Books Brought Home May 2010

Just thought I'd get this started.....because.....

"Even when reading is impossible, the presence of books acquired produces such an ecstasy that the buying of more books than one can read is nothing less than the soul reaching towards infinity... we cherish books even if unread, their mere presence exudes comfort, their ready access, reassurance."
--- A.E. Newton

Have books I ordered at B&N to pick up. Soon.

I went to a fiber festival yesterday (this one, to be exact). I spent $350 or so, mostly on yarn -- but also on tools and a book: Alice Starmore's book of Fair Isle Knitting.

oooo I love buying yarn.

On May 1st I bought Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (an orange popular Penguin) and Uncensored: Views & (Re)views by Joyce Carol Oates

Well I not only had a Borders 40% coupon but $5 borders bucks--I was hoping for a nice coupon to go w/ the Borders bucks. I got Girl in Translation.

Thank you for that quote, hemlok. Now I don't feel quite so bad that the two new bookshelves I just bought are completely filled and I have nowhere to put any more new books. Already this month I have: The Confessions of Noa Weber, The People's History of the United States, The Ecco Anthology of International Poetry, and Beatrice and Virgil.

To infinity and beyond!

Now I understand why when I walk past my piles of unread books I get such a feeling of warmth and euphoria. Thanks for the quote hemlok.

Yes, wonderful quote, Hemlock! I love having even books I didn't care much for on my shelves. Some might say it's a sickness, but we know better.

And yarn! I could open a yarn store with all the yarn I've purchased and been given over the past 4 or 5 years but haven't used yet. I just can't seem to pass up beautiful yarn, even when I don't really have any idea what I'm going to make with it.

Waiting on the ER book I won for April .

Today I received Hellhound on His Trail: The Stalking of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the International Hunt for His Assassin by Hampton Sides by mail.

Neighborhood errands took me by Borders with a 33% coupon. When I bought the first of two Library of America volumes of Emerson's Journals last week I didn't see the second volume anywhere around the store. Later I confirmed through LibraryThing's Get This Book that it was not in stock. Today just as I was answering a clerk's solicitation with "I'm looking to make the best use of my coupon" I spotted a Library of America volume in the E's, and, by golly, it was the one I wanted. I picked it up, saluted the clerk, and went on my way.

Ralph Waldo Emerson: Selected Journals 1841-1877 (Library of America) (the touchstone does not load) edited by Lawrence Rosenwald.

I also scored a DVD of Ironman at half price to prepare for Ironman 2 which I hope to see in IMAX.

Robert

I love that quote hemlok! Thanks for sharing. My hubby laughs at me because I'm constantly acquiring new books and we are running out of places to put them. LOL

From BookMooch (France):

Pierre Patience by Atiq Rahimi

ditto on loving the quote! it is perfect! =:)

That quote is perfect! Today, I simply HAD to go to the bookstore; it had been too long. Only came out with 2 bargain books:

The Black Tattoo - very cool cover
Madame Bliss - for some erotic fun

And my LT Early Reviewer book arrived today (super quick): Heart of Lies (touchstone not working on that one)

Now I don't know where to put them, or which one to read first!

I received Dead In The Family the 10th Sookie Stackhouse book yesterday through those wonderful folks at Amazon

From Audible.com:

Little Bee by Chris Cleave

Yesterday between a morning event at church and an evening event at church I spent time at a mall across town from home. I saw two movies (The Good The Bad The Weird and City Island), ate a couple of pretty good hamburgers with sweet potato fries, and bought a few books at Barny Noble's that were almost as cheap in the store as on line:

Wetlands by Charlotte Roche. The reactions of several people here were something like, "Yuck, I read it all the way through!" They mentioned bodily fluids. I thought that I'd better have this book, but it took awhile for me to get it.
Inside the Stalin Archives by Jonathan Brent. Was Stalin the savior of his nation and an innocent patsy of the violent bureaucrats beneath him? Yeah, right. This book should reflect a lot on the interior workings of an ogre despite that much ogrishness is expressed only orally.
Winter's Tale by Mark Helprin. This novel was given good mention here somewhere. I can't remember what attracted me to it, but I put it on my wishlist and now have it.

I ordered four books from Barny Noble direct. Three of them have been at my delivering post office since early Tuesday morning sitting there awaiting delivery as priority mail.

The Roads to Sata by Alan Booth. I was last in Japan in 1976, but part of my heart remains dedicated. I have also enjoyed long walks. This book promises to be special, a walk from the northern tip to the southern tip.
The Secret Speech by Tom Rob Smith. This book got good reviews, and I reckoned I'd get it when it came out in paper. Meanwhile I got its predecessor Child 44; I finished reading that last night and may very well start reading this one tonight. The crushing inhumanity of man to man may keep me back a little while though.
The Philip K. Dick Collection by Philip K. Dick. I don't actually know how much I like Philip K. Dick. I like how he is talked about. There have been entertaining movies made from his books. A couple of Library of America volumes of his novels attracted me in the bookstore, then I found the complete set at steep discount on-line, so I ordered it -- three volumes containing thirteen of his novels.

The fourth book shipped a few days later than the first three but got here today with them.

Tradition and Revolt by Robert A. Nisbet. I got this to inform my conservatism. My conservatism calls for an ongoing tension between radical change and stick in the mud obstinacy; it also calls, incongruously, for general middle of the road balance and prudence. The book is barely footnoted, but its back cover is an appeal to academics.

Curse the post office. Long live Barny Noble and LibraryThing.

Robert

From Audible.com:

False Dawn by Edith Wharton

I had three mooches arrive this week.
The Phantom TollboothI had never heard of this before LT.
The Bretts Based on the British miniseries.
The Poisoned Chocolates Case

18 -

I'm happy to see that you are going to read The Roads to Sata. It's an excellent read!

I finished False Dawn by Edith Wharton and I think I will listen to Dreamers of the Day by Mary Doria Russell.

Today I'm bringing home Day for Night by Frederick Reiken, A Boy Should Know How to Tie a Tie by Antwone Fisher, and The Irresistable Henry House by Lisa Grunwald. I realized today that I've brought 15 books into the house this week and 55 since the beginning of April. I'm in big trouble, especially since I'm going to BEA later this month, and will be bringing home a big pile then, I'm sure.

