Well, it's officially the holiday weekend for me. Huzzah! I'm so ready to be off for multiple days. It's going to be swell. Now, I haven't done as much preparation in terms of cleaning and organizing than I'd like, but there's no more time, so what's done is done at this point. At least all my holiday shopping is complete now. That's all that matters.
But on to the books. First up, I have a mix of spontaneous buys from various sources. I made an Amazon order a couple of weeks ago for some reason I don't remember now. I know I bought Full Moon and Shadow of the Moon by Rachel Hawthorne to replace the versions I had that were older that I'd just recently sold. I'd also bought the third book (Amazon didn't have a new copy of the first for sale), and it arrived smashed and wet, since it was shipped with a giant box of DampRids that I'd also ordered from Amazon in a separate order. I'm all for Amazon saving time/money by shipping things together, but those two things just do not mix. Crossing Acheron by H.G. Birde was also in that original Amazon order, and What Lurks Between the Fates by Harper L. Woods character cover edition also arrived. My sister and I had a spontaneous shopping trip this past Saturday where I bought The Serpent and the Wolf by Rebecca Robinson from Target and Untamed by P.C. and Kristin Cast and The Dagger and the Flame by Catherine Doyle from Barnes & Noble. It was the first time I'd been to a large bookstore since July. It felt so good to be back among the shelves.
Next up, I have another kind of spontaneous order. I'd ordered a copy of Alienated by Melissa Landers off of Amazon, but it turned out to be a used edition, so that got quickly returned. I loathe Amazon for offering used copies without clear info about where it's coming from. Grr... Anyway, so I went on PangoBooks to see what copies they had available. Oh, and I was replacing my hardcover copy because I'd spilled something on it during all my organizing. While I was making that order, I decided to throw in a few other books from the same seller. Those include another copy of A Shadow in the Ember by JLA, Sweet Reckoning by Wendy Higgins, and Goddess by Josephine Angelini, which I actually didn't need but I couldn't cancel it from the order and it was only $2 anyway.
Well, that's all for me. What books have
you bought/received lately?
OOoh nice! For some reason I've never really bought replacement copies as usually my books stay in pretty good condition! Now I did buy a "replacement" of sorts awhile back only because I had donated a book and I thought why did I do that? Then I saw it on sale online with maybe B&N or maybe Amazon? I can't recall and bought it then. I was sad that they changed the mass market size to trade as the stupid part was that the pages inside were still formatted to mass, so I was like what was the point of that?!
ReplyDeleteBut yeah, I hate when Amazon does s**t like that too. I realllly hate it when you know you're buying used and the sellers claim "like new" and I get it and it's all beat to hell and has cracked/creased spine, I'm like what's your definition of new anyway? But when you're in a bind and need the book and it's out of print and literally no one shows real pictures, you take what you can get.
Hope you enjoy all of your lovely new reads!
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