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[Janice, Moderator]

Kimberly wrote: "Janice wrote: "I got Riptide on Audible.com's beach sale. They are offering 5 books a day at 6.95 and this one was on my wishlist."

Will you let me know how that one is Janice?"

It may be a while before I get to it since I have quite a few in the queue ahead of it. I'm really starting to like the Preston/Child duo, and with Scott Brick narrating, it's a trio made in heaven. :)

[April]

I just got 5 books, paperback, excellent condition, for .10 a piece at a local thrift store. I was so excited because All of them are on my "list".
, , and by Dean Koontz. Also, by Ken Kesey, and by Hunter S. Thompson. It was a good day!

[Janice, Moderator]

That's a great haul for .50, April!

[April]

I know, Janice! :)

[April]

Judy, I completely understand. I buy books much faster than I can read them! Sometimes, I simply enjoy the hunt!

I do like the classics, but I only "love" some of them. I have a goal of reading all the books on the 1001 list (Which end up being more than 1001 because every two years they update. They remove some and add some. I only add, no removing.) Also, the MLA and BBC top 100 list and Stephen King's (my hero....love him) list. Oh, I also enjoy Oprah's list. She has a lot of great books on her list. Then we add in all the books that I just want to read which aren't on any list. It's a lifetime goal. Long answer to a simple question. Sorry! I guess I can sum it all up by being an eclectic reader.

[Shirley]

limited time e-book sale

https://www.facebook.com/WmMorrowbks/...

[jaxnsmom]

I haven't bought any books in a while, but tonight when I went to pick up my holds at the library I walked by the sale area and...
We all know how this one ends :) I walked out with fifteen more books, most of which I know nothing about.

and

It was decided that I am preparing for the zombie attacks. After all, you gotta have something to read when not fighting zombies, and you might not be able to get to a library ☺

[Janice, Moderator]

I used two credits on audible.com today and got Sharp Objects and Gone Girl.

[Rusalka, Moderator]

jaxnsmom wrote: "I haven't bought any books in a while, but tonight when I went to pick up my holds at the library I walked by the sale area and...
We all know how this one ends :) I walked out with fifteen more b..."

And worst comes to worst, you could throw books at zombies. Enjoy The Lacuna. I read it earlier this year and really, really enjoyed it.

[jaxnsmom]

Rusalka wrote: "And worst comes to worst, you could throw books at zombies. Enjoy The Lacuna. I read it earlier this year and really, really enjoyed it."

Only after reading them, of course :)
I haven't read any Kingsolver books yet.

[Sam]

I've been a little naughty and ordered The Art of Fielding, The Walking Dead, Book One, The Walking Dead, Book Two and Greaveburn, all of which arrived yesterday.

I have been working hard though so I think I deserve it...back me up people ;-)

[jaxnsmom]

@Sam - you totally deserve those books! You should enjoy every single word.

@Judy - I know nothing about the series. I should check out the first book - uh oh, another book...

[Eileen]

I'm always bad, and get too many books all the time, but this week I got A People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present and Gone Girl just because I wanted them; I got Still Alice, One Thousand White Women: The Journals Of May Dodd and No ordinary time : Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt : the home front in World War II as books for my fall face to face book club. I add too many books to my shelf.

[Sam]

jaxnsmom wrote: "@Sam - you totally deserve those books! You should enjoy every single word.

@Judy - I know nothing about the series. I should check out the first book - uh oh, another book..."

Thanks jaxnsmom, I knew I did (now just to convince everyone else...) :-D

[Kimberly]

Darren (the Mr.) bought me and a pretty bookmark today

[Janice, Moderator]

I bought Shadow of Night on audible earlier today. I finished reading A Discovery of Witches this morning and am hooked. I wonder when the third book is due.

[Dem]

Amber wrote: "I joined Audible because I'm a sucker for free stuff, and got Beautiful Ruins and The Light Between Oceans free for joining. From the bookstore I purchased Gone Girl because of its rave reviews, an..."

Happy Reading Amber!

[Eileen]

@Janice - re: book 3 in the Harkness trilogy, it can't come out soon enough!

[Sam]

Judy wrote: "
Books are like shoes. . . You can never have too many.

Love the slogan!"

Oh I'm so going to remember that one...and quote it at everyone who tries to say I've too many books!!

[Janice, Moderator]

Eileen wrote: "@Janice - re: book 3 in the Harkness trilogy, it can't come out soon enough!"

Oh-oh... I heard that the 2nd book has a cliff hanger. Maybe I should hold off on reading the 2nd book so that there's not a huge long wait between it and the 3rd.

[Eileen]

I so enjoyed reading the 2nd book, I'd hate to advocate for putting it off Janice, but, the wait is definitely going to be longish, as the second was just published in July.

[Janice, Moderator]

Audible has its Win-Win member's sale on right now and I've picked up The Snow Child and The Once and Future King (Book 1-5) for $4.95 each. Yeah!

[Rusalka, Moderator]

I was naughty. I went to my lovely second hand book store to buy When We Were Very Young for our good friends who just had their first child on Tuesday.

So... i came out with Brideshead Revisited, A Pale View Of Hills, Year of Wonders: A Novel of the Plague, The War of the Worlds, Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life, & The Island of Dr. Moreau as well. Oops.

All I was looking for was red books written by people beginning with R!

[Rusalka, Moderator]

Lol oh I know. Worst thing is I need to go back tomorrow apparently as I didn't "buy the right thing" (as in I didn't buy more books!). I forgot I bought A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail as well. Back up green.

[Rusalka, Moderator]

And read worst as "worst".

[Rusalka, Moderator]

Amber wrote: " I think my Thursday morning will be much better spent browsing book titles than doing the actual work I'm being paid to do. . . "

Welcome to my world Amber!

