New Purchases - 2015 Showing 1,151-1,200 of 1,215

[Delitealex]

Kindle sales are often hard for me to pass up especially when they have whole series on sale.

[Kristie, Moderator]

Lol! Peggy is such a bad influence. :) Unfortunately, that's exactly how I think too, so I have a difficult time passing up a sale.

[Peggy]

I'm sorry Janice ;-)

That's why I also buy every kindle deal that I have on my tbr. I'm very good at ignoring unknown titles though, so that helps a bit. I just get the titles I recognize.

[Janice, Moderator]

I was just teasing you, Peggy. :)

I popped back in here to get the titles because I'm going to check iTunes for the books. I have a huge credit there, so if they offer the same deal, I'll get them from iTunes.

[Janice, Moderator]

And....... they were, so I bought them.

No willpower.

[Peggy]

There are worse things to have no willpower over!

[Sandra, Moderator]

Willpower is overestimated. lol

[Lisa]

Peggy wrote: "There are worse things to have no willpower over!"

I agree! Like chocolate!

[Peggy]

I have no willpower over chocolate either but I'm not complaining :P

[Janice, Moderator]

Ice cream is my nemesis. Can't say no. A bowl of ice cream and a good book is the way to go.

[Kristie, Moderator]

Janice wrote: "Ice cream is my nemesis. Can't say no. A bowl of ice cream and a good book is the way to go."

Just did that tonight. Love it.

[Peggy]

Peggy wrote: "I'm very good at ignoring unknown titles though, so that helps a bit. I just get the titles I recognize."

I'm only human... how can I ignore a title like The Lemoncholy Life of Annie Aster? I came across it for 99 cents in the Kobo store. And bought it. Because it sounds interesting.

[Cherie]

I have it on my TBR list, Peggy and I just bought it from Barnes & Nobel for 99 cents. Thanks for pointing it out. I thought it was a great title and added it to my list after I saw a review from someone I follow. :0)

[Peggy]

I hope it will fit a challenge soon :D

[Cherie]

There are birds on the cover. It might fit one of the Geocaching tasks or it could be an alternate read for Janurary. Lemoncolly isn't exactly an everyday word. :o)

[Cherie]

Especially since I can't even spell it correctly!

[Sandra, Moderator]

It reminds me of Limoncello. I love Limoncello.

[Lisa]

I got these four books for xmas. There is some serious cover love going on here:

Dickens at Christmas

The Penguin Lessons

The Chimes

The Lake House

[Rusalka, Moderator]

I was shopping for Christmas presents and my University bookshop currently has all it's books on sale to make room for more tacky crap and makeup (!?). I'm not impressed at all, but what can you do. I picked up:

Red Queen
Longbourn
The Gardener from Ochakov, and
The Fall of the Stone City

Last week I scored:
Adam Liaw's Asian Cookery School

And today:
The Secret Chord

[Rusalka, Moderator]

The Chimes sounds fascinating, Lisa. Enjoy! And Merry Christmas!

[Sarah]

No books for me for Christmas but i did just buy a couple for myself.
The Dark Forest
Mercy
Kafka on the Shore

[Lisa]

Rusalka wrote: "The Chimes sounds fascinating, Lisa. Enjoy! And Merry Christmas!"

Merry Christmas to you too Rusalka! Enjoy your new purchases.

[Roz]

Janice wrote: "I grabbed one of yesterday's Kindle deals - The Paradise War.

@Sarah - Brilliance is one of those books that has me tense. Discrimination and poor treatment of people ..."

The Paradise War was one of the first books I read on my kindle and the first by Lawhead. Really liked it. Be sure to read the whole series.

[Janice, Moderator]

I'm looking forward to it, Roz.

I picked up 3 Kindle Daily Deals today -

Ancillary Justice
This Dark Road to Mercy
The Silence of the Lambs

My ex gave me a gift card for some ebooks from Enthrill. I'd never heard of them. The wee print says that they are affiliated with Walmart. I couldn't find any recognizable titles or authors. Many of the books that I looked up on Goodreads were published several years back with very few reviews and low ratings. LOL!

[Janice, Moderator]

I forgot to mention that my sister gave me The Nazi Officer's Wife: How One Jewish Woman Survived the Holocaust for Christmas.

