November Nabs 2009

I haven't purchased anything today; I just wanted to name one of these monthly threads. :D

I haven't purchased anything but i started the book I got for my birthday, Dan Brown's "The Lost Symbol"

I got shots for rubella and measles.

... oh sorry, i thought that said "November Jabs".

KIK MrA!

Well, around midnight I ordered a bunch of books for me and for Christmas gifts through B&N. I had a double membership discount for all the children's books and decided it was time to order those books. Yes, all the children that know me know they will at least get one book for me for presents. That's just the way I roll... (is that the expression they use now a days? ;p ) I'm not sure if it's the reader in me or the teacher in me.

My FIL gifted my his (duplicate) copies of:

Een barbaar in China by Adriaan van Dis, about the author's travels through China.

and

Het Spookklooster by Robert van Gulik about Judge Dee (7th century China) and a murder mystery in a monastery.

And how did he discover these duplicates? Well, because I spent my weekend entering his collection into his brand new LT account :D

I got Wuthering Heights and And The Ass Saw The Angel by Nick Cave. The latter is to support Australian cultivated awesomeness.

5 - Is that The Ghost Hunter?

7- No, the English title is The Haunted Monastery (http://www.librarything.com/work/16453/).

I've extended my Cherryh collection to include Serpent's Reach and Hunter of Worlds, from an online dealer in used books :D

Today I ordered a t-shirt for my daughter from the NaNoWriMo website. I hope she will like it (and that she'll be able to finish the challenge).

8 - Oh, of course! Klooster = cloister!

11: Exactly :)

Just picked up two free books from the giveaway bookcase at work, two Week of the Book (Boekenweek) gifts:

Het theater, de brief en de waarheid: een tegenspraak by Harry Mulish and Spitzen by Thomas Rosenboom.

Yay for free books!

Ahhh, the Rotarians have their annual book sale starting today. I culled a few books and donated, feeling good about the space it freed up in my shelves. But then, silly me, I went to the sale today!! Hence I came home with:

Through Black Spruce by Joseph Boyden
The Lady and the Unicorn by Tracy Chevalier
The Wheel on the School by Meindert de Jong (for a trip down memory lane)
Silver Pitchers by Lousia May Alcott - a book of hers I'd never heard of!! unheard of!!
Michael O'Halloran by Gene Stratton-Porter
The Living Reed by Pearl S. Buck
Too Many Ghosts by Paul Gallico
The Circular Staircase by Mary Roberts Rinehart and
The Singing Sands by Josephine Tey
all for $1.50 each! So much for the space in my bookcases. I must not go back tomorrow.

I got My Sister's Keeper today, because I want to read it before I see the movie. :)

katy: I LOVE Michael O'Halloran. It is so Victorian, so Horatio Alger, so corny...I love it.

I was thinking of you when I bought it MerryMary, it's one of the few of Stratton-Porter's that I haven't read and I knew it was in your library. It's up next on Mount TBR :-)

Actually it was fun buying those books. Michael O'Halloran made me think of you, The Living Reed brought clam to mind and her meeting with Pearl S. Buck, MrsLee had recommended another Josephine Tey to me which I enjoyed tremendously and Shanra bought a Paul Gallico last month that we were talking about too. I felt like lots of my Green Dragon friends were with me in spirit at the book sale.

I've just received all six volumes of Akira that I purchased online. I probably shouldn't look on online bookstores, but there's so much nice stuff on there...

At the used book store half price sale I finally picked up my hardcover copy of Melusine by Sarah Monette which I have been pining after for a while. As an extra I also picked up Night Life by Caitlin Kittredge. There were other books I wanted but funds are extremely limited at the moment.

$1 book sale at the thrift store again.

Vanity Fair by William Thackeray
Moby Dick by Herman Melville
Death in Venice by Thomas Mann
The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthrone
Radical Women in Latin America: Left and Right by Victoria Gonzalez
Gabriel Garcia Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude: A Casebook by Gene Bell-Villada

They put up the Kindle version of Wolf Hall, which I just nabbed, but still no Inherent Vice. I want my Pynchon, you dopey publishers!

