Ach, I'm positively BLOATED with new book purchases today, and, really, I'm just looking for an excuse to show off my new toys.


Also, as it would appear not everyone has yet signed up with www.mediachest.com (horrors!) this is an opportunity for the non-mediachest crowd to tell us what they've purchased.


I still hold the belief that you can tell a lot by a person from the books that they willingly plunk down hard earned cash for.


from the used bookstore :

The Dante Club by Matthew Pearl (only 3 bucks!)
Everybody Pays by Andrew Vachss (I've never read him, always meant to, and somebody here recently mentioned him, so for two bucks, I think I can take a gamble. If I don't like it, it will be up for grabs)
Floating in My Mother's Palm by Ursula Hegi (I love her fiction, haven't read this non-fiction biography of growing up in post-war Germany. Her stories give me insight into my grandmother. And it was only fifty cents!)
The Book of Splendor by Frances Sherwood (I LOVED LOVED LOVED her historical fiction piece, Vindication about the life of Mary Wollstonecraft. I hope this one doesn't dissapoint. Again, if I don't like it, it will be up for grabs.)
S. by John Updike (this one's going to a certain poster)
and a Heritage Press edition of Milton's Paradise Lost with the William Blake watercolors. *drool* I'm such a Heritage Press whore.
I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith (I already had a copy of this book. But if I see a copy of a book I loved for cheap, I always buy it and hold on to it for someone who might need a copy. As it happens, as I was walking back to my desk, a co-worker stopped me to examine my purchases and started gushing about I Capture the Castle. I asked her if she had a copy, and she didn't, so now she does. )

brand-spanking new books :

The House with a Clock in its Walls / The Ghost in the Mirror by John Bellairs (the book flips over! It's two books in one! So cool!)
The Onion Girl by Charles de Lint (just doing my part to save the de Lint thread...)
The Wild Wood by Charles de Lint (hadn't read this one yet. Have no doubt that I'll enjoy it.)
Dreams Underfoot by Charles de Lint



Can you tell I got paid today?

ok, i definitely read the house with a clock in its walls several years ago. good book, as i recall.

i think the most recent book i bought is Blameless in Abaddon by James Morrow.

the most recent book i read is Memory and Dream by Charles de Lint.

heh. that's funny. i never read the Charles de Lint thread. i'd never even heard of the author. my friend lent me the book, and i looooooved it...

Hrm... only book I've bought recently is Fables Vol. 1 (there goes me again, counting comic books as 'books' )

it's birthday season in my family... so saving up, waiting to see what happens at my own birthday, buying stuff for other peoples, etc.

erm...I recently bought:

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire(more than half way through it thanks to staying up till 5 this morning!)

The Punisher: Born(I'm a sucker for Garth Ennis and this is his best work since Preacher)

Preacher: Until the End of the World and Preacher: Proud Americans (the second and third installments of my newest comic book obsession from the best creative team ever!)

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Originally posted by jcizenman:
Hrm... only book I've bought recently is Fables Vol. 1 (there goes me again, counting comic books as 'books' )

it's birthday season in my family... so saving up, waiting to see what happens at my own birthday, buying stuff for other peoples, etc.

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Did you enjoy it, you'll notice in the Wednesday are comics days I get the monthly?

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Originally posted by LestatsTralk:
erm...I recently bought:

_Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire_(more than half way through it thanks to staying up till 5 this morning!)

_The Punisher: Born_(I'm a sucker for Garth Ennis and this is his best work since Preacher)

_Preacher: Until the End of the World_ and _Preacher: Proud Americans_ (the second and third installments of my newest comic book obsession from the best creative team ever!)

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I got bored about 4ish but it did pick up again. Isn't cassidy cool

"The Snake Oil Wars" by Parke Godwin.
Sequel to "Waiting for the Galactic Bus", which are two of the funniest and sharpest social-satires I've read. Loaned my copies out long ago, and now I'm finding the books again.

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Originally posted by jcizenman:
Hrm... only book I've bought recently is Fables Vol. 1 (there goes me again, counting comic books as 'books' )

it's birthday season in my family... so saving up, waiting to see what happens at my own birthday, buying stuff for other peoples, etc.

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Did you enjoy it, you'll notice in the Wednesday are comics days I get the monthly?

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Yeah, I dig it... I'll be getting Animal Farm (vol. 2) at some point.

My list of TPBs I need to get keeps growing, because instead of buying stuff on the list, I keep starting on new things...

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Originally posted by LestatsTralk:
erm...I recently bought:

_Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire_(more than half way through it thanks to staying up till 5 this morning!)

