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Posted: Sat December 19th, 2009, 11:13 pm
by Chatterbox
A big fat expensive book leaped into my hands at Barnes & Noble today. The complete poems of Cavafy. Not HF... But amazing poetry. He wrote the well-known poem "Waiting for the Barbarians", and a lot of other stuff also that I love. My selected poems is a 25-year old paperback with a deteriorating binding, so I am a very happy camper. Merry Xmas to me, indeed...

Posted: Sun December 20th, 2009, 9:50 pm
by Kasthu
Bought today:
The Unquiet Bones, by Melvin Starr
Road to Jerusalem, by Jan Guillou
The Way Thing Look to Me, by Roopa Farooki (not HF)

Posted: Tue December 22nd, 2009, 10:19 pm
by nona
The Fortelling by Alice Hoffman a coming of age in an Amazon tribe kinda thing, I think it's actually a YA but sounds really good.

Posted: Wed December 23rd, 2009, 1:20 am
by Chatterbox
Scored two Vine books -- BEFORE they added extra pages 20 minutes later. Grrrrr.... I did request "Small Wars" by Sadie Jones, set in Cyprus during the war. My other pick was a non-fiction book, and I landed a non-fiction book about Sri Lanka from LibraryThing's early reviewers program.

Posted: Wed December 23rd, 2009, 1:27 am
by Misfit
I got Savage Lands today but I didn't see anything else too exciting.

Posted: Wed December 23rd, 2009, 1:32 am
by Chatterbox
I really, really wanted the Alex Berenson thriller (which is now gone) and Mornings in Jenin and Autobiography of an Execution. Which will all probably be gone in a few weeks. Just one of those three would have been great -- now will have to spend $$. The one on LibraryThing I was hoping for was the Parris book, "Heresy", about Giordano Bruno.

Oh well, maybe I'll win the lottery???

Posted: Wed December 23rd, 2009, 1:48 am
by Ash
Lady Queen by Nancy Goldstone. Loved her other NF books, and this one looks very intriguing, about Queen Joanna of Naples, Sicily and Jerusalem. Fortunately I had a 30% off coupon, otherwise I would have waited a while.

Posted: Wed December 23rd, 2009, 1:54 am
by SonjaMarie
[quote=""Ash""]Lady Queen by Nancy Goldstone. Loved her other NF books, and this one looks very intriguing, about Queen Joanna of Naples, Sicily and Jerusalem. Fortunately I had a 30% off coupon, otherwise I would have waited a while.[/quote]

I finished that earlier this month, it was good.

SM

Posted: Wed December 23rd, 2009, 2:07 am
by boswellbaxter
I got A Royal Ambition by Iris Gower (Katherine of Valois) today and Jean Plaidy's Madame du Barry (per Miss Moppet's review) yesterday.

Posted: Sun December 27th, 2009, 12:32 pm
by emr
I was in a time travel mood so I've got from amaz*n:

The Time of Murder at Mayerling
The Prince Lost to Time
In the Time of the Poisoned Queen

.. all by Ann Dukthas (P.C. Doherty)