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[Ken]

Picked up The Dead Seekers

[Ken]

Picked up a couple of discounted books today
Tangled Up in Blue
Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety
The Rise of Rome: The Making of the World's Greatest Empire
The Beat Goes On

[Ken]

Picked up some books this week
Starworld
Wheelworld
Homeworld
The Skill of Our Hands
The Hanging Tree

I started watching a new mystery TV based on this book
Forty Words for Sorrow

I had to go to ABEBooks to find a book I lost last year
Encounter With Tiber

[Ken]

Picked up a couple of books

What Happened
Fool's Assassin
Fool's Quest

[Ken]

Picked up some books over the last few weeks
When Gravity Fails
The Exile Kiss
The Dark Tower
Gentleman Jole and the Red Queen
Strangers on a Bridge: The Case of Colonel Abel and Francis Gary PowersStrangers on a Bridge: The Case of Colonel Abel and Francis Gary Powers
The Templars: The Rise and Fall of God's Holy Warriors
The Secret War: Spies, Ciphers, and Guerrillas, 1939-1945
Crash Override: How Gamergate (Nearly) Destroyed My Life, and How We Can Win the Fight Against Online Hate

[Sean]

I just found a first edition first print of The Songs Of Distant Earth

[Ken]

Went for a bike ride yesterday, plan was to pick up coffee, ended up stopping at a couple of bookstores
Picked up some books
The Mystic Mullah
The Thousand-Headed Man
Earth Made of Glass
The Berserker Wars
Children of the Blood

[Ken]

I went for a bike ride today and ended up at a bookstore
Just thought I would look and see if they had any of the books I was looking for
hey did
Picked up Unbelievable: My Front-Row Seat to the Craziest Campaign in American History

[Kathi, Moderator & Book Lover]

Ken wrote: "I went for a bike ride today and ended up at a bookstore
Just thought I would look and see if they had any of the books I was looking for
hey did
Picked up [book:Unbelievable: My Front-Row Seat to ..."

Your bike rides always seem to pass or end up at bookstores! 🤔

Edited to add that my recent additions have been eBooks on sale. Planning a bookstore trip in the next month or so—none within biking distance and I’d hate to have to limit myself to what I could carry on my bike!

[Maggie]

I picked up Mr. Mercedes, Finders Keepers, and End of Watch from the sci-fi book club.
In ebooks, I got
The Broken Crown and The Devil's Star
and then I found a copy of Seveneves at the library for $1!

[Ken]

Kathi wrote: "Ken wrote: "Your bike rides always seem to pass or end up at bookstores! ."
Hmm fancy that, coincidence? I think not, Ha

Picked up Babylon's Ashes

[Kathi, Moderator & Book Lover]

I had ordered Babylon’s Ashes back when I got the other books in The Expanse series and it arrived yesterday. Also picked up the Wool Omnibus as an eBook on sale yesterday.

[Silvana]

Speaking of Babylon's Ashes, Bookdepository said the paperback is (finally!) on its way to my house.

Bought Ringworld last week also via BD and Evil is a Matter of Perspective Anthology from Kindle sale.

[Shel, Moderator]

Kathi wrote: "I had ordered Babylon’s Ashes back when I got the other books in The Expanse series and I arrived yesterday. Also picked up the Wool Omnibus as an eBook on sale yesterday."

Ooh, Wool is fabulous, you will love it!

[Kathi, Moderator & Book Lover]

Shel wrote: "Ooh, Wool is fabulous, you will love it!"
Have you read the rest of the Silo books (Shift and Dust)?

[Shel, Moderator]

I have, and I enjoyed them as well but not as much as the first.

[Kathi, Moderator & Book Lover]

Shel wrote: "I have, and I enjoyed them as well but not as much as the first."

Good to know, thanks.

[Ken]

Picked up a couple today
Dorsai!
Conqueror's Moon
Sorcerer's Moon

[Ken]

Picked up a book I have been looking for
Imajica: The Reconciliation

[Leserling]

I recently acquired:

Rotherweird

La Bella Sauvage (The Book of Dust)

Astrophysics for People in a Hurry

The English American

[Ken]

Picked up God

I read his book about Jesus, and Islam and thought they were very good.

