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What books have you bought lately?
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Jan 26, 2017 04:15PM
Got some good books over the past few weeks!
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Got these yesterday:Alaska
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
The Dark Half
The Phantom of the Opera
For Whom the Bell Tolls
The Narrow Road to the Deep North
The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex/Oedipus at Colonus/Antigone
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I was at Goodwill using their job placement service. Took a stroll to the back to check out the books and found The Lake by Richard Laymon. Very Nice for $1! Excellent condition :-)
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Janie, I knew you would like that :-) A great way to spend a dollar ;-)
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Woke up on Thursday and found this little guy (big guy, really) just seemingly abandoned on my porch! ;>D
A sequel to The Three Musketeers that picks up the story immediately after the events of that book and was unfinished at the time of Dumas' death plus an unpublished novella that Dumas wrote that ties up all the loose ends of the book. It concerns the adventures of Richelieu--D'Artagnan, Athos, Porthos and Aramis aren't in this one.
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I haven't bought any in almost 3 months. I am still in my moratorium on book buying.I hardly post on here, because I buy too many books. With being limited to 5 books per quarter, I can list them out; but also be more selective in my purchases. :)
I understand. I don't have an e-reader, so my purchases are primarily hardcovers. That cuts down on my #of purchases.
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I buy too many books, and I need to cut down. Maybe listing here will make me see what I really spend. Most of what I buy are Kindle books that have dropped in price. Some are used library finds. Guess we'll see if shame helps me limit myself. Probably not.So, for April I have acquired:
1. Fear the Drowning Deep
Kindle $1.99
2. Shrovetide
Kindle FREE
3. In The Company of Wolves: Follow The Raven
Kindle FREE
4. The Unseeing
Kindle $1.99
5. Sleeping Giants
Kindle $1.99
6. The Ocean at the End of the Lane
Kindle $2.99
7. The Perfect Girl
Kindle $1.99
8. Chimes at Midnight
Kindle $7.99 (accidental purchase, could've returned it, but this is next in an ongoing series for me and they seldom drop so I decided to keep it)
9. Water Under The Bridge
Kindle FREE
10. On Night's Shore
Kindle $1.99
11. The Storm and the Darkness
Kindle FREE
So far for April a total of $20.93 before tax.
Some of the books I've gotten over the past month are:Sleeping Giants, The Night Circus, Bird Box, The King of Plagues, Made for You, Messenger of Fear, Assassin's Code, Code Zero, Predator One, Nil, Kill Switch, The Novice, Before I Go to Sleep, We All Looked Up, The Creeping, The Merciless, The Walls Around Us, Get Even, Hotel for the Lost, The Butterfly Garden, Blood on the Tracks, The Way I Used to Be, If You Find Me, The First Time She Drowned, The Shock of the Fall, The Killing Lessons, The Night Sister, and Brother.
Cleaned out my Bookstore the past few days, here's what I brought home,
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From Goodwill I bought:Spirit Walk $.99
Full Dark, No Stars (1st edition, hardback, never been read) $1.99
Kindle:
Fragile ($1.99)
The Red Hot Empress FREE
Darper Danver: The Complete First Series FREE
B&B FREE
Persona FREE
Last Wrong Turn FREE
The Priest Hole FREE
In Sunlight or In Shadow $1.99
Menagerie $1.99
Corey wrote: "Cleaned out my Bookstore the past few days, here's what I brought home, , , [bookcover:..."Lots of adventure and excitement ahead, I see!
Over the past two or three weeks, I've bought:
The Legend of Drizzt 25th Anniversary Edition, Book I
The Last Wish (The Witcher, #1)
Warriors: Legends of the Clans 
Syren (Septimus Heap, #5) 
Darke (Septimus Heap, #6) 
Spook's Dark Assassin (The Starblade Chronicles, #3) 
Shadowcaster (Shattered Realms, #2)Still waiting on actually receiving most of them from Amazon, though. :)
C-shaw wrote: "Corey wrote: "Cleaned out my Bookstore the past few days, here's what I brought home, , [bookcover:The Bourne Objective|7144426..."No kidding!
Mom and I made a trip to Goodwill, it was her first trip out in over a month after her being hospitalized, her doctor said he didn't want her driving for a while, but she's up to driving now and she said one of the places she wanted to go was Goodwill, so we both got some good books.
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I picked up a few books at garage sales this weekend. They were:Under the Dome, The World of Ice & Fire: The Untold History of Westeros and the Game of Thrones, This World We Live In, and All I Ever Wanted.
I also picked up two brand new hardbacks of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows and Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. Mine were pretty worn so I found these and I HAD to get them at Goodwill.
Andrea wrote: "I picked up a few books at garage sales this weekend. They were:Under the Dome, The World of Ice & Fire: The Untold History of Westeros and the Game of Thrones, [boo..."
Andrea I have Under The Dome on my shelf, I want to read it so bad! I'll probably read it this Winter. And I LOVE the Harry Potter books!
Corey, I think I will pick up Under the Dome this winter too. Maybe we could do a buddy read. Honestly, I have only read the first two books in the Harry Potter series, but I will get to the rest sometime. LOL My husband is a huge Harry Potter fan. We have the new paperback set but his hardback set was looking pretty worn out. I just couldn't pass up the deal.
