Books that came into your home in January

If we already have one of these threads.. ignore this and direct me please..
I am cross eyed from looking.

The Sewing Circle: Sappho's Leading Ladies by Axel Madsen

Don't Get Me Started by Kate Clinton

showed up today from BetterWorld.

I received The Lady and the Unicorn at a second Christmas resulting from our weather challenges this season. I am looking forward to reading it as I've not read any historical fiction for quite some time. It is also special since I have been to see the Lady and the Unicorn tapestries in person, in Paris. Woo hoo. I also received my SantaThing present after Christmas, also because of weather slowing the delivery system. It is Oracle Bones and I am looking forward to reading it, too

Let's see. I picked up From Dead to Worse, Grave Surprise, and An Ice Cold Grave at a book signing by Charlaine Harris on Tuesday, got On the Prowl at the local B&N last night (out for a 'hot date' with my hubby), and will be going to Books-A-Million at lunch today. I don't PLAN on buying anything, but I've never walked out of a bookstore empty-handed yet.

I got two Anne Rice books Interview with the Vampire and The Vampire Lestat, seen the movie never read the books, but they were cheap so what the hey... Also got Surfacing by Atwood, Dandelion Wine by Bradbury, The thirty-first of june:A tale of True Love, enterprise and progress, in the Arthurian and Ad-atomic ages by J. B. Priestly and a Chinese cookbook.

Oooh, I've been looking for this thread and dared not make a new one myself, Mckait! Thanks!

January books for me are mostly coursebooks, so I'll start with those.
Film Theory and Criticism, Reel Music, the Norton Anthology of American English volume c, Sister Carrie, The Red Badge of Courage and The House of Mirth. I'm actually a little scared of my American lit class... I don't know why.

For myself, I have With the Light vol 2 (Keiko Tobe) which I finished earlier today, Slow River (Nicoala Griffith), Fitcher's Brides (Gregory Frost) and Cygnet (Patricia A. McKillip), all three of which are first encounters with these authors. At least, there where I've not read shorter stories by them. I'm not sure whether to count those as introductions or not, since writing a novel is so very different.

I also got McKinley's Sunshine for a friend's birthday so that doesn't really count, and I'm expecting a few more books to trickle in over the month, but I forget which/when/how many. ^-^;

Bought a whole pile of stuff at the end of December, only four books (so far) in January, and three are course books. The creative encounter; an interpretation of religion and the social witness, Encounters with Merton : spiritual reflections, and the Cloister Walk are all for a January term class I'm taking about monasticism and mysticism. Mostly Western, although I'm doing my damnedest to sneak in some Eastern stuff as well. I also bought Integral Psychology. The little I've read of Wilber I love, he's been hugely influential to my world view, even if he's incredibly intellectual and hard to read at times.

Arrived in the post this morning The Lesser Kindred and Redeeming the Lost by Elizabeth Kerner. But I'm more excited about the CD I got, it's a 4 track sampler from the third album by JJ72 that has never and will never be released, (which is strange because there were 2 singles released, one of which is on this sampler).

#5 - Oh, Shanra, Sister Carrie is awesome. :o) In fact I'm on the prowl for more Dreiser. I'm thinking of acquiring An American Tragedy.

I've been relatively well behaved so far this month. So far all I've snagged is Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell, Lost Illusions by Honore de Balzac and The Arabian Nights. All were Barnes & Noble Classics, and part of their buy 2 get 1 free sale. And all are DOORSTOPS! 0.0

*silently curses author touchstones, yet again*

*waves at Child_of_Light* I love Ken Wilber. I agree he can be very hard to read but in my reading of him he is so right! I so appreciate his willingness to tackle integration of scientific and spiritual points of view; and see the commonalities of religious impulses world around.

POD copy of Ending an Ending First Book of the Laurian Pentology, The Wordy Shipmates, and Spiritual Liberation audio CDs.

*notes the recommendation* I guess it might be that the American canon-literature I've read just hasn't wowed me that I'm scared of it. Oh, and a new teacher of course. 'twill be fine once I start reading them. I think Sister Carrie is the one I'm looking forward to most.

