My last book purchase was at Half-Price books, where I picked up J. A. Konrath’s Dirty Martini, Sharon Lee & Steve Miller’s Crystal Dragon, and 5 or 6 of Michael Jecks’ historical mysteries (I had a 20% off entire purchase coupon and a gift certificate, so I went a little nuts). All used, obviously, and I haven’t read any of them yet. In fact, it’ll probably be a while before any of them get read, considering the number of books on my “to be read” shelves already.
Last book I’ve bought that I haven’t finished yet is Roger Penrose’s The Road to Reality: A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe. Fascinating stuff, but it’s slow going as my math was never very good and it’s turned really rusty since.
Last book I’ve bought (and I’ve finished it) was Pratchett’s The Last Continent.
Friend silenus,
Do you usually get your ebooks for your Kindle from Amazon? I could also suggest fictionwise.
Mobileread forums has a pretty large Kindle section.
I bought a chemistry textbook about six hours ago. I’ve skimmed through the first three chapters, just to confirm that I still know most of what I learned last year.
Kewl! Thanks for the links.
I’m planning on getting all of my new stuff on the Kindle. But if I’ve started the series in hardbound (like the Griffin stuff) I’m enough of an anal-retentive that I’ll finish the series that way.
Under the Dome, by Stephen King, brand spanking new. I buy his books, for everything else there’s the library.
However, I will probably have to buy a copy of Don Quixote for my daughter who needs it for school.
Last book bought: Shutter Island. I saw the ad for the movies, wanted to reread it, couldn’t find my copy. I think I rebought the same copy I turned into the used book store last summer!
But the last book I bought that I hadn’t read beforehand was Connie Willis’s Blackout. And yes. Unfortunately the money spent on books is not a good buy for me because I read too fast.
James Sallis: Drive, haven’t read it yet.
I can’t recommend the Quixote enough, yeah, it’s a classic … but not boring or narcissistic or too high brow for its own good, no, it’s a really good book. I hope she likes it, even though it’s for school.
Kindled the new Connie Willis - I’m reading it now.
Alex Haley’s Roots, and I’m in the middle of reading it right now. I’m quite enjoying it, a lot more then I thought I would.
The last book I bought was Pessoa’s The Book of Disquiet, for one of my MA Western Literature courses. I’m alternating between that and the reading for my other courses: Jane Austen and Shakespeare.
I recently picked up Power and Plenty (economic history) at a yard sale. Some books that I’ve had on hold for while at the library have come in so I’ve been reading those. I hope to read it sometime soon, though.
I bought the James Marrow “Towing Jehovah” trilogy new. I’m almost done with the second book and then I’ll be moving onto the third. I really liked the first book and I’m finding the second better than the first and I’m hoping the third will be even better.
Bought two books at Barnes and Noble on my last run:
Luttwak’s The Grand Strategy of the Byzantine Empire. Fascinating stuff - and it does what it says on the tin, providing a good overview of Byzantine strategic thought and the factors that shaped it, at least as the author sees them. Essentially, Luttwak’s thesis is that the Byzantine Empire’s glut of powerful enemies in close proximity denied it the overwhelming military superiority the Western empire enjoyed at its peak, and so forced the Byzantines to develop many of the elements of modern statecraft. A good read, but it’s my first serious exposure to Byzantine history, so I’m having to go slowly to make sure I track it properly - I probably should have picked up a good general history first.
Next up is the other book I bought on that run: B.R. Meyers’ The Cleanest Race: How North Koreans See Themselves and Why It Matters. It’s an analysis of North Korean propaganda - you can read the first chapter here: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/28/books/excerpt-cleanest-race.html
I bought and read The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte. I’d never heard of it before a few weeks ago when **Aspidistra **mentioned it in a Jane Austen thread.