Recently Acquired Books

Been a while since I've updated. I have a stack of reviews to do but life is hectic and my reading has come to a virtual standstill. I've managed to find time to buy more books though!

JG Ballard: Empire of the Sun

Pearl S Buck: The Good Earth

Peter Biskind: Easy Riders, Raging Bulls

Alexandre Dumas: The Last Cavalier

Gregory Maguire: Mirror, Mirror

Scott Westerfeld: Specials

PG Wodehouse: Carry On, Jeeves

PG Wodehouse: Money for Nothing

PG Wodehouse: Right Ho, Jeeves

PG Wodehouse: Something Fresh

I have another stack of Wodehouses on their way to me, and I bought a box sest of the Complete Sherlock Holmes, which incorporates:

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
The Hound of the Baskervilles
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
The Return of Sherlock Holmes
The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes
The Valley of Fear
A Study in Scarlet
The Sign of Four
His Last Bow
The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

Recently Acquired Books

Today I picked up:

Kyril Bonfiglioli: The Mortdecai Trilogy

John Brunner: The Sheep Look Up

Raymond Chandler: The Lady in the Lake and Other Novels

Recently Acquired Books

Picked up the first three Artemis Fowl books by Eoin Colfer for a song today.

Artemis Fowl
Artemis Fowl: The Arctic Incident
Artemis Fowl: The Eternity Code

I already have the second one, but it's a used copy and I never liked the cover much...

Recently Acquired Books

Found a couple of good secondhand bookshops today!

Clive Barker: The Thief of Always
Lois Lowry: The Giver
John Updike: Rabbit, Run
Dorothy Wall: Blinky Bill

I haven't updated my 'books bought' for a while, so here's the rest of what I've been buying, all for the month of September I'm afraid (and already posted in the other thread):

Arthur C Clarke: Childhood's End
Jack Kerouac: On the Road: The Original Scroll
Walter Miller Jr: A Canticle for Leibowitz
Vladimir Nabokov: The Real Life of Sebastian Knight

And from a bookfest:

Douglas Adams : Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
Virginia Andrews: Flowers in the Attic
Isaac Asimov: Foundation's Edge
Isaac Asimov: Prelude to Foundation
Isaac Asimov: Rest of the Robots, The
Isaac Asimov: Second Foundation
Isaac Asimov: Stars Like Dust, The
Isaac Asimov: Foundation
Isaac Asimov: Foundation and Empire
Clive Barker: Everville
Clive Barker: Galilee
Ray Bradbury: Day it Rained Forever, The
Ray Bradbury: From the Dust Returned
Ray Bradbury: Machineries of Joy
Ray Bradbury: Silver Locusts, The
John Brunner: Squares of the City, The
Frances Hodgson Burnett: Little Lord Fauntleroy
Orson Scott Card: Ender's Shadow
Geoffrey Chaucer: Canterbury Tales
Agatha Christie: Taken at the Flood
Arthur C Clarke: Cradle
Iris Rainer Dart: Beaches 2: I'll Be There
Philip K Dick: I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon
Philip K Dick: Divine Invasion, The
Philip K Dick: Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, The
Philip K Dick: Transmigration of Timothy Archer, The
George Eliot: Mill on the Floss, The
Michael Ende: Neverending Story, The
William Gibson: Neuromancer
Ursula Le Guin: Dispossessed, The
Thomas Hardy: Jude the Obscure
Dashiell Hammett: Thin Man, The
Harry Harrison: Deathworld 1
Harry Harrison: Deathworld 2
Harry Harrison: Deathworld 3
Harry Harrison: Stainless Steel Rat, The
Stanislaw Lem: Hospital of the Transfiguration
Stanislaw Lem: Memoirs of a Space Traveler
Stanislaw Lem: More Tales of Pirx the Pilot
Stanislaw Lem: Solaris
CS Lewis: Dark Tower, The
CS Lewis: Perelandra
CS Lewis: That Hideous Strength
Norman Lindsay: Magic Pudding, The
Michelle Margorian: Goodnight Mr Tom
John Marsden: Great Gatenby, The
China Mieville: Scar, The
Philip Pullman: Northern Lights
Olaf Stapledon: Last and First Men
Sue Townsend: Adrian Mole: The Wilderness Years
Edgar Wallace: Door with Seven Locks, The
John Wyndham: Seeds of Time, The

