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Lis
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Aug 08, 2011 05:16PM
Nice purchases ladies... I can honestly say I walked in with my list and since they did not have what I wanted today. I walked back out without any new purchases. They did extend the 10% discount thru the 10th.
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OMG Lis - how on earth did you manage that???? Of course, I'm never orgainzed enough to actually HAVE a list, just a sorta-kinda idea in my head.
Actually Cindy they were a couple you had mentioned this weekend in your comments. I will have to check B&N this week for them...
ARRGH!!!!! I'm an enabler.......the shame of it all.
Now I'm curious. What books have you been mentioning? Enable me, please!
How am I supposed to know???? She didn't tell me either!
Some ebooks
You need to keep going back and checking Borders. Especially if it's a popular one. The one in Champaign (which is a campus town) is still getting shipments from the warehouses. Which kind of makes sense. This isn't like the other closings. They wouldn't send new stuff then, because there would still be stores open somewhere else. This time they have to clear the warehouse too. Also, a couple of those books I bought were new releases and they wouldn't have been able to put them out until the street date hit. So go check. Not that I'm another enabler or anything. LOL.
Cindy (eclecticfirefly) wrote: "How am I supposed to know???? She didn't tell me either!"I've been in a romancy PNR funk lately... I wanted a few more Darker reads so you mentioned: Pretty When She Dies: A Vampire Novel, Hex Hall and the Charley Davidson seriesFirst Grave on the Right. Also The Forest of Hands and Teeth, I just didn't realize they were YA. Try again tommorrow.
Oh, Daffodil.... You are killing my bank account. I'm gonna be living on ramen and sandwiches for the month or something. Now I'm gonna have to go back to Borders in like a week and a half after I get paid again....
Lis - The Forest of Hands and Teeth is the only YA novel of the 3. I'm reading Pretty When She Dies: A Vampire Novel now. Definitely not YA. Plenty of blood and gore, some sexual situations and actual sex, although it isn't graphic.
First Grave on the Right was a fun read. LOL funny in some spots. Charlie is great! Really snarky - I love that.
God I'm glad I'm not the only one who gets in Book funks around here, I haven't been able to get into anything at all so far this month, I think I'm just burnt out on PNR/UF books and I'm looking for something totally different to clear the air, anyone have any suggestions to throw my way?
Well, what about mystery, any of the In Death's interest you?Then there are many, many historicals. Amanda Quick immediately springs to mind. She is Jayne Ann Krentz and I love all her books, often referred to as comfort reads around GR. Her historicals are particularly good, funny and interesting, with plenty of quirky characters.
I know how you feel Kat. I had that the end of last month and now I've been going through loads of non-paranormal YA, can't put the stuff down. YA's never been my fave genre but I am just on it at the moment. Some of the ones I've read recently:
(complete guilty pleasure)
(don't judge the cover, hardcore stuff on the inside, want to marry the main guy, you can read the beginning on GRs)
(historical time-travel, free on Amazon, very enjoyable)
(fantasy)Going to read in the next day or so:
(free on Amazon)
(I think this is sort of paranormal)
So many interesting suggestions thanks for all the great Ideas, I just downloaded Pride and Prejudice , i'm not one for old time classics but I think I'll be giving this a shot and I'll probably go with something in historical romance, what I have no idea but I forsee lots of book browsing in my future :)
Sandra wrote: Then there are many, many historicals. Amanda Quick immediately springs to mind. She is Jayne Ann Krentz and I love all..."I love Amanda Quick's books and I have recently begun the Arcane series so am reading Jayne Ann Krentz as well.
They're all good Lauren :)I've been reading her stuff since the early 80's, some of which is dated now, but it takes me back to when I was a teenager, so that's good. LOL.
Borders just increased discounts again so I picked up a few more, mainly PNR since thats were the deals are. And neener neener neener to those "hide the book" on different shelf people, I found your stash... They are putting out newer releases, so ya kinda have to keep checking back.
Yay, for the hidden book stash. LOL.
Mostly cheap Kindle ebooks:
Kindle freebies:
@Josie - I agree that Waterfall was enjoyable though I'm slightly embarrassed I liked it so much.
