Between the Lines discussion

I recently picked up Ian McEwan's Enduring Love and Carlos Ruiz Zafon's The Prince of Mist. Last week I picked up Irene Nemirovsky's Suite Française and Louis de Bernieres's Birds Without Wings from a used bookstore.

I see everybody reading The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.. It's tempting and calling me. I've tried to stay away from it for a while now.

Yesterday I bought:
Carlos Ruiz Zafon - The Prince of Mist
Brad Meltzer - The Book of Lies

galya wrote: "I see everybody reading The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.. It's tempting and calling me. I've tried to stay away from it for a while now."

Same here, I've seen it everywhere and I feel like I just have to pick it up at this point.

I just picked up a few new ones:

The Handmaid's Tale-Margaret Atwood
I Never Promised You a Rose Garden-Joanne Greenberg
The Outsiders-S.E. Hinton
Manic-Terri Cheney
An Unquiet Mind-Kay Redfield Jamison
Sybil-Flora Rheta Schrieber
Mennonite in a Little Black Dress-Rhoda Janzen
The Cellist of Sarajevo-Steven Galloway
The Scarlet Letter-Nathaniel Hawthorne

I have bought so many book that I have yet to read! I think I have to many to list!

Wow, I've bought quite a few books since I last posted in March, but the most recent was an Amazon order yesterday for Beasts and Daughters of the Witching Hill.

Francine wrote: "I got three books yesterday by donating $2.75 to a friends-of-the-library program. 1) One Good Turn: a Jolly Murder Mystery-Kate Atkinson 2) One Hundred Years..."</i>

Ooh, I love [book:One Hundred Years of Solitude!!

Thanks to Goodreads I'm now a Thrift Store book shopper and these are what I picked up today. All in really great condition:

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Grand total today $10.00

Great finds at a great price, Jason!

Jason, you found some awesome books and you can't beat the price!

Jason wrote: "Thanks to Goodreads I'm now a Thrift Store book shopper and these are what I picked up today. All in really great condition:

1. [bookcover:The Long Ships Passing - The Story Of The Great Lakes|699..."

What great store is this?? I hope it's somewhere in NYC... =)

Okay I SWEAR this was my last trip to Salvation Army....well for at least a few days lol

Today I picked up the following all in reasonable to new condition

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Total today $4.99

You guys are all a bunch of enablers :)

@Galya - well right next door to NYC, in rural eastern, CT.
But if you ever want a day away from the city I'd be happy to take you thrifting anytime!

I just recently bought Confederacy of Dunces, The Worst Hard Time, and the one I'm really excited about, the ever elusive The Mysteries of Udolpho- a book that Jane Austin has one of her heroines in Northanger Abbey read. Austin herself read The Mysteries of Udolpho (published around 1790 I think) but didn't like it. My friends from high school just opened a used bookstore in town and they tease that I'm their best customer!

Wow, Jason, what great books and prices!

Jason wrote: "@Galya - well right next door to NYC, in rural eastern, CT.
But if you ever want a day away from the city I'd be happy to take you thrifting anytime!"

Salvation Army, huh? There's one right by my house, but every time I go, it's closed.. :(

@Galya - yeah I have 4 within about 20/30mins from me so it's nice because the selections vary so much from store to store.

@Jason, I never actually saw, or thought about, books in Salvation Army. I usually think about clothing, and sometimes jewelry, lol. I never actually bought anything form there.. =( But I sure will check out books there soon!! You never know.

Okay - I guess I couldn't stay away long so here are today's finds:

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Today I spent $5.00 :)

Wow, some more great finds!

Jason, I loved Blindness!

I just can't help it - it's a neglected book section so I feel I have to rescue all these cheap finds and put them on my TBR :)

Jason wrote: "I just can't help it - it's a neglected book section so I feel I have to rescue all these cheap finds and put them on my TBR :)"Wow! Someone else out there that feels the same way I do about rescuing books!! Great!

Only 1 today for a grand total of $1.00

Lucky!

@Galya - I'm telling you, you have to treat yourself to some CT thrift shopping lol

I just got "Impulse" by Ellen Hopkins. The next book I want to get is "The Red Pyramid" by Rick Riordan. It's the first book of his new series. I can't wait to get it....SO MANY BOOKS, SO LITTLE TIME!!!!

I just bought The Red Pyramid for my husband. He loved the Percy Jackson series. I've read all the Ellen Hopkins books and really liked them.

@Jason - I'll think about it.

Jason wrote: "Only 1 today for a grand total of $1.00
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Nice!

I went out today for some errands and popped into the bookstore while i was at it. Came out with the following (am in a nonfiction mood at the moment, lol):

- Thomas More's Utopia
- Edmund Burke's The Evils of Revolution
- Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching (the Great Ideas series always get me, lol)
- Wilkie Collins's The Moonstone (new cover is intriguing)
- Solomon Volkov's The Magical Chorus: A History of Russian Culture in the Twentieth Century from Tolstoy to Solzhenitsyn (related to my research project)
- Thomas Bokenkotter's A Concise History of the Catholic Church

All in all, a very good day =D

Li wrote: "Jason wrote: "Only 1 today for a grand total of $1.00
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Nice!

