Book Buying Addicts Anonymous discussion

In like a lion, out like a lamb? Nah! When buying books, we're always lions! :-) Share your March purchases here.

I'm off to a nice start:
A win from Goodreads Giveaway:
Found on the public library's used book shelf:
And bought new:

Looks like some great finds there Joseph

I have a few of the Real Vampires series, they were in discount at Books-a-Million. Unfortunately there are a lot out there to get the series can be a little pricey depending where you find them, so good you found on the library's used shelf.

Was in the most epic reading slump for several months, and haven't bought since January, but recently purchased a few.

Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
Tar Baby by Toni Morrison
Jazz by Toni Morrison
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
Kindred by Octavia E Butler
The Thing Around Your Neck by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
Torch by Cheryl Strayed

I treated myself to these

Bargain!! You Had Me At Hello for $4.93AUD from the book depository *drools*

Went into my other bookstore armed with a nice list of about 13 books and left with just 2 from the list and 1 not on it. Oh well.

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway

I just dropped $85 on an Amazon order and I have no regrets.



The Tammy Pierce quartet is a box set and I couldn't pass up these gorgeous covers, and Cress is finally available in paperback (woohoo!!) and I've been dying to get the Unwind books.

I've started off with these

Since I am actually able to add today I will. I picked up: by Rebecca H. Jamison. I also got by Matthew Reilly.

Ashley wrote: "I just dropped $85 on an Amazon order and I have no regrets.

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I am so excited to read Ready Player One.

Tiffany wrote: "Ashley wrote: "I just dropped $85 on an Amazon order and I have no regrets.

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Ready Player One is SO GOOD. I listened to the audiobook for my first read and I highly recommend it :D

Ready Player One was awesome, absolutely awesome! A great read for those who love sci-fi and dystopias, but even cooler for those who grew up in the 80s and will know what all those certain video games and movies and tv shows references mean. A five-star read.

Ashley wrote: "I just dropped $85 on an Amazon order and I have no regrets.

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I hadn't heard of those (the box set), but there is something special about box sets...which publishers would get as inventive with more of them as they do with dvd box sets...

Managed to snatch these for a bargain, Bloodlines, The Golden Lily, Matched, Crossed, and Reached.

Oh I am so excited!!! Found a book i've been wanting since it came out at my book store today.

Bad Feminist: Essays by Roxane Gay (this one!!! :D)
Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin

Also got a deal on Unhinged - brilliant series (and they look so beautiful too!)

Ooooo weeeeeee another freebie came from Goodreads/Penguin-Signet Eclipse books "Every Little Kiss" by Kendra Leigh Castle

March has been good to me in the book buying department! I picked up Persuasion a Latter-day tale, Emma a Latter-day tale, American Sniper, Gone Girl, The Longest Ride, and Unbroken.

So far..

Amazon:
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
Norton Anthology of American Literature 7th Edition Volumes A and B
Edgar Huntly by Charles Brockden Brown
Raining Backwards by Roberto G. Fernandez
15 Views of Miami edited by Jaquira Diaz
And Every Day Was Overcast by Paul Kwiatkowski

Goodwill:
The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
4:50 from Paddington by Agatha Christie
The Horse's Mouth by Joyce Cary
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
American Pastoral by Phillip Roth
Burger's Daughter by Nadine Gordimer
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
Existentialism by Thomas E. Wartenberg
How to be an Existentialist by Gary Cox
The Woodlanders by Thomas Hardy
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft
History of 20th Century Fashion by Elizabeth Ewing
Spy (DK Eyewitness Books) by Richard Platt
The 9/11 Commission Report
Watership Down by Richard Adams
Sacagawea of the Lewis and Clark Expedition by Ella E. Clark
Much Ado About Nothing by Shakespeare (Folger)
Julius Ceasar by William Shakespeare (Folger)
The Tragedies of Shakespeare-Volume One (Modern Library Classics)
Native Son by Richard Wright

I rarely buy this much books. I'm actually trying to buy more. All the Goodwill books were around $20 total.

arrived from Thriftbooks.

