Every one's Choice discussion

I have Street of A Thousand Blossoms, too. If you guys read it in June, I may join you.

Donna - I swear by Darkfever, too. It is excellent.

Lyn,

Sounds good! Let's plan on June. :)

I will put it on my listing so I don't forget!

Oh my, I received another order from Amazon today, which includes the following books:

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (just wanted a new copy of it)

Impossible Things (I'm really on a Connie Willis kick)

Airs Above the Ground (Ordered this one after seeing the Lipizanner Stallions with my granddaughter)

Clouds of WitnessThe Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club (Can't believe I haven't read Dorothy Sayers' mysteries yet)

The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club

The Hand That First Held Mine (I loved The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox by O'Farrell)

The Canterbury Tales: A Retelling (I wanted a prose version of one of the greatest poems ever)

Kathy - Dorothy Sayers is fantastic. Enjoy!

So it's sttled for June. I will put it up as a second read then and maybe we can others ti join too!

Lyn M wrote: "Kathy - Dorothy Sayers is fantastic. Enjoy!"

Thanks, Lyn. I'm going to start a new book today, and Sayers in a finalist for my next one.

I just a few new books on kindle, thought I would share the titles:

Bite Me
Wicked Lovely
Healing for a Broken World: Christian Perspectives on Public Policy
Sitting at the Feet of Rabbi Jesus: How the Jewishness of Jesus Can Transform Your Faith

I swear, if I spent as much time reading as I do shopping for new books, I would would be finished with my hundreds of books...

I hear ya Tracy! I think I spend way more time buying than reading LOL

I used to be that way, too!

Tracy and Donna, I am a kindred buying spirit. And, now with goodreads, my reading time is down even further.

This month I've picked up these from Amazon and from B&N.

Boneshaker by Cherie Priest
World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War by Max Brooks
From Russia With Love by Ian Fleming
The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein'
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne
This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell
Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell
The Gun Seller by Hugh Laurie
Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe

Joseph - I really enjoy books by F. Scott Fitgerald. Enjoy!

Lyn M wrote: "Joseph - I really enjoy books by F. Scott Fitgerald. Enjoy!"

Thanks Lyn! You know I have never read a book or story of his that I've not loved so I'm really looking forward to reading these in the near future.

Joseph wrote: "This month I've picked up these from Amazon and from B&N.

Boneshaker by Cherie Priest
World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War by [author:Max Br..."

I love Hugh Laurie!

Donna wrote:"...I love Hugh Laurie!..."

I've heard nothing but good things about his book, really looking forward to reading it.

I wasn't crazy about it but I def love him!

While in Sam's yesterday to buy food, I, of course, stopped in the book section and picked up Men and Dogs: A Novel and Mary Higgins Clark's latest, Where Are You Now?.

This is not really a purchase per say but someone left a bunch of books in the lobby of my building and most of them were Danielle Steel and Mary Higgins Clark but I did get The Tenderness of Wolves... I heard about it so I picked it up!

Donna wrote: "This is not really a purchase per say but someone left a bunch of books in the lobby of my building and most of them were Danielle Steel and Mary Higgins Clark but I did get The Tenderness of..."</i>

Oh, I loved [book:The Tenderness of Wolves by Steff Penny, Donna. It is an excellent novel. I've never read Danielle Steel, guess I'm a book snob where she's concerned (shame on me). I realize that Mary Higgins Clark is rather a light-weight read, too, but I seem to always enjoy the mysteries she presents.

Did you read the first Wicked lovely book?

I have it to read on my kindle, but haven't gotten the chance to actually read it yet.

Jenni wrote: "I just bought Ender's Game. :)"

GREAT book!

I can't wait to read it! :)

Ender in Exile is great too! I skipped the ones in between which weren't as much about Ender!

While on a mini-vacation, I bought the following:

By The Time You Read This, I'll Be Dead

Fantastic Mr. Fox

Mrs. Lincoln: A Life

Every Last One

Shakespeare's Landlord

I just bought

Well, after scouring the two local used book shops and not being able to park at the library, I broke down and bought at Borders. I thought about buying it on my kindle, but I think I am going to send it to my Hawaiian cousin when I am done reading it so I needed to get the paperback version to do that.

I also coudln't resist buying .

Just ordered Facing Unpleasant Facts: Narrative Essays and All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays by George Orwell

Yesterday, I bought The God of the Hive by Laurie R. King and Vampire Stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, edited by Robert Eighteen-Bisang and Martin H. Greenber (the first complete collection of Doyle's vampire stories).

Kathy - I am really interested to know what you think if Conan Doyle's vampire stories.

Lyn M wrote: "Kathy - I am really interested to know what you think if Conan Doyle's vampire stories."

I'll try to remember and get back to you on it, Lyn. I'm not sure right now if I'm going to try and fit them in with my other reading or read them straight through. I'm curious how they will compare to other vampire lit that I enjoy.

That's what I am curious about, too.

Oh I preordered The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest

Hey Katie, how are those YA P.C. Cast series compared to her adult series? I have a few of her books on my to be read list, but I am wondering if the YA ones might be better.

On Tuesday, I bought Dead in the Family, the latest Sookie Stackhouse book, by Charlaine Harris and am enjoying it.

I boughtThe Maze Runner.

Wahoo! I got that from GR bookswap! Granted, it was an ARC but who cares??

My husband just called me and we sat onthe phone while he dug through a bin at a thieft store so he got me:

The World Before Her
The Post-Birthday World
Murder on the Orient Express
The Whole World Over: A Novel
Breakfast of Champions
Welcome to the Monkey House
As Nature Made Him: The Boy Who Was Raised as a Girl
Strange Son
The Things They Carried

And one more that I can't remember.

I remembered the last one:
Trans-Sister Radio

Donna - I have heard that Trans-Sister Radio is good.

Yesterday, at Sam's I picked up South of Broad by Pat Conroy and The Queen of Palmyra: A Novel by Minrose Gwin.

Tracy wrote: "Well, after scouring the two local used book shops and not being able to park at the library, I broke down and bought at Borders. I thought about buying it on my kindle, b..."

No Tracy send it to meeeee! LOL And bring yourself with the book, I would love to see you especially since I might be moving soon...

My mom and I just started reading the Stephanie Plum series by Janet Evanovich. My mom had bought the first two at Sam's, then I bought the 4th and 6th at the library sale, so yesterday I went to the used book store and bought 3, 5, and 7 through 10. That should keep us busy for a while.

I bought Children of Cambodia's Killing Fields: Memoirs by Survivors from a landmine victim selling books on the street whilst in Cambodia. I am such a sucker for memoirs lately.

Just so you know, I am stalking you through the threads! LOL

Ahhh!!!! LOL I am running over to THL to check the polls and the Tudor TV show thread. Then coming back here to catch up, I am too scared to go to AHoR... one, er, two groups at a time. ;p

Nothing much going on at HofR, so no worries. Our discussion of Marie Antoinette is supposed to start later this week.

I am going to send your cookery books out tomorrow :)

Just got Geek Love from GR Swap

well, i have a coupon for a free book (spend $30 and get a book up to $15, and the $15 book counts towards the $30 total, can't resist that). My coupon expires tomorrow so I will be heading to the book store for some much wanted purchasing!