weight of Water by Anita Shreve
Lady Moses by Lucinda Roy
Politically Correct Bedtime Stories by James Finn Garner

I am swearing right now not to buy anymore books for 2006 :p
Here are the 2 I bought today:
The Crimson Petal and the White by Michael Faber
Silent in the Grave by Deanna Raybourn

I bought Chalktown by Melinda Haynes off a bargain table. Has anyone read it?

I have just bought Brother Odd by Dean Koontz and The Emissary by Fiona McIntosh.

Feel like I have just confessed my sins.

Hello all, Happy New Year! I found a New Year's Day factory outlet book sale this afternoon... what a great way to start 2007!

This is what I picked up:

The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris
Joe Cinque's Consolation by Helen Garner
Father Lands by Emily Ballou
I Have A Bed Made of Buttermilk Pancakes by Jaclyn Moriarty
A Long Way Down by Nick Hornby
The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
The Sea by John Banville
The Electric Michelangelo by Sarah Hall

Not bad for just over $40 (all brand new, too, just a few remainder marks). So many more things I wanted but I mostly picked things I knew something about rather than taking a gamble on unknowns. Although from reading some of the reviews of what I've just bought I'm a little hesitant about some of them now. Oh well, I'll just have to find out for myself...

Since this is the holiday season, I always treat myself to books. Just bought: The Peasants' Revolt by Alastair Dunn, A History of Appalachia by Richard Drake, and Word Origins by Anatoly Liberman. Great reads and great fun.

Starting the new year on a roll here. Just bought one today. Actually only bookstore open was the used bookstore.
Now Face to Face by Karleen Koen

None today. But yesterday I picked up a silly Christmas book from the clearance table at Border's: The Night Before Cat-Mas.

Yippee! Happy New Year!

Today, I bought a used copy of Mystery of Errors by Simon Hawke (thanks to a reccomendation here) and Twilight and New Moon by Stephanie Meyer (finally gonna give it a whirl.)

More to come, I'm sure...!

Well, I've not been confessing most of my acquisitions, as by and large they are mooches and so not, properly speaking, 'bought'. But I did get a lovely small bouquet of books for Christmas, and have just ordered myself a few. The jewels that make up my Christmas stash are: The Machinery of Freedom; Too Loud a Solitude; the new reprinting of Virginia Woolf's The London Scene and The New Tea Companion, by Jane Pettigrew.

Bohumil Hrabal's Too Loud a Solitude was one of a few books I'd requested by Czech authors, and I'm supplementing that and Prague: a Traveler's Literary Companion (gotten via BookMooch) with some purchases from Amazon. War With the Newts and Tales from Two Pockets, both by Karel Capek, and Prague: a Literary and Cultural History are due within a few days. Hrabal's I Served the King of England should come late in the month; a third-party copy of Contemporary East European Poetry and my mooch of The Unbearable Lightness of Being a bit sooner.

Nonetheless, I'm envious. (In a friendly way.) Some of you have wonderful acquisitions!

Wandered into a used paperback place I haven't been to in a couple of years, and came away with 8 books for $22.

Not a Creature was Stirring by Jane Haddam (I ran across the essays she wrote at her website and thought "If she writes this well on politics I'll bet her mysteries are pretty good)

Shattered Silk, Stitches in Time, Black Rainbow and The Dancing Floor by Barbara Michaels aka Elizabeth Peters (the Amelia Peabody series has caused me to buy anything Peters wrote)

Two for the Dough and Three to Get Deadly by Janet Evanovich (Stephanie Plum is a hoot)

California Passage by Cliff Farrell (I keep filling my collection of this former LA Herald-Examiner editor's Westerns)

I don't have it yet, but ordered Nabokov's Butterfly last night :D

In anticipattion of a signing on Saturday, got Find Me byCarol O'Connell.

Amphigorey Again
The Mike Hammer Collection
The Complete Peanuts 1957-1958
and
Pirates by John Matthews

all arrived today!! The last is a gift for my husband and I will have to hide it to keep myself from going through it and opening all the little envelopes and compartments.

I got a book from Amazon today that I had ordered about a month ago. Another is still in transit.

The one that came:

Shadow of the Lords by Simon Levack an Aztec mystery. I have a couple of books I have to read for RL book groups, but once they are done, I am going to dive in.

Picked up a used copy of The New Cognitive Neurosciences for cheap. Looks cool.

I've had a couple of interesting things arrive in the last few days: from Amazon, a copy of Kockroach: a Novel by Tyler Knox, and also a copy of the new Robert Stone memoir Prime Green: Remembering the Sixties. And from a friend of mine in the bookbiz, I got an ARC of Joshua Ferris's Then We Came To the End, which has been highly recommended and which I'll be getting to post haste.

