What have you purchased? - 2021

[Kristie, Moderator]

It's happened a few times now that I've purchased something after recommending it to the library only for them to end up getting it months later.

I looked it up and the other two on got on sale. One was $6 and the other in a buy one get one, so I don't feel too bad about those, but I used a credit for this one. Ugh. I will probably just keep it since Craig will likely listen to it as well. It's just annoying that they got it just hours after I bought it and the coupon sale ended.

[Janice, Moderator]

At least your library is listening to you. I don't know how receptive my library would be since I've never tried. The Regional Automation Consortium might be more receptive since there is an option to request that they acquire a book you search for. I'll try it next time I search and get the notice.

[Kristie, Moderator]

I request a lot. Some they get, some they don't. Sometimes it is a long wait before they decide to purchase something I've requested. I wonder if they wait for a certain number of people to request before adding a book they hadn't planned on. That's my best guess. I tend to request early, before they publish. That way I'm automatically at the top of the hold list (or close to) when they get it.

[Janice, Moderator]

Good strategy, Kristie.

[Peggy]

I was in a thrift shop today and picked up The Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden and Taal is zeg maar echt mijn ding

[Rusalka, Moderator]

I found City of Girls at an Op Shop on Kangaroo Island as I got distracted by a dog/cat/8 year old/bobcat driver/combination of above at our friend's place and I forgot to pack enough shirts so I needed to find something to wear and found a book.

And I came home this afternoon to find The Collapsing Empire had been delivered.

[Janice, Moderator]

I hope you enjoy the Interdependency Series Rusalka.

I picked up Trell which was one of this week's freebies from Audiobook Sync .

[Rusalka, Moderator]

Thanks Janice, on many levels. Needed a "Empire" in the title option so now seemed like a great time to source it.

[Janice, Moderator]

I think you'll enjoy Kiva. She's an irreverent character if I ever met one.

[Kristie, Moderator]

I bought An Ordinary Life and The Perfect Getaway.

[Janice, Moderator]

I've been buying books! Argh!


I got my coupon and I got:
The Silent Patient
The Last Green Valley

I had $0.52 left over which was applied to today's daily deal,
Heroes: Mortals and Monsters, Quests and Adventures

[Kristie, Moderator]

I just contacted Audible and got my coupon. :) Now to decide what to get. I received $5 and I have 5 options. Two cost $4.86, so would be free. Three others would cost a little in addition.

Ted Bundy: The Horrific True Story behind America's Most Wicked Serial Killer
Jeffrey Dahmer: The Gruesome True Story of a Hungry Cannibalistic Rapist and Necrophiliac Serial Killer
Dark Path +2.34
Wish Me Home +2.34
Swamp Santa +2.99

[Katrisa]

Kristie wrote: "I just contacted Audible and got my coupon. :) Now to decide what to get. I received $5 and I have 5 options. Two cost $4.86, so would be free. Three others would cost a little in addition.

[book:..."

I would probably go with one of the true crime ones - my daughter has gotten me into a true crime podcast lately. So creepy but fascinating!

[Katrisa]

Chirp had The Deathless Girls on sale today. I decided to give it a try because I really loved her writing in The Mercies

[Cherie]

I bought The Last Green Valley from Audible also. I really liked the author’s previous book, Under the Scarlet Sky.

[Janice, Moderator]

Cherie wrote: "I bought The Last Green Valley from Audible also. I really liked the author’s previous book, Under the Scarlet Sky."

I have it on audiobook too and haven't read it. I have Under the Scarlet Sky on my challenge. I'm going to read The Last Green Valley next month and it will also fit the challenge under one of my interactive tasks.

One of the things that drew me to this book is that it is set in Ukraine and concerns the German Russians. That is my ancestry, so I'm eager to read a book from that point of view. I hope it doesn't disappoint.

[uncomfytomato]

I bought Call Down the Hawk on kindle for 12.99 which is unfortunate since the hardcover is on sale for 9.99

I already pre-ordered the second book and want to finish this quickly before I get it on 18th of this month. Shipping takes a long time so I'd rather have it instantly on kindle and not have to worry about shipping fees

I got the 80% sale offer kindle email but none of the books look worth it, some are 2nd in a serious which is a great trick to get you to buy the first and waste more money haha

[Janice, Moderator]

Audible has another 2/1 credit sale that ends tomorrow. I got Summer of Night and Heart's Blood.

