Every one's Choice discussion

Arriving in the mail from Amazon today was Beasts by Joyce Carol Oates and Daughters of the Witching Hill by Mary Sharratt.

No prob, Colleen. Whenever you get to it. Did you get the bookmark pattern?

I'm back from the candy store, err, I mean the book store. I bought:
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Tracy - I have the Mary Tudor one on my TBR. I can't wait to see what you think of it.

Had to use my Border's coupon today. Bought Watermark: A Novel of the Middle Ages by Vanitha Sankaran and The Sherlock Holmes Handbook: The Methods and Mysteries of the World's Greatest Detective by Ransom Riggs for me. For my husband I bought Horse Soldiers: The Extraordinary Story of a Band of US Soldiers Who Rode to Victory in Afghanistan by Doug Stanton.

Ooooh Tracy, I have been wanting that Mary Tudor book as well, I hope you enjoy it. If you haven't figured out already when it comes to Tudor era books Lyn, Aly, Wen and I are all over that genre *giggle*

Lyn, I did! Thank you so so so much!

Just ordered The Sage and the Scarecrow from GR bookswap and am going to pick up Life As We Knew It from the library now!

Colleen,

This will be the first Tudor era book that I have read. I read the description and the first paragraph and it seemed interesting to me. I don't know of any other Tudor era books out there, what can you recommend for me?

Tracy - Wow, that is like asking the pope for good books about Catholicism, lol. Colleen is the mod of a group that I am in called Tudor History Lovers here on Goodreads, so we can give you a whole list of books, probably longer than you would ever imagine. Also, you can take a look at the bookshelf for the group as there are a lot of books there, or look at my Tudor bookshelf on my profile.

Tracy, honey, I have a whole shelf you can check out and a whole group buzzing about The Tudor Era! Oh God if I can recruit another Tudor fanatic I will be so thrilled... Do you want fiction or non-fiction? Anyone particular you enjoy; Henry VIII, one of his six wives, three legit children, ministers, parents? For fiction Victoria Holt aka. Jean Plaidy has a load of well rated Tudor era books on just about everyone involved in the treacherous court.

ohh.. perhaps I will join that group as well :)

I would like to focus on non-fiction, but I have an open mind and read just about anything. I don't have a favorite person, that is why I want to read about them all and learn about them all to see which ones I like the best.

Come to our group, Tracy!! We read a lot of both non-fiction and fiction, and Colleen is a great mod!

Thanks Lyn! *blush*

Tracy, two good non-fiction books to start with areThe Autobiography of Henry VIII: With Notes by His Fool, Will Somers and Thomas Cromwell: Henry VIII's Most Notorious Minister: The Rise and Fall of a Tudor Tyrant: The Rise and Fall of Henry VIII's Most Notorious Minister. The first one is a huge fav in the group and the second was a recent group read.

Tracy wrote: "I'm back from the candy store, err, I mean the book store. I bought:
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I love how you call it the candy store...that is exactly how I feel and I can spend hours just browsing and then of course buying :-) I live dangerously close to a large bookstore and it is soooo hard not to go in every day. It is not that it would be bad to go in every day, it is that I would end up buying several books every time I went in and that makes it dangerous! I did two BIG book shopping sprees in April and I still have 32 books patiently waiting on me to read them, each begging to be the next book chosen.

I am looking forward to starting Her Mothers Daughter, a Novel of Queen Mary Tudor. I love Historical Fiction and Non-Fiction, especially books set in England or about English people.

When will you start it Anna?

Well to be honest it is on my TBR list and I want to start it soon, but I did two BIG book shopping sprees in April and I still have about 32 books patiently waiting to be read. I made myself a promise that I would not purchase another new book until I have finished at least half of the ones I still have left to read! Her Mothers Daughter will be in my next batch of "TBP" (to be purhcased)books and then I will get started.

I pre-ordered The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest and just got word that it was shipped!! Wahoo! I am so excited. I might put it up for swap after I read it simply because I don't have the other two because I got them both from the library and I can't break up the collection!

Anna, you only have 32 books waiting to be read? I have like two bookshelves worth! LOL

Donna - have you started The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest? Let me know when you do if you haven't started it yet... I'm listening to the audio, but it'll probably take me a good three more weeks to finish it.

I haven't started it yet I think it might be like 5th on my shelf! I may start it wen you finish it LOL

My husband is back and he wants to continue to eat healthy, which I am all for. So, with my 40% off coupon, I headed to the bookstore to buy Eat This, Not That! Supermarket Survival Guide. It is very eye opening about what is in the food we eat.

I'm 14.6% of the way through Hornet's Nest Donna! =) It's a bit slow going at the point where I am, but it all seems like relevant background information, and it feels like it's going to build up to something.

Tracy wrote: "My husband is back and he wants to continue to eat healthy, which I am all for. So, with my 40% off coupon, I headed to the bookstore to buy [book:Eat This, Not That! Supermarket Survival Guide|375..."

Let me know how that works out. We have been saying that forever!

Jenni wrote: "I'm 14.6% of the way through Hornet's Nest Donna! =) It's a bit slow going at the point where I am, but it all seems like relevant background information, and it feels like it's going to build up ..."