Recently Acquired Books

John Brunner: Stand on Zanzibar
China Mieville: Perdido Street Station
William Makepeace Thackeray: Vanity Fair
Melina Marchetta: On the Jellicoe Road
Melina Marchetta: Saving Francesca
PG Wodehouse: Blandings Castle
PG Wodehouse: Full Moon
PG Wodehouse: The Heart of a Goof
PG Wodehouse: Leave it to Psmith
PG Wodehouse: Piccadilly Jim
PG Wodehouse: Ring for Jeeves
PG Wodehouse: Summer Lightning
PG Wodehouse: Ukridge
Markus Zusak: The Messenger

Recently Acquired Books

Cliver Barker: Abarat
GK Chesterton: The Man Who Was Thursday
Arthur C Clarke: The Other Side of the Sky
Aldous Huxley: After Many a Summer
Aldous Huxley: The Devils of Loudun
PG Wodehouse: Jeeves in the Offing
PG Wodehouse: Service with a Smile

I have a stack of reviews to catch up on. Trying to get them done by the end of the month.

Recently Acquired Books

Picked up some bargains today:

Arthur C Clarke: The Space Trilogy (Islands in the Sky, Earthlight, The Sands of Mars)
John Connolly: The Book of Lost Things
Charles Dickens: Oliver Twist
Helen Fielding: Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason
Henry Fielding: Tom Jones

Recently Acquired Books

I've been a bit lax in updating my 'Recently Acquired Books', so here's what I've bought or received in the past few months:

June:
Raven Hart: The Vampire's Kiss
Raven Hart: The Vampire's Secret

July:
Daphne du Maurier: Julius
Kathryn Kenny: Trixie Belden #19: The Secret of the Unseen Treasure
Stephen King: Night Shift
PG Wodehouse: Thank You, Jeeves

August:
William S Burroughs: Naked Lunch

My book-buying has dropped a lot since I joined a 'read 3, buy 1' support group for book-buying addicts like myself to help us decrease the size of our TBR piles. The idea is that you must read 3 books to earn 1 credit that you may then spend. I joined a few months back and things have been going well until today, when I officially fell off the wagon (having teetered on the edge for a couple of weeks now). But who can resist buying books when Borders sends you a voucher for 30% off?

Recently Acquired Book

I bought Wicked by Gregory Maguire the other. It's a gorgeous hardback book with green-edged pages. You don't see that every day!

The Broadway musical version is coming to Australia soon, so I'll probably bump this one up the list so I can read it before I see the show.

My, I've been very slack with my blogging this month, partly because I've been reading so slowly. A few book reviews to follow in the next couple of days.

Recently Acquired Books and Books Added to Wish List

I recently bought Aldous Huxley's Brave New World Revisited. It's a collection of essays written almost 30 years after he published Brave New World. He looks at the predictions he made back in 1932 and compares how society has changed in the intervening years.

Also added more books to my wish list:

John Brunner: The Jagged Orbit
John Brunner: The Sheep Look Up
John Brunner: The Shockwave Rider
John Brunner: Stand on Zanzibar
Harry Harrison: Make Room! Make Room!
Gabriel Garcia Marquez: One Hundred Years of Solitude
Tom Wolfe: The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test

Recently Acquired Books and Books Added to Wish List

I bought the following today:

Margaret Atwood: Cat's Eye
John Banville: Athena
John Banville: Doctor Copernicus
John Banville: Kepler
John Banville: Mephisto
Susanna Clarke: The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories
David Mitchell: Black Swan Green

And added a couple more to my wish list:

Alexandre Dumas: The Last Cavalier
Alexandre Dumas: The Three Musketeers
Jack Kerouac: On the Road (The Original Scroll)

Recently Acquired Books

Cliver Barker: Weaveworld
Roald Dahl: The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar
HV Evatt: Rum Rebellion
George Grossmith: Diary of a Nobody (I read an ebook version of this last year and found a lovely illustrated version)
Banjo Paterson: The Man from Snowy River

Recently Acquired Books and Books Added to Wish List

I bought the following books on Friday. There's a bookshop near my train station that sells new books very cheaply. It's a very addictive shop - every time I go in there lately I've come out with at least half a dozen books.

