October's Obtainments

I opened my mailbox today to find I'd received Brains: a zombie memoir from PaperBackSwap. It's a tiny little volume that can probably be read in an afternoon.

I have bought several Kindle books recently but I hate to call them "obtainments" exactly. Yesterday, I decided I needed Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women which has been highly spoken of here in the Dragon. It is so darn easy to get Kindle books that it is very dangerous for me to be reading Green Dragon reading journals.

Wish somebody would mail me some brains.

i have "The Fifth Elephant" by Terry Pratchett

Added two more Elmore Leonard books to the unread pile and a couple of other titles as well:

Freaky Deaky and Get Shorty by Elmore Leonard
Ordinary Thunderstorms by William Boyd
Right Ho, Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse

MrsLee, I'd be glad to do that but I think the USPS has some rules against mailing fresh meat....icky....

Who said anything about fresh?

*thread hijack*
Maggie and MrsLee remind me that in the Gourmet magazines of my yoot there were several different long-running ads for mail-order steaks and hams, etc. Given that maggie's "the USPS has some rules against mailing fresh meat" is or should be so, how were these delivered?
*/thread hijack*

I believe you can mail frozen meat? I'm not sure. Every year my aunt sends us a ham by UPS (United Parcel Service), which is an independent carrier. I know you can mail live poultry.

Actually, truth be told you can mail frozen things, appropriately packaged with cold packs. I don't really know about "fresh" meat; perhaps there is a way. I'll have to ask my niece's husband who works as a letter carrier and loves to tell me things I don't know.

Did you want a frozen brain, MrsLee? I think you can get a brain freeze from eating popsicles.

Regenesis Very very pleased. Just waiting for the time to reread cyteen first, which will probably be after a stack of ebooks I've got lined up.

Hit the library's fall sale yesterday. Sunday is bag day; you can get a paper grocery bag full of books for $7.00. That means I paid about twenty cents each for these.

Okay, here's my haul from the book sale. The first 9 on the list were free because they were going into 'the bins.' We've got some guy coming to buy the extra's we didn't deem worthy enough to save for next year. :o/ I feel badly, but people just don't want 50 year old psychology books. And some books are just in really bad shape. I had to toss a few poetry anthologies that smelled like stinky basement. :o/ We are hoping this guy goes through and pulls out what will sell himself, and then recycles the rest. They will be reborn as new books... hopefully! :o)

Too much rambling. Here's my list. (And after all that effort NONE of the touchstones loaded? What the fuuuuuuuu.....) I'll come back later and see if I can get them to load properly/ I'm too cranky ti deal now. GRRRR

Just go here: http://www.librarything.com/catalog_bottom.php?tag=EG+Library+Sale+II&view=c...

Nice list!

Boy! Jim and clam, both of you did really well, great books! I look through your lists and see books I've got on my wishlist too (but then that's not hard, my wishlist being as long as it is). Excellent haul people. What fun you must have had. There's something so satisfying about buying a large number of books isn't there?

Now, question is...do you have the room for them all?

#13 Holy Moly, Clam -- that's quite a haul!

I haven't bought anything but every time I see the thread title I think "unobtanium" and then I can't get it out of my head.
ARGHHH!!!

I think I need go clean my brain.

#17 That's that element that's impossible to get, right?

#15 Well, there's room on the floor of a spare bedroom for the bag, next to the one with the books from the spring sale that I still haven't read. Shelf space is another matter. It's getting to be time for some ruthless culling.

