October 2009 stuff bought

Over the last day or two, I have bought: the new Nick Hornby Juliet, Naked, preordered the new Jonathan Lethem Chronic City, and two John Crowley books: an anthology of his early novels, and the first book of the Aegypt cycle. I read the first couple of Aegypt books yonks ago but I want to reread them and I must have loaned them out and forgot to who.

edited because touchstones are wonky

well nothing yet but the month is barely begun

I picked up
Mijeong by Byung-jun Byun
Bayou by Jeremy Love
Mouse Guard: Winter 1152 by David Petersen

Two of those I wasn't supposed to allow myself to buy...

ETA: And now a complete set of Yeats' poetry arrived as I went down to lunch. Shiny!

I got Dead until Dark because I have been watching Tru Blood annd it was only £3.86 anyway and The Magicians By Lev Grossman because it's been reccomended by Scalzi.

#4 I loved The Magicians! Hope you do, too.

Girl Genius: Issue 8 (Hugo winner) and Death: The Time of Your Life by Neil Gaiman, two graphic novels.

I didn't think I was due for any books this month, but our library had a sale today! Wheeee! Still, I was restrained. I only bought five books for myself and two for my husband. When I showed him the two I bought, I saw that he had already been and bought his own stash! One of the books he picked up was for me, The Last Continent by Pratchett. I already had it in paperback, but now I own a lovely hardback version. :) The paperback will go to my daughter.

I found:
Maigret Afraid by Georges Simenon
Passenger to Frankfurt by Agatha Christie
John Burroughs' America: Selections from the Writings of the Naturalist by John Burroughs (duh)
Sharpe's Fortress: India 1803 by Bernard Cornwell
The Tapestry by Edith Schaeffer

Man, i LOVE Girl Genius and eventually intend to collect these (currently read 'em online).

8 - Almost word-for-word my reply, Groo!

Yay for '$1 All Books' sale at the local thrift store!

Simplexity by Jeffrey Kluger
The Moral Animal by Robert Wright
Warbreaker by Brandon Sanderson
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski
A Reliable Wife by Robert Goolrick
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
Anthology of Japanese Literature
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See
The First Man by Albert Camus
White Teeth by Zadie Smith
Eats, Shoots and Leaves by Lynne Truss
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole

Book Haul, today:

Blood and Iron by Elizabeth Bear
-stupid touchstone gave me another book, this is not the one by Harry Turtledove, thank you.
Forge of Heaven by C. J. Cherryh
Voyager in Night by C. J. Cherryh - how did I miss this one?
Fool's Errand by Robin Hobb caved to pressure - I'd read the first trilogy, long since.

11 - You won't be disappointed by Fool's Errand. I had some rather strong emotional reactions to it.

I bought my first issue of The Believer Magazine, the "Nod-Crafty" issue which contains a fascinating examination of car salesmen, an interview with Nick Cave, and an examination of whether "Moby Dick in Half the Time" is "all Dick and no Moby".

I also bought an issue of Acclaim Magazine (a street art and design magazine). I would have bought books at Borders but they didn't have anything in the books section that interested me that day. But I have my magazines to read at least.

As a result of finishing Survival, by Julie E. Czerneda I ordered the two remaining Species Imperative books - Migration & Regeneration. Realised I should had put some more books in that order but by then I had already pressed the button. Hopefully I'll get rid of this fever sometime soon so I can remedy that with a visit to a REAL bookshop :D

Despite the misgivings of my wallet, I bought the new Scott Westerfeld book - Leviathan. I was thinking that I might wait until it came out in paperback, but then I saw not only the beautiful cover, but also the inside cover illustrations.

*sigh*

It's a beautiful book.

Outlander for my E-book for $2.99!!

#16 Sounds like someone is happy with their purchases. ^-~

Arrived today, though I bought them back in September somewhere are a bunch of books I'm not even allowing myself to keep. So I'll only mention the one I am allowing myself to keep. ^-~

The Hag's Contract by John Betancourt

And yesterday I found a copy of Collins Gem's SAS Survival Guide, but that's not for actual reading.

Just back from spending a gift certificate and loyalty cheque at the bookshop. Scored

Nation by Terry Pratchett -- wrong touchstone, and
The Greatest Show on Earth by Richard Dawkins

ooh boy - I finally picked up a copy of Slaughterhouse 5 yesterday, as well as my first Iain M Banks book - The Algebraist.

15 - WillSteed, I hadn't known Westerfeld had a new book coming out. Just put it on hold at the library. Sounds/looks very interesting!

