What Have You Purchased - 2022

[Rusalka, Moderator]

Oh I am so sorry you didn't know until now! It came out before Christmas!!

[Kristie, Moderator]

I bought way too many books from the Audible sale. I used it mostly to add to or complete a few series. I figure I would have used credits on these eventually anyway.

Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes:
Riviera Gold
Castle Shade
The Language of Bees
The Game
Locked Rooms
Pirate King
Garment of Shadows
Dreaming Spies
Mary Russell's War And Other Stories of Suspense
Island of the Mad

The Great Library:
Sword and Pen
Paper and Fire
Ash and Quill
Smoke and Iron

Monkeewrench:
Dead Run
Shoot to Thrill
Off the Grid

Elvis Cole & Joe Pike:
The Forgotten Man
Sunset Express
Indigo Slam
The First Rule

Ghost-in-Law:
Missing in Mudbug
Chaos in Mudbug

Cherringham:
Cherringham: A Cosy Crime Series Compilation

Others:
56 Days
Blackberry Winter
One True Loves
Mage Errant: Publisher's Pack, Book 1-2
The Tomb

Today I added a few books that I asked my library to get, but they didn't:
The Finders
The Second Mrs. Astor
The Second Life of Mirielle West
Constance

No-one of these are available through my library, except 56 Days. I still have a bunch on my wishlist that are under $5, but it is going to take me years to get through these.

[Rusalka, Moderator]

*snort* thank you Kristie, for making me feel better about my list. But I am feeling very envious of your list...

[Kristie, Moderator]

Hahaha... yeah. It's pretty bad. lol I have no self control.


Someone in one of my other groups just posted that today is World Book Day. Usually Amazon gives away books from around the world to celebrate. Has anyone seen anything?

[Janice, Moderator]

Kristie wrote: "Hahaha... yeah. It's pretty bad. lol I have no self control.


Someone in one of my other groups just posted that today is World Book Day. Usually Amazon gives away books from around the world to ..."

I looked back on my World Book Day shelf and the books were all added middle of April for 2019, 2020, and 2021. I wonder if Amazon puts them up middle of April?

[Sandra, Moderator]

Kristie wrote: "I bought way too many books from the Audible sale. "

Wow, Kristie! Lol. You know you will not find judgement here.

[Sandra, Moderator]

Kristie wrote: "Someone in one of my other groups just posted that today is World Book Day. Usually Amazon gives away books from around the world to ..."

I didn't hear anything. My idea is the same as Janice. World Book Day is on April 24th (I'm pretty sure), and Amazon has the "sale" the week before or around it.

[Sandra, Moderator]

I have been thinking I want to learn more about History for a long while. I have the feeling that my knowledge is disconnected and full of holes. I've added many books to my TBR with the intention of reading them soon, and never got to them, but the recent global events made me gather my energies and go for it.
I bought:

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Our Oriental Heritage (#1 in a series of 11 books)

I plan to buy next the three books by Susan Wise Bauer of The History of the World. I'll probably check out the first one from the library to try her style and see if I like it. Historians can be very dry sometimes, although she has great reviews on that regard.

[Kristie, Moderator]

Janice wrote: "I looked back on my World Book Day shelf and the books were all added middle of April for 2019, 2020, and 2021. I wonder if Amazon puts them up middle of April?"

I thought it was April too. Maybe she was just confused. lol

[Margo]

Rusalka and Kristie ( especially Kristie!) are making me feel very virtuous- jealous but virtuous 😉

[Kristie, Moderator]

Hahaha... I like to rationalize my purchases by reminding myself of the fact that Craig and I share an Audible account, so he will also listen to a lot of the books I buy. Therefor, I am buying for two. ;)

[Janice, Moderator]

Kristie wrote: "Janice wrote: "I looked back on my World Book Day shelf and the books were all added middle of April for 2019, 2020, and 2021. I wonder if Amazon puts them up middle of April?"

I thought it was Ap..."

I googled, and it did say that World Book Day was today. The site was all children related, so I'm not sure if it's a different observance.

[Kristie, Moderator]

Oh, interesting. Maybe it's two different things.

[Rusalka, Moderator]

It's prob country (and company) based. Googling the amazon week, that's in April. World Book Day is the 3 March. But Book Week here in Aus isn't until August.

[Sandra, Moderator]

Yeah. In Uruguay is May 24th, the day the first public library in the country was inaugurated.

[Peggy]

LOL, that's a huge list Kristie! You've made me feel better too ;-)

[Janice, Moderator]

I picked up four more books in the In Death Series:

Reunion in Death
Purity in Death
\Portrait in Death
Imitation in Death

And I'll probably get the whispersync for A Bad Day for Sunshine.

[Janice, Moderator]

In the last couple of days, I've picked up a few books.

Kindle daily deal - A Life Without Water

Audible's 2-1 sale:
Ashes of the Sun
Later Gator

[Kristie, Moderator]

I just grabbed today's Audible daily deal The Stolen Hours.

I spent quite a bit of time going through the 2-1 sale, but ended up not getting anything. There were a few books I was interested in, but nothing on my to read list that I couldn't get a physical copy of through the library and I had just bought so many through the previous sale that I figured I wouldn't have the time for them right away anyway so I skipped it.

[Saar The Book owl]

Well, since I've got a Kindle, I'm more temped to buy books. I bought:
- the 5 books of The World of Others: book 1 to 5. I wanted to reread them from the library, but they didn't had the physical copies anymore. I think they got rid of it or offered them up for the annual bookselling of the library. They only had the ebooks. So, I bought them instead.

