Book Buying Addicts Anonymous discussion

April showers bring May flowers. What books will your April purchases bring you? Share your April book buys here.

This should be enough to tide me over for another month.

There was one more hiding in the bag! This makes 29 (a much more balanced and eye-candy catching)!

I went out today and tripped over the following hardback books (all for 8 Euros).

Just got back from Bboks a Million(short 1 hour trip there and 1 hour back)
Purchased a hb copy of The Secret Mistress by Mary Balogh. I have not read any of her books yet but I friended her on Facebook ( and about a half dozen others). So I decided I would try it since it was only $4.97. My husband is on vacation so we trekked out to Edwardsville,Il. Don't know why they didn't open one her in Fairview Hgts/O'Fallon, Illinois area since Borders closed. There is a Barnes &Noble though.

I've been good this month. A whole 15 hours and haven't bought a single book yet, w00t w00t. master of self control, that is me

I went to my daughters book fair at school tonight to the buy one get one free sale. Came home with

already bought 5 books and its the 1st :P

Darn it!! I said I was not going to buy another book until I have read at least 5 (for some reason that works with Christmas and kids, no new toys until you donate 5 old toys). Unfortunately, I was trolling on Amazon and had to buy . Curse you Amazon!!

Amazon got me too. I picked up Eleanor & Park, the Divergent trilogy, and Orphan Train. I'm so excited! I heard they're all great books, cant wait to find out.

Darn it!!! Should have gotten off the computer when I bought The Spinster's Secret. Found out was out. I have concluded that Amazon is run by the Illuminati!!

6 books so far this month - only 2 days in! I got and for 50p each in a charity shop yesterday and today I got and for £1.49 and 99p, also in charity shops. I can't go past one without checking out their book section!

Elise-all things bright and shiny wrote: "Darn it!!! Should have gotten off the computer when I bought The Spinster's Secret. Found out was out. I have concluded that Amazon is run by the Illuminati!!"

I'm trying to hold on on buying this one, I'm determined to stay within the book budget this month. Its going to be hard.

One book I ordered in March arrived today:

Signed by author, 40% off best sellers at indigo/chapters.

I've always enjoyed Elaine Lui's or better known as LaineyGossip's point of view, her anecdotes about her mother (aka. the squawking chicken) was always the best.

Went to my spot yesterday on a day off. Grabbed Die Trying - Lee Child, Pagan Babies - Elmore Leonard, Shadow Prey - John Sandford, The Name of the Rose - Umberto Eco and Knights of Dark Renown - David Gemmell

I bought yesterday.

Just picked up The Rose Petal Beach - Dorothy Koomson, Never Saw it Coming - Linwood Barclay, Beautiful Creatures - Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl, Lullaby - Claire Seeber, The Likeness - Tana French and Three Great Novels: Deal Breaker / Drop Shot / Fade Away - Harlan Coben. That makes 12 so far this month.

Heard this was a good book so I bought it

Tsar: The Lost World of Nicholas and Alexandra Went to a flea market this morning and bought this for .50 Euro cents.

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I put a book buying ban on myself for this month, but I did just get the entire set of fairy books by Andrew Lang from my mum. Red Fairy Book, Blue Fairy Book, etc. Should tide me over!

Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism by bell hooks
Kabloona by Gontran de Poncins
Sonnets to Orpheus by Rainer Maria Rilke
Wounds of Passion: A Writing Life by bell hooks
Critique Of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant
The Confessions by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
What Was She Thinking? Notes on a Scandal by Zoë Heller
Comedy in a Minor Key by Hans Keilson
Black Skin, White Masks by Frantz Fanon
Sky Burial: An Epic Love Story of Tibet by Xinran
Scaramouche by Rafael Sabatini
Spring Essence: The Poetry of Ho Xuan Huong by Ho Xuan Huong
The Nubian Prince: A Novel by Juan Bonilla
Evelina, Or, The History Of A Young Lady's Entrance Into The World by Fanny Burney
Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres by Henry Adams
Cain by José Saramago
Lady Oracle by Margaret Atwood
Magister Ludi by Hermann Hesse
A Fraction of the Whole by Steve Toltz
Another Country by James Baldwin
The Children of Húrin by J.R.R. Tolkien
Possessing the Secret of Joy by Alice Walker
The Testament of Mary by Colm Tóibín
The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker

Library sales are a wonderful thing. The last one was admittedly from a store visited on the way home.

Purchased Starting Now by Debbie Macomer tp at SAMs Club yesterday. Bring my books up to 2 already for April. There are about 5 more books coming out this month and my birthday is the 20 th I hope to get at least 1 for my birthday.

Aubrey wrote: "...Library sales are a wonderful thing. The last one was admittedly from a store visited on the way home."

Rather impressive! Some of you seem to buy an awful lot in one go, which I couldn't do, though I do have splurges and buy quite a lot at a time - I think my largest ever haul was 11, when I bought a load from the secondhand shops in Colchester but when I got back on the train someone had donated a lot of the New Naturalists that I collect to the Oxfam shop. Not sure how many I bought that week overall but it was quite a lot! I remember nearly developing muscle strain any number of times with the weight of books I've brought home - some of the Folio sets I've bought are astonishingly heavy!