John Banville: The Sea
Alex Garland: The Beach
Henry James: What Maisie Knew
John Steinbeck: The Red Pony
Evelyn Waugh: Brideshead Revisited
Thornton Wilder: The Bridge of San Luis Rey

Unfortunately none of these books were on my mile-long wish list, but they've been in the back of mind for a while so it doesn't matter. I've also added a few more books to my wish list.

Kyril Bonfiglioli: The Mortdecai Trilogy
Aldous Huxley: Brave New World Revisited
Dorothy Parker: The Portable Dorothy Parker
David Sedaris: Naked

Recently Acquired Books

Nine more to add to the TBR pile. According to LibraryThing, that brings my total number of TBR books to 318 (or 309, according to my profile - I wonder where that discrepancy is coming from?). A good 6 years worth of reading there!

Chinua Achebe: Things Fall Apart
Albert Camus: The Outsider
Albert Camus: The Plague
Truman Capote: Breakfast at Tiffany's
Cervantes: Don Quixote
Charles Dickens: A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writings
John Rhys: Wide Sargasso Sea
Patrick Suskind: Perfume
Lynne Truss: The Lynne Truss Treasury (With One Lousy Free Packet of Seed, Tennyson's Gift, Going Loco, Making the Cat Laugh)

I wish someone would keep me away from this bookshop! So much choice and such small prices!

Recently Acquired Books and Books Added to Wish List

I bought the following books recently:

Orson Scott Card: Ender's Game
Jonathan Safran Foer: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Matthew Pearl: The Poe Shadow
Marisha Pessl: Special Topics in Calamity Physics
Alexander McCall Smith: The 2 1/2 Pillars of Wisdom
Peter Temple: The Broken Shore
Hunter S Thompson: Hell's Angels

And I added a few more books to my wish list:

Lois Lowry: The Giver
Lois Lowry: Number the Stars
Jacqueline Susann: The Valley of the Dolls

Recently Acquired Books

I'd forgotten to post about the books I have gotten since Christmas. The list is mostly books I got for Christmas and ones I bought with a voucher, but there are also a few second-hand books I bought on New Year's Eve.

Enid Blyton: The Magic Faraway Tree
Bill Bryson: Neither Here Nor There
Simon Callow: The Road to Xanadu (Orson Wells biography, volume 1)
Simon Callow: Hello Americans (Orson Welles biography, volume 2)
Raymond Chandler: The Big Sleep/Farewell, My Lovely/The Long Goodbye
Charles Dickens: The Old Curiosity Shop
Louise Fitzhugh: Harriet the Spy
Elizabeth Gaskell: North and South
Stella Gibbons: Cold Comfort Farm
Jack Kerouac: The Dharma Bums
Stephen King: IT
Madeleine L'Engle: A Wrinkle in Time
Hunter S Thompson: Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72
Sue Townsend: The Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 3/4

And two books called:
The Little Black Book of Music
The Little Black Book of Books
They're full of small articles regarding important events, characters etc in the music and literary worlds for the past 100 years. Very interesting stuff.

Also, five cookbooks called:
4 Ingredients
The Commonsense Cookery Book Volume 2
Fast Chicken
Fast Deserts
Fast Pasta

Recently Acquired Books

I bought three more Discworlds by Terry Pratchett today:

#26 Thief of Time
#33 Going Postal
#34 Thud!

Recently Acquired Books

I'm buying books too fast to read them! Help!

Terry Pratchett: The Last Continent (Discworld #22)
EB White: Charlotte's Web/Stuart Little/The Trumpet of the Swan

Recently Acquired Books

Been buying more books lately:

Jean M Auel: The Mammoth Hunters
Jean M Auel: The Valley of Horses
William Goldman: The Princess Bride
Kathryn Kenny: Trixie Belden and the Mystery of the Antique Doll #36
Audrey Niffenegger: The Time Traveler's Wife
Paullina Simons: Eleven Hours

Recently Acquired Books

I bought 6 brand-new books cheaply last week.

Tony Bramwell: Magical Mystery Tours: My Life With The Beatles
Aldous Huxley: The Grey Eminence
Aldous Huxley: Those Barren Leaves
Donovan Leitch: The Hurdy Gurdy Man (autobiography)
Michael Swift: Mapping The World (gorgeous big book full of reproductions of old maps)
Geoff Tibballs: No-Balls and Googlies: A Cricket Companion