New Purchases - 2016

[Mariab]

Kristie wrote: "I also picked up The Song of Achilles for 99⍧ on Kindle because someone somewhere informed me of the sale.

Lisa wrote: "I hope you enjoy The Song of Achilles, Kristie. It's one of my favourite books."

Peggy wrote: "I loved it too!"

I liked it very much too

[Rusalka, Moderator]

So I went to the book dealer the other day to pick up a replacement Argentina book
The Honorary Consul
Also got
The Paying Guests and
Dogstar Rising But found out that it was the second in the series. So came home and went through my online bookshop and found the first one on special,
The Golden Scales. Parker Bilal
and then grabbed these specials as well:
The Bean Trees
The Knights of Breton Court
The Daylight Gate
The Hand of Fatima
Half of a Yellow Sun

And I forgot to report I got Speaking Out: A 21st-Century Handbook for Women and Girls from the meet the author event the other day too.

[Lisa]

Nice, Rusalka!

[Mariab]

I got:

It's Just a Jump to the Left...: The Unauthorized Guide to Occult Symbolism in the Rocky Horror Picture Show
The Cornbread Bible: A Recipe Storybook
History: Modern History in 50 Events: From the Industrial Revolution to the Present (World History, History Books, People History)
...yes, I know, I don't need new books. I won't read them all in my lifetime.
(I want them still...)

[Camilla]

I will not admit how many books I have as ebooks...

[Rusalka, Moderator]

I am so Gollum.

[Janice, Moderator]

As Gollum says, "It's ours, Precious."

[Cherie]

I shopped at Costco yesterday and stopped to look over the book tables. I bought Me Before You and Year of Wonders.

[Trudy]

Because I enjoyed On the Shores of Darkness, There Is Light: A Novel by Cordelia Strube so much, I bought Lemon and Teaching Pigs to Sing. Plus, Midwives by Chris Bohjalian, which has been on my TBR list for awhile. Three books totalling $10, with free shipping, from AbeBooks.

[Cherie]

I just bought a couple of ebooks from B &N that were on sale today for $1.99. Where the Heart Is and The Storyteller. The first one was made into a movie.

[CFDeeDee]

I was planning to buy books online .. But didn't wantto endup with used books -the kind you feel its so dirty and dusty- so I went to a small ""books"" shopping ..

The Diary of a Young Girl
Shadow of Night
The Cuckoo's Calling

And

Atlas of Human Anatomy for the Artist

No more books shopping for me :P

[Lisa]

I bought:

Vinegar Girl

The Essex Serpent

Barkskins

I also preordered The Muse

[Renee]

Lisa wrote: "I bought:

Vinegar Girl

The Essex Serpent

Barkskins [bookcover:Barkskins|2..."


Anne TYler has a new book? I want it now!

[Lisa]

Renee wrote: "Anne TYler has a new book? I want it now!"

She does indeed. It's part of the Hogarth Shakespeare series and it's a retelling of 'The Taming of the Shrew'.

[Roz]

I've bought a few books over the past month or so, feeding the Kindle.

Pope Joan
Golden Age
The Bone Collector
The Red Tent
The Last Woman Standing: A Novel
Lost Horizon
The Witch of Napoli
The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax
A Death in Vienna
The Storyteller
Frog Music
Middle Age: A Romance
The Eye of the World

Most of them were $1.99, maybe a couple were $2.99.

[Janice, Moderator]

There are some great titles there Roz.

I must not go running to Amazon. I must behave myself.

[Mariab]

I bought Conan: The Definitive Collection

[Roz]

That made me smile, Mariab. Made me think of "the Arnold".

[Mariab]

Roz wrote: "That made me smile, Mariab. Made me think of "the Arnold"."
Yeah... There is the only one

[Lisa]

I am currently reading Of Love and Other Demons for the toppler and really enjoying it so I decided to buy some more books by Márquez:

One Hundred Years of Solitude

Love in the Time of Cholera

[Mariab]

Lisa wrote: "I am currently reading Of Love and Other Demons for the toppler and really enjoying it so I decided to buy some more books by Márquez:.."

One Hundred Years of Solitude is a good book (I think you would enjoy, because is almost a medieval tale in the 19-20 century), but is very long and also a little barroque

Love in the Time of Cholera is a more light read, with a prose which flow like a gentle waterfall.

[Cherie]

I loved Love in the Time of Cholera and read it three times (Twice back to back.)

I have yet to finish One Hundred Years of Solitude even after a buddy read and a 2nd go at it. I keep getting lost and put it down before I get to the end. The 2nd run at it was better, but I gave it up for something else.

I still want to read the one you just finished.

[Janice, Moderator]

I picked up Somebody tell Aunt Tillie She's Dead for free on iBooks today. Apparently, it's available for free on Kindle too.

