This topic is to confess your book buying sins! I'll start........

My name is Donna and I'm a bookaholic! Today I bought...

Alone by Lisa Gardner
Blood Is the New Black A Novel Valerie Stivers
In Their Footsteps By Tess Gerritsen

My name is Sam and I am a bookaholic. I once spent over three hours in Waterstones and spent well into treble pound figures (not my proudest moment I can tell you)

Today I have bought...

Survival in Auschwitz by Primo Levi
Revelation by C.J. Sansom

(and boy am I looking forward to them being delivered)

Sam wrote: "My name is Sam and I am a bookaholic. I once spent over three hours in Waterstones and spent well into treble pound figures (not my proudest moment I can tell you)

Today I have bought...

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Hee hee this is going to be fun!

Hello, my name is Heather and I am a bibliophile. It's been one day since I finished my last book and I am already on another...must slow down...

Heather,

Where is that post from last week that you started very similar to this? I couldn't find it. Anyway, I think I listed over 40, yes, 40 books that I have purchased or aquired since May 1st. Um, yeah, the day after posting that I went to a phenomenal used bookstore in a neighboring city and spent another thirty bucks on books. It's not fair! They have a .93 cent room with some really good books in it. Yes, I have a slight problem. But, I swear, it's not usually THAT bad. It's just been that kind of month-and-a-half!

My name is Jenny and I can't control my spending :P

My new years resolution was not to buy anymore books until I finished reading the ones on my bookshelf. I must have bought a good 50! I think I lasted a month!!

I don't have a problem...I could quit anytime I want....I swear...*glazed eyes and jerky motions* I swear!

The only book-buying sin is to buy a book with no intention of reading it - anything else is OK!

My name is Wanda and I go bonkers for books. I will read almost any genre and that is just the start of the problem. I really need to find a store that sells only two things - 1 book I like and 1 book I don't like. That way, I will only leave the store with 1 book rather than 3.

But wanda, how do you you know you like it if you don't buy and find out first? And besides, the best thing about books is that it leads you to even more books!!

New reads (bowing head in shame)

Olive Kitteridge
The Reading Group
Ahab's Wife
The Children of Men
World's Fair
&
Love walked In

Darn darn rummage sales! How I do love and hate thee!

Ooo, oooo. Heather, let me know about Olive Kitteredge. There was a run on this book recently in my area and the local B&N kept selling out of it. I'm curious as to what the fuss was about.

3 for £5 in The Works this morning.......

My Cousin Rachel
The Scapegoat
The Birds and Other Stories
all by Daphne DuMaurier

Last week, I picked up:
The Fool On The Hill by Matt Ruff
The Poet by Michael Connelly
The Poe Shadow by Matthew Pearl
Great Russion Short Stories edited by Paul Negri

Will do Jaime, if I ever get to it :P

Whoops!

The Remains of an Altar by Phil Rickman - free from bookmooch.com

The Invention of Everything Else by Samantha Hunt £1.99 in Borders (not very extensive) sale.

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
Water for Elephants

That's 10 books in about 10 days! How many have I read in 10 days I hear you ask? ONE!

Barnes and Noble had one of their buy two get one free, plus I had a 15% off coupon on top of my 10% Member discount benefit, so I bought:

Don Quixote
The Space Between Us A Novel
Anansi Boys

I buy hardback classics of books I've read because I like the idea of one day having a 'library' in my house.

Okay. Today I was at Barnes and Noble and they have their buy two Barnes and Noble classics, get one free. They are reasonably priced (under $10.00 each for a trade paperback), so I couldn't resist. I bought:
Arabian Nights
Three Lives
Fairy Tales

I bought some books today. Brand new books! I hardly ever do that. I won a book voucher at work so thought I'd splash out. I bought Pride and prejudice and zombies so I can join in the group read, Pop Co by Scarlett Thomas and The elegance of the hedgehog by Muriel Barbery. Yes they were on 3 for 2 at Waterstones.

My name is Ally and I am a bibliophile, this is my first confession. I have a serious Amazon habit and in the last week I have bought...

The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer
The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
The Secret of Lost Things by Sheridan Hay
Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi
The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane by Katherine Howe
Those Who Save Us by Jenna Blum

I'll say 7 hail mary's right away (one for each book!)...

ooh snap. Well one snap anyway. I also loved the Guernsey Literary...

Pudwood wrote: "ooh snap. Well one snap anyway. I also loved the Guernsey Literary... "

This book has been getting a lot of attention from many of the groups I'm part of. Everyone seem to love it! I may have to check it out.

