<----- is a book snob.


I only buy hardcover.

I prefer hardcovers, especially of the ones that I read repeatedly...but they do take up more room and I've already got most available flat surfaces in my house stacked high with books. It's a bit annoying.

Tangent rant: WHY are most bookshelves now 12" or more deep? I've got one stacked 3 rows deep in paperbacks and finding anything I'm looking for is a nightmare. I have one small bookcase of my grandmother's that is only about 8 inches deep and it's PERFECT. Who has 12" books? Seriously? Unless you are a serious hardback collector (and very few of mine are actually quite that large) why in the world would you need shelves that size?!?!?!?!

OK....sorry. Rant over. I've been bookshelf shopping for nearly a year now and it's starting to really pi$$ me off.

bookshelves aren't for books any more...

i don't really care if it is hardback or paperback, i read and turn over so many i'm just interested in the content...certainly not a collector, but a sharer

Mr. C is correct - to so many folks books are just another design accessory - not something you might actually read! they put books and other art d'objects on the bookshelves.

Thank you, one and all, for your postings in this thread! I've just constructed a list of 35 books I want to read. My church is having a book sale this weekend and my library is having a book sale in a couple of weeks, and I will be searching out as many of these titles as I can find at 50cents each for paperback and $1.00 each for hardcover - love the bargains!!! I'm not usually so organized with a list, and just grab stuff/authors which catches my eye and therefore I sometimes buy a series way out of order; now this year I'll have order and sanity prior to shopping! Madness!

I am currently reading "A Thousand Splendid Suns" (loving it so far), "Pride and Prejudice" (the original, no zombies - must be my 20th time through this one)), and the 4th book in the Meyer "Twilight" series (not as good as the others, IMHO).

Have a terrific afternoon and happy reading... I'm on vacation in 4 hours!!!

I'm waiting for the next WEB Griffin book due out next month.

Me too, Fraud, but not for me - I ship them over to a group of deployed Marines and they pass them around.

I like WEB Griffin, but they have gotten to be routinely predictable...no more for me

"Geek Love" Katherine Dunn

Finished "The Art of Racing in the Rain."

Beginning "The Night of the Gun"

"Swimsuit" by James Patterson and someone else. It was OK. I wish he would go back to the Murder Club of Alex Cross.

i think those are better Ms Spring, because they are written by him. There is no saying how much he contributes to all of these other books out there with him as a co-author

I know. I just wish he would stick to his own books. They are so much better.

The only WEB Griffin I read is the Corps, and I'm afraid he's abandoned that series altogether. Sigh.

A really funny read is the Chelsea Handler book, "Are you there Vodka..." I read it in 3 hours.

Fire and Ice by J.A. Jance arrived today. I like the Sheriff Brady series but haven't read any of the Beaumont ones (TMK)- will be interesting to see how she combines the two.

Thanks for that recommendation, Angelina. I'm always looking for a good comedy book.

Paul Riser's Couplehood and Babyhood books were good fun. You laugh and nod thinking 'yea. I did that too.'

Erma Bombeck used to write for the Chicago Sun Times, I think. Anyway, her book 'If Life is a Bowl of Cherries...' It's still fun to read all these years later.

Most other supposed comedy books end up too foul to really be considered humor for me.

TR - read Carl Hiassen...not raunchy at all, but really way out wacky humor...

Going at lunch today in search of new releases:
"Destined for an Early Grave" - Jeaniene Frost
"Redemption Alley" - Lilith SaintCrow
"FaeFever" (paperback) - Karen Marie Moning



ETA a PSA:
WalMart only puts out "new releases" from what they consider to be Best-Selling authors on Tuesdays (new release day). Any other new releases for that week that they decide to carry *might* make the selves in the course of their regular stocking later in the week, but it depends entirely upon whether or not the regional person for books for your store decides to order that particular author. This announcement courtesy of our regional book guy who busted me digging through the new release boxes piled in the book row at lunch today.

**rant** OK, I understand not having the Lilith SaintCrow book in today's delivery, she's kind of obscure. But Jeaniene Frost and Karen Marie Moning?!?! They friggin' have other books by those two on their shelves nearly all the time! ARGH! I guess I'll be making a bookstore trip after work. It's just takes too bloomin' long to get over there and back on a lunch hour.

If anyone likes to read novels based on historical fact, try Bernard Cornwall's series called Sharp. The series takes place during the Napoleonic Wars with Britain in Spain. Sharp is the main character.

The BBC actually televised the series and did an excellent job maintaining the integrity of each book. Highly recommended!

You might want to avoid the Chelsea Handler book then. Some parts are pretty foul, but others are pretty darn funny.

Just started Atlas Shrugged, not that anyone cares.

I Feel Bad About My Neck by Nora Ephron is cute and funny and kind of reminded me of Erma Bombeck's writing. My daughter is at the University of Dayton and when we 1st took a tour one of the first things we came to was a bust of Erma who we were told was an alumni. I was excited and looked around the tour group and could tell only a few of the parents and none of the kids knew her.

Oh man, I *hated* that book. That's time I'll never get back.

I'm reading two books at the moment: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain and Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson.