Every one's Choice discussion

Hello everyone!
I'm new but since I went to the book shop yesterday I thought I should give it a go and post here.

I decided to reward myself a bit for staying in this weekend and behaving, so I got:
American Gods by Neil Gaiman (my first Gaiman so I'm excited).
The Stand by Stephen King (This seemed like the next logical step after reading Under the Dome).
Dís by Birna Anna Björnsdóttir (It's in Icelandic and I'm not sure if it's ever been released in another language)

I also borrowed some books from my friend
Choke (which I'm reading now) and Snuff, both by Chuck Palahniuk.

Hi Hildur! It's nice to see you around here. :)

I've never read American Gods, but I've read several Neil Gaiman books, and have enjoyed them all. Let me know what you think!

I definitely will! It's going to be my next one after Choke.

Well, I did a little book shopping this weekend, I hit up the barnesandnoble.com clearance sale (b/c it is ending soon) and I bought the following:

Finding Nouf: A Novel
The Wednesday Sisters
Casting Off
The Rossetti Letter
Of Bees and Mist
Cutting for Stone
The Book Thief

Well, it is me once AGAIN...today I bought the following:

The Girl Who Played with Fire
Lady in Waiting

oh well, at least it was only 2 books this time, they can squeeze in somewhere amongst the hundreds of others that need to be shelved!!

Oh Anna,I wish that you lived in Iowa. We'd be such good friends!

I know we would and we could share books, but we can get to be good friends on here as well. I have a neat story for you...I have been working for my dad for 12 or 13 years, but about 8 or 9 years ago, I would talk to a customer that we have almost daily. Well, she lived in Wilmington, N.C., which is about 3 hours from me in Greensboro and we got to be the best of friends and finally we just decided it was time for us to meet and one weekend I drove to Wilmington and ever since then we are just the best of friends. You know I have Crohns Disease and when she was 8 mo's pregnant, she was diagnosed and I really helped walk her through the stages of acceptance and now she helps me when I am having a rough time. It is just funny b/c people are like how did ya'll meet and we are like "over the phone". You never know, who you are going to meet or who is going to end up being a friend when you really need them!

Anna, too true! My husband is from the Netherlands, and though we met each other in Iowa, we started "dating" through email while I was living in Japan and he was in the Netherlands. It's always so strange to tell people the story... :)

The Earth really can be a small place!

Yes it can, I totally agree with you, sometimes it is too small (just meaning sometimes you run into people, you really don't want to :-) It never fails, when I just "run" to the grocery store in chill clothes, I ALWAYS run into someone we know, usually a guy that is like...yeah, you're looking good.

Well, I bought 4 MORE books today, they are:

Alice's Tulips
Jubilee Trail
New Mercies
The Diary of Mattie Spenser

I will squeeze them in somewhere!

Yep, it is me AGAIN...I just decided to buy 3 more books, they are:

Innocent Traitor about Lady Jane Grey
The Ivy Crown about Henry VIII's 6th wife Katherine Parr
The Game of Kings about 16th c. Scotland

no more for a while...I promise!!!

Oh, all three of those sound good!

Girl, you know when I hear or read about a book that sounds interesting, I just have to have it!!! I thought they sounded pretty good as well, so I just went for it!

So my husband found a bag of books at work and I finally made him bring them into the house so I went through them last night and I guess that someone in the building that he works in, works in publishing because many of them are not jyet released and are ARC's.

