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Aug 21, 2015 05:14AM
I remember you saying you were using your kindle more and got rid of lots of the books for space reasons. I was teasing you. ;)
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Cherie wrote: "Sarah, I think you will find that Andromeda Strain is kind of dated. Don't get me wrong. I love his writing. I have not read JP yet but I remember AS vividly. Have you watched the movie? It i..."I loved the Scott Brick nareation of JP that was just released. Gave it 5 stars
@Sarah, My 13 years old son read both Jurassic Park and The Lost World last summer. He loved them, and he's still kind of crazy about them. He still says he would love if it were a series of 20 books. :)He also read The Science of Jurassic Park and the Lost World, Or, How to Build a Dinosaur as part of his obsession.
He was so happy about those books that my 16 years old daughter read them just to know what was all this craziness about.
That's good to hear Travis and Sandra. I must have had the original audiobooks for them - very dated and crackly and as I didn't want to fork out for the newer audios, the books it is. I'm looking forward to Jurassic Park as I loved the film and I too was fascinated by dinosaurs as a kid.
A couple more I couldn't resist - In the Tall Grass which is a Hill/King novella collaboration and John Dies at the End as Travis recommended it.
OK. Just a couple more... Feed, Speaks the Nightbird and I Am Pilgrim. Now the internet is going off for a bit so I don't buy anything else. £10 was a gift voucher so I guess it's not too bad.
I used several Audible credits to splurge during their 2 for 1 sale. I got: Red Queen
Departure
Missing You
Still Life
The Museum of Extraordinary Things
Firefight
Ugly Love
The Weight of Blood
I just picked up another Robin Hobb series, 'The Liveship Traders' trilogy:Ship of Magic
The Mad Ship
Ship of Destiny
Sarah wrote: "I've just bought Dune because it keeps winking at me on my wishlist."Ohhh!, fantastic book, Sarah (a bit challenging to keep up with all the characters and names, though). Enjoy!
Lisa wrote: "I just picked up another Robin Hobb series, 'The Liveship Traders' trilogy:Ship of Magic
The Mad Ship
..."Going to my TBR...
Thanks Mariab! I'm getting pretty used to long character lists.@Lisa - I think it's best to read the Assassin's series before reading the Liveship Traders as it's set in the same world. I've only read book 1 of the Assassin's series so I'm a way off getting to this one (if at all)
Sarah wrote: "Thanks Mariab! I'm getting pretty used to long character lists.@Lisa - I think it's best to read the Assassin's series before reading the Liveship Traders as it's set in the same world. I've only..."
I own Assassin's Apprentice but I haven't read it yet. I have heard varying opinions about which of her series to read first and I am a bit unsure about where to start. Some people say it's best to read them all in publication order but there are others who say that you could read 'The Liveship Traders' first as it is set in a different part of the world, focuses on different characters and is more of a self contained series. The series I am the most interested in are 'The Liveship Traders' and 'The Rainwild Chronicles' but I don't want to read them first if you need to have read 'The Farseer Trilogy' to understand them.
Got a few yesterday at a used:A Widow for One Year
The Color Purple
The Song of the Lark
The Exorcist
The Portrait of a Lady
Northanger Abbey
Mansfield Park
Miguel Strogoff
All the Pretty Horses
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Daniel Deronda
Gotta love used books.
Gavin wrote: "Gotta love used books..."I agree, Gavin. I added The Border Trilogy #1 to my TBR list. I did not particulary enjoy The Road, but I am willing give McCarthy another try.
I need to check out Miguel Strogoff too.
I bought a couple of books today - Throne of Glass was a whispersync deal, and Darkfever, which was reduced on Kindle. Yes, two new series! *sigh*
Casual Vacancy was a 5 stars for me, Erika. Hope you like it too.
I bought a new used book at the library today. The Cartographer of No Man's Land was $3.00. I did good. Only one today.
I loved the fever series. I hope you enjoy it Janice. I tried to read Casual Vacancy, but couldn't get into it. I read some of the reviews and realized that it may just have been my lack of understanding of the British class system.
