What Are You Reading on Monday?

It's Monday! What Are You Reading This Week? is a weekly event to celebrate what we are reading for the week as well as books completed the previous week. Feel free to pile on a little extra.If you'd like to join in this weekly event, please go to J. Kaye's and leave a link. That way others can find it and join in.

Hosted by J. Kaye

I will be reading :
Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater
Sudden Fury by William W. Johnstone

This Week I'm listening to:
Dakota by Martha Grimes
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Hope your week is full of great reading opportunities!

Last week I finished:
Call After Midnight by Tess Gerritsen(on iPod)
Your Heart Belongs to me by Dean Koontz(listening to in car)
Why Beulah Shot Her Pistol inside the Baptist Church by Clayton Sullivan
Murder Packs a Suitcase by Cynthia Baxter

Treasure Hunt

Last week J. Kaye had a question: "My question is what is up with paperback books costing over $10?" Her question made me think about my own purchasing of books. I pay less than cover price for most of the books I buy. I hunt around at used book stores, online sources, and sales for books.

The first thing I do is to search half.com for books I want. The used book sellers there will usually combine shipping. While there a couple of days ago I found the book
Dog Days by John Levitt and paid $5 for it. That includes shipping. At another provider at Half.Com I bought two paperbacks: Cry Wolf by Patricia Briggs and Biting the Moon by Martha Grimes and it cost $8.38 inc. shipping.

Yesterday I hit a used bookstore I had some credit with. I used up all my credit and got three books for $3.63. They were:
1. Dogs Never Lie About Love by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
2. City In The Sky by Max Brand
3. Destry Rides Again by Max Brand
I've recently had a surge of desire to read westerns. I haven't really read westerns in years. Recently a friend got me interested in Robert B. Parker's three westerns Appaloosa, Resolution and Brimstone. They were great. They put me in the mood for more westerns!

At the same store I found Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater for 8.99, half the cover price.

So basicaly I got 9 books this week for $41.33. These were all books I've been wanting, all books I'm able to get off my wish list! Well, the westerns were just a general desire and I will be getting more. That averages about $4.60 per book during this little splurge of book buying. I'm set for awhile!

It seems that my book buying has become a treasure hunt!

Happy Thanksgiving

On My Wishlist

On My Wishlist is a weekly meme thought of by Book Chick City. It allows us to share the books we haven’t bought yet but are waiting to be bought and devoured. This meme gives us a chance to share authors/series we are looking forward to! Check out the ‘On My Wishlist’ post from Book City Chick here.

My wish list is huge. I intend to share only one or two books at a time. The first book I'm sharing is:

Don't you just love that cover? I had to find out what it was about when I saw this. Imagine my surprise when I found it was a zombie book! Here is a quote from the cover:

“A steampunk-zombie-airship adventure of rollicking pace and sweeping proportions, full of wonderfully gnarly details.” Scott Westerfeld

Gotta have it!

What Are You Reading?

It's Monday! What Are You Reading This Week? is a weekly event to celebrate what we are reading for the week as well as books completed the previous week. Feel free to pile on a little extra.If you'd like to join in this weekly event, please go to J. Kaye's and leave a link. That way others can find it and join in.

Hosted by J. Kaye

This Week I'm listening to:
Call After Midnight by Tess Gerritsen(on iPod)
Your Heart Belongs to me by Dean Koontz(listening to in car)

I will be reading :
Why Beulah Shot Her Pistol inside the Baptist Church by Clayton Sullivan
Murder Packs a Suitcase by Cynthia Baxter

Hope your week is full of great reading opportunities!

Last week I finished:
118. Cross Country by James Patterson (in car)
119.The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery (iPod)
120. The Asylum Prophecies by Daniel Keyes

Click on them to go to the reviews. 120 books in one year is pretty good for me.

Sure Miss My Library!

Not very long ago the roof of our library caved in. Above is a picture from the Library's site that shows the fallen ceiling being propped up. The books have been removed now and are awaiting a new home. Rumor has it that the city is going to purchase the Mall in order to provide said new home. The library will go in one end where, many years ago, there was a small K-Mart store.

I really miss the library. It was small but wonderful. And it saved me a lot of money! :) I always watched for the new popular novels and I always had books on CD checked out. I've been buying used books on CD from our local used book store.

Suggestions from librarians there helped me find some of my favorite authors and series. I enjoyed talking to them and getting their views on books.

The children's librarian there is wonderful. She is very enthusiastic and energetic. She used to work at my school and did a great job engaging the children.

What Are you Reading On Monday?