_The Punisher: Born_(I'm a sucker for Garth Ennis and this is his best work since Preacher)

_Preacher: Until the End of the World_ and _Preacher: Proud Americans_ (the second and third installments of my newest comic book obsession from the best creative team ever!)

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I got bored about 4ish but it did pick up again. Isn't cassidy cool

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Cassidy? I don't think I'm there yet. egads! And don't tell me!

I'm not bored but the "newness" of the HP books is all but gone now. I think that's because I've them all back to back. I think the longest break I've taken is a week between books. lol.

The Wheel of the Infinite and The Ships of Air, both by Martha Wells. Wheel was one of her early books (but I hadn't read it), and Ships is the second volume of a trilogy that she's writing.

I find her very, very readable.

- Cho

a clockwork orange

the dark tower 6: song of susannah

and the books of magic: bindings....anyone know when the new series is coming out?, vertigo's site says the 1st issue came out july 7th, and the only comic place around here has no idea wtf i'm talking about.

recent as in within the last two or three weeks (i think)

used:

the hounds of the morrigan by pat o'shea
(which i'm reading slowly and in order)
the raven's ring pin by john anacker
the riddle-master of hed by patricia mckillip
peter pan by j.m. barrie

new:

the elephant vanishes by haruki murakami (this is short stories, and i think i should have gotten a novel of his instead)
howl's moving castle by diana wynne jones

borrowed from a friend today:
JTHM (johnny the homicidal maniac): director's cut by jhonen vasquez

so amy, there's my new books. what can you tell about me?
(aside from the fact that i haven't mediachested in forever)

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used: Patrick O'Brien: Blue at the Mizzen
Hugo-Notre Dame du Paris
Scottish folk and Fairy Tales
Nick Hornby-How to be Good
The Chartreuse of Panama-Stendhal
The Lady of Camellias Dumas
Flaubert Madame Bovary

Mind you, I do reviews, so some of these are for those purposes:

Angela Carter, Burning Your Boats: The Collected Short Stories

Jonathan Lethem, Motherless Brooklyn

J.G. Ballard, The Best Short Stories of J.G. Ballard

Gina B. Nahai, Moonlight on the Avenue of Faith

Miguel Angel Asturias, El Señor Presidente

Jeff VanderMeer, Secret Life

K.J. Bishop, The Etched City

Martin Amis, Time's Arrow

John Crowley, The Dæmonomania

Charles Stross, Singularity Sky

Various, Cosmos Latinos: An Anthology of Latin American and Spanish Science Fiction

Various, Conjunctions 39: The New Wave Fabulists

Various, Breaking Windows: A Fantastic Metropolis Sampler

Ricardo Pinto, The Chosen

Gene Wolfe, Innocents Aboard

R. Scott Bakker, The Darkness That Comes Before; The Warrior-Prophet

Ian MacLeod, The Light Ages

And maybe a few others. That's what I've purchased in the past few weeks or have received as a Reviewer's Copy. Almost all of them I loved, some for being epic fantasies, others for being Magical Realism novels.

>> the hounds of the morrigan by pat o'shea
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the riddle-master of hed by patricia mckillip
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howl's moving castle by diana wynne jones<<

Lovely choices, all of them! I have just been re-reading the Riddlemaster trilogy (in between the Wells books), and they are so beautifully written, but very engaging too. Later on McKillip's writing gets too self-consciously lovely, and I feel that the plots and characters start to suffer neglect.

Have you read any DWJ before?

- Cho

i just stole most of my brother's chrestomanci books
to my pleasant surprise, some of these were the books i'd read in grade school that i couldn't remember the names of.

nothing other than that though.

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Originally posted by aitapata:
Also, as it would appear not everyone has yet signed up with http://www.mediachest.com (horrors!) this is an opportunity for the non-mediachest crowd to tell us what they've purchased.

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*sheepish* I never even heard of MediaChest before...

Merlin and I have a *bad* book and CD habit. It would almost be easier to list what we haven't bought lately!

actually managed to buy some books today - evil amnasty international second hand book shop

I got:

Fortress Malta
tony hawks - playing the moldovians at tennis
robert holdstock - celtira

weee, cheap books

Lost Secrets of the Sacred Arc by Jeff Gardner
Have read 1/2 of this incredible life changing book and think the whole world should read it!
All this stuff we've been taught and thought was true is all hogwash - this book is definitly an eye opener and if it's true may God help us all.

I just bought Jovah's Angel by Sharon Shinn at the used booksale in my town today. Other recent purchases include The Thief Lord by Cornelia Funke and The Thief of Always by Clive Barker.

I work at a library, so a lot of things I just take out from the library. However, they've just hired me on full time, so I'm looking forward to spending more of my hard earned cash on books. That's the other great thing about working in a library - discounts from our book supplier!