Between the Lines discussion

I have been on a book buying kick the past few weeks. I am buying faster than I can read.

I thought I'd add this, (I hope this is ok) to see what books you all have bought and not read yet.

I have, within the past three weeks bought over 6-7 books I think. I have even ordered some online. I just bought, Blue Bloods, Pride and Prejudice, Memoirs of a Geisha, Dracula, Tithe; a Mondern Faerie Tale, Heartstopper, The Diary of Anne Frank (finished), Rebel Angels (the second book, it was cheap), Hunted (finished). HAHA I can't think of anymore. But I can not wait to read them all and I plan on buying MUCH more.

Ah, over the last two weeks I have bought about 60 books! I have over 300 at home to read. Where oh where will I find the time....and of course I want to read them all right now!

This can be a very dangerous thread, as it will tempt us all. But I like it. :)

I am trying to get a bunch of books read before I buy anymore. We will see if it works.

Wow Mandy, I thought the 19 books I bought last friday was a lot...!

Yes, I have a sickness! A few times a year I'll buy up big and then just make little purchases throughout the year but really I gotta read what I've got, I feel like I'm neglecting the ones I'm not reading. But then again, aren't I neglecting the ones I'm not buying? LOL! Oh, and most are incredibly cheap and on sale or second hand, I refuse to pay the full amount for a book from a bookstore, I go to the likes of Target and such places for new releases and then second hand stores or Salvation Army stores, libraries, anywhere I can get them!

Ah, I've waffled on a bit here :O)

HAHAH WOW Mandy! I wish I could, and hopefully I will get that many books. I thought I was bad.. hahah only about 6 or 7 books in three weeks.. hahah who was I kiddin! My husband is building me a book shelf right now, maybe I should turn the spare room into a library.. hahah tempting.

Mandy: we all have that sickness! Thus the reason we are here.

I love the library sales. I load up no books then have to find time to read them.

Aren't they wonderful? This week our whole town including the library is having a yard sale. All who participate pay the Boy Scouts $5 to advertise and make maps to be given out to buyers marking where the sales are. One of the churches collects from all the members so they have a great assortment. It is fun for everyone and gets rid of so much junk.

Oh my goodness Sandra, that sounds great! What a great way to bring everyone together!

Actually I think books in English (which I mostly read) are so cheap so I'm happy to buy them new. Because English as a language is so much bigger than Danish, books by Danish authors and books translated into Danish are rather expensive and English books are cheap! Besides, not much of a second-hand market here with English books...

From yesterday:

23 Charity shop buys :

Close Relations - Deborah Moggach
Looking for JJ - Anne Cassidy
The Attorney - Steve Martini
Cover Her Face - P.D. James
The Holy Thief - Ellis Peters
Darkly Dreaming Dexter - Jeff Linday
Bad Company - Jack Higgins
Kiss River - Diane Chamberlain
The Kitchen God's Wife - Amy Tan
Death of an Expert Witness - P.D. James
Edge of Darkness - Jack Higgins
Day of Reckoning - Jack Higgins
Killer Smile - Lisa Scottline
Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha - Roddy Doyle
The Woman Who Walked Into Doors - Roddy Doyle
The Taxi Queue - Janet Davey
Human Traces - Sebastian Faulks
The Rose of Sebastopol - Katharine McMahon
The American Boy - Andrew Taylor
Beyond Nab End - William Woodruff
The Deep End of the Ocean - Jacquelyn Mitchard
Twilight Hour - Carol Smith
The Templar Legacy - Steve Berry
The Joy Luck Club - Amy Tan

1 Audio (29p) and 1 book (£1.99) from The Works:

Trouble - Jesse Kellerman (book)
The Stone Monkey - Jeffery Deaver (Audio)

Great haul, Fiona!

Charity shop books were cheap. 1 place was selling them 20p each, another place was 5 books for £1 and last place was 3 for £1.

Woohoo!

I love it when the charity shops have sales lol. I end up buying loads. 1 shop I bought 16 books for £3.20 (thats the 20p books).

