Books Bought in June

I apologize for the lack of witty title, but wanted to share and didn't find a thread for this month. Technically a friend bought these for me, but I figured I'd include them anyway. Just got back from having lunch with my best friend and his fiancee to find an Amazon package containing: Subtle Worlds: An Explorer's Field Notes and Everyday Miracles: the Inner Art of Manifestation waiting for me on my front porch.

Yesterday I got Out of the East: Spices and the Medieval Imagination from PaperBackSwap. It's the first book I've gotten in a while. Most that come have been for my kid or my husband.

fleela - I love the sound of that book. It always fascinates me to read about the way foods came to various cultures and they adopted them as their own.

Went to a library sale last night, bought 2 dozen books, but nothing that stands out. Mostly 50s cartoon collections, and a few paperbacks from the mid 40s that still had good lamination.

Charity shops are bad for my tbr pile. Went out on Tuesday and added the following:

Little Green Men by Christopher Buckley
The Polish Officer by Alan Furst (didn't realise this was in the middle of a series)
The Menace from Earth by Robert A. Heinlein
Black Man by Richard Morgan
Drama City by George Pelecanos
Deadly Decisions by Kathy Reichs
Anathem by Neal Stephenson
Singularity Sky by Charles Stross

All for the bargain price of £16. Was particularly surprised to see both Anathem and Black Man available at only £1.99 each.

Just bought my first ebook for my new iPad - Under the Dome. I got it for my birthday, Precious...

Wait a minute! Your birthday is tomorrow. You peeked! And Happy Birthday.

msg 2: re:Out of the East: Spices and the Medieval Imagination

Wishlisted! And the librarything recommendations all look interesting too.

>3 MrsLee: It always fascinates me to read about the way foods came to various cultures and they adopted them as their own.

Me too! You might like Why We Eat What We Eat: How Columbus Changed the Way the World Eats.

#9 - Added to wishlist, I read some about that when I went through my "Columbus Adventure" awhile ago. I had accumulated about five books on the subject of Columbus and decided to read them all in a month.

I ordered some (non-book) stuff from Amazon so I figured at the same time I would get a couple of books:

Boneshaker by Cherie Priest
and
Fairy Tales for Writers by Lawrence Schimel

The latter of which I thought was going to be a regular book of short stories but turned out to be an itty bitty chapbook of short poems. A bit of a disappointment...

Causing people to grow their wish lists is such a good feeling. :-)

Blue - I just placed Boneshaker on hold at the library.

Today from Barnes and Noble:

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig (so I could give my son his copy back)
Blockade Billy by Stephen King
Revenge of the Spellmans and Curse of the Spellmans by Lisa Lutz

Boneshaker is on my library list too.

Over the last week, I bought:
Innocent Mage by Karen Miller
Chimera by Rob Thurman
Covenants: a Borderlands Novel by Lorna Freeman

and two more whose names escape me at the moment.
I keep telling myself, I cannot afford to go to the bookstore this weekend. I cannot afford to go to the bookstore this weekend. I cannot afford to go to the bookstore this weekend. If I do, then I will be on a Top Ramen diet for the rest of the month and it is only the first week.

At a school fundraising sale we just got, among others, Thirteen Reasons Why, Sin and the Second City, a lot of Deborah Crombies, and Last of the Mohicans and Kidnapped in charming graphic editions. My daughter, a fledgling teacher, also got more than two large boxes full of children's books.

It's employee appreciation days at Barnes & Noble! So I'll be buying as much as my fiance will let me get away with this week...so far, I've brought home:

Life As We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer
The Dead and the Gone by Susan Beth Pfeffer
The Luxe by Anna Godbersen
Envy by Anna Godbersen
The Host by Stephenie Meyer
Tailchaser's Song by Tad Williams
The Diamond of Darkhold by Jeanne DuPrau
On Basilisk Station by David Weber
Winning Colors by Elizabeth Moon
Sporting Chance by Elizabeth Moon

All that for...*drum roll please* about $60, including tax! I have another (even bigger) stack waiting at work for my next payday... ;)

Traded a bunch of books in at my local used book store, and had to get two more.
The Surgeon by Tess Gerritsen
Darkest Evening of the Year by Dean Koontz

I wandered into the library the other day and fell into the FOL booksale trap. I came home with Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, The Magician's Assistant, and a couple of other things that escape me for the moment. All for $4.