Oh, this is turning out to be a really good Mother's Day weekend (even though my daughter's not here).

In the mail, I received my April ER novel, Sumner Island, which looks pretty darn good.

Best of all, though, my daughter sent me a copy of Where the Wild Things Are ~ both the book AND the movie! I absolutely loved that book when I read it to her ad nauseum when she was little. In fact, I read it to her so often that she and I used to recite huge portions of it to each other while driving in the car (this was before iPods and CDs). What lovely memories her Mother's Day gift has brought back to me.

Thierry Jonquet's Ils sont votre épouvante et vous êtes leur crainte (bought at La Défense Virgin last Wednesday, finished Saturday night) and Moloch (bought Saturday at Joseph Gibert's on the Boulevard St-Michel, started last night).

Pierre Jourde's Le Tibet sans peine came together with Abû-Nuwâs's Le vin, le vent, la vie from Amazon last Friday.

On the Boulevard Saint-Michel I also found at Boulinier's three books for 0.60€ : Antoine Volodine's Des anges mineurs, Latifa ben Mansour's Le Chant du lys et du basilic and a somewhat shabby (though not as much as my old one) copy of Jacques Perret's Le caporal épinglé.

Owls do cry and The thousand autumns of Jacob de Zoet must be on their way.

I spent the weekend in Connecticut with some friends and as they know some great used book sotres I came home with the following:
Stephen King The Eyes of the Dragon
Michael Chabon Summerland...
my friend also had his second book published which is
Frank Juliano Milford A Brief History...
and a book that I've been lookignforward to
Tom Rachman The Imperfectionists

I went to two bookstores in Santa Cruz and found these, all used:

wordless books
the likeness ((even though the ending of In The Woods infuriated me - apparently I am a completist masochist)
meet mr. product (I have a million books like this, what's one more, plus I could not resist Mr TV Tube from 1960)
love is a mix tape
the hashish man and other stories
the war for all the oceans (I've been looking for this since I read his Nelson's Trafalgar, which was terrific)

My roommate's mom brought some audiobooks that I got to go through, so I grabbed a few:
The Choice by Nicholas Sparks - haven't been through one of his books in years
The Camel Club by David Baldacci
No Place Like Home by Mary Higgins Clark - she is so good

Got one more from PBS today too:
Season of Storms by Susanna Kearsley

Also got a bunch of books for my Teaching Assistantship from the director today!

Still waiting on a book from Amazon...

Today I got Motherhood is Murder by Diana Orgain, The Lotus Eaters by Tatjana Soli, and 6 YA, early reader, and picture books.

Thank you for the quote hemlok! Am currently reading A Tale of Two Cities and have no idea why I was afraid of it for so long. It's terrific!

I'm getting ready to place by summer book reading order with Amazon and am feeling very anxious. I keep going over it to make sure it's perfect, but it's so difficult to know what moods I will be experiencing throughout the summer.

Does anyone else ever feel this way when making a purchase of books?

Just got The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter from the second hand shop during lunch break. It's a Vintage Classic and looks brand new - score!

hemlokgang, thank you so very much for sharing Newton's words they've caused a breeze of release and understanding of my passion for books.

Hi BeeHoney,

Yes, I share your feeling. I started with one summer book list and have flowed all over the page. It's like craving strawberry ruhubard pie on one day and hagen daz the next or holding fast not to take in any additional calories and opting for a walk in green spaces. I believe I'll just go with the flow!

From Bookmooch: Bag of Bones by Stephen King

From Paperback Swap: Themes and Foundations of Art by Elizabeth L. Katz

From the author: Still Sucks To Be Me (ARC) by Kimberly Pauley; I also bought the hardcover edition...

From LT Early Reviewers (April Batch): Original Sins by Peg Kingman

From LT Member Giveaways: Footsteps On the Livingstone Trail by Gus Karpes (not yet received)

From Publishers:
The Wizard's Son by Kathryn L. Ramage and
Burned by P.C. Cast (not yet received).

I also have other books pending from Bookmooch and some from the Folio Society, which I expect to arrive at any time.

31. >"Does anyone else ever feel this way when making a purchase of books?"

Yes, I do. It's one reason why I buy books 2 or 3 (usually $25 to $35) at a time instead of attempting to buy 10 or 12 or more to last the entire season.

33% Borders coupon: I went through the store locating three books to choose among. I settled on a collection of works by John Muir, but when I went to pick it off the shelf I found a score through the back of the dust jacket as if someone wasn't paying attention with their box cutter when they unpacked the book. I looked at the other two again and settled on:

Krushchev, the man and his era by William Taubman. Here's a roly poly bumpkin in charge of the world's second most powerful country; he's a totalitarian who spoke out against the tyrannies of his predecessor. He has got to be interesting, shoe on the podium and all.

The book also fits with some of my recent and current reading.

Robert

kiwiflowa and all who might love beautiful book binding: $20 for Penguin Classics

On-Line at: http://search.anthropologie.com/?i=1&page=2&q=books&u1=q
Or your local Anthropologie Shop

The Odyssey
Treasure Island
Lady Chatterley's Lover (in my library)
Jane Eyre ( " " " )
Sense and Sensibility
Great Expectations
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Cranford
Wuthering Height
Pride and Prejudice

31. > "Does anyone else ever feel this way when making a purchase of books?"

Yes. Absolutely. I TRY to have 10 or more books in the house that I've never read so that I can feel them out and pick one based on my mood that week, but sometimes I see that collection dwindling (and I haven't had the chance to run to a bookstore recently/have been poor) and I get anxious about potentially starting a new series, or picking up a book I've been afraid of, etc. And I almost never travel (commuting doesn't count) with a new book. I learned my lesson the hard way. I only travel in comfy, well-worn clothing with comfy, well-worn books.

Currently reading Chuck Palahniuk's Diary, my first Palahniuk...

#34, #36 & #39: Exactly, exactly exactly!!