Put in an order to thrift books and book depository and now i'm enduring the pain that is waiting for them to arrive.

Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Burial Rites by Hannah Kent
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Dust Tracks on a Road by Zora Neale Hurston

Ashley wrote: "I just dropped $85 on an Amazon order and I have no regrets.

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Ooh, Unwind was great! Plus, Tamora Pierce <3

Went to a library book sale today. I bought Prince of Ravensar by Catherine Coulter hb, Winter Garden by Kristin Hannah, trade paper, Mary called Magdalene by Margaret George trad paper, Shepherd of the Hills by Harold Bell Wright hb (a much new copy than the very old antique copy I have) and Dear America childrens series Royal Diaries Elizabeth I the Red Rose of the House of Tudor. And two books for my daughter, The Crystal Cave and a book about Vampires of Louisiana.

Books bought in March:

Only one so far. I bought in January as part of a 3 for 2 deal. Just finished and it was AMAZING. I had to get the sequel.

Ah retail therapy.

The Twelve Tribes of Hattie by Ayana Mathis (HC)
Night Film by Marisha Pessl (HC)
The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion (HC)
The Miseducation of Cameron Post by Emily M Danforth (PB)
Sula by Toni Morrison (PB)
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler (PB)
The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey (PB)
GraceLand by Chris Abani (PB)
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne (PB)
They Cage the Animals at Night by Jennings Michael Burch (MM PB)
Uncle Tom's Children by Richard Wright (MM PB)
We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

I received two books I've ordered on Amazon!!

Weird Stuff Happening
Secrets of the Afro Comb

Two Thriftbook orders arrived:

A bulk order delivered today:

A couple more deliveries:

It's a rainy day, so I went to Barnes and Noble and bought:

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Another book free thanks to Goodreads giveaway and WW Norton publishers. "The Language of Paradise" by Barbara Klein Moss.this looks like an epic read.

I received a e-book format for one of the GR Giveaways today :) Io Deceneus: Journal of a Time Traveler

Ordered 2 off of BookOutlet:

Play It as It Lays by Joan Didion (paperback)
A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki (paperback)

And stopped into 2 of my bookstores today:

The Twelve Tribes of Hattie by Ayana Mathis (paperback) (Just bought this one in hardback, but couldn't pass it up for a dollar)
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn (paperback) (I own in this in MM paperback, but now it will match my other 2 GF books)
As She Climbed across the Table by Jonathan Lethem (paperback)
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot (paperback)
Great House by Nicole Krauss (hardcover)
The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin (MM paperback)
Going Native by Stephen Wright (paperback)

And my son picked out 2:

Welcome to Camp Nightmare by R.L. Stine
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator by Roald Dahl

Nabbed a second hand copy of Paper Towns today :)

And today I got Shaman's Crossing, Ship of Magic, Ship of Destiny, and The Mad Ship all by Robin Hobb.

Found this for cheap on book outlet.

I received these in the mail today:

Does it count if I didn't buy it? is my first book cross: http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/1...

Library book sale - I shouldn't go:

Middlemarch - brand new hardback
Democracy in America - also brand new
Killing Pablo: The Hunt for the World's Greatest Outlaw
Hell in a Very Small Place: The Siege of Dien Bien Phu - I can never have too many copies as I'm always giving one away.

I did get away for $2.00.

I purchased the following:

The History of Loneliness by John Boyne
The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
One Lucky Bastard: My Tales of Tinseltown by Roger Moore
America Day by Day, The Prime of Life, & All Said and Done by Simone de Beauvior
The Reprieve by Jean-Paul Satre
Soldier's Pay by William Faulkner
Anger is an Energy: My Life Uncensored by Johnny Lydon
Pre-ordered: Deal: My Three Decades of Drumming, Dreams, and Drugs with the Grateful Dead by Bill Kreutzman, No Excuses by Derrick Coleman Jr.

Just 3 today:

Smoke and Mirrors by Neil Gaiman (MM paperback)
Case Histories by Kate Atkinson (MM paperback)
The Edible Woman by Margaret Atwood (MM paperback)

Today I bought: