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1elliepotten
New month, new thread...
I've finally managed to persuade my mum to let me have two Paul Theroux train-travel-writing books I've had my eye on at the shop. In return I've brought THREE BAGS of my own books to go out on our shelves, which I reckon is more than a fair trade-off! So now I have Riding the Iron Rooster (through China) and The Old Patagonian Express (through the Americas) to chuff chuff my way through...
I've finally managed to persuade my mum to let me have two Paul Theroux train-travel-writing books I've had my eye on at the shop. In return I've brought THREE BAGS of my own books to go out on our shelves, which I reckon is more than a fair trade-off! So now I have Riding the Iron Rooster (through China) and The Old Patagonian Express (through the Americas) to chuff chuff my way through...
2Tallulah_Rose
I went to the library today and brought home:
Der Tod kommt wie gerufen (Devil Bones) by Kathy Reichs. So, see how this will be
Der Tod kommt wie gerufen (Devil Bones) by Kathy Reichs. So, see how this will be
4ShazInNV
Q&A or Slumdog Millionaire. Just finished The Magicians and have a Jody Picoult waiting for me, along with a Thursday Next book, Something Rotten.
5kidzdoc
I received two books by mail today:
Georg Letham: Physician and Murderer by Ernst Weiss: This is the first book published by Archipelago Books in 2010, which was originally published in German in 1931 and is available in English for the first time. I've been waiting for this book for months, so I'll start reading it today.
Three Days Before the Shooting... by Ralph Ellison: This is Ellison's unfinished second novel, which he worked on for 42 years, up to a few weeks before his death. It was compiled by his good friend John F. Callahan, with the blessings of the Ellison family, over many years, and was published by The Modern Library last month. It's definitely a door stopper, with 1101 pages of text and a nearly 60 page introduction.
Georg Letham: Physician and Murderer by Ernst Weiss: This is the first book published by Archipelago Books in 2010, which was originally published in German in 1931 and is available in English for the first time. I've been waiting for this book for months, so I'll start reading it today.
Three Days Before the Shooting... by Ralph Ellison: This is Ellison's unfinished second novel, which he worked on for 42 years, up to a few weeks before his death. It was compiled by his good friend John F. Callahan, with the blessings of the Ellison family, over many years, and was published by The Modern Library last month. It's definitely a door stopper, with 1101 pages of text and a nearly 60 page introduction.
7calm
One from the library - The Lords of Avaris by David Rohl. Non-fiction subtitled "Uncovering the legendary origins of Western civilisation".
8Tallulah_Rose
There was a note in the mail box today, that my other book can be fethced from the post station tomorrow. So by tomorrow I will have Glas (Wizard and Glass) by Stephen King (I hope the snow-storm will not come between me and the book)
9jdthloue
Small Haul...yesterday:
The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson....B & N Classics Softcover............can't believe it's taken me so long to finally get this book.......
Christine Falls by Benjamin Black/John Banville
Grace After Midnight by Felicia Pearson....she what played "Snoop" on THE WIRE....girl gangbanger/thug/stone cold killer...this book is that too, but also how she got out of "the life"....
later
;-}
The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson....B & N Classics Softcover............can't believe it's taken me so long to finally get this book.......
Christine Falls by Benjamin Black/John Banville
Grace After Midnight by Felicia Pearson....she what played "Snoop" on THE WIRE....girl gangbanger/thug/stone cold killer...this book is that too, but also how she got out of "the life"....
later
;-}
10DeltaQueen50
One in the mail today from an Amazon order - The Marx Sisters by Barry Maitland.
11DevourerOfBooks
Four books in the mail today:
A Tree Grows In Brooklyn from BookMooch, for a Book Blogger Classic Reads Book Club
Saving CeeCee Honeycutt by Beth Hoffman, won from Penguin on Twitter
The Kitchen House by Kathleen Grissom for review
The Confessions of Catherine De Medici by C. W. Gortner also for review
A Tree Grows In Brooklyn from BookMooch, for a Book Blogger Classic Reads Book Club
Saving CeeCee Honeycutt by Beth Hoffman, won from Penguin on Twitter
The Kitchen House by Kathleen Grissom for review
The Confessions of Catherine De Medici by C. W. Gortner also for review
12jmaloney17
#9: jdthloue
Is Grace after Midnight by the girl who played Snoop? I was not quite sure what you meant in your post. Snoop was one of my favorite characters on The Wire.
ETA: Nevermind. I just read the book description, and I figured it out.
Is Grace after Midnight by the girl who played Snoop? I was not quite sure what you meant in your post. Snoop was one of my favorite characters on The Wire.
ETA: Nevermind. I just read the book description, and I figured it out.
13Mr.Durick
I wandered into Barny Noble's brick and mortar yesterday without a coupon, so I was mostly looking at remainders and other bargain books. Tonight our church book group will be discussing The Nine, so, when I saw The Oxford Companion to the Supreme Court for $7.95 I picked it up. If any book group member gets out of hand, I will bash her with it.
Robert
Robert
14Menshevixen
My college's library had a booksale today and I walked off with Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood, Anne's House of Dreams (still working on my L.M. Montgomery collection!), and a 3-in-1 of Flannery O'Connor's stories.
15Teipu
Just got my first book order this month. In the mail today:
These Old Shades by Georgette Heyer
Misery by Stephen King
These Old Shades by Georgette Heyer
Misery by Stephen King
16jdthloue
>12 jmaloney17:...so sorry, i was going for the Vernacular....trying to be clever...failed....;-(
today's haul:
In the Rogue Blood by James Carlos Blake.....not your Granddaddy's WESTERN..
The Lake of Dead Languages by Carol Goodman
Charms for the Easy Life by Kaye Gibbons
Too Loud a Solitude by Bohumil Hrabal
The Various Haunts of Men by Susan Hill
Safe in Heaven Dead by Samuel Ligon
Red Poppies by Alai
Holy Skirts by Rene Steinke
Lit: A Memoir by Mary Karr
Just Kids by Patti Smith (i saved the best for last)
;-}
today's haul:
In the Rogue Blood by James Carlos Blake.....not your Granddaddy's WESTERN..
The Lake of Dead Languages by Carol Goodman
Charms for the Easy Life by Kaye Gibbons
Too Loud a Solitude by Bohumil Hrabal
The Various Haunts of Men by Susan Hill
Safe in Heaven Dead by Samuel Ligon
Red Poppies by Alai
Holy Skirts by Rene Steinke
Lit: A Memoir by Mary Karr
Just Kids by Patti Smith (i saved the best for last)
;-}
17benitastrnad
At the library I got Doomsday Book by Connie Willis. Don't know when I will get it read -- but I got it. Also got the recorded version of Freakanomics. That will keep me busy in the car.
19RLMCartwright
My Willpower cracked again and I went snooping round the Oxfam bookshop earlier- came out with two books. The Mists of Avalon and A lost Lady- I got the Cather book because I've mooched another of her books My Antonia which should hopefully be arriving before the months end. Now I just need to survive the rest of the time without buying anything else.
21DevourerOfBooks
I'm bringing home 31 Bond Street today, the ARC came with all sorts of interesting promotional stuff.
22DeltaQueen50
Got The Malcontenta by Barry Maitland in the mail today.
23Mr.Durick
In the mail from Barny Noble:
God and Forms in Plato by Richard Mohr. This is a paperback, but it has cover flaps. On the back cover flap it says, "The aim of Parmenides Publishing is to renew interest in the origins and scope of thinking as a method." Cool! Anyway I want to read the Timaeus and have found I cannot on my own. I have an annotated edition by Cornford, but even it is slow going. There is a frequently promised but never delivered anthology of commentary on it edited by the same fellow. This book is a step towards understanding the construction of the universe if the universe is constructed as Plato said it was.
The Fundamental Wisdom of the Middle Way by Nagarjuna. This is basic Buddhist philosophy in the Mahayana tradition. It is probably something that is better to read about than to read. There is ample commentary in this edition. We'll see.
A Guide to the Bhodhisattva Way of Life by Santideva. More basic Mahayana Buddhism.
I have Theraveda stuff that I oughtta read. I have only a few decades, barring catastrophe, left to do it. Oh well; I can wish.
