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[Kat]

Pragya wrote: "I bought myself a Kindle and few books to go with it including Still Alice which I'm currently reading and liking."

YAY! Welcome to Kindle-land ;)

[Janice, Moderator]

Anna Karenina wrote: "Got books from a bargain
Halo
And
The blacktatto
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Welcome to YLTO, Anna. :) Enjoy your new purchases.

[cazdoll]

I bought these today & Rain by Virginia Andrews,it was buy one get one free in the second hand shop so I got both for two euro :)

[Pragya]

Kat wrote: "Pragya wrote: "I bought myself a Kindle and few books to go with it including Still Alice which I'm currently reading and liking."

YAY! Welcome to Kindle-land ;)"

Thank you. :)

[Janice, Moderator]

Shanghai Girls is a good read, for sure. I gave it 4 stars.

[Kimberly]

The mailman brought me my free copy of Lucy Come Home by Dave and Neta Jackson.

[Janice, Moderator]

I am soooo bad! Someone take away my credit card before the bank does.

Audible.com has a sale on - $7.95/book. I bought 4 books:

The Leopard
Skinwalker
Hounded
A Room Full of Bones

I don't know what it is about books with the word "Bones" in the title... I'm drawn to them. I think I may start a bookshelf for all the ones I've purchased or read.

[Kat]

Audible have a sale? Hmm...back in a few minutes, just going to ummm, take out the garbage.

[Kimberly]

The mailman brought me another book for review yesterday Speculation by Edmund Jorgensen

[Pragya]

Kat wrote: "Audible have a sale? Hmm...back in a few minutes, just going to ummm, take out the garbage."

LOL, Kat. Never knew taking out the garbage was so much fun. Hmm?

[Janice, Moderator]

Kat wrote: "Audible have a sale? Hmm...back in a few minutes, just going to ummm, take out the garbage."

Did you find any treasures in the... ummm garbage?

[Kat]

Actually, no! I think I've just already bought everything I wanted....

[Kat]

Are we all taking a break from buying books? Or just hiding them? ;-)

I honestly haven't bought anything for a couple of weeks, but I have picked up two Kindle freebies that I thought sounded really interesting: The Hidden Legacy Of World War II A Daughter's Journey Of Discovery and Love is a Wounded Soldier

[Mikki]

Kat wrote: "Are we all taking a break from buying books? Or just hiding them? ;-)..."

I'm in denial about my addiction and haven't been posting recent activity.

[Mikki]

Okay, okay...here's for May.


A Pale View Of Hills
No Longer Human
The Pugilist at Rest
The Letter Killers Club
The Workshop: Seven Decades of the Iowa Writers Workshop - 43 Stories, Recollections, & Essays on Iowa's Place in Twentieth-Century American Literature
Weather Permitting
The Bookshop / The Gate of Angels / The Blue Flower
Cup of Gold
The Tenants of Moonbloom
The Journalist
The Pilgrim Hawk
Soul of Wood
Nights in the Gardens of Brooklyn
Palm-of-the-Hand Stories

[Janice, Moderator]

I bought The Lock Artist from audible.com last night. I also cleaned up my audible wish list. I've had some books on there for so long that I feel like I know them intimately and have no desire to read them any more.

[Mikki]

I would guess Fitzgerald's three novellas -- I've read one, The bookshop, and really enjoyed it. I will be reading some of the books for the Toppler so by then I'll have a better idea.

The Letter Killers club was just okay.

[Janice, Moderator]

Kindle has their summer sale on and I bought I Am the Chosen King and Hawk of May.

Link to the Kindle Deal of the day, and the summer sale: http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html...

[Kat]

It's been a while, but today I got three books for EUR 2.85 (ok, so I also had a voucher and just paid the difference, but it sounds good!)

The Absolutist, Matterhorn and The Sealed Letter

It took me nearly 20 minutes to decide what I wanted, not because there were too many to choose from, but because I couldn't find anything I did want! Dutch book stores are so depressing, only three shelves to choose from :(

But there's a package coming later this week....

[Dem]

Kat wrote: "It's been a while, but today I got three books for EUR 2.85 (ok, so I also had a voucher and just paid the difference, but it sounds good!)

The Absolutist, Matterhorn and The Sealed Letter

It too..."
Good for you Kat, I really enjoyed

The Absolutist Happy Reading !

[Mintymedley]

I just put an order in to BetterWorldBooks.com :
Beneath the Sands of Egypt: Adventures of an Unconventional Archaeologist$6.86
Fifty Shades of Grey $12.24
I got these two for under $5 each:
Outlander
Dragonfly in Amber

My library is woefully lax when it comes to my TBR list. I was happy to find Better World Books, though. Every time you buy a book, they donate a book to someone in need. They raise a lot of money for charity as well. They also have an optional 3 cent tax on each book you buy to help recover the carbon effect of getting your book to you. The money goes toward alternative energy resources.

[Kat]

Dem wrote: "Kat wrote: "It's been a while, but today I got three books for EUR 2.85 (ok, so I also had a voucher and just paid the difference, but it sounds good!)

The Absolutist, Matterhorn and The Sealed Le..."

Oh, good to know Dem! I'd never heard of it before and only picked it up because the blurb sounded interesting - looking forward to reading it :-D

[Kat]

OK, part two!

My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece, Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend, Dear Dylan, Slated & Deadly Cool

They're currently hiding in a carrier bag because I'm too scared to tell Mr Kat I've bought more books after ordering a very expensive new laptop on Monday - ooopsie!

[Janice, Moderator]

I didn't buy them. They were all free!