Our school librarian bought Sony Readers for the library. The idea is that she can download the books the teachers want for literature classes for less money than buying the books (if the library doesn't already have them), and students can also make notes as they read. There is a special rate for schools; she can buy class sets of ebooks for a fraction of the cost she usually has to pay. She let some of us check them out for the summer. They came with 16 classics already loaded that they teach at school. I bought and added:

The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
The Food of the Gods by H.G. Wells
Dies the Fire by S.M. Stirling
The Protector's War by S.M. Stirling
The Mane Event by Shelly Laurenston (This was purchased at the librarian's insistence. She thinks I shoud read books "with more sex in them." Yes, that is a direct quote. *sigh*)

Three books at B&N today after I had bloodwork done at the Veteran's Administration.

The B&N edition of BEOWULF, which suprisingly I have never read. I like the B&N classics series. Inexpensive and nicely done.

OCCULTATION AND OTHER STORIES by Laird Barron. I like his work, having picked up THE IMAGO SEQUENCE a few years ago.

And a new cookbook, an absolute score as far as I'm concerned. THE AMISH COOK'S BAKING BOOK by Lovina Eicher. Amish cooking and baking is my favorite style. Simple, tasty, seasonal, and natural. Some of the recipes I've seen elsewhere, but I can't wait to try the ones for apple cookies, honey bars, and sour cream spice cake.

Been on a buying frenzy lately --

Genealogy-related:
Uncovering Your Ancestry through Family Photographs by Maureen A. Taylor
Reading Early American Handwriting by Kip Sperry

Cooking:
Local Flavors: Cooking and Eating from America's Farmers' Markets by Deborah Madisom

Fiction:
Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver
I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith

Gah....you guys always have a way of adding something to my wish list. At the rate I'm going, I'll need a full size bookcase in the kitchen.

The Local Flavors book looks great and is now on my want it, must have it list.

OldSarge -- you're going to love this book. I find myself reading it cover-to-cover. I don't always do that with cookbooks!

Just got Making History in the mail. I'm excited!

I'm halfway done with Female Nomad and Friends by Rita Golden Gelman

I bought a copy of Winnie the Pooh on my Kindle so I could read to one of the nephews. Really! I should have gone to the store and gotten a copy with better pictures. My bad.

Bookshop trip!!!!

I got:

Gaslight Dogs by Karin Lowachee
Grace O'Malley by Anne Chambers (for Don's Birthday)
Mouse and Dragon by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller
Saltation by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller
Natural Bee Keeping: Organic Approaches to Modern Apiculture by Ross Conrad

and a gift from a friend

Briar King by Greg Keyes

I cannot wait for the free time to read! (soon!)

I just bought Vinterens hjerte. A new biography about Knud Rasmussen that I have only heard good things about. The book is very thick and very beautiful, so I will be enjoying it for quite some time

Damn you Library Thing peeps! Bought yet another book, and already have 50 in the TBR pile. Sheesh!

Newest acquisition: Mistborn

@majkia, you know that's a trilogy right? So that'll be another 2 to add when you've read that one ;)

Though don't worry too much, my tbr is currently over 250 books.

I found out that The White Road - the new Nightrunner book - is out, so I've ordered it online. Only $14! It'll take a while to get here, but it'll give me a chance to reread the others first (in and around editing my thesis...).

So far, I've brought Real-Life X-Files: Investigating the Paranormal (touchstone is being wonky) and Is My House Haunted? in from the rain.

The big score, however, is 29 out of 33 books in the Mysteries of the Unknown series put out by Time-Life acquired from an ebay auction for about $90. Their condition was listed as Like New and I'm hoping that's the case. The next project will be finding those last four volumes.

#31: Oh yes, I know it's a trilogy. Sigh. I love multiple books and tend to avoid one-offers. I hate getting invested in some character and having him/her for only one book.

Weird, I know...

Majkia, I just got Mistborn yesterday from BM. That makes 2 of the 3 so far, but as I have at least 150 in my TBR (because of BM and LT), I'm not in a hurry for the third. I hate reading series if I don't have all the books. I made the mistake of starting A Song of Fire and Ice. Now I wonder if George R. R. Martin will ever finish it.

KAzevedo, agree completely, and I will not read a book that is somewhere in the middle of a series without having read the first ones. (At least not knowingly!)

As for GRRM, well, since they will be filming Game of Thrones next month, at least he as added incentive to finish it, since he wants HBO to make the series. Let's keep fingers crossed.

Got a copy of Across the Wall by Garth Nix used at the local bookshop for $4.50 yesterday.