I myself bought Jane Eyre, The Charlemagne Pursuit (Steve Berry) and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (Jonathan Safran Foer) at the new (newly moved) bookstore near my mom's last weekend. The bookstore itself was a disappointment, but these books were reasonably priced, so I had to get them.

I decided to reread John Crowley's Aegypt cycle (I'm on a real Crowley kick these days) and since I couldn't find my old paperbacks, I went to download them to my kindle. They have books 1, 2 & 4 only for kindle. Dude, this is really annoying.

I can't keep up anymore. I found a small local thrift store chain that has well stocked book sections, some of the titles being over a century old. Paperbacks 35 cents, hardbacks $1. They've only 3 locations, but I've been to all 3 several times in the last few weeks since discovering them. I've bought at least 100 old books and spent $30 woohoo
Now of course...where do I put them?

Been somewhat lazy adding books, but here are my October acquisitions, which I am about to enter into LT, and have entered into my own personal catalog already.

Iain M. Banks – The State of the Art (hardcover)
Iain M. Banks – Consider Phlebas
John Scalzi – The Last Colony (hardcover)
John Scalzi – Old Man’s War
Arthur C Clarke and Stephen Baxter – Time’s Eye
Kim Stanley Robinson – The Years of Rice and Salt
Kim Stanley Robinson – Blue Mars (hardcover)
Michael Moorcock – Corum
Karen Traviss – City of Pearl
Neal Stephenson – The Diamond Age
Isaac Asimov – Oceans of Venus
Tony Attwood – Blakes 7 Program Guide
Robert Silverberg – Legends
Robert Silverberg – Far Horizons
Robert G Barrett – Davo’s Little Something
Robert G Barrett – Leaving Bondi
Robert G Barrett – The Tesla Legacy
Robert G Barrett – Les Norton and the Case of the Talking Pie Crust

The most I paid was five dollars for any of the books.

I went shopping today and found a few interesting books :-
for the group read : People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks (50 book challenge thread if anybody else is interested starts Nov 1 http://www.librarything.com/talktopic.php?topic=73347)

3 for £1 offer : The Incredible Journey by Sheila Burnford (bit of nostalgia here — I loved this book when I was a child!);
Black Venus by Angela Carter (collection of short stories - I read her Nights at the Circus years ago and always meant to read more but for some reason never got around to it);
Quest for the Faradawn by Richard Ford (as a child I loved reading animal stories and fantasy; somehow I missed this one!).

Charity shop purchases (These three are potential reads in my 1010 categories) : Possession: A Romance by A. S. Byatt (an author I have never read);
Chocolat and Blackberry Wine both by Joanne Harris (I just read her Runemarks, a fantasy for children and liked the way she writes)

As I've mentioned I just got back from a visit to Ottawa, while there I had a "book day". It was lovely. And naturally, airports have bookstores, and I had stopovers in 4 airports, enough said.

Consequently I now have added to my bookshelves:

Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke. This has been on my wish list a long time, recommended by clamairy, MerryMary and Busifer, just to name a few. I was delighted to find a good, used copy, can't wait to read it!
The Enormous Room by e.e. cummings. Another one that has been on my wish list a long time, that I've been searching the used bookstores for.
The Complete Guide to Middle Earth by Robert Foster. Very fun to refer to.
Charles Lamb and the Lloyds by E.V. Lucas, a gorgeous, old, leather bound book, just a treasure.
Edward Wilson of the Antarctic by George Seaver. I am always fascinated by polar explorers.
The Frozen Ship: The Histories and Tales of Polar Exploration by Sarah Moss. A good companion book for the Edward Wilson biography.
The Last Kashmiri Rose and Ragtime in Simla by Barbara Cleverly. A couple more in a mystery series taking place in India, after WW1.
A Little History of the English Country Church by Roy Strong. Again, if I can't go to England, I'll continue to read as much about it as I can.
Fastyngange by Tim Wynne-Jones. Subtitled A ghost story for grown-ups, perfect for the season.

I also got An Echo in the Bone by Diana Gabaldon on audio just before I left on my trip, so I would have something to listen to while travelling.

Such riches!

I was in Stockport today and from the Charity shops I got The Martians by Kim Stanley Robinson, Well of Lost Plots, and The Judging Eye by Bakker. From Borders I got A Princess of Landover (Half Price!) The Other lands by Durham, and there was a local writer signing his stuff, A J Dalton, he wasn't getting much attention though so I stood there talking to him for about half an hour. I did buy his book eventually - Necromancer's Betrayal. It's dark fantasy and does look good.

I have spent the last couple of months boxing and sorting books for my library's first ever used book sale. I ended up buying quite a few books over that time. (The volunteers got fist dibs, so I had to show some restraint!) You can check out most of my loot here: http://www.librarything.com/catalog_bottom.php?tag=EG+Library+Sale&view=clam...

