The Borders Haul

[jmc_bks]

My reward for working and studying was a trip to Borders in search of the Dean/Devon/Pillow anthology, Taming Him, and Kathleen O'Reilly's Blaze book.  Borders didn't have the O'Reilly book on the shelves -- February category books were out.  According to their computer, it was still in the store, but no one could find it.  It wasn't shelved under O'Reilly, wasn't with the other categories, wasn't in the back waiting to be stripped or shipped back to Harlequin or whatever they do to unsold category books.  Taming Him was in stock though.

My bag o' books ended up holding:

• Taming Him
  
• Living to Tell the Tale (already have this is Spanish, but I wanted an English copy, too.  Plus, it was only $5.99 for a hardback copy)
  
• Sanctuary, the 4th 1-800-Where-R-U book, which was the only one I couldn't find an e-version or used copy of
  
• Posner's The Little Book of Plagiarism
  
• Voltaire's Candide and The Maid of Orleans
  
• Poetry of W.B. Yeats (the sale table, I can't resist a book for $1.99)
  
• Hershey: Milton S. Hershey's Extraordinary Life of Wealth, Empire and Utopian Dreams  -- neither authorized nor sponsored by The Hershey Company
  
  I had a half dozen other books in my hands, but put them back.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

The O'Reilly book is an ebook. I bought mine at fictionwise.

Jane

[jmc-bks.livejournal.com]

Thanks, Jane. I'll check it out.

Usually I buy category books in bound copy, because I trade and/or donate them. But if I can't find a hard copy anywhere, I'll go with the e-format.

[(Anonymous)]

I still have a gift card burning a hole in my pocket but I want to get some of my TBR books read before creating a new and improved TBB list ;)

I recently bought a Walt Whitman poetry book (pretty sure it was Greenleaves (?)) and a bit of Edgar Allen Poe because I love how dark he is. Haven't read anything by these guys since university but these two really drew me in.

In case that came out of left field I was wondering about Voltaire and if you have read that author before. I haven't. I'm sure I've read Yeats but I couldn't tell him from anyone else.

CindyS

[jmc-bks.livejournal.com]

My TBR never seems to impact the TBB list. If I was a better person....but I'm not :)

I read a couple of excerpts of Voltaire's essays in college, but nothing since. The name Candide sticks in my mind as his most famous work, though. Yeats, I've only read a little of, but I like it. Poetry is not my favorite thing. I like epic poems like Lochinvar, etc. More modern, eclectic stuff seems too studied and pretentious to me. But I could just being saying that 'cause I don't get it and it makes me feel stupid.

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Okay, I decided to sign up with a LJ account so I could have a picture instead of 'anonymous wrote' ;)

CindyS

Welcome to LJ

[jmc-bks.livejournal.com]

Love the picture, too :)