Lovely surprise when I got home today. An Amazon package waiting for me and, since I had not bought anything, leaving me quite puzzled.
It contained Everyman's Rules by Carrie Tiffany, a Christmas gift from a wonderful overseas friend!
It DID make my day! :-))))))

I got the final part of my order from Amazon today.

The Season of the Hyaena by Paul Doherty. It is the second book in a 3 book series set in ancient Egypt near the end of the 18th dynasty when Akhenaten. and then Tutankhamen are on the throne. It seems to be a mystery/thriller type of series.

The books are from the UK and not published in the US. I got books 1 and 3 no problem, but had quite a time getting #2. Now that I have them all I hope to start reading the series soon.

LouisBranning: RE: Message 78

I heard part of an interview with Stone on NPR last week. I intend to pick up a copy of Prime Green myself. Have you dipped into it yet? Any impressions?

laytonwoman, the Robert Stone memoir does indeed look great, and I just noticed that it's the cover review for this weekend's NYTBook Review too. I should be getting to it pretty quick, as soon as I finish Joshua Ferris's Then We Came To the End, which I'm about halfway through with right now, and really enjoying.

Patricia Yeo Cooking From A to Z by Patricia Yeo. It was $3 in Winners's clearance section, so I couldn't resist. I'm a total sucker for cookbooks, (if they're cheap, I'll buy 'em), so I couldn't resist.

I also got two fantasies in the mail yesterday, via BookMooch: The Silent Blade and Sea of Swords, both bt R.A. Salvatore.

Succumbed and bought Hannibal Rising at Sam's Club yesterday. Am 1/2 way through and still don't understand exactly how I'm supposed to reconcile this vengeful young man with the cannibal psycho we all know and love.

This weekend I picked up some new and used books and I had a large order at Borders come in. Several of the books are inspired by what I have seen on LT.

Plain Jane by Laurien Gardner
A Lady Raised High by Laurien Gardner
The Rest Falls Away by Colleen Gleason
Tempting Danger by Eileen Wilks
Mortal Danger by Eileen Wilks
After Midnight by Teresa Medeiros
The Vampire who Loved Me by Teresa Medeiros
Daughter of Hounds by Caitlin R. Kiernan

Non-Fiction:

Whose Bible is it ? by Jaroslav Pelikan

LT Inspired:

The Coming of the King by William Meikle
The Battle for the Throne by William Meikle
Culloden by William Meikle
Threads by Nell Gavin
Melusine by Sarah Monette
Old Filth by Jane Gardam

Used:

The Bloody Red Baron by Kim Newman
Mother of Plenty by Colin Greenland

Bleeding Hearts, Baptism in Blood, and Deadly Beloved, all used at a bookstore whose owner says he's thinking of selling out.

Says something about me that my first reaction was not "NO!" but "Hmm. How might I get a bank loan to buy this place?"

I used the last of one of my Christmas gift certificates to get Crossroads and Other Tales of Valdemar, edited by Mercedes Lackey. It was the only thing I could think of that a) I wanted, b) I'd actually read sometime soon, and c) cost in the region of $10, which was what I had left. I'll probably dig into it two or three reads from now.

My new year's resolution to reduce that unread book pile is already under threat. Fatally I walked past a discount bookstore yesterday evening with 15 minutes to kill before I had to be at my meeting. The end result was
Sebastian Faulks Human Traces
Madhur Jaffrey A Taste of the East
Matthew Kneale Small crimes in an age of abundance
Adrian Mathews The Apothecary's House
Marilynne Robinson Gilead
and Alice Hoffman Blackbird House.
I'm now tempted to just go ahead and place that Amazon order that's been piling up in my shopping basket while I try not to succumb to the final temptation.... (and work out how to stop the piles of unread books from toppling over now they've got so high)

"(and work out how to stop the piles of unread books from toppling over now they've got so high)"

Big C clamps.

I purchased two packs of notecards w/ envelopes, a calendar for the kitchen, a planner for my purse, envelope seals w/ my initial on them (z), a journal (b/c I plan on keeping track of the books I've read). Then, I went ahead and broke my only new year's resolution and purchased Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre and Jasper Fforde's The Big Over Easy. I used a gift card for BN that I got for my birthday.

I had a fine, fine book day. I got some freaking amazing deals - I got about $210 worth of books for $35.

Big Planet by Jack Vance ($2)
Worlds by Joe Haldeman ($2)
Design for Impact by Eric Ericson ($1)

My best buy of the day was a box set of 10 Roald Dahl novels for $20 (normally $129.)

I also picked up Sabriel for full price (oh noes!) since I got books two and three of the series on clearance, and I can't very well start them without having book one.

I think I did pretty well for myself tonight. I love clearance sales at Chapters.

