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[Janice, Moderator]

Happy Birthday, Rusalka! Nice birthday haul. :)

[Kristie, Moderator]

Happy birthday, Rusalka!

[Lisa]

Rusalka wrote: "Some really bloody good reads in that haul. I don't know where to start!"

You might have to use the trusty fruit machine to help you pick :)

[Rusalka, Moderator]

Thanks guys. Indeed I do, Lisa!

[Mariab]

Happy Birthday, R.!

Jared Diamond is one of the best!

[Peggy]

There's a book fair right across from work and I just went there. I got

The Paris Wife
22 Britannia Road
The Promise (edit: oh shoot, I now see this is second in a series)
The Nightingale


If they would have had all the Dutch translations also in the original versions, I wouldn't have been able to carry it all home.

[Kristie, Moderator]

Oh, I love finding book fairs, Peggy. The Nightingale was fabulous. Hope you love it

Audible is having a $4.95 sale. I'm looking forward to checking it out.

[Lisa]

I bought:

The Nightingale

Book Collector

[Peggy]

Funny Lisa! I bought The Nightingale yesterday :D

[Lisa]

Peggy wrote: "Funny Lisa! I bought The Nightingale yesterday :D"

Hehe, I know! I hadn't actually heard of it until I saw you haul it and being nosy like I am, I just had to go and check it out ;) It sounds really good so I'm looking forward to reading it.

[Sandra, Moderator]

Isn't it nominated for the GR awards? It could fit the Dec. challenge.

[Peggy]

Is it? I thought it was older but I could be wrong. I'm going to check it out. I wasn't planning on doing the challenge because I didn't plan on buying any of the books, but if this one fits I might!

[Peggy]

You're right Sandra, it is! That's great :) I hope I can find time to fit it in.

[Sandra, Moderator]

Great! That was lucky!

[Janice, Moderator]

I used a credit at Audible and got Winter. I also picked up one of the books on their current sale, Shadow and Bone.

[Tasha]

Happy Belated Burthday, Rusalka! Looks like you enjoyed it. ;)

[Rusalka, Moderator]

Thanks Tasha and Mariab!

[Sarah]

I just bought Twilight Eyes which was reduced on kindle.

[Kristie, Moderator]

I'm struggling with the current Audible sale. I want to pick up a few books, but my list is way too long. Has anyone read any of the following books and want to give a recommendation?

Wintergirls
The Edge of Never
The Flight of Gemma Hardy
The Time Between
The Good Father
Stay Close
The Glass Kitchen: A Novel of Sisters
Secrets She Left Behind
The Ice Queen
Dark Witch
Keeper of the Light
Open Season
The 9th Girl
The Magician's Lie

[Janice, Moderator]

I grabbed Tooth and Claw on iBooks for $2.99 this morning.

[Lisa]

Janice wrote: "I grabbed Tooth and Claw on iBooks for $2.99 this morning."

I really enjoyed this one Janice. I hope you do too!

[Janice, Moderator]

Your rating was one of the factors in my purchase, Lisa. :)

[Travis]

I bought a couple from audible myself

The Divine Comedy
The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II
Aces High
Pines
Island 731
Eisenhower in War and Peace
Midnight Riot
Forensic History: Crimes, Frauds, and Scandals

[Sandra, Moderator]

No, Kristie, I didn't read any of them.

[Lisa]

I picked up 3 more books:

Florence and Giles

The Girl Who Couldn’t Read

His Dark Materials


Now I am on a book buying ban until Christmas.

[Kristie, Moderator]

Thanks for looking, Sandra. :)

[Peggy]

Do you think you can stick to your ban Lisa? ;-)

Kristie, I enjoyed The Magician's Lie but it's the only one I read from the list so don't know if others are better..

[Kristie, Moderator]

Thanks, Peggy.

[Lisa]

Peggy wrote: "Do you think you can stick to your ban Lisa? ;-)"

Hehe, I doubt it! I think I have more chance of going to the moon tbh! :D I will try though...

[Cherie]

Kristie, I looked at your list too, but have not readd/listened to any, sorry.

[Sarah]

I just got The Winter People and The Goblin Emperor.

[Kristie, Moderator]

Cherie wrote: "Kristie, I looked at your list too, but have not readd/listened to any, sorry."

Thanks, Cherie. I think I'm just going to reread the summaries, listen to the samples, and pick whatever sounds good. :)

[Cherie]

Kristie wrote: "Cherie wrote: "Kristie, I looked at your list too, but have not readd/listened to any, sorry."

Thanks, Cherie. I think I'm just going to reread the summaries, listen to the samples, and pick whate..."

The sound bytes are what usually get me to purchase or listen to an audio book. Good luck! I should check out my wish list. My daughter said we are going to have to use a credit or loose it and it is my turn to pick. She got the last one. ^-^

[Cherie]

I just bought The Woman Who Walked in Sunshine at Costco this afternoon. Another to add to my list of orphan books for series already killed this year.

[Lisa]

Well, that lasted a long time! I broke my three day old book buying ban by picking up two kindle books:

The Winter People

A Cavern of Black Ice


Now let's see if I can get through to Christmas without buying anything else...

[Sandra, Moderator]

:) Well... two books is not so much... let's say is just a bump in the ban.

[Peggy]

Lol Lisa :D

[Travis]

I bought 3 books yesterday. Should look at see what they were

[Janice, Moderator]

I nabbed one more from Audible's sale - Son of the Shadows. It's book two in the series and I haven't read book one yet. I figured $5.00 was worth the risk.

[Sarah]

Not a new purchase but a pre-order. Joe Hill's new book The Fireman is out in May 2016! Exciting.

[Janice, Moderator]

That is exciting, Sarah! Woot!

[Sarah]

it's about time too.

[Sarah]

I got The Last Kingdom for free because I'd bought something else. It will be my first Bernard Cornwell book.

[Sarah]

Another addition to my kindle with Watchers as it was only 99p.

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I found a nice hard cover copy of Midnight In The Garden Of Good and Evil at Goodwill for $2 :)

[Cherie]

I bought Jurassic Park

[Sarah]

Yay! I'm looking forward to the buddy read. There might be a lot of us reading this book. It's the perfect book for the challenge.

[Peggy]

It's not like I don't have more than enough books that I haven't read yet lying around, but with my eye on next year's challenge I ordered The BFG (which will be a re-read) and In a Sunburned Country. Not for the challenge but for no reason at all I also got Moloka'i.

[Lisa]

I seriously cannot do book buying bans! I have just picked up four books, all by the same author. They should also work for next year's challenge in case I want to swap some of my planned books out.

The Greatest Knight

The Scarlet Lion

The Summer Queen

Lady of the English

[Kristie, Moderator]

Peggy - I'm planning to read Moloka'i for the yearly challenge next year for the 'set in Hawaii' task.