Recently Purchased Books

[Sam]

I bought two travel guides, one for Paris (will be there in May) and one for Côte d'Azur (summer holiday). They were on sale, I couldn't resist. I prefer paper guides to ebooks even though everybody recognizes me as a tourist.

[Janice]

I had to stop myself from buying more but I purchased 4 books today ( two are in German): Der Meister und Margarita by Michail Bulgakov, Empört Euch! by Stéphane Hessel, Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck and the second book of the Hunger Games trilogy : Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins.

[Marlene]

No book-restriction anymore? ;)

[[deleted user]]

I've discovered the free classics for kindle.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
A Stable for Nightmares or Weird Tales
A Harlot High and Low
The Phantom of the Opera
Carmilla
The Flood
The Fortune of the Rougons
The Masterpiece
The Downfall, Volume 1

I just have to stop myself from overloading my kindle. :)

[Michael, Mod Prometheus]

I love all the free books for kindle

[[deleted user]]

I'm finding it hard to restrain myself--like a kid in a sweet shop :)

[Janice]

Marlene wrote: "No book-restriction anymore? ;)"

Well, actually yes:D It starts again today. I allowed myself to read one book that has nothing to do with school but starting today I will get back to my English, History and Religion books. I just bought those to have something to look forward to...And as I said I had to stop myself from buying more....

[Marlene]

I couldn't do that!

[Rachel]

I just purchased Ingrid Newkirk's The Compassionate Cook.The Compassionate Cook: Please Don't Eat the Animals

[[deleted user]]

Rachel wrote: "I just purchased Ingrid Newkirk's The Compassionate Cook.The Compassionate Cook: Please Don't Eat the Animals"

I like the sound of that book :)

[Andrea]

Today I hit my local used bookstore and came home with:

The Complete Sherlock Holmes
The Night Circus
The Stranger
Death of a Salesman
A Visit from the Goon Squad
As I Lay Dying
East of Eden
John Steinbeck: A Life in Letters
Breakfast at Tiffany's
Lady Chatterley's Lover
The Complete Lewis Carroll
The Shipping News

(Admittedly, I may have gone a bit overboard- particularly since I just ordered two other books from Amazon yesterday- but, in my defense, I subscribe to the belief that one can never have too many books.)

[Lori]

I bought Mr. Churchill's Secretary: A Novel last night. It just sounded good & today I've read some reviews that back me up. I have my fingers crossed.

[[deleted user]]

I just got Samuel Beckett's novels. I'm looking forward to them.

[[deleted user]]

Andrea wrote: "Today I hit my local used bookstore and came home with:

The Complete Sherlock Holmes
The Night Circus
The Stranger
Death of a Salesman
A Visit from the Goon Squad
As I Lay Dying
East of Eden
John..."

What a great list. East of Eden (and Steinbeck in general) is a favourite. No, you can definitely never have enough books. It's one thing I never feel guilty about buying. Makeup, clothes, etc-- these things are trifles, books are a necessity.

[Wendy]

I just got these from a local charity shop: L.A. Confidential, Nobody True, Room and Bad Men a bargain!

[Marlene]

When I break down, then completely:
East of Eden
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Ella Enchanted
Heist Society
Gone with the Wind
Gut gegen Nordwind
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Catch Me If You Can
I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America After 20 Years Away
Der Hundertjährige, der aus dem Fenster stieg und verschwand
And I still have other books to be read. Now I have exactly 21 books on my waiting list. Where is the time?!

[Franky]

I usually have to use summer time to catch up on reading. I recently purchased Henry Dunbar.

[Laurin]

4-12 of the Stephanie Plum series.

[Janice]

I got Glassperlenspiel by Hermann Hesse, Siddharta by Hermann Hesse, Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, Midnight´s Children by Salman Rushdie and a Jodi Picoult book for mother´s day :)

[Marlene]

I have to add Nineteen Minutes to my list (which makes it eleven books I've bought) and one for mother's day too. The one I wanted was out of stock (everywhere) so I got her One Day. Hope she'll like it. :)

[Melissa Hoyle]

The Wind-up Bird Chronicles
2666
The Rules of Attraction
Ivanhoe
Sexing the Cherry
Alias Grace
Labryinths
A Void
Haunted
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
Kafka on the Shore
Never Let Me Go
Irrational Man
Kristin Lavransdatter
The Beach
The Fall

Plus I have another order from Amazon on its way lol. Some think I have a problem, but I say no way!!

[[deleted user]]

I've picked up a number of books this month. Sorry for the lack of links.

Finnegans Wake
Joyce's Book of the Dark
The Embodied Mind
The Origins of European Thought
Of Two Minds
Hearing Voices
The Poems of Paul Celan
Helen in Egypt
Some of Stanislaw Lem's books
The Master and his Emissary
Diary of Anne Frank
A Brief Tour of Human Consciousness
The Mystic Mind
In Search of Memory

[Marlene]

Now that I see those lists, I don't feel so bad about mine anymore. ;)

[Melissa Hoyle]

Marlene wrote: "Now that I see those lists, I don't feel so bad about mine anymore. ;)"

I never feel bad about purchasing a lot of books lol. To me they are an investment.

[Marlene]

They are for me too - but as I'm in the middle of my final exams and am going to move in october (I haven't figured out how to take all of my books yet) it probably isn't a good idea to buy so many. I still do, though. ;)

[Melissa Hoyle]

I just finished my final exams last week; good luck on yours!!

