Every one's Choice discussion

I was thinking the same thing, Colleen!!!! I feel like I am empty handed in comparison!

Good for you Anna!!

My husband found a book at work so it's mine now! River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze

Well, I only splurge every other month and these were two pretty big sprees and yes, it will keep me busy for a while, so hopefully I will make it to Sept. w/out going on another bender. I try to make myself read what I already have and then once I get down to maybe 3 or 4 books that I have not read, I will do a big spree. I am hooked on the Outlander series right now and I only have through book 4, so I have a sneaky feeling that I will be going back for 5, 6 and 7 before it is time for me to do another book buying spree, but oh well, reading is brain food...right? I treasure all of my books and they are something that I will always have and that will never go out of style, so I don't mind spending money on books.

Marisella wrote: "Wow Anna, those'll keep you busy! I've never seen before, let me know how you like it, and I'll try to find it. I like to try to read everything by an author..."

I will totally let you know what I think about this book when I get to it. I have quite a list to work through, but this one came highly recommended from the woman at B/N, she told me to read all of Mary Stewart's stuff, so I will do that!

I like that Anna, "reading is brain food" it does make a person smarter because I don't know any people that hate reading that I consider smart.

LOL Colleen!

I do the same thing to my husband Trish! He will read on occasion but is very picky about his books so I tease him about being illiterate! LOL

My husband doesn't read at all!!! He loves that I do but that is as close to as reading as he gets!

LOL!

My husband does not read at all either and I cannot stop, so he is constantly picking on me! He will read on occassion, like a bio on a favorite comedian or something of that sort, but as for non fiction, nope he does not go there. It is bizarre, how we are so compatable, yet we are so different. Oh well, guess that is what makes the world go round and round.

He would much rather me spend money on books than on clothes and shoes, so I don't get in trouble for my book shopping sprees either, anyways, it is hard to sneak in bags full of books they tend to be a little bulky! Also, once I need another bookshelf and he has to help with it, he figures it out that I have been shopping yet again!

I've been pushing some of my erotica and PNR on my husband, the results have been outstanding :) We got married because our books matched; we had all the sci-fi and fantasy "classics" as well as just about every Arthurian legend book printed. Now if we could just marry someone who would clean, it would be great!

When you find one that cleans see if he has a brother!!!! ;-)

I just received my copy of the new released book by Rani Manicka. It is called The Japanese Lover. I loved The Rice Mother and have yet to read Touching Earth but it is on my soon-to-read-but-collecting-dust list.

LOL, I love that Donna; "soon to read but collecting dust list".

I had about 20 minutes in a used book store (before it closed, they had to kick me out LOL) in North Carolina where I am visiting a friend and in my rush I bought some books to put on swaptree to swap for books I want, and these two finds that I am very excited about:

Oil! by Upton Sinclair
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh

Another trip to the thrift store by my husband. He got me:

All the Pretty Horses
Love Medicine
Divisadero
In the Time of the Butterflies
Rise and Shine

You have such a supportive of your book habits husband Donna; that's awesome!

I went back to the used bookstore today to finish finding what I could and had some good finds as well as some books that just called to me:

Fool's Gold: Color Me Consumed by Melody Carlson
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
Vendetta by Michael Dibdin
The Zahir by Paulo Coelho
Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn
The Lady Elizabeth by by Mark Dunn
and this one is for Lyn because she read it and loved it and wants me to read it
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

Those are some good finds!!

Thank you Donna! I am especially thrilled with "Oil!" and "Never Let Me Go", I never thought I would find either in a used book store.

I finally bought "Eat,Pray, Love" by Elizabeth Gilbert. I finally had to read it after hearing this book was now a movie. It comeso out August 13.

The Art of Devotion by Samantha Bruce-Benjamin, which was wonderful and Never Let Me Go, which I also loved.

Hubby got me:

The Book of Salt
City of Bones by Michael Connelly
and
State of Fear

Your hubby sounds wonderful Donna! I got mad at mine for giving me flowers AGAIN last Mother's Day, and when I told him it was a cop-out gift he said that he didn't know what else to get me. I said, how about a giftcard to the bookstore (duh)? He wasn't even aware that they sold gift cards. Clueless!!

I just ordered Linger, and preordered Mockingjay and Diary of a Wimpy Kid 5 (for my son) from Borders. Can't wait to read Mockingjay!

Sarah wrote: "Your hubby sounds wonderful Donna! I got mad at mine for giving me flowers AGAIN last Mother's Day, and when I told him it was a cop-out gift he said that he didn't know what else to get me. I said..."