Jaime, I quite enjoyed it. I just finished it a couple of weeks ago. Much much love for that one

Oh help me for I have sinned again!! My friend wanted me to go to Book-Off with her on Friday since we both had the day off....ACK!! I've added 12 new ones this weekend alone! And here they are:

Dearly Devoted Dexter
Midnight's Children
Living Next Door to the God of Love
Human Amusements
The Meaning of Night A Confession
The Little Friend
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Q & A
The Deptford Trilogy
Weaveworld
What If? 2 Eminent Historians Imagine What Might Have Been
Vamped A Novel

Heather wrote: "Oh help me for I have sinned again!! My friend wanted me to go to Book-Off with her on Friday since we both had the day off....ACK!! I've added 12 new ones this weekend alone! And here they are:

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Oh dear Heather! Never mind eh?
I only acquired one book this weekend, Eclipse, from greenmetropolis, and I sold 2 books on there so basically it doesn't count!

I volunteered today at the best local friends of the library book sale in my area. One of the advantages of volunteering is that you get first dibs on the books. They are all .50 cents to one dollar. Dangerous.

I bought:

The Buffalo Soldier
Water Witches
The Love of a Good Woman
Hardboiled Wonderland and the End of the World
Kafka on the Shore
The Shadow of the Wind
The White Tiger
Persuasion
Mansfield Park
Housekeeping A Novel
Oryx and Crake
The Master A Novel
North and South
Silk
The Pillars of the Earth
Bridge of Sighs
Wuthering Heights
Villette
The Amber Spyglass
The Golden Compass
Foucault's Pendulum
Drums Along the Mohawk

And about as many children's books for my son.

Bad, bad. I know! I have WAY TOO MANY books to read already!! But, alas, I am a true bibliophile!!

OMG I love love loved The Shadow of the Wind. You have GOT to read this one Jaime!

Yes I am totally proud to admit that I have reading addiction. I know that it is a book habbit that will never end. Or atlest I would never want to. Every time I go to the library, or a bookstore I've never leave empty handed.

My room is literally full of books. No matter what I always find space to pack more. High or low. =)~

Wow you got some good ones there Jaime!

Jenny wrote: "Wow you got some good ones there Jaime!"

Heather wrote: "OMG I love love loved The Shadow of the Wind. You have GOT to read this one Jaime!"

Thanks, Jenny! I am excited that I had so many good finds!

Heather,
Shadow of the Wind is next on my TBR. Right now I am reading The Thirteenth Tale. I am loving it. It's the best book I've read in a long time. The language is so, so rich. It's slow going, because I keep going back to re-read passages. I'm not even that far into it! So far, it reminds me of one of my favorite books of all time, Rebecca. I wish I had time to just sit down and read until I finished it. Unfortunately, this is has probably been the busiest week for me all summer. I've been volunteering for two different local events since Thursday (one of them the book sale) and today alone is my sister's thirtieth birthday, my sister-in-law-to-be's wedding shower and a huge community event in about an hour from now! Crazy, can't take it!

Oy! It sounds like you are a busy busy bee my dear! I am excited because I think I will almost maybe finish this blasted book that I am reading, and I think you have convinced me to read Rebecca next, since you and I seem to have some similar styles of reading, and I do have it on my tbr. I am glad you are liking the Thirteenth Tale. It's definately a 5* read for me and after I read it I started recommending it to everyone, along with The Shadow of the Wind. I rec'd it to a friend of mine and she just devoured it, read it in about a week, when normally books that length take her a month or so. it is amazingly good!

Let me know how Oryx and Crake goes eventually. I have been wanting to read it , but I'm just not sure.

Heather wrote: "Oy! It sounds like you are a busy busy bee my dear! I am excited because I think I will almost maybe finish this blasted book that I am reading, and I think you have convinced me to read Rebecca ne..."


That's how I have felt about Oryx and Crake. I've always sort of wondered about it. It was staring me right in the face at the book sale on Friday, and, for $1.00, I fugured what the heck.

I loved Rebecca. It's one of my favorite "classics". Let me know how you like it!

What a fabulous idea! I went to a club that swaps books and two charity shops and acquired:
The Revenge - Shirley Conran
Maximum Impact - Jack Henderson
The Historian - Elizabeth Kostova
Double Cross -James Patterson
Suite Francaise - Irene Nemirovsky
Monday's Child - Louise Bagshawe

Whoops!
Last night I got A Thousand Splendid Suns and The Girl Who Played with Fire

Then this morning I have ordered The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo because I didn't realise the other one was the sequel when I got it , Socks from the Toe Up Essential Techniques and Patterns from Wendy Knits and Sharp Objects A Novel

Donna wrote: "Whoops!
Last night I got A Thousand Splendid Suns and The Girl Who Played with Fire

Then this morning I have ordered The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo bec..."

When you read Sharp Objects, I'd be curious to know how you like it. I am on a waiting list for that book at the swap site I'm part of. She just came out with a new book, too. I can't remember the name of it off the top of my head, though.

hi everyone.I'm mary and I'm a bookaholic - but on the cheap! I used to spend far too much time at weekend browsing at the Works and Publishers Book Clearance, but I've reformed or at least I've discovered Bookcrossing and Freecycle.A local organic shop is an official bookcrossing point, so there's generally a good choice there. Books offered on Freecycle are more of a gamble, but as I'll read almost anything it works quite well.