I resisted yesterday, I saw a copy of Birds in a Cage, which I do want to read but there's a copy in the library so I put it back on the shelf. I also left some Terry Pratchett hardbacks on the shelf in Oxfam, though last week I did replace my paperback copy of The Wee Free Men with a first edition hardback. On Friday a book I'd ordered through WH Smiths arrived for collection at my local store, yet another New Naturalist (am really going to have to get stuck into reading these as they are REALLY building up and they're not cheap books by any means!). I bought this one:


Vegetation of Britain and Ireland by Michael Proctor

It seems (at first glance) to be as much about habitats overall as the plants inhabiting them, which is good. Should be interesting and as ever it's got a gorgeous cover.

Got for $4, for $2.50, and for $3.75 (for a friend) all from a charity book shop!

Got used and new this week.

The only book I've bought in April (so far) is File Under: 13 Suspicious Incidents by Lemony Snicket. I've used up all my book allowance until Thursday LOL.

Adorable poetry, story of man's sexuality & emotions, non fiction by Susan Sontag

Did great at my used bookstores today, picked up 10 books.

Off Season - Jack Ketchum (Paperback, really sweet cover printed in 1981 that's been kept in great condition in plastic, $6)
Needful Things - Stephen King (Paperback, $1)
From a Buick 8 - Stephen King (Paperback, $1)
Blaze - Stephen King/Richard Bachman (Paperback, $4.50)
The Silent Wife - A.S.A. Harrison (Paperback, $1)
The Dead Zone - Stephen King (Hardcover, $5)
Divergent - Veronica Roth (Paperback, $1)
Atonement - Ian McEwan (Paperback, $1)
Bared to You - Sylvia Day (Paperback, $1)
Reflected in You - Sylvia Day (Paperback, $1)

and

Picked up in hardcover along with a mass market copy of at the local flea market.

I'm slowly trying to complete my hardcover set of Harry Potter books, so I can pass the well loved paperbacks of my childhood along to my niece.

Samantha wrote: "Did great at my used bookstores today, picked up 10 books.

Off Season - Jack Ketchum (Paperback, really sweet cover printed in 1981 that's been kept in great condition in plastic, $6..."

Your list with the price you bought it for are great finds. :o)Wow.

I just brought & on the weekend.

I couldn't hold out as long as I wanted to, picked up yesterday.

My library book sale is next week! I'm excited!

Taking me up to 18 so far this month (I might have to stop leaving the house!), today I picked up
For a total of just £2. Bargain!

My order of arrived today.

I got and

in hardcover

My April purchases:

Got another book in:

Kiera wrote: "I just brought & on the weekend."

I read A Tale Of Two Cities last year and it got VERY tense towards the end!

That shoul do it for this month :)

Marieru wrote: "That shoul do it for this month :) "

Do you think you'll be able to hold out… there's almost three weeks to go! :-)

I bought these this week:


Hedgerow by Anne Angus


Pax Britannica Trilogy by Jan Morris
(though marked James in my set even though it was printed well after her gender surgery - recent copies apparently are attributed to Jan rather than James)


Squirrels by Monica Shorten

I've had my eye out for copies of the last two for a while and found relatively cheap copies in my local Oxfam bookshop during the week.

Only bought one today. . Always feel a bit disappointed if I go to a sale and don't come back with at least half a dozen books!

I place a couple of used book orders and another just came in:

Joseph wrote: "I place a couple of used book orders and another just came in: "

I'm very tempted to place an order with oxfam as there are some books I'd REALLY like on their web-shop. Have been holding off all week but I think I may crack today!

In the meantime I took a big bagful of books to the charity shop, though I came back with three paperbacks (they were three for £1 though):

Paulfozz, thanks for your feedback. I suppose it's to be expected, what with the book being set during the French Revolution and everything. I shall prepare myself.

Library sale.

The Accidental by Ali Smith
Romance of Leonard Da Vinci by Dmitry Merezhkovsky
The Last Samurai by Helen DeWitt
Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures by Vincent Lam
Kristin Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undset
The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
The Complete Works by William Shakespeare
Train to Pakistan by Khushwant Singh
Freedom from Fear by Aung San Suu Kyi
Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable by Samuel Beckett
God's Bits of Wood by Ousmane Sembène
Kaspar and Other Plays by Peter Handke
Darkmans by Nicola Barker
A Book of Luminous Things: An International Anthology of Poetry by Czesław Miłosz
Mao's Last Dancer by Li Cunxin
The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
Mortality by Christopher Hitchens
The Hakawati by Rabih Alameddine
The Geography of Thought: How Asians and Westerners Think Differently... and Why by Richard E. Nisbett
Rameau's Nephew and D'Alembert's Dream by Denis Diderot
Turn of Mind by Alice LaPlante
A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki

Woo.

Aubrey wrote: "Library sale.

The Accidental by Ali Smith
Romance of Leonard Da Vinci by Dmitry Merezhkovsky
The Last Samurai by [author:..."

Sweet! Nice haul. :-)