Huzzah for books!

I picked up Pax Britannia by Jonathon Green at the markets, and Shadows Return by Lynn Flewelling at the bookshop. So much for no new books in January.

From the library, I've got From Dead to Worse (yes, I read Charlaine Harris *blush*), The Tale of One Bad Rat (a heartbreaking graphic novel by Bryan Talbot) and Uncharted Territory (Connie Willis).

I'm on a bit of a kiddy lit kick at the moment. Yesterday I bought Inkheart bacause all the kids in the shop rave about it and it was cheap. I also bought The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman because who can resist a new Neil Gaiman? Especially one with cool illustrations!

I loved Inkheart!

Inkheart is lovely for readers and book lovers. ^-^ Though if you're very sensitive to the sound of prose, you might find it a little wooden and stiff in comparison to non-translated kids' books, I do warn you there. But it's a lot of fun despite that. ^-^ I hope you'll enjoy it, Dreamlikecheese!

Went to Powell's City of Books yesterday. Sold a bunch of stuff and ended up with ~$100 on a gift card. Of course, I couldn't leave that much money burning a hole in my pocket. Ended up buying copies of the Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, the Perennial Philosophy, History of Religious Ideas, volume 1: From the Stone Age to the Eleusinian Mysteries, History of Religious Ideas, Volume 2: From Gautama Buddha to the Triumph of Christianity, The Science of God-Realization: Knowing Our True Nature and Our Relationship with the Infinite: And Other Selected Essays

The Men We Became: My Friendship with John F. Kennedy, Jr. by Robert T. Littell

The Year of Disappearances A Novel by Susan Hubbard

Gift from the Sea by Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Dear Neighbor, Drop Dead by Saralee Rosenberg

The Lennon Prophecy: A New Examination of the Death Clues of The Beatles by Joseph Niezgoda

The Cross: 38,102 miles. 38 years. 1 mission. by Arthur Blessitt

The Cross which has no touchstone( ? ) is an ER book from LT, which came as an early galley copy, not a bound paperback.

The Beatles book, from the author..
and the others from here and there.......

The Year of Disappearances is a sequel to The Society of S

big day for packages! I also got a water filter ( Brita) .

This thread is teasing me, lol... I have about 20 books that I've bought in Jan, but I havn't catalogued them yet so waiting til i do to post them...

I just got a package from Amazon today - Walking with Dinosaurs the DVD and The Open House by Michael Innes. Very pleased to get that.

I confess: The Complete Guide to Walking for Health, Weight Loss, and Fitness. It is heavy enough I can use it for strength training.

Yesterday the UPS man brought me American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson by Joseph J. Ellis and Ending an Ending by Danny Birt.

Wow. It should make you happy to see the touchstone thingy recognizes your name, buchleser, but not Joseph Ellis'!

Aw, poor guy! I'd share if I could. :)

Yesterday, I found a wonderful book of photos of Egypt at a used bookstore. The styles of sculpture and architecture are described as they changed over the centuries/through the dynasties. It was printed in the early 50's, and the black & white photographs are fantastic. What a great find!

i got World war z, The Triumphant Cat, Best Loved Cat Stories, and The Dawn of Time, which is a collection of Australian Aboriginal Stories in paintings with a short telling of the myth on the next page

I got an early birthday present. A book of course, written by a mutual friend - Johnny Phillips: Werewolf Detective by Robbie Matthews. It's a collection of urban fantasy mysteries based around a werewolf detective, set in Sydney, Australia, so for once I recognise the places they're talking about. The story I've read so far makes me think of the Dresden Files, but not so drawn out, funnier and still original.

Today Easter Island showed up...looks interesting.

I spent my Christmas money in January, picking up the following:

Luke Skywalker and the Shadows of Mindor by Matthew Stover and
Fatal Revenant by Stephen R. Donaldson - The last two books I didn't own, by two of my favorite authors. I don't generally buy new, and then not from Amazon, but they were both 1/3 off, with free shipping.
Scar Night by Alan Campbell - Picked up at Half Price Books on the strength of the recommendations at the Malazan forums.
The Case of Charles Dexter Ward - Read last year in a collection checked out from the library, but getting Lovecraft's longest and best story by itself is worth the $3 it cost at Half Price.
Legend by David Gemmell - Another book picked up on the recommendation of the Malazan boards.
The Great Book of Amber - Classic fantasy that I've heard good things about, the monster 10-book omnibus was a steal at Half Price Books for $12.