Yesterday, in the mail, I got Edith Wharton's Ghost Stories and Fenny by Lettice Cooper, another Virago to add to my collection.

It has been a good week for acquisitions here. For sale at the library I picked up Pride and Prejudice and See How They Run by James Patterson for a grand total of .50. I also received a couple of mooches Pompeii by Robert Harris, Excalibur, Bernard Cornwell and Straight into Darkness by Faye Kellerman. And today, I just had to pick up Enemy of God by Bernard Cornwell and La Morte d'Arthur by Thomas Malory. My husband is asking if we need to buy a bigger house for all of the books, I said that was fine with me.

Just ordered these yesterday from Amazon using (in part) my gift certificate from a friend. I thanked her by sending her an email saying "Thou Leadest Me into Temptation"

"A Gladiator Dies Only Once: The Further Investigations of Gordianus the Finder" Steven Saylor

"The Judgment of Caesar (A Novel of Ancient Rome)" Steven Saylor

"Rubicon: A Novel of Ancient Rome" Steven Saylor

"The Physician's Tale" Ann Benson

"Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone" Rajiv Chandrasekaran

Not bad today. I went into our used bookstore to pick up a copy of John Grisham's The Client. I was very focused, I was going to spend less than 15 minutes in there, find the book I wanted and get out.

I walked out with that and:

Pop Goes the Weasel; James Patterson
The Lake House; James Patterson
Star Trek: Best Destiny; Diane Carey
Cold Burn; Max Allan Collins
Rogue Saucer; John Vornholt
Incident at Arbuk; John Gregory Betancourt

I went to the Waterstones website and learned of
Middlesex and A Prayer for Owen Meany on sale for £2.99, so I went out after work to bag me copies. They also had Fugitive Pieces but there's a copy on eBay that'd be cheaper if no-one bids for it :)

The most recent books I've received in the mail are Indy Cars of the 1960s and Cooper Cars from Smoky Mountain Books via Half.com.

From a local used bookstore in N. Virginia (C&W Books) I picked up The Radioactive Redhead, The Doomsday Brunette, and Furies and Fireflies Over Korea.

The bookstore I go to has started carrying used books so I picked up two, one I've read, one I haven't.

the one I've already read is the first 1-800-Where-R-You When Lightning Strikes. The one I haven't read but have heard a lot about is Maximum Ride.

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Ice Trap and Haunted Ground. I didn't buy them really, I joined a book selling club or whatever it's called, and those were my very nice welcome gifts which arrived today :)

Today I received The Elfquest Gatherum in the mail. Horray! I've been waiting for it for a while; it looks really neat, and I can't wait to dig into it.

With a gift certificate I got for Christmas (belated), I just bought The crime at Black Dudley by Margery Allingham, and Why she married him by Myriam Chapman.
I have always been a fan of British mysteries, hence the first title; the second sounded interesting as I read the synopsis on the back. We shall see...

Hi everyone!

It's my first day and first post at LT!

Here's what I bought today:

Fool Moon by Jim Butcher
Grave Peril by Jim Butcher
Summer Knight by Jim Butcher
Death Masks by Jim Butcher
Blood Rites by Jim Butcher
Bloodsucking Fiends by Christopher Moore
Coyote Blue by Christopher Moore
Practical Demonkeeping by Christopher Moore
Dead Witch Walking by Kim Harrison
The Fourth Bear by Jasper Fforde
Gods in Alabama by Joshilyn Jackson

All I can say is get on over to Books a Million!! Their sale is more than decent!! ;)

ok...so last night i purchased:
Something Rotten by Jasper Fforde
a magazine
more envelope seals w/ my initial on them

Total price was about $15. I used a gift card from B&N.

Then this morning, I purchased:
The Big Bamboo by Tim Dorsey
Fragile Things by Neil Gaiman

I used the rest of my gift card & my brother paid for the remainder of the balance.

My new year's resolution was not to purchase any more books until I've read all of my unread stacks. I guess, technically, since I haven't spent any of my own money, yet, I haven't broken my resolution.

I finished off my Borders Reward card and picked up The First Total War by David A. Bell. I'm looking forward to into to it soon and see how Bell makes his case the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars were the first total wars.

Over the weekend I won Fugitive Pieces, Anne Michaels and The Wasp Factory, Iain Banks.
I read my OHs paperback copy of TWF and it was rather tatty by the time I completed it so I wanted to treat him to a new(er) edition.

My resolution to read more of my unread books before book shopping again has crumbled further. I went on to Amazon to purchase a couple of gifts and ended up also buying myself Chris Stewart's Driving over Lemons ahead of a planned trip to Andalucia, Carrie Tiffany's Everyman's Rules for Scientific Living and Rebecca West's Black Lamb and Grey Falcon, which at 1200 pages will definitely keep me quiet for a while.