Now I have to find places to put them all now. Cos my 6 bookcases are all full to the brim lol. Plus I have more books to come as its my b/day on Sunday and friends have sent me books for my b/day lol.

Nothing like books as presents. And yep, I know what you mean about finding places to keep them. I bought a new bookcase that's quite huge a few months ago, it's nearly time to buy another one!

Mandy, I have 6 bookcases in my bedroom. 3 large and 3 small lol.

Looks like some readin is in order lol.

I've only got one that holds about 700-900.

Happy reading to you, Fiona!

Well I was in New York on Sunday and Monday, as usuall I entered at Barnes & Nobles of Union Square and bought three: 1. The Tales of Beedle the Bard - J.K. Rowling; 2. Kafka on the Shore - Haruki Murakami and 3. The Septembers of Shiraz - Dalia Sofer.
Today I was at the mall near by my house, becuse the gym is there. Well I entered in one of the two book stores in the mall. I bought 2 books in Hebrew this time and those are: 1. Dewey The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World 2. The Reader

Have a nice reading weekend
Avigail

I just recently bought The Winner Stands Alone A Novel by Paulo Coelho... I still got some Coelho book waiting to be read... I think I must start at The Pilgrimage...

I just bought American Wife A Novel by
Curtis Sittenfeld. I really loved Prep A Novel. Maybe "loved" is not the right word. I voraciously read it, while having traumatic flasbacks to my own early college years.

Has anyone read American Wife A Novel?

Yes Jessica. I read American Wife when it first came out. I liked it. Some parts were a little slow, but I too enjoyed reading Prep and I had high expectations. I did enjoy American Wife (apparently it is suppose to mirror the life of Laura Bush, but I am not so sure about that). Overall it is a good read. Great for the beach or just sitting outside in the yard.

I went to B&N yesterday to renew my membership and just happened to end up in front of the clearance boxes on the second floor. I was so happy to find a copy of The Forsyte Saga by John Galsworthy for about $3 after the 75% discount! I've been wanting this book for years ever since I saw the adaptation on Masterpiece.

Also today my online order from B&N last week came in. I now have my copies of The Girl Who Played with Fire and Pride and Prejudice and Zombies :)

Bought Suite Francaise and A Long Long Way. The former looks beautiful and tragic and rife with true history. I bought the latter because I really enjoyed The Secret Scripture.

Lauren wrote: "Bought Suite Francaise and A Long Long Way. The former looks beautiful and tragic and rife with true history. I bought the latter because I really enjoyed The Secret Scripture."

I hope you enjoy Suite Francaise as much as I did - great choice.

I just bought Lisa See's Shanghai Girls A Novel and started it same day.

Stephanie wrote: "Just hit up a great garage sale! 50 books for $4!! Now I just have to hope my husband doesnt notice my overflowing bookshelf!! LOL"

50 for $4!? That's like..8 cents per book! What a steal! What were the books you bought, if you don't mind?

Stephanie wrote: "Just hit up a great garage sale! 50 books for $4!! Now I just have to hope my husband doesnt notice my overflowing bookshelf!! LOL"

That's an awesome deal! Great find :)

Shannon wrote: "Lauren wrote: "Bought Suite Francaise and A Long Long Way. The former looks beautiful and tragic and rife with true history. I bought the latter because I really enjoyed The Secret Scripture."

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Thanks. A lot of people recommend it on GR. I'm in for a great read it would seem.

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Recently bought The Memory Box, Stigmata, my very own copy of Saving Agnes(!), The Bolter and Cranford.

Hey! I was in for a surprise last Sunday when I bought a hardcover omnibus edition of The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy published by Portlad House... Thanks God it saved me money and time from the sole task of finding anout all the five books of this series.
I also got a hardcover First American Edition of The Satanic Verses A Novel... Wow! I was in for a treat.

I bought The Time Traveler's Wife in Borders, and now I finally started reading it.

galya wrote: "I bought The Time Traveler's Wife in Borders, and now I finally started reading it."

