The Page Turners discussion

Ok, so I was wondering what you bought on your last trip to the bookstore (or the last online order you made)....

I tend to buy six or seven books at a time, because I can't always make it to the bookstore every weekend. I tend to buy them when I am on my last book from my most recent splurge....

I went to Barnes and Noble last night and racked up a rather large bill of $53.78. I was certainly not prepared to spend that much on books. Anyway, that ridiculously large sum of money purchased me six books: Gone by Michael Grant, Scarlet by Marissa Meyer, You Are Here by Jennifer E. Smith, Secret Letters by Leah Scheie, Second Chance Summer by Morgan Matson, and It's Not Summer Without You by Jenny Han. And yes, I am very excited for summer.

So what are some of your recent splurges?

Cecily wrote: "A splurge for me is one or two books. My most recent which I've just received is Jack Dawkins.

It isn't just a matter of expense. If I bought six books at once, I would go beswick trying to work o..."

It's driving me crazy because I can't figure out which one to read first! Maybe I should limit myself to two or three books at a time...

That was actually really challenging. I think I spent about an hour picking books up, putting them back, and then picking them up again. I think I thoroughly annoyed a few employees in the process. Anyway, I recently finished the prequel to It's Not Summer Without You, and really enjoyed it. The others had been on my to-read shelf for awhile (and a few of them were on sale). Eventually, I narrowed it down to those six.

Have you read Middlemarch yet? I was considering buying it last night, but I hadn't heard any comments about the book.

Hit the jackpot at The Salvation Army yesterday. Got these books for 50 cents each:

Huh, last one I made when I bought a whole series was in 2009 to buy all teh Vampire Academy series so far.

But I go the library so often and I AM TOTALLY INTO THE CASTER CHRONICLES RIGHT NOW!!!!
SHIPPING LETHAN SO MUCH!!!!!

I barely ever go to the bookstore I always get my books from the library because the books in bookstores can be kind of expensive

@Renee the CASTER CHRONICLES is an AWESOME series!!!

I evidently spent $263 purchasing ebooks this morning. This will no doubt be followed by a rather uncomfortable conversation with my mother when she receives the credit card bill.

Jessie wrote: "I evidently spent $263 purchasing ebooks this morning. This will no doubt be followed by a rather uncomfortable conversation with my mother when she receives the credit card bill."

What a shocker.

$263?!? I'm a cheep cake so that is...wow. My dad would freak if i spent over $40

I'm technically only supposed to buy one book at a time and read that book before I can buy another one. I will most likely be forbidden to purchase any books for the next 2 or 3 months. Looks like I'll be turning to the freebies for awhile.

My most recent book purchase was about $20 on a box set for the first four A Song of Ice and Fire books. Definitely a steal, considering each book is like 1000 pages.

I'll be going to Chapters or Indigo soon to buy the next book in The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel series! (When I enjoy a series enough, I like to have all the books.)

My last splurge was long back.....but I bought and .

Have you read all the books yet? Because I'm on the second book in the series, but have been constantly interrupted so I've been on, like, the fourth chapter forever.

Gone by Michael Grant? That sounds SOO good! That's what I'm going to buy next after I get the Denazen books by Jennifer L. Armentrout & possible a few others.
The Gone series sounds old but possibly a little vague & sketchy. How is it?

I haven't been buying books lately but I'm planning a HIGE slurge after Christmas. All I'm asking for is Amazon gift cards, book store gift cards, money & like 4 other things so I'm hoping for over $200 for books after cmas. I, however, am going to buy the whole damn Denazen series because I JUST CANT WAIT ANY LONGER!!!!!!!!!

What's the Denazen series about? And the Gone series is a bit vague and non-descriptive. It follows the plot of the majority of post-apocalyptic books and tends to move at a slow pace. While there were some good scenes interjected throughout the first several books, I wasn't a huge fan of the series due to the unrealistic characters and unoriginal plot.

Gone sounds interesting, but I want to try them out.

I just got The Naturals last night and finished it this morning, so I have to make another trip to th book store tomorrow ;]

I haven't bought very many books lately, but the next few weeks I have A TON of books coming out (Into the Still Blue, Infinite, Her Dark Curiosity, Cress, Ignite Me, Split Second, etc.)
I probably won't be able to buy them all, but I'll probably buy a few...or more than a few.

I bought for my Nook The Scarlet Letter, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, Slaughterhouse Five, The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter, Their Eyes Were Watching God, and I preordered City Of heavenly Fire the last in The Mortal Instruments series

Last thing i bought was Confessions of a Murder Suspect from Mckays bookstore for 11 dollars haha i usually go through the library though

I bought today
The Dovekeepers, Hammer Of the Gods: The Led Zeppelin Sage, and Neverwhere

I just bought Allegiant and read the first 100 pages (I couldn't help it!). I'm both excited and sad to start the book - I don't want to see the series come to an end, but I can't wait to read the ending.

I just bought Dorothy Must Die and then, from the used bookstore, I bought Boundless.

Just got home from the bookstore where I bought Prodigy and If on a Winter's Night a Traveler

I recently bought Requiem as well as the first to the series, DELIRIUM, Cinder, Fever, Sever, and I tried to order Tempestuous by Lesley Livingston like a month ago but it's giving me problems and I haven't felt like dealing with them. But I get this Friday and Monday off school, so I think I'll finally sit down and get it fixed then.

All The Bright Places, The Last Stand of Dead Men and Anna and The French Kiss all for £10.98!

So sorrrryy, I was intended to share it to another group >,<

I am on book-diet, so the latest purchase is The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar

Oh my gosh. For Christmas, all I asked for was money so that I could buy books. I'm literally rolling in books right now. These are all the ones I got:

The Other Countess by Eve Edwards
Blood Song by Anthony Ryan
Before I Fall by Lauren Oliver
Need by Joelle Charbonneau
Frozen Tides by Morgan Rhodes
The Remedy by Suzanne Young
A Thousand Pieces of You by Claudia Gray
Inuxbokuss by Cocoa Fujiwara (manga)
Bloody Cross 1-3 by Shiwo Komeyama (manga)

Hopefully with all these books I'll be able to start my reading challenge for 2016 off on the right foot :)

Jennifer wrote: "I recently bought Requiem as well as the first to the series, DELIRIUM, Cinder, Fever, Sever, and I tried to order Tempestuous by Lesley Livingston like a month ago but it's giving me problems and ..."

I love the Delirium series! I've been meaning to buy all the books too, but I always end up getting something else lol. I need blinders when I go to the bookstore - I always get off track :P

Book Outlet just had a HUGE sale so...



All in all, these cost a little more than $50 together, plus shipping. I know, I went a little bit crazy

I just bought the new, illustrated edition of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, despite already owning the full series in the original covers...and no, I clearly didn't need it...

Who can walk out of a bookstore with only one book? My latest splurge was A Darker Shade of Music by Schwab, Tell the Wolves I'm Home by Brunt, Anna and the Swallow Man by Savit, Wolf by Wolf by Graudin and The Star-Touched Queen