[Janice, Moderator]

Amber wrote: "These Audible sales are going to be my downfall. How do you pass up a price tag like $4.95?!..."


I know!! And I'm on a kick to try to quit spending like I actually have money. I was cringing as I hit the purchase button. At least I only bought 2 books and not 10.

[Kimberly]

Yesterday we went to the used bookstore and Darren bought me:

and and I bought his mom

[Janice, Moderator]

That Darren is such a good husband!! He keeps buying you books. :)

[Pragya]

I went to the Book Fair today and returned with and that's not even 1% of all the books that I wanted to buy.

Ya, I know that's a lot, my poor shoulders have been complaining ever since not to mention my mother's wrath and her classic words 'Now where do you plan to keep all those? I thought that's why you bought a Kindle.' Can someone please stop by and tell her I can't resist paperbacks, they have a charm of their own.

I have already read on Kindle but loved it so much as to want a paperback for myself.

Kimberly, I love Darren, well, not in that sense, you know. ;) But he's an amazing partner/bf.

Also, while picking up , I scratched my head trying to remember that perhaps you (Kimberly) had reviewed this very book on your blog and did not appreciate it as much as The Detective Agency series. But I couldn't remember for sure, if this was the very book by Alexander McCall Smith that you reviewed. So I went ahead and bought it anyway.

[Shirley]

Both the kindle book and the audio for free

If you already own the kindle book you can still get the audio. See the promo on the info page of the book.

http://www.audiobookfans.com/free-aud...

1. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
2. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
3. Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
4. Moby Dick: or, the White Whale by Herman Melville
5. The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
6. Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
7. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Tom Sawyer’s Comrade by Mark Twain
8. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
9. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
10. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
11. Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
12. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum
13. Dracula by Bram Stoker
14. White Fang by Jack London
15. Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
16. The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie
17. Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
18. The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
19. Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
20. The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
21. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
22. The Sign of the Four by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
23. House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
24. Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
25. Peter and Wendy by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie and F. D. Bedford
26. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
27. The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe

[Janice, Moderator]

Shirley, have you downloaded any of the audiobooks for free?

Most of the books already were free on Kindle because the books are in the public domain.

I decided to give this a try and downloaded the free book Wuthering Heights. I followed the links to Audible. When I unclicked the "use credit" and updated the price, it was $16.16.

Perhaps it's because I'm in Canada. Pricing is a bit different in the various countries.

[Shirley]

Most of the books already were free on Kindle because the books are in the public domain. I even had some on my kindle already.

I was able to add all of them to the cart on Audible at $.00 cost.

You might email audible and ask if that is the problem.

So sorry if they aren't available for you.

[Janice, Moderator]

I'm pretty sure it is. I got burned one other time from Amazon. The Kindle Deal of the Day was supposed to be $1.99 and I was charged $15.99. When I complained about it, I was told that the prices differ from country to country. I guess I shouldn't say that I got burned since they reimbursed the difference because I was unaware.

[Shirley]

I do think they should address the country difference in a better manner.

[Janice, Moderator]

It would save some frustration.

Thanks for posting the links, Shirley. I do love that you keep us informed. :)

[Shirley]

Janice wrote: "It would save some frustration.

Thanks for posting the links, Shirley. I do love that you keep us informed. :)"

My pleasure.

[Kimberly]

I got these in the mail from the authors for review: and

[April]

Sooooooooo excited! Oryx And Crake, by Margaret Atwood just arrived in my mailbox via BookMooch.com. Violet cover, too!!

[Danielle]

Oh, April, I literally just finished Oryx & Crake! It was pretty good, but liked The Year of the Flood just a little more (I read them in the wrong order, but I dont think they needed to be read in a specific order). Hope you like it!

[April]

Danielle wrote: "Oh, April, I literally just finished Oryx & Crake! It was pretty good, but liked The Year of the Flood just a little more (I read them in the wrong order, but I dont think they needed to be read in..."

Danielle.....Is this a series?

[Danielle]

Yup. The second one, Year of the Flood os already out. Next one I believe is called MaddAdam, but its not out yet.

[April]

Danielle wrote: "Yup. The second one, Year of the Flood os already out. Next one I believe is called MaddAdam, but its not out yet."

WOW!!! I had no idea! Thanks for telling me because I will have to add these to my list.

[Eileen]

Loved oryx and crake. Year of the flood has been on my TBR list for too long

[Kimberly]

Pragya wrote: "I went to the Book Fair today and returned with ..."

Pragya I haven't read The Sunday Philosophy Club yet :) I think you're thinking of Portuguese Irregular Verbs which I reviewed and didnt care for.

[Danielle]

Not a problem, April. I highly recommend Year of the Flood after :)

[Kimberly]

I got in the mail today from the publisher.

[Pragya]

Kimberly wrote: "Pragya wrote: "I went to the Book Fair today and returned with [bookcover:Emotional Intelligence Why It Can Matte..."

Ah yes, good that I bought it then. :)

[Pragya]

Kimberly wrote: "I got in the mail today from the publisher."

The authors and publishers are loving you! Waiting to read the reviews.

[Rusalka, Moderator]

Steinbeck? Really? I had to read him in school, twice, neither were wonderful experiences. I remember in Yr10 was wondering if The Grapes of Wrath was apparently "amazing", the other "good" books must all be hype then. We then read To Kill a Mockingbird, and I found out I was very wrong. I mean, Steinbeck was okay, but ... wow. Although, I am sure you may not like some of my favourites too.

But back to buying things. At 1am last night, I may have bought The Dark Lord of Derkholm, The Year of the Griffin (they were on special), Evening Is the Whole Day and A Case of Exploding Mangoes.