[Kristie, Moderator]

I picked up the whispersync deal of The Drowned Girls.

I'm hoping to have some time to choose books from the sale. I saw a few that I'm interested in, but I don't want to use all my credits. This is the disadvantage of getting the 12 credits per year instead of 24.

[Saar The Book owl]

I've bought The Terror at Book Depository and Black Beauty: Puffin Clothbound Classics and The Cat and The City in my favorit bookstore.

[Kristie, Moderator]

Anyone having problems with Audible today? I'm having problems searching for books; it tells me they don't exist. I am also only getting two books in each genre showing up in the sale. Even the "All Categories" option only shows 8 books. It's making it very difficult to choose books from the sale.

[Janice, Moderator]

I haven't noticed any problems but then I still don't have the sale banner. The only way I knew of it was that someone provided a link to it in the Audiobook group.

[Kristie, Moderator]

I thought it might be my browser, but I tried a different one and still had the problem. Someone in one of my FB groups mentioned the issue too and a couple other people jumped in to say they were also having trouble, so at least I know it’s not just me. I hope they get it fixed soon since tomorrow is the last day.

[Kristie, Moderator]

I got 4 books in the sale. Three of them were already in my wishlist.

Ink & Sigil
Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha
Before She Disappeared
A Constellation of Vital Phenomena

There were a couple of others I was interested in, but honestly I was just too frustrated with the technical issues to bother looking for more.

[Sharon]

I just bought South of the Buttonwood Tree and The Girls in the Stilt House: A Novel.

[Rusalka, Moderator]

The Last Colony just turned up in the mail.

[Kristie, Moderator]

I picked up today's daily deal from Audible, The Brilliant Life of Eudora Honeysett.

While I was there, I figured I'd try one last time to find titles in the sale and they were there, so I also picked up The Diabetes Code: Prevent and Reverse Type 2 Diabetes Naturally and The Paris Dressmaker.

[Katrisa]

I did the same thing Kristie! I went to grab The Brilliant Life of Eudora Honeysettand decided to check if the sale issue was fixed. Yesterday I was driving between camping places and had spotty cell service so I thought that was the problem with seeing the sale books. From the sale I ended up getting
Heart's Blood
Wild Seed
An Untamed State and
Sandman Slim

[Kristie, Moderator]

I almost grabbed Sandman Slim, Katrisa! It sounds really interesting, but I think it was just a little darker than I was in the mood for while purchasing.

[Janice, Moderator]

Kristie wrote: "I almost grabbed Sandman Slim, Katrisa! It sounds really interesting, but I think it was just a little darker than I was in the mood for while purchasing."

I read the first book and liked it well enough. But dnf the second because it was darker than what suited me. Usually dark doesn't affect me, so maybe it was just the frame of mind I was in at the time. I could reread it, but then I'd need to reread the 1st one and there are too many other books out there waiting to be read.

[Janice, Moderator]

I've been shopping this morning. $10 has netted me 4 books. I can justify that.

Audible has a sale - Five Days of Five Dollar Deals Each day the books are swapped out for new books. This could be very dangerous. Here today, gone tomorrow.

I got Macbeth: A Novel which is a retelling of the class. I listened to the sample of Alan Cumming's narration - SOLD!

I also got the first 3 books of the Leveling Up series on Kindle ($1.00 each):
Magical Midlife Madness
Magical Midlife Dating
Magical Midlife Invasion

There was a discussion in another group of a new genre: Hot Flash - fiction geared to older women. I was intrigued enough to make a note of some of the books. When the first 3 books of the Leveling Up series was offered on Kindle this morning at $1.00 each, I snapped them up. It looks like a fun series.

[Margo]

I picked up The Shape of Darkness and Time of the Twins in the audible uk sale.

[Roz]

I checked out the first book in that series, Janice. I loved that the character was 40. Yikes! That means I'm almost done with my second half.

