Vacation Haul (Again?)

Well, this’ll probably be my last vacation haul, seeing as this was my last vacation of the year. This one’s significantly less than my first vacation haul, but I still got some books I’ve been looking forward to for awhile!

Books Bought: 8

Money Spent: about $30

Dying to Call You — Elaine Viets I don’t know what it is about these books! I finish them and they’re simply okay, but I love the characters, so I bought another one!

Murder at Westminster Abbey — Amanda Carmack First one was pretty good.

This Pen for Hire — Laura Levine Sounds funny. The old(er) Kensington mysteries (like this series, the Hannah Swensen series, the Lucy Stone series) have always been extremely popular, so I figured I’d give it a try

Scandal in Fair Haven — Carolyn G. Hart First one was excellent

Take the Monkey and Run — Laura Morrigan There are very few series that I buy brand new, but this is one of them. Loved the first three in this series, and I’m excited for this one!

Death of a Perfect Wife — M.C. Beaton I’ve been looking for a used copy of this book for a VERY long time. Finally found one!

A Taste for Murder — Claudia Bishop Really the only wild card in the bunch. This was only $2, and it looked pretty good so I picked it up. However, I haven’t heard anything (good or bad) about it.

Death of a Country Fried Redneck — Lee Hollis I cannot wait to read this book! The first one was superb and I’ve been trying to find this one for a bit now.

Overall, I’m very proud of this haul, I absolutely cannot wait to read Death of a Country Fried Redneck and Take the Monkey and Run!

MASSIVE Haul

As always whenever I’m on vacation I have to stop by numerous bookshops and I definitely fulfilled that on this trip. I brought back TONS of books!

Number of books bought: 45

Money Spent: $80

Nook Books:

I’m going to start with the few Nook books I bought before my trip. These were all on sale (and one was free!!!)

Shards of Murder – Cheryl Hollon read and enjoyed the first one in this series, so fingers crossed for this one

Murder on a Silver Platter – Shawn Reilly Simmons all the reviews I’ve read so far were positive

Cutthroat Business – Jenna Bennett Very positive on Goodreads (and FREE!!!)

Books already owned:

I bought four books I’d already read because the price was right and I enjoyed them the first time! Three of them were ARCs when I read them, and the other was from the library.

Reading Up a Storm – Eva Gates

Stiff Competition – Annelise Ryan

Grace Under Pressure – Julie Hyzy

And Then There Were Nuns – Kylie Logan

Non-cozy:

Life of Pi – Yann Martel Heard wonderful things about this book, and the cover was absolutely wonderful

The Last Days, The Last Jihad, The Copper Scroll, The Ezekiel Option, Dead Heat, Damascus Countdown, The Tehran Initiative, The Twelfth Imam, The Auschwitz Escape, The Third Target, The First Hostage – ALL BY Joel C Rosenberg I was given these by a family member while on vacation. They sound more spy-thriller esque but I’d appreciate any thoughts from people who have read them. They’re very popular, so they must be at least okay.

Cozy:

I’m almost ashamed by how many books I bought but then I look again and I’m not! A lot of these books came from a small bookshop in the town my sister lives, and the rest came from a huge bookshop in Florida. Both bookshops were used. Only two came from a different book store.

Rules of Murder & Death by the Book – Juliana Deering I love historical mysteries set in the ’20-30s

Dear Miss Demeanor & Busy Bodies – Joan Hess I read the first two and loved them

The Main Corpse & Prime Cut – Diane Mott Davidson Just finished the 5th in the series and loved it, so here’s the 6th and 8th

Crowned and Moldering – Kate Carlisle Enjoyed the first ones in this series

A Deadly Tail – Dixie Lyle Loved the first one, and I couldn’t refuse the price

Death Under Glass – Jennifer McAndrews Couldn’t refuse the price

Foul Play at the Fair – Shelley Freydont Have the second one in this series on the shelf

The Cranefly Orchid Murders – Cynthia Riggs Have the first and third on the shelf, so of course I bought the second

Murder in Mesopotamia – Agatha Christie I NEED to read more Christie

Murder at the PTA – Laura Alden Been looking for this one for awhile

The Main Mutiny & Nashville Noir – Jessica Fletcher & Donald Bain One of those series where you can read them out of order, so whenever I find them for cheap I pick them up

The Readaholics and the Poirot Puzzle – Laura DiSilverio First one was decent

Shadows at the Fair – Lea Wait Sounded good

Murder Between the Covers – Elaine Viets Liked the first one

A Killer Maize – Paige Shelton Maybe if I have it on my shelf I’ll actually read it and continue the series

Poisoned Prose – Ellery Adams ^^^

Murder of a Sleeping Beauty & Murder of a Snake in the Grass – Denise Swanson Swanson paints and EXTREMELY accurate portrait of the Illinois I love

Blessed Is The Busybody – Emilie Richards I keep seeing later books in the series at a local used bookstore and I could never find the first one, well I found it!

