Question of the Week: What was the last book you bought, where did you buy it (online, indie bookstore) and how soon will you read it?
(OK, yeah, I know that’s actually three questions, but I hope you’ll bear with me…)
- Soldiers and Kings, a non-fiction book about human smuggling that won the National Book Award for NF.
- Amazon - Love my Kindle
- Aw, heck, it’s anyone’s guess. My TBR pile is huge and never seems to get any smaller. (“She who dies with the most books wins,” right? It’s either that, or “I can’t die yet! I’ve got too many books to read!” Not sure which fits better.)
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While waiting for the owner of a massive used book store to evaluate the books I had brought in hoping to sell, I wandered around and ended up buying On Trails, written by Robert Moor. Winner of the Pacific Northwest Book Award, Moor “interweaves his [trail-centered] adventures with findings from science, history, and philosophy, exploring how trails help us to understand our world.” The Boston Globe says “Enchanting. . . A deeply thoughtful human meditation on how we walk through life.” My plan is to read the book slowly between Christmas and New Year’s Day, taking time to reflect.
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I’m currently trying to finish These Is My Words: The Diary of Sarah Agnes Prine 1881-1901 by Nancy E. Turner. Although it is historical fiction it is based on the life of the author’s greatgrandmother. As a lover of the Old West I am absolutely enjoying it. While I’m reading I’m repeatedly reminded that I know nothing of what hardship, loss, grief is.
While driving I listen to audiobooks and just finished The Boxcar Children which is one of Jim Mustich’s 1000 Books to Read Before You Die by Gertrude Chandler Warner. Next up is Johnny Tremain by Esther Hoskins Forbes. I was a voracious reader from the minute I started school so I honestly don’t know why I didn’t read these when I was a child. At least thanks to the “1000” I am enjoying them now.
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And I got totally off topic!!!
The last book I bought was a study guide for a Bible study group I was recently invited to join and I got it online.
Before that it was James by Percival Everett from Barnes and Noble online. The nearest physical bookstore, chain or independent, is 120 miles from my small rural Kansas town. I actually won a hardcover copy of James in an Instagram giveaway, but donated it to my local library as the librarian was talking about ordering it. I ordered another copy to read after I read Huckleberry Finn. I plan to donate that copy to the library in the small town where I was born and raised.
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- When the Sea Came Alive by Garrett Graff
- Barnes and Noble
- I’m reading it now. A fascinating account the Allied assault on Normandy from the first planning through the final hours. It consists of actually messages, Transcripts of meetings, letters from soldiers, memories of soldiers, who lived through it (and some who did not).
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Wow, that sounds right up my alley! History/historical fiction is probably my favorite genre. I’ve read a lot about WWII and I’m always surprised at how much more there is to learn!
Have you read Operation Mincemeat by Ben Macintyre? He’s one of my favorite WWII NF authors, and that one was a standout.
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Last book was Orbital, bought at an indie bookseller, Munro’s Books in Victoria BC. The bookshop is a local landmark, housed in a historic neoclassical bank building. Great staff, beautiful building, and a wonderful service. Hands down my idea of heaven! https://www.munrobooks.com/
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Demon Copperhead, the paperback. Oddly I read a library copy of the hardback when it was published. The day the paperback was available I bought a copy at Costco. I have slowly been rereading it in between my requests from my library. Right now this is the only book I am reading, The books I just returned to the library were The Blue Hour and The Grey Wolf. Both very quick reads. Patiently awaiting my next requests!
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I bought"Onam in a nightie" on Amazon and I hope to read it soon. 
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Frozen River, Amazon, not till the first of the year. It’s a book group read.
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The Barn by Wright Thompson is my last purchase. I bought it at a wonderful indie in Austin named Black Pearl Bookshop.
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I just looked up your recommended book. Think this is one that both my husband and I will read.
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Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi. I don’t read time travel books, but this one caught my eye because the travel time occurs from a coffee shop and is limited to the time between when you get your coffee and the time it gets cold. just got this from B&N, but am saving it until the week between Christmas and New Years - only because I am trying to finish reading Washington by Chernow and Demon Copperhead by Christmas day.
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My wife and I saw a signed copy of Banyan Moon by Thao Thai in our local bookstore in Plymouth, Book Love, so we decided to buy it! Will probably read it soon.
I also recently bought the James ebook online and will read it right after Huck Finn!
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I liked Banyan Moon despite a bit of a slow start.
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What an interesting sounding book, @Maria_Meininger! I’ll be curious to hear what you think of it.
@Ricki_Aiello we’re going to be discussing that one (opening January 23). I hope you’ll drop by; we’d love to hear your opinion on the book.
(And that goes for the rest of y’all who’ve read the book, too!)
Purchased on Monday The City and Its Uncertain Walls by Haruki Murakami and Didion and Babitz by Lili Anolik. Probably won’t read them for a couple of weeks. Too many other books loading up my bookshelves. But they looked so intriguing and I had to buy them.* Bought them at Barnes & Noble.
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Taking advantage of Kindle 2X points day I stocked up yesterday with a couple books, all ebooks, from Amazon (Kindle) and then also an audiobook from Audible. Winter reading and listening. I selected a mix of new titles (Playground, The Magnificent Ruins, The Serviceberry), classics (Middlemarch, The Moonstone) and a couple of holiday books. While the classics are readily available at the library, The Moonstone is a new reading of the old classic and Middlemarch is a specific version of the book. I’m set for awhile. 
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