Book shopping today ...

nona · Post by **nona** » Sun March 8th, 2009, 8:43 pm

bought The Champion by Elizabeth Chadwick, I loved it the first time I read it and I promised I would own all of her books in hardcover, so I'm doing it one book at a time.

Vanessa · Post by **Vanessa** » Tue March 10th, 2009, 2:57 pm

Drood by Dan Simmons (this is huge!!!!)
The Master of Verona by David Blixt (I threw resistance to the wind and bought a copy from The Book Depository!)
Book of Shadows by Paula Brackston

SonjaMarie · Post by **SonjaMarie** » Tue March 10th, 2009, 9:52 pm

So I got the refund for the "X-Files" book that was missing pages from Amazon and ordered the following through ABE and Amazon (Susan/Boswell: I actually remembered to use the Amazon search button on this site, so hopefully you should get commission for the books!):

I ordered:
"The Affair of the Poisons: Murder, Infanticide, and Satanism at the Court of Louis XIV" by Anne Somerset
"The Bad Popes" by E. R. Chamberlin
"Lost Gold of the Republic: The Remarkable Quest for the Greatest Shipwreck Treasure of the Civil War Era" by Priit J. Vesilind
"Permanently New Yorkers: Final Digs of the Notable and Notorious" by Patricia Brooks
"Grave Matters: A Curious Collection of 500 Actual Epitaphs, From Which We Learn of Grieving Spouses, Fatal Gluttony, Vengeful Relations, and All Manners of Parting Commentary" by E.R. Shushan
"The Queen's Necklace: Marie Antoinette and the Scandal that Shocked and Mystified France" by Frances Mossiker
"Masterpieces from the House of Faberge" by Alexander Von Solodkoff

SM

TLee · Post by **TLee** » Tue March 10th, 2009, 10:20 pm

Was just too tempted - placed a Book Depository order that included The Marsh King's Daughter by Elizabeth Chadwick, A Time of Singing (paperback preorder) by Elizabeth Chadwick, Crown in Candlelight by Rosemary Jarman and The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton. Oh my TBR pile is taking over the house!!

diamondlil · Post by **diamondlil** » Wed March 11th, 2009, 6:14 am

Today I picked up from the library:

A is for Alibi by Sue Grafton
3 Willows by Ann Brashares
Kiss the Night Goodbye by Keri Arthur
In the Woods by Tana French
The Winter Sea by Susanna Kearsley

I will be returning Kiss the Night Goodbye straight away because I don't think I actually requested it, and it the fourth book in the series, so when I do read it will be after reading the first three!

Misfit · Post by **Misfit** » Wed March 11th, 2009, 11:45 pm

Just picked up The Bronze Horseman at the library today. Been a long wait for my turn, only one copy in the entire county's catalog, and there's at least three waiting behind me. Mustn't dawdle.

nona · Post by **nona** » Wed March 11th, 2009, 11:48 pm

didn't someone from here recently read The Secrets of the Tudor Court:The Pleasure Palace by Kate Emerson? I was thinking of buying it but wanted to check what others thought first.

SonjaMarie · Post by **SonjaMarie** » Thu March 12th, 2009, 12:59 am

I'm a bad, bad girl! I've ordered one more book "Who Lies Where: A Guide to Famous Graves" by Michael Kerrigan, about famous burials in England and Ireland.

SM

TLee · Post by **TLee** » Thu March 12th, 2009, 7:46 pm

[quote=""nona""]didn't someone from here recently read The Secrets of the Tudor Court:The Pleasure Palace by Kate Emerson? I was thinking of buying it but wanted to check what others thought first.[/quote]

I read it a few weeks ago and really liked it. Once I started it, I found it hard to put down. One of the reasons I enjoyed it was because it was about a historical character I knew nothing about. I was getting tired of reading rehashes of the same tudor historical figures over and over.

Madeleine · Post by **Madeleine** » Thu March 12th, 2009, 8:09 pm

Company of Liars arrived today from Amazon.