Every one's Choice discussion

Aly wrote: "I just bought The Fifth Queen by Ford Maddox Ford. Looks like its a pretty good read!"

*gasp* Aly The Fifth Queen is one of the two actual good ones (and a biography to boot) on Katherine Howard. We should totally do a buddy read to make up for the Tudor Group having chosen The Queen's Mistake: In the Court of Henry VIII for the Katherine Howard group read.

Most of the stuff on Craigslist is free if not really discounted. AND I do have a serious addiction but it's not like I get any help from my husband he just keeps building me more space and then I am compelled to fill it LOL

I've recently purchased and received:

The Magician's Elephant
Where the Mountain Meets the Moon

Thanks Pam! You're so evil and bad for me, getting me addicted to the Newberry winner and honor books! :) Anja and I are currently reading The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread, and enjoying it!

I picked up Wedlock: The True Story of the Disastrous Marriage and Remarkable Divorce of Mary Eleanor Bowes, Countess of Strathmore by Wendy Moore yesterday at Target.

Holy long titles, batman!

LOL!! I agree.

Jeremy wrote: "Holy long titles, batman!"

LOL, I just call it Wedlock. I will never remember that long of a title.

Jeremy wrote: "Holy long titles, batman!"

Jeremy you made me laugh out loud!!!

I just bought Ender in Exile on audio cd.

I picked up at the library sale, The Crucible and Death of a Salesman for a buck in play form.

Queens Public Library no longer does book sales. They now sell books through the website which is not all that bad but they are no longer 25 cents AND I used to love the $3 mystery bags!

My husband gets a lot of free books in the building that he works in. People throw them out or leave them in the lobby so he gets them for me. Today's special is: Fieldwork: A Novel

Niiice Donna! I wish I had that! I work in the College of Engineering... so the only books here are (lame) engineering textbooks. Can you tell I'm not an engineer? :)~

Hey, what do you mean lame?! :)

LOL.

At least one good thing comes from working one job with two postions. I also assist in the legal library and ppl leave books there all the tim. I just got The Tender Bar: A Memoir thanks to Jeremy's recommendation!

Hey - I work with engineers all day, and then I go home to one. :) I can say lame! ;) No, they aren't really lame, but engineering textbooks don't exactly excite me. I say this while I have 5 copies of "Intro to Matlab" and "C How to Program" sitting at my desk...

Donna wrote: "Queens Public Library no longer does book sales. They now sell books through the website which is not all that bad but they are no longer 25 cents AND I used to love the $3 mystery bags!"

Our libraries have $5 fill a bag days in addition to the 50 cent paperbacks and $1 hardcovers.

OHHH I miss that! I used to have agroup of ppl come with me to load up!

I'm surprised how many recent/good books are there too! I just bought The Shadow of the Wind solely to put on paperbackswap as I knew many people wanted it! Immediately it was requested!I didn't want to part with my own copy!

I loved that book!!!!

Shelli wrote: "I'm surprised how many recent/good books are there too! I just bought The Shadow of the Wind solely to put on paperbackswap as I knew many people wanted it! Immediately it was requested!I didn't wa..."


Damn, that is a good idea! I think I will be using the buy cheap to trade idea in the future. Although I live in too rural of an area to have really good library sales that I hear about on Goodreads. You can get a few good books but I hear tales of people buying 50-100 books at these things!

Unfortunately, Donna, I passed up on my opportunity to buy a relatively cheap copy of The Tender Bar. However, I will be within a hop, skip and jump of a great Barnes & Noble tomorrow.....

I just got confirmation that Megan's Way was shipped via GR's Bookswap.

Will let you know!

My Amazon order with Going Bovine, Death at the Alma Mater: A St. Just Mystery, and The Canterbury Tales: A Selection (Not that I don't already own a copy of The Canterbury Tales).

