No, I'll have to check that out.
Your Latest Thrift/used Book Store Finds
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Hello! An Uncorrected Proof is a copy of the book that is sent out to people who do reviews for magazines, newspapers, on-line blogs, etc. They usually are sent out a few months in advance of the book's publication date to generate 'buzz' for the title. They are also called Advance Readers Copy. The ones for a new Stephen King book will show up on the secondary market and sell for hundreds.
And you have an advanced readers copy coming soon on Prince, I promise!
Came home with this today:
Not 100% sure if it's her siggy. The front cover has an area right where it says 'A Memoir' where it looks like one of those round stickers that says 'Autographed Copy' was stuck on.
Not 100% sure if it's her siggy. The front cover has an area right where it says 'A Memoir' where it looks like one of those round stickers that says 'Autographed Copy' was stuck on.
No worries, luv. I still have an ever growing TBR pile here at my end.....
Books in the left hand pile are mostly from the Columbia County Rural Library District Book Sale on April 21, or bought in thrift stores around the same time, and books on the right from the Mid-Columbia Library sale in Kennewick on April 28, or bought in thrift stores afterwards. The only paperback I bought in my own town was Mystery of the Witches' Bridge. The others came from Tri-Cities, but I arranged them in the picture so the piles would be even.
The latest from the local Elementary School book sale, thrift stores, and Just Right Books in Walla Walla's going out of Business sale! (Seriously, if you can get to Walla Walla, Washington between now and the end of September, do so!)
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The Nameless
M-O-O-N - That spells Nameless
I've been keeping an eye out for strangers,watchers and lightning by Dean Koontz recently as they seem to ne his best liked books by fans (certainly lightning and watchers, strangers sounds the most interesting to me), and found this for free a couple of days ago. I'm currently reading lightning on my ereader, it's good so far. Koontz seems to be alot more direct and to the point than king.
I've been keeping an eye out for strangers,watchers and lightning by Dean Koontz recently as they seem to ne his best liked books by fans (certainly lightning and watchers, strangers sounds the most interesting to me), and found this for free a couple of days ago. I'm currently reading lightning on my ereader, it's good so far. Koontz seems to be alot more direct and to the point than king.
...his development of character and plot are less intense than King....Koontz pretty well straight lines it, while Steve weaves a tapestry....
I simply cant resist!! Today they had one of these sales where you get to buy a plastic bag full of books for about 6 dollars. Found me some Sandfor d, a couple of history books, Black Sunday by T. Harris, Lerouxs Phantom of the Opera and a book by one Anne Perry No Graves As Yet which sounded interesting. Historical fiction. 1914, pre WWI. Anyone heard of her? Any good? Also a Linwood Barclay, one of the Promise Falls trilogy, Also The Bloody Red Baron by Kim Newman who wrote Anno Dracula. Dracula is back, Surprise, in WWI-times. The evil count is using his powers to create super vampires and the most super of them is Manfred van Richthofen, The Red Baron as history knows him. Could be a fun read. Never know with Newman. And to finish it off a true crime book by a Jonathan Goodman, Murder In High Places. Never heard of, we'll see if it is any good.
The depressing conclusion of all this is that eventually i am going to drown in books! Incapable of resisting booksales, incapable of throwing books away... I see the future when i cant move for books cover every space and they are gonna overwhelm and block my breathing and eventually people will find, have to do an excavation first of course, me covered in books. In death as in life hugging them..... (sorry, a slightly macabre fantasypicture suddenly came to me.)
The depressing conclusion of all this is that eventually i am going to drown in books! Incapable of resisting booksales, incapable of throwing books away... I see the future when i cant move for books cover every space and they are gonna overwhelm and block my breathing and eventually people will find, have to do an excavation first of course, me covered in books. In death as in life hugging them..... (sorry, a slightly macabre fantasypicture suddenly came to me.)
i only vaguely remember lightning, but strangers was definitely one of his best, and watchers is good too. i think phantoms is probably another of my top novels by him.
I'll likely be the same, Kurben. I managed to be tough with myself and give away hundreds of books last year, and now the shelves are packed and the piles growing once again.
Have you read anything by author Anne Perry? Heard of her? Got a book by her and just wondered. Historical fiction seems like.
So I'm going to re-donate this book as the more I look at the siggy the more I see it's not Hillary's. Also, went back to the same thrift store where I picked this one up and there were a couple of other books by political figures there with signatures that looked an awfully lot like this one, so it must be the previous owner's siggy.
I've heard of her, but haven't read anything. I'm interested in what you think of her!
I have read many Anne Perry. She's okay.
i have 3 bookshelves and i need at least two more. and yet, give books away? never. there's a very good used bookstore an hour or so away from me, and another version of it on the way to louisville, ky, where a good friend lives, and i go to visit from time to time, so every time i go, both those stores get raided. warehouse full of stock, very good prices. i think my best haul was 120 books for $98
I had to prove to myself that I could do it
I have literally thousands of books (between my personal shelves and those of my husband and kids)-- shelves and piles in every room but one bathroom (lol).I trace my book hoarding to my military childhood. There always a weight limit for moves, and books are heavy, so I could only take a single box for every move (approximately every 18 months). Now I have a very hard time parting with books at all.
I had to prove to myself that I could do it
I trace my book hoarding to my military childhood. There always a weight limit for moves, and books are heavy, so I could only take a single box for every move (approximately every 18 months). Now I have a very hard time parting with books at all.
i'm only up to 1300 or so. now i feel like an amateur
ETA, and even with only 1300, i was starting to screw up and rebuy stuff i already had, until a random clerk at a half price in ohio where i was visiting clued me into the wonders of using a phone app to keep track of your books. i've been trying to fill in my collection because at one point when i was younger, i did in fact get rid of some books (silly me) . . . so trying to remember what i'd *read* vs what i *owned* was getting seriously confusing lol
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Try working and sorting books in a thrift store like I do. I have gotten some cool books, but I have to get rid of some, before I move out, so I am trying to go threw my books to read and then donate before I move out next spring