Andrea wrote: "Corey, I think I will pick up Under the Dome this winter too. Maybe we could do a buddy read. Honestly, I have only read the first two books in the Harry Potter series, but I will get to the rest s..."Yeah sure, that would be awesome, I'd love to do a buddy read!
And speaking of the Harry Potter series, I have a quick funny story to tell you, my Mom tried to read the series after I told her how much I loved then and she started book #1 and she only got as far as Harry living in the Cupboard Under The Stairs, and then she gave it up, HAHA! My Mom's not into Fantasy at all, thing is I'm not either but for some reason I like Harry Potter.
Corey wrote: "Andrea wrote: "Corey, I think I will pick up Under the Dome this winter too. Maybe we could do a buddy read. Honestly, I have only read the first two books in the Harry Potter series, but I will ge..."Just let me know when you want to do the buddy read. I had a hard time getting through The Chamber of Secrets so I just stopped reading them. It is funny because I love the movies but The Chamber of Secrets is my least favorite one to watch. LOL.
Andrea wrote: "Corey wrote: "Andrea wrote: "Corey, I think I will pick up Under the Dome this winter too. Maybe we could do a buddy read. Honestly, I have only read the first two books in the Harry Potter series,..."Okay, I sure will, I normally read really thick books during the Winter, HAHA!
Yeah I hear that from a lot of people, Chamber of Secrets being the weakest in the franchise. So did you end up finishing the book or did you decide not to?
Corey, I finished the book but just didn't continue on with the series. Maybe someday I will give it another try.
Andrea wrote: "Corey, I finished the book but just didn't continue on with the series. Maybe someday I will give it another try."Yeah, that's what I do. If I read a book in a series that I didn't care for I take a break from that series for a while.
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Janie wrote: "You guys I really liked Under the Dome, but don't waste your time with the TV series, I watched a half hour of it and it was really bad. How can you screw up a series so much when you have all the ..."I read the same thing Janie, that usually seems to be the case when they make a movie or miniseries based off one of King's books. Now do you know if it's still airing or if they cancelled it?
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Made some more trips to bookstores and cleaned them out again, HAHA!
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! Can never have too many books!
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Corey I'm listening to Since We Fell! It's strange!
Cassie wrote: "Corey I'm listening to Since We Fell! It's strange!"Oh is it, how so?
I won a book from Goodreads book giveaway! Somehow I missed the email for it and it was a great surprise when my husband came and got me and said I got something from Fed Ex. I won
The Secret Room. It looks really good.
I only bought three books from Amazon in May. *stifled sob*
- Still waiting on postal delivery.
- Already finished it yet. Meh.
Corey wrote: "Made some more trips to bookstores and cleaned them out again, HAHA! , , , [bookcover:S..."So true, Corey! I love your attitude.
I picked up a few books at a yard sale and at my local library sale. A Visit from the Goon Squad, Those Girls, Pippi Longstocking, This Savage Song, The Complete Sherlock Holmes, Volume II, The Complete Sherlock Holmes, Volume I, Doll Bones, Humans, Bow Down, The Husband's Secret, and Get Dirty
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Went to Books-A-Million today and bought Noragami: Stray God, Vol. 9, Black Butler, Vol. 23 and Ghostlight; also had a purchase from Amazon, Shattered Sky (Warriors: A Vision of Shadows, #3), waiting for me when I got home.
A trio of Stephen King books:
Illustarted Limited Edition The Shining, vol III of Cemetery Dance's Stephen King: The Doubleday Years series. Next volume will be Night Shift.
Trade Edition of CD's Gwendy's Button Box and PS Publishing's Illustrated Gold Cover (there's also a Blue Cover) Limited Edition of Night h.
Night Shift is the 7th volume of PS Pub's current King series. Next up, I believe will be a new edition of The Colorado Kid.
And finally, some books to complete my classics challenge:
Great Expectations
Backlands: The Canudos Campaign
The Faerie Queene
Digenes Akrites (Oxford University Press Academic
Monograph Reprints)
I went to Half Price today and bought an interesting selection of books. I wanted to buy some books that would "expand my horizons" or something like that lol. I didn't buy an YA books, but I did buy quite a lot of thriller/horror, but I need to branch out from King in that genre.I Know This Much Is True by Wally Lamb
The Bodies Left Behind by Jeffrey Deaver
Praying for Sleep by Jeffrey Deaver
American Psycho by Brett Easton Ellis
Euphoria by Lily King
Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer
Brain on Fire by Susannah Cahalan
The Bachman Books by Richard Bachman (Stephen King)
Made another trip to Goodwill and my local bookstore, couldn't resist! Here's what I bought,
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Added some more books to my shelf from Goodwill today, Mom and I made a trip out there, they had a big sale looks like, but they left some of the best book choices for me looks like, HAHA! Here's what I got today,
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Corey, it's hard to believe what's left on the shelves! Awesome!
Janelle wrote: "Corey, it's hard to believe what's left on the shelves! Awesome!"I know right!
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