[Delitealex]

Picked up for .99 looks like 1st of a series

[Janice, Moderator]

I used two Audible credits and got:

The Death of Dulgath
Throne of Jade

[Lisa]

Janice wrote: "I used two Audible credits and got:

The Death of Dulgath
Throne of Jade"

Enjoy the new Riyria adventure Janice! Still waiting for it to come out in paperback here in the UK.

[Sarah]

Another purchase Half the World. I think i must nearly own all this author's stuff and I've not even read one book yet. I normally don't do that in case i don't like their style.

[Janice, Moderator]

Sarah wrote: "Another purchase Half the World. I think i must nearly own all this author's stuff and I've not even read one book yet. I normally don't do that in case i don't like their style."

I think you'll like Joe Abercrombie, Sarah. I've got a few of his books as well.

[Sarah]

That's what I figured. I'm pretty certain I'll like his style given the people who've already read and rated his books who have similar taste in books as me.

[Rusalka, Moderator]

So I went to the bookshop. Got a couple of things.

Half Blood Blues
The Blood Split
HHhH
The Housekeeper and the Professor
The Redbreast
The Yard
Tears of the Giraffe
Thirty-Three Teeth
Disco For The Departed
Succubus on Top
Voices
Silence of the Grave
Killed at the Whim of a Hat
White Tiger
Vernon God Little
Something Wicked This Way Comes
The Laughing Corpse
Dandelion Wine
The Bone Season
The Killing Moon
Mister Pip

And I also got:
A Red-Rose Chain
Broken Harbour
Black Seconds
as in Aus, you pounce when you see a series you like, even if it's not the next one to read. They can gather dust while I find the inbetweens.

[Lisa]

Great haul Rusalka! How are you feeling now? Did the bookish retail therapy help?

[Lisa]

I have bought some more books over the past couple of days:

Fates and Furies

Dreamer's Pool: A Blackthorn & Grim Novel

How to Be Both

The Goblin Emperor

The Ghost Writer


Kindle books:

Red Queen

The Clockwork Scarab

[Sarah]

Both you have some good books in your hauls. I want to buy some more books but nothing is jumping out at me rjght now. Kindle have 12 days of christmas offers on at the moment which I'm paying attention to. There are some great books listed but i own or have read quite a number of them. I'm tempted to buy The Windup Girl even though I've read it as i love the author and i think I'd like to reread it at some point.

[Sandra, Moderator]

Rusalka, I'm sure you are like a teenager now. :)

Good titles in both hauls!

[Rusalka, Moderator]

Sandra wrote: "Rusalka, I'm sure you are like a teenager now. "

Full of hormones and easily distractible? :P

[Rusalka, Moderator]

Seriously though, thanks guys. Feeling heaps better. The 90 mins in the shop was a bit much, feeling pretty weak and fevery by the end of it. But very worth it. And the only customer in there for an hour, so I could browse properly!! Love that!

[Sandra, Moderator]

Rusalka wrote: "Sandra wrote: "Rusalka, I'm sure you are like a teenager now. "

Full of hormones and easily distractible? :P"

lol, I can't affirm that part. I was thinking more in "young" or "as good as new". :)

[Rusalka, Moderator]

I am one spring chicken. If the chicken was a little bit snotty. And 30 something and not very springy.

[Kristie, Moderator]

I picked up A Girl and Her Monster as a Kindle freebie.

Glad you are feeling better, Rusalka.

[Rusalka, Moderator]

Thank you!

I forgot to say i bought another copy of The Gashlycrumb Tinies to add to our present drawer. So many people keep on having children and we need many a copy of this book to give away.

[Janice, Moderator]

Now that is retail therapy in action, Rusalka! Lisa isn't far behind you. :)

[Courtney]

For Christmas I got The Sparrow Sisters: A Novel, The Apple Orchard, and The Good Luck Girls of Shipwreck Lane.

I then bought The Final Note: A Novel, The Saffron Trail, and Hello From the Gillespies. I have a lot of reading to do!

[Kristie, Moderator]

I just picked up It Was Me All Along for Kindle. It was a choice awards nominee and it looks really interesting to me.

[Lisa]

Two more books for the collection:

Cold City

Crimson Peak: The Official Movie Novelization

[Travis]

Preordered The Bands of Mourning

[Sarah]

I am going to focus on the Mistborn series this year!

[Travis]

Sarah wrote: "I am going to focus on the Mistborn series this year!"

I see no reason why you shouldn't love it

[Travis]

Enjoy Mr Mercedes Kelly Its pretty good plus tgere should be a buddy read thread around here for it I think. Pretty sure anyway