Every one's Choice discussion

As my TBR list goes on, I still can't help my impulses on buying more books!

My recent one is:

Free For All: Oddballs Geeks and Gangstas in the Public Library

Anyone else wanna share?

Just brought A Northern Light by Jennifer Donnelly

Does that include books that you get swapped with others and get given for nowt?

I hear you. I can't avoid a) stopping at bookstores and b) buying at least one book. I try to go for used or bargains, though. I got a bargain on an Alice Munro hardcover this weekend at B.Dalton.

The View from Castle Rock Stories by Alice Munro

Fiona (Titch) wrote: "Does that include books that you get swapped with others and get given for nowt?"

Whatever you decide!

Here are what I have received this month:

The Senator's Wife - Sue Miller
11,000 E-books
One Good Turn - Kate Atkinson
Succubus in New York City - Nina Harper
Book Circle book (a group I belong to)
The Ritual Bath - Faye Kellerman
Medusa - Clive Cussler
Bone by Bone - Carol O'Connell
Crime School - Carol O'Connell
Shell Game - Carol O'Connell
Mallory's Oracle - Carol O'Connell
Flight of the Stone Angel - Caro lO'Connell
Judas Child - Carol O'Connell
The Jury Must Die - Carol O'Connell
Bloody River Blues - Jeffery Deaver
The Broken Window - Jeffery Deaver
Hell's Kitchen - Jeffery Deaver
Skin - Mo Hayder
The Man Who Lied to Women - Carol O'Connell

WOW!!!! I think you are my heroine LOL

Hehe, well, wait til u see nxt months lol x

Just brought A Fraction of the Whole by Steve Toltz from Poasman books and I just ordered Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay from Half.com (nope got canceled so I took it out from the library instead!)

Donna wrote: "Just brought A Northern Light by Jennifer Donnelly"

I read this a few months ago....i really enjoyed it.

I have heard a lot about it so, I thought I would give it a whirl!

Today I received Case Histories - Kate Atkinson via a swap.

Do you mean an online swap? I was thinking about that...

Don't know much about it tho.

I belong to a UK site called Read It Swap It.

Just got some good stuff for $.75 on Half.com!

- The Shadow of the Wind : Carlos Ruiz Zafon, Lucia Graves
- Fidali's Way : George Mastras
- The Twentieth Wife : Indu Sundaresan
- One Hundred Years of Solitude : Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- Eat, Pray, Love : Elizabeth Gilbert

Damn! Good buys!

They were all $.75!!! How could I resist? I went to buy them at Borders cuz I had coupons (in which I would have saved $16) but it still came up to $61. So I went to half.com and geot all these for $21!!!

OK Fine!! I'm obsessed!!

I just brought from Posmans Books in GCT:
The Sweet Fair Thing - Libba Bray
Shogun - James Clavell

And Online I brought:
The Lost Symbol - Dan Brown
The Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins
Catching Fire - Suzanne Collns
World War Z - Max Brooks

The Collins books were backordered so I cancelled it and I will go elsewhere to buy it!
I had coupons!!!

OK so I brought more books but they are not for me! They are for the kiddies (so I say)

I got a Rainbow Brite Book and 5 Wuzzle books! I couldn't resist the flashback to my 80's childhood!

OK. I brought more!

1- Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke
2- Body of Lies by David Ignatius

I recently bought two Pipi Longstocking books... partly for me and partly for my kids. Awe, the memories!

It's not a recent purchase, but I want to get Coraline.

I've been so good and have been avoiding all of the bookstore (well, avoiding the online Sony ebook store is impossible) - but it's only going to mean hard decisions when I break down and hit up the bookstores. I may just have to stop by some next weekend, assuming I have healthy kids! :)

oo0oOOO00Ooohhhh I just found a cheapy bookstore by me. Books for $1 and they buy back too!!!

Back at Half.com I brought:

The Desert Rose : Larry McMurtry
The Book of Lost Things : John Connolly
The Fourth Hand : John Irving
The Dewey Decimal System of Love : Josephine Carr
The Scarlet Pimpernel : Orczy
Lush Life : Richard Price
The Kind One : Tom Epperson
The Deep End of the Ocean : Jacquelyn Mitchard

For a grand total of $26.78 with S&H!

Niiiice Donna!

so donna i just ordered the girl who kicked the hornets nest from amazon.com i am so excited i don't have to wait until spring next year to read it. i will give it to you as soon as i finish reading it.