I feel much better that others feel the same way and it's good advice to only get two or three at a time but as #39 says it's comforting to have that extra pile of never reads.

OHH, the anxiety of finishing a book and not having enough extras.

>BeeHoney -- I'm getting ready to head out of town, and of course, I will have a bag full of nothing but books to read while I'm gone. I always take more than I can ever get through, but I have to have options!

Two more TBR's arrived today...

From PBS: Sins of the 7th Sister by Huston Curtiss - gotta love the Gothic South

Amazon finally got here (if I had known it was coming from the UK I would have been more patient, but anyway): The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters by Dahlquist - can't wait to get started on this one!

39, 40 >>> I don't have the problem of running out of the "has not yet read" category because I might buy 2 or 3 books at a time, but I probably still haven't read at least two of one batch before I buy 2 or 3 more. In that way, I buy enough books in 1 year to keep me in "new" reading for about four years. The bigger problem is beginning to be space, as about 80 - 90% of my books have not yet been read by me. I seriously need to stop buying books for a few years to catch up on my reading, and then sort through the collection to determine if any are candidates for Bookmooch or Paperback Swap. I'm sure some of them are, I just don't yet know which ones.

Bag of Bones is absolutely my favorite Steven King novel. Enjoy.

#42 Then, just when you give some away the mood to read one of them will strike.

I just received my ER book in the mail:

Sidney Sheldon's After the Darkness by Tilly Bagshawe

Love the book too, but what did you think of the movie? I haven't seen it yet.

I just received my book in the mail today

The post office seems not to know what it is doing, a week and a half in one case, two days in another. It was a pleasant surprise to have Barny Noble's package in today's mail; I wish postal service could always be at least about as good.

Satchel by Larry Tye. One of the most entertaining people and one of the best players in and at America's pastime, Satchel Paige gets attention and deserves it. People at LibraryThing have liked this book.

Windows 7 Annoyances by David A. Karp. I have pretty much hated my last four computers, all laptops. Most of that has been because of hardware. I don't own a soldering iron so I can't do anything about that, but perhaps I can deal with the annoyances from software. For the moment I will be hopeful about this book.

My book count is at the point where I should be adding books one hundred at a time. I've been putting off the books in the other rooms of my house for a couple of years now and could do it, but I lack the will. Alackaday.

Robert

I received three books from Amazon today:

Tinkers by Paul Harding
Mendel's Dwarf by Simon Mawer
The Makioka Sisters by Junichiro Tanizaki

I found a pristine copy of A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers for a cool $11 at a used book store on tuesday and was giddy the whole walk home.

#48: Robert, I'm going to my local Borders today or tomorrow to get Satchel; I've signed up to hear Larry Tye talk about the book tomorrow night at the Carter Presidential Library, which is very close to where I live.

Darryl, if the talk has content, I'd like to here some of it if you would be so kind as to post it somewhere here.

Robert

#52: I'd be happy to, Robert.

I forgot to mention that I received four more books from Amazon today:

The Boy Next Door by Irene Sabatini
Dogside Story by Patricia Grace
Vice: Poems by Ai
Fear by Stefan Zweig

I napped and splashed in the pool, and suddenly I had energy. I took my energy and a 33% coupon to the neighborhood Borders.

The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck. This is a little $6.99 annotated edition of the novel. I didn't use my coupon on it. I hate paying full price for a book, but I thought that if I delayed any more I'd never get it.

O'Connor, collected works by Flannery O'Connor. I used the coupon on this one. Library of America is offering a package of eight books by Southern woman authors at a discount. I already had a couple of volumes so the bargain was right on the borderline of value. This book amounts to my decision not to buy the set (although I expect eventually I'll have all the books in it). I hope O'Connor turns out to be good as people make her out to be.

Robert

I have never seen Craig Ferguson's teevee show although I have seen outtakes from it. His dismissal of adolescents was so to the point that I thought it should be inscribed in the American Book of Truth (touchstone missing). I was born in the United States and live in it 65 years later; I was out of it only for a few years. There have been times when my loyalty has tried me, but I stick with it. I live in a different part of the country than where I started; I am a resident by choice.

With any luck American on Purpose will tell me something important about my own life.

There is a chance that I will set aside my book on Revelation tonight to read this.

It came from Barny Noble. Another package from him is in the neighborhood, but the United States Postal Service didn't feel inclined to leave it for me today.

Robert

From B&N. A Father's Law by Richard Wright.
This book was his last and had not been completed. It had been submitted for publication by his daughter.

I'm once again way behind posting here:

When We Were Orphans by Kazuo Ishiguro From a special LT friend.
Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett from Half.com. I'm on a Gaiman kick, what can I say?
Dirt Music by Tim Winton from BM, this makes the 2nd Winton book in my tbr. About time getting to one of them!
The Chicago Way by Michael Harvey from BM, I've heard good things about this crime novel, set in my hometown.

#58 msf59 - if the other Tim Winton is The Riders I can recommend it. I have two more on TBR, as well, acquired after I finished The Riders.

Hello everyone--I would like to read a book by William Maxwell. If any of you have read him, could you offer some suggestions?

I'm on a bit of a Regency kick of late. Today I bought Arabella by Georgette Heyer and The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe.

Maggie- The other Winton book I have is The Turning. I heard Breath is also very good.

Turns out I posted this in the wrong thread.

My first batch of May books.

Ghosts & Echoes by Lyn Benedict, Urban Fantasy

Book 2 in the Shadows Inquires series. Author is Lane Robins who wrote one of my favorite books Maledicte.

Victorious by Jack Campbell, Military SF

Last book in The Lost Fleet series.

Teeth of Beasts by Marcus Pelegrimas, Urban Fantasy

Book 3 of Skinners .

Spooky Little Girl by Laurie Notaro, Fiction/Urban Fantasy

Saw this on LT ER. Didn't request it, but bought it when it came out. About a woman who dies and comes back as a ghost.

Give Me Back My Legions by Harry Turtledove, Historical Fiction

Had to have it. Can still hear Augustus yelling 'Give Me Back My Eagles'. from the I, Claudius TV series.