Maybe I give up book buying in February. It is a shorter month.....

finebalance, you know you WILL NOT GIVE UP ON BOOK BUYING IN FEBRUARY!!!!!!! (and neither will I, by the way).
Yesterday I took a ride to a wonderful local used bookstore (does not compare to Strand, but it is cool all the same), and bought Three men in a boat by Jerome K. Jerome, which I had been thinking about for a while, Love in winter by Storm Jameson (yet another Virago), and Q's legacy by Helene Hanff. Luckily (or unluckily, depending on the point of view), the nearby used book library store was closed because of the holiday.....

I got a couple of things from Amazon today, a copy of Rob Sheffield's novel Love is a Mix Tape: Life and Loss, One Song at a Time, and also a copy of The Paris Review Interviews 1, which looks like one I won't be able to put down once I get started.

I kept hearing Rebecca West's book cited during Milosevic's reign in Serbia during the '90s and formed an intent to read it. Finebalance, you've just reignited that intent.

Linkmeister, I have the book but have not read it yet, although I like Rebecca West's writing quite a lot. Her prose is superb!

Just picked up Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything, by Don Tapscott & Anthony D. Williams.

I went into Walmart today for an oil change and waled out with Eragon... what can I say, paper backs were 25% off and I want to see what all the hype is about. I was surprised at how thick the book is, though I'm not sure why.

111> I want to pick up Wikinomics, it sounds quite interesting.

I passed by my favourite bookstore and discovered they were having a sidewalk sale! I picked up Myths of the Hindus and Buddhists by Ananda K. Coomaraswamy and Sister Nivedita for the princely sum of $3.

While browsing on Amazon for something entirely different, I happened to see that Lost Girls cost significantly less than when I first wishlisted it. It was in my shopping cart, and now (hopefully) it's on its way. Ever since I read Watchmen, I've been completely hooked on Alan Moore.

Here I go again.

I stopped at Books-a-Million during my lunch hour and picked up The Well of Lost Plots by Jasper Fforde and You Suck by Christopher Moore. Fforde's was on the bargain table and Moore's just went on sale, so I paid retail.

Linkmeister and Aluvalibri, I shall look forward to hearing what you make of the Rebecca West. I put it on my wishlist last summer after reading a review prompted by Canongate's reissuing the book in the UK. It then turned up at the end of the year in a list of top five travel books compiled by the owner of my favourite London bookshop, Daunts. The omens were too much. I had to buy it!

114 > I was planning on ordering Lost Girls but I mentioned it to one of my friends and he said that it really doesn't live up to Alan Moore's other works. I'm still considering picking it up, but I'm wary of spending that much money on a book that's been given an unfavourable review (by someone whose opinion I trust and value.)

At least it's only $57 on Amazon, instead of $100 at my local comic shop.

So I went into a used book store today and only walked out with three books! Go me!

Song of the River by Sue Harrison
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams
This Alien Shore by C.S. Friedman (in hardcover and good condition, for $5)

All of the following were acquired on a visit to my local used-book store, a delightful jumble of treasures whose owner seems, Plimpton-like, to have lived everywhere and done virtually everything at one time or another and enjoys regaling his customers with orts and fragments of his life story as he totals up their accounts (by hand).

1. Homer the Theologian by Robert Lamberton. I’d checked this book out of the library a few years ago in connection with my dissertation. The bookstore’s owner store got a chuckle out of the title. “Never knew Homer was a Bible-thumper,” he commented. The epithet is Porphyry’s, and Lambert’s subtitle—“Neoplatonist Allegorical Reading and the Growth of the Epic Tradition”—gives a hint as to how later ages appropriated the author of the Iliad and Odyssey as a source of divine truth. I finished the dissertation more than five years ago and am now looking forward to perusing this study at my leisure.

2. Creative Nonfiction: Researching and Crafting Stories of Real Life, by Philip Gerard. The university where I work has been consciously cultivating its bona fides as a hot spot of creative nonfiction, and I have shared office space with a number of promising graduate students in this field. Although my primary writing interest is fiction, I’ve attempted brief forays into this genre as well and am open to learning more about what makes it tick.

3. Dancing After Hours: Stories by Andre Dubus. I am a newcomer to Dubus’s work but am trying to read more good short fiction and decided to acquire this book as part of that program. Resisted another top-drawer story collection (by Ha Jin) on today’s visit but may return for it later.

4. The Spell by Alan Hollinghurst. I admired his writing style in The Swimming-Pool Library (and have a weakness for both British settings and gay themes). I found a pristine copy for $8.95 and went for it.

