wow, something nice happened & Sept. books
Oct. 2nd, 2006 10:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
eviltammyThat's so rare lately.
I won a $40 gift card to Barnes & Noble! My local library had an adult summer reading club this summer and to register for prizes, you had to do book reviews. I did several and entered at two different branches :) They called me this morning to tell me! Woo! They also took my picture, which isn't a woo, but... :> So I went to B&N and spent my gift card - overspent, of course - but I got $72.34 worth of books (and a snack from the cafe) for $32.34. Not bad! Except, of course, for the fact that I spent $30something at B&N a few days ago too. :o
I got the new Dick Francis and the Honor Harrington books that I didn't have - and a couple more things too.
I also ordered a new computer desk from Office Depot and a new 19" flat screen monitor from Circuit City - I needed the desk and after rolling a humongous amount of quarters that my late parents had been saving (they liked to hit the slots occasionally), I had an extra $280. So instead of doing the sensible thing and saving it, I decided to get a monitor :)
September books:
Nonfiction:
A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
Cross Stitch in Blue and White
Chicklit:
Don of the Dead by Casey Daniels
Blondes Have More Felons by Alesia Holliday
Science fiction/fantasy:
Beauty by Nancy Butcher
Vigilant by James Alan Gardner (a re-read)
Smoke and Ashes by Tanya Huff
The Contest by Matthew Reilly (a re-read)
Mystery/Thrillers:
Snow Blind by P.J. Tracy
Dead in Vineyard Sand by Philip R. Craig
A Necessary Evil by Alex Kava
Marked Man by William Lashner
Body of Evidence by Stella Cameron
Slow Burn by Roxanne Longstreet - wasn't she someone in HL/Petey fandom?
Never Tell by Karen Young
Vanished by Karen Robards
Vanish by Tess Gerritsen
Ricochet by Sandra Brown
Temple by Matthew Reilly
Ice Station by Matthew Reilly
General fiction:
Vanishing Acts by Jodi Picoult
Oddly enough, I read four books starting with the letter V to finish up the title part of the Alphabet Challenge. I had 3 of them on hold and then, when I got a few boxes out of storage, I found the Gardner and read it just as the others came in for me. I've done the title part of the challenge - read books with titles starting from a to z. For the author part, I still need authors starting with U and X. X is usually the hardest one and may have to be adapted to an author with x in their name :)
Snow Blind and Vigilant were the best. If you like non-stop action, check out Matthew Reilly.
That is all
I won a $40 gift card to Barnes & Noble! My local library had an adult summer reading club this summer and to register for prizes, you had to do book reviews. I did several and entered at two different branches :) They called me this morning to tell me! Woo! They also took my picture, which isn't a woo, but... :> So I went to B&N and spent my gift card - overspent, of course - but I got $72.34 worth of books (and a snack from the cafe) for $32.34. Not bad! Except, of course, for the fact that I spent $30something at B&N a few days ago too. :o
I got the new Dick Francis and the Honor Harrington books that I didn't have - and a couple more things too.
I also ordered a new computer desk from Office Depot and a new 19" flat screen monitor from Circuit City - I needed the desk and after rolling a humongous amount of quarters that my late parents had been saving (they liked to hit the slots occasionally), I had an extra $280. So instead of doing the sensible thing and saving it, I decided to get a monitor :)
September books:
Nonfiction:
A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
Cross Stitch in Blue and White
Chicklit:
Don of the Dead by Casey Daniels
Blondes Have More Felons by Alesia Holliday
Science fiction/fantasy:
Beauty by Nancy Butcher
Vigilant by James Alan Gardner (a re-read)
Smoke and Ashes by Tanya Huff
The Contest by Matthew Reilly (a re-read)
Mystery/Thrillers:
Snow Blind by P.J. Tracy
Dead in Vineyard Sand by Philip R. Craig
A Necessary Evil by Alex Kava
Marked Man by William Lashner
Body of Evidence by Stella Cameron
Slow Burn by Roxanne Longstreet - wasn't she someone in HL/Petey fandom?
Never Tell by Karen Young
Vanished by Karen Robards
Vanish by Tess Gerritsen
Ricochet by Sandra Brown
Temple by Matthew Reilly
Ice Station by Matthew Reilly
General fiction:
Vanishing Acts by Jodi Picoult
Oddly enough, I read four books starting with the letter V to finish up the title part of the Alphabet Challenge. I had 3 of them on hold and then, when I got a few boxes out of storage, I found the Gardner and read it just as the others came in for me. I've done the title part of the challenge - read books with titles starting from a to z. For the author part, I still need authors starting with U and X. X is usually the hardest one and may have to be adapted to an author with x in their name :)
Snow Blind and Vigilant were the best. If you like non-stop action, check out Matthew Reilly.
That is all
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Date: 2006-10-03 01:09 pm (UTC)...and I say this with all the love of a friend...I hate you. :)
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Date: 2006-10-03 07:42 pm (UTC)I ordered my Sony Reader. Shall let you know what I think when it arrives. Not due for shipping until Nov. though.
Alesia just sent me a signed copy of Blondes! I love her stuff. Have you checked out the Literary Chicks (http://www.literarychicks.com) blog? It's one of my favorite places.
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