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***What books came into your house today...? (MAY)***

Last post 05-31-2012 22:19 by a1j2j3. 256 replies.
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  • 05-01-2012 6:48 Post ID: 985,966 

    • pennyt
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    ***What books came into your house today...? (MAY)***

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    Your partners, friends and family may not understand your excitement about your new book acquisitions, but we do!  Let us know what you've added to your shelves this month...

  • 05-01-2012 11:49 Post ID: 986,039  In reply to

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    My circle book for May arrived today, although not sure I'll be reading this one, really not the kind of book I want to be reading at the mo!

    I will leave it a couple of weeks though, and give it a bash then and see how I go!

    Nat

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  • 05-01-2012 14:56 Post ID: 986,093  In reply to

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     Six books today, one via Kindle, two bought for me as a gift by Terry and 3 for £1.50 from charity shops when I went shopping in Stafford today. In order:

    • Jubilee by Eliza Graham, thanks to elkiedee just 89p
    • The Dovekeepers by Alice Hoffman - lovely hardback
    • We'll Always Have Summer by Jenny Han - lovely hardback
    • Secrets of a Family Album by Isla Dewar
    • The Dogs of Windcutter Down. One Shepherds struggle for survival  by David Kennard
    • Daughters-in-law by Joanna Trollope
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  • 05-01-2012 16:07 Post ID: 986,123  In reply to

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    From the charity shop - The Sealed Letter by Emma Donoghue.

    From Tesco 2 for £7 - I, Partridge by Steve Coogan et al and The Chaperone by Laura Moriarty.

  • 05-01-2012 17:23 Post ID: 986,141  In reply to

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    From Belletinker:

    Decorated to Death - Dean James

    Small Island - Andrea Levy (a beautiful WBN copy) 

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  • 05-01-2012 19:12 Post ID: 986,210  In reply to

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    2 charity shop finds in 2 days.

    The Book Thief - Marcus Zusack

    The Bookseller of Kabul - Asne Seierstad

     

    "As a historian, I have learned that, in fact, not everyone who reaches back into history can survive it. And it is not only reaching back that endangers us; sometimes history itself reaches inexorably back for us with its shadowy claw."

    The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
  • 05-01-2012 19:13 Post ID: 986,211  In reply to

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    From Amazon mp

    The Saxon Shore by Jack Whyte

  • 05-02-2012 12:32 Post ID: 986,378  In reply to

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    Really hope I don't accrue as many this month as last, but on day 2 I already have 4 new ones:

    Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell - Susanna Clarke (bought from charity shop for a group read)
    Castle Rackrent and The Absentee - Maria Edgeworth (swap)
    Jubilee - Eliza Graham (e) (cheap ebook)
    Slam - Nick Hornby (swap)

  • 05-02-2012 14:53 Post ID: 986,415  In reply to

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    A comp win - Sere Prince Halverson – The Underside of Joy 

    Currently reading:
  • 05-02-2012 15:05 Post ID: 986,417  In reply to

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    1 swap:

    Dublin Dead - Gerard O'Donovan

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    Now reading: Aftershock by Quintin Jardine
  • 05-02-2012 15:14 Post ID: 986,421  In reply to

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    Yesterday, a review book from Egmont: 1.4 by Mike Lancaster

  • 05-02-2012 15:26 Post ID: 986,431  In reply to

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    From the hospital today:

    The Innocent - Harlan Coben

    Summer's Child - Diane Chamberlain

    Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow? - Claudia Carroll

    The Wife Who Ran Away - Tess Stimson

    Skinner's Ordeal - Quintin Jardine

    Skinner's Round - Quintin Jardine

    50p each, bargain!

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  • 05-02-2012 22:35 Post ID: 986,612  In reply to

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    A purchase with my birthday tokens Fifty Shades of Grey by E L James because it was half price in WHSmiths, not because of all the hype around its content, honest lol ;o)

  • 05-02-2012 23:25 Post ID: 986,631  In reply to

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    Yesterday on kindle

    Jubilee.....Eliza Graham, The House of Women....Anne Brear, The Girl who Couldn't Smile...Shane Dunphy, Tell a Thousand Lies.....Rasana Atreya,

    Fear of Falling....Susan Kiernan-Lewis gifted this one  to me

    A Different Kind of Forever.............Dee Ernst,  a Goodreads win

    Today.....'Tree Books' 

    The Book of Summers....Emylia Hall

    Marley and Me......John Grogan

    Redbird Christmas.....Fannie Flagg

    204 Rosewood Lane....Debbie Macomber

    Once a Land Girl.....Angela Huth

    Bon Jovi..Faith and Glory.....Malcolm Dome

     

  • 05-03-2012 12:48 Post ID: 986,709  In reply to

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    Popped into Asda for a salad for my lunch, and should've known I couldn't resist 2 for £7 in the book aisle - Milly Johnson's White Wedding and Jenny Colgan's Welcome to Rosie Hopkins' Sweetshop of Dreams.


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