[Cherie]

ebooks - I bought Howl's Moving Castle and The Devil's Star and a Collector's volume of The Scarlet Pimpernel and Seven Other Stories that is not on GR. It includes audio books. I am dying to figure out how that works on my Nook Tablet. I normally listen to my audio books on my iPod.

[Roz]

I fought The Alchemyst today. I saw that you loved the entire series, Cherie. It was quite an endorsement.

[Janice, Moderator]

I got Children of Earth and Sky and The Night Sister yesterday. Both were on sale with iBooks and Kindle.

[Janice, Moderator]

My pre-order of Age of Myth came in today. Plus, I downloaded The Curse of Tenth Grave which was also released today.

[Kristie, Moderator]

I got the Audible daily deals yesterday and today: Ashley Bell and George.

[Lisa]

I bought:

The Dust that Falls from Dreams

The Museum of You

[Kristie, Moderator]

Lily and the Octopus is on sale for Kindle on Amazon today for $1.99. I just picked it up.

[Lisa]

I picked up:

End of Watch

Foxlowe

[Janice, Moderator]

I have no more credits at Audible left after downloading Lover Mine (focused on finishing the series). Good thing my membership renews this month.

I also got yesterday's daily deal at Audible, The Curse of Jacob Tracy, and one of Kindle's July's deals, Roses and Rot.

[Amanda (Mandy)]

I had some credits at Barnes & Noble so I picked up a new series.

The Sword of Shannara
The Elfstones of Shannara
The Wishsong of Shannara

I recently just watched the show and wanted to read the books.

[Cherie]

Great choices, Amanda! I loved the original series.

[Roz]

So far this month I've bought these for my kindle.

Vienna Nocturne
Random Harvest (love the movie)
A God in Ruins

[Gavin]

Books I've bought over the last few months:
End of Watch
The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Rendezvous with Rama
Rendezvous with Rama
Complete Works of William Shakespeare
The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe
Cabal
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

[Renee]

I love Terry Brooks Shannara series. He write in the same world over different time periods. When he runs out of stories with on group he starts stories with their ancestors or descendants. I like this. Some of my series I stop because I feel the poor char has had enough. Their was a Tv series base on one of the earlier books. I had read the book almost 20 years ago. It brought back good memories. It was on MTV.

Amanda (Mandy) wrote: "I had some credits at Barnes & Noble so I picked up a new series.

The Sword of Shannara
The Elfstones of Shannara
The Wishsong of Shannara

I recently just..."

[Janice, Moderator]

I picked up Perdido Street Station on today's Kindle Deal.

[Cherie]

I bought The Murder of Roger Ackroyd for my series quest because it was the Monday Daily Deal.
I also bought these for my Geo Challenge:
The Orenda
People of the Whale
A High Wind in Jamaica
Trail of Broken Wings
King of Cuba and
The Coroner's Lunch and another series started...

[Lisa]

Great haul, Cherie! I really loved The Orenda. I hope you enjoy it too.

[Cherie]

Lisa wrote: "Great haul, Cherie! I really loved The Orenda. I hope you enjoy it too."

I hope so too, Lisa. It was the most expensive one I bought. I have been trying to keep my book purchases down. I already own so many, but they don't seem to fit anywhere. (Actually, many do, but I am on the last phase of the Geo challenge and I have already read one book where many of the others that I own fit, but are not needed any longer.)

[Cherie]

Janice wrote: "I picked up Perdido Street Station on today's Kindle Deal."

I saw that one too, but I already bought it in paperback. :)

[Amanda (Mandy)]

Renee wrote: "I love Terry Brooks Shannara series. He write in the same world over different time periods. When he runs out of stories with on group he starts stories with their ancestors or descendants. I like ..."

I am excited to read them, but am not sure when I actually will. I have a few books ahead of them.

[Lisa]

I bought:

Letters from Skye

Fortune's Rocks

Bodies of Water

[Cherie]

I saw Letters from Skye on someone's review. I will be interested to hear what you think of it. I have it on my TBR list.

[Lisa]

Cherie wrote: "I saw Letters from Skye on someone's review. I will be interested to hear what you think of it. I have it on my TBR list."

I will let you know, Cherie. I'm hoping it will be good. It came up as a recommendation because I enjoyed The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society so hopefully it will be along those lines.

[Lisa]

I preordered Nevernight in an exclusive hardback edition from Waterstones.

[Janice, Moderator]

It sounds interesting, Lisa. I've added it to my wishlist.

I picked up both SYNC offerings yesterday -
Fat Angie
On the Jellicoe Road

[Cherie]

I hope you like On the Jellicoe Road, Janice. I started listening to the audio at first, but I was pretty new to audio books and could not understand what was going on. I switched to the printed version and loved it. The narrator has a wonderful voice and accent. This was one of the first books I read when I first joined the group and was working on the Rainbow Challenge. :o)

[Kristie, Moderator]

I picked up both of those through SYNC this week too, Janice. :)