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What books have you acquired lately? Have you bought a good looking book at the shop? Had a massive splurge online? Had some gifts or some good snaffles from little libraries?

If you have had some books come into your possession recently, please tell us all about them here.

It suddenly strikes me that I haven't bought any books yet! Time for a change as I need some for buddy reads.

I bought my first book of 2024 - No Time Like the Future: An Optimist Considers Mortality on Kindle. I had slotted it as the illness task on Nala's World Hike, only to discover it's not long enough. It's 231 pages Kindle. Back to the drawing board.

I received these books as Christmas gifts:




These are the books that I have acquired in 2024:

Nice haul Jackie!

I indulged in the audible UK 2 for ! sale. My picks were:

Malice
Everyone In My Family Has Killed Someone
The Kaiju Preservation Society
Magician36h

I picked up a daily deal over the xmas period:
How to Kill Your Family

@Jackie: I've got Total Cat Mojo: The Ultimate Guide to Life with Your Cat too, but haven't read it yet. I've read all the other books of Jackson Galaxy and I'm a huge fan of 'My cat from hell'. I'm curious what you'll find of the book.

I decided to empty my Audible shopping cart yesterday and got:


Only the Beautiful
The Strangers
Notes on an Execution (sale item)

@Margo: I hope you will like The Kaiju Preservation Society as much as I did :)

I have a very full shelf next to me from books I have gathered since November (so not all 2024), so excuse me:

Birthday:
Eventually Everything Connects - I think I went to school with her...
The Woman in the Library

Christmas:
The Princes in the Tower: Solving History's Greatest Cold Case
Don’t Buy Fruit & Veg Without Me!

Little Libraries:
Wonder
Scythe
The One Hundred Year Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared
Wayward Son
Five Bush Weddings
Anxious People
Solutions and Other Problems
The Light Fantastic
Feet of Clay
Carry On
Cloud Cuckoo Land
One Step Behind
Three Men in an Omnibus
I Am Pilgrim

Bought:
The Raphael Affair
The Titian Committee

I really enjoy Rainbow Rowell writing. Got to get back to the Simon Snow Series.

I appreciated Eleanor & Park but didn't love it. I read a book of her short stories in 2023. I didn't like 50% of the stories, didn't mind another 40% and absolutely loved the Simon Snow story. I wanted the whole book to be about them, and then found out there were whole books!

I also found this book before delayed Christmas when i went to find more soy sauce, and though it was the best day ever. Then we got uninvited to Christmas... so swings and roundabouts!

I'd be interested in the Princes in the Tower. Will we ever really know?

I liked ANXIOUS PEOPLE, Rusalka. It is the kind of book that lifts your spirits. Take it into account for when you need that. :)

You really find some great books in those little libraries, Rus!

The little library a couple of streets over, and the one next to my dad's house primarily have children picture books.

Janice wrote: "I'd be interested in the Princes in the Tower. Will we ever really know?"

I feel like, particularly as the royal family for the past 700 years haven't really needed to protect the Yorks (being the victors and the ones on the throne), if we haven't found a paper trail by now, I don't think we will. Who knows though, I have a book to read.

Sandra wrote: "I liked ANXIOUS PEOPLE, Rusalka. It is the kind of book that lifts your spirits. Take it into account for when you need that. :)"

Fantastic rec! Thank you, I need those

Kristie wrote: "You really find some great books in those little libraries, Rus!"

I am very lucky. I was looking at the Canberra Little Library facebook page today, and realised how good the calibre of our libraries are. It's not good for my shelves.

I also realised I forgot two as they were on another shelf.
Red Rising
The Eighth Life: for Brilka

Picked up the daily deal from audible UK, Penance

I have a little library in my neighborhood, but it doesn't usually have much of interest in it. Last time I visited there were a bunch of little bugs in it, so I didn't trust any of the books to bring home and have avoided it since.

I know of three other little libraries, but I'm not usually close by them. I'd have to make a special trip and they don't usually have much that I'm interested in either.

I've occasionally come across a good find in one, so I do always check them out when I see them.

I went into Bath to occupy myself amd spent an hour in Waterstones looking at books, board games and grabbing some lunch. At the till, i noticed i could get free coffee if i bought one of the books of the month so i bought In the Blink of An Eye.

I also added a few books to my wishlist.

I received an amazon gift card for Christmas, so I just finished purchasing theses books:
Plant Based Cooking Made Easy: Over 100 Recipes
How Not to Age: The Scientific Approach to Getting Healthier as You Get Older
Address Unknown
The Bears of Brooks Falls: Wildlife and Survival on Alaska's Brooks River
Becoming Ted
The Secret Life of Albert Entwistle
Arthur and Teddy Are Coming Out

And then I felt guilty for not supporting my little local independent bookstore: Read Books, so I preordered from them:
How We Named the Stars
Float Up, Sing Down
Neighbors and Other Stories
Wandering Stars
James

It was fun explaining my thought process to Henry... I am set for 2024 😄

Makes perfect sense to me too, Jayme. :)

It looks to me that you're set for 2024 too Jayme!