I've been busy. I moved into a new house, and I finally have my library I've been needing. I'm in heaven. I also found a used bookstore close by and every book in there is $3. Some purchases I've made along the way.Hickory Dickory Dock by Agatha Christie
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Allison Bechdel
Finders Keepers by Stephen King
Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter
Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
Crash & Burn by Lisa Gardner
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce
The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
Death Note, Vol. 4: Love by Tsugumi Ohba
The Storyteller by Jodi Picoult
Rant by Chuck Palahniuk
Gold by Chris Cleave
The Juliette Society by Sasha Grey
This Lullaby by Sarah Dessen
The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
Here We Go Again: My Life In Television by Betty White
My Year of Meats by Ruth Ozeki
The Night Watch by Sarah Waters
The Ten-Year Nap by Meg Wolitzer
How to Be a Woman by Caitlin Moran
Every Day by David Levithan
Ruby by Cynthia Bond
The Winter People by Jennifer McMahon
God Help the Child by Toni Morrison
Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee
Sex Criminals, Vol. 1: One Weird Trick by Matt Friction
Rat Queens, Vol. 1: Sass & Sorcery by Kurtis J Weibe
Nimona by Noelle Stephenson
Reconstructing Amelia by Kimberly McCreight
The Casual Vacancy by JK Rowling
Whirlwind by Charles L. Grant
The X-Files: Goblins by Charles L. Grant
Squeeze by Ellen Steiber
The Secret of Shadow Ranch by Carolyn Keene
Sh*t My Dad Says by Justin Halpern
On the Island by Tracey Garvis Graves
Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned" by Lena Dunham
Stephen King Goes to the Movies by Stephen King
The Green Mile, Part 1: The Two Dead Girls by Stephen King
The Green Mile, Part 2: The Mouse on the Mile by Stephen King
The Green Mile, Part 3: Coffey's Hands by Stephen King
The Green Mile, Part 4: The Bad Death of Eduard Delacroix by Stephen King
The Green Mile, Part 5: Night Journey by Stephen King
The Green Mile, Part 6: Coffey on the Mile by Stephen King
Invisibility by Andrea Cramer + David Levithan
We Are Called to Rise by Laura McBride
Beach Road by James Patterson
Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
Lost At Sea: The Jon Ronson Mysteries by Jon Ronson
Summer of Night by Dan Simmons
Poems by Maya Angelou
Cannery Row by John Steinbeck
On Beauty by Zadie Smith
The Bronze Horseman by Paullina Simons
Swamplandia! by Karen Russell
The Patron Saint of Liars by Ann Patchett
What Alice Forgot by Liane Moriarty
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
Ship of Magic by Robin Hobb
Fool's Errand by Robin Hobb
A Long Way Down by Nick Hornby
The Steady Running of the Hour by Justin Go
The Unnamed by Joshua Ferris
My Point...And I Do Have One by Ellen Degeneres
The Calhoun Women: Amanda & Lilah: A Man for Amanda\For the Love of Lilah by Nora Roberts
The Calhoun Women: Suzanna & Megan: Suzanna's Surrender\Megan's Mate by Nora Roberts
Suspicious: Partners / The Art of Deception / Night Moves by Nora Roberts
Phew, I'm sure I missed a few.. Maybe it would have just been easier to say hello lol.
Wow! There are some great titles there, Samantha. Congratulations on your new home and welcome back!
As usual, your hauls are just wow!, Samantha. Interesting that you bought the Green Mile in parts.
After shopping for back to school clothes with my daughter and boys we stopped into B&N and I purchased The Fate of Ten, The Girl in the Spider's Web, and Flora and Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures
Congrats on your new house, Samantha. Many good titles there. Some I read (and liked) and others are in my TBR.Cherie, I'm reading The Girls in the Spider's Wed this month. It's waiting for me in the library counter. I reading the third in the series now. I have mixed feelings about it. Let see... Looking forward to your opinion once you get to it.
I won some money last week playing bingo and keno. Plus, my husband is working a lot of overtime, which means I've been having to do some of his day off chores. So, decided to treat myself to some books, even though my desk top book piles are teetering.The Diary of Samuel Pepys: A Selection by Samuel Pepys- this Penguin version of 1000+ pages is abridged, and normally I avoid those. But I think 1000 pages chosen by experts is plenty.
Pepys's London by Stephen Porter
Brutal Journey: The Epic Story of the First Crossing of North America by Paul Schneider
Island in a Storm: A Rising Sea, a Vanishing Coast, and a Nineteenth-Century Disaster that Warns of a Warmer World by Abby Sallenger
Fish of the Seto Inland Sea by Ruri Pilgrim
Don't Shoot: One Man, A Street Fellowship, and the End of Violence in Inner-City America by David M. Kennedy
Birth Control in America: The Career of Margaret Sanger by David M. Kennedy
Winchell: Gossip, Power, and the Culture of Celebrity by Neal Gabler
Our America by LeAlan Jones
The Missing Class: Portraits of the Near Poor in America by Katherine S. Newman
No Shame in My Game: the Working Poor in the Inner City by Katherine S. Newman
Falling from Grace: The Experience of Downward Mobility in the American Middle Class by Katherine S. Newman
Samantha wrote: "I've been busy. I moved into a new house, and I finally have my library I've been needing. I'm in heaven. I also found a used bookstore close by and every book in there is $3. Some purchases I'..."Samantha, I adore your hauls. Just bought The Red Tent as well. And On beauty in my last haul.