[Kristie, Moderator]

I picked up The Hollow Places and The Daughters of Foxcote Manor from the sale. I'm considering Little Disasters as well.

I'm going to look into that series, Janice. I am finding that I enjoy fiction with older MCs. I clicked on the first one and it is free with Prime, but I'd have to return something else. However, for just $.99, I may just go ahead and buy it.

Roz, I didn't notice that she was just 40! That is not an 'older' MC. Somehow I didn't think of 40 when I read midlife. lol

[Kristie, Moderator]

I just quickly read a bit of the sample of Magical Midlife Madness and it looks like it's going to be funny, so I picked up the first three while they're on sale as well.

And I added Little Disasters to my Audible purchase because why not. This is the hardest part of a sale that changes every day. You have no idea if there will be nothing else that really interests you or a dozen books in a couple of days.

[Katrisa]

I decided on
Them: Adventures with Extremists
Fleishman Is in Trouble and
Leave the World Behind
from audible.

[Janice, Moderator]

Kristie wrote: "I just quickly read a bit of the sample of Magical Midlife Madness and it looks like it's going to be funny, so I picked up the first three while they're on sale as well.

And I ad..."

I think it was free with Kindle Unlimited. I don't see that it was one of Prime's selections - at least in Canada.

[Kristie, Moderator]

Yes, just the first one was available through Prime, as well as Unlimited. At least it was here. I still bought it though. Prime is really just a rental. You can only have 10 books at once, then you need to return one before getting another. I have no idea when I'll get around to this one, so I figured for $1 I might as well just buy it.

[Janice, Moderator]

You can't go wrong with $1.00. :)

[Janice, Moderator]

I got two from today's sale - one was on my wishlist and the other was pure cover love.

What's Left of Me Is Yours
Master of Sorrows

[Kristie, Moderator]

I'm happy to report that there is less tempting me in today's offerings. lol I am still considering The Lost Girls of Devon.

[Janice, Moderator]

Someone posted on FB's Hear For It group that today's selections were lackluster. The first two immediately landed in my cart. I was tempted on a couple others as well. I didn't find them lackluster at all.

[Kristie, Moderator]

Both of your choices sound interesting to me, Janice. I wouldn't have stopped to consider them because I hadn't heard of them before. I tend to skim through the sale and stop on covers/titles that catch my attention or books that I've seen around. I think opinions of the sale likely depend on what looks familiar to you or catches your eye, so lackluster to one person may be intriguing to another.

[Katrisa]

I was thinking about Master of Sorrows from today's sale Janice, but I ended up with
Little Gods
Supernavigators: Exploring the Wonders of How Animals Find Their Way
The First Sister
War on Peace: The End of Diplomacy and the Decline of American Influence

and from Chirp I got
Elatsoe
Desert Notebooks: A Road Map for the End of Time
When Montezuma Met Cortés: The True Story of the Meeting that Changed History
Silver in the Wood & Drowned Country: The Greenhollow Duology

[Katrisa]

I was less interested in most of the books in audible's sale today. I did get A Dream Called Home as I really enjoyed her other book The Distance Between Usand this is the continuation of her story.

[Janice, Moderator]

I didn't get anything today. While there were a couple that appealed to me, I decided to pace myself.

[Kristie, Moderator]

I was more tempted by today's options! lol I actually had 8 in my cart at one point and had to narrow it down. I ended up getting:

The Love Story of Missy Carmichael
Hush Little Baby
Nell and Lady
The Big Finish - I've really been wanting to read this and have it planned for the yearly challenge. I almost didn't get it because I wasn't sure if I loved the audio and my library has the physical copy, but I figured I'd give it a try.

I also got the whispersync deal for Miss Janie's Girls.

[Janice, Moderator]

The Big Finish sounds interesting. I hope you enjoy it.

[Kristie, Moderator]

Thanks, Janice.

[Kristie, Moderator]

I ended up just getting The Bright Side Of Disaster from the Audible sale today. I almost skipped today since I got 4 from the sale yesterday, but I really liked the book I read by Katherine Center previously (Things You Save in a Fire), so I figured I'd give this one a try.