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Have you been on a bit of a book buying splurge? Or just picked up a new acquisition somewhere? Either way, please let us know what you have added to your collection.

I've been shopping recently.


Sins of Empire
Sistersong
A Natural History of Dragons
Good Girl, Bad Blood
Unfinished Business
Hercule Poirot's Christmas
Dark of Night

This morning, I got two "first reads" through Amazon:
The Witch of Tin Mountain
The Fires: A Novel - BTW, the MC is a volcanologist and there is a volcano disaster in the story.

My New Year Resolution is not to buy books this year (excluding new books by favourite authors - and then only if their books will not be available in a library)

But there are free books! :D

The Work of Art freebie!

Good luck with that Anna. I did cut back on books last year, but ramped it up at the end of the year.

I just bought The Spanish Daughter.

I'm trying not to buy books unless I really want it and there's no other way to get it. Better if it's free. That said I "bought" The Direction of the Wind: A Novel and Night Angels as part of Amazon First Reads. Free is good.

Janice wrote: "I've been shopping recently.


Sins of Empire
Sistersong
A Natural History of Dragons
Good Girl, Bad Blood
Unfinished Business

I'm curious on what you think of A Natural History of Dragons. I've got the whole series and started it a while ago, but didn't continue. Not because it's a bad book, oh no, but priorities ;)

Anna wrote: "My New Year Resolution is not to buy books this year (excluding new books by favourite authors - and then only if their books will not be available in a library)

But there are free books! :D

[bo..."

Good luck, Anna! It's difficult. I've tried it for a couple of months, but failed.

Saar, My grandson recommended it to me along with "and hurry up and read it Grams" I always do what I'm told. I'll read it next month.

I am fully supportive of those of you trying not to buy books this year. I have been trying to limit myself to a splurge at the beginning of the year for new year challenge set ups, and maybe one in the middle of the year/or birthday.

I am taking our friends' teenager to the massive yearly book fair for the city in a month's time to introduce them to the best thing in town. They moved here a year ago, and their dad (who was our housemate and Lexx's best friend in school, he knows) didn't think to take his bookworm child to it last year. I'm making up for his failings.

Well, you know what they say, it takes a town...

On that note, my new year purchases came through.

Got from the little library:
Beartown
The Man Who Died Twice

My aunt came down to stay, and last time she did I had brought a bag of books to family dinner to give away and she had taken An African in Greenland off me. She brought me as a swapsie:
The Snow People

I also bought this as I didn't get it for Christmas:
Femina: A New History of the Middle Ages, Through the Women Written Out of It

And then:
My Name Is Salma
By Night the Mountain Burns
An Unnecessary Woman
Station Eleven
Celestial Bodies
The Spider King's Daughter
Iep Jaltok: Poems from a Marshallese Daughter
American Spy
Sugar Money

I also replaced our copy of:
The Girl with All the Gifts

Sandra wrote: "Well, you know what they say, it takes a town..."

So true! Particularly when it comes to book shopping ;)

Rusalka wrote: "On that note, my new year purchases came through.

Got from the little library:
Beartown
The Man Who Died Twice

My aunt came down to stay, and last time she did I h..."

Nice choices, Rus. Have you read the sequel to The Girl with All the Gifts? I keep eying it, but the first one was very strange and a little creepy. I want to know what happens next, but I'm not very good with "creepy," so I'm hesitating.

Roz wrote: "I'm trying not to buy books unless I really want it and there's no other way to get it. Better if it's free. That said I "bought" The Direction of the Wind: A Novel and [book:Night ..."

You know, for me, the quickest way to get a book to be available for borrowing in the library is to buy it. Almost guaranteed to appear with-in the next week :O

Tricia wrote: "Nice choices, Rus. Have you read the sequel to The Girl with All the Gifts? I keep eying it, but the first one was very strange and a little creepy. I want to know what happens next, but I'm not very good with "creepy," so I'm hesitating."

I have not, which is why we needed to replace it (we gave our copy to my brother for his birthday). It's one of my partner's favourite reads over the past few years.

Lexx says it's pretty subjective, but he thinks the creepiness is probably on par with the first book, but a little different. And he liked the first book more than the second.

Margo wrote: "You know, for me, the quickest way to get a book to be available for borrowing in the library is to buy it. Almost guaranteed to appear with-in the next week :O"

This is so true.

Rusalka wrote: "Tricia wrote: "Nice choices, Rus. Have you read the sequel to The Girl with All the Gifts? I keep eying it, but the first one was very strange and a little creepy. I want to know what happens next,..."

Okay, I'm going to try to fit it in somewhere this year. Thanks to Lex for the insight.

No worries. It was great trying to watch him formulate an answer that didn't spoil it for you or me. I still think he is unhappy with that answer, so sounds like it will be a good read!

Janice wrote: "Saar, My grandson recommended it to me along with "and hurry up and read it Grams" I always do what I'm told. I'll read it next month."

Well, you're a good grandma :D

I have The Girl with All the Gifts for so long now and haven't read it yet. Wasn't there a series made about it?

I still haven't bought any books, but I think I'll order some next week, haha!

It was made into a film which I still haven't seen.

I agree with Lexx about the gore factor of book two. I liked both books. Intelligent gore as opposed to mindless LOL

I have my eyes on so many books but I don't know why the ones I want are super expensive!! :(

I usually buy most books for 3-6$, the ones I'm pining for are 20+$.
In local currency, that is a LOT of money!

That's a lot to pay for a book - unless it looks really good #coverlove!

Margo wrote: "That's a lot to pay for a book - unless it looks really good #coverlove!"

