Rachel Lee, where in the world did you find those books for under a buck? Thats a steal!

They are for the kindle, not actual books, but still. They have interactive table of contents so they are easy to navigate.

They will be great to have on hand when I feel like reading them. You never know when you are gonna want to read some Shakespeare!

I have been doing a lot of free classics for my Kindle, but these were totally worth paying for!

And at a buck, I would have to agree!

I have a serious problem. My addiction to books is starting to make me be in the RED.

At Barnes and Noble this evening I purchased The Summoning by Kelley Armstrong and Dark Secrets 1: Legacy of Lies Don't Tell by Elizabeth Chandler.

Yay for Young Adult books and my obsession. Now they will sit on my bookcase before I crack open their spines, so I can complete my own Top 10 TBR piles.

I would be up for a Uylsses read along. I have attempted twice on my own but did not get very far....

Marci go to the new thread that Lori started about 'Ulysses'. We are all there!

Finally spent my christmas gift card from barnes and noble (i was waiting for a specific book to get released) and in addition got some more christmas presents!

Dracula The Un-Dead Dacre Stoker
Dark Lover J.R. Ward
Minion L.A. Banks
Nightfall L.J. Smith
Night World, No. 3 Huntress, Black Dawn, Witchlight L.J. Smith
and the one i was waiting for: Tempted P.C. Cast

We popped into the Goodwill on our way to Arkansas to spend Halloween with the kiddos and I couldn't resist The Thornbirds by Colleen McCullough
Evil Under the Sun by Agatha Christie and
Wilderness Tips by Margaret Atwood.

I visit home without a trip to the flea market. Here I found The Works of Oscar Wilde. I am quite excited to get started on this one.

Today I bought Terry Goodkind's Wizard's First Rule but I also ordered the following online recently:

- Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall
- Linda Colley's Britons Forging the Nation 1707-1837
- Federico Lorca's Selected Poems with parallel Spanish text
- Irene Némirovsky All Our Worldly Goods

I just got my Amazon order in the mail:

Sophie Kinsella, Twenties Girl
Jennifer Weiner, Best Friends Forever
Diana Gabaldon, Voyager
Diana Gabaldon, Drums of Autumn
P.C. Cast, Tempted
Kelley Armstrong, The Summoning

Currently I'm addicted to the House of Night series and the Outlander books. I had to buy 'The Summoning' because I have the second book in the series and can't read it until I read the first.

And I keep buying books despite the fact that my bookcases are overflowing!

Hmmmm Kristilyn, sounds like you need a trip to the nearest bookshelf-selling store pronto!!

Ha ha ... no kidding! And to think, that's exactly what was going through my mind when I shelved those measly 6 books. :-)

My recent splurges include (all for $2 each):

For me:
What Is the What - Dave Eggers
The Master and Margarita - Bulgakov
The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
Invisible Monsters - Chuck Palahniuk
Amnesia Moon - Jonathan Lethem
Come Closer - Sara Gran
Broken for You - Stephanie Kallos
The Book of Bright Ideas - Sandra Kring
Fluke Or, I Know Why the Winged Whale Sings - Christopher Moore
Far from the Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
All the Names - Jose Saramago
The Secret History - Donna Tartt
The Town That Forgot How to Breathe A Novel - Kenneth J. Harvey
The Secret of Lost Things A Novel - Sheridan Hay
The Beach - Alex Garland
A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian A Novel - Marina Lewycka
Oxygen A Novel - Carol Cassella


And to send to my hubby:
Bloodsucking Fiends - Christopher Moore
I Hope They Serve Beer In Hell - Tucker Max
Me Talk Pretty One Day - David Sedaris
Angels & Demons - Dan Brown
7 Steps to Midnight - Richard Matheson

I need an intervention! But seriously, how can you pass up buying them at such great prices?

Cait, I see so much of me in your splurges!
Jessica and I are about to start The Secret History, sometimes this week, if you want in...

Cait, I'm totally with you ... I have a hard time passing up cheap books!

PS - I hear that Tucker Max book is pretty good!

Okay... for someone who isn't supposed to be buying books, I seem to be collecting them from a variety of sources.

from the library:
The Virgin Queen's Daughter
Slow Dollar
High Country Fall
Rituals of the Fall

Free from BookBrowse.com as a first reads:
Making Toast

Magically jumped into baskets (grocery store/Targets):
The Princess and the Pea
Wicked All Day
A Wicked Lord at the Wedding
The Corner of Bitter and Sweet

From MainStreet BookEnds:
A Whole New Mind for my mom

I finally bought "New Moon" by Stephenie Meyer. I'm not sure if I will read it next or wait.