I'm posting it in this thread because I didn't actually pay for everything until yesterday, though I have been bringing it home in drips and drabs since some time in September.

#28 - Already commented on FB, but I think it's a hoot that we would call 44 books restraint! And I do call it that, because I've been to library sales. :) That was a great thing you did, helping get ready for the sale, hope you can get some rest now.

#28 Good choices!! I recall what fun it was to be there working AND being able to snag some before the sale began.

#29 - Well, the first dozen or so came home onesies, twosies, so it didn't seem like much. Between my daughter and I we brought home 4 bags on Friday and Saturday, though. Heh heh.

That is one heck of a collection, Clam!

I've only got a few from the used book sale I went to yesterday.
July's People by Nadine Gordimer
Ramayana by C. Rajagopalachari
The Snow Goose and The Small Miracle by Paul Gallico

and a Dutch book about magical recipes used in the middle ages.

Oh, I loved The Snow Goose! I'm not familiar with the other story. You got them in one volume?

Shanra, at your used book sales are there a mixture of English and Dutch books? And French, too? Just curious.

Those are great books clam! Lovely to add to your collection like that isn't it?

I love The Snow Goose too Shanra, wonderful story, inspired me to read all kinds of other accounts of Dunkirk. But like clam I've never heard of The Small Miracle. I'm always on the lookout for Paul Gallico's books when I'm in the used bookstores, he's hard to find.

They're in one volume, yes. I remember someone blogging about The Snow Goose and it's been on my wishlist since, so of course when I saw it I had to take it with me. The Small Miracle is about a boy from Assisis who takes his donkey to Rome, but that's about all I know about it so far.

Clam, it might depend a little on the book sale in question. I don't go to many of them, but they'll be predominantly Dutch with a section for foreign language books: English, German, French, (Spanish) and the rest of the languages.

Of course in the course of a sale they all get mixed up too. It's a nightmare. Some of the secondhand stores here think it's a good idea to throw different language books together. Marvellous when you're trying to find English fantasy books and you keep picking up Dutch ones because your mind switches too easily to notice the difference until you get something longer than the title. Nnggnn. *whinge*

Katylit, I hope you'll get lucky finding Gallico soon!

After last month's school book-buying extravaganza (which I did not come here and confess, but I'll just say that Goodkind, Bradbury, and ancient Greek documents were involved- good times), I had no business getting more books. But I'm on break, today was shopping day, the store was there, and, well, why not?

Sort of random picks this time (the store seemed understocked in the worst possible way), but I got The Confession of Fitzwilliam Darcy- my fourth or fifth of such "Darcy" tell-alls, Espresso Shot because I can't make it through a day without my 4-12 shots, and The Men's Guide to the Women's Bathroom which looks to be a silly little novel. I also got some books for Christmas for friends, but in case they are snooping around, I'll be silent on that score.

Funny story though. The store was amazingly well-organized this trip; everything was in its correct place. Except, that is, for one little shelving error. Nestled right under the "Christian Fiction" sign between those never ending Amish books and sappy romances were.... the Jasper Fford books. There's a shock waiting to happen! :)

I bought Twitterature because the idea just seemed interesting to me, and it's one of those things that speaks to my generation, interpretation of literature or not.

i found 'Rangers Apprentice by John Flanagan a few weeks ago, thoroughly enjoyed the Ruins of Gorlan, and have so far got all now waiting to read The Sorcerer in the North, although these are for 8 - 18, they are a great read. Also have The Final Empire(Mistborn book one) author Brandon Sanderson and Fire by Kristin Cashore.
Twitterature sounds interesting.

I bought 6 books new, which is a luxury in the Year of Book-Abstinence:

Holy Fools by Joanne Harris - I've just read Chocolat (which I noticed Calm bought) and it was so beautiful, so much better than the movie, that I can see another author addiction in the makings.

Digging to America by Anne Tyler - one of my aforementioned author addictions.

Bloodheir by Brian Ruckley - number two in a trilogy, the first book of which I adored, although it met with mixed reviews.

Last Argument of Kings by Joe Abercrombie, who is a very cheeky fantasy writer indeed.

And my two humourous books: Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters and Pride and Prejudice and Zombies 'by' Jane Austen. Snicker. I read the first part of these...oh my gosh I was in hysterics. Love it!

#39 - Oh, Severn, if you loved Chocolat then you have to read the sequel! It's called The Girl with No Shadow or The Lollipop Shoes. Not sure if you which title you will have there.

Edited to add that both titles link to the same book on LT.