Brought home another stack today:

Alcatraz versus the Scrivener's Bones by Brandon Sanderson
The Singing by Alison Croggon
The Serrano Succession by Elizabeth Moon
The Serrano Connection by Elizabeth Moon
The Law of Nines by Terry Goodkind
Dead and Gone by Charlaine Harris
Dragon Prince by Melanie Rawn
City of Golden Shadow by Tad Williams
River of Blue Fire by Tad Williams
Mountain of Black Glass by Tad Williams
Sea of Silver Light by Tad Williams

And now I'm done for a while...

A holiday souvenir: The Saga of the Sani Pass and Mokhotlong by Michael Clark. When I was a kid Mokhotlong had the reputation of being the remotest outpost in the Commonwealth. It's still not exactly central to any beaten path.

Hoo! Friends of the library book sale today! Here's what I came home with (all hardbacks, all in great condition, and all for just $7!):

Cicero's Offices
The Loeb Classical Library's Diodorus Siculus, vol. VIII
The Unconsoled
All Around the Year
John Bellairs's Johnny Dixon in The Wrath of the Grinning Ghost
The Last Tales of Uncle Remus
The Castle of Llyr
First Night
Lugalbanda: The Boy Who Got Caught Up in a War
Harry Newberry and the Raiders of the Red Drink
Clever Gretchen and Other Forgotten Folktales
The Package in Hyperspace
The Fifteenth Peanut Butter Sandwich
Windleaf
Muggie Maggie
Norby and the Court Jester
Norby Down to Earth
Norby Finds a Villain
Punch with Judy
Jade Green
Time Out
Truckers

Me too!

Annual local library sale today. My Haul:

Minoan and Mycenaen Art by Reynold Alleyne Higgins

The Renaissance of the Twelfth Century by Charles Homer Haskins

A Magnificent Catastrophe: The Tumultuous Election of 1800, America's First Presidential Campaign by Edward J. Larson

The Thirty Years War by C. V. Wedgwood

Fire in the Mind: Science, Faith, and the Search for Order by George Johnson

Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman

The Hugo winners, volume four by Isaac Asimov, 1976-1979

The Last Escape: The Launching of the Largest Secret Rescue Movement of All Time by Ruth Kluger

The Year's Best Science Fiction: Third Annual Collection by Gardner R. Dozois (1986)

Monet by William Seitz

Turner's early sketchbooks; drawings in England, Wales and Scotland from 1789 to 1802 by Gerald Wilkinson

Masterpieces of impressionism & post-impressionism : the Annenberg Collection by Colin B. Bailey

Great Paintings from the National Gallery of Art- ed. H.Cairns & J.Walker

Lost Cities/50 Discoveries in World Archaeology by Paul G. Bahn

Chronicles of the Lensmen: Vol 2 by Edward E. Smith

Panic: The Story of Modern Financial Insanity by Michael Lewis

My Name is Legion by Roger Zelazny

Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson

The Age of Spiritual Machines by Ray Kurzeil

The Magnificent Wilf by Gordon Dickson

The Alchemy of Finance Reading the Mind of the Market by George Soros

The Ecclesiastical History of the English Nation: Everyman's Library, no. 479 : History) by The Venerable Bede

Lost to the West: The Forgotten Byzantine Empire That Rescued Western Civilization by Lars Brownworth

Understanding the Dead Sea Scrolls: A Reader from the Biblical Archaeology Review by Hershel Shanks

Starfarers by Poul Anderson

Oxford Illustrated History of Britain, The by Kenneth O. Morgan

Dark Light by Ken Macleod

A History of Latin America: Empires and Sequels 1450 to 1930 by Peter Bakewell

Life along the Silk Road by Susan Whitfield

Tournament of Shadows: The Great Game and the Race for Empire in Central Asia by Karl Ernest Meyer and Shareen B Brysac

The Carolingian Empire: The Age of Charlemagne by Heinrich Fictenau

A Voyage Long and Strange: On the Trail of Vikings, Conquistadors, Lost Colonists, and Other Adventurers in Early America by Tony Horowitz

The Oxford History of the Classical World: Greece and the Hellenistic World by John Boardman, Jasper Griffin and Oswyn Murray

Ohh I'm coveting all those food-related books! Adding them to my mile-long wishlist. My dream home will have lots and lots of shelves in the kitchen! :)

#41> Wow........just, Wow!

From BM today:

Three Cups of Tea
The Haunting of Alaizabel Cray
Forever

>43 KAzevedo: That was my feeling!

Think I've been a bit OTT again. Monday I had to go to the library to pick up Dragon Haven and also borrowed Odd and the Frost Giants and Celtic Saints Passionate Wanderers.

