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[Maggie]

I went when it was 50% and it was getting slim then, so you're lucky to have found so many!

[Jensownzoo]

For that price, I wasn't nearly as discriminate as I usually am. I figure if I don't like something, then I'll swap it and get something better.

[Amelia]

Man, I'm way jealous of you Jensownzoo. I don't even have a Borders to go to. They'd all been closed the last time and I didn't make it there either. The closest one was still about an hour and a half drive away and I just never had the time.

[Jensownzoo]

One of the advantages of living in a large city. I have three within 30 minutes and another 3 within an hour of me. We only lost one during the first round of closings.

[Amelia]

I wish I had just one good B&M bookstore close-by. There's a Hastings close, but books aren't it's biggest priority. Congrats on the haul in any case!

[Maggie]

I had a friend who used to work at a Hastings, and I was always amazed at the vast amounts of Chrsitian literature at that store....

[Stefan, Group Founder + Moderator (Retired)]

I just received a Big Fat Review Copy of Reamde by Neal Stephenson. Anyone else insanely excited about this book? I doubt I'll get it read and reviewed by Tuesday though...

[Kevin]

I just picked up a copy of Fool's Fate today at the local Barnes and Nobles.

[Joel]

stopped by for the final day at my favorite borders (r.i.p.) to pick up some stuff at 90 percent off, including:

City of Ruin
The Steel Remains
The Winds of Khalakovo
Miserere: An Autumn Tale
The Habitation of the Blessed
Yarn
The Fecund's Melancholy Daughter
The Hammer
Trouble and Her Friends
Lilith's Brood
Agent to the Stars
The Secret History of Moscow
Triumff: Her Majesty's Hero
Blue Adept
The Gospel According to Larry
Into the Wild Nerd Yonder

i got an extra 15 percent off for buying six items +. the total for 16 books (most of them trade paperbacks) came to around $18. the guy in front of me in line had $10 in gift cards he didn't want so my total out of pocket was $8. my receipt says i saved $187.

i had a short chat with the bookseller who checked me out. i said i would miss stopping by on my lunchbreaks every week. she seemed fairly upbeat, considering all the hell they must have had to go through over the last month or so (and had a big stack of titles for herself behind the register). hope everyone lands on their feet - good booksellers shouldn't suffer for the mistakes of upper management.

[Ken]

Stefan wrote: "I just received a Big Fat Review Copy of Reamde by Neal Stephenson. Anyone else insanely excited about this book? "

I am. Wont be able to read it till Jan though. I have a backlist of books to read. Sawyer, Wilson, Jordan and a couple of others

[Kevin]

Joel wrote: "stopped by for the final day at my favorite borders (r.i.p.) to pick up some stuff at 90 percent off, including:

City of Ruin
The Steel Remains
[book:The Winds of Kha..."

Wow, nice story!

[Mike (the Paladin)]

Just got an Abe books shipment, and picked up one from Book Attic (my favorite used book store): Black Light, The 47th Samurai, I, Sniper, Night Of Thunder, Time To Hunt.

[Kathi, Moderator & Book Lover]

Joel wrote: "stopped by for the final day at my favorite borders (r.i.p.) to pick up some stuff at 90 percent off, ..."

Great story... both your list and the books someone else found this late in the Borders' sale are amazing to me. Glad there were some good finds!

[Jensownzoo]

Received Oryx and Crake in a swap this week. Hopefully can read it soon!

[Traci]

I'm really into old science fiction books and yesterday at my used book store I found The Time of the Dark, The Fallible Fiend, Dragonrouge, The Hunter Out of Time, Dinosaur Planet, The Tree of Swords and Jewels, and Hunter of Worlds.

[Joel]

Kathi wrote: "Great story... both your list and the books someone else found this late in the Borders' sale are amazing to me. Glad there were some good finds! "

I admit I was very surprised at the selection in sf/f at those discount levels. There were quite a few titles I picked up and put down at 60, 70, even 80 percent off that stayed on the shelves.

The literary fiction and YA sections were much more picked over. I only got a few non sci-fi books at 90 percent off.

[Jensownzoo]

More swaps:

[Sarah]

Baltimore Book Festival was this weekend.
I won a nice looking anthology at the SFWA booth's book cover bingo event: Future Media.

I found Cordelia's Honor, The Strange Affair of Spring Heeled Jack, and a Nebula anthology for a combined total of $1.

I bought How Like a God directly from Brenda Clough after her panel.

And the only book I had gone with the intent to buy: Steampunk!: An Anthology of Fantastically Rich and Strange Stories. I'm a little sick of steampunk but I liked that Link & Grant went out of their way to solicit stories that are not set in Victorian London.

[Shannon]

Just bought Daughter of Smoke and Bone and Blackbringer by Laini Taylor and A Conspiracy of Kings by Megan Whalen Turner.

[Kevin]

I just got most of the Bantam Star War novels from the 90s.

[Ken]

I went out in the rain today and picked up a couple


Cryoburn
Reamde: A Novel

[Ken]

I have been looking at this book for a while. It looks interesting

Moscow, December 25th, 1991

[Ken]

Picked up a couple of books this week...so far
The Spartacus War

I am on Vacation this week and have been enjoying
some Matinee movies at the theater and today while I was watching Moneyball (Good movie BTW) and I saw a trailer for this book. Had to pick it up
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

[Michele]

My neighbor is moving away and gave me piles of books. One of them was Dune, which I've never read. Should I ?

