Book shopping today ...

Misfit · Post by **Misfit** » Sun January 4th, 2009, 12:11 am

[quote=""Tanzanite""]I hadn't seen that one yet - oh my!! I did receive Gellis' A Silver Mirror today from Paperback Swap (based on your review).[/quote]

That cover's a keeper isn't it? Waiting to see what the other two in the series are like when they come

**bites nails** so far that's EC, BB and now Tanzanite that purchased A Silver Mirror because of me. Hope you all like it

Kasthu · Post by **Kasthu** » Sun January 4th, 2009, 12:45 am

Today I bought February's Book of the Month, Needle in the Blood.

boswellbaxter · Post by **boswellbaxter** » Sun January 4th, 2009, 1:34 am

I bought Colleen McCullough's The Independence of Miss Mary Bennett today. Thought of buying the new Robin Maxwell book--it did look interesting--but I think I 'll wait a little since I'm backed up reading-wise anyway.

Still waiting on The Silver Mirror!

boswellbaxter · Post by **boswellbaxter** » Mon January 5th, 2009, 11:50 pm

Gave in and bought Robin Maxwell's Signora da Vinci today (especially since it came with blurbs from two HF Onliners--C.W. Gortner and Michelle Moran) and Ella March Chase's The Virgin Queen's Daughter. Also got A Silver Mirror in the mail today, along with Alice Harwood's The Lily and the Leopards.

red805 · Post by **red805** » Tue January 6th, 2009, 2:06 am

Spent the Amazon.com gift certificate I received

, based on favorite books from some of your lists, for - Forever Amber (Kathleen Winsor), The Kings Pleasure:A Novel of Katharine of Aragon (Norah Lofts), The Sunne In Splendour:A Novel of Richard III (Sharon Kay Penman), The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (Mary Ann Shaffer), The Falcon of Palermo (Maria Bordihn) - I think my dog ate the cover off my original copy, The Crimson Petal and the White (Michel Faber), & the dvd The Name of the Rose.

Ash · Post by **Ash** » Tue January 6th, 2009, 2:51 am

An early birthday present arrived from my big sis: Peter Ackroyd's The Thames. I'd been perusing this in the bookstore, really wanting it but balking at the price. Fortunately, big sis didn't

Looking forward to reading this.

Susan · Post by **Susan** » Tue January 6th, 2009, 2:59 am

I also just spent an Amazon gift certificate and got:

"Mr. Timothy: A Novel" by Louis Bayard
"Company of Liars" by Karen Maitland
"The King's Daughter. A Novel of the First Tudor Queen" by Sandra Worth
"Duchess: A Novel of Sarah Churchill" by Susan Holloway Scott
"Signora Da Vinci" by Robin Maxwell
"Westminster Abbey (Wonders of the World)" by Richard Jenkyns
"Anne of the Thousand Days / Mary, Queen of Scots" DVD;
"Mistress of the Monarchy: The Life of Katherine Swynford, Duchess of Lancaster" by Alison Weir I bought this even though (I hemmed and hawed about buying this, but I am very interested in Katherine Swynford)
"Isaac Newton" by James Gleick (for my husband)

Tanzanite · Post by **Tanzanite** » Tue January 6th, 2009, 3:29 am

[quote=""Misfit""]That cover's a keeper isn't it? Waiting to see what the other two in the series are like when they come

**bites nails** so far that's EC, BB and now Tanzanite that purchased A Silver Mirror because of me. Hope you all like it

[/quote]

Well, I didn't actually purchase mine since I got it from Paperback Swap (although I guess the cost of the postage is a "purchase") so don't feel too much pressure!!

Misfit · Post by **Misfit** » Tue January 6th, 2009, 3:43 am

[quote=""Tanzanite""]Well, I didn't actually purchase mine since I got it from Paperback Swap (although I guess the cost of the postage is a "purchase") so don't feel too much pressure!![/quote]

No worries. I'm still trying to figure out how I sold at least three copies (that I know of) of a $.01 used paperback - let alone waiting to see what the rest of you think about it.

boswellbaxter · Post by **boswellbaxter** » Tue January 6th, 2009, 4:20 am

[quote=""Misfit""]

No worries. I'm still trying to figure out how I sold at least three copies (that I know of) of a $.01 used paperback - let alone waiting to see what the rest of you think about it.[/quote]

Well, I'll buy anything that has a Despenser in it! I thumbed through it tonight (while balancing it, dinner, and Boswell in my lap) and it does look pretty good.