5. Small Wonder by Barbara Kingsolver. Long a fan of Kingsolver’s fiction, I look forward to reading her essays.

Secretary of Dreams arrived yesterday - it's a collection of Stephen King stories creepily illustrated by Glenn Chadbourne. The stories aren't new, but the drawings are and the style really suits. I don't normally buy every special production Stephen King book, but this one seemed like something I should have. I re-read Jerusalem's Lot last night and the "centerfold" illustration literally made me gasp it was so surprising. Nice work.

Today I finally found a copy of Airborn by Kenneth Oppel. I've wanted this book for about a year and a half now, ever since I read a library copy, but it's only out in trade paperback here and I have issues with trade paperbacks. (They cost too bloody much! YA tpbs are a little bit better, ranging from $13-17, but most adult tpbs cost between $18-25 here. Way too much money for me). I was overjoyed to see this mass market copy, (an American issue), in my local bookstore's bargain section. I snapped it up right away. Now I'm looking forward to rereading it.

My friend gave me book vouchers as a belated Birthday present, so I waited until I was in tax-free shopping at the airport on my way out of New Zealand and bought books by two New Zealand authors:
The Vintner's Luck by Elizabeth Knox
Book Book by Fiona Farrell
I was also tempted by the new editions of Janet Frame, but I think they'll have to wait...

I went to a Friends of the library sale and got these books:

Romance Novels:

Crimson City by Liz Maverick

A Taste of Crimson by Marjorie Liu

Even Vampires Get the Blues by Katie MacAlister

An anthology called Man of my Dreams

Two YA books:

Philip Hall Likes Me. I reckon maybe. by Bette Greene

and

The Darkling by Charles Butler

and Fodor's Guide to Virginia and Maryland, 1995 edition.

I had a lovely surprise this weekend to come home to find a copy of Mrs Humphry Ward's Marcella waiting for me in the post, a lovely gift from a friend -with the added joy of being an old-style Virago cover AND being accompanied by a Strand Bookstore book bag (to set me apart from the rest of those London bookshoppers!). It cheered a dull cold London weekend when I was having to work, wonderfully.

Oh, and then I made the mistake of going into a bookstore with one of those 'three-for-two' paperback offers. I walked out with Restless by William Boyd (well, he's just scooped the Costa and I've never read him), The Last King of Scotland by Giles Foden and Mao: the unknown story by Jung Chang.

The last is a real doorstop, and along with Rebecca West's Black Lamb and Grey Falcon, which has now turned up from Amazon, will keep me very quiet!

I went into Chapters twice yesterday - I managed to escape once with out buying anything, but twice in one day? It was not fated to happen.

I bought:

The Twelfth Card by Jeffrey Deaver
The Sexual Life of Catherine M by Catherine Millet
The Truth About Death and Dying by Rui Umezawa (it was only $1 so I figured I'd give it a try, though I've heard nothing about the book.)

I was going to pick up The Cripple and His Talismans, since the story looked intriguing and the book itself caught my eye for being a cloth bound hard cover with no dust jacket. I couldn't justify spending any more though

Yesterday, I purchased an Audible download of Hubris by Michael Isikoff.

I received Soviet X-Planes from Powells, but it turns out to be an earlier edition then I expected; caveat emptor and all that.

Two days of intense stress at work led me to the bookstore at lunchtime - to browse...Ha! Walked out with Rainforest - a photographic journey by Thomas Marent. And so ended my New Year's resolution: 5 books out = 1 book in.

I didn't buy anything, but while I was cleaning the apartment I did discover a box of about 30 books that I knew I owned but though I'd some how lost. That was really wonderful.

I also picked up a few books from the free book shelf in the laundry room:

Ray Bradbury's One More For The Road
Robert Sabbag's Snowblind: a brief career in the cocaine trade
Lois Gresh's Technolife 2020

A friend of mine gave me a copy of Revelation Space.

Actually not today, but last Sunday, at the local library booksale:

Maggie by Stephen Crane
A new home, who'll follow? by Caroline Kirkland
Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell
Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton by Edward Rice
A handful of dust by Evelyn Waugh
A question of blood by Ian Rankin

I LOVE library booksales!!! Don't you all?

P.S. Some of the titles (and Evelyn Waugh!) do not touchstone.....weird.....

Just ordered from Amazon:

The Best American Nonrequired Reading

and:

Dry
Possible Side Effects: True Stories
Magical Thinking: True Stories

Today I splurged and picked up the 2007 Writer's Market. I keep loaning out my 2006 edition and figure it might be a bit outdated anyway.

At the used bookstore I picked up Past Redemption by Savannah Russe which is actually the second book in a series. I'll have to check out amazon and see if it will make sense to read it before picking up the first book.

