Book Hauls!

Was given three books this week:

two by Romesh Gunesekera:

The Sandglass
Monkfish Moon

and The Mountain of the Moon by Bibhutibhushan Bandopadhyay
 
Hooray for library used book sales! I picked these up today when I went to take some books back to the library:

My Name is Asher Lev - Chaim Potok (Fiction; this is a very good book; I've read it a couple of times)
The Eight - Katherine Neville (Fiction; I read this one a long time ago; all I recall is that I liked it) First Edition
A Man For All Seasons - Robert Bolt (the play)
The Birth of Europe- Robert Lopez (Non-fiction/history)
The Roosevelts: An American Saga (Non-fiction/biography)

And the total price, for all five books, all hardbacks? $1.00

Edit to add: I've been buying in the bookstores this week, as well. My purchases (all full price trade paperbacks, alas):

Rule by Secrecy - Jim Marrs (a look at conspiracy theories)
A People's History of the United States, 1492 - Present - Howard Zinn (US history from the point of view of the non-winners)
The Republican Noise Machine, David Brock (about the conservative media in the US)

And one mass market paperback that I picked up at the grocery store, just because it looked like fun:

Atlantis, by David Gibbins - it had archaeologists in it, so I couldn't resist. :)
 
The Thackery T Lambshead Pocket Guide to Eccentric & Discredited Diseases
Judge Dredd The Complete Case Files 04
Tall Stories and Saints & Sinners by Tom Holt

xx
 
I have put my order in for the rest of the Sun Sword series (books 2 - 6) and Michelle West's other duology Hunter's Oath and Hunter's Death.
Unfortunately the delivery date is mid-November :( .
 
I ordered eleven (eek! No self-restraint!) books off bookcloseouts.com recently. The fantasy ones are:

Gardens of the Moon, by Steven Erikson
Melusine, by Sarah Monette
The Mabinogian Tetralogy, by Evangeline Walton
A Sudden, Wild Magic, by Diana Wynne Jones
A Shadow in Summer, by Daniel Abraham

The others are history/historical fiction :) But now I think I need to put myself on a moratorium!
 
Today in the city at Minotaurs spotted and bought:

Limited Nighshade HB edition of A Cruel Wind: A Chronicle Of The Dread Empire (Original trilogy) - Glen Cook. Introduction by Jeff Vandermeer. Not cheap but I'm yet to read these so looking forward to this.

The Forsaken Earth - Book 2: Sea Beggars - Paul Kearney

Season One on DVD of the Brother Cadfael Mysteries starring Derek Jacobi.
 
Nesacat said:
Have never seen Brother Cadfael on television though I have and love all the books. What is the series like GOLLUM?
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I will be watching Episode 1 tonight of season 1 (4 DVDS avaiable for Seasons 1-4) but Jacobi is an excellent actor and it appears to have had quite good reviews.

I'll post something further next week.

Cheers..:)
 
I've seen a few of the Cadfael series (not enough, frankly) and, though differing at times from the books, they do try to remain pretty faithful... and have an excellent cast, are well done overall. Definitely worth watching.
 
Halfway through watching one of these episodes and it's very well done. Enough to recommend this series...

@JD: Don't know if you're aware of Cook but his A Cruel Wind: A Chronicle Of The Dread Empire (Original trilogy) according to Vandermeer is somewhat reminscent of Weird Tales in combination with Vance and Leiber (Yes who was a WT contributor in the '40s). He's considered a bit of a trail blazer of the Genre in terms of bringing gitty realism to the High Fantasy sub genre. Of course quite influential on authors like Steven Erikson and Jeff Vandermeer. If you're interested I can give you a precis on this book once I get around to reading it, which probably won't be too long.
 
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Nesacat said:
Three more birthday gifts:

Tigana by Guy Gavriel Kay
The Sunny Side by AA Milne
The Master & Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
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Tigan is a classic IMO. My favourite work by Kay, let us know how it goes. Master & Margarita is weird but cool. Never read Sunny Side..:confused:
 
Read both Tigana and Margarita a long time ago but did not have copies of my own. The edition of Tigana I received is the 10th anniversary one so it's quite lovely.

I'll probably read Master & Margarita again soon. It's definitely wierd but not as wierd as Heart of a Dog. Bulgakov has a way of turning everything slantwise.

The Sunny Side is AA Milne's collection of tales for 'Proper Grown Ups'. He'd apparently tried to publish it before and been told it'd never sell since he was known for having written the Pooh tales. Sunny Side is turning out to be a lot of fun thus far and you can clearly recognise the folk of the Hundred Acre Woods in the characters.
 
Nesacat said:
Read both Tigana and Margarita a long time ago but did not have copies of my own. The edition of Tigana I received is the 10th anniversary one so it's quite lovely.
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I have that edition, too :) Though I think Tigana is actually not nearly my favorite Kay. I think Lions of Al-Rassan and A Song for Arbonne tie for that honor :)
 
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