Recently Purchased Books

[Wendy]

Just ordered the first Game Of Thrones on offer at Amazon. Will see if i like it or not.

[Lisa]

Let's see, a month ago or so, I purchased these 2 at Big Lots:
Serendipity: A Novel
The Pirate's Daughter
Haven't read either of them yet, LOL.

Just the other day at the BIG 2nd hand book store I purchased this book, just for fun:
Cartoon History of the United States

and just yesterday or the day before at the 2nd hand book store closer to me I purchased these 2:
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
Sophie's Choice

[V.]

Lisa, Sophie's Choice is one of my all time favourites! Such a moving book... hope you enjoy it!

[Aoibhínn]

I just brought the following today:
Four to Score and High Five, both by Janet Evanovich
The 19th Wife by David Ebershoff
The Paris Wife by Paula McLain
The Tiger's Wife by Téa Obreht

[Marlene]

Light in August, Lenobia's Vow, 84, Charing Cross Road / The Duchess of Bloomsbury Street, The Hobbit, The Help, The Magicians' Guild are the books I bought last week. I wonder when I´ll have time to actually read them...

[Kim]

Recently bought Do You Think You're Clever?: The Oxbridge Questions, The Dangerous Book Of Heroes, For The Win, A Fire in the Sun, The Exile Kiss, Budayeen Nights, and A Crown Imperiled. Mostly on Kindle.

[Michael, Mod Prometheus]

Kim wrote: "Recently bought Do You Think You're Clever?: The Oxbridge Questions, The Dangerous Book Of Heroes, For The Win, A Fire in the Sun, T..."</i>

You buy books on Kindle now?

I recently got my books from the Book Depository's 24hr sale; [book:Do You Think You're Clever?: The Oxbridge Questions, I Am God and The Sealed Letter. I also brought Man-Made World: Choosing Between Progress and Planet and won a copy of The Name of the Star

[Kim]

Knowledge Lost wrote: "You buy books on Kindle now?"

Sometimes I do

[Lawyer]

Marlene wrote: "Light in August, Lenobia's Vow, 84, Charing Cross Road / The Duchess of Bloomsbury Street, The Hobbit, The Help, The Mag..."</i>

Now, I didn't make you buy ALL those books, Marlene. *grin*

I've been rather...well, thrifty is certainly not the word for it. Uhm, imprudent? Ahh, penny wise, pound foolish?

Let's see, there were the FOUR signed by [author:Stewart O'Nan, including his latest The Odds, The Names of the Dead,Emily, Alone, Last Night at the Lobster, and Songs for the Missing. WAIT...that's FIVE not FOUR.

Then there's the signed The Night Circus, for this group. That Erin Morgenstern is some kind of CUTE!

Dang. I'm glad MJ (my wife) is NOT a goodreads member. And there were others....mumble, mumble. Once in a lifetime opportunity and all that...

Well, hey. It could be wild women and sports cars. Let's think about this...Signed first editions...wild women and sports cars. Weighing the options here.

Naw. I'm married to a wild woman--MJ. Yeah. Her first boy friend was Stevie Ray Vaughn. In one of his live performances on Austin City Limits, he's wearing her kimono. No, I don't know how he got her kimono. I'm the one that got her. I don't need a sports car. I'll take the signed first editions.

And there was that visit to the Center for Southern Culture on the Ole Miss campus...well. Never mind. That's for another group. Yep.

Then there were the two packages from England. Folio Society. They were on SALE! I sneaked those through the back door.

Wait, wait. Immaterial, irrelevant. And EXTREMELY prejudicial. I take the Fifth.

OH! Hi, Sweetheart. No, just puttering around on goodreads. Naw, not much. Just chatting with a few friends. Hey, I'm glad you liked the new one by Bernard Cornwell. Oh, that's OK! Anything for you!

Whoooosh. Close call. Shhhhhhhhh....this is just between us, right? Right? Awwwww, c'mon, guys. No, I DON'T have a PROBLEM. I can quit ANYTIME! Honest.

Whattya mean INTERVENTION? Intervention for WHAT! How many times do I have to tell 'ya? A shelf of unread books is the key to immortality! True story. Yep.

[Kim]

*Backs away slowly*

[Lawyer]

Kim wrote: "*Backs away slowly*"

Was it something I said? *laughing* We can't be serious ALL the time. *Koff*

[Kim]

*Baaaaa*

[Logophile]

Lisa wrote: "I do not purchase books online. I try to only buy from independent bookstores (this is getting harder though)."

