what books have your purchased recently?

[BlackCanary]

I love buying books. 

Dance of Death (Pendergast #6) by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Me Before You by Jojo Moyes
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier

And I pre-ordered Harry Potter and the Cursed Child. 

[mrspez07]

I don't usually buy books, but I was having a hard time getting books for book club reads at the library a few months ago, and bought
The Art of Hearing Heartbeats (on Amazon I think)
All the Light we Cannot See (abebooks, great resource for used books!)

Both books are beautiful, their covers are nice. ATLWCS is a hardback too.

I would use Abe Books again (they coordinate with independent bookstores). I also found Tradesmart (brick and mortar store) during Christmas shopping and will use them at some point.

[marigoldgirl]

I haven't bought a new book in forever. I use the library on my kindle. I do miss having a real book in my hands sometimes, but the convenience of the kindle is just to good.

[charlatti]

I live a couple of blocks from a library that is part of a fantastic system, so I don't buy books for myself unless I'm going to reread them. The last two I bought were Station Eleven and A Tale for the Time Being.

[dorothyinAus]

One of the remaindered bookstores here was having a going our of business sale, so instead of all books $10 each, they were all books $6 each or 6 for $30.

I scored:
A Magnificent Obsession (Victoria, Albert, and the Death that Changed the British Monarchy)
A More Perfect Heaven (How Copernicus Revolutionized the Cosmos)
The Last Boleyn
Death of a Cad
Death of Yesterday
The American Cookbook

And my mother sent me a couple of Rita Mae Brown & Sneaky Pie Brown's Mrs. Murphy mysteries and Princess Elizabeth's Spy at the beginning of December.

I'll have more to report in a few weeks, when I decide how many of the books on my Amazon wish list I can get with the $125 gift certificate I have. I'm still debating how to pick which books make the cut.

[badtzmaru22]

I bought Outlander - Voyager for my kindle, since I couldn't handle waiting for the library copy to come in. After much hesitation, I've become obsessed with my kindle. It just makes it so easy for me to read! I'm such a late convert. Oh well.

[MrsAxilla]

Feb 23, 2016 11:17:02 GMT -5 badtzmaru22 said:

I bought Outlander - Voyager for my kindle, since I couldn't handle waiting for the library copy to come in. After much hesitation, I've become obsessed with my kindle. It just makes it so easy for me to read! I'm such a late convert. Oh well.

Are you signed up for the kindle daily deals?  Every day I get an email with books for $2.  I've picked up some great books that way, like American Gods, The Princess Bride, Throne of Glass, I Am Malala, God in Ruins....  Usually I'm not interested in that day's deals, but I always read it because they do sneak in good ones.

[badtzmaru22]

Feb 23, 2016 11:48:04 GMT -5 MrsAxilla said:

Feb 23, 2016 11:17:02 GMT -5 badtzmaru22 said:

I bought Outlander - Voyager for my kindle, since I couldn't handle waiting for the library copy to come in. After much hesitation, I've become obsessed with my kindle. It just makes it so easy for me to read! I'm such a late convert. Oh well.

Are you signed up for the kindle daily deals?  Every day I get an email with books for $2.  I've picked up some great books that way, like American Gods, The Princess Bride, Throne of Glass, I Am Malala, God in Ruins....  Usually I'm not interested in that day's deals, but I always read it because they do sneak in good ones.

No, but I will, thanks! A friend turned me onto BookBub, so I've been checking that for good deals as well.

[MrsAxilla]

Feb 23, 2016 12:34:25 GMT -5 badtzmaru22 said:

Feb 23, 2016 11:48:04 GMT -5 MrsAxilla said:

Are you signed up for the kindle daily deals?  Every day I get an email with books for $2.  I've picked up some great books that way, like American Gods, The Princess Bride, Throne of Glass, I Am Malala, God in Ruins....  Usually I'm not interested in that day's deals, but I always read it because they do sneak in good ones.

No, but I will, thanks! A friend turned me onto BookBub, so I've been checking that for good deals as well.

I finally unsubscribed from bookbub.  I never saw anything that sparked my interest.

[pandora89]

Hausfrau
The Dressmaker (hated this)
A Line of Blood

[farfalla2011]

I just ordered The Train to Crystal City (Goodreads description) by Jan Jarboe Russell. It's for a bookclub I'm in and the author will be speaking at on of our local museums later in March and I'm hoping to catch it.