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Apr 01, 2012 07:42AM
Excellent set of books.
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I just got yesterday:3 copies of The Alienist
Black Sun Rising
Running with the Demon
Child of Flame
2 copies of The Burning Stone
Winter's Tale
Crown of Shadows
Dragons of a Vanished Moon
Dragons of a Fallen Sun
Brotherhood of the Wolf
Valentine Pontifex
Rogue Moon
another copy of:
The Wishsong of Shannara
Speaker for the Dead
Xenocide
Children of the Mind
Children of Dune
Magician
The Mote in God's Eye
Brave New World
Colors of Chaos
Harpy Thyme
Heaven Cent
The Color of Her Panties
Flowers for Algernon
The Runelords: The Sum of All Men
Moving Mars: A Novel
Fantastic Voyage
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Anthem
The Two Towers: The Lord Of The Rings: Part Two
2010: Odyssey Two
2061: Odyssey Three
All for only $2
Shel wrote: "I hope you will pop in on the group discussions and comment when you read them!"Well I am sitting here staring at them sitting on my desk. Not sure if I want to start the series now or wait till Janny finishes writing the whole series and then dive in.
Next to that stack is the remaining books of the Camloud series by Jack Whyte and I have Erikson's mutant series.
Too many books I want to read
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3 copies of The Alienist
Black Sun Rising
Running with the Demon
Child of Flame
2 copies of [book:The Burning Stone|202..."
WOW! All for $2? I need to shop where you shop!
Kevin wrote: "I just got yesterday:3 copies of The Alienist
Black Sun Rising
Running with the Demon
Child of Flame
2 copies of [book:The Burning Stone|202..."
Nice haul, Kevin!
I went to drop off some of my used books at the bookstore and saw a copy of Jack of Shadows that I grabbed for the next read!
Candiss wrote: "Kevin wrote: "I just got yesterday:3 copies of The Alienist
Black Sun Rising
Running with the Demon
Child of Flame
2 copies of [book:The Bur..."
Yeah after getting those I dropped off my collection of random really unknown science fiction from authors I never heard of or read from the mid 80s and my collections of Agatha Christie books at a local donation box. There was probably well over 80 books.
I went to the Book Launch of Robert J. Sawyers new book. Listened to a reading by the author, enjoyed a couple of pints of Beer and picked a copy of the new bookTriggers
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Picked up a couple of booksLegacy of Ashes: the History of the CIA
On The Spartacus Road: a Journey Through Ancient Italy
I just got from a library book sale that I passed by today:When Gravity Fails
A Fire in the Sun
The Exile Kiss
The Big U
Interface
The Cobweb
The Man With the Golden Torc
A Walk on the Nightside
Make Room! Make Room!
Night Watch
Hex and the City
Paths Not Taken
Sharper Than a Serpent's Tooth
Belgarath the Sorcerer
Polgara the Sorceress
Childhood's End
all for ten dollars
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Picked up a couple of booksShootin' the Shit with Kevin Smith: The Best of the SModcast
Tough Shit: Life Advice from a Fat, Lazy Slob Who Did Good
Fuzzy Nation
I picked more stuff today:Another Copy of:
The Subtle Knife
The Dragon Reborn
The Shadow Rising
The Fires of Heaven
Mossflower
Mattimeo
Ordermaster
Assassin's Apprentice
Royal Assassin
Assassin's Quest
The only book I did not own:
Dies the Fire
All for $2
Gotta love the internet. Surfing around last week and discovered that Mary Gentle has a new book out. Being the bookie that I am I rushed down to my book store and they hadn't heard about it. She ordered a couple of copies and I picked mine up yesterday.The Black Opera
She thanked me because when they came in they sold out.
On a side note, I didn't even realize I had another Gentle book on my shelf that I haven't read yet. Too many books here.
I just pre-ordered Redshirts: A Novel with Three Codas. Although, with my huge tbr, I dont know when I will actually READ it...
The second you get it! That is an automatic bump up to the very tip top of your tbr ;)
Well I didnt plan on buying anything this week.I walked into a bookstore yesterday asking if they had the book I ordered a couple of weeks ago and they didn't have it. So while I was there I took a little tour
Came across this
Out of the Blue
While I was paying for it I took a stab and asked if they had this one
Leaving Mundania: Inside the Transformative World of Live Action Role-Playing Games
And lo a behold they had it. So I bought it
This year I have been getting back into baseball, followed pretty intensely till they went on strike and with my kids being young didn't bother going back. So I have been looking for baseball books
I picked this up today
Ball Four
Laurel wrote: "The second you get it! That is an automatic bump up to the very tip top of your tbr ;)"this is true :D
So I went to the local used book store with my entire Sookie Stackhouse collection, and traded it for:
a hard cover copy of Dawn and Only Forward
a paperback copy of The Drawing of the Dark.
It's funny how myself and the store clerk seemed to think we got the better of the deal!
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I liked The Drawing of the Dark, but it's not my favorite by Tim Powers - have you read any of his others?
Was reading an article at 109 about Neil Stephenson's passion about Medieval Weaponry. They mentioned this book so I figured what the heckI ordered
The Medieval Sword in the Modern World by Michael Tinker Pearce
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Well I wasnt interested in another series to start but I was reading Patrick Rothfuss blog and he gushed about the latest book and mentioned he loved the previous trilogy so I figured what the heckI have been pretty uninterested with the books I have been looking at lately. I am hoping this will re-energize me
Mistborn is the only series I've read by Brandon Sanderson, I enjoyed it. I liked the fourth but not as much as the main three.