Absolutely which is why I'm trying to abstain haha.

I have always wanted to read Illuminae and found it fits a task for the yearly challenge, so I just bought it for 19,95��. My poor bank account lol

I have been busy buying books lately. From Audible I got
Theft by Finding: Diaries 1977-2002
The Three-Body Problem
The Power
The Unmarked Witch
Through a Darkening Glass

And from Chirp I got
The Final Girl Support Group
Empire of Sin: A Story of Sex, Jazz, Murder, and the Battle for Modern New Orleans
Bottle of Lies: The Inside Story of the Generic Drug Boom
Long Division
A People's History of the American Revolution: How Common People Shaped the Fight for Independence
Never Out of Season: How Having the Food We Want When We Want It Threatens Our Food Supply and Our Future
The Binding
Big Data: How the Information Revolution is Transforming our Lives and
The Story Hour

Nice haul Katrisa.

When you abstain from buying books for long, what usually happens, has happened. Here's my bulk buying spree results.

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow
21 Lessons for the 21st Century
The Elephant Vanishes
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
Three Thousand Stitches: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Lives
The Serpent's Revenge: Unusual Tales from the Mahabharata
My Gita
Train to Pakistan

Nice haul, Prayga!

I have also acquired Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls from the little library. And could not walk by Alice in Frames' new cookbook The Joy of Better Cooking: Life-changing skills & thrills for enthusiastic eaters

I got sucked into the Audible sale. This is my list after paring it down.
The Passion
Allow Me to Retort: A Black Guy's Guide to the Constitution
The Twisted Ones
The Unknown Beloved
The Essential Neruda: Selected Poems
The Mermaid, the Witch, and the Sea
Practicing Mindfulness: 75 Essential Meditations to Reduce Stress, Improve Mental Health, and Find Peace in the Everyday
Ayoade on Ayoade: A Cinematic Odyssey
Running in the Family
Mother to Son: Letters to a Black Boy on Identity and Hope
The Seep
Here We Are
Golden Child

I grabbed Lovelight Farms and The Woman They Could Not Silence: One Woman, Her Incredible Fight for Freedom, and the Men Who Tried to Make Her Disappear from the sale. They were both in my wishlist. I had two others in my wishlist, but I removed them instead of purchasing. I still want to go through and take a closer look.

I pre ordered The Secret Lives of Country Gentlemen but it's ok my New Year resolution allows me to buy favourite authors books!

Thanks for the good luck wishes!

I got:
Camino Island
Death on the Nile
Dark Rivers of the Heart
A Man Called Ove

I picked up these from Chirp this week
Night Shine
Reasons to Stay Alive
Speaking of Race
The Eye of the Heron
Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire
Moon Dark Smile
Chemistry for Breakfast: The Amazing Science of Everyday Life
Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows
The Unlikely Adventures of the Shergill Sisters
The Sentence
The Sword and the Shield: The Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr.

I received in the mail this week:

Where We Once Belonged
On Reckoning
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
Weyward
Child 44
Night Letters: A Novel
The Turn of Midnight

I'm on a buying jag ATM and I must be stopped. I haven't been doing this page in ages and I'm thinking that maybe if I start 'fessing up here I will be shamed into stopping!!!

todays modest haul:
Ithaca
Stars of Fortune
those 2 were on wishlist and turned up in the £2.99 sale so I saved something like 2 euro 😂
The Historian another book by this author (The Shadow Land) was my IRL bookclub choice for the month but audible wouldn't let me have it because of my location (BOO HISS) so I bought this one because I could!

Don't feel shamed, Margo!

I decided posting my bookfair haul and my mail haul in one night is too much. And I think I may need to put the books I liberated from the fair in two posts at least to not overwhelm everyone (or myself with the admin).

I've had my eye on Ithaca, so I hope you enjoy. And I love you showing them by buying another book :P

Oh, you have come to the wrong place, Margo! We are encouragers of book buying, not shamers. lol We may have the opposite effect on your book buying.

Looks like you guys have all been buying some great books!

Yes, you are enablers and I love you for it!

You see things my way Rus, I showed them, didn't I? 💪

I picked these up for free on audible:

Under Locke
Kulti
The Wall of Winnipeg and Me
Long Shot
Grip

And I preordered:

SORRY. Ich habe es nur für dich getan
Wenn Magie erwacht

Thanks for reminding me Fiona, I preordered

Strange Sally Diamond

Part one of my bookfair gathering:

Company Town
Beauty
The Anchoress
Turkish Gambit
The Lady and the Unicorn
Acqua Alta
Throne of Jade
Remnant Population
The Roof of Voyaging
News of the World
The Devil's Right Hand
Salt to the Sea
Snowdrops
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet

@Rusalka I loved Acqua Alta! Such a good book!

Great to hear, Fiona! I have a couple to get through before I get to it. But the bargain was too good to pass up!

Guys. Y’all can be proud of me. I just went to three book stores to pass time and I didn’t buy a single book lol

Bookfair gathering part two:

Shadowplay
Glasshouse
Against a Dark Background
The Core
Lullaby
The Last Painting of Sara de Vos
The Gustav Sonata
Tales Of The Night
Undermajordomo Minor
Master and Commander
The Clan of the Cave Bear: Earth's Children

Rusalka wrote: "Bookfair gathering part two:

Shadowplay
Glasshouse
Against a Dark Background
The Core
Lullaby
The Last Painting of ..."</i>

Some great titles in that list Rus. I particularly enjoyed the Brett series and [book:The Last Painting of Sara de Vos.

Nice haul, Rus!