I got The Wood Wife in the post today. I've only seen Windling's writing in introductions, so this'll be very interesting (when I get to it). Couple of books I'd like to focus on first still.

I bought Josh Gibson: The Power and the Darkness by Mark Ribowsky (the touchstone shows a much earlier version of this book. Apparently it was originally entitled The Power and the Darkness: the Life of Josh Gibson in the Shadows of the Game.

I also picked up Fitzpatrick's War by Theodore Judson

Just arrived from the book club:

The Chalice by Robin McKinley
To Ride a Rathorn by P. C. Hodgell
Acacia by David Anthony Durham

I haven't started my next, yet, so if anyone is wild to recommend - be my guest.

Roll a dice and assign two numbers to each book?

A friend of mine gave me Wicked Lovely by Melissa Marr today as belated present. It throws my reading pile off a little, but that's all right. I do plan to read each book on that mountain eventually. ^-^

Or possibly assign the numbers first and then roll the die. ^-^;;

ETA: I fail at plurals today. >>

Not yet over the doorstep but I ordered Gomorra and Ekot från Amathea.

I don't know how known the first one is outside of Sweden but it's about the Italian Camorra and the author lives under life threat. The lit Nobel Prize committee has rejected his request for protection, which has made for quite some debate here. I decided I wanted to know for myself.

The second one... 100 years ago a young man placed an explosive charge at barge named Amalthea, hosting scabs (that's strike breakers, for you folks). One died. It's quite a famous event, and the guy spent some time in one of our historical prisons - he was the last prisoner at this one, the place is now a hostel. The book is about what brings political violence and looks at it from a swedish perspective - mainly riots of different kinds, both organised and spontaneous.

OK, I finally got arround to cataloguing my buys from earlier this month.

At Dirt Cheap Books I spent $41.90 & got:
The human touch : our part in the creation of a universe by Michael Frayn
The Wanderer's Tale: Annals of Lindormyn 1 by David Bilsborough
A Fire in the North: Annals of Lindormyn 2 by David Bilsborough
Thirteen Phantasms and Other Stories by James P. Blaylock
Mad Kestrel by Misty Massey
Cloudsailors by Hugh Montgomery
The Alchemists of Barbal by David Clement-Davies
The Sea Lark's Song by Diana Marcellas
Men of Iron by Howard Pyle
The Visitor by Sheri S. Tepper
Sailing to Sarantium by Guy Gavriel Kay
Requiem for the Sun by Elizabeth Haydon
Un Lun Dun by China Mieville

& with my $80 borders voucher (+ $6 out of my pocket) I got:
Prophecy: Child of Earth by Elizabeth Haydon
Rhapsody : Child of Blood by Elizabeth Haydon
Blood by Tony Shillitoe
Passion by Tony Shillitoe
Freedom by Tony Shillitoe

Dirt Cheap books really is cheap, but I always end up with books added to my wishlist as well as my bookshelves when I go there, coz I get parts of series'...

The Sharing Knife: Passage was delivered this morning.

I went to the second hand shop and got
The Ruins of Ambrai Melanie Rawn
Across the Nightingale Floor Lian Hearn
The Mysterious Island Verne
Debits and credits Kipling
All My sins Remembered Haldeman
The Byworlder Poul Anderson
Out of the silent Planet Which I already had, but it was in a really bad state when I bought it the first time so got a better copy now

I've bought the first 2 seasons of Bones and so I also picked up Deja Dead and Deadly Decisions by Reichs, then The First Eagle, by Tony Hillerman was reccomended to me by the bookshop owner as a good detective book.

Ooooh. I remember I really liked Across the Nightingale Floor when I read it, Musereader. I hope you'll enjoy it too!