I haven't done this for awhile. A lot of the following are historical fiction for which I've been yearning. These are May and June acquisitions so far:Redshirts: A Novel with Three Codas
Eromenos
Ship Breaker
The Drowned Cities
Blue Remembered Earth
A View From the Lake
Art and Myth in Ancient Greece
Turning Tricks
18% Gray
The Englor Affair
Imperial Governor: The Great Novel of Boudicca's Revolt
MEN OF IRON
Homer's Daughter and the Anger of Achilles
The Mad Man: A Novel
Tyrant: King of the Bosporus
Storm of Arrows
Tyrant
Hogg: A Novel
Funeral Games
The Memoirs of Helen of Troy: A Novel
Achilles: A Novel
Killer of Men
Bronze Age Greek Warrior 16001100 BC
The Tomorrow Project Anthology
Warrior in Bronze
The Silent Girl: A Rizzoli Isles Novel
Leave Myself Behind
Something Wicked This Way Comes
The Flame Alphabet
Down these Mean Streets - A Stunning Autobiography of Corruption and Innocence
EINSTEIN'S BRIDGE
PS: Didn't have time to check the links
Kernos wrote: "I haven't done this for awhile. A lot of the following are historical fiction for which I've been yearning. These are May and June acquisitions so far:Redshirts: A Novel with Three Codas
Eromen..."
I just got Ship Breaker from the library. I can't wait to read it and hear what you thought of the book after you read it.
@Kevin - I really like The WIndup Girl and am looking forward to where he goes next. @Jaq - Thanks for the recs. I have Sarum by Rutherford. Is that the same books as London?
Kernos wrote: "@Kevin - I really like The WIndup Girl and am looking forward to where he goes next. @Jaq - Thanks for the recs. I have Sarum by Rutherford. Is that the same books as London?"
Yeah, I still have to read that book. Its always checkedout at my library.
Screwing around in the internet and came across an interesting video from a British Game show called Golden Balls....lol its not porn. The final part of the game show uses the prisoners dilemma a concept of game theory. Anyway. The page I was looking at mentioned this book. Being the sucker I am I ran out and bought it.The Art of Strategy: A Game Theorist's Guide to Success in Business and Life
I have Sarum, London and Forest—which order would you read them in?
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School's not out in the UK, my scholl has 3 more weeks but most have 4 locally. Really looking forward to it as this year was hard.
Picked up a couple todayEnjoying Mistborn so I picked the second book
The Well of Ascension
Picked up another Nightrunner book
Casket of Souls
So far this month:The Robber Bride - Margaret Atwood
Shayno - Marten Weber
Longer Views: Extended Essays - Samuel R Delany
Silent Interviews: On Language Race Sex Science Fiction and Some ComicsA Collection of Written Interviews - Samuel R Delany
The Princes of Ireland: The Dublin Saga - Edward Rutherford
The Motion Of Light In Water: Sex And Science Fiction Writing In The East Village - Samuel R Delany
Art and Myth in Ancient Greece - Thomas H. Carpenter
A View From the Lake - Greg F. Gifune (Harcover!)
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- Sharps by K.J. Parker. I'm in the process of reading this for the second time now, back to back. Keep an eye out for it.
- Some Kind Of Fairy Tale by Graham Joyce. I wasn't crazy about Joyce's latest, but I'm still a big fan of the author so very eager to get to this one.
- Mockingbird, the sequel to Blackbirds by Chuck Wendig. Loved the first one, very curious to see where Wendig will take this tale in the new book. And, another stunning cover by Joey Hi-Fi.
- Some Remarks: Essays and Other Writing by Neal Stephenson. Can't let a Stephenson sit on the stack for too long, right?
- At the Mouth of the River of Bees: Stories by Kij Johnson. This is the author who wrote the award-winning stories "Ponies" and "Spar", which we discussed here recently. I doubt this collection (her first) will be anything less than excellent.
That's just the top of my teetering stack of promising books I'm supposed to read in the next few weeks...
Stefan wrote: "My TBR stack is starting to reach truly ridiculous proportions, so I've more or less given up reporting here what's getting added to it. I feel like I'm getting snowed in, basically. It's a bit dis..."My TBR is just awful. I have a feeling that I will be dead before I finish reading what I have. I still buy though....
Jim wrote: "What Ken said."
Ditto. I figured if I read 12 hours a day at current rates, I'll have to live another 25 years to finish what I have already.
Couple of books arrived in the mail from my sister, she wasn't being nice, lol, I asked her to pick them up (She lives in England and get books I can't). This time it's a trade, books for Tim Hortons coffee.I received
Savage City
Against All Enemies
Another b-day come and gone which means more books. YAY! After last year's massive haul, this is tiny in comparison. Actually I still haven't even managed to get to most of last year's haul. :DThis years more modest list:
Audio
Glasshouse by Charles Stross
The Warded Man by Peter V. Brett
ebooks
The Quiet Invasion by Sarah Zettel
Nothing Human by Nancy Kress
Blind Lake by Robert Charles Wilson
A Thousand Words for Stranger by Julie E. Czerneda
The Killing Moon by N.K. Jemisin (Prep for September's book of the month)
Oh, and there will be a C. J. Cherryh book tossed in there as well as soon as I figure out which one to choose. :)
Picked up a Michelle West short story collection all set in her Essalieyan world. While the stories have be published separately they haven't been published together. Unfortunately its self published so there are no links here at goodreads yet.So I picked up
The Memory of Stone & other Stories by Michelle West
I didn't plan to buy any books today...I went downtown to buy a mop...really I did. I was walking down the street and remembered the book store was a block away. Stopped in and they were having a 40th Birthday Party.So I chatted for a while with some of the employees and then picked up
The Hero of Ages
Sharps
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