I just ordered from bookswap:

Megan's Way and The Book With No Name

I am going to have to build a house out of books because I did it again! I brought another book! But I wasn't going to and I passed it on the shelf and I didn't know it came out or PB yet! So I brought Honolulu (I thought it was coming at the end of March)

Ohhh I just put that on my tbr list... thanks Donna! :)

I read Moloka'i and we got a chance to have a phone discussion with Alan Brennert so I was exicting to see that it was out on PB.

Got my above referenced Amazon order today. Ahhhhh, life is good!

If anyone lives near or in Tacoma, WA or Indianapolis, IN the half price books in both cities are awesome for good bargin books. I always have to get a shopping cart when I visit either store.

A shopping cart full of books sounds soooooo good!!!! Too bad I am no where near there!

I am dead serious, anytime I visit either location I can think of nothing but getting to the half price books.

They actually do have these cute little two tier shopping carts for obsessive book fanatics like us and I fill the cart up each visit! I always (stupid airlines) have to send at least three of those big no weight limit USPS boxes home and have a suitcase/carry-on crammed with books. I don't know what it is about those two locations but I always get to cross off a lot of books off my "searching for" list. The two whole used book stores on my island suck for selection, boo.

I just bought Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, the new one by Seth Grahame-Smith (author of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies), but I ended up giving it to my college son who is in during his spring break. I showed it to him, and he had to have it. He started reading it and hasn't stopped (well, he did go out last night and has slept and ate--LOL). As much fun as buying a new book for myself is finding one that my grown children think is great. My son found a promotional video on Youtube for the Abraham Lincoln book, which he shared with me, and I will share with you all. We thought it was amazing. Warning, not for the feint of heart.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X58RPS...

What's with all these books popping up that make classics into horror stories? There are some Tudor ones and a friend of mine says they are terrible.

I needed a little happy today so I thought I would go to the dusty old used book store to see what I could find. BTW, apparently a lot of old hippies were cleaning out their book cases because there is always a huge amount of Ginsburg, Burroughs, Capote, Vidal, Vonnegut, etc.

So here is my haul:
In the Company of the Courtesan: A Novel
Jazz
Queen's Own Fool
The Art of Racing in the Rain
Henry and June: From "A Journal of Love" - The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin
Song of Solomon
Wintering: A Novel of Sylvia Plath

I saw a copy of Tropic of Cancer I really wanted but it was overpriced.

LOL, Colleen. I laughed at the comment about the old hippies cleaning out their bookcases. I was really skeptical about the two Seth Grahame-Smith books, but usually when my son really enjoys a book, I do, too. So, I'm going to give the Abraham Lincoln a chance first and, then, I'll try the Pride and Prejudice one. I have read the first few pages of the Pride and Prejudice one, and it did peak my interest. I just have some other books that demand my attention first. I'll get back to you on these classic/horror story ones, though.

This is what has come into my home this month:

The Bloodied Ivy
A Way of Life: Over Thirty Years of Blood, Sweat and Tears
Fer-de-Lance
Confessions of a Reluctant Recessionista
Novel Destinations: Literary Landmarks From Jane Austen's Bath to Ernest Hemingway's Key West
Housewife in Trouble
Scarlett - The Sequel to Margaret Mitchell's
Book of Souls
The Secret Speech
Extra Chilli Sauce: A Dark Tale of Violence, Retribution and Success
A Smart Girl's Guide to Money: How to Make It, Save It, And Spend It
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
The Garden of Evil

Jenni wrote: "Niiice Donna! I wish I had that! I work in the College of Engineering... so the only books here are (lame) engineering textbooks. Can you tell I'm not an engineer? :)~"

I know this is kinda late, but I have to add my "Hey, ya, whaddya mean lame??" Lol :P

Those lame textbooks cost me about 100-215 bucks EACH every semester. I would have so much more money for other books if I sold my old ones, but I can't let them gooo....

anyways, I made the mistake of walking into Borders yesterday and walked out with Thirteen Reasons Why

That's why they are lame Ashley; severly overpriced! :) I remember right before my first college semester my parent said I was lucky to only have to blow about $400 on books. First big purchases I ever made, I was furious!