Kristilyn, I bought Tempted saturday night and read it sunday. For me book 5 (Hunted)and 6 (Tempted) were not up to par with the rest of the series. and I was very upset with how it ended! Oh, and I did the same thing with Kelly Armstrong! I bought book 2 before book 1 becuase I got the order wrong!

Cait wrote: "My recent splurges include (all for $2 each):

For me:
What Is the What - Dave Eggers
The Master and Margarita - Bulgakov
The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishig..."

Invisible Monsters is a really great book. I loved that one!

Some new additions to the family:

From the thrift store (€8,60 total):
James Baldwin - Tell me how long the train's been gone
Isaac Bashevis Singer - The magician of Lublin
James Baldwin - Giovanni's room
J. Slauerhoff - The forbidden realm
Penninc & Pieter Vostaert - Roman van Walewein
Bredero's kluchten

Free and/or won:
Hella Haasse - Oeroeg
Dimitri Verhulst - De helaasheid der dingen

Ramsch (€15 total):
Jan Kjærstad - The discoverer
Jan Kjærstad - The conquerer

i just used my 40% off borders coupons to get a copy of The Sandman, The Dream Hunters for myself (which i read yesterday morning- gorgeous book in so many ways!) and the absolute v for vendetta for my bf, whose birthday is coming up. i think the latter was the most expensive book i've ever bought, even with the coupon!

Went into the used book store while waiting for my daughter, (just to browse) and came out with:
Beach Music - Pat Conroy
Saturday - Ian McKewan
I See You Everywhere - Julia Glass

maybe I can start collecting them and put them under the Christmas tree - it might make me feel better about buying them!

i bought Mystic River and Gone,Baby,Gone about a week ago at the used bookstore. Then I tried to go buy Shutter Island on Sunday. They didn't have it. I did discover 2 things:

1. My used bookstore has a horror and scifi section on the second floor. The whole second floor :)

2. Going up to said second floor is somewhat vertigo inducing. it kind of has a space right after you go up the stairs where there's no wall, just bookshelves that came up to about my waist (i'm 5'2). I think I had a panic attack up there. Glad I was the only up there so i could crawl around.

Rachel, You're going to love MR and GBG!!! Dennis LeHane is the BEST. Did you see MR film with Sean Penn? Really good job, I thought. :)

Suzanne wrote: "Rachel, You're going to love MR and GBG!!! Dennis LeHane is the BEST. Did you see MR film with Sean Penn? Really good job, I thought. :)"

I really liked both Mystic River and Gone,Baby,Gone as movies so i thought i'd try the books, whenever i get to them!

Rachel said: 1. My used bookstore has a horror and scifi section on the second floor. The whole second floor :)

Nice. Sorry to hear it's not that well-designed. Vertigo sucks.

That combination of staircase and no balcony would not work for me - I have difficulty with stairs, and vertigo!

yeah i'm not good with stairs and I like solid walls to bump into/hang on to

All my books came in yesterday and the only thing I hate is trying to figure out what to read next (and where to put them all).

Since I have a serious addiction (not only to books, but to buying books), I swung by the local used book store AND the Wal Mart today and picked up many, many books.

From Wal Mart:
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle
What the Dog Saw And Other Adventures
Inkheart

For just over $80 at the used book store:
The Chronicles of Narnia Boxed Set (all 7 books for under $30!)
Me Talk Pretty One Day
The Wideacre Trilogy (book 1: Wideacre)
The Poisonwood Bible
Away from Her
Girl with a Pearl Earring

Tonight I have plans to overhaul my library at home and make it a cozy reading area! :-)

K

I am in a period of feeling guilty going in bookshops but also too weak, so I try not to go and jsut buy. Luckily it has been my birthday and today I received from a friend How To Talk To A Widower.

Anybody heard of it?

OK, went to go buy a guidebook to San Francisco and ended up with another haul. My husband is getting annoyed at me now...

1. San Francisco Guidebook 2009 (dont remember which one)
2. Lonely Planet - Sonoma
3. Olive Kitteridge A Novel in Stories
4. The Story of Edgar Sawtelle
5. The Princess Bride
6. Gideon
7. Fearless Fourteen
8. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
9. Specimen Days
10. The Romanovs

I was in Rochester this past weekend and saw a Goodwill :) Here are my purchases from the store:
The Red Tent - Anita Diamant
If You Could See Me Now - Cecelia Ahern
Pope Joan A Novel - Donna Woolfolk Cross
The Reader - Bernard Schlink
Toujours Provence - Peter Mayle
The Road to Paradise Island - Victoria Holt
Confessions of a Shopaholic - Sophie Kinsella

And while going to B&N Cafe for a peppermint white chocolate mocha tonight,
Push A Novel - Sapphire

Kris, The Reader is a very good book. I read that one and Revolutionary Road because I wanted to see the movies (Kate Winslet fan). The Reader's book and movie are great, but Revolutionary Road sucked. The book was so slow! But I digress ...

