More Books

• The Frantic Woman's Guide to Life (Rulnick & Schneider)
• The Lost Painting (Jonathan Harr)
• Anna and the King of Siam (Margaret Landon)
• Gardening Success
• Beneath It All (Versel Lewis)
• The Immortal (Angela Hunt)

New Books Bought

New Additions to "The Library"

• Messenger: Lois Lowry
• We Thought You Would Be Prettier: Laurie Notaro
• The Club Dumas: Arturo Perez-Reverte
• Ender's Game: Orson Scott Card
• Daniel Isn't Talking: Marti Leimbach
• The Birth of Venus: Sarah Dunant

New Books

I buy more books than I read...

• In the Shadow of Man--Jane Goodall
• Vinegar Hill--A. Manette Ansay
• The Intelligencer--Leslie Silbert
• The Brief History of the Dead--Kevin Brockmeier
• From Baghdad, With Love--Kopelman, Roth

And I just got a gift card to Barnes and Nobel!

Recent Book Additions

Half Price Books does it to me everytime...

• Like Water for Chocolate (Laura Esquivel)
• Queen Bees & Wannabes (Rosalind Wiseman)
• Sula (Toni Morrison)
• The Blood of Flowers (Anita Amirrezvani)
• Quieter Than Sleep (Joanne Dobson)
• A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius (David Eggers)
• Life of Pi (Yann Martel)
• The Burning Times: A Novel of Medieval France (Jeanne Kalogridis)

Still Adding Books to My Shelf

Have you ever had a little hole somewhere inside of you and nothing seems to fill it? Not your husband, family or pets. Not your hobbies or faith. There is just something not right and you just cant quite catch up to it Well I have one of those holes right now and buying books makes me feel a little better. I was diagnosed with a sleep disorder (but they don't know which one--I need more test). Even though I know what my "hole" is I can't make it better. Here are the books I picked out today

• All Creatures Great and Small (James Herriot)
• I Know This Much Is True (Wally Lamb)
• Fall On Your Knees (Ann-Marie MacDonald)
• The Confiessions of Max Tivoli (Andrew Greer)
• Astrid & Veronika (Linda Olsson)
• The Egyptologist (Arthur Phillips)
• Kabul Beauty School (Deborah Rodriguez)
• A Rip in Heaven: A Memior of Murder and Its Aftermath (Janeine Cummins)
• Through a Window (Jane Goodall)

Oh yeah...I forgot about these from Amazon last night

• The Masque of the Black Tulip
• The Secret History of the Pink Carnation
• Heretic: The Templar Chronicles
• Napoleon's Pyramids
• The Book of Air and Shadows
• Society of S
• Judge Sewall's Apology: The Story of a Good Man and an Evil Event: TheSalem Witch Trials and the Forming of the American Conscience

I Can't Stop Buying Books...

At least this time I did buy some as gifts for other people!

Relic (Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child)
The Phantom Tollbooth (Norton Juster)
Red Prophet (Orson Scott Card)
Prentice Alvin (Orson Scott Card)
Alvin Journeyman (Orson Scott Card)
The Alchemist (Paulo Coelho)
Bel Canto (Ann Patchett)
The Twentieth Wife (Indu Sundaresan)
The Things They Carried (Tim O'Brien)
Their Eyes Were Watching God (Zora Neale Hurston)
House of Sand and Fog (Ander Dubus III)
My Blue Notebooks (Liane de Pougy)
The House of the Seven Gables (Nathaniel Hawthorne)
The Scarlet Letter (Nathaniel Hawthorne)
A Farewell to Arms (Ernest Hemingway)

For others...
Before You Know Kindness (Chris Bohjalian)
The Shadow of the Wind (Carlos Zafon)
Falling Angels (Tracy Chevalier)
me times three (Alex Witchel)

I Bought Books Today

Like I need more books. My husband looks at me like I'm crazy. I love having books. I love the way they look, how they feel, the sound they make when you flip the pages. Weird? Hubby also keeps asking why I keep buying more and more books. Besides getting get ideas from blogs here with great reviews I think I like the hunt. Going into a store and finding something that has been on my paperbackswap wishlist for months. Finding a book someone blogged about and I normally would never have picked up. Getting a good deal! (5 of my books today were each a buck)

Heres what I ended up with

• Empire of the Ants (Bernard Werber)
• Foucault's Pendulum (Umberto Eco)
• the wasp factory (Iain Banks)
• The Greatest Game Ever Played (Mark Frost)
• Lucky (Alice Sebold)
• The Rasputin Relic (Valtos)
• I, Mona Lisa (Jeanne Kalogridis)
• The Awakening (Kate Chopin)
• the 6th Lamentation (William Brodrick)
• Snow Falling on Cedars (David Guterson)
• Breath, Eyes, Memory (Danticat)
• Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy)

Not a bad haul for one store!