I just grabbed a few Audible books from the current sale. I got:
The Word is Murder
One Step Too Far
A Secret in the Keys

I also used a credit to get an audio copy of Rules of Civility. I own a physical copy, but it seems like the kind of book where having both may be helpful to me.

I'm going to get Esrahaddon from the sale. Just holding out in case something else catches my eye.

I bought a kindle copy of The Namesake for my irl book club next week. I downloaded Braiding Sweetgrass for an future meeting, that one is audible plus.

I did get Esrahaddon, but I also got The House Witch.

I just bought A Bad Day for Sunshine and A Good Day for Chardonnay. I want the second for the annual challenge and you just can't start a series at book 2!

Margo wrote: "I just bought A Bad Day for Sunshine and A Good Day for Chardonnay. I want the second for the annual challenge and you just can't start a series at book 2!"

Not this series, anyway. It's kind of a continuous story.

I'm clearing my holding shelf in case I go to the bookfair tomorrow... "in case"... hmmm

Little Libraries:
The Iron Trial
Disgrace
The Wind Knows My Name
The Jane Austen Book Club
If We Were Villains
A Wrinkle in Time
Cardinal: The Rise and Fall of George Pell
The Marriage Portrait
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
Will Grayson, Will Grayson

Purchases:
The Ultimate Tragedy
The Final Passage
Three Daughters of Eve
The Book of Chameleons

I'm always so impressed with your little libraries. Nice hauls, Rus.

It's actually the major factor to go to the bookfair tomorrow! I feel I really need to buy a bag or two of books I love to replenish what I find in them over the 6 months! I am super spoilt with them all, and more pop up all the time.

Bookfair haul from Sunday:
The Beach
Beyond the Pale
A Darker Domain
The Dumas Club
Behold a Pale Horse
The Portrait
No Country Woman: A Memoir of Not Belonging
Grand Days
The Dream of Scipio
A Brief History of Seven Killings
Akin
Manhattan Beach
The Madonna of Excelsior
The Heart of Redness
The Travelers
Bring Up the Bodies
The Accident
Chronicler of the Winds
Pirates!
The Disappearance of Stephanie Mailer

Then, on Monday, a book order I had forgot about turned up:
Heartless
Foxglove Summer
Frost Burned
Black Sugar
The Kindness of Enemies
Rich People Problems
Timeless
Running in the Family

Lexx has now banned me from buying more books. Which is kinda fair enough...

Nice!

Those books will keep you occupied long enough for Lexx to forget about the ban. :)

I bought these books:

Welcome Mia! Got some interesting reads there I haven't heard of. And I haven't been brave enough to try Carrie yet

Hi Mia. Welcome to our group. There are some interesting titles there.

Welcome, Mia! I've read and enjoyed Carrie. I hope you like it too.

Amazon UK has yet another 2 for 1 sale and who am I to resist book buying at the push of a button? My little haul:

Starter Villain
The Rachel Incident
Slayers
Black Butterflies

Not 100% sure that I won't go back for more.....

OK, went back anmd picked up 2 more. These ones weren't in the sale, I just couldn't resist them:

The List of Suspicious Things
Watermelon

Lol, happy Saturday, Margo!

I got Other Birds from Kindle daily deals. It sounds quite interesting. I've been bombing in my book selections lately and I hope this breaks the downward trend.

I had some Amazon rewards that were expiring today, so I purchased a few inexpensive and sale e-books.

The Reckoning
The Weekend Away
The Forgotten Bookshop in Paris
The Bourbon Thief
The Sister Under the Stairs
Just the Nicest Couple

Total cost: $0

Today i took my mentee to Half-Priced Books and found for myself:
Big Swiss
Sebastian Barry, The Secret Scripture
Love, Theoretically

and for my mentee: Legends & Lattes
and a manga that I don't remember the name of ! Plus a record! Overall, a good, interesting haul!

I went back and grabbed the Kindle & whispersync deal for Ward D by Freida McFadden.

I have gathered recently (I'm a book bower bird, seriously):
The Wicked King
Blood Runs Cold
Hunt on Dark Waters
In the Dark Spaces
Trust
Crown of Midnight
The Book of Roads and Kingdoms
Butterflies in November
The Vanishing Half
11.22.63
The Silver Pigs
Marlborough Man
Dirt Town
The Labyrinth