Ardeur by Leah Wilson, Non-Fiction

14 writers on the Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Series . Who knows why, its become such crap.

Cecilia by Linda Ferri, Historical Fiction

Story about persecution of Christians in Roman Empire.

Express Lane Meals by Rachel Ray, Cookbook

Impulse buy. Thought it would have more on the pantry.

Today's mail brought me from Barny Noble:

One Book: The Whole Universe edited by Richard D. Mohr and Barbara M. Sattler. At a 15% discount if I remember correctly, this book in paperback has been forthcoming for months and months. The Timaeus has been my big stumbling block in Plato. I have a version annotated by Cornford that I hope to read with it illuminated by this volume.

13 Bankers by Simon Johnson and James Kwak. I much prefer reading trade paperbacks to reading hardcovers, but Barny offered this so cheap, and it carries a little timeliness with it, I ordered it on a whim when I didn't want just one book in the mail.

So maybe I should go to a movie.

Robert

From the Library Book Sale.
The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon
A Long Way Down by Nick Hornby
Wishin' and Hopin' by Wally Lamb
The Given Day by Dennis Lehane
All through the Night by Davis Bunn
Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski
The Rossetti Letter by Christi Phillips
The End of the Jews by Adam Mansbach
The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet by Reif Larsen
Curse of the Spellman's by Lisa Lutz
A Honourable Defeat by Iris Murdoch
An Accidental Man by Iris Murdoch

@ Mr. Durick -- for me I just adore holding a hardcover over paperbacks anytime. But, I honor your choice :) I love the reference: Barny Noble it makes me smile.

My daughter suggested I read Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery and Other Stories" beginning with The Deamon Lover & Like Mother Used To Make -- here I go turning pages.

Here I sit, basking in the glow of having today picked up 5 books and 4 audiobooks from the hold shelf at the library:

CDs:

Zeitoun by Dave Eggers, recommended by so many LTers
Garden Spells by Sarah Addison Allen, ditto
Rebel Angels by Libba Bray, because I heard about her on LT but haven't read anything by her (yet)
Duma Key by Stephen King, because my sister said it was good

Books:

Secret Magdalene by Ki Longfellow, recommended by so many LTers
Under the Dome by Stephen King, my sister said it was good too (she is apparently on a Stephen King jag)
When Christ and His Saints Slept by Sharon Kay Penman, because I'm longing for some really good historical fiction and you can't do much better for that than her
The First Rule by Robert Crais, one of my favorite mystery authors and he writes about Los Angeles
The Burning Lamp by Amanda Quick, because her Arcane Society historical novels are so fun

Now I have to decide which to read first. Decisions, decisions.

I definitely cherish the company of many books.

I received these 2 from Book Depository

Eleven Minutes by Paulo Coelho

and the newest from my all time favourite author Mary Higgins Clark The Shadow of your smile

and downloaded recently for my kindle

The Gin Closet and The Murderer's Daughers

Cindy- That's an incredible haul! Good for you!

I've received these so far this week:

from PaperBackSwap:
Self-Made Man by Norah Vincent

ER book:
Small Island by Andrea Levy

purchased:
All Whom I Have Loved by Aharon Appelfeld
Annie's Ghosts by Steve Luxenberg
Anya by Susan Fromberg Schaeffer
The Conversion by Aharon Appelfeld
Helmet for My Pillow by Robert Leckie
I is for Infidel by Kath Gannon
Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Little Bee by Chris Cleave
My Enemy's Cradle by Sara Young
The Painted Veil by W. Somerset Maugham
Rainbow's End by Lauren St. John
Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay

All of this after I promised myself that I'd stop buying so many books until my "to read" pile was manageable again! D:

Into the Shadows by Shirley Wells

The minister misquoted one of Kipling's just so stories, and my pew mate, so to speak, corrected her. When I asked her if she were a Kipling aficionado she replied that she was and that I should get a copy of the Just So Stories. Meanwhile there was a book fair in a place with inadequate parking; I went there, and there was no parking.

I had a coupon number for Borders and one for Barny Noble's, so I left the full parking lot and went, via a gas station, to the in town Borders and then over to the in town Barny Noble's.

Complete Works of Oscar Wilde. I had mentioned to my pew mate, so to speak, that Oscar Wilde had also written fairy tales, and that I might be distracted by them. Unsurprisingly they are in this book, so I bought it with my coupon at Borders.
Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling. I hate paying full price for a book, but, as I mentioned the other day, I was afraid if I didn't get when I had it in hand I wouldn't get it at all. Borders had a copy for $4.95 so it didn't hurt too much.
Bradbury, Stories by Ray Bradbury. This or the Everyman's Library volume of his stories was the likeliest candidate for coupon use at Barny Noble's. It turns out that I found a more expensive book for the coupon, but I got this anyway. I haven't seen how this overlaps with the Everyman's Library volume, so I will sometime get that too.
Things I've Learned from Women Who've Dumped Me edited by Ben Karlin. More in the way of an attempt to understand my past. This was on the Barny Noble remainder table.
Emerson and the Dream of America by Richard G. Geldard. I just spotted this in the philosophy section. Emerson and America in one book made it a must buy.
Krazy & Ignatz, 1916-1918 by George Herriman. This one leapt off the shelf into my hands and took my Barny Noble coupon. These are Sunday comics. Krazy Kat was one of the two best comic strips ever.

The Bradbury was the only book that was already on a wishlist.

Robert

Found a copy of Clive Barker's The Hellbound Heart on sale (75% off!), and didn't let it go!

#60, BeeHoney - I really liked So Long, See You Tomorrow. In fact, my entire book club liked it so much we later read and enjoyed a collection of his short stories, All The Days and Nights.

I forced myself to wait for the last day of my library's sale, thinking there wouldn't be much left. Three bags of books later....(I did get some to trade). My haul included:

Ahab's Wife,
hardcopy of Jonathon Strange and Mr. Norrell,
The Voyage of the Narwhal,
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle,
The Bone People,
Tender at the Bone,
The Bee Season,
Daughter of Fortune,
The Knitting Circle,
Five Quarters of the Orange
In the Name of the Rose,
Fall on Your Knees,

I feel like I won the lottery.