Heat Wave by Richard Castle. - surely fantasy since the author is, uhm, imaginary, LOL

Leviathan since I'm on a steampunk kick

Spent two days in Maastricht with my boyfriend, and did some book shopping and giving and getting:

- Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (for my reading classic resolution)
- The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga (Booker Prize 2008)
- Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut (many times recommended to me, and I have already finished it, and liked it)
- Thomas Aquinas: A very short introduction by Fergus Kerr (My first Very Short Introduction, already finished it)
- Blood Test by Jonathan Kellerman (A free gift because they are promoting the English book this week)
- Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel (Booker Prize 2009, and a gift from my boyfriend ;))
- Amigurumi; Gehaakte dieren by Annie Obaachi (A how to book about Amigurumi)
- Merklapmotieven en hun symboliek by Albarta Meulenbelt-Nieuwburg (About Dutch samplers, including charts)
- Noble House by James Clavell (A gift to my boyfriend, who wants to collect the Dutch hardcover editions of Clavell's books from the early eighties)

That's not too much is it?

I'd say for two days that's showing remarkable restraint.

I got two books in the post earlier this week.
Witches Abroad which was a present from a friend (as she had one double)
An ARC of Dark Moon over Avalon which I want/need to get stuck into ASAP. (First, though, I should finish that pesky coursework reading book I started.)

Here's the book-buying thread! Couldn't find it last night, so I posted my latest purchase in the November food thread instead. Yesterday, I found Seven Hundred Sandwiches (1928) at a used book sale at a local church (love it when I just happen upon such a sale). The book is so old it assumes the bread you are using won't be pre-sliced. It never occurred to me, but apparently folks used to butter their bread before slicing it from the loaf!

My daughter loves her NaNoWriMo t-shirt! The cranberry color is perfect for her and this year's logo is really cute!

This was a major book buying weekend for me. Went to the presale for my college library's twice annual sale, and also went to Powell's today. All together I got the following:

the Darkest Evening of the Year

Odd Hours

Generation Me

Odd and the Frost Giants

H.P. Lovecraft: Tales

American Poetry: the 19th Century, vol. 1

American Poetry: the 19th Century, vol. 2

American Poetry: the 20th Century, vol. 1

American Poetry: the 20th Century, vol. 2

Theodore Dreiser: Sister Carrie, Jennie Gerhardt, Twelve Men

Warbreaker

Necronomicon

Got Rift in the sky in the mail today. Happy!

I got some plastic bags in the mail today, to keep my older paperbacks in. :)

I must say that I'm lucky to have understanding housemates- anyone else would have kicked me and my 700+ books out long ago. Anyway, they helped me find four more today:

Maris by Grace Livingston Hill
Spiced To Death by Peter King (great food mystery series- the main character has no name!)
Hallowe'en Party by Agatha Christie
Chromosome 6 by Robin Cook- this is my first venture into reading him, but I think I've heard great things. Does anyone here like him?

ETA- Seriously, I hope that author touchstones get an overhaul soon!

Got a perma-bound edition of Lost Horizon in the mail today. One of my favorite stories :)

I found a Pictorial History of the World at the markets this morning. I can't date it for sure, but I suspect about 1890. I'm sure there are hundreds of them around in better condition, but I do like it.

I was (pleasantly) surprised today to find The Magicians and Mrs. Quent waiting for me. Wasn't expecting that to arrive for at least a month!

Used:
Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Life, the Universe, and Everything by Douglas Adams
Mostly Harmless by Douglas Adams
Crooked Little Vein by Warren Ellis
Invisible Cities bu Italo Calvino
The Hippopotamus by Stephen Fry
The Little Country by Charles De Lint
The Island of the Day Before by Umberto Eco
Grimm's Complete Fairy Tales

*takes a deep breath*

New:
The Complete Works of Lewis Carroll
Dracula by Bram Stoker with illustrations by Edward Gorey (I can't find this by ISBN, btw)

Ooooooh!! Dracula with Edward Gorey illustrations!!!!!! *green with envy* ooooooh!

You find good books Delirium9!

Today I downloaded the new Paul Auster, Invisible. Which is not available to touchstone. Perhaps I should add it to my library.

It's not as though I need any new books, either, but as my hubby put it, I am amazon's bitch.

Score a ton o' books over the last week or so (most were bday gifts):

Anansi Boys
The Graveyard Book
American Gods
Stardust
(I'm gearing up to make Gaiman a 1010 Challenge category)

Also:
The Handybook for Genealogists
Family Tree Resource Book for Genealogists
Definitely Dead by Charlaine Harris

Library Sale:
400 Salads
Private Collections: A Culinary Treasure

Missy, the Graveyard Book is one of my favorite Gaiman books. The sequel(?) Odd and the Frost Giants isn't quite as good IMHO, partly because it feels like it was defnitely written for a younger audience, where GB can be read and enjoyed by all ages.

Thanks, DeusExLibrus. I didn't even know there was a sequel! Interesting...