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[Kevin]

I just got "The Tales of Chekhov Volume 7, The Bishop & Other Stories". That completes my Ecco Press collection.

[Tony]

I just purchased on Ebay - The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

[Lynn]

For 2022 I tried to read books I already owned or that I could obtain for free online. In the last two weeks, I have been using Bookbub to buy discount Kindle books. I also ordered one physical book. My list is rather eclectic:


Kindle

Lady Audley's Secret by Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1800s)
Thérèse Raquin by Émile Zola (1800s)
A Son at the Front by Edith Wharton (1923)

The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich (2020)
Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro (2021)
Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman (1995)
A Land More Kind Than Home by Wiley Cash (2012)

Physical book
American Gothic Tales an anthology

[Luffy Sempai]

Lynn wrote: "For 2022 I tried to read books I already owned or that I could obtain for free online. In the last two weeks, I have been using Bookbub to buy discount Kindle books. I also ordered one physical boo..."

You have great chances of enjoying most of these. Well chosen 😉

[Lynn]

Luffy wrote: "Lynn wrote: "For 2022 I tried to read books I already owned or that I could obtain for free online. In the last two weeks, I have been using Bookbub to buy discount Kindle books. I also ordered one..."

Thanks! I hope so.

[Katy, Old School Classics]

Picked up The Nature of Oaks: The Rich Ecology of Our Most Essential Native Trees by Douglas W. Tallamy and A Song for Arbonne by Guy Gavriel Kay this month.

[Laurie]

Yesterday I picked up Deerbrook by Harriet Martineau and The Three Sisters by May Sinclair. I've never read anything by either of these authors so I will try to read these two next year.

[Squire]

Ordered Centennial last Saturday. Of course, it got to my city's distribution center on Friday. Then it sat there all weekend. Tomorrow it will travel 4 miles to the local office. Where it will sit. Then, I should get it one Tuesday. Gotta love USPS!

[Darren]

hot off press paperback edition of 2022 Robert Chandler translation of Vasily Grossman's 1942 The People Immortal

[Wreade1872]

My print-on-demand experiment has reached fruition. I tried a hardback copy, with leather spine and corners, shipped all the way from india, free postage.
Cost €21, but i have my eye on a couple more by the same author that will be around €25 each. Anyway after an interminable wait it finally arrived, ordered it in late september but it was within the delivery time estimate they gave.

Anyway here it is,

bit taller than i would like but all PoD books tend to be, i guess they have problems resizing


spine title is a little wonky and some gold leaf stained the middle of a letter, also the first couple of pages have an line indentation from something. There's also a bit of staining from something on the last couple of pages, very, very minor, i just mention these things as the whole has a quite human made feel and as such i'm willing to forgive any discrepancies more so than if it felt like a machine made them.

Only real annoyance is the paper is super see through, not only can i see the reverse of a page but also the next page after that.

Still, the annoyance of the transparency wore off pretty quick and the paper still seems strong despite its diaphanousness. Overall, great, well pleased, more than worth the money and time, and might buy several more. Got it though S N Books World on abe. The insert page says printed by Pranava Books.

[Luffy Sempai]

Wreade1872 wrote: "My print-on-demand experiment has reached fruition. I tried a hardback copy, with leather spine and corners, shipped all the way from india, free postage.
Cost €21, but i have my eye on a couple m..."

Seems like India made some progress in the raw paper it uses. It used to be much rougher than what the pics show. Congrats on the transaction!

[Sara, New School Classics]

I promised myself no more books until I have read a least most of the ones I have already invested in. Despite my resolve, and after several weeks of saying "NO" to myself, I have now purchased Wendell Berry's latest How It Went: Thirteen More Stories of the Port William Membership. What the heck, you only live once.

[Greg]

Sara wrote: "I promised myself no more books until I have read a least most of the ones I have already invested in. Despite my resolve, and after several weeks of saying "NO" to myself, I have now purchased Wen..."

:D

I do really like Wendell Berry, though I haven't read that one yet.

[Lori]

Sara wrote: "I promised myself no more books until I have read a least most of the ones I have already invested in. Despite my resolve, and after several weeks of saying "NO" to myself, I have now purchased Wen..."

Well, I caved on that one already and did the preorder. You can’t go wrong with a favorite! You’ll love it, I know!

[Terry]

Sara, Greg and Lori — I also failed this week and bought The Boy in the Striped Pajamas and Pilgrim at Tinker Creek. I was in Portsmouth VA working on a project, staying in Norfolk, and there was this cute little independent bookstore just down the street… (sigh, I have no will power.)