Here is my list:
book:The Dolphin People: A Novel|7104140]
I'd Know You Anywhere
Your Flying Car Awaits: Robot Butlers, Lunar Vacations, and Other Dead-Wrong Predictions of the Twentieth Century
A Common Pornography: A Memoir
The Secret Lives of People in Love: Stories
Spitting Off Tall Buildings
Mooch
The Lunatic, the Lover, and the Poet: A Novel
It Could Be Worse, You Could Be Me
The Amateur American
The Wives of Henry Oades
How High the Moon: A Novel
Animal Tales: Three Stories in One
Women's Barracks
Anonyponymous: The Forgotten People Behind Everyday Words - SWAP
The Dark End of the Street: New Stories of Sex and Crime by Today's Top Authors
The Code of the Woosters
Dancing Backwards: A Novel
Eat, Memory: Great Writers at the Table: A Collection of Essays from the New York Times
Ether: Seven Stories and a Novella
Evil Star
Fun with Problems
Invisible
Mr. Dixon Disappears
When That Rough God Goes Riding: Listening to Van Morrison - SWAP
Please: Fiction Inspired by The Smiths - SWAP
Solar
The Blessings of the Animals: A Novel
The Leavenworth Case
The Mozart Question
The Queen of Palmyra: A Novel
The Weed That Strings the Hangman's BagWritten in Bone

And there are a ferw more that I need to put up here.

Wow Donna!! Your hubby is awesome! Looks like you got some great titles, and a lot that I've never heard of. Happy reading!

Anna wrote: "I know we would and we could share books, but we can get to be good friends on here as well. I have a neat story for you...I have been working for my dad for 12 or 13 years, but about 8 or 9 years..."

So true! My best friend met her fiance on of all things Myspace! They always tell everyone, "who needs e-harmony, we have myspace".

Donna, I ran into a random lady at Target one day in the book section (surprise) and she said that The Wives of Henry Oades was a really good read. Just thought you might want to know since it is on your list. You have an awesome hubby, my hubby would be like, "where are you going to put ALL of those books?". Of course that does not keep me from buying, I just sneak them in, of course he does notice that the piles/stacks just keep growing and growing, but he is kind enough to look the other way!

Well, to treat myself for being sooooo sick since Thursday (with the Crohns...UGH), I just bought Green Darkness b/c I heard it was really good! One more book to add to the never ending pile/box!

Well, I just bought another one Dragonwyck, apparently it is Anya Seton day for me!

I reallllly want to read The Wives of Henry Oades!!

Jenni, I do too! Oh yeah, btw. I bought 4 more books today, they are as follows:

Silent on the Moor
Dark Road to Darjeeling
The Founding
The Bronze Horseman

started off the week with a little retail therapy!!

Thanks guys!!! My hubby just gets them for me so I won't spend the money!!! He finds most of them at his buildnig where he works at or he gets them at the local thrift store for insanely cheap!

I just bought a few more books, they are as follows:

Mariana
Season of Storms
The Winter Sea

all by Susanna Kearsley

The description's sounded really good and I heard positive feedback on The Winter Sea, so I just went for it! (Surprise)

Anna wrote: "Jenni, I do too! Oh yeah, btw. I bought 4 more books today, they are as follows:

Silent on the Moor
Dark Road to Darjeeling
The Founding
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Anna, I really enjoy the Lady Julia Grey series by Deanna Raybourn. I was especially pleased with the last one, [book:Dark Road to Darjeeling

Oh good, I am on the second one right now and I love it so far!

All Clear
The Painted Kiss
Gallows Thief: A Novel
Tales of the Titmouse

Just added some of your purchases to my TBR list Kathy! The Painted Kiss sounds right up my alley!

Anna wrote: "Just added some of your purchases to my TBR list Kathy! The Painted Kiss sounds right up my alley!"

I'm adding two of yours, too, Anna. I love novels set in Scotland and I love time travel, so I'm excitedly adding The Winter Sea and Mariana to my to-reads and wishlist.

Woah! I love time travel and Scotland!

The Winter Sea came by recomendation, so I cannot take credit for that find, but then I started checking out the author and I thought Mariana and Season of Storms sounded good too. I cannot wait for these books to arrive. I will tell you, I had a VERY hard time finding The Winter Sea, I could not find it on like 3 different book sites and then a friend told me about www.abebooks.com and it was right there just waiting for me to order it!

Anna wrote: "The Winter Sea came by recomendation, so I cannot take credit for that find, but then I started checking out the author and I thought Mariana and [book:Season of Storms..."

