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Recently Acquired Books: Adding to My Preeeecious Hoard of Books

3/9/2014

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Recently, Patrick Ness came to a bookstore in Seattle. I read and loved A Monster Calls (here's my review) but I already own a signed copy due to the loveliness of Jo over at Wear the Old Coat. What other Ness books have I read? Well, now that you bring that up....none. But that wasn't going to stop me from getting some books signed while he was in town, especially considering how much some of my blogger and reader friends love his Chaos Walking series. I couldn't physically be at the event because of work but I had an employee who was working the event get books signed for me and I cracked up at what he wrote in one of them:

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For Flannery, who should have been allowed to come...
I wish! Speaking of author events, though I won't be recapping ones I went to during my "lost time," I hope to be doing more of that. I recently got books signed by Lish McBride and Victoria Schwab and I am concurrently realizing that I flew to San Diego that night and my books have been sitting at work in a bag for about two weeks now. (Oops!) I bought copies of Vicious, Hold Me Closer, Necromancer, and Necromancing the Stone...and maybe The Archived, I can't remember. While I was in San Diego, I spent a day with one of my favorite people, Maggie from Young Adult Anonymous. It has pretty much become commonplace for us to spend a day or two together every time I go down to California and one of our favorite places to go is BookOff. We have gone to *cough*a few other San Diego and Los Angeles bookstores but they were mostly letdowns. I didn't buy too much this time around but I did pick up:
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  • Tolstoy Lied by Rachel Kadish (my friend Cassi threw this in my pile, I know nothing about it at all:))
  • Nebula Award-Winning Novellas
  • Zebra and Other Stories by Chaim Potok (I really loved The Chosen when I read it in school)
  • Half in Love: Stories by Maile Meloy (not pictured)
  • I didn't buy The Book Thief. Maggie was lucky enough to see Markus Zusak in LA and she is a fabulous person. Example A: She got books signed for a bunch of people, including me!
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Though there is really nothing on the blog to reflect it, I became addicted to short stories in 2013. I think, and they can correct me if I'm wrong but I'm 99% sure I'm right, all three of us did. We read, discussed, suggested, listened to, hated, and loved hundreds of stories last year and that also got me really into buying short story collections. Honestly, I went a bit overboard with it and I think I have every one of those famous-author-edited "Best American Short Stories of [enter year here]" from the past ten or twenty years. No kidding. Here's some of them to the left, along with another series that I seriously cannot resist buying: "The Year's Best Science Fiction." Those ones are chunksters and they usually put some sort of irresistible (to me) space-related images on the front. The extra bonus in this pic is a bunch of DVDs I found at Target for less than $10 each. In case you can't see in the picture, they are Silver Linings Playbook, Sherlock Holmes, Mean Girls (my old copy has scratches!), Gatsby, and The 10th Kingdom. Have any of you ever seen The 10th Kingdom? I was $5 worth of curious so I just went for it, though I've yet to watch it. Also, it has an 8.4 on IMDB! Speaking of television and movies, though, two recent recommendations from me, which I will probably mention in another post: The Bletchley Circle and Populaire. The former is a Netflix Instant-available miniseries about a group of female code breakers from WWII who help solve a serial murder crime a few years after the war and the latter is an adorable French movie about a businessman who enters his secretary in speed typing competitions. (also on Netflix Instant) Oh, and I also recommend Senna, a documentary about a Brazilian Formula One racer who is often considered the best racer of all time. I had close to zero interest in F1 racing and I still don't care too much about it, but I was super interested in the story of his career.

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The books to the right are all from Half Price Books. I read Green Rider by Kristen Britain as part of She Made Me Do It this past fall. My friend Alexis dared me to read it and I'd been meaning to for ages. It was a lot of fun and I didn't have as many problems with it as some of my reader friends did in terms of originality. (or lack thereof) I liked it enough to buy two more installments when I was at Half Price. Coincidentally, I also went to the Half Price Outlet in Olympia with Alexis when she was last home and picked up a few of the books pictured then. Listening to Pat Conroy's My Reading Life has been one of my favorite audio experiences to date and I wanted to own a book copy of it. Daggerspell was mentioned by Kate Elliott at an event I went to as being the beginning of her favorite series. (I think I might've bought another copy then but I didn't see it in my shelves immediately so who knows?) I also bought a Marillier book, Cybele's Secret, The Floating Islands by Rachel Neumeier, Shopgirl by Steve Martin, and four more unnecessary but exciting short story collections.

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Last of the bunch of random-books-that-are-only-about-half-of-what-I-recently-acquired-but-that-I-saw-at-first-glance-and-took-pictures-of are these two books I picked up at the University Bookstore semiannual book sale. All the books on a few long tables were 50% of their lowest price so I ended up paying about $5 for both of these. I think that cover for Alif the Unseen is ridiculous. The color and outline are lovely and the wall of text just completely ruins it. I am going to see how well I like the book because I'm not sure I can have that eyesore on my shelves. I have Eclipse One and Eclipse Four now so we all know what that means...

Anyway, I am sneaking this post in near midnight on the weekend so I am counting this as my weekly post. I didn't let myself down yet! Have any of you read any of these books? I am specifically interested to know if you've read any of the shorts in any of these collections. Happy Monday, everyone!
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Lucy link
3/10/2014 02:55:18 am

I've never been to BookOff in San Diego! I will check it out this summer. And okay now I want to know about these disappointing LA and SD bookstores you've been to. Have you checked out Skylight Books, Book Soup or Last Bookstore in LA?

The only book I've read in your stack is The Book Thief, but I have Ness' Chaos Walking books waiting for me on my kindle, and I have the audio of More Than This. Love what he wrote in your book!

I used to be a short story addict but I never read them anymore. I just got a collection that looks good though called The Other Language (by Francesca Marciano) so maybe that will get me back into them.

Enjoy your books and have a great week!

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Keertana @ Ivy Book Bindings link
3/10/2014 08:27:50 am

SO MANY BOOKS! I wasn't a huge fan of The Knife of Never Letting Go - I don't do well with novels where secrets are kept away from the reader till the end - but I absolutely loved The Floating Islands and Alif the Unseen. I'm also excited for you to check out Marillier's work - I still have to read Wildwood Dancing, but I'm curious to see how Cybele's Secret, the sequel, turns out. Wonderful haul, Flann! I'm looking forward to seeing reviews for these books soon! :)

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Bonnie @ For the Love of Words link
3/12/2014 01:49:42 pm

Ha! That's a hilarious note that Ness wrote. The Chaos Walking series was fantastic but I was extremely impressed with More Than This. Hope you enjoy them!
I love short story collections too but find them so difficult to review and they're often fairly time consuming because I don't like reading them in their entirety all at once. hahaha I agree, that cover you got for Alif the Unseen is MUCH better than the ones I've been seeing around.

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