It's Monday! What Are You Reading This Week? is a weekly event to celebrate what we are reading for the week as well as books completed the previous week. Feel free to pile on a little extra.If you'd like to join in this weekly event, please go to J. Kaye's and leave a link. That way others can find it and join in.
Hosted by J. Kaye

This Week:
I'm still listening to:
The Elegance of the Hedgehog by by Muriel Barbery (on iPod)
Cross Country by James Patterson (listening to in car)

I will be reading :
Why Beulah Shot Her Pistol inside the Baptist Church by Clayton Sullivan

The Asylum Prophecies by Daniel Keys

Hope your week is full of great reading opportunities!

Last week I read:
Wild Rain by Christine Feehan
Three Weeks To Say Goodbye by C. J. Box

I liked them both and would recommend them.

It's Monday! What Are You Reading?

It's Monday! What Are You Reading This Week? is a weekly event to celebrate what we are reading for the week as well as books completed the previous week. Feel free to pile on a little extra.If you'd like to join in this weekly event, please go to J. Kaye's and leave a link. That way others can find it and join in.

Hosted by J. Kaye

This Week I'll be reading:

The Elegance of the Hedgehog by by Muriel Barbery (Listening to on iPod)

Wild Rain by Christine Feehan

Three Weeks To Say Goodbye by C. J. Box

Cross Country by James Patterson (listening to in car)

Wishing you a great reading week!

Last week I finished:

Fire Me by Libby Malin review here

Whistling in the Dark by Lesley Kagen review here

Hold Tight by Harlan Coben review here

My favorite for the week was Fire Me!

Friday Finds

Friday Finds is hosted by MizB at Should Be Reading. This week I added the following books to my wish list at Amazon.




The Day The Falls Stood Still by Cathy Marie Buchanan



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The Double Comfort Safari Club: The New No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency Novel by Alexander Mccall Smith

Cleopatra's Daughter: A Novel by Michelle Moran

v>Her Fearful Symmetry: A Novel by Audrey Niffenegger

Book Title Meme

I sas this meme at At Home With Books and thought I'd give it a try. So here goes.

What To Do: Using only books you have read this year (2009), answer these questions. Try not to repeat a book title. It’s a lot harder than you think!

Describe yourself: I Am Legend (by Richard Matheson )review here (HAHAHA)

How do you feel: Paranoia (by Joseph Finder)

Describe where you currently live: Made in the U.S.A (by Billie Letts)

If you could go anywhere, where would you go? Swan Peak (by James Lee Burke) review here

Your favorite form of transportation: Appaloosa (by Robert B. Parker) review here

Your best friend is: The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (by Stieg Larsson) review here

You and your friends are: Plum Spooky (by Janet Evanovich) review here

What’s the weather like: Belle Weather: Mostly Sunny with a Chance of Scattered Hissy Fits (by Celia Rivenbark) review here

You fear: Mean Streets (by Jim Butcher, Simon R. Green & More) review here

What is the best advice you have to give: Kiss (by Ted Dekker and Erin Healy) review here

Thought for the day: Thanks For the Memories (by Cecelia Ahern) review here)

How I would like to die: Glory In Death (by JD Robb) review here

My soul’s present condition: Fool (by Christopher Moore) review here

Award

I am ashamed to say that the Book Bird dog gave me this award a LONG time ago and I just realized it. I didn't come to this blog for awhile and I was going back through it and found where she had given me this nice award. Please forgive me BBD!


To accept this, I am to list seven of my favorite things and send the award on to seven blogs.
My favorite things:

1. my dogs Rusty & Riley & Bear
2. my cats Jenny & Dallas
3. my new spec ed job
4. good books and a cup of coffee or a Pepsi
5. sunsets or sunrises
6. funny movies
7. my camera

I would like to pass it along to:

Book Bird Dog (Thank you so much for this cool award. I love visiting your blog.)
I Love to Read
Alaine-Queen of Happy Endings
My Thoughts...Your Thoughts
The Eclectic Reader
Great Reads and Page Turners
Jen's Book Talk

It's Monday - What Are You Reading?

Hosted by J. Kaye

This Week:

Hold on Tight by Harlen Coben (Listening to in car)

Whistling in the Dark by Lesley Kagen

The Elegance of the Hedgehog by by Muriel Barbery (Listening to on iPod)

I hope to also read this week:

Fire Me by Libby Malin

I'm looking forward to a fun week of reading. I wish you the same!

Last week:

Keepsake by Tess Gerritisen review

Brewster's Millions by George Barr McCutcheon review

The Zookeeper's Wife by Diane Ackerman review

Battle on the Bay by Edward T. Cotham Jr. review