@KAzevedo

You did very, very well -- these two are in my library awaiting a page turn :)

Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende (she a favorite)

The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski

I used my 33% off Borders coupon and bought The Vivisector by Patrick White yesterday; it's one of the finalists for the Lost Man Booker Prize, which will be announced tomorrow.

Went to my favourite bookshop and came home with A Guide to the Birds of East Africa thanks to Richard's great review, and A Good Land by Nada Awar Jarrar - only 2 of us on LT have got it! Cool!

I really tried to be a good girl and not to bring so much books homes lately, but...

So last week I got Hermeneutik by Friedrich Schleiermacher from the library
This week I brought home:
The Thirteenth Tale
206 Bones
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
(all from the library on audio)

and I bought for my nephew
Herr Eichhorn und der Mond (he will be 4 years old soon)

and tomorrow I will buy for my cousin:
The City of Dreaming Books

#74 hemlokgang

Thank you for the recommendation!! I'll start there.

I don't suppose you might have a suggestion for Wallace Stegner?

I love "book haul" threads! Thanks for sharing, everyone.

3 amazing finds in one week for me:

Writing New York: a Literary Anthology - a like-new Library of America book for $4 at the local Goodwill?!
American Religious Poems - another LoA anthology, sans slipcase but otherwise perfect, about 10 feet away and also $4!
And today I checked out the sale shelf at the library and found Seven Pillars of Wisdom for a buck - the 1938 "de luxe" edition, worn and somewhat faded but still sturdy after 72 years.

I'm just worried I may have used up all my book-luck for the year!

#81 revelshade - sometimes you get really lucky at Goodwill! I've found a couple older editions of things there for $0.99!

I had some time to kill so I went through the $1 racks at BAM:
Natural Flights of the Human Mind
Solstice Wood
The Angle Quickest for Flight

And in the bargain section I found Tuck Everlasting, and I absolutely had to have it - I love that book!

4 books + 1 chai latte for $9 = a great day

I have acquired way too many books, lately, for "my own good"

but my latest haul from AMAZON:

Why New Orleans Matters
Nine Lives:Mystery, Magic, Death and Life in New Orleans

and my Fave:
The World That Made New Orleans:From Spanish Silver to Congo Square by Ned Sublette

FYI: Zeitoun by David Eggars is due to be published in Paperback...mid-June...pre-order it on Amazon toot-sweet...y'hear..

I received two books from The Book Depository today:

The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell: A love story between a Dutch book-keeper and a Japanese woman, set in 18th century Japan, which has received glowing reviews in the UK and seems very likely to be selected for the 2010 Booker Prize longlist.

Beirut39: New Writing from the Arab World: A newly published collection of pieces from 39 Arab writers, all aged 39 or under.

#80 BeeHoney,

I have read Angle of Repose and Crossing to Safety, both by Wallace Stegner. I recommend them both. He is a marvelous writer, in my opinion. Actually, my RL book club read both, because we all enjoyed his writing so much.

I finally got Tamerlane: Sword of Islam, Conquerer of the World by Justin Marozzi from the library via inter-library loan.

Sat, May 15, I brought home 5 books from my local library: "Necessary as Blood" by Deborah Crombie, "Trial By Fire" by J. A. Jance, "Fire and Ice" by J.A. Jance, "The Secret River" by Kate Grenville, and "The Lieutenant" by Kate Grenville. I have finished reading the first two in the list.

I also have a Half Price Books gift card waiting to be used to hopefully find titles from by Find and Read list.

#85 Thank you once again hemlokgang!
The suggestions are much appreciated!

Finally went out to the bookstore and brought home:
The Picture of Dorian Gray
I Saw Ramallah
The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing
The Boleyn Inheritance.
None of which I have read before, so I am rather excited!

A little binge on Audible.com brought home the following:

The Swiss Family Robinson by Johann David Wyss
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
The Short Stories of Anthony Trollope by Anthony Trollope
The Trail of the Lonesome Pine by John Fox
North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell

I've just had a wonderful hour trawling the big town car boot sale in the sunshine, and in addition to three bags of books for the shop (we're, er, running out) and, randomly, a cushion, I very happily came away with three books for myself. I picked up The Horse Boy by Rupert Isaacson, which I have been after for a while, for 50p, as well as Aravind Adiga's The White Tiger and Yasmin Crowther's The Saffron Kitchen. All rounded off with a celebratory ice cream - with a Flake. Car boots and Flake-decorated ice cream: it must be a sunny day in England!

My friend was cleaning out her attic and gave me:
Dial Om for Murder
Corpse Pose
Bergdorf Blondes

I know they're fluff, but I like fluff when it's 90 degrees outside.

Ellie, I finally broke down and bought The Horse Boy (used) last month. It's sitting on my TBR and is one of my 1010 challenge books. Are you going to read it soon? Maybe we could read it together?

Have started Little, Big and was worried at first, but the magic is setting in; think it's going to be great.

My latest haul of books.

A Legacy of Daemons by Camille Bacon-Smith, Urban Fantasy

Book 3 of the Daemon series.

Sandman Slim by Richard Kadrey, Urban Fantasy

Conspirator by C.J. Cherryh, SF

Book 10 in the Foreigner series.

Deep in the Woods by Chris Marie Green, Urban Fantasy

Book 6 in the Vampire Babylon series.

The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi, SF

Mythspring Edited by Julie Czerneda, Short Stories

Canadian stories, myths and legends. I got it because of a short story by Karin Lowachee.

Creature of Light and Darkness by Roger Zelazny, SF

Reprint of story using ancient Egypt.

Lion of Scythia by Max Overton, Historical Fiction

Saw on LT. Start of Nikometros . It is an ebook. Got it to read on my Kindle App on my Ipod Touch.

Poison by Sara Poole, Historical Fiction

LT ER book about the Borgias and their family Poisoner.

Eagle Rising by David Devereux, SF

Book 2 in the Jack series. I have book 1 on order.

Undead and Unwelcome by Mary Janice Davidson, Romance, Humor, Vampires

Book 8 in the Queen Betsy series.

