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[Paul]

I know. Its the dream. We have fairly decent bookshelves in our front room though but a private library would be nice.

[Allan]

I have to say that it's very nice indeed! :)

[Allan]

So, it was only on listening to the RTE Roddy Doyle special that I posted about on the podcast thread that I realised that The Woman Who Walked Into Doors was based on the tv series 'Family' that I remember watching many years ago, and which I knew that he wrote.

Looking on Amazon, I was able to get it and its follow up Paula Spencer for less than £2 each with free postage, provided I spent a tenner in total. Basing my last purchase on Sara and Barbara's recommendation, I bought the just published paperback of All That Is Solid Melts into Air.

Not a bad haul for a tenner! :)

[Barbara]

Trelawn wrote: "I absolutely loved Harold Fry! I practically read the whole book on the flight to Berlin. Such a great story."
I listened to it on audiobook and really liked it a lot.
Allan - that's a bargain for Paula Spencer, and glad you got All That Is Solid Melts into Air. I don't recall if you read A Constellation of Vital Phenomena. I suppose one reminds me of the other because of their settings in the former USSR.

[Cathleen]

Allan wrote: "Cathleen wrote: "I had a little bit of time this afternoon, so I went to a used bookstore and found three really good books on teaching, plus
Lies Of Silence, by Brian Moore
[book:L..."

Hi Allan, I don't think I ever replied to this. I remembered you writing about him, so when I saw this book for 3.00, I had to buy it!

[Allan]

Barbara, 'Constellation of Vital Phenomena' was one of my SS gifts from Seraphina, and a book that I absolutely loved-if 'All That Is Solid' is anywhere near as good, I'll be in for a treat!

Cathleen, $3 is a bargain, and around what I've been paying for each of my second hand copies of Moore's novels. I hope you enjoy this one! :)

[Barbara]

Allan wrote: "Barbara, 'Constellation of Vital Phenomena' was one of my SS gifts from Seraphina, and a book that I absolutely loved-if 'All That Is Solid' is anywhere near as good, I'll be in for a treat!

Cathl..."

I rate Constellation a bit higher, but All That Is Solid is really good.
Edited to add: my face to face book club will be reading Constellation in July, but that's when I'll be away.

[Sara]

Allan when Barbara and I read All That Is Solid Melts into Air for our Irish book group, I got it from the library. It was so good that I bought my Dad a copy for his birthday which is today!

[Allan]

Good stuff, Sara-it's been on my radar since you both enjoyed the book, and was the first title I thought of when I saw how cheaply I could get the other two books if buying directly from Amazon, which I usually don't do. I doubt that it'll sit on my tbr shelf for long.

[Barbara]

I just got The Midnight Swimmer and Boston Noir from Paperback Swap today. Then I got online from ABEbooks : Returning to Ourselves: Second Volume of Papers from the John Hewitt Summer School, and another Hewitt title
The Poet's Place: Ulster Literature and Society Essay in Honour of JOhn Hewitt, as well as
A Hell of a Woman: An Anthology of Female Noir.

[Colleen]

I went to Barnes and Noble just to look around and saw a cute little hardcover book (91 pages) The Library of Unrequited Love looks right up my ally ...looked at the price $22.Went home looked at kennys got a paperback new copy for 4.90.I'm also interested in The Dirty Dust: Cré na Cille but that seems pricey everywhere so I think I'll wait on that one

[Sara]

So I recently bought as an "old fashioned" (i.e. on actual CDs not from Audible) Telegraph Avenue. It was only $9.99 though...the equivalent of using an audible credit.

[Kevin]

Well the brother wanted to buy something off Amazon and I was left with no choice but to fill up the rest of the order so that we could get free delivery. It is a burden I must bear as a sibling.
The Eye of the World by Robert Jordan
Goblin Market by Christina Rossetti
Lord Arthur Savile's Crime by Oscar Wilde
It was snowing butterflies by Charles Darwin
Socrates' Defence by Plato
The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
Anthem for Doomed Youth by Wilfred Owen
The Catcher in the Rye
Paper Towns by John Green
The Miniaturist by Jessie Burton
The Book Thief
Maurice by E.M. Forster
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King
All the following are wordsworth classics, so cheap and cheerful.
Emma, Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen.
Moby-Dick; or, The Whale
The Count of Monte Cristo
Wuthering Heights
Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn
Jane Eyre

Went for quantity over quality and with the aim for filling gaps in my reading.

[Paul]

Small order then

[Kevin]

They sent me two copies of Moby Dick and Wuthering Heights, a small bonus.

[Allan]

More to add to that pile then, Kevin!

Sara, I assumed that you had already read the Chabon novel. I have the audiobook and a physical copy-it's an excellent read!

[Trelawn]

Holy Cow Kevin that's a lot of books!

[Kevin]

Some of them are those little black classics from penguin if that's any consolation, Trelawn :)

[Paul]

I tuned him into Parcel Motel a while back for Forbidden Planet. Pice differnfe for UK or Ireland was mental

[Paul]

I recently preordered an upcoming book, World War Moo , which os the sequel to the 2011 Terry Pratchett Pruze winner Apocalypse Cow by Michael Logan. The original didnt get the sucess it might have but I really enjoyed it. It had a certain dark sense of humour which was fun.
I was chatting to the author on the net, he's based in Kenya and he was delighted I loved his book and had preordered the next but as he would never be up this way for a signing he sent very funny book plates for my two books. Nice bit of DIY.
https://twitter.com/Paul_J_P_W/status...