Love the Shopaholic books, too!

K

Wolf Hall 2009 Booker Prize winner by Hilary Mantel. My favorite period of english History Henry VIII. Too many others to read for a while though. Big W best prices I always look there when I am shopping, I love Borders but usually top dollar, I only go there when I am flush. I shop at dymocks a lot because I get discounts of the next book.

I preordered Under the Dome A Novel

Another good day at the Bethlehem Library sale.
Between the 11 books the boys got, and the ones I picked up, I spent $25 bucks!

Here's my loot:

The Island of the Day Before-Hc
Infinite Jest A Novel
A Widow for One Year
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
The Magus
Paris in the Twentieth Century Jules Verne, The Lost Novel - Hc
The Monsters of Templeton
Dead and Alive
The Hound of the Baskervilles

Not too shabby.

Here are a few that have managed to make their way through my door recently...

The Liars' Club A Memoir : Mary Karr
Olive Kitteridge A Novel in Stories : Elizabeth Strout
Oryx and Crake : Margaret Atwood
Winterton Blue A Novel : Trezza Azzopardi - ($2 on Amazon!)
The Elegance of the Hedgehog : Muriel Barbery
Fire in the Blood : Irene Némirovsky
The Tea Rose : Jennifer Donnelly

Nice splurges....I have a $40.00 gift certificate to Border's but can't decide what I want to spend it on. LOL

Hey Lori have you read the other books that go with Dead and Alive? Isn't it a series or do I have it confused with something else?

Hello.

My recent acquisitions have all come through BookMooch (love it!).

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clark
This One Is Mine: A Novel by Maria Semple
Little Children by Tom Perrotta
A Good House by Bonnie Burnard
Arthur and George by Julian Barnes

Lisa Julianna, you are correct. I have all three books now, but have not yet read it.

Hey Mary, How's it going??!!!

Hit up my library book sale today and for $9.50, walked away with:

Odd Thomas - Dean Koontz
Skinny Dip - Carl Hiaasen
The Constant Princess - Philippa Gregory
The Virgin's Lover - Philippa Gregory
The Queen's Fool - Philippa Gregory
Mercy - Jodi Picoult
March - Geraldine Brooks
The Dante Club - Matthew Pearl
Naked - David Sedaris
The Human Stain - Philip Roth
Certain Girls - Jennifer Weiner
The Guy Not Taken - Jennifer Weiner

I was so excited to find so many that I have been wanting to read. My fiance will kill me for bringing more unread books into the house. :)

Jenna, at under 10 bucks, how can he complain? You made out sooo well :)

Im happy to see you have Odd Thomas. Such a great series! I hope you like him!

from readitswapit i got The Gargoyle which came this morning.
also this morning i received my club card balance from tesco which was £5 so i ordered Living Dead in Dallas and Guilty Pleasures which i only had to pay £2 for so not a splurge

So there is literary festival going on at my school this weekend and I picked up 2 literary magazines and 3 books for $12.
Lit mags:
The New England Review Vol 30, No 2 2009
Agni Magazine 69
Books:
Pink Elephant by Rachel McKibbens
Life as It Is by Nelson Rodriguez
Wider than the Sky: Essays and Meditation On the Healing Powers of Emily Dickinson ed, Cindy MacKenzie and Barbara Dana

Emily, I really like the composition of your photo!

Lori wrote: "Jenna, at under 10 bucks, how can he complain? You made out sooo well :)

Im happy to see you have Odd Thomas. Such a great series! I hope you like him!"

I've been hearing so much about the series on here that I couldn't pass it up!

Bridgit wrote: "OK, went to go buy a guidebook to San Francisco and ended up with another haul. My husband is getting annoyed at me now...

1. San Francisco Guidebook 2009 (dont remember which one)
2. Lonely Pl..."

If he is only getting annoyed by you buying books... :-) My boyfriend is annoyed with me getitng home late from work practically every day! I should buy more books and spend less time at work!

Emily wrote: "Here are a few that have managed to make their way through my door recently...

The Liars' Club A Memoir : Mary Karr
Olive Kitteridge A Novel in Stories : Elizabeth St..."

Nice picture...ready to be read.