The last new book I bought was Pat Conroy’s latest novel, South of Broad, early this month. Haven’t read it yet; I’m waiting for a long weekend.
The last book I bought, period, was last week; the book was The Mind’s Eye by Douglas Hofstadter. It’s compilation of essays about metaphysics published in, I think, 1985. I’ve been rereading random essays over the past few days, as I read it back when it was new. I just wanted my own copy.
Anybody else?
**Time Travelers Never Die **by Jack McDevitt. It’s a novelized version of his Hugo runner-up novella which poses the interesting question: If you’re moving back and forth through time, at what point do you ever “die.”
Not as strong as the great novella to me, but that might be because … you know, I read that one first.
A fun, thoughtful time travel adventure, though. Especially if you haven’t read the novella.
The last new book was Tim Dorsey’s Gator a Go Go, which arrived from Amazon last week. I’ve just started it.
The last book I bought, period, was 5 minutes ago, when I downloaded an order from Baen books for my Kindle. I got Time Scout, Kildar, Midnight at the Well of Souls, and the Grantville Gazette, Volumes 14-16.
I think it’s title was Excel 2003 Bible. Within the past month or so, FWIW. I don’t think I’ve even moved it from where I sat it down when I got home. Got it for as-needed help moreso than as a page-turner.
Expressway by Sina Queyras. I bought it last Thursday in with a stack of about 6 others. (Books are rather like chips in that regard - I’m not sure I’ve ever bought just one!)
And no, I haven’t got around to reading it yet. In fact, it’s about 15 books back in the queue at the moment. I’ll probably have read it by the end of March, and I hope, much sooner.
Inkheart by Cornelia Funke.
It’s not very good.
He’s going on my list of authors to check out. I really liked his post-apocalypse story in the Wastelands anthology.
The last book I bought (used/Amazon) was one of the Aubrey-Maturin books. It arrived today but I can’t start reading it yet because it’s #8 and I’m still waiting on #7.
Can I count graphic novels? If so, then it’s Wolverine - Weapon X, Vol. 1: Adamantium Men. I haven’t read it yet, but I may tonight.
As for non-graphic books, I picked up Masterpieces: The BEst Science Fiction of the Century a few weeks ago, and have only read a few of the stories so far.
Either Neil Gaiman’s Neverwhere (which I read last week) or the third volume of Henry-Louis de la Grange’s massive biography of Gustav Mahler (which will probably sit in my to-read pile for a very long time before I get around to tackling it).
That sounds good. Can the novella be found in any anthology, or online perhaps?
I picked up Roland Barthe’s Image-Music-Text at Borders on Saturday night. I haven’t had a chance to crack it open yet. I need to finish Gadamer’s Truth and Method first.
Venus in Furs by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch. I bought it used from a local book shop about a month ago to have something to read during a short camping trip we went on a few weekends ago. I loved it and can’t believe I’d never read it before now.
Now I’m reading Red, White, and Brew: An American Beer Odyssey by Brian Yaeger, on loan from Troy McClure SF. I really like it so far.
Sure. It’s not like I wasn’t going to say something cruel about you anyway. 
I bought “With the Old Breed” by E.B. Sledge in preparation for HBO’s “The Pacific” this March. Read it within a couple of weeks, it was really good.
Sorry, I completely forgot to address the new or used question. Mine was used, as it came from our library book sale.
This past weekend I was at my local library and I grabbed three B. Kliban cartoon books from the free bin. And none of them the Cats one! Never Eat Anything Bigger Than Your Head et cetera. I lost my own copies probably 20 years ago. Yes, I read all 3 right away.
The last book I bought was a kid’s novel, Heck: Where the Bad Kids Go, and I am halfway through reading it aloud.
GuanoLad, I think Inkheart is the only book that my daughter ever gave up on, and were were about two-thirds of the way through. I’m not sure why she didn’t want to keep reading, but I found it humorless and needlessly grim.
Just bought The Ghost Map this weekend.
Reading right now.
I just bought the “Full Facts Book of Cold Reading” a couple of days ago. It hasn’t yet arrived, but I will probably read it as soon as it does.
I just ordered the first 5 books in the Wild Cards Series Edited by George R R Martin. I hope they’re good!
I stopped by the used book store a couple of days ago and picked up “Cats have No Lord” by Will Shetterly and “Tooth and Claw” by Jo Walton. I read “Cats” already–it was a very quick read, but much more a typical fantasy quest story than I expected. I thought it was going to be rollicking. “Tooth and Claw” is evidently a comedy of manners about dragons. I will probably read it this week.