Havemercy by Jaida Jones, Fantasy

Start of a series, with clockwork dragons. Says its like Ellen Kushner's Swordspoint series.

Genesis by Robert Beckett, SF

Drawing in the Dust by Zoe Klein

Story about archeology in Israel and finding a prophet's tomb which contains a scandal.

The Dowry Bride by Shobhan Bantwai

Modern bride burning.

The Queen's Pawn by Christy English, Historical Fiction

About Eleanor and her step daughter Alais.

All The Queen's Players by Jane Feather, Historical Fiction

About a girl used as a pawn in the struggle between Elizabeth I and her captive, Mary Queen of Scots.

Non-Fiction:

The Box by Marc Levinson

About how container shipping changed the world. Saw it on LT. I do container shipments at work.

The Bolter by Frances Osbourne

Story of Idina Scakville and her involvement with the Happy Valley set in British Kenya in the '20s.

Although I won't have my mitts on it until possibly thursday or friday I have just ordered off Book Depository (which could become a new addiction for me) Spirit Bound!! I know I could have got it off Amazon for half the price I paid but there was a reason for my madness - for all the other books in the Vampire Academy series I have the US editions and so I wanted them all to match and I don't really like the new UK covers as much so now I'm going to have the pretty US hardcover on it's way to me for probably less than it would have cost me to buy it from Amazon.com. *happy times*

The other day I brought home my library book club book Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane.

Yesterday I bundled together some adventures and some errands and went to town. Borders had e-mailed me that they had credited my Borders Bucks $5 to be used by the before the weekend was over, so I found myself there (after I had discovered that I had lost my magnetic clip on sunglasses).

It's Always Something by Gilda Radner. This was in a $1 box. Gilda Radner was a stalwart if not a hero, and she was funny. I thought I might get something out of this.

The Nice and the Good by Iris Murdoch. This also was in a $1 box. I have read a couple of books of philosophy by Murdoch and her husbands elegy; I don't like her. I, nevertheless, feel that public respect for her demands I read one of her novels, which heretofore I have expected to be The Sea, the Sea. I got this because it was cheap, because I can say I have a novel by her, and because I won't feel bad if I never look at it again.

The Night Trilogy by Elie Wiesel. A decade or decade and a half ago Martin Marty came through town to give a series of lectures. In the course of the lectures he pronounced Wiesel's name correctly, and from that I decided I would have to read Wiesel some day. This batch collected here in one volume has been prominent on the shelves recently; I think the individual works have been mentioned admiringly here on LibraryThing too. I was looking to make the Borders Bucks worth about a 33% discount, and at $17 retail this put my savings a little under that if I considered all of the $5 applied to it.

Robert

I managed to place a much larger order than I intended on Abe Books. I got the first arrival Friday--A Moment of Silence by Anna Dean. It's a real treat--a Jane Austen-esque mystery. I'm having a lovely time with it.

I went to the library and picked up Under Heaven by Guy Gavriel Kay; The City and The City by China Mieville and Nine Lives: In Search of the Sacred In Modern India by William Dalrymple.

Then a browse of the second hand books in the charity shops got me In This House of Brede by Rumer Godden; The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini and Mahabhararta retold by William Buck.

I came out of the movie theater and had an e-mail with a Borders coupon. Borders' being right next door I went over and picked out a book. They discovered the coupon didn't start until tomorrow, but they dug out one expiring today and used it.

The Evolution of God by Robert Wright. A couple of his other books make me believe he is worth reading, and the subject is one I'm continually interested in.

Now I have to go back before Thursday to use the later coupon.

Robert

I used my Borders coupon last night and purchased Even the Dogs by Jon McGregor, a novel of broken people at the edges of society in contemporary Britain, which has received great reviews in the UK and is being mentioned as a possible contender for this year's Booker Prize. I also received Waiting for the Wild Beasts to Vote by Ahmadou Kourouma from The Book Depository, which is a novel about a fictitious African dictator that I plan to read for next month's Reading Globally theme read (Dictators and Dictatorships).

Both Barny Noble and the United States Postal Service did good with this order.

Solaris by Stanislaw Lem. Mentioned too often for me to ignore it any longer. I should probably get both DVD versions too.
The Reformation by Diarmaid MacCulloch. The Reformation is clearly within the scope of my interests, yet I clearly know way too little about it. When I saw this book I thought I might put some things to right and ordered it once I had a coupon (although it may be the next book that actually used the coupon).
A Reformation Reader edited by Denis R. Janz. This is support for MacCulloch's book and possibly a corrective.

I have a coupon to take to Borders. I may do that yet this evening.

Robert

I just got Gertrude Bell: Queen of the Desert, Shaper of Nations by Georgina Howell from the library. What a fascinating woman.

Jennie, she is fascinating. There is also Desert Queen. I read one of the two books and was so taken with her that I set the book I had finished in one pile by my bed and picked the other off another pile to dive into. Later I read Seven Pillars of Wisdom and Dreamers of the Day to round out the picture at least somewhat.

Those were sufficient unto themselves, but they also help me read the news.

Have fun,

Robert

I read Desert Queen some years ago. One of the things I love about LT is that other people have actually read the same things I have. I have yet to try Lawrence, but I'll get there.

Brought home another haul from the library today. I only meant to take out about half, but I couldn't decide which half, so I slogged home with all of them. Worth it. I feel so rich tonight!

Audiobooks
Oryx and Crake
Neverwhere by Gaiman (also, I think, the reader, and if he's as good here as he was reading The Graveyard Book, boy howdy am I in for a treat!)
The Sweet Far Thing by Libba Bray
Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott
His Majesty's Dragon by Naomi Novik
Strange Brew, edited by P.N. Elrod (stories by Jiim Butcher, Charlaine Harri, Patricia Briggs)

Hard Cover Books
A River in the Sky by Elizabeth Peters
Dead Men's Boots by Mike Carey

I don't know where to start!

I was in the super bargain section at the front of Target on my lunch break. They had a few classic books for 2.50 each. I had all the others, so I just got Around the World in Eighty Days since I don't already have that one.

Also got some really cute red sunglasses for 2.50!

