Every one's Choice discussion

Rally Trish? I am thinking of calling customer service and seeing wtf is going on. They had this sale one day and I bought 5 books so starting all over again would super irk me. Now I know to download all the books staright away, darn it darn it darn it! @#$%^&*!!!

Donna, it wont recognize my pw and when I wrote customer service they never responded, when I requested my pw sent to me they never sent it. Argh!

Trish, I did call customer service and was actually not on hold for very long. Also they did fix my issue which had to do with the username and the pw not matching. I logged in successfully and dowdloaded all my books this time. I happily went to bed last night listening to an audiobook and am almost done with it already (I was halfway through the book book but lost it so I bought the audio version).

I know right? I would have appreciated a free credit so I could get another book darn it! LOL Have you gotten your issues with audible worked out?

Daphne by Justine Picardie
The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl by Timothy Egan

My husband not only works in thr village where they sell books for pennies but he also works in a building so many people leave books behind when they move or leave them in the laundry room for someone else. So I am that someone else and he got me:

Third Degree by Greg Iles
Smoke Screen by Sandra Brown
Something Borrowed by Emily Giffin
Sundays at Tiffany's by James Patterson
Waking Nightmare by Kylie Brant
Now and Then by Robert B. Parker and
The Cabinet of Curiosities by Douglas Preston

I am not a big fan of some of these authors but I thought I would at least bring them home and check them out if I don't like it then I can share them here on GR or give them to a friend.

Horray for free/cheap books!

He found 3 more!

The Fixer Upper by Mary Kay Andrews
A Sea of Troubles by Donna Leon
Unhallowed Ground by Heather Graham

He also found a bunch more Sandra Brown but one is enough for me. He also found A Reliable Wife and even tho I already have it I figured I would put it up on GR swap.

I am listening to A Reliable Wife right now!

LOL. I hear good things! But it will be some time til I get to it because of my GIANT list!

Another Husband find! I am not really interested in Chick-lit but I won a copy of The Seven Year Bitch by Jennifer Belle and Iloved it because it sounded so like me but my husband found another book by her so I tought I would give it a try High Maintenance

I better be receiving Mockingjay from Amazon today. I was hoping it would actually arrive on the day it was released, but no such luck. If it doesn't arrive today, I won't be pre-ordering any books again.

Ekkk! They have been pretty good with that but I guess since it is so big????

I just ordered mine but I still haven't even read the first 2 so I can wait.

Kathy, I preordered a couple movies from amazon a while back and they came right on time. Sorry to hear that your order is late :(

Just got from GR Swap:
The DUFF by Kody Keplinger

and

The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory

And brought online:

Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins

I got these over the weekend

The Color of Magic and Dead Until Dark

The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million
Loud and Clear
Reading Like a Writer

Ok, when I'm stressed out I buy books, and I've been stressed lately so this was last week:

Blameless
The Left Hand of Darkness
Farthing
The Gargoyle
The Fleet Street Murders
The Other Queen
Cranford
An American Tragedy
Veronika Decides to Die
Barchester Towers

The best part is that I am going with my future sister-in-law to pick out a ring for my fiance, and we're covering up by saying we're going to a used bookstore, so I have to come back with more books! :)

Thats a very good excuse Paula... Just dont forget to get the ring :)

Ha! No, not forgotten :) And another 10 books to add to my Mt. TBR! :)

I ordered a bunch of books from Amazon yesterday on children's literature and reading, and then, I went to Border's later and bought Ape House, as I had a 33% coupon and the book was already 30% off.

SCORE! My husband went to the thrift store and it was 10 for $1. So he got me:



The Hamilton Case: A Novel
The Wish List
The Dogs of Babel
Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year
The Last Rendezvous
The Virgin's Lover
The Places In Between
The Second Coming of Lucy Hatch
Family Terrorists
Matrimony: A Novel

You're going to have to teach me this whole 'my-husband-went-to-the-store-and-bought-me-10-books' thing! :)

Recently bought and read Eat, Pray, Love & The Year of Magical Thinking.