OMG!!!! That's awesome! I can't wait!

Ok I got a B&N gift card and this week they are giving member prices on all their books so I brought:


-The Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins
-Catching Fire - Suzanne Collins
-Until I Find You - John Irving
-People of the Book - Geraldine Brooks

you are going ot love the hunger games and catching fire!!!

I know! I heard so many good things about it so I thought I would give it a try! Plus they were like $9 each!

I just got these from someone on Craiglist for $25. I will pick it up tomorrow.
1. Inés of My Soul, Isabel Allende
I am Madame X, Gioia Diliberto
All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque (worn)
5 The Wild Girl, Jim Ferguson
6 The Jungle, Upton Sinclair (New)
9 The House of Mirth, Edith Wharton (worn)
10 Black Boy, Richard Wright
11 Burning Bright, Tracy Chevalier
12 The Street, Ann Petry
13 Teacher Man, Frank McCourt (new hardcover)
14 Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe (worn, notes inside)


I also am picking up FREE books tonight in my neighborhood (I don't know which books but who cares there free/??!?!?)

Wow!

Gotta love Craigslist!

For $15 on Craiglist:

Boyle, T.C. World's End
Bronte, Emily Wuthering Heights
Cervantes Don Quixote
Desai, Kiran The Inheritance of Loss
Eco, Umberto The Name of the Rose
Fitzgerald, F. Scott The Beautiful and Damned
Greene, Graham The Heart of the Matter
Hornby, Nick High Fidelity
Irving, John A Prayer for Owen Meaning
Irving, John The Hotel New Hampshire
Ishiguro, Kazuo When We Were Orphans
Ishiguro, Kazuo A Pale View of Hills
James, Henry Dasiy Miller and other stories
Kundera, Milan The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Marquez, Gabriel Garcia Strange Pilgrims
McCourt, Frank Angel'as Ashes: A Memoir of a Childhood
Murakami, Haruki The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Rushdie, Salman The Moor's Last Sigh
Woolf, Virginia Mrs. Dalloway

And
The Street of a Thousand Blossoms, Gail Tsukiyama

So I just got as a late birthday present:

A Dance to the Music of Time First Movement
A Dance to the Music of Time Second Movement
A Dance to the Music of Time Third Movement
A Dance to the Music of Time Fourth Movement

I can't wait to read them! Wow.... so much to read, so little time!

Happy b-day!!! Mine wad 10/25 & jen was 10/26

Happy late birthday to both of you! Mine was 11/7! :)

This week's goodies:

The Hidden Oasis - Paul Sussman

When Will There Be Good News? - Kate Atkinson

Die For Me - Karen Rose

The Death Collectors - Jack Kerley

Fatal Cut - June Hampson

The Last Templar - Raymond Khoury

Or She Dies - Gregg Hurwitz

The Alexander Cipher - Will Adams

The Devil's Star - Jo Nesbo

The Bookseller of Kabul - Asne Seierstad

The Lost Army of Cambyses - Paul Sussman

The Last Secret of the Temple - Paul Sussman

The Hundredth Man - Jack Kerley

I have the last Templar too. Never read it though.

Happy belated Jenni!

Donna wrote: "I have the last Templar too. Never read it though.

Happy belated Jenni!"

Donna, when your ready, we can read it together hon. I am up for that when you are x

Maybe in the New Year if thats any help x

I'm in!! I hear it's pretty good!

Donna wrote: "I'm in!! I hear it's pretty good! "

Cool, will let you know after New Year Donna, when I plan on readin it hon x

I just got four free boxes of books from Craigslist but I only kept one. Most were law books and text/guides I did get Hemingway though! I was going to buy it but I got it!

I am going to pick up 11 more free boxes later tonight (rather my husband is) and then I may just calm it down a little since I have no room. I am waiting for my uncle and husband to custom make me one but probably not until after the holidays.

OK so I only kept 4 of the 11 boxes. So I got 130 books off of Cragslist thus far.

In the 11 boxes I got a lot of classics and first editions so...??? I am very happy and am more happy knowing that I didn't have to apy for them!

Nice! What will you do with the other boxes?

I left them in my hallway for other to take it. I live in an apt. building so I left a notice saying FREE BOOKS if no one takes them then they get recycled.

Niiiice!

I just brought The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Societybecause I had a 25% coupon at B&N.

Ohhhh I think you'll like it Donna!

Oh yeah? I don't know much about it but I always here good things and I think it may be our January read here at work.