[Shel, Moderator]

YES! It's dense and I didn't understand it the first time I read it (ok, I was in high school at the time) but upon re-reading as an adult I loved it.

[Maggie]

Dune is like the top rated sci-fi book in a lot of people's opinion! Definitely go for it

[Michele]

thanks!...although it will be awhile as I've got a long list of books to read now, some of them work-related (I'm a kids' librarian).

[Ken]

Picked up Smiley's People

[Kerry]

Yay, I just got my copy of Initiate's Trial in the mail (and my Kindle copy should download tonight or in the morning). It is so pretty, I just want to stroke it. But I barely dare look at it as I'm still only halfway through Peril's Gate and I don't want to risk spoiling myself.

[Sandra]

Kerry wrote: "Yay, I just got my copy of Initiate's Trial in the mail (and my Kindle copy should download tonight or in the morning). It is so pretty, I just want to stroke it. But I barely dare l..."

Me, too! Me, too! And I've already read the copy I got from Kobo! It's awesome.

[Kerry]

Sandra aka Sleo wrote: "
Me, too! Me, too! And I've already read the copy I got from Kobo! It's awesome.

Don't tease! I'm in the middle of the latest book by my favourite author (Carnelians by Catherine Asaro) and I keep getting interrupted when I just want to be left alone to read it. (Right now my son is insisting I play a game with him.) When I get some space to myself to finish that, then it'll be back to Peril's Gate

P.S. Yay, he's been distracted by his computer and I'm going to be a bad parent and leave him to it. Back to my book!

P.P.S. My Kindle version of Initiate's Trial has just been delivered. It's happy new book feeling all round.

[Sandra]

:D

[Pickle]

Ive just bought Dark Force Rising and The Last Command, after being so impressed with the first book Heir to the Empire

[Kelly]

Kerry wrote: "Sandra aka Sleo wrote: "
Me, too! Me, too! And I've already read the copy I got from Kobo! It's awesome.

Don't tease! I'm in the middle of the latest book by my favourite author (Carnelians..."</i>

I just finished [book:Carnelians. I really enjoyed it. Now I've picked up another Stross novel, Singularity Sky

[Jim]

Helen wrote: "Hélène wrote: "Helen wrote: "Hélène wrote:."

I think I'm getting dizzy. :)

[Helen]

lol!

[Kevin]

Today I went to the monthly end of the month book sale at the local library. I got the whole eight books in the Ender's Series, along with Dragonlance Chronicles and Dragonlance the Lost Chronicles along with Nightmare and Dreamscape, Cujo, The Gunslinger, The Dead Zone, Needful Things, It, A Fire Upon the Deep, The Second, Seventh, Ninth Wild Cards, with the Illustrated Man and Something Wicked This Way Comes, along lastly with Armor, Battlefield Earth, The Path of Daggers, The Runelords, and Night Mare.

[Sandra]

Kevin wrote: "Today I went to the monthly end of the month book sale at the local library. I got the whole eight books in the Ender's Series, along with Dragonlance Chronicles and Dragonlance the Lost Chronicles..."

Good grief! I got City of Bones for 2.95 in ebook form from B&N. And had to get the 2nd and 3rd in the Riddlemaster Trilogy from Audible.

[Kevin]

Sandra aka Sleo wrote: "Kevin wrote: "Today I went to the monthly end of the month book sale at the local library. I got the whole eight books in the Ender's Series, along with Dragonlance Chronicles and Dragonlance the L..."

You can't beat the price, all for just $3!

[Sandra]

Kevin wrote: "Sandra aka Sleo wrote: "Kevin wrote: "Today I went to the monthly end of the month book sale at the local library. I got the whole eight books in the Ender's Series, along with Dragonlance Chronicl..."

Nope. And I paid that for one book.

[Kerry]

What's the narrator like for the Riddle-Master books?

[Jon]

Sandra aka Sleo wrote: "Good grief! I got City of Bones for 2.95 in ebook form from B&N."

Too bad I already own it in paperback. :(

[Sandra]

Kerry wrote: "What's the narrator like for the Riddle-Master books?"

They have Simon Prebble for the first and last and a woman, Fionna something for the middle. They're both very good.

[Sandra]

Jon wrote: "Sandra aka Sleo wrote: "Good grief! I got City of Bones for 2.95 in ebook form from B&N."

Too bad I already own it in paperback. :("

I've gotten so that I can hardly read paperbacks unless they have decent sized print.

[Kathi, Moderator & Book Lover]

Kevin wrote: "Today I went to the monthly end of the month book sale at the local library. I got the whole eight books in the Ender's Series, along with Dragonlance Chronicles and Dragonlance the Lost Chronicles..."

Wow! That's quite a haul!

[Ken]

Picked up some books over the weekend

All Clear
The Children of the Sky
Moneyball

[Ken]

Came home and my book from Amazon uk arrived.
Book two of the revised Chung Kuo series.

Daylight on Iron Mountain

[Kevin]

Bought the new Brandon Sanderson and Christopher Paolini books that came out today.

[Kevin]

Just got the Alloy of Law and Inheritance from Amazon today.

[Kathi, Moderator & Book Lover]

Picked up one of the short story collections that has a War of Light and Shadow story in it, the 2nd and 3rd books in the Stormlord trilogy by Glenda Larke and some random books by Catherine Asaro, Jack McDevitt, Barbara Hambly, Penman Sharon, Mercedes Lackey, and others...