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[Mike (the Paladin)]

I've always "made up stories". When I ended up disabled I wrote more seriously. (My wife didn't try to hide my books even when she saw herself in them...). I got a couple of editions of The Writer's Market or whatever it's called. It's a large book of publishers who are supposed to be willing to consider unrepresented authors. But it seemed every one of them wrote me back and said "get an agent". So once I think I'm ready to start submitting again I plan to start with a search for an agent.

[Mike (the Paladin)]

I've submitted a couple of short stories to fantasy magazines, but again got away from it and need to start again.

On the threads topic LOL, I've bought several books from Audible this month. I'm hooked on audio books, I tend to have one going any time I'm doing something that requires "little thought".

I also ordered a couple of books from ABE a few weeks ago...and they still aren't here.

[Ken]

I went out looking for some old school Fleming Bond novels. I have the old Pan editions I picked up used 30 years ago...Man 30 years. I am getting old.
I am not sure how readable they are. I am going to have to go book diving this weekend to find them and see how they are.
While looking for those I found these

Standing in Another Man's Grave
The Gunslinger

[Maggie]

I went to my favorite book store in Minneapolis for Black Friday--this place does a lot of author signings, and I was able to get the following signed HC's:

Iron Council
The Vor Game
Eyes Like Leaves
Something Rotten

[Kevin]

I just got over weekend all of the Dragonriders of Pern book up until Dragon's Kin along with another copy of the Foundation books, and the Ender Quartet.

[Shel, Moderator]

I just downloaded a collection for my kindle called the Chthulu Mythos Megapack, which includes a bunch of the original Lovecraft stories plus lots of the later stories that he inspired. I've never read any Lovecraft, so I'm looking forward to digging in to it! Not sure when I'll get to it, though (as usual, the TBR pile is monstrous).

[Kathi, Moderator & Book Lover]

Tremendous acquisitions... so many books, so little time!

[Mike (the Paladin)]

So true. My to be read list here is only a fraction of the books I want to read (and even own). I doubt I'll get them read before my time runs out.

Well, really I know I won't as they keep getting published...

[Ken]

Picked up a couple of books over the last week
Raiders!: The Story of the Greatest Fan Film Ever Made
Ice and Fire

[Shel, Moderator]

Not books, but my hubby and I just got Game of Thrones season one on DVD - it was our Chanukah present to each other :)

[Maggie]

Betterworld had some kind of Black Friday sale, and I ordered China Mountain Zhang, Blood Music,Aces High, The Hallowed Huntand The Black Dahlia.

I dont have any idea when I will be able to read one with my already tottering bookcases, but I have them!

[Shel, Moderator]

I just downloaded Old Man's War to my kindle (it's today's daily deal) and can't wait to read it since I know most of you loved it when it was our monthly read!

[Pickle]

i managed to pickup:

The Claw of the Conciliator
The Sword of the Lictor

for £3 :). Just need to get my hands on the 1st book The Shadow of the Torturer

[Pickle]

just bought:

The Ragged Astronauts
Gerald's Game
and
The City and the Stars

all for £4.50 :D

[Ken]

I wasnt supposed to buy anything till the new year and I ended up buying three books

The Rook
Tyrant: Funeral Games
and I wasnt going to pick this one up but a couple of friends thought it was good so I did
Killing Floor

[Ken]

Looking to replace the book I lost and ended up buying a couple more
I picked up
Die Trying
One Shot
and my lost book
The Children of the Sky

[Kathi, Moderator & Book Lover]

Christmas brought several books to me:
Tiassa, A Dance With Dragons, Intrigues and Changes, The Alloy of Law, The Dragon Keeper and Dragon Haven, and Legacy of Kings. Yay!!

[Jim]

Santa brought me Where the Summer Ends: The Best Horror Stories of Karl Edward Wagner, Volume 1 & Walk on the Wild Side: The Best Horror Stories of Karl Edward Wagner, Volume 2 by Centipede Press. They contain almost all of Wagner's stories except the Kane & Conan stories.

I also got the 2010 Centennial edition of Wood Handbook: Wood as an Engineering Material & Brush Cat: On Trees, the Wood Economy, and the Most Dangerous Job in America. Lots of good reading coming up.

