Book Buying Addicts Anonymous discussion

Share your June purchases here.

I brought this a few days ago. It just arrived in the post today.

I just got a delivery today to start off the month with:

Bought (which is signed by the author!) and from half-priced books.

This is my harvest from a yard sale... Another yard of books!

? First book of June.

I bought 3 so far this month and I bought for my holidays in two weeks time

Today I bought 2 Kurt Vonneguts for my son: and
and, of course, one for me: .

Ellie wrote: "Today I bought 2 Kurt Vonneguts for my son: and
and, of course, one for me: ."
Just bought Slaughterhouse 5 for myself last month...hopefully I'll enjoy it.
Bought *explodes with anticipation* and today.

for my mom's b-day: and
and for me

Amazon Kindle Store:

and @ barnes and noble today

So far this month I've bought and

Got Grimm Fairy Tales: Different Seasons Volume 2 delivered, finally.

Bought for my step-dad for Father's Day.

And bought these for myself:

loved the first one so much that I had to go out to buy the second one

Hit up my local used bookstore today, and ended up getting some really cheap classics. :D

Also, was just given a book that we have to read for AP English over the summer.

Went to Chicago's Printers Row Lit Fest today and picked up:

Bought and

And relatives bought me and

and was given , , and .

The World of Poo

It's been a rough week!! To make myself feel better:
Sam's Club:
Walmart:

Only two more at the Lit Fest today, not too many used book sellers there this year. :-( The Annotated Hunting of the snark and Sepulchre

Today at a charity book fair:

WH Smith's to use birthday voucher. Overspent as usual!
, and . Can't wait to start

This weekend I got and Soul Making: The Desert Way of Spirituality by Alan W. Jones.

Hit up the bookstore yesterday and came home with and .

grabbed it at target

I purchased Charlainne Harris - Deathlocked but it still hasn't arrived. I will be ordering Darren Shan - Brothers To The Death tomorrow.

Added Destiny Kills, Miranda, & Return of the Gold: The Journey of Jerry Colangelo and the Redeem Team to my collection.

I finally gave in to the urge and went to the local used bookstore.

I left with and

Couldn't pass Waterstones by without going in;
and

just arrived for me.

Got some oldies but goodies from authors I love and a few unexpected finds.


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Just got this in the post today:



I've been wanting to read this book for ages and it taken me ages to find a copy of it.

I wasn't really looking for books but just couldn't resist adopting them and giving them a loving home.

Another delivery arrived for me:

Hope it's good it was an impulse buy.

So far this month has been quite restrained compared to May, I've only bought these so far:

.

Those do add up to about £40 though and I'm waiting for the Seashore book to be delivered.

Edit: just remembered that I did actually also buy these from a charity shop too (oops! how did I forget those?):

Got some good reading I've been looking forward to: as well as adding to my collection one of the best books out in 2012, I gave it 5 stars:

Have splurged this evening, temptation came in the form of a 10% off code for Waterstones. :-D Have ordered these:



to add to these purchases so far this month:



Have been trying to resist the plant galls book for a bit but I knew all along that I'd end up buying it. I already have some paperback copies of the Lord of the Rings books but have been hankering for some nice hardback editions.

Bought , , , the ebook copy of , and .

A friend just gave me two boxes of books that they saved from a yard sale that was going to burn them because they didn't sell, I'll figure out what is all in the boxes later and post it here.

got

I was in Europe these last two weeks, of corse being in another country means they have different books, so I couldn't resist! I would have gotten more but I wouldn't have had enough room. :(
From a used book shop in London:
, , and
From Shakespeare and Company, an English book shop in Paris:

And a fun but semi educational flip book book about the eiffel tower I got in a random gift shop in Paris:
The Flip-Book of the Eiffel-Tower
A souvenier I got for a friend, a French editon of:

And from an English bookshop in Florence, Italy:
I'm most excited about this one, because it is my first Doctor Who book! :)

So many books lately, too lazy to upload them.

Also, a friend recently gave me her copy of for English class.
I /think/ that's all.

Caitlin wrote: "A friend just gave me two boxes of books that they saved from a yard sale that was going to burn them because they didn't sell, I'll figure out what is all in the boxes later and post it here."

There is something very sad to me about books being destroyed.

My favorite used book store had tons of boxes out by the dumpster. The owner said to take all I wanted. Some if them had too much water damage but I came home with a trunk load.

Recovered from the trash:

Probably my last for the month:

Clinton Anderson's Downunder Horsemanship: Establishing Respect and Control for English and Western Riders

Clinton Anderson's Lessons Well Learned: Why My Method Works for Any Horse

The Devil's Graveyard

The Eye of the Moon

These are my purchases for the month, which was part of my Father's Day gift:

, , , ,

The first (and smaller) box of books:
and