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✯Bookish Questions!✯
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⭒ If you were given the money to buy a book (or an entire series!) today, what book/series would you buy?⭒
J wrote: "I would get The History of Middle-Earth… :)"
They only cost $30 for the Mass Market paperbacks :)
https://www.amazon.com/Histories-Midd...
Alternatively, what you could do is find a library outside of your hometown, apply for a library card there, borrow the books, and never return them. You might have to use a fake name, though.
They only cost $30 for the Mass Market paperbacks :)
https://www.amazon.com/Histories-Midd...
Alternatively, what you could do is find a library outside of your hometown, apply for a library card there, borrow the books, and never return them. You might have to use a fake name, though.
Stephen wrote: "J wrote: "I would get The History of Middle-Earth… :)"They only cost $30 for the Mass Market paperbacks :)
https://www.amazon.com/Histories-Midd...
Alternatively..."
Suggestion #1: Excellent idea, thank you!
Suggestion #2: mmmm…not quite so excellent, lol. (Although my local library did get rid of overdue fees. :))
Stealing? Nah. I like to think of it as redefining the check out time 😅
My local library did, too :) I’ve never been late on returning a book, though.
Stephen wrote: "My local library did, too :) I’ve never been late on returning a book, though."I think I have only ever checked out 1 book from the library (which I also returned :); however, returning ones I borrow from my church’s library is another story, lol. I still have one that I checked out…so long ago that I don’t even remember the date. (The things you can get away with when your mom runs the church library XD)
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They only cost $30 for the Mass Market paperbacks :)
https://www.amazon.com/Histories-Midd...
Alternatively..."
Oh my goodness, the audacity!! I'd never voice a thought like that out loud, but I guess you are brave for doing it.
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Might as well redefine it to "infinity" or some such.
All of keepers of the lost cities OR the homelanders series
All of the collector's edition Narnia books, all of Story Thieves, and collector's edition Jane Austen novels
The Four Kingdoms, Beyond the Four Kingdoms, and Return to the Four Kingdoms books by Melanie Cellier. In my mind, they're all one series and they're awesomeXD
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Ooh, my goodness! 😍😍😍
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Ooh, my goodness! 😍😍😍"
Yeah, while the Goldstone books are TOTALLY different than TQT, I can easily say they are becoming one of my favorite series. Definitely my favorite Christian fantasy series. The writing just keeps getting better and better, and the plot-lines! How did she write them "backwards" like she did?? I am very impressed.
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Ooh, my goodness! 😍😍😍"
Yeah, while the Goldstone books are ..."
Yeah, I can tell she has talent! If I were to buy the series, I'd also call it a very good investment. Which book has been your favorite so far, btw? And is Aethelbald in them? XD
I need to buy the entire shatter me series 😩 I need it desperately to finish my bookshelf
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Ooh, my goodness! 😍😍😍"
Yeah, while the Golds..."
So far, Moonblood has been my favorite. It has some absolutely beautiful writing in it, and it is a lovely redemption arc. The Prince of Farthestshore was in each book I've read so far, but he is not often in his "Aethalbald" form.
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Ooh, my goo..."
Different form? That sounds interesting! Our library has got the whole series (minus Book 7), so I'll definitely be continuing on!
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I am jealous. 😔
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I feel really sorry for your guys! Your library system definitely needs to diversify, and not in the way they are probably doing right now, if you get what I mean!
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Yeah, I definitely know what you mean. The vile stuff they display!🫣
After talking to a librarian about how to request books to be purchased by the library, I went on their website and requested a few books I am interested in by Christian authors. I got this weird response that "each library location is responsible for their fiction series". I showed it to the librarian at my branch, and he couldn't make heads or tails about it.🤷♀️
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I think they just don't care what we, the patrons, want.
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Is your system a pretty large one? Like I think ours encompasses at least ten to twenty libraries. Our particular library isn't very nice about Christian fiction or purchasing indie books (although they do have Joanna Ruth Meyer's books!), but a few smaller libraries in the system do stock a good amount of Christian fiction and fantasy.
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i would buy the stormlight archive series by brandon sanderson
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Oh, I am very quite surprised they don't have so many of the books you want to read, then!
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I've heard that series is super good (but really expensive)! 😭
I read manga so there’s multiple series I would like to buy. For book, I would want to buy the Fourth Wing series just to see the hype
All of Agatha Christie's books, or a Series of Unfortunate Events
I would get all the Middle Earth books I could!-Annie
I would either get The Ascendance Series or Grammar-land: Grammar in fun for the Children of Schoolroom-shire.
I would get the Books of Bayern box set! I looked it up on Amazon today and it's sixty dollars 😞😞😞
I would get the Agatha Christie books.
I have the Library of America Ursula LeGuin Hainish Novels on my want list…someday.
I try not to buy any books in any series because I’m a compulsive reader. Once I’m hooked, I got to buy and read the entire series.I’ve got Lord of The Rings
Clan of the Cave Bear
At one time I had to get every book Robin Cook had out there
And so many more
I’d walk into the bookshop reading a book and walk out reading the next book
It’s an obsession I had since I was a kid, growing up surrounded by books.
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I’ve got Lord of The Rings
Clan of the Cave Bear
At one time I ..."
Yeah, I am a series-junkie too.🤷♀️ I don't know how people read the first book in a series, then move on to a completely unrelated book. I must read the entire series!
Once Upon A Broken Heart for me!
Sharon wrote: "Janice wrote: "I try not to buy any books in any series because I’m a compulsive reader. Once I’m hooked, I got to buy and read the entire series.I’ve got Lord of The Rings
Clan of the Cave Bear
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For me, reading an entire series without taking breaks with other books is kind of like eating the same food for days in a row. 😆
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However, being the series junkie I am, I read the entire Lunar Chronicles back to back even though I didn’t love the books. That was like going out to eat and filling up on the bread before dinner and then looking longingly at the main dish that you are now too full to eat.
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I'm waiting to get proper bookshelves so I can buy the complete set of Harry Potter books in hardback!
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That's too bad! I'm always on the lookout for them at a decent price haha
I’d buy all of Lynette noni’s books and all of Melanie dickerson’s books.
-Bee
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Right now I would say I would want to buy Defying Jihad: The Dramatic True Story of a Woman Who Volunteered to Kill Infidels—and Then Faced Death for Becoming One or While Time Remains: A North Korean Defector's Search for Freedom in America! I want to be in my nonfiction book era so bad 😭🤭
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Ack, that's so relatable! They cost so much, though!"
I know :(( Maybe some day…