LOL. At least you get something! Today is our anniversary and I doubt I will get anything. I don't count those books because he found them!

PLUS I think he does it to say "remeber all those books I got you...?" LOL

Ashley wrote: "I finally bought "Eat,Pray, Love" by Elizabeth Gilbert. I finally had to read it after hearing this book was now a movie. It comeso out August 13."

I just bought this book as well, found it for 50% off in an airport bookstore. I started it and like it so far.

I went to Half Price Books (I love that place!) last night and got these books:

For me -
Olive Kitteridge
The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane
Rebecca
Nefertiti
Dracula


For the kids -
The Goose Girl
Anne of Green Gables
Big Nate: In a Class by Himself
The Awakening
Gossamer
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
Book of a Thousand Days

Went to the used bookstore today and realized my library has grown to the point that I saw books I had to leave because I was not sure if I had them or not. I did come away with a good stack though:

Shanghai Girls by Lisa See
Peony in Love by Lisa See
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote ( found out I have this exact copy at home *&^%$#@!
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept by Paulo Coelho
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
Brokeback Mountain by Annie Proulx
Dissolution by C.J. Sansom

I have an issue with that too, COlleen. I buy so many books that I am not sure if I own them or not. I have brought the same books twice!

I have been looking for this book forever but I could never remember the name but thanks to Wikipedia I think I found it>

So I just ordered The Making of a Surgeon by William A. Nolen.

I remember reading this when I was younger. My Dad gave me it to read and I did the mistake and let my cousin borrow it and I never saw it again. I would really love my original copy back!!!

I went to reorganizing my library and found three doubles, dang it!

I know this isn't the right place to go for this but my addiction just reached new heights. I joined audible.com and they are having this $5.95 book sale. It's so easy to point and click, now I know how Aly feels with her kindle! I also know no one here will tell me to calm down with the book buying! GR enables my book obsession! LOL

For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway (have it but would rather listen to it as it is a huge book)
The Shack by William P. Young
A Reliable Wife by Robert Goolrick
Shawshank Redemption by Stephen King (This will be my 1st SK book!)
The Pick-Up Artist: The New and Improved Art of Seduction by Erik von Markovik (I want to see what all the fuss is about with this guy)

Books lately bought or ordered:

The Forgotten Garden
The Wives of Henry Oades
Sacrifice
Awakening
Linger
The Elephant Keeper
The Lace Makers of Glenmara: A Novel
Sunshine

You got some good stuff there!

My husband did another splurge for me and he got me:

Nineteen Minutes
The Art Thief
Tales from the Bed: A Memoir
The Dream of Scipio

Your husband is awesome for enabling your book zest Donna!

He does it so much that I dedicated a shelf to him on GR LOL

Wow!! There are a lot of good ones there. What was your total (do I dare ask???)

The Glass Castle was a great book Trish.

Wow Trish - you have a lot of good reading ahead of you! Not bad for $90.

Of course B&N has such good sales! I went in for one book and came out with:

Deeply, Desperately (what I went for)
The Island
The Falls
East of the Sun
Bride Island
The Last Time I Saw Paris
Scandalous Risks
If I Stay

I'M SO EXCITED
I just discovered a used bookstore in the city I live in... I didn't know we had one!!

I bought:
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Odd Thomas
Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell

and I might go back tomorrow... lol...

Jonathan Strange is coming up soon for me! I should be reading it next month.

I am now going to make it a point to read at least one book that I purchase. Meaning, I will read at least one book out of my previous order. I have a tendency to buy buy buy but not read them for quite sometime.

I think I may go with the book I purposly went to B&N to buy: Deeply, Desperately (after Tha Zahir of course)

I haven't been able to log into my audible.com account and I really need my audiobooks! Dammit... I may have to start a new account and buy books all over again. I hate that!

Why? What's the issue?

I hit the rummage sale at my church today and got Three Cups of Tea (I have already read it, but want to send it to my dad and I have the Kindle version), Princess Academy, Water for Elephants and Island of the Blue Dolphins --- for $.25. My kind of sale...

Sweet!

Just got word from B&N that they are unable to ship If I Stay! So Booo!!!

Well, the most recent are:
The Sixth Wife: A Novel
The Space Between Us: A Novel
Girl in a Blue Dress: A Novel Inspired by the Life and Marriage of Charles Dickens
Loud and Clear
The Plot Chickens
Agatha Raisin and the Murderous Marriage