My solution is to shop online at Powell's. We used to have an excellent indie bookstore, then Border's & Barnes & Noble came to town, and it went out of business. Then B&N left and Border's went bust, so there's no bookstore at all, other than the used bookstores.

My only new purchase recently has been my first e-book, Three Bags Full.

[Aoibhínn]

I brought these 3 today:
All We Know of Heaven by Jacquelyn Mitchard (I'm currently reading this one now)
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith

[Karen]

The Multnomah County Library has a retail outlet for old, used books called The Title Wave. I was just there and bought 10 historical novels! But my favorite new purchase is actually "The Pigeon Finds a Hot Dog" that I bought for my six-year-old granddaughter!

[Kim]

Karen wrote: "The Multnomah County Library has a retail outlet for old, used books called The Title Wave."

You have that and Powell's? Unfair :P We only have 1 independent bookstore and 2 small chain shops. I think all the used bookshops around here closed long ago.

[Jeffrey]

I found and liked the first 4 books of Michael Sullivan's 6 book series at the library but I have withstood the urge to buy the last book as I think my library will buy it. Nonetheless I read book 5 in its entirety at Barnes & Noble while eating lunch there. Dasterdly.

[Aoibhínn]

I've just brought the following Kindle books today:

Change of Heart by Jodi Picoult
Harvesting the Heart by Jodi Picoult
Lone Wolf by Jodi Picoult
Mercy by Jodi Picoult
Picture Perfect by Jodi Picoult
Second Glance by Jodi Picoult
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
The Descendants by Kaui Hart Hemmings
The Language of Flowers by Vancessa Diffenbaugh
Saving CeeCee Honeycutt by Beth Hoffman
Flash and Bones by Kathy Reichs
Feed by Mira Grant
Deadline by Mira Grant
Countdown by Mira Grant
Still Missing by Chevy Stevens

[Janice]

My amazon package finally arrived yesterday containig Mere Christianity, Sherlock Holmes and The Man who broke into Auschwitz!

[Catherine]

I went to a really amazing used bookstore in London today and bought a pair of Pelican History of the USA books, a book of Maupassant short stories, Of Human Bondage, Go Tell it on the Mountain, and a book on the history of Judaism. They're all well-loved, slightly worn or vintage paperbacks. Cannot wait to start reading them. <3

[Catherine]

Ellie wrote: "I've just brought the following Kindle books today..."

Another Jodi Picoult fan! Mind if I add you? :]

[Franky]

I just bought Solaris on Amazon and was able to find a copy of The Man Who Broke Into Auschwitz: A True Story of World War II and The Night of the Hunter at the local library.

[[deleted user]]

So far this month I purchased:
after the quake by Haruki Murakami
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold.

[Nancy]

This month, I’ve purchased The Starboard Sea, by Amber Dermont, The Master and Margarita, by Mikhail Bulgakov and Sophie’s Choice, by William Styron at my local independent bookstore.

[Aoibhínn]

Catherine wrote: "Ellie wrote: "I've just brought the following Kindle books today..."

Another Jodi Picoult fan! Mind if I add you? :]"

Sure, go ahead. =) I'm a huge Picoult too, I've read most of her books.

[Sonali]

'The Tiger's Wife',"The man who broke into...', 'The heart is a lonely hunter', 'Slaughterhouse5'.Have finished reading the last one.The second and the third one are for LE and SLT, while the first one is for my own pleasure.Am reding Henning Mankel's 'The chronicler of the wind' right now- a peek into an african child's world through his eyes.

[Laurin]

Jack & Jill, Cross Fire, and Private.

I got them for 75 cents at a used book sale.

[V.]

In a swag of books I purchased recently (too long to be bothered listing) I received the Norton Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Poetry. I'd recommend it as a must for any poetry lover's bookshelf. It starts with a selection of Walt Whitman and traverses through many greats of English and American modern literature and is nicely balanced with postcolonial and feminist contributions as well. I found lots of poets I knew and loved (Eliot, Yeats, Thomas, cummings, Hughes, Dickinson, Plath) and found a few new ones I'd never read before and loved (Roethke, Crane, Graves).

There are 2000-odd pages across two volumes and it's only about $50-60 on Amazon. Definitely worth the investment! My favourite book purchase I've made in ages.

