Book Haul| June 11 - 17, 2012

Giveaway Wins
The Absent One by Jussi Adler-Olsen (Now I just have to get book one and reat that first...)
Amped by Daniel H. Wilson (starting this next)

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Thrift & New Purchases:

Another on-the-big-side haul. Must tone down my purchasing :/.

— A quick update: I've finished Flight From Berlin and Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend. Reviews coming soon for both!

Book Haul| June 4 - 10, 2012

Giveaway Wins
Why Do Women Crave More Sex in the Summer?, by Patricia Barnes-Svarney (Review coming soon!)
Vicious Little Darlings, by Katherine Easer (Already Reviewed!)
The Neruda Case, by Roberto Ampuero

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Purchased New
American Subversive, by David Goodwillie (Brand new and only a dollar! Couldn't pass it up.)

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Thrift Purchases
One Day, by David Nichols (Didn't see the movie, so the book isn't spoiled for me. Yay!)
The Lady in the Tower, by Jean Plaidy
The Pillars of the Earth, by Ken Follett (Saw the mini-series, but this should still be good.)

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A more modest take compared to last week. Still, I'm running low on shelf space over here...

Book Haul| May 28 to June 3, 2012

Giveaway Wins
Memoirs of an Inaginary Friend, by Matther Dicks
12.21, by Dustin Thomas
Jasmine Nights, by Julia Gregson
The Cost of Hope, by Amamda Bennet

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Purchased New
The Successor, by Ismail Kadare
Daughter of Heaven, by Leslie Li
The Last song of Dusk, by Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi
The Little Girl Who Was Too Fond of Matches, by Gaétan Soucy
An Honorable German, by Charles McCain

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Thrift Purchases
Fever 1793, by Laurie Halse Anderson
The Girls Guide to hunting and Fishing, by Melissa Bank
The Last Olympian, by Rick Riordan
Homer's The Odyssey, translated by Robert Fagles
The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit, by Lucette Lagnado

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Books added to my shelves this past week. Really excited to get to reading them!

What books were added to your library?

These are the books I've won that arrived for the week of May 20 - 26.

I've been posting these weekly, but on various days. I'll stick to Sundays for consistency from here on out. Provided that I get books in the week, of course. Though thrift store books may be it's own feature. To be decided.

Anyway, I'm currently reading The Glimpse, by Claire Merle. Review for that to come soon.

New Arrivals

These came in the week of May 14-20. Already finished The Language of Flowers and wrote something resembling a review on Goodreads. Not sure if I'll post it on here, though. I finished The Night Circus as well. Better than expected.

I'm currently reading The Green Shore, by Natalie Bakopoulos, an arrival from last week.

Thrift Store Scores

Just bought all of these this morning, second hand.

So, yea..I might have problem...

or maybe not. All of these come up to a mere $8!

Two of them (The God of Small Things, and The Lightning Thief) are beautiful, like-new hardcovers. Most of the paperbacks are like-new or lightly worn. A few have damage, but still a pretty good deal, I think.

My giveaway wins that arrived the week of May 7 - 12. Among them are ARC's and some self-published books. I know this stack makes it look like I win a ton, but I swear I don't. It's pure coincidence that they all came in the same week. Some of these wins are older then others.

Anyway, I've written reviews for two of them already: The Uninvited Guests and One Hundred Leaves. I'm currently working my way through the rest, and I hope to have most of them reviewed soon.

Cell-phone quality photo, I know, but I just wanted to give you (hypothetical readers) an idea of what happens when I step into a thrift store with a wall of books. And used book stores. And random stores with books stacked out front.

All of the books in this picture are from one trip to one store...

I love buying books second-hand. It's much cheaper, and you never know what gems you'll find!

I've won a few books from Goodreads. These three are the ones that have arrived so far. I've finished two of them: Strindberg's Star by Jan Wallentin, and I Am Bill Gates Dog by Jeffrey Zygmont. I'm now currently reading the third, House of Exile: The Lives and Times of Heinrich Mann and Nelly Kroeger-Mann by Evelyn Juers.

My review for Stringberg's Star can be found here. The review of I Am Bill Gates' Dog can be found here.

Side note: I'd like to get more critical in my reviews in the future. Reading over these, they're a bit too general for my liking.