A Good Thriller discussion

My local GW bookstore did not have the sequel to "The Innocent"..........by David Baldacci. I tried to get it from Amazon.........no cheap, cheap copies. As a last result, I tried Ebay........and bought it from an Indiana GW for $4.24, including shipping.
Dang, I love a bargain.

Shoot. P.S. Should I feel guilty???? Last nite I did not start my new Chris Mooney book.........I actually read a magazine. For shame.........Sean, get that ruler. I'll hold out my hand.

Terrible !!!

Naughty Girl...

Oops I just watched The Voice UK, but I will read later, so a reasonable good boy !

You should really switch to reading on a device. Not only do you read faster, it's easier to buy, but also you can 'borrow' on schemes such as Amazon Prime, or Overdrive or even lend to one another.

Ty wrote: "You should really switch to reading on a device. Not only do you read faster, it's easier to buy, but also you can 'borrow' on schemes such as Amazon Prime, or Overdrive or even lend to one another."

That's the way I go! The Never List is the first physical book I have bought in a long time.

Thanks to the enabling people of this group ;) (supposed to be on a spending ban and am using any excuse to buy new books at the moment heh) I picked up Karin Slaughter's first Will Trent book Triptych from eBay for £1 including shipping. Was quite pleased. I've never read any of hers before so I'm pretty excited.

It was my birthday yesterday and my Nanny always gets me lots of books. I'm excited to see her ^_^

Ok, so I got a few new books this morning...free Kindle Deals:
Family Interrupted - Linda Barrett
Tangled Beauty - K.L. Middleton
The Spider Inside - Elias Anderson

Also downloaded these from Overdrive:

TripTych - Karin Slaughter
Love the One You're With - Emily Giffin
Die Trying - Lee Child

I just picked up the the Calvin And Hobbes Collector's Edition . Broke. I am selling my body for food. Any takers?

Dipanjan wrote: "I just picked up the the Calvin And Hobbes Collector's Edition . Broke. I am selling my body for food. Any takers?"

I'll buy your pancreas with my food ;) My diabetes is fussy with food anyways haha.

Kerry

We have someting in common, Diabetes.

Although I walk 10-12 miles a day, and play tennis 3-4 times a week.

So do keep fit

Maybe we can share the pancreas !

@ Sean & Kerry - What I projected as an illegal profession, you guys transformed that into a noble profession. Not fair. I have a reputation to protect.

Kerry wrote: "Thanks to the enabling people of this group ;) (supposed to be on a spending ban and am using any excuse to buy new books at the moment heh) I picked up Karin Slaughter's first Will ..."

Happy Belated Birthday Kerry.........you mere babe!!!!
You will positively love Karin's books, but you really should consider reading them in order. They really begin with the Grant County series.
Hope you had a grand celebration.

@DianeAlice - You're mah lady, mah lady. You took it the Right Way.

I just bought Police: A Harry Hole Novel by Jo Nesbo (Kindle version). Can't wait to get to it and see where Nesbo goes after the last one, Phantom.

I just got Harlan Coben's Missing You. Love this author. It's been added to my stack.

I have to run some errands today and those errands place me right at The Goodwill Bookstore. Uh oh!!!! I have already printed off a list of 60 books..........am hoping I find, possibly 6-8 of them.
I am absolutely giddy and I have cash in my pocket!!!
I am in trouble. :-)

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LOL !!!!

Ter'e and Dipanjan

I think you have a thing going on ....

Dips,
Baby, you need another job!!!!
Sean, thank you so much for sharing your lively group. What a cast of characters we have.

Sure have !!

Brings a smile to my face.

This is what brings members here, fun, fun ..

@ Sean - Yup. We have a thing going on. I am stalking Ter'e.
@ Ter'e - I don't have a job. I am poor. I am selling my body for food.

F.U.N - Freaked Out, Unpredictable, Naughty (yup kinda sums me up). LOL. I am willing to be the guinea pig for any shrink taking up strange experiments.

Well, I had quite a day at the Goodwill Bookstore. I think I scored BIGTIME. Here is what I bought:
Zero Day - Baldacci
Target - Simon Kernick
Into the Darkest Corner - Elizabeth Haynes
Three Seconds - Roslund & Hellstrom
The Night Stalker - Chris Carter
True Blue - David Baldacci
The Bodies Left Behind - Jeffery Deaver
The Edge - Jeffery Deaver
Beyond Reach - Karin Slaughter (I can't believe I have not read this one!!!)
Guilty Wives - James Patterson & blah blah blah
The Torment of Others - Val McDermid
Well, how'd I do???? Excellent, huh???
4/12 they are having a huge sale. EVERYTHING is 25% off. This girl loves a sale - even a sale on sale priced books!!!!
They had limited Baldacci books and not one Lisa Gardner book in the store! Dang. Still, I was like a kid at Christmas!
SCORE!!!!

@ Ter'e - Gasp!!

Great collection

jammy !!!!

Guilty wives is the only one that I have read out of that list, but what a score. I love a good deal myself. Going to the stores is like a game to me, how much I will save!!

Just bought The Murder of Roger Ackroyd byAgatha Christie second hand @ $3.99

Picked this up for free today for the Kindle...

and this one too

I throw a little hissy fit now and then. Today must be my day!!! I am thrashing and cussing at the moment, but I shall calm down and ask a question.
Does it p.............ah............aggravate you when you buy a book, only to take it home and find that you have bought the book before???? This agravates me to no end!
Why do the publishers come out with different covers for the same book??? Is it to just make us think we have not bought the book before????

Today I decided to better organize my bookshelves, only to find I have duplicates of the same book. GRRRRR.