Robert
God and Forms in Plato by Richard Mohr. This is a paperback, but it has cover flaps. On the back cover flap it says, "The aim of Parmenides Publishing is to renew interest in the origins and scope of thinking as a method." Cool! Anyway I want to read the Timaeus and have found I cannot on my own. I have an annotated edition by Cornford, but even it is slow going. There is a frequently promised but never delivered anthology of commentary on it edited by the same fellow. This book is a step towards understanding the construction of the universe if the universe is constructed as Plato said it was.
The Fundamental Wisdom of the Middle Way by Nagarjuna. This is basic Buddhist philosophy in the Mahayana tradition. It is probably something that is better to read about than to read. There is ample commentary in this edition. We'll see.
A Guide to the Bhodhisattva Way of Life by Santideva. More basic Mahayana Buddhism.
I have Theraveda stuff that I oughtta read. I have only a few decades, barring catastrophe, left to do it. Oh well; I can wish.
Robert
24cindysprocket
Made the mistake of going to the library.
Civil War Wives by Carol Berkin
The Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg Larson
and off the free shelf
The Death of an Irish Lover by Bartholomew Gill
I now have six books from the Library to read and return. Will I ever read anything off of my own shelves ?
Civil War Wives by Carol Berkin
The Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg Larson
and off the free shelf
The Death of an Irish Lover by Bartholomew Gill
I now have six books from the Library to read and return. Will I ever read anything off of my own shelves ?
25callmejacx
It's already Feb 5 and I am proud that I haven't picked up any new books. That's not to say that I haven't been tempted. Looks like a lot of you have brought home a few good books.
26Mr.Durick
More fuss with Barny Noble, but the outcome was The Kindly Ones by Jonathan Littell in my mailbox today. I'm going to lay it next to the more or less active Life and Fate to see whether it gets read.
Robert
Robert
27Catgwinn
Purchased "Travels With Charlie...In Search of America by John Steinbeck last Thursday. Just started reading it...delightful, so far...
love the antics of Charlie :-))
love the antics of Charlie :-))
28hemlokgang
From BookMooch.com:
Gargantua and Pantagruel by Francois Rabelais
From Open Letter Series:
Ergo by Jakov Lind
Gargantua and Pantagruel by Francois Rabelais
From Open Letter Series:
Ergo by Jakov Lind
29Mr.Durick
Barny Noble's store coöperated yesterday in my leaving some money with them. My e-mail, among other computer features, is defective, so I had their store coupon only on my Blackberry. Jenny at customer service looked at it and said that the cashier could type in the number.
I looked around for awhile and found A Primer on Money, Banking, and Gold by Peter L. Bernstein. I want to know more about money. I'm beginning to believe that greedy and hubristic mistakes about money may have led to the depths of economic distress we had in the 1930's and now, and I want to know more. I also want to know what the cure is (abolish the federal reserve, make all money metal, allow banks to lend only the money they have in hand and not all of that -- seems extreme).
Jenny, having become a cashier, took the coupon number and gave me my discount.
I need a new computer, and nothing seems easy. In any case it will reduce my acquiring books.
Robert
I looked around for awhile and found A Primer on Money, Banking, and Gold by Peter L. Bernstein. I want to know more about money. I'm beginning to believe that greedy and hubristic mistakes about money may have led to the depths of economic distress we had in the 1930's and now, and I want to know more. I also want to know what the cure is (abolish the federal reserve, make all money metal, allow banks to lend only the money they have in hand and not all of that -- seems extreme).
Jenny, having become a cashier, took the coupon number and gave me my discount.
I need a new computer, and nothing seems easy. In any case it will reduce my acquiring books.
Robert
31kidzdoc
Today I received a copy of The Last Brother by Nathacha Appanah from The Book Depository.
32Mr.Durick
Last week I had a coupon to use on line at Barny Noble's. I thought I would get something as expensive as possible on my wish list (not my fantasy list or I would have gotten The Babylonian Talmud). Also I had seen here mentioned with a kind of puzzlement some science fiction I had never heard of; I thought I would get that and found a couple of successors remaindered. I also thought I would clean out my sub-$10 list on my BN wishlist because they do not ship for free individually.
Today's box had:
American Palestine by Hilton Obenzinger. I hate the middle-east, etc., etc., etc., But I got into it with Gertrude Bell, a hell of a woman. Also a good bit of the Bible is set there. So I'm interested in Clarel and will be at least until I try to read it. This is in support of my reading Clarel and understanding a few other literary connections to the middle-east. Also, this is my money book; not as extravagant as I would have liked, but expensive books that I want tend to be textbooks that don't qualify for the discount.
The Tower by Colin Wilson. Wry commentary on LibraryThing drew my attention to this one. I like spiders. Who couldn't expect the best in writing from an author who had published over 80 books? I wonder how you pronounce Niall. I apparently had missed out on a recent remainder clearance and had to pay quasi-full price.
The Delta and Shadowland by Colin Wilson. These successors were available as remainders along side The Tower so I ordered them. In the sequence of one to four, I am missing number three. I wonder whether I am going to need it.
Tales from Jabba's Palace edited by Kevin J. Anderson. I would be a star ship commander if I could. Otherwise I would like to be Jabba.
Are You There Vodka? It's Me Chelsea by Chelsea Handler. I suspect that the content will have little to do with the title, but the title is so appropriate to me (see my Jabba envy above) I couldn't pass it up, although I've been able to wait for the paperback at a good online price.
The Ox-Bow Incident by Walter Van Tilburg Clark. The frontier has been the great encompassing idea of America for a long time. I was so taken by The Big Sky series that I thought I ought to pursue it.
Postmodernism by Christopher Butler and Poststructuralism by Catherine Belsey. These had shifting prices. While they were both down I thought it prudent to paper over a couple of lacunae in my understanding.
Through the afternoon into the evening I've been wondering what I will actually read tonight.
Robert
Today's box had:
American Palestine by Hilton Obenzinger. I hate the middle-east, etc., etc., etc., But I got into it with Gertrude Bell, a hell of a woman. Also a good bit of the Bible is set there. So I'm interested in Clarel and will be at least until I try to read it. This is in support of my reading Clarel and understanding a few other literary connections to the middle-east. Also, this is my money book; not as extravagant as I would have liked, but expensive books that I want tend to be textbooks that don't qualify for the discount.
The Tower by Colin Wilson. Wry commentary on LibraryThing drew my attention to this one. I like spiders. Who couldn't expect the best in writing from an author who had published over 80 books? I wonder how you pronounce Niall. I apparently had missed out on a recent remainder clearance and had to pay quasi-full price.
The Delta and Shadowland by Colin Wilson. These successors were available as remainders along side The Tower so I ordered them. In the sequence of one to four, I am missing number three. I wonder whether I am going to need it.
Tales from Jabba's Palace edited by Kevin J. Anderson. I would be a star ship commander if I could. Otherwise I would like to be Jabba.
Are You There Vodka? It's Me Chelsea by Chelsea Handler. I suspect that the content will have little to do with the title, but the title is so appropriate to me (see my Jabba envy above) I couldn't pass it up, although I've been able to wait for the paperback at a good online price.
The Ox-Bow Incident by Walter Van Tilburg Clark. The frontier has been the great encompassing idea of America for a long time. I was so taken by The Big Sky series that I thought I ought to pursue it.
Postmodernism by Christopher Butler and Poststructuralism by Catherine Belsey. These had shifting prices. While they were both down I thought it prudent to paper over a couple of lacunae in my understanding.
Through the afternoon into the evening I've been wondering what I will actually read tonight.
Robert
33thioviolight
My very first book purchase of the year!! (So happy I'm better able to control my book urges!)
Taking home the following books that I received from an online seller today:
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 14 edited by Stephen Jones
A Year in Provence by Peter Mayle
and
The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2005 edited by Dave Eggers -- for my friend
Taking home the following books that I received from an online seller today:
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 14 edited by Stephen Jones
A Year in Provence by Peter Mayle
and
The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2005 edited by Dave Eggers -- for my friend
34RLMCartwright
Well today North and South "fell" into my hands as I was looking round the university bookstore and since it was an uber cheap wordsworth edition I couldn't pass it up (£1.99!!).
