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New Purchases - 2015
I have also just pre ordered Finders Keepers. Mr Mercedes is my favourite Stephen King book so I am really excited about this follow up.
Sarah wrote: "On a pre-order hunt it seems. Also just pre-ordered Armada."thanks for reminding me I just pre-ordered my copy
Excellent Tasha. Perhaps when it comes out we can do a buddy read for it. I have high hopes for it.
So my Mother's Day gift was $100 to spend on books.. I spent $50 today in three different bookstores and i'll spend the rest online tonight :) Here's what I got so far:The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters (pb)
The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin (pb)
The Wife by Meg Wolitzer (pb)
People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks (pb)
Mules and Men by Zora Neale Hurston (pb)
The Sisters Brothers by Patrick DeWitt (pb)
I Am Pilgrim by Terry Hayes (pb)
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon (pb)
This is Where I Leave You by Jonathan Tropper (pb)
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston (pb) (I own a different edition of this but this edition matched my other two Hurston books)
The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri (pb)
The Flamethrowers by Rachel Kushner (pb)
Walden by Henry D. Thoreau (pb)
How to be both by Ali Smith (pb)
Orange Is the New Black by Piper Kerman (pb)
Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie (mm pb)
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou (mm pb)
Great haul Samantha! 'The Shadow of the Wind' is brilliant!
Lisa wrote: "Great haul Samantha! 'The Shadow of the Wind' is brilliant!"Thanks, i'm excited about it, I found it for just $1!
Way to go, Samantha! You must have found some great deals to get all of those for $50!! Some great titles there.
Kristie wrote: "Way to go, Samantha! You must have found some great deals to get all of those for $50!! Some great titles there."I did! The first 8 were $1 and the rest were between $5 and $8, I was super happy with what I found!
Some really great finds there Samantha!
@Lisa.Here be Dragons I have read last year. I enjoyed it
Awesome haul Samantha! Enjoy!
Now that's a perfect mother's day gift for you! Enjoy, Samantha.
Mariab wrote: "@Lisa.Here be Dragons I have read last year. I enjoyed it"
I'm really looking forward to reading it. I read The Sunne in Splendour - A Novel of Richard III last year and it is now one of my top five books of all time. I love her writing style and the amount of research she does for each and every book.
@Lisa. Yes. Is very precise. And makes all believable
I received a notice that my pre-order of Jurassic Park has been delivered to my Audible library. I had forgotten I even bought it.
Janice wrote: "I received a notice that my pre-order of Jurassic Park has been delivered to my Audible library. I had forgotten I even bought it."I love it when that happens! It's always nice to have a book turn up that you had forgotten all about.
I just ordered the Mistborn Trilogy Boxed Set by Brandon Sanderson! So excited to marathon those books!
I got Room Full of Mirrors: A Biography of Jimi Hendrix, which I bought over a year ago, read, sold, and now regret selling. I also got Catch a Fire: The Life of Bob Marley
I downloaded Dodger from SYNC's weekly freebies. I already have Great Expectations narrated by Frank Muller. I stopped listening to it for some reason I no longer recall. I'm going to have to give it a second chance.
Haven't bought books in ages but discovering such a low price or cash price = 1 credit I was able yo get Jurassic Park and then preorder The Andromeda Strain / The Terminal Man without buying more credits since credits make me have no self control.Great Expectations is one of my favorite dickens books. But I am a fan of much of hos work anyway.
Mistborn is awesome just like everything Sanderson touches
Andromeda... oh I am so tempted!
I started listening to andromeda strain the other day but it was an awful recording (not an audible one). I got very lost so I stopped. I would like to read the print version instead.
This version of Andromeda is narrated by David Morse which is a completely new narrator to me
Ok I lied David Morse narrated Revival last year
Just got Penrod for free (only today) in the nook free fridays.http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/penro...
Travis of NNY wrote: "Ok I lied David Morse narrated Revival last year"I enjoyed him in Revival.
Sarah, was the version of Andromeda you listened to narrated by Morse? Or was it a different production?
So my bookdealer posted a photo of his new EFTPOS machine earlier in the week. Behind the machine was a pile of China Miévilles. I asked what they were and asked him to put them aside for me until today. So Saturday excursion was to pick them up. Unfortunately he read my message wrong and put aside the ones I had, not the ones I wanted. Luckily though, the right ones were all still there.
So I have:
The Scar
King Rat
Iron Council
Looking for Jake and Other Stories
Un Lun Dun
While we were there picked up as well:
Dawn
The Android's Dream
Agent to the Stars
Fevre Dream
The Coroner's Lunch
THEN, went out to dinner with friends, who did some cleaning today and brought me a pile of books they were throwing out to choose what I wanted from. So add to the list:One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Things Fall Apart
The Master and Margarita
It's Christmas early at Rusalka's!
I was actually banned from buying any other books besides the Mievilles as we are running low on space again. But as the books we picked up were 4 out of 5 for Lexx as well if not entirely, I won.
You'll need to buy more bookshelves, Rusalka. We'll want pictures of course.
I am glad I am not the only one who has filled another bookshelf ---lol. I just purchased the books in the series of the Black Dagger Brotherhood and filled a whole shelf
Lexx was trying to explain to our book seller that our house is almost looking like his shop (piles of books on floor and on every surface). 7 full shelves at the moment. The guy looked at him like he was crazy "What you think my house looks like? And what do you think you're going to get from me? I'm an Enabler!!" And then nearly convinced Lexx to buy more books. The man is a genius.
Hahaha. That's great, Rusalka. He sure is something.
I like your bookseller, Rusalka. Glad he's far enough away from me though.
I went to our library sale today and got a bag if 18 books for $5! So excited. Of course, I have no space left in the library (and no room for another bookshelf!), so I have no idea where I'm going to put them all.
Nice haul Rusalka. Janice, I can't quite tell the narrators surname. first name Chris and surname sounded like Know. the recording is old and has music intro.
I wonder if it's abridged, Sarah. I googled it, and this is what I found - http://www.amazon.com/The-Andromeda-S.... This audiobook is narrated by Chris Noth and is abridged. If this is the edition you have, perhaps the fact that it's abridged may be causing some confusion, especially if they chopped too much.
You may be right Janice. That sounds like the narrator. I'll definitely get a print copy.
Tasha wrote: "I loved Bel Canto!"I hope I love it too! I had been hearing good things and then I found it in brand new condition for $1 so I couldn't pass it up.
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2 that I want to read as well, enjoy!!