I loved this book! TNBBC just did it as a group read if you're interested in checking out the comments on it. They're broken up into spoiler and not spoiler threads :)

I just got A.S Byatt The Children's Book and Michael Chabon The Final Solution A Story of Detection. One thick, one thin. Both cost the same. I've been looking forward to reading both of these so I'm happy!

Christina Stind wrote: "I just got A.S Byatt The Children's Book and Michael Chabon The Final Solution A Story of Detection. One thick, one thin. Both cost the same. I've been looking forward ..."

Ain't The Children's Book nominated for this year's Booker Price. Wish that book's now available here in our country though.

Oh just got back from Library book sale! I so scored!!!!

twenty-five cents a book:

Treasure Box~ Orson Scott Card
The Devil's Artithmetic~ Jane Yolen
The Lost Boys~ Orson Scott Card
The Wizard of Oz~ L. Frank Baum
The Torn Birds ~ Colleen McCullough
The Bourne Identity~ Robert Ludlun
The Fisher King~ Anthony Powell
The Bean Trees~Anthony Powell
The Poems of Chaucer
Anthology Irish Literature
The Peace of Europe, The Fruits of Solidtud~ William Penn
Stone Time~T.H.Watkins
The Lovely Bones~Alice Sebold
The Letters of Jane Austen
Behn Five Plays
Memoirs of A Geisha (1st edition good condition hardback!!!)
Return of the Native~Hardy
Red Badge of Courage~Crane
Cyrano De Bergerac~Rostand
Mississippi Writing~Twain
Silas Marner~Eliot
Three daughters of Madame Leng~Buck
The Acts of King Arthur and his Noble Knight~Steinbeck
Mystery of Edwin Droed~Dickens
Selected Pomes of Emily Dickinson
Dr Faustus~Marlow
Prussian Nights a poem~Alexander Sozhemitsym
Biography of George Elito~Karl

You did great, Em!

Wow Emilee, that is so great! we never have such book sales in Pakistan.

I bought a while ago Running with Scissors A Memoir. Also got from my boyfriend Dance, Dance, Dance. And I really want to buy The Art of War.

jzhunagev wrote: "Ain't The Children's Book nominated for this year's Booker Price. Wish that book's now available here in our country though. "

Yes it is a nominee. I haven't gotten around to reading it yet but I have high expectations of it.

My mum picked up The Reader today for just 75p from a carboot sale. Nice swipe, I must say!

Today I went to the bookstore and got:

A Confederacy of Dunces
Emma
Possession

Thanks Beth & Yusra Zainab Laghari!

Silver: I am reading Possession. I like it.

I just started it for the Victorian book club on Goodreads which will be doing it in September.

Silver wrote: "Today I went to the bookstore and got:

A Confederacy of Dunces
Emma
Possession"

A Confederacy of Dunces is my all time favorite book. Can't wait to read what you thought about it!

I am on like chapter 3 or 4 now, when I do finnish it, I will let you know what I think.

Went a little nuts and bought bout 4 Sharon Penman novels, so now I am on a complete medieval binge.

I read Confederacy a few months ago. Loved it!

I read Confederacy of Dunces years ago when it first
came out in the early 80s. To this day I recommend it
to everyone I know. Must reread someday.

BTW, you ladies have convinced me I need to be more
frugal in my book buying. I do wait until they come
out in paperback, but I've been buying them new at bn
and Borders. I need to check out the Goodwill and used
bookstores and yard sales. Whoever got those first
editions above got a steal. Poor Rushdie had to go
into hiding over that one. Have any of you heard the
sad tale of John Kennedy Toole?

I just brought:

Bitter Sweets
A Fraction of the Whole
A Northern Light
Sarah's Key
Freea For All

Vonney wrote: "I read Confederacy of Dunces years ago when it first
came out in the early 80s. To this day I recommend it
to everyone I know. Must reread someday.

BTW, you ladies have convinced me I need to..."

Hi Vonney! Confederacy is one of my all time fave books! And yes I have heard of the sad tale of John Kennedy Toole. I think its great that his mom was such a champion of his work, because his book is brilliant!