And I'm going to have Perfume: The Story of a Murderer delivered at my door step tomorrow.

Hey Soulless Curry, how was Eat, Pray, Love?

Hey Niecole, I quite liked it actually. You can read my review for Eat, Pray, Love : here.

Thanks Soulless :)

I did a little book shopping today and I got the following (all historical fiction mysteries:-):
Deadly Desire
Deadly Caress
Deadly Promise
Deadly Illusions
Why Shoot a Butler?
Callander Square
Murder on Washington Square
Murder on Mulberry Bend

They are all parts of series I have been reading. I have been switching back and forth btw. 5 or 6 different historical fiction mystery series and I just needed to pick up a few more. I am currently reading A Letter of Mary, so I will p/u the next book in that series some time this coming week!

My husband found 2 bags of books and all of them are pretty awesome. I will post a listing on Monday I gotta go thru it

My husband found bags of books and I only had time to go thru one so here it is:

Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
Ella Enchanted
Fairest
The Unquiet: A Thriller
Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
A Single Man
Fairest of All: A Tale of the Wicked Queen
Oil!
Papillon

There were some other books but I already had them so I put them up on Swap.

Well, I have done some book shopping "damage" over the past week and a half, I have bought the following:
Deadly Kisses
The Moor
O Jerusalem
Murder on Marble Row
Murder on Lenox Hill
Skeletons at the Feast
The Unfinished Clue
Innocent Fire
A Woman of Independent Means
Footsteps in the Dark
Dawn's Early Light
The Face of a Stranger
Paragon Walk
A Dangerous Mourning
Messenger of Truth
The Secret
Shadow Music
An Incomplete Revenge
Bride of Pendorric
Ransom
Glittering Images
Glamorous Powers
Among the Mad
Prayers for Sale
The Rose of Sebastopol
The Day the Falls Stood Still
Gentlemen and Players
Fall of Giants
Tears of Pearl: A Novel of Suspense

The majority of these are historical fiction (can you tell that is my FAVE genre?), but I think I picked some good ones! I am trying to make room for them all, but right now they are in stacks in the guest bedroom, waiting with the others that I still have not read yet. I only shelve them once they have been read, so yes my GBR looks like a library...oh well. The stacks just keep growing bigger and bigger and my hubby is like "where are you going to put ALL of those books?", he just groans every time I bring new books home!

Anna is there anything left in the stoor???? lol

Do they have shopping carts there???

Anna, when do you plan to read Fall of Giants? I have it, and I'm going to start reading it next week - just as soon as I finish the firstreads book that I've finally received. :)

You guys are too funny! I ordered the majority of the books from www.thriftbooks.com, which is a used book website and it is FREE shipping on any order and the rest I either bought at B/N or ordered on line at B/N.com and since I am a member it is also FREE shipping. The books have been coming in like crazy and I had them all shipped to the office, so the hubby would not see all the packages arriving, but then I remembered I still had to get them all into the house! They ship them from all over the U.S., so it is not like I just receive one huge box, I am receiving multiple packages. Wednesday, I received a huge box from B/N and then 5 separate ones from thriftbooks, just to give you an idea. Oh well, the stacks of books just keep growing and growing in my guest bedroom!

Jenni, in response to your question, I am getting ready to start reading Fall of Giants probably tonight! I cannot wait! I am currently reading Tears of Pearl: A Novel of Suspense, but will be finished with it by this evening. We will definitely have to discuss it as we are reading it, it is 1000 pages, so there will be PLENTY to discuss.

Anna - you're so cool! :)

I'll try to hurry up with the books I need to get done. I'd love to be able to chat with somebody about this book. I'll let you know when I start! :) (Cross your fingers - hopefully by Sunday or Monday!)