[Franky]

Victoria wrote: "In a swag of books I purchased recently (too long to be bothered listing) I received the Norton Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Poetry. I'd recommend it as a must for any poetry lo..."

Wow, that sounds like an impressive book! I really like Dickinson's poetry.

[Wendy]

I recently found Blood Meridian and The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle in a charity shop. I got them both for less than 2 English pounds.

[Michael, Mod Prometheus]

Recently I brought A Perfectly Good Man, Jasper Jones, Past the Shallows, Sewer, Gas and Electric: The Public Works Trilogy and Angelmaker

[Aoibhínn]

I've just brought the following books this morning :D

What Alice Forgot by Liane Moriarty
The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
The Lake of Dreams by Kim Edwards
The Vow: The True Events that Inspired the Movie by Kim & Krickitt Carpenter
Defending Jacob: A Novel by William Landay
The Mill River Recluse by Darcie Chan
Fifty Shades of Grey: Book One of the Fifty Shades Trilogy by E.L. James
Fifty Shades Darker: Book Two of the Fifty Shades Trilogy by E.L. James
Fifty Shades Freed: Book Three of the Fifty Shades Trilogy by E.L. James
Hot Six by Janet Evanovich
Seven Up by Janet Evanovich
Sophie's Choice by William Styron
Monday Mornings: A Novel by Sanjay Gupta
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving
The Book of Negroes: A Novel by Lawrence Hill
New York by Edward Rutherfurd

[Marlene]

Wew. That are many! Let me guess, you took a look at your to-read list and decided that it needs to get shorter?

[Michael, Mod Prometheus]

So many Fifty Shades books

[Marlene]

Are they good?

[Michael, Mod Prometheus]

Not game to read them, but they are been talked about a lot lately

[Janice]

My latest books purchases just were delievered:the Bonhoeffer biography by Eric Metaxas and an additional book about Bonhoeffer´s teachings and how to understand them.

[Catherine]

I ordered a study edition of Beowulf that has commentary from J.R.R. Tolkien, among others.

[Laurin]

At Bertram's Hotel, Sleeping Murder, Miss Marple's Final Cases, Death of a Kitchen Diva, Murder on Parade. First three were used (from thriftbooks.com), the last two are new.

[Franky]

Just purchased The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter and The Continental Op.

[Aoibhínn]

Just got these books this morning:

Forbidden by Tabitha Suzuma
Wench: A Novel by Dolen Perkins-Valdez
Many Bloody Returns short-story collection edited by Charlaine Harris
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
Throwaway by Heather Huffman
The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper

[Sandie]

I recently purchased some used books: Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers, Editors on Editing: What Writers Need to Know About What Editors Do, The Diary of a Young Girl, Self-Editing for Fiction Writers: How to Edit Yourself Into Print, Murder on the Orient Express, and The Copyeditor's Handbook: A Guide For Book Publishing And Corporate Communications, With Exercises And Answer Keys. (I like reading English reference books sometimes.) I also got a cheap ebook: The Mysterious Benedict Society.

[Catherine]

Ellie wrote: "Just got these books this morning:

Forbidden by Tabitha Suzuma
Wench: A Novel by Dolen Perkins-Valdez
Many Bloody Returns short-story collection e..."

A Wrinkle in Time is a great book!

[Moon]

Runelight
I'm looking forward to reading it.

[Wendy]

Just received Anno Dracula: The Bloody Red Baron which i ordered last year after reading Anno Dracula. Had completly forgotten about it.

[[deleted user]]

This week I got World Poetry, Contemporary East European Poetry: An Anthology, Winter Night: Selected Poems by Attila Jozsef, Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy, Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell, and, from a giveaway, Enemies: A History of the FBI.

[Wendy]

Picked up Fifty Shades of Grey at the supermarket so going to see what all the fuss is about.

[Aoibhínn]

New books I just got on my Kindle today:

The Future of Us by Jay Asher
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter by Seth Grahame-Smith
I've Got Your Number by Sophie Kinsella
War Horse by Michael Morpurgo

[[deleted user]]

Today I purchased:
- The Age of Reason by Jean-Paul Sartre
- Rules of Civility by Amor Towles

I cannot wait to read them! I've heard so much positive about those two.

[Franky]

Just purchased Farewell, My Lovely and Red Harvest