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[Jim]

Ken wrote: "I didn't plan to buy any books today...I went downtown to buy a mop...really I did. ..."

Damn bookaholics!

;-)

[Shel, Moderator]

There are worse vices to have :)

[Kammera]

Scored at a garage sale! I like the author Jim Trelease and picked up "Hey! Listen to This, Stories to Read Aloud." The great thing was that it was autographed and I only paid 2 bucks! Gotta just love garage sales!!

[Jim]

Autographed for $2! Wow! Congrats!!!

[Shel, Moderator]

Emptied my book jar into the Coinstar today and ended up with $36 and change to spend on Amazon. I got a little carried away and spent a bit more, but not TOO much. Got all of these for my kindle:
The Hunger Games + sequels (no, I have not read them yet, nor seen the movie - excited to finally get into them)
Mechanique: A Tale of the Circus Tresaulti
Eon: Dragoneye Reborn
and out of genre Yes, Chef: A Memoir

I also have a very generous friend who, upon my expressing an interest in the Sookie Stackhouse books, promptly boxed up her copies and mailed them to me! I haven't seen the show True Blood that's based on them (don't have HBO) but I've heard from fans of the books that it didn't translate well, though other viewers seem to like it well enough.

[Kathi, Moderator & Book Lover]

Shel wrote: "The Hunger Games + sequels (no, I have not read them yet, nor seen the movie - excited to finally get into them)."

I have them on my iPad and have not read them, or seen the movie, either. But they are not high on my list right now.

I spent a couple hours at Half Price books yesterday--will try to post some of my purchases later, although a fair number were out of genre that my husband picked out. I was feeling jealous of my friends who are in Portland and were at Powell's City of Books last night. Powells was the first used book store I had ever visited--we were on a driving trip from the midwest to the Pacific northwest--and I ended up with 2 grocery bags stuffed full of books, including some entire series (like Jennifer Roberson's Cheysuli series).

[Shel, Moderator]

LOVE Powell's. And also love the Cheysuli series! Have you read them yet?

[Kathi, Moderator & Book Lover]

Shel wrote: "LOVE Powell's. And also love the Cheysuli series! Have you read them yet?"

Yes, years ago, shortly after we returned home from that trip, if I recall. And, although my memory of them is not great, I do remember that I really, really liked them, and Roberson's writing.

[Kevin]

[Kathi, Moderator & Book Lover]

My recent SF/F buys:
Skyfall by Catherine Asaro
Saturn & Titan by Ben Bova
Ender in Exile by Orson Scott Card
Books 1 & 2 in the Magister Trilogy by CS Friedman
All 3 books in the World Gates Trilogy by Holly Lisle
Windhaven by George RR Martin & Lisa Tuttle
City of Jade by Dennis McKiernan
Tongues of Serpents by Naomi Novik
Household Gods by Judith Tarr and Harry Turtledove

[Ken]

Was out and about on Friday and ended up picking up
Existence

[Helen]

Shel, I've watched the True Blood series, it's alright although quite different to the books. Lots of other characters become much more central.

[Pickle]

Managed to pickup these 3 books for £4 today :) the front cover for the Poul Anderson book doesnt seem to match the story on the back.

, and

[Kevin]

I got all of the Foreigner series over the weekend for $5 in first printing mass paperback, but the newest one in hardcover.

[Sandra]

Kevin wrote: "I got all of the Foreigner series over the weekend for $5 in first printing mass paperback, but the newest one in hardcover."

I love that series.

[Helen]

That series is on my radar.

[Boden]

The Twist (Richard Calder)
Anima (M. John Harrison)
Nova Swing (M. John Harrison)
The Soul Consortium (Simon West-Bulford)
Line War (Neal Asher)
The Fourth Wall (Walter John Williams)
Nano Comes to Clifford Falls: And Other Stories (Nancy Kress)
The Fractal Prince (Hannu Rajaniemi)
Flashover (Gordon Highland)

[Maggie]

I LOATHED that series...I dont know, maybe it got better later...

I was at the used book store today and saw a Roger Zelazny book I hadn't heard of...Isle Of The Dead, so I had to pick it up...

[Jon]

I bought an actual print book today (instead of an ebook) at the local BAM! to promote a local author. She graciously signed the newly released A Wolf at the Door, as well as her other two novels, A Shot in the Dark and A Devil in the Details.

[Tracey]

Ken, I'm reading Existence now, pretty good. David Brin is one of my favorite authors. I highly recommend his Uplift series.

[Tracey]

Ken wrote: "Was out and about on Friday and ended up picking up
Existence"

Kathi wrote: "My recent SF/F buys:
Skyfall by Catherine Asaro
Saturn & Titan by Ben Bova
Ender in Exile by Orson Scott Card
Books 1 & 2 in the Magister Trilogy by CS Friedman
All 3 books in the World Gates Trilo..."

Helen wrote: "Shel, I've watched the True Blood series, it's alright although quite different to the books. Lots of other characters become much more central."

[Shel, Moderator]

I just got notified that I won a FirstReads giveaway for a copy of the new trade paperback of The Eye of the World. I read it years ago and made it through the first seven books of the series before I lost interest, but I've always been kind of curious where it went, so maybe this will give me the kick in the pants to dive in again now that the series has an endpoint.

[Stefan, Group Founder + Moderator (Retired)]

Tracey wrote: "Ken, I'm reading Existence now, pretty good. David Brin is one of my favorite authors. I highly recommend his Uplift series."

I was very disappointed by this one. I've been a fan of Brin since his earliest Uplift books, but I feel that he's been in need of some serious, heavy-handed editing in his later works.