35elliepotten
Rach - aren't those Wordsworth editions great?! I quite often buy classics in that edition because I figure they're good 'n' cheap, and then if I adore the book I can always get a nice hardback copy or something later without having wasted any money.
My uncle sent across some books for the shop yesterday and since I'm hoping to expand my sci-fi/fantasy reading a little this year, I retrieved War of the Worlds and two Arthur C. Clarke paperbacks for myself before they disappeared... ;-)
My uncle sent across some books for the shop yesterday and since I'm hoping to expand my sci-fi/fantasy reading a little this year, I retrieved War of the Worlds and two Arthur C. Clarke paperbacks for myself before they disappeared... ;-)
36divinenanny
I am in London for business this week, and I will combine this with book buying. I just have to find the time between meetings and dinners for a big haul, but so far I have picked up:
Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman and
The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown
Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman and
The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown
37calm
Managed to find some more books today! From my favourite £1 a book second-hand shop.
A Cat, a Man and Two Women by Junchiro Tanizaki - I've never read any Japanese writers and this looks like an interesting place to start.
The Stone Carvers by Jane Urquhart - a U author for my Alphabet Challenge
and Blackbird in Amber by Freda Warrington - OK it's part of a series but it was on the "free shelf".
A Cat, a Man and Two Women by Junchiro Tanizaki - I've never read any Japanese writers and this looks like an interesting place to start.
The Stone Carvers by Jane Urquhart - a U author for my Alphabet Challenge
and Blackbird in Amber by Freda Warrington - OK it's part of a series but it was on the "free shelf".
38RLMCartwright
>Ellie I know! My uni bookstore has loads of them and I got a gorgeous hardcover clothbound selection of Virginia Woolf's work for a anniversary/valentine's day present for my bf for less than a tenner!!
Oh yea today two books arrived for me in two different homes, i bought my first green virago today The Professor's House to add to the random collection of Willa Cather books that I've got going at the mo. And my LTER book finally arrived at home for me so I've got to wait until next week until my parents bring All the things we didn't say to Aber. I've got to read it before they go back cos my sister is demanding to read it (i've created a right book monster with her).
Oh yea today two books arrived for me in two different homes, i bought my first green virago today The Professor's House to add to the random collection of Willa Cather books that I've got going at the mo. And my LTER book finally arrived at home for me so I've got to wait until next week until my parents bring All the things we didn't say to Aber. I've got to read it before they go back cos my sister is demanding to read it (i've created a right book monster with her).
39jennieg
Good job, LadyV! I've done the same with my daughters & granddaughter. It's very satisfying.
41divinenanny
I have to admit I went a bit overboard with my book shopping. But in my defense, books are about 50% cheaper here, and I will read each and everyone in the coming two months:
Stitch 'n' Bitch: Happy Hooker - Debbie Stoller
Beyond the Square Crochet Motifs - Edie Eckman
Persepolis - Marjane Satrapi
Lost in a good book - Jasper Fforde
People of the book - Geraldine Brooks
Feersum Endjinn - Iain M. Banks
Inversions - Iain M. Banks
Look to Windward - Iain M. Banks
The Children's Book - A.S. Byatt
Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro
Dracula - Bram Stoker
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Tales of Terror - Robert Louis Stevenson
King Solomon's Mines - H. Rider Haggard
Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen
American Gods - Neil Gaiman
Stardust - Neil Gaiman
Handling the Undead - John Ajvide Lindqvist
The Road - Cormac McCarthy
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies - Seth Grahame-Smith
The Owl Killers - Karen Maitland
The Complete Maus - Art Spiegelman
The Swan Thieves - Elizabeth Kostova
From Demons to Dracula - Matthew Beresford
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle - Haruki Murakami
Tasty Crochet - Rose Langlitz
The Return of Tarzan - Edgar Rice Burroughs
Stitch 'n' Bitch: Happy Hooker - Debbie Stoller
Beyond the Square Crochet Motifs - Edie Eckman
Persepolis - Marjane Satrapi
Lost in a good book - Jasper Fforde
People of the book - Geraldine Brooks
Feersum Endjinn - Iain M. Banks
Inversions - Iain M. Banks
Look to Windward - Iain M. Banks
The Children's Book - A.S. Byatt
Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro
Dracula - Bram Stoker
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Tales of Terror - Robert Louis Stevenson
King Solomon's Mines - H. Rider Haggard
Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen
American Gods - Neil Gaiman
Stardust - Neil Gaiman
Handling the Undead - John Ajvide Lindqvist
The Road - Cormac McCarthy
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies - Seth Grahame-Smith
The Owl Killers - Karen Maitland
The Complete Maus - Art Spiegelman
The Swan Thieves - Elizabeth Kostova
From Demons to Dracula - Matthew Beresford
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle - Haruki Murakami
Tasty Crochet - Rose Langlitz
The Return of Tarzan - Edgar Rice Burroughs
42elliepotten
Very nice haul! I'm rather jealous, in fact... ;-)
43divinenanny
I got more -shame-
Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
Wuthering Heights - Emily Brontë
Oryx and Crake - Margaret Atwood
Doomsday Book - Connie Willis
To Say Nothing Of The Dog - Connie Willis
Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
The Zombie Survival Guide - Max Brooks
Under the Dome - Stephen King
Her Fearful Symmetry - Audrey Niffenegger
But now I am really done. I have to be, my luggage won't take more books ;)
Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
Wuthering Heights - Emily Brontë
Oryx and Crake - Margaret Atwood
Doomsday Book - Connie Willis
To Say Nothing Of The Dog - Connie Willis
Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
The Zombie Survival Guide - Max Brooks
Under the Dome - Stephen King
Her Fearful Symmetry - Audrey Niffenegger
But now I am really done. I have to be, my luggage won't take more books ;)
44markleon
Freefall: America, Free Markets, and the sinking of the World Economy - Joe Stiglitz is a very smart man.
46dancingstarfish
Stopped by the library today to drop off a few books that were overdue (after many threatening emails and scolding reminders when I visited the library) and brought home a good haul to replace them:
The yellowlighted bookshop by Lewis Buzbee
The sweetness at the bottom of the pie by Alan Bradley
Both ways is the only way I want it by Maile Meloy
It's beginning to hurt by James Lasdun
Something to tell you; a novel by Hanif Kureishi
The Library at night by Alberto Manguel
The evolution of Calpurnia Tate by Jacqueline Kelly
Little Women (audio book) by Louisa May Alcott
The yellowlighted bookshop by Lewis Buzbee
The sweetness at the bottom of the pie by Alan Bradley
Both ways is the only way I want it by Maile Meloy
It's beginning to hurt by James Lasdun
Something to tell you; a novel by Hanif Kureishi
The Library at night by Alberto Manguel
The evolution of Calpurnia Tate by Jacqueline Kelly
Little Women (audio book) by Louisa May Alcott
47RLMCartwright
Ok I've been really bad. Admittedly my bf bought me most of these because he's wonderful and spoils me (i think undeservedly) but it's still a mighty haul from the various bookshops of Oxford.
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell
The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot
Silas Marner by George Eliot
Ruth by Elizabeth Gaskell
A Clash of Kings by George R.R. Martin
A Storm of Swords by George R.R. Martin
Prey by Rachel Vincent
The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness
Eon: Rise of the Dragoneye by Alison Goodman
Revelation by C.J. Sansom
The Falcons of Montabard by Elizabeth Chadwick
And that's it! I have no clue as to how I'm getting this lot back home with only one suitcase but I'll have to give it a damn good try.
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell
The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot
Silas Marner by George Eliot
Ruth by Elizabeth Gaskell
A Clash of Kings by George R.R. Martin
A Storm of Swords by George R.R. Martin
Prey by Rachel Vincent
The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness
Eon: Rise of the Dragoneye by Alison Goodman
Revelation by C.J. Sansom
The Falcons of Montabard by Elizabeth Chadwick
And that's it! I have no clue as to how I'm getting this lot back home with only one suitcase but I'll have to give it a damn good try.
48mstrust
Yeah! The giant VNSA book sale in Phoenix is finally here! I've just returned and here's what I got-and I'll be going back tomorrow.