Shanra, I think that book has been trying to get my attention for about 2 years now, don't know why I haven't bought it before now, but it's the beginning of a series isn't it?

I bought a brand spanking new copy of Animals Make Us Human in part because I want to support Temple Grandin's work as an author. I find her to be fascinating and her writing to ring so true. Any animal lovers, and all animal trainers or raisers, should read this book.

For my birfday, The Light Fantastic, Eric and Sourcery by Terry Pratchett. I've read them, but now I own them and can read them whenever I like. :)

#37 yes Musereader, there are 2 more books in the original series, Journey to Inuyama and Brilliance of the Moon, which I've read and really enjoyed. I believe there's at least one more, if not two, but I haven't read them and IIRC, I don't think they got as good reviews as the original series. Hope you enjoy Nightingale Floor :-)

MrsLee, you know, I really have to read some Pratchett one of these days. As soon as my Mount TBR is down to a hill I think he's going to be one of the first books I buy.

*nods at Katylit's words* 's about right. The original trilogy reads perfectly as a stand-alone, though. You could call the series quit at that point, but there are two more books to follow it. The Harsh Cry of the Heron and Heaven's Net is Wide, neither of which I've read. (Looking at wikipedia briefly, the first is a sequel set over a decade after the original trilogy ends and the second is a prequel, ending around where the first book begins.)

Katylit, they changed the titles for you? The most I can guess from the touchstone is that they split up the original book into two. My book 2 is called Grass for His Pillow. *confused now*

katylit - You know that TBR pile will never go down, just buy the books and make it an Everest pile! ;)

I got A Company of Swans for my 999 challenge and Eat This, Not That Supermarket. I've been meaning to get that one, so I finally just did it.

I picked up Temeraire for $1 at the markets this morning, and Bill, the Galactic Hero on the Planet of Robot Slaves for $0.50, although I haven't checked yet whether it's a duplicate. I couldn't remember, but at that price it didn't matter. I can always donate it to a book sale.

#42, Shanra, I've got a set of 6 books for the Nightingale Floor series, 2 books for each, sort of broken down into episodes. A couple of years ago I got hooked by these delightful little paperbacks I saw called The Sword of the Warrior and Journey to Inuyama and enjoyed them so much that I got my bookstore to order the rest of the series in the same publication just for me. So you're right, I'm the one that got confused. The second book in the series is Grass for His Pillow!

#43 MrsLee I concur, Mount TBR will never ever become a hill!! I like the Everest analogy :-) I went out today to buy a travel book for my daughter and ended up with a book (used however!!) for me as well! I am a hopeless case! I bought Ghost Hunters: William James and the Search for Scientific Proof of Life After Death by Deborah Blum. Looks like fun.

#45. WillSteed, lucky you getting Temeraire for a buck!! Woohoo! And I LOVE the title Bill, the Galactic Hero on the Planet of Robot Slaves. That's priceless. Made me grin :-D

I checked - it's (BtGH, I mean) one of two I don't have! I've read it, but I couldn't remember if I own it or not. Time for a re-read, I think.

Ooooh. Thanks for explaining, Katy! ^-^ I'd probably end up confusing them too in that situation. I think I'd love that series purely for the titles, actually. ^-^;

Hope you'll enjoy Temeraire, Will! It's been one of my first reads of the year and I quite enjoyed it. ^-^

These two found their way into my stacks over the last few days:

Cats Don't Always Land on Their Feet: Hundreds of Fascinating Facts from the Cat World by Erin Barrett
Good Harbor by Anita Diamant

(Effing blasted bleeping touchstones.)

Good Harbour is on my wishlist clam, let me know if you enjoy it will you please?

Children Of The Night and it looks good

January was a good month for me (bookwise), but I got two signed books that I am very proud of.

Old Man's War by John Scalzi and
The Suicide Collectors by David Oppegaard

well done Melsar!

I just scored a bunch of my wish list: Lost Horizon, Skin Hunger, The Sparrow, and The White Tiger. I started reading Lost Horizon right away and I am enchanted with the skilled writing.