[Ken]

Picked up A Memory of Light

Unfortunately I am not sure when I will get to it. I was hoping that West's Battle was in stock...it wasn't. So it will depend when I get through the book I am reading now, its a bit slow going. So If I finish it and and I cant get my hands Battle I will have to settle to read the Finale.

[Ken]

Went on a bit of a bender last week. Pick up a pile of Jack Reacher books

The Visitor
Echo Burning
Without Fail
Persuader
The Enemy
Bad Luck and Trouble
Nothing to Lose
Gone Tomorrow
61 Hours
Worth Dying For

[Shel, Moderator]

I won a small sum of money in a superbowl pool and decided to spend it in a book spree. Mostly I bought titles to complete/continue series in which I already own some of the books:

The Broken Kingdoms
The Kingdom of Gods
The Shadowed Sun
Initiate's Trial
The Well of Ascension
The Hero of Ages
Restoration
Tiassa
The Hallowed Hunt
River Marked

very excited about all of them :)

[Kathi, Moderator & Book Lover]

Ooohhh, what a great list, Shel... all things I currently own or will own!

[Evan]

Just bought The Annotated Emerson. Beautiful.

[Ken]

Was on Vacation this week. I went back home to visit my Mum, go see a concert, The Tragically Hip (awesome show) and to visit my favorite used bookstore and picked up some books
Fuzzy Bones
Beserker's Planet
Berserker Man
The Ultimate Enemy
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Perfect I'm Not: Boomer on Beer, Brawls, Backaches, and Baseball
Whipping Star
The Dosadi Experiment
A Man Called Intrepid: The Secret War
Intrepid's Last Case

I also picked up some of the Master and Commander books, unfortunately I found copies on my shelf. In my defense I had intended to give them to charity. I removed them from my database. I guess I had second thoughts

[Ken]

Picked up a couple of books

Finally got my hands on this one. Due to some warehouse issues the book is out of stock so the author brought in a copy for me.
Battle: The House War: Book Five

Also picked up
Surface Detail

[Random]

I finally spent a gift certificate I got for Christmas. Not everything is S/F.

Eifelheim
Lost at the Con
Fer-de-Lance
Palimpsest
Legion
The Best of All Possible Worlds
Roadside Picnic
Gardens of the Moon

[Shel, Moderator]

I absolutely LOVED Eifelheim!

[Maggie]

ooooh Random-those are some good reads!

[Kathi, Moderator & Book Lover]

Recently book Kim Stanley Robinson's trilogy on climate change (Forty Signs of Rain, Fifty Degrees Below, and Sixty Days and Counting. Has anyone read these? I liked his Mars books a lot, although some of the science was challenging for me.

Also picked up the Valisar trilogy by Fiona McIntosh.

[Helen]

Martha Wells has been getting my money. I read The Cloud Roads and wanted to read on- The Serpent Sea and The Siren Depths. Part 1 & 3 were just over £6 which is more than I normally pay for kindle books but part 2 was over £8! Very good though.

[Pickle]

my local oxfam seemed to have a wad of great sci-fi/fantasy but could only take 3 home today so came away with:

Ender's Game, Gateway and Man Plus

All for £10 :)

[Kevin]

I got all of Alastair Reynolds's book, with the first four books in paperback and the rest in hardcover.

[Ken]

Got a bonus at work so I spent some of it on books

Picked up
Our Man in Tehran
Argo: How the CIA and Hollywood Pulled Off the Most Audacious Rescue in History
The Bullpen Gospels: A Non-Prospect's Pursuit of the Major Leagues and the Meaning of Life

also picked up a couple more Master and Commander books
Desolation Island
The Fortune of War
The Surgeon's Mate
The Far Side of the World

In the Mail today I received the latest Chung Kuo redo
The Art of War

[Ken]

Last week I went to the book launch for Sawyers latest
Picked up Red Planet Blues

Also picked up
The Mauritius Command
SEAL Team Six: Memoirs of an Elite Navy SEAL Sniper
The Illustrated Man
The Martian Chronicles

[Ken]

Annual church sale, finally remembered to go this year. Picked up a couple

Call for the Dead
Carte Blanche

[Ken]

Picked up some books today
Watching Baseball Smarter: A Professional Fan's Guide for Beginners, Semi-experts, and Deeply Serious Geeks
The Mongoliad: Book Three
The Wise Man's Fear
Masked Mosaic

[Ken]

Picked up a couple of books today
Wet Grave
The Empire Novels

[Kevin]

Last month, I picked up all of Terry Brooks's novel.