I have had very good luck getting more than I would have gotten by selling back to the college bookstore by selling my old unwanted textbooks on amazon.

LOL, Kathy, there are a lot of old hippie concentrations in certain parts of the US and my dad says Oahu, Hawaii was one of them. I can't help but think about hippie/beatnick bookshelves when I see the same bunch of authors at that particular used bookstore, LOL.

Fiona, good haul!

There was one semester in college that I spent almost $1,000 on textbooks and supplies. Japanese books and supplies for theatre design are pricey! They're lame because they are unfairly over priced.

The best thing is when you buy the books and never use them!

I've had that happen! It was actually the same semester that I spent the (almost) $1,000! I was sooo mad!

That always seemed to happen to me when I was getting my AA. So I would jsut wait until class was underway and then see if I needed the books or not. The professors usually would give a lil leeway in the beginning if you were behind.

Ohhh that's nice. My professors were not so forgiving. In any Japanese language or lit class, we had to have the text on the first day - we were also expected to have already begun studying from them.

As for theatre, some classes were more forgiving than others... but I was so trained from my Japanese classes that I just bought all of my texts before the semester began. Yeah, doing it your way would have saved me a bit of money. :) I also couldn't stand the lines at the book store, so that was more incentive to buy early. Amazon was really just starting to become something when I was in college... I never used it until my senior year. I enjoyed it then though! :)

I have been trying desperately to not buy new books, and not even many used ones, unless I just HAVE to have them and can't get them any other way. Well, was in the library the other day and saw this book with Catherine de Medici in it. It looked good, but it was the last book in a 5 part series. I looked up on the library database, and the whole library system only has book 2 and book 5, so of course, when I got home I ordered all of them. They are:

The Dark Queen: A Novel
The Courtesan: A Novel
The Silver Rose: A Novel
The Huntress: A Novel
Twilight of a Queen: A Novel

All by Susan Carroll. Now that I bought them, I hope they are good.

Those are all hf I assume Lyn?

I got lucky every once in a while talking to class members about classes they were going to take in upcoming semseters and selling them my old books too. I once had a history of religion class where the prof wanted us to read the book cover to cover and take one test, so friggin frustrating. That's some lazy class planning on the prof's part!

Yes they are all hf. Hey, I had a sociology class once and the teacher made us read The Origin of Man by Branislaw Malinowski. 750 BORING pages about patriarchal and matriarchal societies!! (Did I mention BORING). AND then never tested us on any material re: the book. Talk about a waste of time!!!!

Ashley wrote: "Jenni wrote: "Niiice Donna! I wish I had that! I work in the College of Engineering... so the only books here are (lame) engineering textbooks. Can you tell I'm not an engineer? :)~"

I know th..."

Ashley, I remember those days of dropping so much money on texts, some of which you never use again. It stinks. I assume you have tried Powells to try to save some money? My boss also told me about a site called alibris.com

I always use Half.com but I am now a library & Info Student so most of the books I buy I keep as reference.

Jeremy wrote: "Ashley wrote: "Jenni wrote: "Niiice Donna! I wish I had that! I work in the College of Engineering... so the only books here are (lame) engineering textbooks. Can you tell I'm not an engineer? ..."

Oh thanks I'll look into those!
I have used half.com before. I've found some good deals there, but...

**Warning, minor rant ahead:** The problem I'm dealing with now is that I'm in mostly upper-division Engineering classes, and They ALWAYS ask for the newest edition of the textbooks, and there's almost always a brand new edition. So it's hard to buy a used book online if it's new, and it's hard to sell afterwords because everyone is moving on to the next edition.

What really sucks is that there aren't huge changes in the different edditions, just different problems. But you have to have the newest eddition in order to do the right homework problems and get credit.

Like the people that write these books need more money. They aren't interested in educating the youth at all! They are interested in a brand new condo on Maui.


Ok, rant over. :P

I do have an amazing teacher this semester who let us use a previous eddition of a book so we could get it cheaper. I will look into those sites because you never know! thanks! :)