I bought 3 books yesterday.
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Red Dragon by Thomas Harris
Drop Dead Gorgeous by Linda Howard

Okay, I bought these Tuesday, but I've been busy so there. :p

I bought:

Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger

Princess Daiana-An unauthorized biography by Richard Buskin

All the President's Men by Bob Woodward

The Summons by John Grisham

As usual, even though I have stacks of "To-Be Reads," couldn't pass up a chance at the bookstore!

Dead Beat: A Novel of the Dresden Files by Jim Butcher

Proven Guilty: A Novel of the Dresden Files by Jim Butcher

The Big Over Easy: a Nursery Crime by Jasper Fforde

I made the mistake (again) of passing the half price bookstore on Lamb Conduit's street with time to spare before my next appointment. I promised myself I would only buy one more book. But then I found all the Viragos, sadly with the new style covers, but still too much to resist. I walked out with:

Life Dust by Emma Donoghue
A Backward Place by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Dusty Answer by Rosamond Lehmann
Red Dust by Gillian Slovo
Queen of Dreams by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni and The Professor's House by Willa Cather

Plus a copy of The Complete Book of Flower Fairies by Cicely May Barker, which I'm hoping my neice will love as much as I used to as a child.

In the Waterstones sale...
Emma by Jane Austen
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
A Man without Country by Kurt Vonnegut
Blue Shoes and Happiness by Alexander McCall Smith
The Terracotta Dog by Andrea Camilleri

Just got home from Sams Club. Bought 3 books:
Dreams from My Father by Barack Obama
The Audacity of hope by Barack Obama
Hide by Lisa Gardner

I bought Warring Souls by Roxanne Varzi and think I need a new cookbook soon ;)

I picked up Devil in Winter by Lisa Kleypas because it was so highly recommended on the romance group :-)

$10 hard covers, buy one get two free at Chapters. How could I resist?

The Grand Ellipse by Paula Volsky
The White Dragon by Laura Resnick
Magic Time by Marc Scott Zicree
Manta's Gift by Timothy Zahn
The Wayfarer Redemption, Book 1 by Sara Douglass
The Assassins of Tamurin by S.D. Tower

I probably would have bought more if there had been more money in my account.

Eight books arrived from Thriftbooks.com, all but one by Jane Haddam:

Dear Old Dead
Quoth the Raven (touchstone give you something with that title by Jim Roper; not the right book)
A Great Day for the Deadly
Festival of Deaths
The Headmaster's Wife
Murder Superior
Fountain of Death

And, to complete (I think) my collection of Alistair MacLean books, Night Without End, which I used to own but somehow let slip away. I haven't read it in 20 years, at least.

I went to the used bookstore looking for either The Smoke Thief or the Guide to the Science of Discworld (I couldn't remember the exact name of the book) and wound up with A Brief History of Time, A Reader's Companion by Gene Stone. Not really what I was looking for as it seems to be more of a collection of observations about Stephen Hawking than a more simplistic guide to quantum physics (which is what I was looking for) but since I find the scientist himself pretty facinating I don't mind.

Went into town during lunch and hit up Second Run - the used book store component of a new store called River Run. Came out with 2 hardcovers-

Coronado
and
The Empty Chair

Cool.

My put my pay cheque into the bank yesterday, and went back to Chapters to indulge in more 3/$10 hardcovers.

I bought three more from that table and then started wandering. All in all I walked out with:

Ventus by Karl Schroeder
The Standing Dead by Ricardo Pinto
The Stone and the Maiden by Dennis Jones

from the 3/$10 table.

Year's Best Graphic Novels, Comics & Manga
First Meetings: In the Enderverse by Orson Scott Card
Eastern Standard Tribe by Cory Doctorow
The Cripple and His Talismans by Anosh Irani

from the regular bargain section (some of them were a dollar, how could I say no?)

Feast of Souls by C. S. Friedman
Across the Wall: A Tale of the Abhorsen and Other Stories
by Garth Nix

which I actuually paid full price for, because I love these two authors dearly.

I just bought Weight by Jeanette Winterson earlier today. Wonderful book.

Wife went into Old Navy, and I walked across the parking lot to Borders. First time I have ever been in a Borders.

Bought two books, both hardbacks, from the discount table.

Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank for $4.99
Flyboys by James Bradley for $5.99

I read Flags of Our Fathers, that I borrowed from a friend. So I think Flyboys should be good. I think I read Diary of a Young Girl when I was in elementry school, but don't really remember much of it. So I will read it again. Mainly bought it for the kids though.

Bill

Well today I went ot Barnes and Noble and shopped!

I got Hawaii from $80 a day as I am trying to plan a trip there this fall.

Dream-Hunter by Sherrilyn Kenyon
Living Dead In Dallas and Club Dead by Charlaine Harris
There were so many recommendations for the Sookie Stackhouse books that I finally went out and bought one and now am hooked so i picked up #2 and 3 today.