Just Desserts – G.A. McKevett I’ve been looking for this for awhile now

Q is for Quarry – Sue Grafton One of those series that I keep telling myself I’ll complete one day

Bound for Murder – Laura Childs First one was decent, second one made me fall in love with the characters, let’s see what the third one does!

Well, that’s all folks. Hope you have a haul soon!

 

You’re Going to Hate Me, but…

I just bought 24 more books. Yes, you read that right, and yes this is a haul post. It seems like I rarely buy books in the winter but in the summer I have haul after haul after haul, but I’m alright with that! I got all of these for a great price and I’d already read 9 of them, but for their price it was totally worth buying them.

Books Bought: 24

Price Paid: $6

Already Read:

All of these I’ve already read and I enjoyed them enough to get them. (The price helped matters some!)

Pane and Suffering – Cheryl Hollon

The Diva Wraps it Up, The Diva Digs Up the Dirt – Krista Davis corny titles but a really solid series

The Christie Curse – Victoria Abbott

Clammed Up- Barbara Ross

Home of the Braised – Julie Hyzy

Book, Line, and Sinker – Jenn McKinlay

Pies and Prejudice, Peach Pies and Alibis – Ellery Adams

TBR:

First Degree Fudge – Christine De Smet, You Cannoli Die Once – Shelley Costa, Bran New Death – Victoria Hamilton All first in a series books, here’s to hoping they’re actually good!

A Dish Best Served Cold – Rosie Genova, Scam Chowder – Maya Corrigan, Murder Hooks a Mermaid – Christie Fifield, Bowled Over – Victoria Hamilton, The Scarlet Pepper – Dorothy St. James, Dyeing Wishes – Molly MacRae, If Mashed Potatoes Could Dance – Paige Shelton, Recipe for Treason – Andrea Penrose, All Natural Murder – Staci McLaughlin All in series that I either have parts of, or I’ve started reading

Murder for the Halibut – Liz Lipperman, Battered to Death – Gayle Trent Two wild cards!

I’m in love with this haul and I can hardly wait to start reading some of them!

Book Haul (!!!)

I really love buying a group of books at a time. There’s something wonderful about it; you get to look at all of them in a stack and shelve them one by one. It’s an amazing feeling and I love sharing my hauls! This time I got 19 books for about $20.

Number Bought: 19

Price: about $20-ish

Murder at Union Station – Margaret Truman Sounds really good

Hangman’s Root – Susan Wittig Albert Really liked the first one in this series

Berry the Hatchet – Peg Cochran Loved the characters/setting in the first one, let’s hope the dialogue/internal thoughts get better in this one

Murder on Gramercy Park – Victoria Thompson, Mrs. Jeffries & the Yuletide Weddings – Emily Brightwell I’ve been meaning to get around to these series and I probably will soon

Cooking Up Murder – Miranda Bliss Loved this author’s other series she writes under the name Kylie Logan

Cherry Cheesecake Murder – Joanne Fluke One of the few series I don’t ever read in order. I haven’t read this one yet

Death at Wentwater Court – Carola Dunn This was almost brand new at a small thrift store near where I live

Set Sail for Murder – Carolyn Hart Fill a bag for $1 booksale I stumbled on

Tea Chings: The Tea and Herb Companion – The Republic of Tea Love tea and herbs and fill a bad booksale!

Liberating Paris – Linda Bloodworth Thomason Looks okay, may or may not give this away or read it. Fill a bag booksale

Mystery Train, A Crime for Christmas, Buried in Time, The Last Resort, The Paris Connection, Shock Waves, Double Crossing, Dangerous Games – Carolyn Keene My older sister still LOVES these Hardy Boy Nancy Drew Super Mysteries so when I saw them at the fill a bag booksale I grabbed them up. I’ll probably be trying these soon.