Australia: Journey Through A Timeless Land
The Tour Guide of The British Museum
The World's Best- no touchstone
The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat
A Tour Guide to Prague
A Passion For Books
Grendel
Orchid Fever
Flashman and the Angel of the Lord
No Fond Return of Love
Quartet in Autumn
An Unsuitable attachment
The Sweet Dove Died
Quantum of Solace
Behind the Scenes at the Museum
The Continental Op
A Taste For Death
Australia: Journey Through A Timeless Land
The Tour Guide of The British Museum
The World's Best- no touchstone
The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat
A Tour Guide to Prague
A Passion For Books
Grendel
Orchid Fever
Flashman and the Angel of the Lord
No Fond Return of Love
Quartet in Autumn
An Unsuitable attachment
The Sweet Dove Died
Quantum of Solace
Behind the Scenes at the Museum
The Continental Op
A Taste For Death
49divinenanny
I'm happy with my haul :D
LadyViolet, good luck getting it home. I was only 0.4 kilo's overweight and the guy behind the counter didn't care. I was saved by my two pieces of hand luggage though ;)
LadyViolet, good luck getting it home. I was only 0.4 kilo's overweight and the guy behind the counter didn't care. I was saved by my two pieces of hand luggage though ;)
50RLMCartwright
>49 divinenanny: I've only got to lug it home on the train though so it's hopefully not going to be too bad they can't charge me for an extra ticket due to my excessive luggage ;)
51FicusFan
My first haul for February:
People of the Abyss by Jack London, Ebook, historical fiction,
Saw this on LTER, but got it free on Amazon for my Kindle app.
Looked fascinating, about the lives of the underclass in Victorian London.
Flight into Darkness by Sarah Ash, Fantasy
Book 2 in the Alchymist's Legacy series. Her stories have a nice historical touch.
Just Another Judgement Day by Simon Green , Urban Fantasy
Book 9 in the Nightside series. Set in London and the netherworld that also resides there.
Horizon by Lois McMaster Bujold, Fantasy
Book 4 in the Sharing Knife series.
Bone Crossed by Patricia Briggs, Urban Fantasy
Book 4 in the Mercy Thompson series.
The Dakota Cipher by William Dietrich, Historical Thriller
Book 3 in the Ethan Gage series
set in post colonial America under President Jefferson. This one is about exploring west.
Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese, World Fiction
Set in Ethiopa about a set of twins who become orphans and then grow up around a hospital and go into the medical profession. Saw it on LT and it got good reviews.
The Boleyn Wife by Brandy Purdy, Historical Fiction,
Set during the time of Henry VIII tells of his exploits with various wives. I am hoping this is not a romance in disguise.
The Revolution Business by Charles Stross, Fantasy
Set in the real world and fantasy its book 5 in the Merchant Princes series about a family in business.
People of the Abyss by Jack London, Ebook, historical fiction,
Saw this on LTER, but got it free on Amazon for my Kindle app.
Looked fascinating, about the lives of the underclass in Victorian London.
Flight into Darkness by Sarah Ash, Fantasy
Book 2 in the Alchymist's Legacy series. Her stories have a nice historical touch.
Just Another Judgement Day by Simon Green , Urban Fantasy
Book 9 in the Nightside series. Set in London and the netherworld that also resides there.
Horizon by Lois McMaster Bujold, Fantasy
Book 4 in the Sharing Knife series.
Bone Crossed by Patricia Briggs, Urban Fantasy
Book 4 in the Mercy Thompson series.
The Dakota Cipher by William Dietrich, Historical Thriller
Book 3 in the Ethan Gage series
set in post colonial America under President Jefferson. This one is about exploring west.
Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese, World Fiction
Set in Ethiopa about a set of twins who become orphans and then grow up around a hospital and go into the medical profession. Saw it on LT and it got good reviews.
The Boleyn Wife by Brandy Purdy, Historical Fiction,
Set during the time of Henry VIII tells of his exploits with various wives. I am hoping this is not a romance in disguise.
The Revolution Business by Charles Stross, Fantasy
Set in the real world and fantasy its book 5 in the Merchant Princes series about a family in business.
52kristenn
I managed to get pretty deep into February without bringing home anything new. And then parcels arrive two days in a row.
From my book club, Indiespensible, the latest from Louise Erdrich (Shadow Tag) and Lionel Shriver (So Much For That). (I had no idea Lionel Shriver was a woman.)
Also from Powell's, a large box of used volumes. Mostly things I've already read via the library and enjoyed enough to want to own:
The Feast of Love: A Novel by Charles Baxter
Buying In: The Secret Dialogue Between What We Buy and Who We Are by Rob Walker
The Big Sort: Why the Clustering of Like-Minded America is Tearing Us Apart by Bill Bishop
Crazy Salad: Some Things About Women by Nora Ephron
Not yet read:
Heartburn by Nora Ephron
Green Metropolis: Why Living Smaller, Living Closer, and Driving Less Are the Keys to Sustainability by David Owen
I read a condensed version of the Owen book in a magazine a few years ago and have been looking forward to reading the full thing.
From my book club, Indiespensible, the latest from Louise Erdrich (Shadow Tag) and Lionel Shriver (So Much For That). (I had no idea Lionel Shriver was a woman.)
Also from Powell's, a large box of used volumes. Mostly things I've already read via the library and enjoyed enough to want to own:
The Feast of Love: A Novel by Charles Baxter
Buying In: The Secret Dialogue Between What We Buy and Who We Are by Rob Walker
The Big Sort: Why the Clustering of Like-Minded America is Tearing Us Apart by Bill Bishop
Crazy Salad: Some Things About Women by Nora Ephron
Not yet read:
Heartburn by Nora Ephron
Green Metropolis: Why Living Smaller, Living Closer, and Driving Less Are the Keys to Sustainability by David Owen
I read a condensed version of the Owen book in a magazine a few years ago and have been looking forward to reading the full thing.
53cindysprocket
Oh, The quarterly Library Book Sale was today. I was so surprised all fiction and nonfiction was 25 cents. Normally it was 50 cents and a dollar. I bought
Mystery Book by Mary Roberts Rinehart
Clouds of Witness & The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club by Dorothy L. Sayers
The Body in the Ivy by Katherine Hall Page
The Body in the Gallery by Katherine Hall Page
Not in the Flesh by Ruth Rendell
Creepers by David Morrell
The Shotgun Rule by Charlie Huston
Mystery Book by Mary Roberts Rinehart
Clouds of Witness & The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club by Dorothy L. Sayers
The Body in the Ivy by Katherine Hall Page
The Body in the Gallery by Katherine Hall Page
Not in the Flesh by Ruth Rendell
Creepers by David Morrell
The Shotgun Rule by Charlie Huston
54momom248
Well I was bad lately..Shadow Tag by Louise Erdrich, Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie, Secrets of Eden, The Postmistress, The Wife's Tale, Honolulu, Blindspot, Let The Great World Spin, & The Disappeared. And axiously looking forward to Jodi Picoult's new one in March.
55mstrust
So here is today's haul (second day of the book sale).
The Great Stink
Sir Harry Hotspur of Humblethwaite
The Treasury of Foolishly Forgotten Americans
Alec Guinness: My Name Escapes Me
Krapp's Last Tape and other dramatic pieces
The English Drama: 900-1642
Miss Zukas and the Library Murders
Booked To Die
Wodehouse: Four Plays
Three Doors to Death
The Black Tower
Northanger Abbey A nicer copy than mine.
High Fidelity
Culture Smart: New Zealand
Rumpole and the Reign of Terror
Personality
The Royal Hunt of the Sun
The Trunk Murderess
Treasures of the Library: Trinity College Dublin
A Spot of Bother
Zombies of the Gene Pool
She Walks These Hills
Tales of the Alhambra
The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes
Into the Wild
Ciao, America!