[H]

*looks wistfully through thread* Haven't purchased a new book, physical or kindle since the start of January!

[Trelawn]

That's harsh Heather, how are you holding up? :-) I haven't bought a huge amount but i don't think I could go that long without buying any books.

[Paul]

Poor you. You need a bookshop trip ASAP

[Trelawn]

@ Kevin it's a good haul. Let me know what you think of The Miniaturist and Maurice when you get round to them.You could also do your own classics challenge based on that lot :-)

[Kevin]

I actually forgot one book, shame on me I know, African Folktales.

Emma, I was only joking about the free delivery to try and justify my splurge somewhat :).
Trelawn, it'll probably be a while before I get to them as I've so much to read and not enough hours in the day.

[Trelawn]

That's allowed :-)

[Paul]

Loads more Sanderson booka to get through ;-) The two novellas exclusive to Cons he's at or through his site are up as a set for $20 signed now . They don't come up under signed books ,you have to di a search are look under newly added. $20 for two rare signed Novellas aint bad .

[Kevin]

Is that the Shadows of Silence/ Perfect State? I can't find the signed one, only see the e-book.
A quote from his recent blog post "I’m hard at work on the final book in the trilogy, Calamity. I’ve passed the 50% mark and should finish around the first week of May." What an animal, that he can write the second half of the book in just a few weeks.

[H]

Trelawn, it is so hard! Paul I'm trying to hold out until my 23rd at the end of August!! I was purchasing between 6 and 20 new books a month last year so it's very hard!

[Paul]

In the search bar type in Shadow of Silence it will come up

[Kevin]

Got it. Are you going to put in a sizeable order from that site and not tell Trelawn anything about it?

[Paul]

Ha. She'd find out .

[Barbara]

Kevin wrote: "Well the brother wanted to buy something off Amazon and I was left with no choice but to fill up the rest of the order so that we could get free delivery. It is a burden I must bear as a sibling.
..."

Impressive!

[Trelawn]

I picked up two more classics today, they were 2 for €5. I got The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton and Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Wolff

[Colleen]

Yesterday Dark Hollow came in the mail.Today Academy Street came in the mail and I got a copy of The Mill on the Floss at a second hand bookstore.:)

[Sara]

So I took my next to last trip to the local library today (and the last one where I'll be getting new books instead of just dropping them off) prior to my move.

I made it to the top of the hold list for Brown Girl Dreaming. I've heard good things about this one, but the style is a bit odd. It's a work of middle grade (pre YA) in which the author tells her life story in a series of poems. I also couldn't resist Bohemians which should be a quickish read. Finally, I picked up a hard back of Half of a Yellow Sun. I'm currently reading it as an audiobook, but find myself wanting to read it more quickly than the audiobook format allows me to.

[Trelawn]

When's the move Sara?

[Sara]

April 28th!

[Trelawn]

Wow that's close. Are you moving far from home?

[Allan]

Today I attended the first event I've been to in a long time at No Alibis, the launch of Carlo Gebler's memoir, Confessions of a Catastrophist. He was 'in conversation' with Glenn Patterson, and amongst the things I learned, the most interesting was that Edna O'Brien is actually his mother.

I'm posting here because I bought the book (and got it signed-why not?), as well as buying the debut novel by Belfast born Paul McVeigh, The Good Son, which is also being launched in No Alibis in a fortnight-unfortunately I'll be in Edinburgh when that event is on, though they kept my copy over and are going to get it signed for me as well. :)

[Barbara]

The launch at No Alibis sounds interesting. I haven't read Gebler but have one or two of his books.

[Barbara]

Got The Grapes of Wrath for kindle today, Fourth of July Creek on Audible - their half price sale plus a $10 coupon I earned this month buying 4 audiobooks, meant is cost me a bit more than $3. Yesterday I picked up Blood in the Water for my Kobo e reader for $2.90. At least these aren't books that will take up physical space :)

[Allan]

The Smith Henderson novel is good on audio, Barbara, and that, along with the Steinbeck are two great bargains!

I might have a look through my own wishlist to see if there are any audiobooks worth buying in the sale.

[Seraphina]

Edna o Brien is pattersons mother?

[Seraphina]

Sorry, mis read that
Found an article on it http://m.independent.ie/irish-news/so...

[Barbara]

Seraphina wrote: "Edna o Brien is pattersons mother?"

That would be a hoot and I really was chuckling but not at your expense. Just picturing O'Brien trying to parent Patterson who is quite a handful.

Allan - tomorrow is the last day of the sale:) Prices are half off full retail so in most cases you only save a couple of dollars. But there are some selling for $8 and $9 and as a credit costs $15, that's a savings.

[Allan]

Barbara, your sales pitch persuaded me to purchase A History of Loneliness for $11. :)

[Barbara]

Allan wrote: "Barbara, your sales pitch persuaded me to purchase A History of Loneliness for $11. :)"

Good price!

[Sara]

So for my birthday I spent the afternoon down in D.C. having lunch and going to the National Museum of American History (pictures on the General thread later). In the museum shop I picked upComic Art Propaganda: A Graphic History. I also went to another cute bookstore in D.C., but managed to avoid buying anything.

[Kevin]

Lá Breithe Sona! You only bought one book for your birthday? Sara, that is some show of restraint.