Nollaig Posted June 30, 2010 Posted June 30, 2010 Yay Marcia! My copy cost me €10 so it'd better be good lol! I really wanted her newest one, Our Tragic Universe, but alas Waterstones in this particular city is a bit rubbish.
Charm Posted June 30, 2010 Posted June 30, 2010 I forgot that last night when I met my friend at the movie she gave me the next two books of the Kelley Armstrong series, Broken and Haunted. I also stopped at Half Price Books on the way home from lunch today and practically shouted when I saw they had a nice shiny hard cover copy of The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane by Katherine Howe for only $2.00! When I read it the first time I borrowed from someone so I'm glad to have my own now . I also picked up PopCo by Scarlett Thomas, Noll! Also only $2.00, so I practically skipped out of the shop, LOL. Excellent haul peacefield! I hope you enjoy your new Armstrong installments! They've released The Lost Book of Salem over here now as The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane, with a beautiful new cover too! I'm really tempted to buy a copy even though The Book of Lost Salem is so pretty too!
Peacefield Posted June 30, 2010 Posted June 30, 2010 I hope you like it too! Cool, I didn't know Thomas had a new one out - I thought she just had this one and 'End of Mr. Y.' You read that one and liked it, didn't you? I seem to remember you talking about it awhile ago...
Peacefield Posted June 30, 2010 Posted June 30, 2010 Excellent haul peacefield! I hope you enjoy your new Armstrong installments! They've released The Lost Book of Salem over here now as The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane, with a beautiful new cover too! I'm really tempted to buy a copy even though The Book of Lost Salem is so pretty too! I'm excited to read the next Armstong, Charm! Apparently I now get to find out about Eve Levine , and after that it's back to Elena and Clay, woo! What does the Lost Book of Salem and now Dane covers look like over there? Here it's showing a torn piece of paper, some herb leaves and a key. It's snazzy!
Charm Posted June 30, 2010 Posted June 30, 2010 What does the Lost Book of Salem and now Dane covers look like over there? Here it's showing a torn piece of paper, some herb leaves and a key. It's snazzy! Links: (I hope they work ) The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane The Lost Book of Salem Physick sounds similar, I like them both! I don't suppose it would be too bad having a copy of each
Sheeta Posted June 30, 2010 Posted June 30, 2010 I'm also going to buy Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides, I hope I will find it in France, although I don't know if it's named like that here.
Nollaig Posted June 30, 2010 Posted June 30, 2010 I finished Let The Right One In!! YAY! Great book, tough read. Very strange, very original. Now I can focus wholly on Popco!
BookJumper Posted June 30, 2010 Posted June 30, 2010 I read all of the introductory bits + 5 pages of Steven Brusts's The Phoenix Guards at 6.30 this morning before conking out on the plane tray I'll see if I can make it to the end of the first chapter before meeting the same fate right about now.
pontalba Posted July 1, 2010 Posted July 1, 2010 ........and picked up Gone with the Wind from the bookstore. Hopefully I'll get around to starting it today. I read GWTW a couple of times when I was a young teenager, and again I guess in my 20's and 30's, and again fairly recently, in my late 50's.....each time it is different. The perspective of ages reading that book, as with most books I suppose, changes drastically. I'd have to say that from my teens to now, it is a totally different book. Today I got started on Spoon River Anthology by Edgar Lee Masters. It's a different sort of book, for me at least. It's the story of all the people buried in a particular cemetery...told individually in prose poetry. Written in 1915, it holds just as true and fresh today as when it was written. I'm about 1/3rd of the way through.
Peacefield Posted July 1, 2010 Posted July 1, 2010 Charm, our cover of Physick looks almost exactly like yours. I love the Salem cover too, it's so pretty! It's a book worth having too copies of .
Nollaig Posted July 1, 2010 Posted July 1, 2010 I hope you like it too! Cool, I didn't know Thomas had a new one out - I thought she just had this one and 'End of Mr. Y.' You read that one and liked it, didn't you? I seem to remember you talking about it awhile ago... The End Of Mr. Y is excellent, but they're not her only books. She has 8 novels!
Pixie Posted July 1, 2010 Posted July 1, 2010 I just finished Change of Heart by Jodi Picoult. Just a so-so book for me. I will post a review when I get a chance. I am now starting on The Book of Flying by Keith Miller.
Peacefield Posted July 1, 2010 Posted July 1, 2010 The End Of Mr. Y is excellent, but they're not her only books. She has 8 novels! Seriously?? Man I'm in trouble if I end up liking PopCo!
vinay87 Posted July 1, 2010 Posted July 1, 2010 To remember the last day of my bond with education, I bought two books yesterday. One was a cheap copy of Silas Marner by George Eliot and the other was a steal. A hard bound century edition of Pride And Prejudice with excellent paper quality, spectacular painted illustrations and large print. I've never read Austen or Eliot before but while I went in to the bookshop to get just about any one book to commemorate the occasion, I just couldn't miss the chance of getting these. Total cost? Well, about 3$.
whitegold Posted July 1, 2010 Posted July 1, 2010 Chapters had a 'Buy 3, Get the 4th free" deal so I picked up A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk Pygmy by Chuck Palahniuk Bluebeard by Kurt Vonnegut I'm thinking of going back and picking up another 4 books! I hate these deals, I end up spending way too much money
lauraloves Posted July 1, 2010 Posted July 1, 2010 ive finished my sharon osborne book and im starting A Midsummer Nights Dream. a bit apprehensive as i havent read any shakespeare on my own, only in school.
pickle Posted July 1, 2010 Posted July 1, 2010 I finished The Ninth Stone I really enjoyed it, was very similar to the Sally Lockhart series by Philip Pulllman have also read Depths - Henning Mankell what a dreary book, I felt depressed reading it, bring back Wallender stop writing these rubbish other books
Stephanie2008 Posted July 1, 2010 Posted July 1, 2010 I've read about 50 pages of White Oleander by Janet Fitch and I'm really enjoying it so far
Charm Posted July 1, 2010 Posted July 1, 2010 It's a book worth having too copies of . My thinking exactly! The End Of Mr. Y is excellent, but they're not her only books. She has 8 novels! I'm just about to abandon this, maybe I should rethink? Mind you, I thought Let The Right One In was brilliant, and yet we both loved The Historian! Don't ya just love how everyone can love one thing, yet have different views on another!
Brida Posted July 1, 2010 Posted July 1, 2010 (edited) I'm reading The 5 people you meet in heaven, which I bought a week or 2 before. Funny, I didn't expect it to be so short. I don't know why Edited July 1, 2010 by Brida
frankie Posted July 1, 2010 Posted July 1, 2010 I've just finished Peyton Place and the book kept getting better and better, leaving me with no other choice than to give it 4/5.
Ooshie Posted July 1, 2010 Posted July 1, 2010 Peyton Place is one I have been looking forward to reading, frankie, I'm pleased to hear it's so good! I am still reading Possession. It hasn't killed my reading mojo, far from it, I'm really enjoying it, but it's not always convenient for me to read a hardback so it's taking me ages to get through it!
Kylie Posted July 1, 2010 Posted July 1, 2010 What's Peyton Place about? It sounds familiar; was it a TV show or movie once? I didn't get much time to read today, so I only managed a chapter or two of Rama Revealed.
Ooshie Posted July 1, 2010 Posted July 1, 2010 I never actually saw it, but I think it was an American soap opera in the sixties.
Kate Posted July 1, 2010 Posted July 1, 2010 I've written a review and am currently reading 50 Harbour Street by Debbie Macomber
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