Trying to get the touchstones to load in a new post.
Wish me luck!
LOL

Encounters with the invisible world : being ten tales of ghosts, witches, & the devil himself in New England Marilynne K. Roach
Empire Gore Vidal
Streets of Laredo Larry McMurtry
A Bell for Adano John Hersey
Cell Stephen King
The Land That Time Forgot Trilogy (The Land That Time Forgot, The People That Time Forgot, Out of Time's Abyss) Edgar R. Burroughs
Black House Stephen King & Peter Straub
Mary Anne Daphne Du Maurier
Catch-22 Joseph Heller
Mediterranean A Taste of the Sun in Over 150 Recipes Jacqueline Clark
A Monk Swimming Malachy McCourt
The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914 David McCullough
A Short History of Progress Ronald Wright
Biblioholism: The Literary Addiction Tom Raabe
Michelle: A Biography Liza Mundy
Thereby Hangs a Tale Charles E. Funk
Red Carpets and Other Banana Skins Rupert Everett
The Hungry Ocean: A Swordboat Captain's Journey Linda Greenlaw
When Did Wild Poodles Roam the Earth?: An Imponderables Book David Feldman
Why Do Dogs Have Wet Noses?: And Other Inponderables of Everyday Life David Feldman
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking Malcolm Gladwell
The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories Ernest Hemingway
To Have and Have Not Ernest Hemingway
The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale Joseph Conrad
Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone James Baldwin
Dream When You're Feeling Blue Elizabeth Berg
Old School Tobias Wolff
The Year of Fog Michelle Richmond
Last Orders Graham Swift
For the Time Being Annie Dillard
Dead Man's Walk Larry McMurtry
The Rebels of Ireland : the Dublin Saga Edward Rutherfurd
A Storm of Swords George R. R. Martin
A Clash of Kings George R. R. Martin
Inheritor C. J. Cherryh
Precursor C. J. Cherryh
Childhood's End Arthur C. Clarke

Today at the store two books just jumped out at me, gee, this is a dangerous place to work. I picked up The Monsters of Templeton by Laren Groff, 'cause it looks fun, and because of good talk on the reading threads The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson, which sounds too fascinating to miss.

Oh my TBR pile, it doth soon topple!

Oh, look... your touchstones work perfectly!
:o(
Maybe there's a limit to how many LT can handle in one post...?

I loved the Larson book, BTW.

Just got a beautiful hardcover copy of Lamentation from BookMooch.

Great hauls, both of you, clamairy and Jim.

Jim, have you read the Lord Peter Wimsey books by Dorothy Sayers before? They are my favorite mysteries of all that I have read.

Ha! My audio books came in the mail today. It will be happy days for awhile driving to and from work. I just have to be careful not to miss my exits. :) I bought Audrey Hepburn's Enchanted Tales and Marian McPartland's Jazz World:All in Good Time

Just bought my first King Arthur Flour cookbook.

THE KING ARTHUR FLOUR COOKIE COMPANION: The Essential Cookie Cookbook

YAY!

Clam - I love the Imponderables books! They are fun. And I just finished Blink and really enjoyed it.

I just got 2 books for my daughter's birthday, both photograph books of The Beatles. She is obsessed with them. She's very happy. She also got a poster, a t-shirt, and the Yellow Submarine DVD.

#25 - Yay, is right! I have their Whole Grain cookbook and I love it.

#26 - I stuck the 'Imponderables' in the loo. :o) Plus, I just finished The Outliers the other days and now Malcolm Gladwell is on my list of authors to look out for.

Hey... my son is going through a Beatles thing now, too!

(Edited to fix touchstones.)

Clam, they offer one week classes at their location, taught by the in house bakers/chefs. I'd love to take a few.

Their other cookbooks are on my MUST HAVE-WANT NOW! list.

I had picked up the Whole Grain one at my local library and thumbed through it. I didn't even bother checking it out, but came home and put it on my Christmas list. I don't follow all of the recipes faithfully, they are easily adaptable. So far the Stromboli was the biggest hit with the rest of the household. I'll have to see what other cookbooks they have! I thought the whole grain and cookies were it...

Ahhh, there are a couple of Artisan Bread books there that look enticing!

http://search.barnesandnoble.com/The-Americas-Test-Kitchen-Family-Cookbook-Cookw...

Also on my gotta have list.

Oh, I love the idea of the "updated with an all-new 50-page cookware buying guide." I have an old Julia Child CD-ROM with advice on what and how to get essential cooking items and utensils. I should dig that out one of these days. She taught me the correct way to sharpen a blade! LOL

I've been frighteningly good. Only two new acquisitions for the month so far:

Night of Knives by Ian Esslemont (Malazan tales) and
Curse of the Mistwraith by Janny Wurts which I finally found in ebook format (epub).

I accidentally bought Tales from the Crypt: Book 8, Diary of a Stinky Dead Kid thinking the parody might be OK for the 9 year old nephew. Oppps! Really more of a high school boy, Mad magazine, type parody. And it did not stop with Diary of a Wimpy Boy to parody. It went on to do a parody of the Twilight series. It was a little bit funny, but not funny enough to justify buying it. I will take it to the used book store, not the nephew's house. Darn.

Ordered these from abebooks.com. They are so cheap and there is no shipping fee. Sadly, they also take two weeks plus for the media rate shipped package to arrive. And this time the package was ripped open. OY! At least the books were okay. One was banged up, but it's used, so....