[Kathi, Moderator & Book Lover]

Shel wrote: "I just got notified that I won a FirstReads giveaway for a copy of the new trade paperback of The Eye of the World. I read it years ago and made it through the first seven books of the series befo..."

I"m reading the series with the Fantasy Series book group here at GoodReads, although I'm more than a book behind. I'm on Shadow Rising. Never read any of them before, so it's been fun. So far, I'm enjoying them.

[Mike (the Paladin)]

I just sent for the second in Lisa Shearin's series, Armed & Magical . I called my local (favorite) used book store. She had the third but not the second. She's holding the third for me.

I also sent for the first couple of the old Destroyer series. I'd read at least one years ago. They ran that old "B movie" (and "B" may be generous) and decided I wanted to do some nostalgia reading.

[Ken]

Tracey wrote: "Ken, I'm reading Existence now, pretty good. David Brin is one of my favorite authors. I highly recommend his Uplift series."

Yeah I read them all. Startide Rising is still one of my all time favorite books.

Actually one of the reasons I picked this up was cause the blurb mentioned Dolphins. The whole space garbage man thing turned me off but Dolphins...yeah

[Ken]

I am a reader of a blog and they recommended this book.
How to Lie with Statistics

[Anthony]

I bought roughly 300 books while downrange, and am slowly working through them. As for in that selection that I've recently read...

The Gentlemen Bastards series (The Lies of Locke Lamora, Red Seas Under Red Skies) - Oceans 11 meets Robin Hood, highly recommend them.

The Demon Wars series (The Warded Man, The Desert Spear) - Society lives behind barriers afraid to go out at night for fear of being killing by Corelings (demons from the Earth's core). Several people decide that living like that isn't living, and venture to find the lost ways to kill the demons.

Good Omens - A great laugh, and great writing from Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett.

American Gods - A very polarizing book. Everyone I know who reads this either loves it or hates it (I fall into the former)

Anansi Boys - More Gaiman. I was on a kick.

More as I read more. Been through 20 books since March, and don't seem to be slowing down. Happy reading, everyone.

[Ken]

Picked up another baseball book
Extra Innings: More Baseball Between the Numbers from the Team at Baseball Prospectus

[Ken]

Picked up that Seal Bin Laden book thats been all over the news.
No Easy Day: The Firsthand Account of the Mission That Killed Osama Bin Laden

[Shane]

The amulet of samarkand and Chronicles of the black company

[Susan]

I just picked up Cursor's Fury and Captain's Fury by Jim Butcher.

[Ken]

Picked up Riding the Rap: A Novel

[Kevin]

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[Susan]

I picked up The Innocent Mage by Karen Miller.

[Marne]

I just stopped at my local independent bookstore and picked up:
The Handmaid's Tale, Earth Abides, and Count to a Trillion.

[Mike (the Paladin)]

Audible has a members only sale going on where they knock 25% off every book, including the ones already on sale. Some are as low as $6... since I get a credit a month and pay $17 a month it seems silly not to pick up the ones that are that low. I got:

Waking Hours
Ex-Heroes
Ex-Patriots
Gardens of the Moon
By Blood Alone
Ghost Story (read this years ago but never had the audio version.)
The Courts of Chaos
The Hand of Oberon

Carried away...but I couldn't turn down the prices.

[Shel, Moderator]

Just bought Octavia Butler's Dawn for my Kindle - was the deal of the day for $1.99 today only. Neato! Just a heads-up for other kindle owners :)

[Ken]

Out to see a movie the other day (on Vacation) and stopped in a bookshop and picked up a couple books

Zombie Spaceship Wasteland: A Book by Patton Oswalt
Don Quixote

[Ken]

Picked up a couple of books

The Finish: The Killing of Osama Bin Laden
Pronto: A Novel
The Middle Kingdom

[Ken]

Picked up a couple of books I have been on the look for
Queen and Country: The Last Run
The Honourable Schoolboy

[Ken]

Picked up a couple of books today

Snuff
Whispers Under Ground
Ghost Story
The Mongoliad: Book Two

and for my oldest child's Nineteenth birthday
Clockwork Angels: The Novel
(He is a big Rush fan, we also went to see Rush in concert a couple of weeks ago)

[Ken]

When I was going thought my books a couple of weeks ago to get rid of...I noticed I have several series I have are not complete. So now I have a list of books that I am looking for that I should of picked up 10 years ago.
So here are a few I found yesterday

Angel of Destruction
Orion's Dagger

[Mike (the Paladin)]

Try ABE Books. I find a lot of out of print paperbacks there for reasonable cost.

[Kathi, Moderator & Book Lover]

Samantha-Jayne wrote: "Has anyone got Twitter? "
Hi Sam,
No Twitter here. I follow Goodreads and am on Facebook. That (and my email) are about all I can handle. :)

[Mike (the Paladin)]

I don't even do Facebook. Just here.

[Ken]

Red wrote: "I hate out of print book hunting. "

I love out of print hunting. Gives me a reason to go to a bookstore.

[Mike (the Paladin)]

I was (well still am, but I don't go there much anymore.) a member of a science fiction/fantasy group called Chronicles and some of the members there were members here. I was introduced that way.

And I spend far too much time here, LOL.

[Mike (the Paladin)]

My writing was curtailed while my wife was very ill (I was a sort of full time care giver). Since she's passed I've never managed to make myself get back to disciplined writing. I need to.

[Ken]

Picked up a couple of books today. Didn't mean to, it just sort of happened...LOL

The Complaints
The Impossible Dead
Graveyard Dust: A Novel of Suspense
Tyrant: King of the Bosporus
Alexander the Great