Travels with Alice
Paris to the Moon
Year of Wonders
The Sea
Marie Antoinette: The Last Queen of France
Interpreter of Maladies
Cape Cod Stories
Demonology
Almost French
Shakespeare's Britain
Victoria & Albert Museum: A Hundred Highlights
The Royal Pavilion Brighton
Metropolitan Jewelry
The Great Stink
Sir Harry Hotspur of Humblethwaite
The Treasury of Foolishly Forgotten Americans
Alec Guinness: My Name Escapes Me
Krapp's Last Tape and other dramatic pieces
The English Drama: 900-1642
Miss Zukas and the Library Murders
Booked To Die
Wodehouse: Four Plays
Three Doors to Death
The Black Tower
Northanger Abbey A nicer copy than mine.
High Fidelity
Culture Smart: New Zealand
Rumpole and the Reign of Terror
Personality
The Royal Hunt of the Sun
The Trunk Murderess
Treasures of the Library: Trinity College Dublin
A Spot of Bother
Zombies of the Gene Pool
She Walks These Hills
Tales of the Alhambra
The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes
Into the Wild
Ciao, America!
Travels with Alice
Paris to the Moon
Year of Wonders
The Sea
Marie Antoinette: The Last Queen of France
Interpreter of Maladies
Cape Cod Stories
Demonology
Almost French
Shakespeare's Britain
Victoria & Albert Museum: A Hundred Highlights
The Royal Pavilion Brighton
Metropolitan Jewelry
56HKU
Ok, went a little overboard at my favorite bookstores this weekend, I purchased:
Ask Again Later by Jill A. Davis
Songs Without Words by Ann Packer
Whispers by Dean Koontz
The Funhouse by Dean Koontz
Lost Boy Lost Girl by Peter Straub
We Need to Talk about Kevin by Lionel Shriver
Ask Again Later by Jill A. Davis
Songs Without Words by Ann Packer
Whispers by Dean Koontz
The Funhouse by Dean Koontz
Lost Boy Lost Girl by Peter Straub
We Need to Talk about Kevin by Lionel Shriver
57whymaggiemay
#55 you got some great books there.
Brought The Hunger Games home today - couldn't resist any longer and I had a gift card to make it more painless.
Brought The Hunger Games home today - couldn't resist any longer and I had a gift card to make it more painless.
58elliepotten
Blimey Jennifer - what a brilliant haul! *sighs* The sooner I tackle part of Mount TBR, the sooner I can have a mad little spree of my own, right?!
59VivalaErin
Picked up Clarissa by Samuel Richardson at the library yesterday. I've always wanted to read it and when I saw it on the shelf I just couldn't stop.
At least as a grad student I get to keep it until May, plenty of time to work it in!
At least as a grad student I get to keep it until May, plenty of time to work it in!
60RLMCartwright
Oh how naughty of me- I just ordered off amazon 3 Sookie Stackhouse books (6,7 & 8) even though I got *loads* of books this weekend. It's partly because of my nerdishness about matching covers - they've re-printed the Stackhouse books with images of the characters from the True Blood series on the front which don't match the first 5 books I have so I ordered the ones I don't have with the old covers to keep my set nice and matching. I'm waiting for the paperback of Dead and Gone before I buy it since I have far too many hardbacks.
61sanja
Saturday I bought Food Rules. I finished that today so now I bought: In Defense of Food and The Omnivore's Dilemma. And Slow Cooker, because all I know how to make in a slow cooker is chili. :)
62mauveberry
Just got Miss Marple: the Complete Short Stories from the library. I almost bought it on Amazon yesterday but was able to resist the urge by reminding myself that I'm still in the middle of reading Unseen Academicals and have a huge TBR pile. Ever since getting an ereader, I've been spending way too much money on books.
63elliepotten
I got Dear John in the post yesterday. I hadn't realised it was a Nicholas Sparks novel I hadn't got until Rachel started chatting about it the other day, so I ordered it on the spot - I blame you, LadyVi!
64elkiedee
I don't like the True Blood covers much - I bought books 7 and 8 in the series recently off Amazon in the same way so they would go with my copies of the earlier books in the series - I bought and read the first 3 a few years ago and some way apart.
I've now got a bargain set of TV tie in True Blood books as well because my boyfriend quite liked the early ones but he destroys books when he reads them so I'm reluctant to give him my copies to read. If he wants to reread we'll keep them, if not I'll put them up as swap books later.
I've now got a bargain set of TV tie in True Blood books as well because my boyfriend quite liked the early ones but he destroys books when he reads them so I'm reluctant to give him my copies to read. If he wants to reread we'll keep them, if not I'll put them up as swap books later.
65RLMCartwright
>63 elliepotten: Me?? *looks for halo* What did I do?? *angelic smile* :P
66DeltaQueen50
I used the last of my Christmas Gift Cards today and brought home: The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold, Shanghai Girls by Lisa See, and a Ngaio Marsh omnibus with her first three mysteries.
67DevourerOfBooks
I'm not supposed to be buying or accepting any books this month, but over the last few days a bunch of books that I accepted for review or won in January have showed up at my house:
We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver
Post-Birthday World by Lionel Shriver
Heresy by S.J. Parris
My Name is Memory by Ann Brashares
Girl in Translation by Jean Kwok
Beatrice and Virgil by Yann Martel
The Blue Orchard by Jackson Taylor
We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver
Post-Birthday World by Lionel Shriver
Heresy by S.J. Parris
My Name is Memory by Ann Brashares
Girl in Translation by Jean Kwok
Beatrice and Virgil by Yann Martel
The Blue Orchard by Jackson Taylor
68jdthloue
Today's haul..in the midst of a blizzard:
Nightingales: The Extraordinary Upbringing and curious Life of Miss Florence nightingale by Gillian Gill
Morvern Callar by Alan Warner
Wild Women in the Kitchen by Nicole Alper...Recipes and History
365 Ways to Cook Pasta by Marie Simmons
The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown..........don't ask..I got it from BookMooch so didn't pay cash......
;-}
Nightingales: The Extraordinary Upbringing and curious Life of Miss Florence nightingale by Gillian Gill
Morvern Callar by Alan Warner
Wild Women in the Kitchen by Nicole Alper...Recipes and History
365 Ways to Cook Pasta by Marie Simmons
The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown..........don't ask..I got it from BookMooch so didn't pay cash......
;-}
69MDLady
One of my new favorite authors is Deeanne Gist.
So far this month I have bought A Bride in the Bargain and Deep in the Heart of Trouble. I have Bride Most Begrudging and Courting Trouble on the way from Ebay and Beguiled on it's way from the Doubleday book club.
I am hooked!
Touchstones are touchy :)
So far this month I have bought A Bride in the Bargain and Deep in the Heart of Trouble. I have Bride Most Begrudging and Courting Trouble on the way from Ebay and Beguiled on it's way from the Doubleday book club.
I am hooked!
Touchstones are touchy :)
70Mr.Durick
I did errands yesterday all within a reasonable radius from Borders, and I had a Borders coupon number.
They had four copies of The Areas of My Expertise by John Hodgman at a dollar each, so I bought them. They didn't make it into my house, however. I took them to a small men's support group at church and gave them away 'cause it was fun to share one of my favorite books.
What made it into my house were:
Happy Hour is for Amateurs by Philadelphia Lawyer. This was the coupon book. I'm sorry I couldn't find anything more substantial from my list, but mention on LibraryThing and my agreement with the title (I drive as little as possible from 5 pm to 7pm because happy hour is for amateurs) make me hope it will not be a waste.
Wishful Drinking by Carrie Fisher. Princess Leia and booze put this on my wish list; now I have it and at half price because I also bought
Food Matters by Mark Bittman. This is a little speculative. It was on my wish list because I respect him from his New York Times videos.
Robert
They had four copies of The Areas of My Expertise by John Hodgman at a dollar each, so I bought them. They didn't make it into my house, however. I took them to a small men's support group at church and gave them away 'cause it was fun to share one of my favorite books.
What made it into my house were:
Happy Hour is for Amateurs by Philadelphia Lawyer. This was the coupon book. I'm sorry I couldn't find anything more substantial from my list, but mention on LibraryThing and my agreement with the title (I drive as little as possible from 5 pm to 7pm because happy hour is for amateurs) make me hope it will not be a waste.
Wishful Drinking by Carrie Fisher. Princess Leia and booze put this on my wish list; now I have it and at half price because I also bought
Food Matters by Mark Bittman. This is a little speculative. It was on my wish list because I respect him from his New York Times videos.