Wasn't that how the first one started??? A little slow??

Yeah, the first one was a little slow - but it wasn't so slow that it bothered me. Then again, I LOVE the narrator's voice, so that may have helped. The slowness of the section that I'm currently in is a bit more bothersome... mostly because I want to hurry up and find out what will happen to Lisbeth Salander! :)

Well, I fully intended to go to Border's yesterday and use my 40% coupon and did. I purchased Methland: The Death and Life of an American Small Town, an non-fiction book that I'd been waiting for to come out in paperback, finally did, and I, also, got the last installment of the Lily Bard series by Charlaine Harris, Shakespeare's Counselor. I am on the third book in the Lily Bard series now and want to finish them.

What I had not intended to do and did was to buy some books in T.J. Maxx yesterday, but how could I resist the prices, 9.99 compared to 15.00. I picked up Olive Kitteridge and Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet for me. For my granddaughters, I got the young reader's edition of Three Cups of Tea ($5.99) and a beautifully illustrated (by Robert Ingpen) and bound copy of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

LOL I have all of your TJ Maxx book buys!!!

Tracy wrote: "My husband is back and he wants to continue to eat healthy, which I am all for. So, with my 40% off coupon, I headed to the bookstore to buy [book:Eat This, Not That! Supermarket Survival Guide|375..."

Good for you guys Trac and horray for Phil being back!

Donna wrote: "LOL I have all of your TJ Maxx book buys!!!"

Have you read them, Donna? I've seen mixed reviews on Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, but the subject matter really appeals to me, so I'm planning on reading it this summer. If T.J. Maxx sold groceries, I don't think I'd ever need another store. LOL!

Kathy,

I've read Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet... while there are some errors (such as an on-line support group in 1986) in the book, it was a well told story about a dark spot in US history. I would recommend the book! :)

Jenni wrote: "Kathy,

I've read Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet... while there are some errors (such as an on-line support group in 1986) in the book, it was a well told story about a dark..."

Thanks, Jenni.

I got that one from Bookswap!

My husband did his digging again nad I got:

Dreams of My Russian Summers: A Novel
The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother
Christine Falls
The Queen's FoolThe Lost Painting

I have hit the FoL bookstore twice in the last couple of weeks. I need to stay away from that place. Any way here is what I have gotten:

From FoL Bookstore:

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
Summerland by Michael Chabon
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
Corelli's Mandolin by Louis de Bernières
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
Lean Mean Thirteen AND Fearless Fourteen by Janet Evanovich
Dead and Gone by Charlaine Harris
The Golden Compass AND The Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman
Girl in Hyacinth Blue by Susan Vreeland
Songs for the Missing by Stewart O'Nan
Madame Mao. AND The Last Empress: A Novel both by Anchee Min

From Amazon:

The Secret History of the Pink by CarnationLauren Willig
Snow White and Rose Red by Patricia C. Wrede

From my Mom:

Separate Beds by LaVyrle Spencer
Burned by Carol Higgins Clark
At Risk by Patricia Cornwell

The Last Empress from the FoL bookstore is an author signed copy for only $1.

WOW! You sure got some great stuff there!

WAHOO!!! I just went out and brought The Help too! It was worth the $ and also it is nice ot have sitting on your shelf!

My sister just bought that one, so I am hoping to borrow it from her when she is finished. It sounds like such a great book.

I, too, LOVE UBSs!!

You'll love it!!! The Help was awesome, and I'm totally going to go see the movie! :)

I got a bunch of books off of GR swap too much to go in to. I created a shelf for those I got from swap but my most recent is The Secret Life of CeeCee Wilkes

I also just got from GR swap:
Ash Wednesday
The Red Tent
The Last Town on Earth: A Novel

I also ordered more but they haven't confirmed yet so if I hear back from them then...

OK just got word that two of my books were accepted so I will be receiving The Grass Is Singing and Midnight's Children

Ohhh let me know when you read Midnight's Children! It's on my tbr list for this year!

Will do!!

You are the one who lead me to it! I just have to read it now.

There's more??? Oh geez!! Gotta hop to it then huh?!??!

Well, it is more than I thought! THX. I will get to it eventually....but hopefully soon!

I got confirmation that I may finally actually own a copy of A Reliable Wife!!! I will have to read it right away since I waited so long to get a copy of it!

Marrying Mozart is confirmed!

I am losing count on what I got from GR Swap so if ya care you can check out my shelf. It's getting outta control!

BUT...

My hubby went to the infamous thift store suring his lunch break and picked up 5 books for $1! So he got me:

The Bluest Eye
Dear Exile : The True Story of Two Friends Separated (for a Year) by an Ocean
Black and Blue
Certain Girls
The Evil That Men Do: A Jackson Donne Novel

Donna wrote: "OK Fine!! I'm obsessed!!

I just brought from Posmans Books in GCT:
The Sweet Fair Thing - Libba Bray
Shogun - James Clavell

And Online I brought:
The Lost Symbol - Dan Brown
The Hunger G..."

The suzanne collins books are wonderful, I am so bummed we have to wait untile august for the last!

I did the unthinkable and I let a 12 year old boy borrow them before I got to read them! He assures me that they are fine but I feel alittle sick thinking about them out of my presence