[Ken]

Picked up the latest Vlad Taltos book
Vallista

[Ken]

well I havent bought a ton of stuff over the last while
Been buying books I already have for my ereader, finding it easier to read from the device then from a book. I have been noticing my eyes are not super
Anyway. I have been always a nut for Roman Republic history, havent read much after Augustin founded the Empire. Anyway I have been listening to an amazing podcast call The History of Rome. Anyway, I have weakness for books about Rome. I was snooping around a bookstore the other day and found this

Rome: A History in Seven Sackings

[Ken]

Havent been buying much lately. Lots of ebooks but they are copies of existing books I have. I have a pretty specific list of books I am looking for
I picked up
The Silk Roads: A New History of the World
Fantastic Voyage
Fantastic Voyage II: Destination Brain

[Random]

So, back when I was a kid, both of my brothers bought me a $25 gift certificate to the local book store for Christmas. Given back in that time, the average book cost somewhere between $2.50 and $3.50, that was a lot of money to spend on books. I ended up walking out of the store with a very heavy bag and a massive grin on my face.

Well, on Friday I got my holiday bonus and it took me about 5 minutes to decide what to spend a good chunk/most of it on. :D

So I have greedily gathered

Non Fiction

From Eternity to Here: The Quest for the Ultimate Theory of Time
The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself
Internal Time: Chronotypes, Social Jet Lag, and Why You're So Tired
Honeysuckle Creek : The Story of Tom Reid, a Little Dish and Neil Armstrong's First Step
The Vital Question: Energy, Evolution, and the Origins of Complex Life
The Aliens Are Coming!
For the Love of Physics: From the End of the Rainbow to the Edge of Time - A Journey Through the Wonders of Physics
Blood, Sweat, and Pixels: The Triumphant, Turbulent Stories Behind How Video Games Are Made

Fiction
Growing Things and Other Stories
Borne
Midnight Sun
Karen Memory
The Secrets of the Kraken
Epic: Legends of Fantasy
Sorry Please Thank You
Exhalation: Stories
Meddling Kids
The Cabin at the End of the World

I feel like a kid again. :)

[Shel, Moderator]

That's quite a haul! You've got some good stuff in there!

[Random]

Immediately after that spree I heard about another book that I really wanted, but thought enough was enough. Well came out yesterday with an Amazon gift card, so picked up
Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime

I promise that's the last of it . . . for now :D

[Chris, Moderator]

Just picked up Some of the Best from Tor.com, available free in most ebook formats. It's a collection of short fiction from 2019. Pick up your own copy while it's available -- the price is right!

[Kathi, Moderator & Book Lover]

Chris wrote: "Just picked up Some of the Best from Tor.com, available free in most ebook formats. It's a collection of short fiction from 2019. Pick up your own copy while it's available -- the price is right!"
Thanks for the info!

[Jeffrey]

The problem isn't the buying. The problem is fitting the bought in with the library haul and getting to same. I feel that the library books are on the clock and bought books end up pushed down into the "to read" pile until somehow they end up in the never read pile.

[Carrie]

Jeffrey wrote: "The problem isn't the buying. The problem is fitting the bought in with the library haul and getting to same. I feel that the library books are on the clock and bought books end up pushed down into..."

I feel the same way, that or library books get returned unread because I finally get around to my own books. For me it's a cycle, stack of lib books, my books get forgotten. Weeks later, still have a stack from the lib ( a new one) but then I go oh look what's this book on my shelf. Books go back to lib with maybe one read.

[Kathi, Moderator & Book Lover]

I had Old Man's War in my ebook library but I just bought the rest of the series in paperback for our upcoming series read. Looking forward to it!

[Kathi, Moderator & Book Lover]

FYI, the ebook for Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir is on sale for US $2.99 at Amazon today. This is our upcoming BotM for July.

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Ventus & The Skinner

[Kathi, Moderator & Book Lover]

Fool's War by Sarah Zettel—our BotM coming up in March—is on sale as an ebook for $1.99 at several outlets (Amazon, Apple Books, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, and Google).

[Shel, Moderator]

Ooh, thanks for the heads up!

[Kirsten]

Most recent acquistions:

Fantasy -- Pilgrim

Science Fiction -- Goldilocks