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popped into a charity shop last night to drop off a couple of books and came out with: , , and "The River" by Tricia Wastveldt $0.80 each!!!!

This year I bought at Barnes and Noble with giftcards:

The Insider
The Finisher
The Infects

and got The Unfairest of Them All too.

Got a free book at the library earlier this year as a prize for participating in their winter reading program The Poisoned House: A Ghost Story

on my Kindle as I missed the TV series....

I also got earlier this year on clearance at Hastings A Dozen Black Rosesand that was a pretty good read too of the Sonya Blue series besides Sunglasses after dark

I am not familiar with that one Amber - will have to keep an eye out for it.

It came out in the 90s Sandra but for $5 on clearance it was worth getting. It's part of the Sunglasses after dark series by Nancy A. Collins

The other day I bought 6 books by Christine Feehan - 5 from her Carpathian/Dark series and one of her Drake Sisters/Christmas series.
I also bought Fantasy Lover by Sherrilyn Kenyon and Lies by Michael Grant
And then on top of that I was given Checkmate and Double Cross by Malorie Blackman, and The Battle of the Labyrinth by Rick Riordan

Awesome Lucy. Enjoy Fantasy Lover by Sherrilyn Kenyon. It's the start of the dark hunter series.

got some free ones from Smashwords recently:

The Seer
Grey October
Dead and Beloved

I haven't bought these yet but they are on my wish list at Amazon and I will be ordering soon so they will be waiting for me at Mom's house when I get there in early November...not as far away as it seems!!

Tolstoy: A Russian Life by Rosamund Bartlett
Karate-Do: My Way of Life by Gichin Funakoshi
The Twenty Guiding Principles of Karate: The Spiritual Legacy of the Master by Gichin Funakoshi
The Essence of Karate by Gichin Funakoshi
Zen in the Martial Arts by Joe Hyams

It seems that Funakoshi was the founder of Shoto-kan karate, which is the style Marco holds a brown belt in. So I MIGHT let Marco read these books too....=))

Debbie wrote: "I haven't bought these yet but they are on my wish list at Amazon and I will be ordering soon so they will be waiting for me at Mom's house when I get there in early November...not as far away as i..."

Good morning twin! Another strange thing - my youngest son is brown belt karate! Hope you are having a lovely day and slept well last night. I might change my mind about raiding your chocolate supplies after looking at your reading list.....8:D

Sandra wrote: "Debbie wrote: "I haven't bought these yet but they are on my wish list at Amazon and I will be ordering soon so they will be waiting for me at Mom's house when I get there in early November...not a..."

Yep, Twin....the chocolate is very well protected....remember what happened to that mouse....=))

Ah yes...Marco on guard!

by Robin Cookfrom the thrift shop for .80c; and have just got by J.K. Rowlingout of the library. 8:D

Robin Cook is intense....loved Coma.

It's years since I have read a Robin Cook...but remember always enjoying him. This is quite an old book - ex-library. 8:D

got two free ebooks at a website called http://www.tryaudiobooks.com

they had these two for free:
The Darwin Elevator
and
Lost and Found in Cedar Cove
as free audiobooks which was cool.

My friend bought me The Kill Order, The Death Cure and Plague as a late birthday presents, and the other half bought me The Maze Runner and The 100
I also bought The Scorch Trials and The One Plus One with money I was given for my birthday.
Do you think my friends and family know I am a bookworm?! I rarely get anything but books or vouchers for books these days, lol. Normally get a voucher for my kobo from my 2 kids at christmas too, haha! I feel like a kid when I talk about birthday money haha, but then I realise birthday money is something I have to start thinking of soon, since my boys are 2 and 6 !!

Took all my plastic bags to the thrift shop yesterday for recycling and came out with: A Week in Winterby Marcia Willett; two James Patterson- London Bridgesand Cat and Mouse; John Connolly's The Killing Kind; Cold Hitby Linda Fairstein and Human Tracesby Sebastian Faulks plus 2 jig-saws!

Just purchased Follow the River This looks like an awesome true story tale of an amazing woman in the 1700's. I'm looking forward to reading it!

got me some new ebooks recently for fre from Smashwords for my coby android tablet and they are standalones. Here's what I got:
The Time Sphere
Super Sleuths in Space aka Intergalactic Posties
Angus Macbain and the Island of Sleeping Kings
The Great Empty: A Novel
Seven Rules
Time Cursed
Goodnight to My Thoughts of You
Chasm
Darius and the Dragon's Stone
Don't Just Speak Love
Ripple: Young Adult Version
Offer Him Roses
Oblivion Girl
Zombie Con
Childhood Dreams

I hope to check them all out soon with the other ebooks I got for free there on Smashwords and on feedbooks and the ones from goodreads too. They all look to be pretty good reads.

While we were in Huamantla we saw a new bookshop so we got a few small ones to add to the bookshelf we have for the public at our ultramarathon events. We try to have a nice variety of short books to lure people into the pleasure of reading.

They can take one of our books and go sit under a tree or wherever to read, and hopefully they will enjoy the experience enough to start reading more on their own. We had a few copies of various Fairy Tales like El Gato En Botas (Puss In Boots) and other volumes aimed at children. In this new store we found some small volumes that will appeal to adults (and of course we plan to read them ourselves!):

Plantas Medininales II (Medicinal Plants II)
Reglas Basicas del Feng Shui (Basic Rules of Feng Shui)
El Yoga Y Los Chakras (Yoga and the Chakras)

El Libro De La Selva (The Jungle Book) by Rudyard Kipling

From the Series Biografia (Biography):
Quetzalcoatl by Adrian Soto and Alejandra Gonzalez
Emiliano Zapata by Ettore Pierri

We are looking forward to our next event in October when we can unveil the new books!! =))

Ultramarathon??? We are definitely poles apart there twin! I am a sloth by nature (other than I like walking, body-boarding, kayaking, horse-riding and snorkelling) - nice gentle pursuits.
I hope you had a lovely time. 8:D

I just purchased Dorothy Sayer Volume 11 Premium Lord Wimsey Collection E-book from Amazon for 99c - it contains 4 novels including Murder Must Advertise and 18 short stories!