Thanks for that ordering information, Anna. I am going to have to keep a closer watch on what you're reading, as you seem to gravitate toward ones I would like, too.

Anna, when I checked with abebooks.com, it came up that the title, The Winter Sea, couldn't be found, but I checked with Book Depository, where I found it (and Mariana). The Winter Sea link is http://www.bookdepository.com/book/97...

huh, that is weird, let me go back and get you the exact link for abe books and I will post it for you b/c it is a good source, but I am glad you found it!

http://www.abebooks.com is the link

I just double checked that Kathy to make sure it worked and it pulled up The Winter Sea for me right away. I did also put in the authors name, I don't know if that matters. These links and sites can be so weird sometimes...just saying.

Hubyy just found 2 more and said he had another bag of goodies for me!!

here are the 2:

Me: Stories of My Life by Katharine Hepburn
and
Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx by Adrian Nicole LeBlanc

Anna wrote: "I just double checked that Kathy to make sure it worked and it pulled up The Winter Sea for me right away. I did also put in the authors name, I don't know if that matters. These l..."

OK, I'll try again, Anna. Thanks.

I stopped by B/N today for some retail therapy and purchased New York: The Novel and Juliet. They are in the line up now of TBR books.

Okay, so in the past few days, I've gotten:

The Tale of Murasaki: A Novel
Atlas Shrugged
Ashtanga Yoga: The Practice Manual: An Illustrated Guide to Personal Practice

I think that's it. I've also gotten a few kids books, but they don't count because they're for the kids. :)~

My husband again went to the Thrift store and got me:
The Dead Lie Down
The Water's Lovely
Barefoot
Empire Falls
These Old Shades
The Ice Queen

Alos, my friend just gaves me 2 medium sized bags. I am unsure if I will keep any of them but I will have to go thru it to find out. We don't have the same tastes in books.

I went to the library book sale yesterday and picked up the following:
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
All the Pretty Horses
Never Let Me Go
Mao's Last Dancer
The Glass Castle
The Little Stranger
Someone Knows My Name
The Last Olympian
Vampire Academy
The Swan Thieves

Went back today and picked up:
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Chocolat
Girl with a Pearl Earring
Memoirs of a Geisha
Angela's Ashes

Those should keep me busy for a while!

Those are some goodies you got there!!! I am so upset that our libraries no longer do that. Now they offer book sales thru their websites but they are not 50 cents anymore!

I keep buying the same books!!! I was reshelving and noticed that I have 2 vopies of The Emperor's Children and I just ordered The Swan Thieves when I already have it! Oh well. I guess they will go up on Swap!!!! I am not a very good addict (or maybe I am just really an addict!)

I think when you start buying double copies of books it simply means you have a lot of books! LOL

That's what I figured! BUT on the upside at least I can swap them or donate them. It's not like I am really buying them!

I plan to swap/sell/donate some books soon. I have a move coming up in about 6mon and I needed to go through my books to cut down on some weight. Holiday book diet!

Borders recently gave me one of those $10 in free Borders bucks things so I finally bought this book:
by Gemma Files

It looks really, really strange and really awesome!

That's awesome about the $10 in Borders bucks April, looks like a good pick too.

Finally got back into my audible.com account and they were having a great $4.95 book sale! I got:

I Am Legend
The Fountainhead
Great Expectations
No Country for Old Men
Oil!
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

I already owned most of these but I needed more audiobooks to listen to so I went ahead and bought them anyway, my IRL reading has slowed down signifigantly. :(

I cleaned out my book collection and went to the local used book store to sell some books. I of course had time on my hands while they were apraising the books and they were having a buy 3 get one free sale (yay!). so I took advantage and got:

Eleven Minutes by Paulo Coelho
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Little Bee by Chris Cleave
Queen Isabella: Treachery, Adultery, and Murder in Medieval England by Alison Weir

I just bought The Zahirand The Girl with the Dragon Tattoolast night.