[Peter]

Willpower is for quitters. ;-)

[Katy, Old School Classics]

Peter wrote: "Willpower is for quitters. ;-)"

Especially when it comes to buying books.

[Sara, New School Classics]

Oh, Terry, I would be hopeless if I walked into a bookstore. I cannot even stop myself from buying them online. I miss the days of Border's, the smell of new books and ink and the feel of crisp pages and new dust jackets as you pondered over which treasure to take home.

[Greg]

Terry wrote: "Sara, Greg and Lori — I also failed this week and bought The Boy in the Striped Pajamas and Pilgrim at Tinker Creek. I was in Portsmouth VA working on a project, staying in Norfolk, and there was t..."

Hope you enjoy it Terry! And it's a good thing to support independent bookstores; so that maybe makes it a bit better? :D

[Paula W]

I found an online thrift store where I can buy basically any book you can think of for less than $5. So, yeah that’s where I am right now. I bought so many books… I’m ashamed of myself.

[Katy, Old School Classics]

I have finished all of my Christmas shopping, so I thought, "Hey, I can buy myself a book." And I did.

[Amyjzed]

Recently bought:
1. They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us by poet Hanif Abdurraqib — “a collection of essays about music, race, and life in modern America.”
2. Pathetic Literature by poet Eileen Myles — anthology with works by Beckett, Brooks, and contemporary writers— “a wide-ranging but deeply focused reading list linked by the concept of pathos.”

[Richard]

I'm about halfway through Nostromo, by Joseph Conrad. I'm spending next week in the Canaries escaping Christmas, and will probably indulge my French literary habit, either with Therese Raquin by Emile Zola, or with Madame Bovary, by Gustave Flaubert.

[Squire]

Worked all night Saturday night. Got home, went o bed; was asleep for a little more than an hour when my phone screeched at me with an ad from Centipede Press:



I'm a sucker for special edition King books and they don't last long. So sometime in early 2023, I should get it in the mails.

It wasn't cheap. I could have gotten 3 or 4 new hardcovers for the price of the unsigned edition, but like I said. I'm a sucker for these things. lol

Can't put a link to it in here, but googling "Centipede Press The Long Walk" will get you there.

[Teri-K]

I just ordered A Month in the Country through Abe books because I wanted this cover:
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I don't buy a lot of books and I seldom care about the cover. But having an idea what the book is about, this one felt right. The more common cover is very orangey and looks like it should be set in Italy. I just didn't care for it.

[RJ - Slayer of Trolls]

Teri-K wrote: "I just ordered A Month in the Country through Abe books because I wanted this cover:
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I don't buy a lot of books and I seldom care about the..."

Good pick. I like those Penguin Modern Classics covers.

[Teri-K]

The right cover can set the mood for me before I open the book. This one looks like English countryside.

[Darren]

Teri-K wrote: "I just ordered A Month in the Country through Abe books because I wanted this cover:
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I don't buy a lot of books and I seldom care about the..."

I originally got this as a Kindle, but loved it so much that I had to own a physical copy, and I too chose this one for the cover!

[Kimberly]

Sara wrote: "Oh, Terry, I would be hopeless if I walked into a bookstore. I cannot even stop myself from buying them online. I miss the days of Border's, the smell of new books and ink and the feel of crisp pag..."

I really miss the days of Borders since it started in Ann Arbor and I was fortunate enough to visit the original store. It had creaky, uneven floors that were covered with well-worn rugs. It smelled of books and I loved it. I could spend hours there (and many dollars).

for more about Borders: https://bookmanspage.files.wordpress....

http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/09/12/firs...

[Peter]

OK, who got that one book for Christmas that they’ve been dreaming about?

[Tom]

Peter wrote: "OK, who got that one book for Christmas that they’ve been dreaming about?"

I got The Passenger, by Cormac McCarthy. I've been looking forward to reading it this month.

[Kimberly]

I purchase mostly non-fiction books that I hope to read and are too long for me to complete within the borrow-time given by the public library. I've started buying used books to have less guilt about the buying and marking in them. Unfortunately, used books take up the same amount of space as new books.

I just received in the mail Dunant's Dream: War, Switzerland, and the History of the Red Cross. Wow! The print is small.

[Paula W]

Peter wrote: "OK, who got that one book for Christmas that they’ve been dreaming about?"

Please don’t think I’m weird. Please.

But I’m a science and history nerd. A few years ago, I read a book called The Big Necessity: The Unmentionable World of Human Waste and Why It Matters, which is a nonfiction book that is basically about how the “global water crisis” is really a poop crisis. Civilizations that can’t properly contain and dispose of sewage can’t have fresh, drinkable water. When you hear of people raising funds for clean water, they are actually raising funds for poop. This book explains this, and how developing countries are now using funds and assistance to create waste containment and treatment facilities to bring their communities and nations out of poverty and into the modern era. I loved It. I told everyone about it.

