Amph What was the last book you bought?

Mom and I spent the morning out in town. Barnes & Noble was our first stop after the bank. I bought:

Dirk Pitt: Poseidon's Arrow (I have the complete series now, at least until Havana Storm comes out this fall)

NUMA Files: The Storm

Republic Commando: Order 66 & Imperial Commando: 501st (another series complete)

Darth Bane: Path of Destruction

Quite frankly, those three Star Wars books weren't on my list to get; I'd hoped to get Into the Void and both Hand of Thrawn books, but the only one that was on the shelf was Vision of the Future.

BTW, is the Star Wars/Star Trek section at Barnes & Noble getting smaller and smaller all across the US, or could it just be my local store? A couple of years ago Star Wars/Star Trek took up one entire shelf at the very end of one Science Fiction/Fantasy row at my B&N. Now they've been shoved to a middle shelf on the row, to the point where I almost couldn't find them, and one the last three/four rows from the bottom held those books instead of the entire shelf. One row was part Trek/part Wars and the other three were entirely Wars.

 

I know both have slimmed down at my local Waterstones (UK bookstore chain). They've made room for books like Doctor Who, Halo, etc. But then right now there aren't a lot of SW books being released. I'm also a Clive Cussler fan (except for the Isaac Bell series). I usually get the books in paperback tho - not HC.

 

Yeah, I've been going for PB with Cussler. Only reading Pitt, NUMA, and Oregon, though - not really interested in Bell or Fargos. I've almost got NUMA complete too; the only ones I'm missing there are Zero Hour and Ghost Ship. Zero Hour came out in PB just yesterday, so it wasn't on the shelf at B&N or I would have snapped it up. Of course, Ghost Ship won't see PB release until next spring. Still have to get most of the Oregon books, but that will be easy enough.

 

The time period Bell is set in just doesn't interest me. I do like the Fargo books though. However I have a large reading pile so I don't mind waiting for paper.

 

Bought 6 new books

Dragon Age: The Calling
Dragon Age: The Stolen Throne
Dragon Age: Asunder
Edge of Tomorrow
Lone Survivor
12 Years a Slave

 

I'm waiting on an Amazon UK order containing (amongst others) White Fire by Preston/Child. It came out in pb at the end of May here.

 

Last thing I bought was This New Ocean: A History of Project Mercury.

 

An American edition of Cien años de soledad, in Spanish.

 

Guardians of the Keep by Carol Berg. Unfortunately it is book 2, so I need to go dig and find 1, 3, and 4.

 

Star Wars Legacy Vol. 2 TPB 2 Outcasts of the Broken Ring.

 

Well, I turned 40 yesterday, and people gave me money, so I went shopping...

- The Gridlock Economy
- Shakespeare Wars
- Blood Meridian, Cormac McCarthy
- Selected Speeches, Cicero
- The Histories, Herodotus
- The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood
- Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human, Harold Bloom
- Collected Stories, Saul Bellow
- Rules of the Dance, Mary Olivier, a book about understanding and writing poetry
- A Poetry Handbook, same author
- The Swerve: How the World Became Modern, Stephen Greenblatt
- The Anatomy of Influence: Literature as a Way of Life, Harold Bloom again.

My to-read backlog is so long now I'm starting to panic.

 

A nice pocketbook of wisdom from Theodore Roosevelt

 

Cibola Burn by james A. Corey.

This is the 3rd in a series which is a..well..sort of hard scifi story though it has produced a junction of gateways between stars. This series has been picked up as a future tv series. The publishing industry must be slow. This book has been far too long in coming and I'll need to refesh my memory of the others.

 

Dragon Lady by Sterling Seagrave.It's a biography of the last Dowager Empress of China. I went to the ROM to see an exhibit of pieces from the Forbidden City. Some of them were spectacularly beautiful.

 

Haunted Asylums by ER Vernor. Got it at Phenomacon in April. It's a history on various asylums, reported paranormal activity in those asylums, any controversy surrounding them, and their current state, be they abandoned, torn down, or still in operation in limited capacity due to widespread deinstitutionalization.

 

Happy Hour in Hell by Tad Williams. This author is appreantly very popular, this will be the first book by him for me.

 

After going a used book store odyssey I found Son of Avonar, and The Soul Weaver by Carol Berg. I already have book 2, now I just gotta find book 4...

 

Did you like that book? I didn't care for it. Some people told me it had to be read in the original language to really appreciate it. I hate it when people tell me things like that.

 

You are a monster.

 

Tiger's Claw by Dale Brown.

 

I'm not too crazy about it when people tell me things like that either.

 

Konditor & Cook: Deservedly Legendary Baking. But I have to wait for it to arrive. It has a long way to travel. I AM SO EXCITED!!!

Check it out here: http://shop.konditorandcook.com/products/konditor-cook-book-of-cakes

 

Wishful Drinking

 

if you like that look out for Shockaholic. It was pretty good.

 

Half A King by Joe Abercrombie.

ALSO GOT IT (and every other book of his I own) SIGNED, WOOHOO.