I just bought Persian Fire by Tom Holland and The Wars of the Roses the Soldiers' Experience by Anthony Goodman

Cheers

Its been a week of book splurging - I just got my hands on The Picts and Scots at War by Nick Aitchison today, bargain priced from an academic remainder shop.

Cheers

Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier (0.25 at a FoL sale!)

Five more of Nora Roberts/JD Robb's In Death Series:

Conspiracy in Death
Judgment in Death
Rapture in Death
Reunion in Death
Witness in Death

And two other Nora Roberts books:

Sea Swept and Rising Tides

Today the mailman (just love that man) delivered three books.
The Gardener's Butterfly Book
Seventh Son
Red Prophet - both by Orson Scott Card

Yesterday, in the mail, I found The making of a marchioness by Frances Hodgson Burnett, my second Persephone book!

*Don't know why the touchstone does not work for the title.....

Today, I've added the following to my library:
Labyrinth by Kate Mosse
Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts
Harry Potter à l'école des sorciers (the French translation of Harry Potter and the sorcerer's stone) by J.K. Rowling
Merde Actually (aka In the Merde for Love) by Steven Clarke
and
Oxford French Minidictionary

Aluvalibri - The Making of a Marchioness was the first Persephone I read. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did...

finebalance, I am sure I will!!!!
:-)))

Raymond Carver collected poems All of Us

Teacher Man, The Devil in the White City, Middlesex and The Hottest State...I thrive on used book stores, library booksales, bargain bins and yardsales. I can't afford to buy books full price. But used books have more character anyway.

I just ordered Aurora Floyd which I had seen mentioned on this board. I also ordered Volume 1 of the American Library short stories of Edith Wharton.

I found some Ann Granger in a local charity shop that were not unreasonably priced.

Also, Ship of Magic - Robin Hobb, which was good because a few months back I got hold of The Mad Ship in a charity shop and I did not really want to start a series at book two, yet I wanted to see if I liked the author.

The translated fiction table in Waterstones was especially enticing recently. It always has the air of fiction that is about to vanish into out of print status, so of course, I bought a book: The Seville Communion by Arturo Perez-Reverte (not yet on my listing). I thoroughly enjoyed it.

Recently I've taken to browsing in full price book shops and making a note of all the things that have caught my eye as being interesting, and then going off to see how many I can find in the library, or in secondhand shops.

The other day at Sam's Club I snagged Company Man by Joseph Finder & Hour Game by David Baldacci. I've been in a thriller kind of mood lately. 2 new hardcovers for less than $10. Sweet.

Hey who needs to buy books(cough, choke, I didn't really say that) but anyway while posting books in my Library i FOUND SOME BOOKS i HADN'T READ YET , AND SOME i WANT TO READ AGAIN. wOOPIE!!!

the other day I bought Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk and Peaches by Jodi Lynn Anderson, which I can't wait to read.

I was on a romance kick today (more than usual). I picked up Gone with the Nerd by Vicki Lewis Thompson, Fallen From Grace by Laura Leone, Prince of Ice by Emma Holly and The Dark one by Rhonda Thompson.

I also picked up Twilight and Moon Called for my mother in law for her bithday.

I couldn't remember if I had a copy of Philip K. Dick's, Solar Lottery - since all of my books are packed away in boxes. So, I ended up buying a first edition copy off of somebody on ebay. :)

Later in the day, I ended up buying another copy at a used bookstore. It's on the top of my TBR list.

#162 Flit,

Robin Hobb is a really good author. I read the Liveship trader series and thought it was pretty good. Have you read the Farseer series yet? Another great series by Hobb.

This weekend I bought:

Games of Command by Linnea Sinclair
1984 by George Orwell
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Emma by Jane Austen
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

Somehow in all my years growing up during the Cold War I never read Darkness at Noon, so when I ran across a copy the other day in a used bookstore I bought it.

Picked up 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die by Peter Boxall. Want to see how I am doing. Will report later. Book weighs a ton.

a couple of weeks ago while paging through my BOMC catalog I gasped and exclaimed with delight at seeing two republished hardcovers - and they arrived today -

The Chinaman's Chance and The Eighth Dwarf by Ross Thomas. Actually the first novel shouldn't have The in it, but it was the only way I could get the touchstone to work properly. RT is a VERY good writer who is largely forgotten these days. If you happen upon any of his work, give it a try. Chinaman's Chance and Briarpatch are EXCELLENT and I'm so glad to have one of them in hardback.

Bookmarque, I couldn't agree more with your opinion of Ross Thomas, a terribly undervalued writer, and can only recommend his terrific mystery novels The Fools in Town Are on Our Side and Twilight at Mac's Place as some of his best.