So, for Christmas my sister got me Salt: A World History. Different author, but same nerdy vibe. The blurb says this: “In his fifth work of nonfiction, Mark Kurlansky turns his attention to a common household item with a long and intriguing history: salt. The only rock we eat, salt has shaped civilization from the very beginning, and its story is a glittering, often surprising part of the history of humankind. A substance so valuable it served as currency, salt has influenced the establishment of trade routes and cities, provoked and financed wars, secured empires, and inspired revolutions. Populated by colorful characters and filled with an unending series of fascinating details, Salt is a supremely entertaining, multi-layered masterpiece.”

I cant wait to read it!

[Falan]

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë
Gillette by Charlotte Brontë


I am very excited for all of these!

[Darren]

I got 2 pressies for crimbo (Thanks Helen!): Romain Gary's The Life Before Us (which just got its English translation re-issued for the first time since 1986!), and the final part of Magnus Mills's Sunbathers trilogy Mistaken for Sunbathers
plus I chose a couple myself with money I was given: Melville translation of Ovid's Metamorphoses, and Fagles translation of The Aeneid (in Penguin Deluxe edition with the deckled edge!)

[Squire]

Stumbled upon another back-alley used bookstore yesterday and found a copy of Genesis by Hermann Gunkel still in the original shrinkwrap. Then I got The Aleph and Other Stories 1933-1969 (Di Giovanni/Borges translation, not Hurley) in the mail.

[Laurie]

I went to my city library book sale yesterday for the first time. It was fantastic with such inexpensive books and I don't know why I haven't gone before. I picked up:

Have read and loved
The Age of Innocence
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

Have not read
Felix Holt: The Radical
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
The Good Earth
The House on the Strand
The Razor's Edge
Tales of the City
The End of the Affair
City of Night
U.S.A
Family Matters

[Bob, Short Story Classics]

Looks like a nice haul. I haven’t been to a library sale is several years, a good place to get good books cheap, while still helping the library.

[Teri-K]

Laurie wrote: "I went to my city library book sale yesterday for the first time. It was fantastic with such inexpensive books and I don't know why I haven't gone before. I picked up:
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I love library book sales! When we lived near Memphis we would drive to their book sale every year - room after room of books for sale. We could get really hard to find books there. Since then I've moved to an area that sells their books through a small store, only open two hours a week, when I can't go. So sad. Still, I'm trying to avoid overbuying books, so that helps.

I ordered a few used books for one of the grandkids, and threw in Dissolution by C.J. Sansom. It arrived yesterday, and I'm enjoying it so far. It's the first in a series I've wanted to try for a long time.

[CindySR]

I just picked up clean copies of A Gentleman in Moscow: A Novel and The Lincoln Highway for the same price as a dozen eggs. 😁

[Paula W]

I found out a few months ago that my city has a thrift bookstore. 🫣😫

[Kimberly]

I recently ordered a used copy of The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle from Amazon. Prior to that I picked up a copy of The Quiet American at my library's ongoing used-book sale for 50 cents.

[James]

I loved the Wind-up Bird Chronicle very strange but good.

[Linda R,]

I borrowed Nobel Prize Winner Saul Bellow's book "The Adventures of Augie March." The library marked it as a classic book.

[Darren]

Linda R, wrote: "I borrowed Nobel Prize Winner Saul Bellow's book "The Adventures of Augie March." The library marked it as a classic book."

I hope it is a classic cos I'll be reading it next month!

[Kevin]

I just got The Bell Jar and How the World Really Works: A Scientist's Guide to Our Past, Present and Future

[James]

I just received The Passenger and Stella Maris both by Cormac McCarthy.

[Teri-K]

I just received:
The Five Orange Pips and Other Cases by Arthur Conan Doyle
Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope
I'm reading the Doyle, but Barchester will have to wait a bit, till I finish some others. I wanted to try the Oxford World editions, and found it in like new condition for half price, so I grabbed it.

[RJ - Slayer of Trolls]

I went to a "Little Free Library" in my neighborhood and was astonished to pick up a copy in good condition of


Collected Stories by Roald Dahl

Pretty amazing what you can pick up for free at those Little Free Libraries.

[Paula W]

You guys, I did a bad thing. I went to my local used bookstore today. I spent $50 but got 12 books for that price, all in good to excellent condition. I love rescuing dogs, but also previously loved books. I need to figure out a way to stay out of that store for at least a few months as I have learned to only visit the animal shelter 3-4 times per year.