Jenni, I just finished Tears of Pearl: A Novel of Suspense, so I am getting ready to start Fall of Giants. Let me know when you get started!

I have a few more books to add to the above list of books I bought this week...did a little more damage last night, but not too bad b/c barnesandnoble.com is having a HUGE fall clearance sale, so technically, I got a really good deal (hey, if it makes it okay in my mind, I go with it). I bought the following:

Henry's Sisters
Beneath a Silent Moon
Cathedral of the sea
East of the Sun
The Case of the Missing Books
Miss Julia Speaks Her Mind: A Novel
Seduction Becomes Her
The Tenth Gift

okay, that will be all for a while or at least for a week or two :-)

Jenni wrote: "Anna - you're so cool! :)

I'll try to hurry up with the books I need to get done. I'd love to be able to chat with somebody about this book. I'll let you know when I start! :) (Cross your finge..."

Jenni, I sent you a message regarding Fall of Giants b/c I want some feedback from you and I am dying to discuss it with someone! Talk to you soon.

So much for that being all for the week, I could not even make it two days....I got bored at the office today and I ordered the following:

Murphy's Law
Death of Riley
For the Love of Mike
In Like Flynn
Silent in the Grave
Silent in the Sanctuary

okay now that is IT (at least for this week)!

I bought a couple of second-hand recently:

- Delia's Crossing VC Andrews (Delia 1)
- Delia's Heart VC Andrews (Delia 2)
- Delia's Gift VC Andrews (Delia 3)
- The Duchess of Windsor: The Secret Life Charles Higham
- The Crimson Petal and the White Michel Faber
- Treasure Island Robert Louis Stevenson

More Husband finds!!!


On Beauty
The Girl with No Shadow
South of Broad

And I just got from Swap:

Chef: A Novel & The Magician's Assistant

Well, I just caved and bought the following books:

The Secret History of the Pink Carnation
The Masque of the Black Tulip
Resurrection Row
Gramercy Park
The Blind Assassin
The Nazi Officer's Wife: How One Jewish Woman Survived the Holocaust
Souvenir
Garden Spells
A Rose for the Crown: A Novel
Annette Vallon: A Novel of the French Revolution
Time Is a River
Firestorm
Figures in Silk

Okay that is really IT (at least for a while :-)

Just a guess - did you hit up the B&N fall clearance sale? I recently bought several of the same titles from there. Happy reading!

Sarah, you are SO right, I did hit up the B&N.com huge fall clearance sale and I also use thriftbooks.com b/c it is always free shipping and for used books, they are usually in really good condition. What books did you end up buying?

Anna, I bought the following:

Mistress Shakespeare
Of Bees and Mist
The Island
Figures in Silk
A Rose for the Crown: A Novel
The Gates
Garden Spells
The Heretic's Daughter
The Seance

Can't pass up a bargain ;-)

Well, I have done really good this week and I have only bought one book...Yeah Anna. I bought The Gargoyle last night at Target and I started it immediately. It is so very intriguing! I am sure I will do some more book buying damage this weekend, but the space/storage situation is getting out of hand. I was looking at my TBR piles of books last night and I remembered I still have 13 books to be delivered to me, oh me, oh my, where are they ALL going to go. I know the reasonable thing to do would be to read the ones I already have and then order/buy more, but it is just too hard b/c there are sooooo many books that I want and that I must have (do I sound like a spoiled kid or what, well I am 36 yrs. old and if this is what I want to splurge on then so be it)!

My latest finds:
- The Sixth Wife by Suzannah Dunn
- New Worlds, Lost Worlds: The Rule of the Tudors, 1485-1603 by Susan Brigden
- The Tudor Age by Jasper Ridley
- Mary Tudor: The Spanish Tudor by H.F.M. Prescott

My husband just brought home a garbage bag full of books and I have yet to go through them.....

Niiiiice Donna! I hope that there's some good stuff in those bags. :)