I have to say, I did find some great books tucked back in the corners of the shelves!!!! I had forgotten how much I enjoyed certain authors as I have not seen any of their books for awhile. Like Alex Kava. William J. Coughlin. Erica Spindler (I have 3 of her books and have never read one of them yet). The same with Tammy Hoag. I have a few books - have never read the first one yet.

I need to read faster. In the meantime, I have filled a nice bag to go back to the Goodwill, as I know my tastes have changed and I will never read them. I was hoping to find some more David Baldacci books on my shelves. As it is, I did find 3!

@ Ter'e - Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. ROFL. LMAO. LMFAOOO!!!! *call the paramedics, i will die laughing now*

I must have S U C K E R tattooed on my forehead. I sure could throw in some adjectives right now.
Dips, stop laughing. You will be on my turf soon and I will come and hunt you down like a dog!!!!!!

:-) (she says with a cute smirk!)

@ Ter'e - While on your turf, I shall hide inside a bookstore. LMFAO. ROF (big time)L ... still.

Thrillers - $50, Mystery - $20, Suspense - $25 ... look on your face on discovery of duplicate books purchase - PRICELESS. (For everything else, there's Mastercard)

Get your butt off the floor!
I will get even.
I thought I was smarter than this.
Dips......watch it!!!!!

@ Ter'e - This goes down in history as a True Mastercard Moment.

So ... now you got what, 5 copies of every novel?

Ter'e wrote: "I throw a little hissy fit now and then. Today must be my day!!! I am thrashing and cussing at the moment, but I shall calm down and ask a question.
Does it p.............ah............aggravate ..."

What is worse is when they rename the book and not only rename but abridge it as well. Perfect example is a wonderful, wonderful book called 'Karoo Plainsong' renamed 'The Housemaid's Daughter' and is probably only 66% of the original. Feel that I have to read The Housemaid's Daughter to see what was left out! It was brilliant as it was. My only complaint is that from beginning to end they mis-spelled the name Siobhan spelling it Siobahn! (ugh).

The Book Fairy left packages on my porch today.
Undercurramts by Ridley Pearson and Baldacci's The Hit!
He also left me a nice fat pkg of hand dyed wool........every nice girl in FL needs some wool!!!!
HA!!!! I am a primitive rug hooker.
I have so many great books to read, I don't know what to do. You can bet, I will not be hooking tonight.
Dips!!!! Not a word from you!!!!!

Ter'e wrote: "The Book Fairy left packages on my porch today.
Undercurramts by Ridley Pearson and Baldacci's The Hit!
He also left me a nice fat pkg of hand dyed wool........every nice girl in FL needs some wool..."

WHAT???

Lorrea,
I hook primitive wool rugs. I recycle alot of wool clothing, dye it, strip it and hook it into rugs. I'll post a rug on my profile. Most of what I do is folk art. I don't sell. These will be gifts for my kids one day.
Buying wool in Florida is non-existant. I shop second hand shops and order wool online. So, when I get pkgs of wool in the mail ---- I do the happy dance!!!!

@ Ter'e - I am not saying a WORD.

I want you to know........I am not the only hooker in this group!
I am really excited now.

I am NOT a cougar!!!!! LOL

Starting my Saturday with a smile!!!! I hope to finish my book and start another. Which way do I go????? So many awesome books to choose from.

I have a big rug on my frame.....I need to hook too. Wish I could listen to books.....but it just doesn't work for me.

Dipanjan is YOUNG, Dipanjan is INNOCENT.

Last book I bought was book 6 of the kingdom keepers series by ridley pearson and Inferno by Sherrilyn Kenyon. Any other books I get are prizes from the library from doing the reading programs there throughout the year and I do buy books too but from barnes & noble or another book store. On my tablet I just get the free ones from feedbooks and ones I do from read 4 review requests when I do them.

Just bought our three group reads.


as well as which is free today on Amazon.

Yes Same here bought all three.

Plus two Mark Sennen

Spent £45.00 !!

Blame you lot !!! LOL

I go away for a few days and we have some illegal professions, flirting and downright scandal ;) Incorrigible! Thanks for the belated birthday wishes, and sorry to hear about your diabetes, Sean. I'm still newly diagnosed (only a year now) so am still trying to get everything under control and my hba1c down, but am slowly getting there :3

And I have no time to buy your body for the illegal purposes. I have thing to do and books to read! So I'll just take the pancreas for now ;)

On topic...ish. No new books bought by me today but finally managed to go to the tiny local library and sort out a library card, so although I won't get to keep the books, at least I'll get to read them :)

@ Kerry - We had NO IDEA that you were gone for a few days. We initiated the illegal profession, flirting and downright scandal assuming we have an awesome lawyer like you covering our backs. (And belated happy birthday to you).

Also it's Happy Hours now. Along with the pancreas you are eligible for "buy 1 get 1 free" offer.

Dipanjan wrote: "@ Kerry - We had NO IDEA that you were gone for a few days. We initiated the illegal profession, flirting and downright scandal assuming we have an awesome lawyer like you covering our backs. (And ..."

Well I see how it is. You all rely on me to get you outta trouble. Hmph. At least I'm valued ;) Haha! Happy Hours. I'm now giggling like mad.

I am so excited. I just bought Kerry's "The Axeman's Jazz" for $1.00 on Ebay! What terrific reviews!!!! I must put down the magazines. I got 3 more in yesterdays mail. What's up with that?

@ Kerry - You are treasured. My next mission is to pull down the pants of a politician while he is making tall promises. WILL need legal safety net.

@ Ter'e - Question. Are those 3 magazines the SAME editions? Since you have a track record of that.