I went out today for some errands and popped into the bookstore while i was at it. Came out with ..."

Your research project touches on Russian Literature?

galya wrote: "Li wrote: Your research project touches on Russian Literature?"

A bit; I'm actually looking at Russian national identity in a particular part of the Soviet period but I'm using memoirs and some literature from Russian authors as my sources =)

Li wrote: "galya wrote: "Li wrote: Your research project touches on Russian Literature?"

A bit; I'm actually looking at Russian national identity in a particular part of the Soviet period but I'm using memo..."

That's really cool. I want to take Russian Literature courses in college, but it's kind of a downer that books are read in English, because I would personally prefer reading them as original, so I'm not sure if I should.

Okay I SCORED today!!!
A NEAR PERFECT (w/dust jacket) 1st ed. of The Flight of the Falcon

for the grand total of...........$0.25

I LOVE thrift shopping :-)

.25? I need to shop where you're shopping!

Beth wrote: ".25? I need to shop where you're shopping!"

I welcome company Beth :)

galya wrote: "That's really cool. I want to take Russian Literature courses in college, but it's kind of a downer that books are read in English, because I would personally prefer reading them as original, so I'm not sure if I should. "

I think it depends on who's done the translation if you read it in English (I've read them all in English because my Russian's at the beginniner's level, lol) but I agree about wanting to read them in their original languages *nods*

I purchased Women Food and God by Geneen Roth at Costco today.

I Feel Bad About My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman, Cutting for Stone,
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie, and Thinner

Before I went to the library to do some research, I decided to pop into a used bookstore nearby to check something out; I ended up walking out with the following:

- Foer's Everything is Illuminated: A Novel
- Waugh's Brideshead Revisited
- Perez-Reverte's The Fencing Master
- Rushdie's Midnight's Children
- Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov

*blushes*

I got a Strand gift card from one of my old English teachers as a graduation present, and could not wait to start shopping! This time I had some amazing finds that I couldn't be happier with!! Here they are:
- Possession ($1)
- A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man ($0.48)
- Sputnik Sweetheart ($1)
- Elsewhere ($1)
- The Call of the Wild ($0.48)
- In Cold Blood ($1)
- Ivanhoe ($0.48)
- Pudd'nhead Wilson ($0.48)
- Oliver Twist ($1)
- The Handmaid's Tale ($1)
- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo ($11.95)
- some book by John Grisham for my mom ($0.48)

The Red and the Black
The Queen of the South
Alias Grace
The Devils

You bought some great books, Gayla and Silver.

Beth wrote: "You bought some great books, Gayla and Silver."

I was so happy! I usually never find what I really want, and there I got Possession, Sputnik Sweetheart, In Cold Blood, Handmaid's Tail!!! It's amazing. =)

galya wrote: "I got a Strand gift card from one of my old English teachers as a graduation present, and could not wait to start shopping! This time I had some amazing finds that I couldn't be happier with!! Here..."

I'm astounded as I saw the prices for all of your books. It was so cheap. I never got that price here, the cheapest that i've got so far, was $4. and that $4 was for a battered book with broken spine, which was beyond repair- in a secondhand bookstore. how i hope i can shop at your kind of bookshop. the normal price for books here in my country would be around $36 per book (imported book). the local books sell around $15-20. Still, its hard to find such a cheap book like yours and the rest of the members of this discussion. You guys are lucky!

And back to the discussion topic, i bought 4 books last week:
The Forgotten Garden
The Thirteenth Tale
The Viscount Who Loved Me
The Duke And I
* all 4 books for $75 :-(

i'll be reading those as soon as possible.

Faa wrote: "galya wrote: "I got a Strand gift card from one of my old English teachers as a graduation present, and could not wait to start shopping! This time I had some amazing finds that I couldn't be happi..."

Yes, I'm so happy that we have Strand here. I think that would be the one thing I would miss most if I were to leave NYC.
Do you guys have Salvation army? Jason buys his books there (I hope that's correct). =)

I got some more treasures.



The Lovely Bones $1
Interview With the Vampire $0.48
The 158-Pound Marriage $0.48

galya wrote: "Faa wrote: "galya wrote: "I got a Strand gift card from one of my old English teachers as a graduation present, and could not wait to start shopping! This time I had some amazing finds that I could..."

No, we dont have Salvation Army. Not even any bookstores that sell books under $2.However, there are few bookstores with great prices range from $17-$9. I considered myself lucky with those prices. I just have to settle with $32 a book :-(

I need to stop buying books. Someone MAKE ME STOP :) lol

The Little Stranger, A Caribbean Mystery, The Captive..

I have a break at work today, and I'm already planning a trip to Barnes and Noble. Whenever I'm upset or whatever, my shopping therapy isn't clothes (that's more like shopping punishment). It's books :D

Sarah wrote: "I need to stop buying books. Someone MAKE ME STOP :) lol

The Little Stranger, A Caribbean Mystery, The Captive..

I have a break at work today, and I'm alr..."

Hahaha, tell me about it!! And the thing that happens to me is I read library books, but keep on buying books for myself and laying them off for later.