Robert
71thisbookends
I'm currently reading Flawless: Inside the largest Diamond Heist in History by Scott Andrew Selby and Greg Campbell.
Found this website a few weeks ago and enjoying it. Can't wait to receive an early review title that comes out at the end of February.
lilk
Howzit from Hawaii
Found this website a few weeks ago and enjoying it. Can't wait to receive an early review title that comes out at the end of February.
lilk
Howzit from Hawaii
72RLMCartwright
Although the last thing I needed was more books another one happened to fall into my bag. Entirely on a whim I bought Vanity Fair since it was a super cheap version and I was buying a book for my bf anyway and since it was less than £4 for the two I thought it a prudent investment.
Now I've got to find time to read all these classics I've acquired recently.
Now I've got to find time to read all these classics I've acquired recently.
73mollygrace
The books I ordered arrived today. I just love getting packages of books in the mail. There's that giddy, happy five-year-old-girl-on-Christmas morning feel to it. I'm sixty years older than five and my heart probably shouldn't get that excited, but who can resist? And the icing on the cake is that you have 7 more delicious books to enjoy:
Alive Together: New and Selected Poems by Lisel Mueller
Shadow Tag by Louise Erdrich
Blue Angel by Francine Prose
The Spare Room by Helen Garner
Eight White Nights by Andre Aciman
Unfinished Desires by Gail Godwin
Union Atlantic by Adam Haslett
Alive Together: New and Selected Poems by Lisel Mueller
Shadow Tag by Louise Erdrich
Blue Angel by Francine Prose
The Spare Room by Helen Garner
Eight White Nights by Andre Aciman
Unfinished Desires by Gail Godwin
Union Atlantic by Adam Haslett
74msf59
Molly- Nice haul! I just heard a review of Union Atlantic and it sounds fantastic!
75crazy4reading
I have to admit that I haven't bought that many books lately. I still have my gift card to Barnes and Noble to spend. I just haven't had the urge to go in and spend it yet, plus I want to have a little extra cash so when I go over my card limit I can actually buy all the books.
I did recieve in the mail on Tues. a book I won from the member giveaway, I recieved Net Force- Hidden Agendas by Tom Clancy. Last night I went to my library book club and I got our latest read, The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein, which looks quite interesting since it is written from a dogs point of view. I then went in to pick up another book, just for the fun of bringing home a book. I picked up Final Target by Iris Johansen.
I did recieve in the mail on Tues. a book I won from the member giveaway, I recieved Net Force- Hidden Agendas by Tom Clancy. Last night I went to my library book club and I got our latest read, The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein, which looks quite interesting since it is written from a dogs point of view. I then went in to pick up another book, just for the fun of bringing home a book. I picked up Final Target by Iris Johansen.
76dancingstarfish
>75 crazy4reading:, crazy4reading.. I felt the same way until I found a new series I liked.. then I bought them all and ended up spending past the limit of my certificate haha, all it takes is a little inspiration from a new discovery!
77jdthloue
>70 Mr.Durick: Mr Durick
I have enjoyed Carrie Fisher's oeuvre since Postcards from the Edge.....Princess Leia, indeed...
Mark Bittman...i own How to Cook Everything...which is a very good, basic cookbook..
.......and Happy Hour really is for amateurs.......
;-}
I have enjoyed Carrie Fisher's oeuvre since Postcards from the Edge.....Princess Leia, indeed...
Mark Bittman...i own How to Cook Everything...which is a very good, basic cookbook..
.......and Happy Hour really is for amateurs.......
;-}
78scarpettajunkie
Just received a rush from receiving Haunting Warrior by Erin Quinn. It is the sequel to book one, Haunting Beauty. Yippee! Loved Haunting Beauty as slight spoiler heroine falls in love with a ghost.
80whymaggiemay
In our office we have a large bookshelf used for personal books we are finished with and wish to offer to others in the firm to read. Picked up One Soldier's Story by Bob Dole (autographed). I'm not a fan of Mr. Dole, but I have a real interest in WWII, so thought I would give it a try.
81jnwelch
I couldn't resist, and picked up at the bookstore Murder in the Marais by Cara Black, Ballistics: Poems by Billy Collins, and Scott Pilgrim Volume 5. Reading them at work would probably be going too far, tempting as it is.
82cindysprocket
Received my ER book today No Instructions Needed:
An American Boyhood In The 1950's by Robert Hewitt. Already started to read:-)
An American Boyhood In The 1950's by Robert Hewitt. Already started to read:-)
83elliepotten
>68 jdthloue: Jude - I'd be interested to hear what you think of the Florence Nightingale book - apparently I'm related to her! I just bought Mark Bostridges biography of her, Florence Nightingale, which I'm rather looking forward to...
Over the past few days I've been a bit naughty and managed to acquire:
- A big glossy book on James Dean, with photos from his estate
- Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan
- The Heart of Buddhism: Practical Wisdom for an Agitated World by Guy Claxton
- The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas (a nice shiny replacement for my old copy)
- A Woman in Berlin (anonymous)
- 'Book Lover' (known in the US as Literacy and Longing in LA) by Jennifer Kaufman
Then yesterday I had a bank appointment to keep and afterwards fell into Help the Aged and bought:
- Moby Dick by Herman Melville
- Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
- The Heretic's Daughter by Kathleen Kent
- Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
- The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton
Oooooops. *almighty clatter as Ellie falls right off the wagon and rolls away*
Over the past few days I've been a bit naughty and managed to acquire:
- A big glossy book on James Dean, with photos from his estate
- Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan
- The Heart of Buddhism: Practical Wisdom for an Agitated World by Guy Claxton
- The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas (a nice shiny replacement for my old copy)
- A Woman in Berlin (anonymous)
- 'Book Lover' (known in the US as Literacy and Longing in LA) by Jennifer Kaufman
Then yesterday I had a bank appointment to keep and afterwards fell into Help the Aged and bought:
- Moby Dick by Herman Melville
- Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
- The Heretic's Daughter by Kathleen Kent
- Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
- The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton
Oooooops. *almighty clatter as Ellie falls right off the wagon and rolls away*
84crazy4reading
# 76 dancingstarfish: That is my fear that I will find a series that I want to read and not be able to afford all the books at once. I may go this weekend to spend my gift card. I just don't know what I really want to get.
85jdthloue
>83 elliepotten:
Wow, Ellie!!! I will do so, indeed..except that someone wants to borrow it "like yesterday", but first she has to get up the icy hill to my house.. I do know that i heard great things about Nightingales when it was first published. will keep you posted!
Today's Haul:
Killing Critics by Carol O'Connell
The Curious Eat Themselves & Death and the Language of Happiness by John Straley
In the Electric Mist with Confederate Dead by James Lee Burke
The Minotaur Takes a Cigarette Break by Steven Sherrill
The Librarian by Larry Beinhart
Phineas Poe: Kiss Me Judas, Penny Dreadful, Hell's Half Acre by Will Christopher Baer
La Cucina by Lily Prior
Calligraphy of the Witch by Alicia Gaspar de Alba
C'mon America, Let's Eat by Susan Powter
now to find space for them.........
;-}
Wow, Ellie!!! I will do so, indeed..except that someone wants to borrow it "like yesterday", but first she has to get up the icy hill to my house.. I do know that i heard great things about Nightingales when it was first published. will keep you posted!
Today's Haul:
Killing Critics by Carol O'Connell
The Curious Eat Themselves & Death and the Language of Happiness by John Straley
In the Electric Mist with Confederate Dead by James Lee Burke
The Minotaur Takes a Cigarette Break by Steven Sherrill
The Librarian by Larry Beinhart
Phineas Poe: Kiss Me Judas, Penny Dreadful, Hell's Half Acre by Will Christopher Baer
La Cucina by Lily Prior
Calligraphy of the Witch by Alicia Gaspar de Alba
C'mon America, Let's Eat by Susan Powter
now to find space for them.........
;-}
86RLMCartwright
I am *not* impressed with Amazon right now- the three Sookie Stakhouse books i ordered the other day came this afternoon and to my great annoyance when I opened them a little while ago- they've got the covers I didn't want. The stupid new series tie-in covers which don't match the other five books I already have. *pouts* the picture on amazon was clearly the old cover so why the heck have they sent me the new ones?!?! :(
Can't be bothered to send them back as that'll take more time energy and money than I can afford to expend right now.