I just purchased Dorothy Sayer Volume II Premium Lord Wimsey Collection E-book from Amazon for 99c - it contains 4 novels including Murder Must Advertise and 18 short stories!

I've just placed another book order with Amazon. I should be ashamed of myself BUT I'M NOT!! =)) Here are the titles I ordered:

Different Seasons featuring The Shawshank Redemption
The Boat Who Wouldn't Float
Basilica: The Splendor and the Scandal: Building St. Peter's
Ninety-Three
Bitter Victory: The Battle For Sicily, July August 1943

Debbie wrote: "I've just placed another book order with Amazon. I should be ashamed of myself BUT I'M NOT!! =)) Here are the titles I ordered:

Different Seasons featuring The Shawshank Redemption
[b..."

awesome Debbie, enjoy Different Seasons!

Thanks, Amber...I've wanted to read Rita Hayworth and The Shawshank Redemption ever since I saw the movie....can't wait! Excited about the others too, especially the one about Sicily. My dad had marched across Africa in WWII and fought in Sicily, then went up Italy until he was wounded at Anzio and sent home. He never would talk much about what happened so this will help me understand.

Different Seasons was a pretty good read. I liked all of them except for the WWII Nazi one as it was disturbing and stuff. lol. so enjoy.

I got and then there were none by Agatha Christie for free on goodreads so will check it out in the future as my first Agatha Christie novel.

Thanks Stephanie. The Fault in our stars is pretty good. Enjoy but be sure to get your Kleenex out as it is pretty sad.

I bought a few new ones today, and a couple the other day.
Todays finds:
Azur Like It
Mrs. De Winter
Triskellion
Faithless
Burned
The Devil Wears Prada
Love, Aubrey
and Hold Tight

The ones a couple of days ago are:
Fear
Sir Thursday and
Superior Saturday

:D

Received my Goodreads win in the mail this morning : by Phillip Percy - an absolutely delightful read! Will be posting review later today. Thank you to the author and GR for making this book available to me.

Awesome sandra! I wish I could win something from goodreads.

I won The Spiritglass Charade by Colleen Gleason as a part of The Early Reviewer program on Library Thing.

I'm sourcing from Internet a hardcover copy of The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber.

I got 12 new books yesterday, and one today.
Passion
Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy
Don't Judge a Girl by Her Cover
Light
Day 21
Seize the Night
Inkheart
Inkspell
Inkdeath
The Iron King
The Iron Daughter
The Iron Knight
and today's was
Shutter Island

:D

Wow, what fun you had!! I've read Inkheart and the two sequels...enjoyed them all!

Sandra wrote: "I just purchased Dorothy Sayer Volume 11 Premium Lord Wimsey Collection E-book from Amazon for 99c - it contains 4 novels including Murder Must Advertise and 18 short stories!"

I hope Amazon UK has that deal soon, Sandra! I want to reread some of Dorothy L Sayers's excellent crime novels, but they're all so pricey when you buy them separately :(

A friend of my sister's and mine gave me the book Divergent for Christmas today so plan to read it in the new year. I also got barnes and noble gift cards from family too. :-)

Was given Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel for christmas!

I'm seriously wondering if I have started my second childhood ...

After quite a few broad hints, my husband bought me a few of the "Illustrated Classics" - comics/graphic novels I remember from childhood, such as this one Classics Illustrated 48 of 169 : David Copperfield. The rights have been bought by a firm who's reprinted some (on much better paper) so its a real trip down memory lane. Also The Polar Express by Chris Van Allsburg.

See what I mean? :D Oh well, I always think presents should be about fun things.

Texts from Jane Eyre: And Other Conversations with Your Favorite Literary Characters and The Weird: A Compendium of Strange and Dark Stories were added to my collection on Christmas day! I also received a kindle fire from my husband! I had previously been determined never to acquire anything like this, until the last few months when I have decided that it wouldn't hurt to read an e-book every now and then! Can't wait to play with it and download some books!

That's really exciting Candi - I'm sure you'll love it :)

Santa was sure good to everyone!! Have fun and enjoy!!

Thanks Debbie and you too. :)

Stephanie wrote: "Jean wrote: "I'm seriously wondering if I have started my second childhood ...

After quite a few broad hints, my husband bought me a few of the "Illustrated Classics" - comics/graphic novels I rem..."

I love reading children's books - I still have all my AA Milne collection, Roald Dahl, and Wind in the Willows. I seem to have lost my Alice books, and a few poetry treasuries......but am keeping an eye out in the second hand shops to replace them. 8:D

got Killing Patton
by Bill O'Reilly for Christmas.

That sounds interesting, Michael. My Dad was part of Patton's army in Sicily. They say soldiers either loved or hated Patton...Dad was one of the haters. From what I've read about him, I would have said he was a brilliant military mind. Will be looking forward to what you think about this book!

Recently got these books at a 5 used books for $20.00 sale at the Hastings book store last night and got these books. Just got to figure out which one of them I want to read first, they all look interesting though:

The Enemy
The Year of the Hare
Three Graves Full
Freaky Green Eyes
Pastworld

Happy to meet fellow children's book enthusiasts. I can't claim that all the ones I like are such "classics" though!

Got Revival and The Panther for Christmas.