A Long Way Down by Nick Hornby
The Princes of Ireland: The Dublin Saga by Edward Rutherfurd

Having discovered a huge secondhand bookstore just a few miles up the road (I honestly had no idea!) I have had a lot of fun browsing (they even have a fantastic "unsorted" section, where anything might turn up... who could ask for more?) - showing a bit of restraint, I only picked up a couple of books: Rodney Stone and The Penguin Book of Victorian Villainies... but a return trip is being planned, and this time I'll be better prepared :-D

I've also been building up my photography book collection, with copies of the first British Wildlife Photography Awards and Wild Planet arriving by post last week... there are more on the way, but I don't think they'll arrive in October.

I love that title Tane The Penguin Book of Victorian Villainies, just makes me smile reading it, brings to mind a mustachioed, black-caped villian, cackling "Bwahaha!"

Okay, I'll stop now, I think my imagination is running away with me...

Um... maybe it was too early for my brain, but when I read Tane's post at 6:30 AM I thought it was a kid's book about evil penguins.
:oS
I didn't realize my mistake until I read katylit's post.

LOL! Good morning clam! ;-)

Good morning, katylit! Obviously I need to start getting more sleep. ;o)

I've got Brandon Sanderson's new book! :) Way of Kings, the brick that it is is now sitting on my shelf, finally. I seriously just about squeed right there in the store when the sales rep said they had it, and at %30 off too! Going to Powell's this weekend, so doubtless more books to be found there, and later this month I'm picking up Jim Butcher's collection of short stories and novellas from the Dresden Files series. All in all, its a book-filled month. Oh, I also got Jeff Charlotte's new book C Street for my brother for his birthday.

3 for a Fiver pays off again at The Works:

Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell (think this one may be included becaus of 1 creased page)
El Sid by Chris Haslam (read his 2 previous books and while one was so-so the other was pretty decent)
Night and Day by Robert B. Parker (A later volume in the Jesse Stone series to add to the other 2 I already have)

#42 - I bought The Way of Kings for my daughter for her birthday. She's saving it for Christmas break. :o)

Okay, the UPS man just came with my latest Last Night in Twisted River. I had to order it because I am going to see *drum roll please* John Irving tomorrow night at Mount Holyoke College. I'm so excited! :o) Just to be in the same room with a man who embodies both genius and hotness takes my breath away! LOL

*GRRR* Edited to fix touchstones.

Cryoburn!

44> I'm forcing myself to put off reading the Way of Kings at least until I finish the Hobbit which I'm reading both in preperation for the movie (though I may end up reading it AGAIN before the movie is released) and as part of Project Hobbit, a reading project I've undertaken on my blog to read the Hobbit and LotR and post plot summary and comments for each chapter. I meant to do this for my Dresden Files reread as well, but didn't maintain the discipline to pull it off. Well, just have to see if I can manage it for this. I'll probably be dipping into Side Jobs on the side. :D

I shouldn't have yet, but I ordered my copy of Behemoth, Scott Westerfeld's follow-up to Leviathan. I'm excited, but I'm not really allowed to do much fun-reading at the moment.

My Kindle seduced me again: I bought Mark Twain's Autobiography of Mark Twain, vol. I. Started reading it and was bemused by the fact that he started it many times and various versions of his autobiography have been published previously but this one! This one! promises to be the real thing. hehehehe

He is sometimes very hard to believe but a great deal of fun to read.

#48 - Okay, I thought that book wasn't going to be released until November 15th! LOL I ordered it from B&N today, thinking it would show up in 3 1/2 weeks and I got a msg saying it's packed an ready to ship! So, the dates were bogus? Anyway, congrats, maggie. Enjoy!

Received an ER book, American Terroir by Rowan Jacobsen in the mail today.

Also, my FIL sent a bag of books. I selected two to keep, or at least try. Martin the Warrior and Tombstone Courage.

>47 Choreocrat:
I just ordered Leviathan for my kid. I hope he likes it!

50> Jacques is amazing. I read the whole Redwall series when I was a kid and loved it. Still have most of the books in hardback. I've also read the first two books in his Castaways of the flying Dutchman series. I was rather turned off by the racism in the third book, but am now wondering if that was more a characteristic of the narrative voice/characters than the author's actual PoV, and if the former may well give the book another shot if I can find it buried in the dozens of boxes that the majority of my library is currently contained in.

It's here!!!!