I am so glad I am a reader!

mags, let me know what you think of Sparrow... if you think to~

ye gods I love that book!

#54 and #55

I concur. The Sparrow is one of my top ten.

Oh maggie, I love Lost Horizon, James Hilton is/was a wonderful writer. The movie's good too - with Ronald Colman, great classic.

my vine book came, The Tricking of Freya

no TS available

Got an omnibus of Darren Shan's Vampire Blood Trilogy and 2 King books, Bag of Bones and Pet Semetary

Finally got around to buying Musicophilia by Oliver Sacks, as well as my very own copy of This is Your Brain on Music by Levitin. My friends think that I am insane, but I love these kinds of books (including The World in Six Songs). Now to find reading time...

My copies of Flesh and Spirit and The Sharing Knife arrived yesterday and I'm hopeful the other books I ordered will arrive soon too. ((I ordered them first, even!))

yesterday these books showed up...
all used but Beedle.

Be Near Me by Andrew O'Hagan

The Story of the Cannibal Woman: A Novel by Maryse Conde

The Tales of Beedle the Bard, Standard Edition by J. K. Rowling

The Woods by Harlan Coben

A Tree Grows In Brooklyn by Betty Smith

Lost in a Good Book by Jasper Fforde

At least I think the Fforde came yesterday, too. I am a little behind in things this week.

Hunting the ghost dancer, just one today. I'm still waiting on my order from amazon - I ordered Hammer of god and The accidental sorcerer by K Miller/Mills which were released here on the 15th, but they haven't even sent them to me yet.

last week I finally received:
Ending an ending
Nick and Norah's infinite playlist
The tales of beedle the bard
Love you forever
White Tiger

A nice mixed package

I picked up a flawless copy of Eldest previously owned and obviously loved and cared for.

All 10 of the Martibn Beck police procedurals - apparently one of the defining books of the crime genre.

A couple of assorted Gerald Durrells

and A Mushroom Miscellany.

#65, isn't that a great feeling? :)

#66 - I noted that when I saw my Friends stream on my LT homepage. I wrote you a note but obviously I didn't press 'submit'... so I'll ask now instead: have you read any of them? What did you think?

(If you haven't read them they should be read in the order they where written. The characters evolve somewhat /not much, but somewhat/ during the series...)

Got Rose Madder, The Memory Keepers Daughter and The Tulip Touch by Anne Fine yesterday.

I got a partly complete set of the Harvard classics from betterworld:

I got:

Vol. 1: FRANKLIN, WOOLMAN, PENN
o Fruits of Solitude, by William Penn

Vol. 2. PLATO, EPICTETUS, MARCUS AURELIUS
o The Apology, Phædo and Crito, by Plato
o The Golden Sayings, by Epictetus
o The Meditations, by Marcus Aurelius

Vol. 3. BACON, MILTON'S PROSE, THOS. BROWNE
o Essays, Civil and Moral & The New Atlantis, by Francis Bacon
o Areopagitica & Tractate of Education, by John Milton
o Religio Medici, by Sir Thomas Browne

Vol. 4. COMPLETE POEMS IN ENGLISH, MILTON
o Complete Poems Written in English, by John Milton

Vol. 5. ESSAYS AND ENGLISH TRAITS, EMERSON
o Essays and English Traits, by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Vol. 6. POEMS AND SONGS, BURNS
o Poems and Songs, by Robert Burns

Vol. 7. CONFESSIONS OF ST. AUGUSTINE, IMITATIONS OF CHRIST
o The Confessions of St. Augustine
o The Imitation of Christ, by Thomas á Kempis
Vol. 8. NINE GREEK DRAMAS
o Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Furies & Prometheus Bound, by Aeschylus
o Oedipus the King & Antigone, by Sophocles
o Hippolytus, The Bacchæ, by Euripides
o The Frogs, by Aristophanes
Vol. 9. LETTERS AND TREATISES OF CICERO AND PLINY
o On Friendship, On Old Age & Letters, by Cicero
o Letters, by Pliny the Younger
Vol. 10. WEALTH OF NATIONS, ADAM SMITH
o Wealth of Nations, by Adam Smith
Vol. 15. PILGRIM'S PROGRESS, DONNE & HERBERT, BUNYAN, WALTON
o The Pilgrim's Progress, by John Bunyan
o The Lives of Donne and Herbert, by Izaak Walton
Vol. 18. MODERN ENGLISH DRAMA
o All for Love, by John Dryden
o The School for Scandal, by Richard Brinsley Sheridan
o She Stoops to Conquer, by Oliver Goldsmith
o The Cenci, by Percy Bysshe Shelley
o A Blot in the 'Scutcheon, by Robert Browning
o Manfred, by Lord Byron