I have a e-book reader app on my phone now, so I've started downloading some of the free books...never thought I'd read on a screen, but its good riding in the carpool in the morning. And whenever I'm away from home without something to read. Post those books later...

I was at my favorite thrift yesterday and came home with (among other things) four volumes from the Educator Classic Library, a company that was right nearby in Santa Rosa , Ca. They are oversized editions of the following:

The Virginian, The Swiss Family Robinson, Pinocchio and The Merry Adventures of Robinhood.

All complete and unabridged, pub in 1968, each a different colored hard cover with a painting on the front, and illustrated by Don Irwin. Inside are many large and small illustrations, including margin drawings and definitions of unusual words.

I haven't started cataloging them yet, and would love to know if anyone is familiar with this collection; are there more, etc.

They are in not bad shape and so neat! Oh, I forgot to add that they were "children's books" and so cost 25 cents apiece.

Another damn Borders coupon:

Bone by Jeff Smith. Reputed to be one of the best graphic novels, this book has been on my wishlist for some time, and I threw in my twenty seven bucks yesterday for it. Last night waiting for a potluck to start I read the first couple of chapters; despite the worth in words of a picture this book does not seem, so far, to be as rich as an entirely verbal novel.

I still may someday buy Maus and Petropolis.

Robert

Mr. Durick I'm with you on the dam Borders coupons--you can't let them go to waste so you have to go and buy something. My book was Tinkers from Borders and just recevied from Amazon The Invisible Bridge and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets Nest

I've picked mint from my garden, made a glass of cool tea, positioned my rocking chair and once again, since 1998, I opened Toni Morrison's "Paradise". With my right hand raised, I declare to my book shelves, that I will not purchase or open another book until I have completed it.

Dog On It by Spencer Quinn was given to me by my son and I read it on Wednesday right after we put our dog, Guinness, to sleep who was 17 years old.

I laughed through my tears and can't wait to get the second book.

I recently picked up:

Shadow Magic by Jaida Jones, Fantasy

Book 2 of the Havemercy series

The Slap by Christos Tsiolkas, Fiction

Saw this on LT over a year ago in a reading challenge, looked interesting.

And downloaded an ebook for my Kindle App on my Ipod Touch, had to read it couldn't wait, won't buy HC

The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet's Nest by Stieg Larsson, Mystery

Now I have 5 bags of books to enter before the end of the month. Was too busy to do so when I got them, but never too busy to buy....sigh.

From the Half Price Book Store with an extra 20% off.

Kennedy's Brain by Henning Mankell
Depths by Henning Mankell
The Eye of the Leopard by Henning Mankell

I just cataloged the first chunk of my BEA books. I have a few more books in a bag in the car, but most of the rest of the books were shipped back and won't be here for a couple of days. So far I have:
Satori by Don Winslow
West of Here by Jonathan Evison
The Evolution of Bruno Littlemore by Benjamin Hale
The Wolves of Andover by Kathleen Kent
Beautiful Darkness by Kami Garcia
What Good is God by Philip Yancy
Panocpticon by David Bajo
Passion Play by Beth Bernobich
Suspect by Kristin Wolden Nitz
Torment by Lauren Kent
The Wrong Blood by Manuel de Lope
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
Innocent Until Interrogated by Gary L. Stuart
The Gendarme by Mark Mustian
Up From the Blue by Susan Henderson
Blue Nude by Elizabeth Rosner
(continuing in another post, because this many touchstones seems to break everything...)

The rest of the books from my first batch:
The Financial Lives of Poets by Jess Walter
Room by Emma Donoghue
Getting to Happy by Terry McMillan
The Widower's Tale by Julia Glass
Designated Fat Girl by Jennifer Joyner
Hector and the Search for Happiness by Francois Lelord
Infinite Days by Rebecca Maizel
The Man Who Never Returned by Peter Quinn
The Great Lover by Jill Dawson
Farm City by Novella Carpenter
The Outside Boy by Jeanine Cummins
Red Hot Lies by Laura Caldwell
Light Boxes by Shane Jones
Dead in the Water by Meredith Cole
Bones of the Tiger by Hermantra Mishra
The Slap by Christos Tsiolkas
Last Night in Montreal by Emily St. John Mandel
Bury Me Deep by Megan Abbott
Ah-Choo!: The Uncommon Life of Your Common Cold by Jennifer Ackerman

Cindysprocket,

Any comments on Henning Mankel so far. Anyone you would compare Markel with?

I went to three different bookstores, looking for Holly Black's White Cat. I gave up, and ended up spending more money. Everyone offered to order it for me, but I'm travelling so that didn't help.

Retail Therapy Buys:
Empress: A Novel by Shan Sa
Freedom Writers Diary by Freedom Writers
An Invisible Sign of My Own by Aimee Bender
Poison Study by Maria Snyder

Helpful cashier turned me on to two Bender-like authors. Karen Russell and Kelly Link added to the wishlist!

I am fated, simply fated, to obtain books no matter how little I can afford them!

I walked over to a new hair stylist for one of my 4x a year haircuts. (It was a bit expensive, but wow! Best cut I've ever had!) Anyway, on the way back, passed Metropolis Books and thought, why not just have a look-around. Didn't plan to buy anything. I just love bookstores. Left with 3 books, but two were used, one is a gift for a friend's birthday, and this was the last day of a 15% off sale, plus it's a neighborhood indy bookstore, so I didn't feel too bad. Didn't go more than half a block before I saw a brand-new bookstore selling used books so of course had to stop in there. I walked out a bit shell-shocked 5 books and $25 later.

So, here's my haul (not including Dog On It, the gift book):

Elizabeth: The Struggle for the Throne by David Starkey
An Elegant Madness by Venetia Murray
Writing Down the Bones by Natalie Goldberg
Suetonius: The Twelve Caesars, translated by Robert Graves
The Writer's Idea Book by Jack Heffron
True Compass by Edward M. Kennedy
The Audacity of Hope by Barack Obama

Next time I get my haircut, I think I'll drive.