My Book Fair haul-Middlemarch
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
The Age of Miracles
Assassin's Apprentice
A Northern Light
Guernica
Bread and ChocolateBread and Chocolate
A Patchwork Planet
The Red Tent
Half of a Yellow Sun
The Autograph Man
The Night Before Christmas
All these for less than a total of $10.
Nice hauls, Bella and Pragya! Bella, you always find such interesting titles.Pragya, you've got some great titles too. I hope you enjoy The Red Tent!
I didn't fare so well - just got one ebook, One for the Money. Everyone kept saying that if I loved Charley Davidson so much, I'd love Stephanie Plum, so I shall give her a try.
Janice wrote: "Nice hauls, Bella and Pragya! Bella, you always find such interesting titles.Pragya, you've got some great titles too. I hope you enjoy The Red Tent!
I didn't fare so well - just got one eboo..."
I find a lot of those books from the GR's Recommendations page. For me, the recs from non-fiction books are pretty good. I would say I end up liking 90% or more. Fiction is more of a crap shoot. Quite a few of those recommendations end up being marked "not interested".
If I was to guess I'd say people are much more accurate correctly shelving non fiction where as fiction ahelving is much more open to interpretation which is probably why ypu find nf tecs better
Wow! You guys have been spending!I've just bought Sons of Anarchy: Bratva because I'm addicted to the show. This book takes place between series 4 and 5. We've just started series 4 so thought I'd get prepared.
I just bought Fairytales for Wilde Girls by Allyse Near. It doesn't have US distribution; it was published in Australia. I got a copy at Abe Books...it was over $20, but I really want to read it. (That was pretty much the cheapest copy when you factor in shipping.)
Bella wrote: "I just bought Fairytales for Wilde Girls by Allyse Near. It doesn't have US distribution; it was published in Australia. I got a copy at Abe Books...it was over $20..."Interesting...
Also, kinda cool for us Aussies. That never happens!!
not to mention how many awards that's won. How do I not know about this?!?
Rusalka wrote: "Bella wrote: "I just bought Fairytales for Wilde Girls by Allyse Near. It doesn't have US distribution; it was published in Australia. I got a copy at Abe Books...i..."There's actually a lot of really great YA books from Australian writers. And a lot of them don't have US deals for some inexplicable reason- good is good, right? I used to use Fishpond because they used to ship worldwide for free, but they stopped. But I still find myself buying a lot of Australian and British stuff that isn't released in America.
Sandra wrote: "Congrats on your new house, Samantha. Many good titles there. Some I read (and liked) and others are in my TBR.Cherie, I'm reading The Girls in the Spider's Wed this month. It's waiting for me in..."
it might be a couple of weeks before I get to it.
I have to finish some other things. I need to check and see what Janice said about series books written by other authors. I may just have to read it as a stand alone. I read the other three books a couple of years ago. doesn't matter, I still want to see what it is about.
Bella wrote: "I used to use Fishpond because they used to ship worldwide for free, but they stopped."Oh I hate Fishpond. But totally would get why you would use them for that deal.
Try Booko.com.au for comparing prices (all in $AUD) but then I click on the cheapest deal. If you go through Booko to Booktopia from Aus, you get free shipping. Not sure if they apply that to International shipping, but give it a go. And the Aussie dollar has completely bottomed out (just as I head to the States, bastards!) so it may give you some cheaper options.
Rusalka wrote: "Bella wrote: "I used to use Fishpond because they used to ship worldwide for free, but they stopped."Oh I hate Fishpond. But totally would get why you would use them for that deal.
Try Booko.com..."
Thanks, I bookmarked the site. At Abe, Ebay, etc., even with the exchange rate, I think shipping was about $10-$12 American for one book.
Oh, and have fun on your trip to America, Rusalka.
Bella wrote: "Oh, and have fun on your trip to America, Rusalka."Heh thanks. While off yet, just paying money at the moment so noticing the exchange rate.
Audible sale I picjed upWaterloo
Innocence
Wilson
Blaze
Thunderstruck
The Godfather
Proof: The Science of Booze
The Power of the Dog
Secrets of a D-List Supervillain
Travis of NNY wrote: "Audible sale I picjed upWaterloo
Innocence
Wilson
Blaze
Thunderstruck
The Godfather
[book:Proof: The Science o..."
I have a bunch of those books...I think Wilson has been sitting on my (virtual) shelves since it was released. And I just picked up Proof (even though I don't really drink).
Travis of NNY wrote: "Audible sale I picjed up"I have Blaze in my cart along with 4 others. I'm still a bit undecided.
The non fiction in this sale is really appealing to me I got 5 moreAlan Turing: The Enigma
Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies
Crashing Through: A True Story of Risk, Adventure, and the Man Who Dared to See
George Washington's Secret Six: The Spy Ring That Saved the American Revolution
The Triple Agent: The al-Qaeda Mole who Infiltrated the CIA
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