Can't be bothered to send them back as that'll take more time energy and money than I can afford to expend right now.
87dancingstarfish
LadyViolet, if you return by saying it is not the product you ordered, amazon will pay for shipping back and replace them free of charge. You should contact them! It wouldn't cost you a penny.
88momom248
I was bad again and got The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks along w/ a free copy from Random House of Shanghai Girls. Thank you Random House.
89kidzdoc
I picked up four books from Borders today:
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
Princess Noire: The Tumultuous Reign of Nina Simone by Nadine Cohodas
Anonymous Celebrity by Ignácio De Loyola Brandão
The Foundation Pit by Andreĭ Platonov
I received two other books by mail:
The Long Song by Andrea Levy: A "tale set in Jamaica during the last turbulent years of slavery and the early years of freedom that followed."
La Vie extérieure (Things Seen) by Annie Ernaux: A "journal" in which Ernaux "turns her penetrating focus on those points in life where the everyday and the extraordinary intersect, where "things seen" reflect a private life meeting the larger world."
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
Princess Noire: The Tumultuous Reign of Nina Simone by Nadine Cohodas
Anonymous Celebrity by Ignácio De Loyola Brandão
The Foundation Pit by Andreĭ Platonov
I received two other books by mail:
The Long Song by Andrea Levy: A "tale set in Jamaica during the last turbulent years of slavery and the early years of freedom that followed."
La Vie extérieure (Things Seen) by Annie Ernaux: A "journal" in which Ernaux "turns her penetrating focus on those points in life where the everyday and the extraordinary intersect, where "things seen" reflect a private life meeting the larger world."
90lilmanmom
Stopped by Borders today; they were having a $1 sale!
The Many Lives & Secret Sorrows of Josephine B. by Sandra Gulland
Tales of Passion, Tales of Woe by Sandra Gulland
The Queen's Sorrow by Suzannah Dunn
Goddess of Spring by P.C. Cast
Latina Women's Voices From the Borderlands
Wesley the Owl by Stacey O'Brien
Flower Children by Maxine Swan
The Witch's Trinity by Erika Mailman
That's in addition to the 9 I bought yesterday at a different Borders location...
The Many Lives & Secret Sorrows of Josephine B. by Sandra Gulland
Tales of Passion, Tales of Woe by Sandra Gulland
The Queen's Sorrow by Suzannah Dunn
Goddess of Spring by P.C. Cast
Latina Women's Voices From the Borderlands
Wesley the Owl by Stacey O'Brien
Flower Children by Maxine Swan
The Witch's Trinity by Erika Mailman
That's in addition to the 9 I bought yesterday at a different Borders location...
91hemlokgang
From Audible,com:
The Aspern Papers by Henry James
Bloodroot by Amy Greene
The Cossacks by Leo Tolstoy
Jacob's Hands by Aldous Huxley
The Aspern Papers by Henry James
Bloodroot by Amy Greene
The Cossacks by Leo Tolstoy
Jacob's Hands by Aldous Huxley
92VivalaErin
Had a coupon for Book-a-Million...
Darkborn by Alison Sinclair
The Warrior Heir by Cinda Williams Chima (from the teen section)
Enchanted Dreams by Nancy Madori - no touchstone for that one
Darkborn by Alison Sinclair
The Warrior Heir by Cinda Williams Chima (from the teen section)
Enchanted Dreams by Nancy Madori - no touchstone for that one
93scarpettajunkie
Just brought home from Sam's Club A Reliable Wife. I have been wanting this book for quite some time despite luke warm reviews. I am half-way through The Bone Garden, which itself is really a swell book including Oliver Wendal Holmes and a Ripper and can't wait to finish it to start A Reliable Wife.
94Mr.Durick
Yesterday I remained in town after church and found myself with a few minutes to spare in Barny Noble's place:
My Horizontal Life by Chelsea Handler. I lost interest in sex quite awhile ago, but I had laughed out loud over and over reading Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea. I have read it now. It is not as good as I had hoped. I have given it three stars, but I may downgrade it.
The Pythons by them. This was on the remainder shelf. I've liked them and thought it couldn't hurt to have something else by them on my shelves.
I didn't buy Aesop's Fables in Latin because it was expensive and looked like it was over my head, but I can see it in my future.
Robert
My Horizontal Life by Chelsea Handler. I lost interest in sex quite awhile ago, but I had laughed out loud over and over reading Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea. I have read it now. It is not as good as I had hoped. I have given it three stars, but I may downgrade it.
The Pythons by them. This was on the remainder shelf. I've liked them and thought it couldn't hurt to have something else by them on my shelves.
I didn't buy Aesop's Fables in Latin because it was expensive and looked like it was over my head, but I can see it in my future.
Robert
95cdyankeefan
I received a copy of The Three Weismanns of Westport over the weekend
96cindysprocket
From the Library. Across the Endless River by Thad Carhart. A Historical Novel about Jean-Batiste Charbonneau , the son of Sacgawea.
97calm
Found a couple of books today
Everyday Life Through the Ages (charity shop find) and The Book of Chameleons by Jose Eduardo Agualusa (from the second hand book shop)
Everyday Life Through the Ages (charity shop find) and The Book of Chameleons by Jose Eduardo Agualusa (from the second hand book shop)
98jmaloney17
I bought books this month. Let me see if I can remember.
Bookmooch
The Night Watch by Sarah Waters
Borders
Hunting Julian by Jacquelyn Frank
Mort by Terry Pratchett
Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith
I know I received one other Bookmooch book and bought 2 more from Borders. I just cannot remember what they were!
Bookmooch
The Night Watch by Sarah Waters
Borders
Hunting Julian by Jacquelyn Frank
Mort by Terry Pratchett
Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith
I know I received one other Bookmooch book and bought 2 more from Borders. I just cannot remember what they were!
99scarpettajunkie
I passed up Drood and The Help. However, while I was at Sam's I did buy Roses, The Dead Travel Fast and Thicker Than Blood. I am hoping the next visit to Sam's I can get Drood so maybe in a couple of weeks. I have two ARCs to get through as well so I have my hands full.
100caroline123
Scarpettajunkie, Thicker Than Blood looks like a really good read! I just added it to my amazon wishlist...
I'm still reading The Swimming Pool my earlier reviewer's book and liking it a lot.
I bought another Christian fiction book by Deeanne Gist and J. Mark Bertrand called Beguiled. trying to be good this month ;) - I will have to live to be 150 to read all the books I currently have.
I'm still reading The Swimming Pool my earlier reviewer's book and liking it a lot.
I bought another Christian fiction book by Deeanne Gist and J. Mark Bertrand called Beguiled. trying to be good this month ;) - I will have to live to be 150 to read all the books I currently have.
101elkiedee
#85 Some interesting titles there, and some good books behind them. I bought The Minotaur Takes a Cigarette Break for the title but am glad I did, I really liked it.
I've bought and acquired far too many books to list this month - I've started reviewing books for a website so I didn't pay for some of them, and I also received a couple through Bookswap, but it's space at home that's the real issue. One I'm particularly looking forward to is Sara Paretsky's new book Hardball which came in the post yesterday.
I've bought and acquired far too many books to list this month - I've started reviewing books for a website so I didn't pay for some of them, and I also received a couple through Bookswap, but it's space at home that's the real issue. One I'm particularly looking forward to is Sara Paretsky's new book Hardball which came in the post yesterday.
102Mr.Durick
I went to a movie next door to a Borders. I had a Borders coupon. LibraryThing said that there was likely a copy of Logicomix at the store.
We looked long and hard for Logicomix and couldn't find it. So I wandered around.
The Constitution of Liberty by Friedrich A. Hayek. Hayek is just too good to pass up, and this gave my coupon good value.
I came across a shelf of books for a dollar apiece; I bought:
Shop Class as Soulcraft by Matthew B. Crawford. This was on my wishlist waiting for the imminent release in paperback. I would rather have a trade paperback, but the price of this hardcover was just too good to pass up (if I use that phrase again in this posting, it might mean it's the theme for the moment). I hope this follows on some of what was said in Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. I have another book of about the same vintage which may be a little more academic on the subject.
