New Purchases - 2015 Showing 301-350 of 1,215

[Sarah]

I bought 20th Century Ghosts after my recent success with short stories. I also received a couple books on netgalley Slow Bullets and Wayward.

[Travis]

After there had been no pre order or any sign of its existence I did my weekly search at audible for The Skull Throneand there it was available now to purchase. So I did.

[Travis]

Gota whole bunch of books recently can't remember any except for God, No!: Signs You May Already Be an Atheist and Other Magical Tales

[Cherie]

Travis of NNY wrote: "Gota whole bunch of books recently can't remember any except for God, No!: Signs You May Already Be an Atheist and Other Magical Tales"

Hmmm, you might have to tell what he has to say about the scuba diving thing. Must have been nitrogen narcosis induced would be my guess...☺

[Sarah]

Travis of NNY wrote: "After there had been no pre order or any sign of its existence I did my weekly search at audible for The Skull Throneand there it was available now to purchase. So I did."

I am pleased it is now available. Now this one is in sight I might read book 3 soon.

[Sarah]

I'm tempted to pre-order Armada after loving Ready Player One but it's not out until July anyway. I might hold off on preordering for now.

[Peggy]

A friend is cleaning out her house, and she asked if I wanted her copy of The Mists of Avalon. Sure! Don't think I'll read it anytime soon though, I would like to get my other superchunky series (Outlander) out of the way first.

[Mariab]

Thanks for the inside about "Armada", Sarah!.
Propmt an dutyful added to my TBR

[Mariab]

I bough "Child 44" for 1.99$ yesterday.

[Cherie]

Peggy wrote: "A friend is cleaning out her house, and she asked if I wanted her copy of The Mists of Avalon. Sure! Don't think I'll read it anytime soon though, I would like to get my other superch..."

The first one is my favorite!

[Mariab]

I got The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating yesterday. It was a ebook deal for 1.99$

[Cherie]

Mariab wrote: "I got The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating yesterday. It was a ebook deal for 1.99$"

Ha, I got it too! I have had this on on my TBR list forever. Thanks for bringing it up, Mariab.

[Mariab]

Cherie wrote: "Mariab wrote: "I got The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating yesterday. It was a ebook deal for 1.99$"

Ha, I got it too! I have had this on on my TBR list forever. Thanks for bringing it..."

Glad to help!

[Rusalka, Moderator]

I toddled off to the Bookshop today. I bought:

Fire: A World of Flavor
Matter
A Guide to the Birds of East Africa. Nicholas Drayson
The Messenger of Athens
Aunty Lee's Delights
Jar City
Faceless Killers
Tooth and Nail
Rivers of London
Moon Over Soho
Whispers Underground
Out
Guilty Pleasures
Mistress of the Art of Death

He had a deal on today that if you mentioned a code word you got a $50 voucher for the next time you go. He wrote mine out without asking my name, and got my name and spelling correct. I looked puzzled and the response was "When your book dealer knows your full name, some may say you have a problem" with a wink.

I love my bookshop.

[Peggy]

Lol Rusalka. I remember you writing another fun story about your bookshop a while (maybe even over a year) ago, no idea anymore what it was though.

[Sarah]

nice haul. For some reason I thought you'd read Jar City Rusalka. Where we used to live, the local Indian takeaway recognised my voice when I rang up to order as well as my name.

[Sarah]

I bought a couple books yesterday. I'll post later when I can link.

[Rusalka, Moderator]

Peggy wrote: "Lol Rusalka. I remember you writing another fun story about your bookshop a while (maybe even over a year) ago, no idea anymore what it was though."

I think that was the day he wouldn't let me leave until I took The Lies of Locke Lamora with me.

[Rusalka, Moderator]

Sarah wrote: "nice haul. For some reason I thought you'd read Jar City Rusalka. Where we used to live, the local Indian takeaway recognised my voice when I rang up to order as well as my name."

Our Indian is the same. And the small takeaway shop we go to, but they are next door to where my Dad used to live, so at least I've been going there for 20 years.

Not yet. I have wanted to for a while. It's one of the ones where they have translated all out of order, but I've been waiting for ages, I just had to go for it.

[Pragya]

I love your bookshop, Rusalka. So cool!

[Rusalka, Moderator]

While I was there about 5 piles of books collapsed or got knocked over. There was a shout of "Don't worry about the piles of books people! They are there to impose a sense of danger, so then it releases your endorphins and then you buy more books!"

[Pragya]

Hahahha that guy sure is funny!

[Kristie, Moderator]

I just bought Talon . It is the Audible daily deal.

[Sandra, Moderator]

Such a nice place, Rusalka!

[Tasha]

That's so funny, Rusalka!

[Mariab]

@Rusalka.
I m in love with your bookdealer already...

[Janice, Moderator]

I love your stories, Rusalka. Your bookseller sounds like he's a quirky guy, and I like quirky.