I am extremely proud of this haul and with multiple vacations coming up expect more haul posts in the coming months!

Book Haul 3/18

I absolutely love getting new books, and sharing what I got with others is almost as god as buying new books. This book I’ve had almost no time to read, and it’s practically killing me. However, these new books should be a balm to help me until I can get reading again. Feel free to comment your recent haul in the comments! All of these books were actually bought at a local thrift store.

Total Books: 19

Total Amount Spent: $8

If Fried Chicken Could Fly & If Bread Could Rise to the Occasion — Paige Shelton Been wanting to read it, only 25 cents each!

Wound Up in Murder — Betty Hechtman Super cheap.

If Hooks Could Kill — Betty Hechtman May resell this because it’s pretty far down in the series. However, I have the first book on my shelf so I’ll probably wait.

Dread on Arrival — Claudia Bishop Again, I may resell this, it’s like super far down in the series.

Murder of an Open Book — Denise Swanson Super cheap.

The Diva Frosts a Cupcake — Krista Davis Already read, but I don’t have a copy, so now I do!

All Fudged Up — Nancy Coco Have this on my Nook but based on whether I like it or not I may give this away.

The Wolfe Window & The Marsh Madness — Victoria Abbott Read the first in this series awhile ago, these are the the 3rd and 4th.

In The Still of the Night — Jill Churchill Sounds pretty good

A Catered Fourth of July — Isis Crawford Super cheap.

A Root Awakening — Kate Collins I need to resume this series.

Dead as a Scone & The Final Crumpet — Ron and Janet Benrey May resell these also, but it was both in the series, so I picked them up.

Design on a Crime, Decorating Schemes, & Interior Motives — Ginny Aiken Yet again, I may resell these. This is the entire series so I may not, though.

Twanged — Carol Higgins Clark Super cheap.

I’m super pleased with the prices I got for these books!

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Review for The Broken Spine by Paige Shelton coming soon!

Book Haul!

I haven’t done a haul post in forever, so I thought I’d share what I got with you guys.

Total Books Bought: 11

Amount Spent: Around $6

Mysteries/Thrillers:

Blood Red — Wendy Corsi Staub — out of my typical genre liked but this author just came out with a cozy series, so when this was on my library’s sale shelf I picked up a copy.

The Cinderella Murder — Mary Higgins Clark & Alafair Burke I’ve been wanting to read this for quite some time and found it for a quarter

The Cat Who Went Up The Creek, The Cat Who Wasn’t There, The Cat Who Talked Turkey, The Cat Who Smelled a Rat, The Cat Who Brought Down the House — all by Lilian Jackson Braun were like 15 cents apiece at a local thrift shop

Non Mystery:

Empire Falls — Richard Russo I needed a Pulitzer Prize-winning book for a challenge I’m doing

A Good American — Alex George Looks good, and I’ve been trying to branch out more from my typical genre, so this fit the bill

Eat, Pray, Love — Elizabeth George I’ve heard nothing but good things about this book

Wild — Cheryl Strayed Another book I’ve heard nothing but good things about

Well, that’s all. Hope you all have a wonderful rest of your weekend!

Small Haul

Another small haul from a used bookstore and thriftbooks. Enjoy!

Total Spent: Around $20

Books Bought: 8

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Mysteries:

The Heist — Janet Evanovich & Lee Goldberg Supposed to be great

Grave Sight — Charlaine Harris Another really popular book that’s supposed to be great

If Walls Could Talk — Juliet Blackwell I’ve been looking for this one for forever, it sounds amazing

Dead Bolt — Juliet Blackwell Bought this in the hope that If Walls Could Talk will be great

Feta Attraction — Suzanne Hardy Sounds great, I mean a mystery in a Greek restaurant. What’s not to like?

YA:

Leaving Paradise — Simone Elkeles This is supposed to be really good.

Maybe a Miracle — Brian Strause Crossing my fingers that this one’s great.

Other:

Julie & Julia — Julie Powell After mysteries and YA food memoirs are my favorite.

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Hopefully all of these are well worth my money and are enjoyable!

Review for Murder at the Brightwell coming in the next few days.

I really need to stop, but… another haul!

Well, I spent a lot more money than I wanted but in the last week I’ve went to multiple bookstores and thrift stores and now I am dangerously close to having absolutely no space on my shelves now, oops! Anyway I went on another small vacation with my family last week, so there are three books I read while on vacation that will have reviews coming soon! So, without further ado, here are the books I bought!