[Ken]

Another Chung Kuo book arrived in the mail today

An Inch of Ashes

14 more to go

[Shel, Moderator]

Got a few gift cards for Amazon or Barnes & Noble as end-of-year gifts from my students. Here's what I spent them on:

-Changes and Intrigues by Mercedes Lackey, sequels to Foundation (which was mediocre, but I'm a big fan of her Valdemar books in general so I need to be a completist)
-Hallucinations by Oliver Sacks, which I've already read and quite liked
-Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History by Erik Larsen (author of The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America, which I really loved)
-Hull Zero Three by Greg Bear
-and V for Vendetta, which I've been meaning to read for ages.

[Kathi, Moderator & Book Lover]

Shel wrote: "Got a few gift cards for Amazon or Barnes & Noble as end-of-year gifts from my students. Here's what I spent them on:."
I'm a Valdemar fan and completist as well. I have those books but have yet to read them.
The Erik Larson book I mentioned to my husband. He like both of the other Larsen books he read--Devil in the White City and
In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin.

[Shel, Moderator]

I haven't read that one, but I've heard good things about it. The other Larson that I really liked was Thunderstruck.

Probably will pick up a few more goodies this afternoon - I went through our overflowing bookshelves last week and weeded out books that I don't want anymore, and I'm taking them to sell back to our local used bookstore this afternoon. I'm sure I won't be able to resist coming home with a few more treasures :)

[Random]

Shel wrote: "Got a few gift cards for Amazon or Barnes & Noble as end-of-year gifts from my students."

Aren't bookstore gift cards just the most awesome gifts ever?

Everyone rebelled on me and I just got 1 for my birthday this year.

I picked up:
Scourge of the Betrayer
NOS4A2
The Mad Scientist's Guide to World Domination: Original Short Fiction for the Modern Evil Genius

[Shel, Moderator]

Cranky curator at the bookstore only bought 8 of the 40-something books I brought in to sell, so I just used the store credit to get something for my kid. Going to try the rest at another store later this week. Oh well.

[Ken]

Was in a used book store today, looking at the sports section seeing if there were any Baseball books.
I stumbled upon this one

The Living Sword: A Fencer's Autobiography

I have a thing for Swords as well as Baseball.

[Kathi, Moderator & Book Lover]

Shel wrote: "Cranky curator at the bookstore only bought 8 of the 40-something books I brought in to sell, so I just used the store credit to get something for my kid. Going to try the rest at another store la..."

I've been selling at Half-Price Books lately because they take everything off your hands. I know they may not pay as much as some places, but generally I'm trying to get rid of stuff and the money I get is a bonus.

[Kathi, Moderator & Book Lover]

Shel wrote: "Got a few gift cards for Amazon or Barnes & Noble as end-of-year gifts from my students.

My students NEVER gave me book or Amazon gift cards... you are lucky!

[Shanshad]

My students NEVER gave me book or Amazon gift cards... you are lucky!"

I gave Liam's PreK teacher an Amazon gift card for an end of the year gift. I figure it's a nice way to say thanks without adding to the #1 teacher ornaments and apple figurines. (My mom's a preK teacher and I've seen her end of the year gifts)

[Shel, Moderator]

Shan, I bet the teacher really appreciated that. I always do! Of course I always recognize and appreciate the thought behind a gift no matter what, but I can really do without all the tchotchkes...

[Tyler]

Some kindle books I got recently:
Agent of Change by Sharon Lee
Shift Omnibus Edition (Silo, #2) by Hugh Howey

And here are some physical books I recently picked up:
The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Dune by Frank Herbert