Got my Autobiography of Mark Twain, Vol. 1 already!

w0000000t!

Congrats, Clam. I hope you will enjoy it. I am still reading The Collector and then need to read my next book group book, Surely You're Joking, Mr Feynman, and then I'll embark on the Twain Odyssey. Maybe we could start a discussion thread. I'll get back to you.

Picked up The King Arthur Flour Baker's Companion: The All-Purpose Baking Cookbook (King Arthur Flour Cookbooks) today. Just couldn't resist after buying their cookie book. More than just recipes, their books are superb reference material also.

Help me to develop my mad baking skillz yo!

#19-------

Clam! I am so envious of your new additions to your library! What excellent finds! If you have yet to read Biblioholism by Tom Raabe you are in for a REAL treat! I read that a few months ago and is absolutely delightful! It is like heaven for bibliophiles. :)

#57 - Thank you! The Tom Raabe book looks wonderful. Now if I could just sit and read, that would be great. I feel like I have to take advantage of the decent weather and finish up 'outside stuff.' Maybe I could compromise and read outside...

I had, as usual, promised not to buy anything until a few more were shaved off the TBR pile but could not resist getting The Quantum Thief.

Bad me ;-)

I HAVE SIDE JOBS, WOOHOO!

Is Side Jobs a collection of stories that have already appeared in other anthologies such as My Big Fat Supernatural Wedding / Honeymoon and Many Bloody Returns?

Yes, it is. I didn't buy those because I'm a poor college student and couldn't afford to buy them when there was only one story in each I wanted to read.

Thanks for the confirmation. I've been unsure about checking out some of the other anthologies for the same reason but have been thinking about picking them up to see if any of the others might be worth delving into a bit more.

Evil Amazon sent me an email. So, I ended up buying I Shall Wear Midnight. I mean, a Pratchett hardcover, new book for a little more than $12.00 with shipping? Why resist?

I dropped into Chapters the other day, obstensibly to visit Starbucks and have a chai latte, but y'know, books do call, and thus I picked up The Temptress: The Scandalous Life of Alice de Janze and The Mysterious Death of Lord Erroll, 'cause I've read White Mischief and this is a further investigation into Lord Erroll's murder and all the scandalous behaviour of that 1940's Kenyan ex-pat British crowd. I also got The Diaries of Sofia Tolstoy and Father Brown Stories.

oh, katylit, The Temptress: The Scandalous Life of Alice de Janze and The Mysterious Death of Lord Erroll sounds just like the kind of book I love. And I guess, I'd have to say White Mischief could be too,

thanks for making my wish list even longer!

So happy! My audio book purchase of G.K. Chesterton's The Club of Queer Trades has arrived! Now I just have to be careful not to miss my exit on the way to work.

Also in the mail, Holy Disorders, but I won't read it until the first in that detective series arrives.

Finally added The Gathering Storm to my collection along with The Feast of the Goat and Zoo City.

Got a whole mess of books at Powell's City of Books yesterday, the list reading thusly:

I Shall Wear Midnight
Unseen Academicals
Mean Streets
Storm Front
Fool Moon
Grave Peril

(have the first 9 in SFBC omnibi. Been meaning to start getting trade editions, and the fact that my room mate's GF has the first two (ie 1-5) gave me the perfect excuse to start buying them)

Paper Towns (been wathing the Green Brothers' youtube channel for at least a year and been meaning to read one of Tom's books for a while. I'll probably pick up a copy of Will Grayson Will Grayson too, but found this for $4 on the used table, so grabbed it.)

Lord of the Rings (I've got my mom's old hardbacks from the 60's, but wanted a reading copy I could take outside, shove into my messenger bag, etc, without worrying about the fact it was getting beat to hell)

Silly me, I made arrangements to meet a friend at...wait for it....Barnes & Noble! Of course, I bought three books and two magazines. I am a reader, after all.

Neil Gaiman's American Gods, Simon Winchester's The Man Who Loved China and JX

Silly me, I made arrangements to meet a friend at Barnes and Noble, and of course, I bought three books and two magazines.

Neil Gaiman's American Gods, Simon Winchester's The Man Who Loved China and Jacqueline Sheehan's Lost and Found. The magazines are about making cards of the Winter Holidays variety. Yes, I do send out winter celebration cards.

In the mail yesterday, my ER copy of Squadron 303. It is a lovely fancy paperback with lots of photos, a free bookmark and makes me feel special.