Book Hauls!

[HoopyFrood]

Again, a nice haul that! Congratulations!

Until I was addressing the query the other day in the Quiet Room, I'd not even known Fantasmagoriana had been brought back into print recently... so today I got the copy I ordered when I found that out. A slender volume, but it does look intriguing and, with its place in literary history, this should be a very interesting read....

*Cough* And who do you have to thank for making you address said query?

 

[j d worthington]

*Cough* And who do you have to thank for making you address said query?

Actually, it was Lenny and Ace who caught my attention....

Thanks, Hoops!

 

[HoopyFrood]

Hehe.

*Dances* Not quite a book haul...but on Sunday I'm getting...A new bookshelf, WOOT! I've been wanting a new one for so long (my current one is jammed full of books now) and we're off to good old Ikea on Sunday, so Hoopy's getting a bookshelf!

And then *looks off into the middle distance* I'll be able to arrange all my books again...oh, bliss!

 

[j d worthington]

Hehe.

*Dances* Not quite a book haul...but on Sunday I'm getting...A new bookshelf, WOOT! I've been wanting a new one for so long (my current one is jammed full of books now) and we're off to good old Ikea on Sunday, so Hoopy's getting a bookshelf!

And then *looks off into the middle distance* I'll be able to arrange all my books again...oh, bliss!

Ah, I envy you... close to 2/3 of mine are still (dammit!) in storage.....

 

[Taltos]

As I got through my last book order (hmmm... 5 weeks to wait and 2 weeks to actually read these books, this isn't a really good ratio ) went to bookshop, and could actually contain myself - which is actually good.
Bought:
Samuel R. Delaney Babel-17
Neal Asher Cowl - it seems that advertising here is good for something

 

[Nesacat]

Hehe.

*Dances* Not quite a book haul...but on Sunday I'm getting...A new bookshelf, WOOT! I've been wanting a new one for so long (my current one is jammed full of books now) and we're off to good old Ikea on Sunday, so Hoopy's getting a bookshelf!

And then *looks off into the middle distance* I'll be able to arrange all my books again...oh, bliss!

Oh yes ... bliss indeed. I got all mine from Ikea too. I love that place and their Billy bookcases.

Have been spending time every day when I get home from work shelving books. Moving them around. Organising them. It's been lovely. Now if they'll only hurry and find the missing ones.

 

[HoopyFrood]

Aw, have they still not found them?

My bookshelf looks glorious now (As shown in the "Show us your scifi/fantasty collection" thread ) I love it, I keep smiling at it fondly.

Anyway, last night I was purchasing items from Amazon and noticed that I had a book waiting in my shopping basket that I'd placed there a while ago. So I thought I might as well buy it! It's Inherit the Stars, which someone was asking about in the Book Search forum a while ago, and the description of it piqued my interest so much that I decided to buy it!

 

[Rosemary]

Spent a wonderful hour looking for my next book. Finally settled on Tad Williams 'Shadowplay'. I am hoping that it will be better than his first book of this series, 'Shadowmarch'.

 

[DeepThought]

Almost done with Erikson's Memories of Ice, even better than Deadhouse Gates! Also, got these from the local bookstore:

The Dark Tower, Stephen King
Mathematics: From the Birth of Numbers, Jan Gullberg

 

[Adasunshine]

Before They Are Hanged - Joe Abercrombie
Sovereign - C J Sansom

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[HoopyFrood]

Woohoo! Inherit the Stars arrived today.

Also, while on the subject of bookcases (well...we were) although I bought a new one the other day, I filled it up almost immediately. My old one had been put out on the landing, but I've thieved it back (does that work? Thieving something that was yours in the first place? Ah well ) and squashed it into my alarmingly full room. But now I have lots of shelf space so I can buy books 'til my heart's content!

 

[Talysia]

Found a couple of bargains today!

Robert Jordan's Knife of Dreams (Hardback) for £3
Lian Hearn's Grass for his Pillow (Hardback) for £1
Koji Suzuki's Loop for £6.99.

I love discount book stores!

 

[Kettricken]

Today a book order arrived, with 'The Traveler' by John Twelve Hawks, and 'Doomsday Book' by Connie Willis.

 

[Ian Whates]

I picked up the following on Saturday:

Guy Gavriel Kay -- Ysabel
Geoff Ryman -- Air
Neal Asher -- Polity Agent
Alan Campbell -- Scar Night
Jay Amory -- The Fledgling of AZ Gabrielson
Gwyneth Jones -- Rainbow Bridge
Diana Wynn Jones -- Conrad's Fate
Liz Williams -- Darkland
Tony Ballantyne -- Capacity
Gary Gibson -- Against Gravity

Jay Amory is Graham Joyce under another name, apparently. The first five are all hardback editions, the next two trade paperbacks, and the final three standard paperbacks...

Hoopy, you haven't got a spare shelf I could have, have you?

 

[Stenevor]

R A Lafferty - Past Master
Alfred Bester - The Stars My Destination
Mary Doria Russell - Children of God
Daniel Keyes - Flowers for Algernon
Roger Zelazny - Lord of Light
Thomas Hardy - Jude the Obscure

Should finish Catch 22 tonight then I will get started on these.

 

[Fahim]

I mostly buy Pratchetts anymore because that's all I have time to read - unfortunate (not the buying only Pratchetts part but the bit about not having time to read more ) I do want the Erikson "The Bonehunters" though since I have the rest of the Mazalan series - just haven't read them yet Speaking of hauls though, the most memorable haul I had was a huge collection of Heinleins off an e-bay auction. I believe I got almost every Heinlein ever published ...

 

[Cerberus]

New Haul acquired from a local charity shop
W.M.Thackery - Vanity Fair
Somerset Morgan - Of Human Bondage
Chaucer - The Canterbury Tales
Evelyn Waugh - Vile Bodies
Poe - The Fall Of The House Of Usher and other stories.

All in Hardback and Mint condition

 

[HoopyFrood]

I’ve just had the best book haul! I officially love The Works shop now! All the books in there cost only £1.99 each (and they’re all new!) or you can get three for five pounds. Thus, for a mere ten pounds I bought the following:

Royal Assassin – Robin Hobb
Ship of Destiny – Robin Hobb
Fool’s Fate – Robin Hobb
Red Dragon and Silence of the Lambs (two in one book!) – Thomas Harris
The Caves of Steel – Isaac Asimov
Rendezvous with Rama – Arthur C. Clarke

Boo yah! So I’m a very happy lassie now.

 

[j d worthington]

Got a package in the mail earlier in the week, and found two graphic novels inside:

Marvel 1602 (Neil Gaiman, Andy Kubert, and Richard Isanove)
Sandman: The Dream Hunters (Neil Gaiman & Yoshitaka Amano)

These days I'm unlikely to go buying graphic novels, as I've trouble enough coming up with money for the other books I'm most interested in; so this was a real treat, as they are things I wouldn't have bought for myself. And I will say they both look beautiful!....

So: Thank you, Cat! Much obliged!

 

[Nesacat]

You're quite welcome JD. I personally love graphic novels and it's always a pleasure to share. I hope you like them.