Vol. 19. FAUST, EGMONT, ETC. DOCTOR FAUSTUS, GOETHE, MARLOWE
o Faust, Part I, Egmont & Hermann and Dorothea, by J.W. von Goethe
o Dr. Faustus, by Christopher Marlowe

Vol. 20. THE DIVINE COMEDY, DANTE
o The Divine Comedy, by Dante Alighieri

Vol. 21. I PROMESSI SPOSI
o I Promessi Sposi, by Alessandro Manzoni

Vol. 22. THE ODYSSEY, HOMER
o The Odyssey of Homer

Vol. 23. TWO YEARS BEFORE THE MAST, DANA
o Two Years Before the Mast, by Richard Henry Dana, Jr..

Vol. 24. ON THE SUBLIME, FRENCH REVOLUTION, ETC., BURKE
o On Taste, On the Sublime and Beautiful, Reflections on the French Revolution & A Letter to a Noble Lord, by Edmund Burke

Vol. 27. ENGLISH ESSAYS: SIDNEY TO MACAULAY

Vol. 28. ESSAYS: ENGLISH AND AMERICAN

Vol. 30. FARADAY, HELMHOLTZ, KELVIN, NEWCOMB, ETC
o Scientific Papers: Physics, Chemistry, Astronomy, Geology

Vol. 31. AUTOBIOGRAPHY, BENVENUTO CELLINI
o The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini

Vol. 32. LITERARY AND PHILOSOPHICAL ESSAYS
o Montaigne, Sainte-beuve, Renan, etc.

Vol. 39. FAMOUS PREFACES
o Prefaces and Prologues

Vol. 40. ENGLISH POETRY 1 CHAUCER TO GRAY

Vol. 41. ENGLISH POETRY 2: COLLINS TO FITZGERALD

Vol. 42. ENGLISH POETRY 3: TENNYSON TO WHITMAN

Vol. 43. AMERICAN HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS
o American Historical Documents: 1000-1904

Vol. 44. SACRED WRITINGS 1
o Confucian: The Sayings of Confucius
o Hebrew: Job, Psalms & Ecclesiastes
o Christian I: Luke & Acts

Vol. 45. SACRED WRITINGS 2
o Christian II: Corinthians I & II & Hymns
o Buddhist: Writings
o Hindu: The Bhagavad-Gita
o Mohammedan: Chapters from the Koran

Vol. 46. ELIZABETHAN DRAMA 1
o Edward the Second, by Christopher Marlowe
o Hamlet, King Lear, Macbeth & The Tempest, by William Shakespeare

Vol. 47. ELIZABETHAN DRAMA 2
o The Shoemaker's Holiday, by Thomas Dekker
o The Alchemist, by Ben Jonson
o Philaster, by Beaumont and Fletcher
o The Duchess of Malfi, by John Webster
o A New Way to Pay Old Debts, by Philip Massinger

Vol. 48. THOUGHTS AND MINOR WORKS, PASCAL
o Thoughts, Letters & Minor Works, by Blaise Pascal

Vol. 49. EPIC AND SAGA
o Beowulf
o The Song of Roland
o The Destruction of Dá Derga's Hostel
o The Story of the Volsungs and Niblungs

LECTURES

.. I will be working on getting the remaining volumes now :)

Off topic: I was also able to finally get the WE Model 500 telephone I was eying for a long time :):):)

#68 - not yet. I catalog them when I recieve them and update the entries once I've read them. I'll liekly start them sometime this week.