I will watch for those two, LouisBranning. Mostly I've checked his books out of the library and don't have many of his books in my collection, but he's going on my list of authors to aquire and search for in used book stores. : ) Who knows, maybe with this BOMC thing he'll have a bit of a resurgence in popularity.

Shouldn't we start a new page for March?

For me it was Lullabies for little criminals by Heather O'Neill.

I already chose what I am getting on the 15th. American Gods & The Witch of Cologne Hubby made me a bet that I can't go in and JUST buy those, on that day. I said I could. I will. If I manage it, I get to go back in and buy a 3rd book which will be The Thrall's Tale or Tree, a life story. I haven't decided that yet.

Well I've gotten alot of books in the last two weeks. last week I got

Dead to the World by Charlaine Harris
Tempting Evil by Keri Arthur
My Favorite Earthling by Susan Grant
The Dream Hunter by Sherilyn Kenyon
In My Wild Dream by Sasha Lord
Hawaii From $80 a Day
and Consumer Reports Used Car Buying Guide

Can you tell what I'll be doing this year? Yay I get to go to Hawaii and get a car! *grins from ear to ear*

And today I got

Belladonna by Anne Bishop I can't wait to read this I love her books!
Warlord by Elizabeth Vaughan, ditto
Visions of Heat by Nalini Singh, and Ditto again
and Atlantis Rising by Alyssa Day

Afghanistan by Roland Michaud, a huge and heavy coffee table book on pre-war Afghanistan, and Der Schatten von Thot by Michael Peinkofer, a historic mystery novel with some Ancient Egypt thrown in.

Oh dear, today I am in hog heaven. A big box arrived from bookcloseouts.com, and I made out like a bandit! Now my shelves are already overflowing, so finding homes for all these will be a challenge. Mostly hardcover editions in great shape except for remainder marks, I think all told I spent around a bit more than $70, and bought:

Educating Alice: Adventures of a Curious Woman

The Best American Magazine Writing 2003

The Book That Changed My Life

Time Alive by Alexandra Stoddard (one of my favorites)

Writings from the New Yorker 1927-1976

Alligators, Old Mink, & New Money: One Woman's Adventures in Vintage Clothing

The New Lifetime Reading Plan

I'm Proud of You: My Friendship with Fred Rogers

Animals in Translation by Temple Grandin (I read her book Thinking in Pictures last year and found it very compelling

Daughter of the Queen of Sheba

Honeymoon with my Brother

Religion Gone Bad: The Hidden Dangers of the Christian Right

Chasing Ghosts: A Soldier's Fight for America From Baghdad to Washington (an autographed copy -- woo hoo!)

The Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades Before Roe v. Wade

A Thread Across the Ocean: The Heroic Story of the Transatlantic Cable

and of course, a cookbook --

Country Inn and Bed & Breakfast Cookbook

Lisa

New Media in the Muslim World, but it may take a while to arrive here.

I went downtown today and checked out another bookstore and the local library. You know it's bad when I have more books written in English, than the local library has. I caved today and decided it is going to be easier to get all my books in french from hereon in and it will encourage me in my french learning. Today I picked up:

La grande fête de la sorcière Camomille by Enric Larreula
La Sorcière Camomille à Paris by Enric Larreula
La Sorcière Camomille au congrès de sorcellerie by Enric Larreula
La Sorcière Camomille et Mona la guenon by Enric Larreula
Le Noël de la sorcière Camomille by Larreula
Le Voyage à Venise de la sorcière Camomille by Enric Larreula
Les Vacances de la Sorcière Camomille by Enric Larreula
Mariage de la sorciere Camomille by Enric Larreula

They are small kids books which are just for practicing reading french with.

#174: I did back in March, two-thirds of the subscribers have chosen to keep posting here. I just seem to lack that special cachet; sigh.

I've opened up a new subject and those folks who are so inclined should shift to the March edition. We should probably get in the habit of starting a new question the first of each month.

Sorry, Shrike58 -- "Message Board #3" didn't mean anything to me as a newby. I think LT may have a lot of newbies on lately as a result of the NYT article. May I suggest putting the "What Did You Buy Today?" part in the thread titles. Thanks.

What NYT article? Got a link?

#183, Linkmeister, look into kageeh's profile page and you will find it. She was interviewed for the article.

Ah, gracias. I get the NYT headlines every day (and the headline feed is even on my blog!), but I missed that.

That's a good article.

Today I picked up a lovely hardcover copy of Rebel Angels by Libby Bray for $2.00. Of course, I still haven't read A Great and Terrible Beauty but it is on my wishlist and I do hope to read it at some point this year.

Hailelib (35),

I found your post via Elswyth Thane. The Williamsburg series was among the first adult (in the sense of "grown up") books I ever read and I loved it. Are you a fan, or did you pick it up to try? And if so, how did you like it?