New Books:

• Peaches and Scream — Susan Furlong (It’s signed!!)
• Hooked on Ewe — Hannah Reed
• Lemon Pies and Little White Lies — Ellery Adams
• Go Set a Watchman — Harper Lee (Already Read, review soon!)

Used Books:

• A Killer Crop — Sheila Connolly
• Looming Murder — Carol Ann Martin
• Ill-Gotten Panes — Jennifer McAndrews
• Decked — Carol Higgins Clark
• Stuck on Murder — Lucy Lawrence
• Murder, Plain and Simple — Isabella Alan
• Them Bones — Carolyn Haines
• Evans Above — Rhys Bowen
• Murder on Monday — Ann Purser
• Dire Threads — Janet Bolin
• B is for Burglar — Sue Grafton
• Little Shop of Homicide — Denise Swanson
• Killer Stuff — Sharon Fiffer
• Candy Apple Dead — Sammi Carter
• Remains to be Scene — R.T. Jordan
• Faithful unto Death — Caroline Graham

Well that’s it! Expect reviews for Heirs and Graces by Rhys Bowen, Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee, and Three Bedrooms, One Corpse by Charlaine Harris within the next couple of days.

4th of July Haul!!!

Last night I went to a used bookstore near us and today I went to our thriftshop and alltogether I found some great books and great deals!

Number of Books Bought: 15

Money Spent: $17

Bookstore:

Stay At Home Dead — Jeffrey Allen Seems like a unique subject for a series, I’m excited for this!

Mistletoe and Mayhem — Kate Kingsbury I love Christmas mysteries and these are supposed to be some of the best!

The Cat, the Professor and the Poison — Leann Sweeney Loved the first one, so hopefully the next two are as good

The Cat, the Liar and the Lady — Leann Sweeney ^^

Needled to Death — Maggie Sefton The next one I need to read in this series

The Cereal Murders — Diane Mott Davidson Same as above

Photo Finished — Laura Childs Same as above

Thriftstore:

At my local thriftstore ALL books were a quarter.

When in Rome — Ngaio Marsh You can never go wrong with a classic

Knit One, Kill Two — Maggie Sefton I’ve already read this one, but it’s in perfect condition and I really liked it.

Crouching Buzzard, Leaping Loon — Donna Andrews The one after the next one I need to read in this series.

The Body in the Ivy — Katherine Hall Page Sounds super

One for the Money — Janet Evanovich I’ve heard many good things about this series

A Misty Mourning — Rett MacPherson Sounds interesting

Buried Bones — Carolyn Haines maybe now that I have the 2nd and 3rd in this series I’ll find the first

The Cold Blue Blood — David Handler Sounds really good

A Fatal Grace — Louise Penny I’ve been wanting to read this series for awhile now, so maybe having the second book will inspire me to read the first.

Overall I’m very proud of this. I hope everyone has a wonderful and safe Fourth of July weekend!

Book Haul — 10 More Books!

I was out in one of the neighboring towns around us today and I went to a few different stores and found 10 more books for the tbr pile!

Total Spent: $5.25

Books Bought: 10

Divergent – Veronica Roth I actually checked this out from the library a while ago but then I found it today and I had to snatch it up

A Royal Pain – Rhys Bowen I was pleasantly surprised when I found this, it is actually the second in the series and I’ve only read the first, so yay.

A Vision of Murder – Victoria Laurie This book looked brand new when I got it from a small thrift store, and I’ve been meaning to start this series.

The Alpine Journey – Mary Daheim I’ve heard this is a decent series, I hope so!

A Death in the Family – Hazel Holt I follow a blog that simply raved over this series awhile ago.

Death By The Light of the Moon – Joan Hess Supposed to be a good series.

The Cat Who Went Into the Closet – Lillian Jackson Braun There were a few more books in this series at the same place I found this one, but this was the only one that really sounded good to me.

One Hot Murder – Lorraine Bartlett I’ve read the first one in this series and I’ve been meaning to get the second one. This is the third.

Margaritas and Murder – Jessica Fletcher & Donald Bain Another Murder, She Wrote for the Collection

And Then There Were None – Agatha Christie I’ve heard that this is her best book and I’ve seen an old movie that was based on this, so I decided to pick it up.

Overall a nice relaxing day. Review for Last Wool and Testament coming soon!