#71 Nice. How many more volumes are there?

#70/71 - Wow! That's a lot of reading waiting to be done ;-)

Wow #70! I'm so jealous! I did do quite a bit of purchasing this month:

The Historian
The Garden Primer
Anna Karenina
The Tales of Beedle the Bard
A Prayer for Owen Meany
Le Petit Prince (really funky author info going on for that touchstone)
The Jungle Book
Instant Guide to Birds
A Wrinkle in Time
In a Dark Wood

And I borrowed:
The Shack
The Other Queen
Chatterton
The Nanny Diaries

(Those last three are more aptly referred to as books that came into my car in January, as they're audiobooks for my commute).

#70/71 Seconding Busifer's comment. The mind boggles.

Newly added to my collection are...
Song Yet Sung by James McBride
How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone by Saša Stanišic
Yume no Hon: The Book of Dreams by Catherynne M. Valente
A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray
Rapunzel's Revenge by Shannon Hale amongst others.
In the Land of Time: And Other Fantasy Tales by Lord Dunsany

And three picture books: Katje, the Windmill Cat, Martha (of which the touchstone doesn't work, but it's by Gennady Spirin, so you know what you're looking for if you decide to look) and The Crane Wife.

There goes saving... >

I've been buying a lot lately. Over the past month I've bought:

the Creative Encounter

Encounters with Merton

the Cloister Walk

Integral Psychology

the Perennial Philosophy (I've wanted a copy of this for a long time)

History of Religious Ideas, volume 2

History of Religious Ideas, volume 1

the Science of God-Realization

a Master Guide to Meditation

a New Religious America

God is for Everyone

the Wise Heart (a book on Buddhist psychology that looks really interesting)

#99 I often buy at Housing Works online... never disappointed.

Today~

Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin

Time President Obama: The Path to The White House by Adi Ignatius

From Amazon

The Seance by John Harwood

Skeletons at the Feast: A Novel by Chris Bohjalian

From vine to review

The Terror: A Novel by Dan Simmons

Crazy Horse: The Strange Man of the Oglalas (50th Anniversary Edition) by Mari Sandoz

from better World Books

Team of Rivals looks delicious and so .... huge! Love it

72> There are about 15 volumes left to go. I will get them bit by bit if they pop up on ebay.

The blurb on the back of a short story collection by Haruki Murakami looked very interesting so I bought Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman today.

Well, I got rid of two boxes of books today at our used bookstore and Friends of the library, and only came home with two new (to me) books.

Christopher Columbus: Four Voyages to the New World by Christopher Columbus
The Films of Bela Lugosi by Richard Bojarski

And you call this progress?

Definitely. More room for other books, but right now I have three bookcases and a secret pile which I'm pretending doesn't exist of TBR books. I'm giving away another box of books to my SIL, too. :) Problem is, I saw at the bookstore that they had a lot of Patrick O'Brian novels. I have the first three, but haven't read them yet, so don't know if I love them or not. But these don't come into the store very often, so I'm thinking I need to crack one of the ones I own soon and see if I like it so I can go buy the 10 or so that are there. I never progress for very long.

oh, MrsLee, I have to tell you I love Patrick O'Brian novels. High adventure. Not girly stuff but some interesting history. I'll be interested to read whether you decided to "go for it".

#50 - I will if I ever get to it. *sigh* My TBR stacks spilleth over...

I think I forgot to mention I got Sing Them Home for my birthday.

Between my birthday in October, a bonus in November, and Christmas in December, I got quite spoiled with ordering books. I miss waiting for a new book to show up in the mail...

I have a big bag of books to go OUT of my house. I'm steadily getting rid of all these books I don't want. But then I keep finding books I had forgotten about and want to read again before I give them away. So my TBR stack is actually growing. Sigh.

At least you're slowly widdling down the amount of books all the same, Cmbohn?

Amazon sent me Hammer of God (Miller) and Return of the black widowers yesterday.

Totally wasn't expecting this before next Monday, but it arrived: Tristan. I am most curious, though when I'll get around to it exactly, I don't know. *sad noise*