Posted my first bag yesterday. It is books for my RL Fiction Book Group. I have one more book to get when it goes into paper (now HC), but we picked books from September '10 to March '12.

http://www.librarything.com/topic/44645#1979722

I have the rest, but had to pick these up:

Dimanche by Irene Nemirovsky, Short Stories

Set in France before and during WWII, a look at French people, their customs and manners.

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston, Historical Fiction

Story of a black woman in 1930s south; a modern classic written in dialect.

Life Sentences by Laura Lippman, Mystery

Writer decides to write the story of a child-murder many years after the fact. Suspect was her friend who refused to say what happened to her own infant. Explores memory and race.

Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann, Fiction

Set in a hot summer in 1974 in NYC. Uses the event of a wire walk between the World Trade Center buildings to tell the story of various characters.

Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay, Historical Fiction

A journalist living in France is researching the round-up of the Jews by the Nazis for the 60th anniversary of the event in WWII. She also ends up researching her husband's family, and her own.

Agaat by Marlene van Nieker, Fiction

Set in South Africa after the end of Apartheid, the story of an old, dying white woman who is being cared for by a black girl.

The story of their relationship, the changes brought about by the end of Apartheid, and in flashbacks, the white woman's life as a young farmwife.

The Winner Stands Alone by Paulo Coelho, Social Commentary

Story told through the eyes of a serial killer. He is stalking the rich and pampered at the Cannes Film Festival.

We also do non-fiction:

Picking Cotton by Jennifer Thompson-Cannino, Memoir

Story of a woman who is raped and IDs her attacker. He is tried and sent to prison. Years later DNA exonerates him. Story of the two people who meet and forgive, and work to change the criminal justice system.

A Place of My Own by Michael Pollan, Memoir

Story of an unhandy man who builds a shack of his own, and ties it all to the natural world.

Finally got my bigger suitcase into the condo, so here's my next round of books from BEA. Not nearly as many, and most of these are actually from the Book Blogger Convention swag bags:

The Perfect 10 Diet by Michael Aziz
Think of a Number by John Verdon
Thin, Rich, Pretty by Beth Harbison
Secret Lives of Husbands and Wives by Josie Brown
The Bucolic Plague by Josh Kilmer-Purcell
Wild Roses by Deb Caletti
Juliet by Anne Fortier

I had an afternoon and evening in town. A coupon took me to Borders first.

The Eight Wilderness Discovery Books by John Muir. He is the outdoorsman. I have had brief experiences of being one. I can still imagine myself on a long walk in the woods. But books about being outdoors and about nature are troublesome to me. I like the long walks, but I'm not sure I want to puzzle over them.
Big Sid's Vincati by Matthem Biberman. Another thing I still like to think about myself is that someday I will own and ride another motorcycle. At $1 this book was a cheap way to keep that wish alive.

Then slack in my in-town plans put me near enough to Barny Noble's to go in.

It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis. I had read on-line that this book was timely, and from Elmer Gantry I am convinced I like Lewis. Also on-line I had seen that the book was available at both of Barny Noble's local stores, so I got it.

There is so much that I have to read immediately.

Robert

@ 119: It does feel good to support the indie bookstores. It does irk me when they don't have new releases in, but they usually offer to order for you.

@121: I envy you, BEA freebies! I heard it was super crowded this year. Though I would think it would be crowded every year?

@122: There's always tons of books we need to read ASAP! Good job picking up 3 books!

My dearest, darling husband picked up for me, through Edward R, Hamilton Booksellers The Story of Yiddish and Wolf Hall

My second bag of books entered:

The City and The City by China Mieville, Fantasy

Instances of the Number 3 by Salley Vickers, Fiction

Urban Fantasy:

Circus of Sins by Natasha Rhodes, book 3 of Kayla Steele series
Skin Trade by Laurell K. Hamilton, book 17 of Anita Blake Vampire Hunter
Hunter's Moon by David Devereux, book 1 of Jack series
Magic Bleeds by Ilona Andrews, book 4 of the Kate Daniels series
Devil's Playground by Jenna Black, book 5 of the Morgan Kingsly series

Science Fiction:

Escape From Hell by Larry Niven, book 2 of the Inferno series
House of Suns by Alastair Reynolds

>123 AmyLynn:,

With travel to and from New York, a hotel, food, cab rides, shipping some home, they are the most expensive 'free' books ever! From what I understand, last year the exhibit hall was actually on two floors. This year it was only on one floor, so there were more booths and people in less space. I didn't stand in a single line at the autograph tables because they were way too crowded.

#112 BeeHoney, So sorry to hear about your Guinness. It sounds as though the book is helping you through it. Many hugs.

From my favorite thrift:
Straight On Till Morning by Mary S. Lovell Biography of Beryl Markham
Love in the Time of Cholera
The Double Bind by Chris Bohjalian (perfect hardback)
A Yellow Raft in Blue Water by Michael Dorris

Fom BM or PBS:
The Neutronium Alchemist by Peter F. Hamilton
Temeraire Trilogy by Naomi Novik
Curse of the Mistwraith by Janny Wurts

#112 Oh, BeeHoney! I meant to thank you for bringing Dog On It to my attention (and also to offer my condolences and to commiserate on the loss of your dog) but totally forgot. Thankfully, KAzevedo's very kind message (#127) reminded me.

My sympathy for your loss (one of the hardest things we who love our furry, or in my case feathered, friends ever have to go through), and a big thank you for mentioning Dog On It. I picked it up the other day for a good friend who loves animals and needs some laughter in her life.

Thank you #127 KAzevedo and #129 Storeetllr for the condolences for our dear dog Guinness! You're both very kind.

Thanks also to Spencer Quinn for providing a sequel to Dog On It with Thereby Hangs a Tail

I totally forgot, but I bought two other books this month:
The Body in the Library and The Moving Finger. I am very looking forward to them, for it's Miss Marple isn't it? ;)

I was controlling myself really well, but when I had to order a couple books for my daughter's birthday, I caved and got two for myself as well:

Poison Study by Maria V. Snyder
Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann

can somebody send me a book by Golda Werman: Milton and Midrash? I need it for my diploma paper. Thnx in advance
my e-mail is: dkovacek34@gmail.com