[Marlene]

thanks. Seems it helped.
Well, I'm not in the middle of mine anymore. One was on Monday, last was today. I'm done!!!
And I'm done with school too. :D

[Aoibhínn]

It was my birthday yesterday so I got a ton of books and vouchers from Amazon. This is what I've brought:

Deadlocked by Charlaine Harris
The Dressmaker: A Novel by Kate Alcott
Here on Earth by Alice Hoffman
Shoot the Moon by Billie Letts
White Oleander by Janet Fitch
Arcadia by Lauren Groff
Calico Joe by John Grisham
Certain Girls by Jennifer Weiner
Come Home by Lisa Scottoline
Me Before You by Jojo Moyes
The Lifeboat by Charlotte Rogan
The Invisible Ones by Stef Penney
A Spot of Bother by Mark Haddon
A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
Hard Eight by Janet Evanovich
Visions of Sugar Plums by Janet Evanovich
To the Nines by Janet Evanovich
The Best American Mystery Stories 2010 by Lee Child
The Best American Mystery Stories 2011 by Harlan Coben
Slave Girl by Sarah Forsyth
Indecent Proposal by Jack Engelhard
The Heart of a Woman by Maya Angelou
Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
A Million Little Pieces by James Frey

[[deleted user]]

Happy belated birthday, Ellie.

[Franky]

Wow, impressive list there Ellie.

I bought Shutter Island at Barnes and Noble. Hopefully I can make a dent in my to be read pile of books that is growing and growing.

[Aoibhínn]

I brought this a few days ago. It just arrived in the post today.

[Janice]

Just purchased a beautiful edition of Jane Austen´s novels :)

[Gabriel]

i bought The Stoneholding Dawn of Empire LPand Against the Light

[[deleted user]]

Recently I've bought:
Omensetter's Luck
The Recognitions
The Battlefield Where the Moon Says I Love You
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

[[deleted user]]

The Witches of Eastwick by John Updike
The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Stranger's Child by Alan Hollinghurst

[Aoibhínn]

Just got this in the post today:



I've been wanting to read this book forever and it taken me ages to find a copy of it.

[Kim]

My most recent purchases were Expletive Deleted: A Good Look at Bad Language and Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages. I hope to actually read them one day.

[Lawyer]

I traveled to Havana, Alabama, no doubt named by some veteran of the Spanish American War and attended an estate sale with a very, very large library. I walked out with a much coveted Alabama history of Red Eagle and the Creek Indian War published in 1898. The condition was superb. Then there was a first edition first printing of Robert Frost's In the Clearing, and the first American edition of Lady Chatterly's Lover. Going back in the morning to check out a set of Hubbard's Journeys to Houses. The price tag was out of reach, so I'm hoping to make a more favorable offer in the morning. I had to research the editions and found they exist in numerous variations. Elbert Hubbard founded Roycroft Publishing, big in the Arts and Crafts Movement. I now have the points of issue on a true first. Keeping my fingers crossed.

[Andrea]

Mike wrote: "I traveled to Havana, Alabama, no doubt named by some veteran of the Spanish American War and attended an estate sale with a very, very large library. I walked out with a much coveted Alabama hist..."

Mike, I'm jealous of the In the Clearing! Sounds like it was a great estate sale.

[Gabriel]

I have to agree with Andrea. I am jealous and envious of that auction. How much were the books being offered for? I am sure my meager pennies and nickles would not have sufficed.

[Lawyer]

Andrea wrote: "Mike wrote: "I traveled to Havana, Alabama, no doubt named by some veteran of the Spanish American War and attended an estate sale with a very, very large library. I walked out with a much coveted..."

It was a fine sale. I offered less than a third of the asking price on the Elbert Hubbard. SOLD. Also picked up signed Hudson Strodes, well known for his bio of Jefferson Davis. I picked up his better known travel writings.

[Alicia]

The last book I got was At the Mountains of Madness by H.P. Lovecraft. I'm excited to read it even though I have 20 other books sitting around waiting to be read. I'm kind of annoyed though because Goodreads doesn't have my edition of the book.

[Janice]

I got The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings trilogy!

[Laurin]

I have not been keeping track. I've added about 25 in the past two months.

[╟ ♫ Tima ♪ ╣ ♥]

A used bookstore I've been going to since it opened, recently went out of business. As sad as it was, they did have all their entire library of books on sale for a dollar each. *swoon*

So, I've added 130 books to my library over the last 3 months. I, tragically, lost my whole collection to a moving mishap. A small step towards rebuilding.

Most recently I've added Eragon, Flowers in the Attic and A Game of Thrones. All books that have stirred loads of conversation that I haven't yet read. =)

[[deleted user]]

Just got The Selected Works of Samuel Beckett, Amerika, The Complete Stories, and Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature.

[Laurin]

Bought some ebooks (some free, some paid). I scored Ice Cold and Murder Short and Sweet for $10.00 at B&N.

[Aoibhínn]

Recently one of my local bookshops was having a 3 for €5 sale so I brought the following:

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer
Night Road by Kristin Hannah
The Naming of Eliza Quinn by Carol Birch
The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory
Tara Road by Maeve Binchy
Before I Fall by Lauren Oliver

[Laurin]

Lots of free ebooks.

[Leanne]

I recently bought "A Discovery of Witches", "The Greatcoat" and the Northern Lights trilogy.

May I ask. how add links to the titles of books like many members do in this thread and others?