if you could buy any book on Amazon...

[Claudine]

What would it be?

[Patricia]

I answered this earlier, but Goodreads ate my reply.

I'd buy my next book because, if it's available, that'd mean I finally wrote it.

There's no book I'm longing for except one that's not available: Truth and Consequences by Greg Mitchell. I read it years ago in print and want to read it again. Each chapter is about a different whistleblower who paid a heavy price. Non-fiction. I keep after Mitchell, telling him to put it in the Kindle Store, but so far nothing.

My most recent purchase was the book by the White house intern who had an 18-month affair with JFK. Yeah, I'm the person who buys that kind of stuff. If it's tawdry, I want it.

[Char]

I would love to purchase Ghost Story for Kindle. Alas, it's not available yet. : (

[Patricia]

That does look good, Charlene.

[K.A.]

I can't think if any right now. Maybe a collection of old SciFi books?

[Patricia]

Just popping in to say that that Once Upon a Secret (the JFK intern's tale) is surprisingly interesting. Some are questioning the author's truthfulness, but I think she's telling exactly what she remembers happening. I qualify it with "what she remembers" because memory can play some tricks on us over time. Still, the core of her story comes off (in my view) as completely honest.

[Claudine]

Kat, I have most sci fi books that I want in print. I thought of buying them all for Kindle but there are just far too many to justify the cost. Those who have followups in a series I will keep buying in print. I bought a Trudi Canavan prequel to her Black Magician trilogy (just lover her style and it's what I enjoy reading - fantasy), also got a Janny Wurts book that I've wanted forever (was first printed in 2001 but I just never got round to buying it) and I bought a China Melville book too - Embassytown.

Charlene I see not many of Straub's books are available for Kindle. Pity that.

I will certainly check that out Patricia. For now, I'm slowly going through my wishlist which includes Philpin's books.

And I am looking at buying a South African author's books too. For those who enjoy a good detective series, Deon Meyer has a few books out with the central characters being mostly ex police detectives, current detectives and old freedom fighters. I have two of his books in print, might just get the rest for Kindle.

His website - http://www.deonmeyer.com/index.html

[Katie]

For me, it wouldn't be fiction at all. It would be something like this -

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Ultimate-Time...

I never feel as if I should spend money on books like this, but I love having them to immerse myself into on a long lazy afternoon.

[Claudine]

Oh Katie, another passion of mine! LOVE that sort of book and I've even seen an episode of that particular series. I wanted to be an archeologist in an earlier life but due to never having the money to study further after high school, ending up in various jobs out in the corporate market and marrying...I never did get to do it. I might just order the print version of that book through my bookstore.

[Katie]

Oops. Didn't mean to make you spend money!

I DID become an archaeologist, but in Australia archaeology is not terribly exciting- a few chipped rocks and bits of sharpened bone. I've always thought that if we'd stayed in Britain instead of coming to Australia when I was 9, I would have stayed an archaeologist, but who knows? I still kick myself that I was too chicken at 20 to head back to Britain and further my studies there.

[Claudine]

Money's never wasted buying books. My son wants to become an archeologist too but I don't know if it is due to all the Indiana Jones Lego games he's been playing.

[Margaret]

Charlene wrote: "I would love to purchase Ghost Story for Kindle. Alas, it's not available yet. : ("



Read this ages ago and it is very good.

[K.A.]

Just picked up the "John Carter of Mars" series by Edgar Rice Burroughs for hubby - the movie is coming out.

He's high-jacked my Nook. :-(

I've still got Mom's Sony, so I'm not completely out of books to read. She was a Grishom fan.

[Patricia]

Kat, how do you like the Sony?

[K.A.]

Except for the fact it has no wifi - it's fine. I have to connect it to a pc and sideload books.

The controls can't get any simpler and it takes e-pubs.

[Patricia]

I liked the Sony I had. It was whatever model they had in 2008. Very classy-looking.

[K.A.]

Mom needed something simple - it was great for her. Now Hubby's comadeered the Nook...I'm out of luck.

[Claudine]

Got that bought the tshirt. :D

[Patricia]

Did you see that recent news story about a couple that was missing, then found? The guy was wearing that T-shirt in the photo that accompanied the story. Cracked me up.

[Christopher]

I would buy Robert Taylor's Journey to Matecumbe. What an amazing book.

[Katie]

I did a book cover for someone in Britain. She didn't pay the full fee because she'd done a lot of stuff for me, so with bank fees, it wasn't worth her sending a cheque. She sent me an Amazon voucher instead. Do you think I can decide what to spend it on? Aaaaagh!

[Sharon]

What a dilemma to be in Katie, Kench!

I know what you mean. I put things on Amazon's Wish List when I run across them and can't decide if they are worth putting out the bigger bucks the majors charge. I just had a quick check of my list and there wasn't one on there I'd buy today. Something will find you, I'm sure...

[K.A.]

"One Straw Revolution" is one book I'd love to have in hardcover.

I'm back to collecting gardening books - I really should know better.