The Exchange Artist by Jane Kamensky. It says on the front cover, "A tale of high-flying speculation and America's first banking collapse." I hope that it, consistent with some recent reading, shows how the bankers steal from all of us who aren't bankers. I just want to keep my bile in circulation.
The Sleepwalkers by Arthur Koestler. This is "a history of man's changing vision of the Universe." I hope it puts that silly heliocentrism to rest.
Robert
We looked long and hard for Logicomix and couldn't find it. So I wandered around.
The Constitution of Liberty by Friedrich A. Hayek. Hayek is just too good to pass up, and this gave my coupon good value.
I came across a shelf of books for a dollar apiece; I bought:
Shop Class as Soulcraft by Matthew B. Crawford. This was on my wishlist waiting for the imminent release in paperback. I would rather have a trade paperback, but the price of this hardcover was just too good to pass up (if I use that phrase again in this posting, it might mean it's the theme for the moment). I hope this follows on some of what was said in Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. I have another book of about the same vintage which may be a little more academic on the subject.
The Exchange Artist by Jane Kamensky. It says on the front cover, "A tale of high-flying speculation and America's first banking collapse." I hope that it, consistent with some recent reading, shows how the bankers steal from all of us who aren't bankers. I just want to keep my bile in circulation.
The Sleepwalkers by Arthur Koestler. This is "a history of man's changing vision of the Universe." I hope it puts that silly heliocentrism to rest.
Robert
103RLMCartwright
Even though I promised myself that I wouldn't buy any more books until the end of March I cracked when I went into Oxfam and came out with two books for under £5 (which has gotta justify it right?)
Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell - it's this gorgeous blue leatherbound book which is from the same set as a copy of Villette I bought from there in January.
The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood - just felt like reading some more of her work after reading A Handmaid's Tale and Oryx and Crake.
Right seriously *no* more book buying until April!!
Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell - it's this gorgeous blue leatherbound book which is from the same set as a copy of Villette I bought from there in January.
The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood - just felt like reading some more of her work after reading A Handmaid's Tale and Oryx and Crake.
Right seriously *no* more book buying until April!!
104mollygrace
Four books arrived in today's mail:
Ordinary Thunderstorms by William Boyd
You Remind Me Of Me by Dan Chaon
Await Your Reply by Dan Chaon
Unpacking the Boxes: A Memoir of a Life in Poetry by Donald Hall
Ordinary Thunderstorms by William Boyd
You Remind Me Of Me by Dan Chaon
Await Your Reply by Dan Chaon
Unpacking the Boxes: A Memoir of a Life in Poetry by Donald Hall
105whymaggiemay
Three from the Friends of the Library:
High Tide in Tucson by Barbara Kingsolver
Polite Lies, On Being a Woman Caught Between Cultures by Kyoko Mori
The Widow's War by Sally Gunning
and one from the Office Library:
One Soldier's Story by Bob Dole
High Tide in Tucson by Barbara Kingsolver
Polite Lies, On Being a Woman Caught Between Cultures by Kyoko Mori
The Widow's War by Sally Gunning
and one from the Office Library:
One Soldier's Story by Bob Dole
106FicusFan
Running out of month, so I will post my last February books.
Wings of wrath by C.S. Friedman, Fantasy
Book 2 in the Magister series
Heretics by S. Andrew Swann, Space Opera
Book 2 in the Apotheosis series
Kitty's House of Horrors by Carrie Vaughn, Urban Fantasy
Book 7 in the Kitty Norville series about the life and times of Kitty the werewolf
Archangel's Kiss by Nalini Singh, Fantasy Romance
Book 2 in the Guild Hunter series about angels and vampires in an alternate modern day setting.
Fall of the Thanes by Brian Ruckley, fantasy
Final book in the Godless World trilogy. Fantasy with an historical setting.
Keeper of Light and dust by Natasha Mostert, Urban Fantasy
Story about magical beings called Keepers who protect humanity from baddies in the fantasy world who leak over into real life. Includes martial arts in the standard Urabn Fanasy mix.
Attila by William Napier, Historical Fiction
Start of a series about Attila.
White Sky, Black Ice by Stan Jones, Mystery
Start of a series Nathan Active set in Alaska and dealing with the Natives and their lives as the backdrop for the mysteries.
Lark and Termite by Jayne anne Phillips, Fiction
Saw this on LT. Story of growing up rural and poor.
Evil Ways by Justin Gustainis, Urban Fantasy,
Book 2 in the Morris and Chastaine Supernatural Investigators
The Witch Doctor's Wife by Tamar Myers, Historical Fiction
Set in the 50s about a woman who goes to the Congo in Africa as part of a group of missionaries. The discovery of a large gem, unleashes even more exploitation and destruction of the natives by the outsiders.
The Seer of Egypt by Pauline Gedge, Historical Fiction
Book 2 in the King's Man series.
Bamboo and Blood by James Church, Mystery
Book 3 in the Inspector O series set in North Korea.
Mexico City Noir Edited by Paco Ignacio Taibo II, Short Stories
Set in Mexico City with a noir tint.
I got a new-to-me Netbook so I have a couple reference books:
Netbooks: the Missing Manual by Jude Biersdorfer
Netbooks for Dummies by Joel McNamara
Wings of wrath by C.S. Friedman, Fantasy
Book 2 in the Magister series
Heretics by S. Andrew Swann, Space Opera
Book 2 in the Apotheosis series
Kitty's House of Horrors by Carrie Vaughn, Urban Fantasy
Book 7 in the Kitty Norville series about the life and times of Kitty the werewolf
Archangel's Kiss by Nalini Singh, Fantasy Romance
Book 2 in the Guild Hunter series about angels and vampires in an alternate modern day setting.
Fall of the Thanes by Brian Ruckley, fantasy
Final book in the Godless World trilogy. Fantasy with an historical setting.
Keeper of Light and dust by Natasha Mostert, Urban Fantasy
Story about magical beings called Keepers who protect humanity from baddies in the fantasy world who leak over into real life. Includes martial arts in the standard Urabn Fanasy mix.
Attila by William Napier, Historical Fiction
Start of a series about Attila.
White Sky, Black Ice by Stan Jones, Mystery
Start of a series Nathan Active set in Alaska and dealing with the Natives and their lives as the backdrop for the mysteries.
Lark and Termite by Jayne anne Phillips, Fiction
Saw this on LT. Story of growing up rural and poor.
Evil Ways by Justin Gustainis, Urban Fantasy,
Book 2 in the Morris and Chastaine Supernatural Investigators
The Witch Doctor's Wife by Tamar Myers, Historical Fiction
Set in the 50s about a woman who goes to the Congo in Africa as part of a group of missionaries. The discovery of a large gem, unleashes even more exploitation and destruction of the natives by the outsiders.
The Seer of Egypt by Pauline Gedge, Historical Fiction
Book 2 in the King's Man series.
Bamboo and Blood by James Church, Mystery
Book 3 in the Inspector O series set in North Korea.
Mexico City Noir Edited by Paco Ignacio Taibo II, Short Stories
Set in Mexico City with a noir tint.
I got a new-to-me Netbook so I have a couple reference books:
Netbooks: the Missing Manual by Jude Biersdorfer
Netbooks for Dummies by Joel McNamara
107Cladi
This Febuary I have read
The first 3 Percy Jackson Books(reading the 5th book now)
The 3rd Chronicles of Vladimer Todd
I've been really busy and haven't had almost any good time to read.
The first 3 Percy Jackson Books(reading the 5th book now)
The 3rd Chronicles of Vladimer Todd
I've been really busy and haven't had almost any good time to read.
108Mr.Durick
I was at loose ends in town after church, not yet sleepy, not yet hungry. The opera didn't start until much later. The baseball game was challenged by meteorological conditions. I found myself in Borders where I found a copy of Logicomix which has been spoken well of here. I got it and will curse the people who recommended it if is no good.
Then I didn't buy a new computer or a fish lunch. I found myself eating at IHOP then weary at home.
Rober
Then I didn't buy a new computer or a fish lunch. I found myself eating at IHOP then weary at home.
Rober