It's the Lollipop Shoes here (so I would assume the same for NZ). I think Holy Fools was actually the first Joanne Harris I read. I loved it even more than Chocolat.

Meanwhile, I'm just taunting myself by looking at this thread. I'm on a book buying ban for the rest of the year (except Christmas presents for other people). I really need to reduce my TBR pile.

Went a little crazy today. But I'm so happy with what I found. Mostly...

Big Medicine - Louis L'Amour
Filthy Shakespeare- Pauline Kiernan
Princess Academy - Shannon Hale
Forest Born - Shannon Hale
Book of a Thousand Days - Shannon Hale
A Pocket Guide to Dreams
Airman - Eoin Colfer
Lost in a Good Book - Jasper Fforde
First Among Sequels - Jasper Fforde
I Had the Right to Remain Silent, But I Didn't Have the Ability - Ron White

Personally, I'm blaming it on last night's champagne.

I knew that Chocolat was part of the food trilogy (Blackberry Wine and Five Quarters of the Orange) but a direct sequel! - I have to stop reading these threads:)

Ooooh, Shannon Hale! Ikeep meaning to pick up more of her works, Mary!

And Chocolat is on my TBR pile! I'm determined to start getting said pile down to reasonable levels!

In the post from Amazon today, I got 2 sequels to 2 debut books - Wildfire by Sarah Micklem and Fire by Kristin Cashore. And I have 2 new instalments in long standing series - Unseen Academicals and Foundation: A novel of Valdemar. A nice balance between the new and the old.

These are actually early christmas presents from my parents, my mum is very nice, I have her credit card on my account at amazon so I can order whatever I want (within my christmans present budget)

adding to the thread again (sorry)

more Joanne Harris, this time Coastliners; an Ursula K. Le Guin Gifts (first in a YA trilogy); The Chronicles of Amber by Roger Zelazny (omnibus of the first 5 Amber novels which I haven't read since the 1970's) and The Floating Book : A novel of Venice by Michelle Lovric.

Took a detour past the SF bookshop yesterday and arrived home with Reap the wild wind and Riders of the storm, both by Julie E Czerneda. Unfortunately they did not have the concluding part of the trilogy in stock so I'll have to get that one later.

#45 - I was very unimpressed by Unseen Academicals...

#46 - Gifts is a good start, and the rest is just as good or better. But the third one (Powers) was... disturbing. Lots of violence and abuse.

just spent the month moving and struggling with my arm in a cast so i've been rereading anything i could get out of a box including Frog and Toad are friends and back numbers of bon appetit. november will be more exciting i hope.

My mum gave me my Christmas money early so I could order my gifts and bring them to her to wrap. So, technically I bought these in October although I won't get them until Christmas (good thing I'm patient LOL). What I bought:

Smoke and Shadows by Tanya Huff
Smoke and Mirrors by Tanya Huff
Backup by Jim Butcher
Scarlet and the White Wolf by Kirby Crow
Orphan's Quest by Pat Nelson Childs
Book-worm Droppings: An Anthology of Absurd Remarks Made by Customers in Second-hand Bookshops by Shaun Tyas
Shadow Magic by Jaida Jones
Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle volume 23
Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle volume 24
Yellow 2 Episode 1
Bound Beauty volume 1

and I also ordered one CD.

For my son I ordered a copy of Artemis Fowl and the Seventh Dwarf by Eoin Colfer because there was a very good deal on a copy off of Amazon and I couldn't resist.

>Mary dang you've reminded me how much I want to get Forest Born but i'm resisting firstly because i am not quite sure if it's actually available here yet (possibly Amazon has imported some copies i can't remember) and secondly because I want the british paperback so it'll match my other Hale books (I have practically all of her fairytale books) gah it's not fair! *stomps foot childishly*
I might be really naughty tomorrow and go spend the WHSmith gift card I got for my birthday earlier this month because I need to get The Girl who Played with Fire and I'm sure I'll find some other books I want when i search properly ;)

I'm still waiting on my ER book from last month. I want to read it already! *more childish footstomping*

*pouts*

Picked up The Gathering Storm by Robert Jordan/Brandon Sanderson yesterday. I know it's a series that people either love or hate, but at this point I've been reading it for nineteen years so I couldn't resist.

Also bought two steampunk novels, Mainspring by Jay Lake and Boneshaker by Cherie Priest both of which seem pretty promising.

Oh, I got my ER book in the mail yesterday, Ostrich Feathers by Miriam Romm. The first peek in the pages was encouraging.