While in town I browsed a few places and then there was a car boot sale on Tuesday. So the additions to my TBR shelves are

The Infinite Plan and City of Beasts by Isabel Allende
The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster
The White Rhino Hotel by Bartle Bull
Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
Codex by Lev Grossman
Bard by Morgan Llywelyn
Goodnight Mister Tom by Michelle Magorian
Forbidden Colours by Yukio Mishima
The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
On the Beach by Nevil Shute
and The Awakeners by Sheri S. Tepper

Now I need to find the time to read them :(

From BookMooch:
Excel Saga

From PaperBackSwap:
The Lost Ark of the Covenant: Solving the 2,500 Year Old Mystery of the Fabled Biblical Ark
Inventing English: A Portable History of the Language

I bought Majestrum for my book group on Monday. I like its cover. Hope I'll like the book.

May I just say that LT and the GD have made my reading life infinitely more rich and rewarding in the last two years! Wow.

Dropped in to Barnes & Noble looking for a new audio book. Bought two: Rainwater and The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane; also, bought two RL books: Homework for Grown-ups: Everything you Learned in School and Promptly Forgot by E. Foley and B. Coates and The Imperial Cruise. Happy reading! and listening!

Went and got myself the latest Pendergast novel, Fever Dream. I've got a few things to get to before it, but it's waiting.

Got a phone call from my friend that works at the campus library today. "I've got a bibliophile question for you: Does the Folio Society mean anything to you?" My response? "Hell fuckin' yes!" Got to the library after work to find a book cart full of books, with two FS sets and a single FS volume set aside, all like new, except for some extremely minor wear to the slipcases. I grabbed the Birth of the Middle Ages and Empires of the Ancient Near East set, and let him have the Greek Myths as, well, call it a finder's fee, plus he'd mentioned that he wanted it, and I wasn't about to be greedy getting those two for a total of $10. Got a couple other books too, which I'll post when he returns them to me (walking home with two big heavy FS sets plus books bought for school, plus even more books does not make for an easy trip.) Am I happy right now? Hells yes!

Folio Society. Beautiful...

Bought a few, all for $5-$7 each (NZ dollars). Yay!

A Darkness Forged in Fire by Chris Evans - first one of a debut fantasy series by the looks of it. Looks good too.

The Prodigal Mage by Karen Miller - loved her Kingmaker, Kingbreaker series.

Light on Snow by Anita Shreve - my first Shreve book.

And two, slightly odd for me non-fiction purchases:

Savage Grace by Natalie Robins - not the usual thing I'm interested in at all. But it's fascinating so far.

Real Life by Dr Phil. Never thought I'd own a Dr Phil book.

>52 Severn: I have The Innocent Mage by Karen Miller on my TBR shelf (a recent addition). I read the first two or three chapters in the bookstore before buying and I am really looking forward to it.

Went to a used bookstore today with a friend and decided to buy three Sookie Stackhouse books, due to the recommendation of our own GeorgiaDawn. :) Happily, one of them is the first one. I'm in too big a rush to get them to the computer at the moment. Started the first one and am enjoying it so far.

Added a few more to my library today. Unfortunately none of them were on my wants list:

Shampoo Planet by Douglas Coupland
The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde
Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane
Brother Nature by Robert Llewellyn (maybe better known as Kryten from Red Dwarf
Rapture by David Sosnowski
Halting State by Charles Stross

In the middle of putting together an order for Amazon. I know one book I want, but not sure what else I'm going to get.

Not quite bought, but the book I've been working on for the last roughly 10 years is back from the printers: Botanical Exploration of southern Africa, edition 2. I posted the cover on the June happies thread at #277.

Just purchased The Blade Itself Veniss Underground and Whitechapel Gods.

Not like my TBR pile isn't high enough already, sigh.

All true bibliophiles have never ending TBR piles.

Picked up some things at B&N yesterday.

COMPLETE DIABETIC COOKBOOK

CONSTANTINE: Roman Emperor, Christian Victor

THE LAST STAND: Custer, Sitting Bull, and the Battle of the Little Bighorn

MISSION OF HONOR

I did put back three baking books based on using whole grains. But they're now on my wish list and my B'day is coming.

Not really purchases -- I picked up a ton of galley proofs at the recent American Library Association conference (and I got to meet foggidawn!):

Heart of Lies by M.L. Malcom (signed)
The Good, the Bad and the Barbie by Tanya Lee Stone (signed; giving this one to my sis)
Jam Today: A Diary of Cooking with What You've Got by Tod Davies (signed)
The Kid Table by Andrea Seigel
Compass Rose by John Casey
The Dead Path by Stephen M. Irwin

I've got the rest of my summer reading all squared away!