Lis wrote: "Borders just increased discounts again so I picked up a few more, mainly PNR since thats were the deals are. And neener neener neener to those "hide the book" on different shelf people, I found yo..."love and so right there with you... no hiding during a liquidation sale!!!
@Ames: Lol! I know, it was real addictive for some reason. I ended up reading it all at once and I'm even planning on reading the second one... :/
I went through a liquidation sale when the K-mart I worked at closed earlier this year. I had quite a lot of fun finding stuff people had hidden and putting it back in its proper place. Mwahahahaha..... :-D
ROFL
It's my birthday in two weeks so I went a little crazy, okay a lot crazy, with buying books on Amazon:
Lots of really great books Sarah! Truthseeker was one of my favorite books of this whole year. Absolutely LOVED it!
O.O Whoohoo, Sarah! Those look awesome!
Thanks!! I'm excited!! But since I spent so much on books, I went for the free super saver shipping so now I have to wait like two weeks :(
Well, maybe you'll kind of forget about them, and then they'll get there on your birthday. Then, you can be super excited and happy.
Good planning Sarah, they really will be birthday books. LOL
Wow that is a book haul CONGRATS it will be like Christmas or you know your birthday :-)
I totally blew my book budget at Borders and I got:
Then I got 2 books in trade
@Sandra, haha yeah they will haha they'll be here the day after my birthday :D Maybe they can be an "early" birthday gift lol
Early for next year? I like the way you think!!!!Dawn - love, love LOVE Joey W. Hill. You are in for a treat!
I'm thinking about going to Borders on Sunday..... Who needs to eat.... I'll just live off reading my books until my next paycheck. Lol.
@Dawn & Cindy - Have fun reading Joey W Hill, I really like her too...OK, it was my son's turn for back to school shopping today and he was super! He even let me go to Borders... So I picked up a few:
...and the bribe book was
Great haul, Lis. Love the BB. ;)
Man you have like half my TBR list there Lis! I'm about to read the rest of Sirantha Jax and I'm so excited!
Good news then about Joey Hill when I saw the book I could not recall if people liked it or hated it.@Lis great books I have been wanting to read Devon Monk for awhile, don't feel bad on the double purchase a few weeks ago I purchased a book on my nook and then brought the other at Target, had no clue for a week or so when I realized my error I took it back :-)
Mafalda - Obedience: A Novel is an AWESOME book! Disturbing, but completely awesome!!!! He has a new one out
. I want it so bad.......
Welcome to the group, Christen & Dawn! :D
Sooooo...... I was naughty today.... *sighs*I went to Borders again.... And B&N, but that's cuz I just HAD TO HAVE some books that Borders didn't have....
As much as it pains me to say it.... (Bye-bye, Borders) Hopefully it was the last time. I found stuff I'm interested in, but only a few of them were ones that I was super badly looking for. Basically, I just bought books to buy them. I'm sure I'll love them, but I probably should've saved the money and just gotten them from the library.
So, without further ado, here's my book haul.... *sings* TA-DA!
From Borders:
(I managed to not get the first book of this series, because I had no idea what the first one was. Darn books for not listing the titles of the series in order.)
(Gosh darn it! I didn't buy the third book! *sighs*)Ok. Nobody let me near Borders again! Please! Haha. At least I already bought my school textbooks, otherwise I'd be going without for a while.
And from B&N:
Ok... I'm just gonna admit it. I totally have a serious girl-crush on Gena Showalter. Lol.
*stares at massive pile of new books* Maybe I should have bought a bookshelf with the books.... They should throw those things in. Buy so many books and you get a bookshelf free! That would be wonderful.
Alyssa wrote: "Sooooo...... I was naughty today.... *sighs*I went to Borders again.... And B&N, but that's cuz I just HAD TO HAVE some books that Borders didn't have....
As much as it pains me to say it.... (..."
OMG! I love the bookshelf idea! I would probably buy wayy more books!
I forgot some books on my first birthday haul, but I amended that:
LMAO Alyssa! Great idea - free bookshelf w/massive pile of new books! LOVE IT! :D Happy Belated Bday, Sarah!
Aww thanks Steph but no worries, my Bday is next Sunday - the 28th. :)
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