Irises (about 2 sisters and may fit in with the July callenge) and Sense and Sensibility

These two were from SYNC, who is offering two free YA audiobooks a week for the summer months. It uses Overdrive Media Console. There are some restrictions if you live outside the USA, but there is a list of which ones are affected.

The other freebie was from Kindle, Dancing in the Shadows of Love which may be my July challenge selection.

[Rhonda]

Rajiv Chandrasekaran
Little America: The War Within the War for Afghanistan, I read the New York Journal of Books' review this morning and immediately purchased the book. Fascinating non fiction.
http://nyjournalofbooks.com/review/li...

[Lori]

I picked up a brand new book Beautiful Ruins & started it on the weekend. It's good so far, a little scattered in it's thinking but good. I also go Jeffrey Archer's newest, I think. I'm a little behind on his books and I think I missed the first in this series. But I got The Sins of the Father. It sounds pretty darn good.

[Dem]

I just received Perla in postbox this morning, looking forward to this one as my friend raved about it.

Also got The Light Between Oceans

[Janice, Moderator]

I just bought The Book of Ebenezer le Page with a credit on Audible.com. They have a $5.00/book sale on right now and I picked up The Statues that Walked: Unraveling the Mystery of Easter Island. Both books can be read form my Around the World Challenge.

I thought I had downloaded Frankenstein, but I hadn't, so I downloaded it for free on iBook.

Maybe there's a glitch because there were a couple of books that I was sure I had added to my shelves but weren't. Maybe the glitch is due to mental-pausing.

[Janice, Moderator]

Audible has a BOGO sale on till tomorrow night (buy one, get one for 1 credit).

I picked up two that were on my wish list: The Kitchen House and The Delilah Complex.

[Alison]

Just ordered my copies of Flowers for Algernon and A Canticle for Leibowitz. Neither available on Kindle - boo!

[Janice, Moderator]

Alison wrote: "Just ordered my copies of Flowers for Algernon and A Canticle for Leibowitz. Neither available on Kindle - boo!"

If you are a member of Audible, you can get Canticle for Leibowitz and another book for one credit in their BOGO sale.

[Alison]

Janice wrote: "Alison wrote: "Just ordered my copies of Flowers for Algernon and A Canticle for Leibowitz. Neither available on Kindle - boo!"

If you are a member of Audible, you can get Canticle for Leibowitz a..."
I dont really think audiobooks are my thing - but then maybe I should give it a go.

[Jenn]

I just bought . I have already read it from the library when the book first came out but I wait until it is in paperback to buy it.

[Kat]

Alison wrote: "Janice wrote: "Alison wrote: "Just ordered my copies of Flowers for Algernon and A Canticle for Leibowitz. Neither available on Kindle - boo!"

If you are a member of Audible, you can get Canticle ..."

I didn't think I would ever enjoy audiobooks either Alison. But I found that as long as I was doing something 'mindless' while listening (cleaning is a good one!), I really enjoyed having a book read to me. With an excellent narrator they can be really addictive!

[Janice, Moderator]

I downloaded The Amulet of Samarkand for free from SYNC in their free summer offerings.

This book said that it was restricted in British Commonwealth countries, but I had no problem downloading it. I figured it was worth a try.

[Alison]

Kat wrote: "Alison wrote: "Janice wrote: "Alison wrote: "Just ordered my copies of Flowers for Algernon and A Canticle for Leibowitz. Neither available on Kindle - boo!"

If you are a member of Audible, you ca..."
Maybe I'd get more cleaning done that way lol. Yes I like listening to speech radio plays etc while cleaning.

[Alison]

Picked up a copy of A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail as my green book for the Rainbow challenge for 20p at a car boot today, and a copy of Boxer, Beetle.

[Valerie]

I've splurged on an eclectix mix recently:

[Kat]

Valerie wrote: "I've splurged on an eclectix mix recently:

[bookcover:..."

Valerie! Now that's what a splurge really looks like!

[Janice, Moderator]

Wow! Those will keep you busy this summer Valerie!

[Valerie]

Janice wrote: "Wow! Those will keep you busy this summer Valerie!"

Yes!!! They sure will!! ;) LOL

[Kat]

I received a copy of Survivors that I've had pre-ordered for about 9 months! It's the final book in the trilogy that started my zombie obsession - the author sadly passed away in 2009 at a very young age and didn't complete the third book, so it's partially ghost-written. Will be interesting to see if it matches up with the other books!

[Dem]

Valerie wrote: "I've splurged on an eclectix mix recently:

[bookcover:..."

Happy reading Valerie !

[Valerie]

Thank you, Dem! :)

[Ayça]

I bought and :) Can't wait to start. :)

[Kat]

I got Animal Farm in the post today - tiniest book ever!

[Janice, Moderator]

Ayca wrote: "I bought and :) Can't wait to start. :)"

Welcome to our group, Ayca! I see this is your first post. :)

I really enjoyed To Kill a Mockingbird. It's one book that I gave 4 stars to.

[Kat]

Are we all on a book buying ban? ;-)

I've got a couple of books in the last week: Black Heart Blue and Black And Blue - no prizes for guessing which challenge these are for!

[Janice, Moderator]

I ordered The Sandcastle Girls on pre-order and it should be ready to download tomorrow. I also bought a couple of audiobooks in the last 5.95 sale, Year of Wonders: A Novel of the Plague and The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey. I just forgot to brag tell you all about it.

[Betsy]

Loved The Year of Wonders-Enjoy. I went on abook -buying binge recently and bought 5 new books including Gone Girl for the August book selection.