- : I'm very curious about this one.

- : I think this will be my 3rd cozy mystery book so far, but I like the genre.

[Kristie, Moderator]

My hold for The Guncle won't be available for some time yet, so I'm grabbing the audio for our group read.

[Sharon]

I just bought The Guncle on Audible. I have also bought All of Us Villains and Hex

[Katrisa]

What the what is up with audible changing it so you can't buy any books through the app anymore?!? (on android)

[Kristie, Moderator]

I don't know, Katrisa. I have an iPhone and we can still buy through the app as long as as you are using a credit. That doesn't seem like something they should want to remove.

[Katrisa]

On Android you can only buy books using a credit as of today so you can't buy books on sale or get the daily deal on the app anymore. Is Amazon fighting with Google again?

[Katrisa]

Kristie - on iPhone you can only use credits to get books?

[Kristie, Moderator]

Yes, it's been that way for a long time. You can't buy anything on sale, no daily deals, etc. Credits only.

[Katrisa]

Oh - so the thing I'm raging about has been a thing on Apple already, lol! I guess I've been privileged :)

[Margo]

I assumed it was a security thing. We're getting hit with a lot of cyber attacks lately.

I got The Stone Giant today. Its was released yesterday on audible so I picked it up for Pete - it's great when you have an excuse to buy a book you want ;-p

[Kristie, Moderator]

I just bought Cartwheels In The Dark.

[Rusalka, Moderator]

I've accumulated a bit of a haul to tell you about.

Little library finds:
Bila Yarrudhanggalangdhuray
The Digital Silk Road: China's Quest to Wire the World and Win the Future

Bought:
The Lost Man
The Thursday Murder Club
Vox Machina: Kith & Kin
Tonight's Dinner: Home Cooking for Every Day: Recipes From The Cook Up

As well as I forked out for the whole Growing Up in Aus series (so far):
Growing Up Disabled in Australia
Growing Up Queer in Australia
Growing Up Asian in Australia
Growing Up African in Australia
Growing Up Aboriginal in Australia
Growing Up in Country Australia (and signed)

[Kristie, Moderator]

I've picked up a few books on Audible through their daily deals recently. I got:

The Cheat Sheet
The Ursulina
Twenty Years Later
While Paris Slept

[Kristie, Moderator]

I just picked up today's Audible daily deal, New Teeth. It looks like it will be funny.

[Kristie, Moderator]

Just a quick reminder that the sync audio (site is https://www.audiofilemagazine.com/sync/) program has started again. The first two free books are offered this week. The books are: Black Panther: Tales of Wakanda and Four Short Stories.

[Janice, Moderator]

I picked up a couple more books in the Veronica Speedwell series. They were included in Audible's sale that ended today.

A Treacherous Curse
A Dangerous Collaboration

[Margo]

I bought because I was drawing a blank on the red flowers task. It actually quite enjoyable.

[Katrisa]

It was my birthday this week so I used that as an excuse to pick up some books from the Audible series sale :) I got
A Litter of Bones (for the Scottish task)
Hades
Eden
Fall
Before the Coffee Gets Cold: Tales from the Café
Shadow's Edge
Beyond the Shadows
Ripley Under Ground
Ripley's Game
The Boy Who Followed Ripley
What the Hell Did I Just Read

Then also from Audible but not the sale I got
How High We Go in the Dark
Nightwood

And from Chirp I picked up these
The Secret Life of Groceries: The Dark Miracle of the American Supermarket
A Girl Is a Body of Water
Gone by Midnight
Sankofa
Upstate

[Sandra, Moderator]

Happy belated birthday, Katrisa!

[Janice, Moderator]

Happy birthday, Katrisa!

[Kristie, Moderator]

I just picked up Don't Believe It and Hush in the Audible 2 for 1 sale.

[Janice, Moderator]

Nice, Kristie. I have one book in the special cart, The Witch's Kind. I'll give another look at the sale offerings. If I can't find another that interests me, I'll have to give the sale a pass.

[Kristie, Moderator]

That one sounds good, Janice.

[Gavin]

Got myself these today:
The Outsiders
The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town
The Poisonwood Bible
Family Happiness and Other Stories
Desire of the Everlasting Hills: The World Before and After Jesus

[Janice, Moderator]

I picked up Audible's daily deal today - Wildwood Whispers.

[Katrisa]

Janice wrote: "I picked up Audible's daily deal today - Wildwood Whispers."

Ooo! That one looks good! I just went and picked that up too. I also picked up some from the 2 for 1 sale
Voices in the Snow
Lightning Flowers: My Journey to Uncover the Cost of Saving a Life
Finding Latinx: In Search of the Voices Redefining Latino Identity
How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems
The Water Knife
Magic Hour
Baptism: A Vietnam Memoir
Divergent Mind: Thriving in a World That Wasn't Designed for You
And I also got Find Layla from kindle

[Janice, Moderator]

That Voices in the Snow tempts me.

[Janice, Moderator]

I added The Haunting of Ashburn House to the cart along with The Witch's Kind and took advantage of Audible's 2/1 credit sale.

[Peggy]

I haven't been listening to any audiobooks lately and now I've got 4 credits! I need to get some books!

[Kristie, Moderator]

I just grabbed The Girl in the Missing Poster from the Audible sale.

[Kristie, Moderator]

Audible is having a $5 sale. I grabbed The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot and All The Lonely People. I also picked up the daily deal, Under A Sky of Memories.