Happy New Year!

[rkold]

Happy New Year and L'Shanna Tovah!

Happy Belated Birthday to isachi (where ever you are) and Happy Birthday to konoha

So things are finally starting to move along on my trip to Japan. I now have most of the hotels/places I'm staying squared away, which is most happy. I just need to book my flights, rail pass, and cell phone and figure out where I will when I go back to Tokyo. muscatlove was a huge lifesaver in helping me with reservations. *hugs*

Anyway, for those so inclined, I thought I would share all the new books I've gotten thanks to the Scarsdale Library Sale and the two on line book trading websites I joined. I should mention now that the Scarsdale Library gets relatively decent books simply because Scarsdale has a wealthy and literate client base.

Books:
Bait and Switch by Barbara Ehrenreich (author of Nickel and Dimed)
Around the World in 80 Days - Jules Verne (I read this many years ago)
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte (I read this many years ago as well)
Triangle by Katharine Weber
Beautiful Lies by Lisa Unger (Review Copy)
The Pact by Jodi Picoult
Devil in the Details by Jennifer Traig
The Devil Wears Prada by Lauren Weisberger
Never Let Me Go by Kazu Ishiguro
Japanese Women Writers (anthology)
A Gesture Life by Chang-Rae Lee
Divine Secrets of the YaYa Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells
The Romance Reader by Pearl Abraham
The Discontinuity of Small Things by Kavin Haworth
Across the Nightingale Floor by Lian Hearn
The Talisman by Stephen King and Peter Straub (my copy has seen better days)

For the husband I got:
Dune by Frank Herbert
The Population Bomb by Paul Ehrlich
The Planeteers/The Ultimate Weapon by John Campbell

And to offer for trade I got:
HP Book 01 by JKR
The Nanny Diaries by Emma Mclaughlin and Nicola Kraus (I have my own copy)
Little Earthquakes by Jennifer Weiner

Any of the other books I don't like will get added to the trade list. Via trade I got Book 3 of the Tamir Trilogy. Now I just need books 1+2 to arrive and yanchamonkey's I sort of now want to read the Time Traveler's Wife, but with all my other new books I might just wait. lol

Comments

[ladybrick.livejournal.com]

Happy New Year to you :)

[rkold.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

[reynardine.livejournal.com]

Happy New Year to you, and it sounds like you got some interesting books there! (It also sounds like Kennis has much the same reading tastes as Bob ;-D).

[rkold.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I was pretty happy I think we paid $18 total for everything, which is not bad.

Kennis likes SciFi and "the world is going to hell" type books XD;

[rkold.livejournal.com]

The jumps in time won't bother me but the depressing ending might. >>;

I don't really worry about the science aspects of stories unless it's so incredibly unbelievable that I am left in awe at it.

I need to finish Bait and Switch and Blink and then I am going to try either the Romance Reader, Triangle or one of the others.

I think both Kennis and I only saw the movie version of Dune, or I know I just did -->Sting *______*

But it is good to now own it and at $.50 it ws even well priced! ^o^

[isachi.livejournal.com]

Thanks :) Birthdays as a general rule suck for me ... this year was sadly no different. But the day after is proving to be promising. Currently back in Prague and homeless *sigh* XD

[rkold.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry they suck. How long are you staying in Prague for or are you just passing through? Hope everything is going OK and I hope we get to see one another in December