Are you reading mysteries around the world? I sense a theme.

[Janice, Moderator]

Kristie wrote: "I just bought Talon . It is the Audible daily deal."

I was tempted, so I was. Still tempted, so I am.

[Janice, Moderator]

I went shopping at Audible today. They aren't quite as much fun as Rusalka's bookseller, and their coupon isn't as good. Still $10 is $10 and I purchased 2 towards the 4 required to earn it.

Wolves of the Calla (I'll give George Guidall at try.)
Deadline

I must shore up those series so I can kill them off.

[Sarah]

I bought The Three-Body Problem for a bit of non-series sci-fi. And Assassin's Quest to complete the trilogy (although I've not read book 2 yet)

[Rusalka, Moderator]

Janice wrote: "I love your stories, Rusalka. Your bookseller sounds like he's a quirky guy, and I like quirky.

Are you reading mysteries around the world? I sense a theme."

Not an intentional one. There were too many people in the shop (great for him, not for me) so I couldn't get a good crawl down some of the other sections. And I wanted the second Dublin Murder Squad book, so I was trawling the crime shelves pretty intensely. Then I realised I had run out of room to carry anything else...

[Sarah]

I bought InterWorld which is a Neil Gaiman book but I think it's co-authored and doesn't have a very high star rating but thought I'd check it out. I also bought Old Man's War by John Scalzi as it was only 99p.

[Peggy]

I joined this facebook group where you can buy or sell books to people all across the country. Someone just put a list online with 600 books, all 1 euro each!

I got The Hobbit (which I've read but would be nice to own) and Girl with the Pearl Earring.

Also got 8 or so I think bf would like.

[Pragya]

Peggy wrote: "I joined this facebook group where you can buy or sell books to people all across the country. Someone just put a list online with 600 books, all 1 euro each!

I got The Hobbit (which I've read but..."

That sounds great, Peggy. Wish I was there!

[Pragya]

I got a couple of books for review -

How Can I Ever Trust You Again?: Infidelity. Andrew G. Marshall
Learn to Love Yourself Enough: Seven Steps to Improving Your Self-Esteem and Your Relationships

And some ARCs-
Because You'll Never Meet Me
The Sunlit Night
The Wolf Wilder

[Mariab]

Peggy wrote: "I joined this facebook group where you can buy or sell books to people all across the country. Someone just put a list online with 600 books, all 1 euro each!

I got... Girl with the Pearl Earring"

Girl with the Pearl Earring also gave one of the most beautiful (visual) movies ever. Almost each picture is like a painting from Vermeer

I'm also absolutely jealous of you FB group

[Sarah]

Yes that FB group sounds fantastic (but dangerous) ;-)

[Sarah]

So excited! My pre-order for The Skull Throne has just been delivered to my kindle. My version has a man on it - he has a fiddle so I'm guessing it's Rojer. He's foxier than I had imagined him ;-)

[Travis]

this is cover I have. Must be the dude version

[Rusalka, Moderator]

Travis of NNY wrote: "[bookcover]this is cover I have. Must be the dude version"

*snort*. I believe there are two versions, one with a guy or a girl on the cover. I wonder if it is just luck which you get or if they are giving out one or the other based on your gender (or their idea of it) and that then leads to all kinds of assumptions...

[Sarah]

Or country release or kindle versus audio.

[Rusalka, Moderator]

There are both covers as hardbacks though. is the one you've got Sarah?

[Sarah]

This is my version.

[Sandra, Moderator]

This genre cover thing is interesting to research...

[Sarah]

Oops. our posts crossed.

[Travis]

Well I don't know reason other than I eould bet country it is released. But I love my cover character my poor brain can't recall but I think its Arlens woman demon fighter is too foxier than I had imagined

[Sarah]

Yes I thought it was Arlen's girl but I can't remember for the life of me what she's called.

[Cherie]

I picked up a couple of used books off the Library Sale shelf yesterday. Two of them were on my TBR list, but the third is a new series for me. sigh.
I bought Major Pettigrew's Last Stand (I love this cover), Shopgirl - wanted to read for a long time, and Murphy's Law - which is an autographed copy and the first of fifteen in the Molly Murphy Series.

[Samantha A]

We didn't stop at any bookstores on the way to Fl so I stopped at 2 today :)

Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays by Joan Didion (paperback)
Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl (paperback)
What is the What by Dave Eggers (hardcover)
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand (paperback)
The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand (paperback)

[Janice, Moderator]

Audible is my downfall. Enticed by the Buy 4, Get $10 sale combined with the 50% Spring Cleaning Sale, I picked up Song of Susannah and The Dark Tower. I think I've already listed the other two books I had purchased when this sale began. When I went to look at the books in my Audible library, I was greeting by a "Surprise $4.95 Sale". I picked up Pretty When She Dies. *sigh* I'm buying faster than I'm reading.