I had been doing so well, but I struggle to convince myself that Ebooks count, hence because it's so easy I've bought:

migration, regeneration, and the moment I saw that HarperCollins had finally got themselves soughted out, Traitor's knot and stormed fortress. I've been waiting for these for ages, HC having released books, 5,6, and 8 as ebooks. What happened to 7!

oh and Royal Assassin and Assassin's quest was probably this month as well.

At least I'll read them and not just TBR pile.

#54 - I saw you just thought Migration average; it's interesting to see how perceptions vary (I just blazed through it and went on to the last book without a second breath)!
Regeneration was even slower than Migration (which I didn't think slow at all - on the contrary I remember feeling grateful for the lack of needless 'recapturing')... ;-)

Edited to say that Regeneration is slower, in the beginning. Then the action takes off...

Like >52 Librariasaurus: bibliophool I picked up The Gathering Storm by Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson; I've read the lengthy series to this point and feel a bit like Charlie Brown looking to kick the football Lucy is holding - will I never learn? But I have a lot of respect for Brandon Sanderson, so I'm maintaining my optimism.

I also purchased and started reading the 4th Inspector Gamache book in the series by Louise Penny, called A Rule Against Murder in the USA. It's already a great read, as good as its predecessors.

Bought Faust Volume 1 and Faust Volume 2. It really isn't what you'd expect it to be, what I actually bought was Japanese short stories, not Goethe. Good reading though!

#55"it's interesting to see how perceptions vary "

Oh it is. I've started Regeneration, and found it much faster than the beginning of Migration. I enjoy the whole alien politics different views thing, much more so than the human security and moping that was Migration. It would be a very dull world if we were all a like.

#58 - Exactly. I think one reason I liked Migration was I felt it wasn't as bad/weak as the 'bridge' part of a trilogy is wont to be. Which might not be the best of reasons to think it was 'awesome', logically ;-)

Just downloaded the new A.S. Byatt, The Children's Book. Woo hoo!

I came home today with both volumes of The Outline of History by HG Wells. Two, large hardbacks printed in 1925... makes for a very interesting read. Mr Wells certainly knew how to string a few good words together, and the illustrations are fantastic.

I had been so good this month and yet today I went totally mad in Borders. Because Will Steed had been talking about steampunk, I picked up The Invention of Hugo Cabret, realizing that it fits into the genre because of its themes of automatons and mechanization. I also picked up Mary Gordon's new book Reading Jesus as well as a New Testament (new approach to the translation). Then because it was on the bargain rack, I picked up The Illustrated Battle Cry of Freedom. I wonder how rapidly I'll get to read any of them, but they all seemed to speak to me while browsing!

And now I can't buy ANYTHING during November for sure.

I got a pretty good haul on the last day of my library's sale, when you get a bag full for $7.00. I haven't had time to enter them yet, but they include some Jane Smiley, Richard Adams, some bridge books, and a handful of mysteries.

Akira Club came in the mail yesterday (technically two days ago, being past midnight as I post this). It's an artbook that accompanies the Akira graphic novel series, and has lots of interesting stuff which I won't detail here, but mentioned in my review that I posted on LT.

All graphic novel series' should have a "Club" art-book to go with them.

I went for about two months without buying any books at all, but in October I bought...

Skinned by Robin Wasserman and Uglies and Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld (book signing, the first two were for my sister and the third was for myself)

Boy Meets Boy, Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist, and two copies of Love is the Higher Law, all by David Levithan (another book signing, all but the duplicate are for my sister)

And lastly, Liar by Justine Larbalestier.

Well, you know. Christmas and her birthday are coming up. Heh.

Despite my budgetary issues, I still bought books.

My name is Will, and I'm a book addict.

I bought the new Ranger's Apprentice book, Halt's Peril. Nasty publishers changed the cover style! The previous eight books all match nicely on my bookshelf.

I also bought a beautiful new graphic novel by the wonderful Bryan Talbot - Grandville. Steampunk with anthropomorphic animals.

#66

"My name is Will, and I'm a book addict"

GD chorus: "Hello, Will."

Hello Will indeed! Whenever I'm feeling a little down my instincts are either to come here or to go to a book store and buy books!!

Hence, yesterday I showed great restraint and only bought two books, used ones at that, Essays and Sketches by Charles Lamb, 'cause these ones aren't covered in The Essays of Elia ;-) and I'm finding I love Lamb, and Ramses, the Son of Light, I love escaping to the heat of ancient Egypt.

I saw another old book that I was tempted to buy just for the inscription. The subject matter didn't interest me, it was written by Disraeli, but it was inscribed "To Sonny on the occasion of his first two teeth. Much love Mother and Father"

Imagine giving a, what? 1-2 year old? a novel written by Disraeli??? Had to laugh when I saw that.