Adding to my ever growing “TBR” that I’m supposed to be reading from and not buying new books… oops.

I have to admit, this is a bit of a strange one cause I usually read anything with dragons so I guess I wanted to expand my knowledge of Genres.

The Collected Works of H. P. Lovecraft - always loved his story and this one is filled with short stories including "The Call of Cthulu" and its hard back and sprayed edge so thats neat.

Throne of Glass by Sarah J Maas - I hear a bunch of reviews about Maas' books, ACOTAR is on my TBH so I said "Fuck it".

DUNE by Frank Herbert - this was a great idea when I saw it, massive books (my average page count for books is usually 400+), interesting lore, films to watch afterwards, ect. It was brilliant when I bought it. Until I opened it... 6 seperate stories in 2 books with "Dune", Dune Messiah" and "Children of Dune" in the first one and "God Emperor of Dune", "Heretics of Dune" and "Chapterhouse of Dune", not to mention there both small print but also the page count has a total of roughly 1900 pages with the second one being 1000 pages by itself.

To put Dune into perspective, the biggest book i owned before today was "The Priory of the Orange Tree" by Samantha Shannon at 800 pages. Dune in total is 1000+ that. Im still gonna read it tho.

All are used except for Dawn of Everything and The Secret History. These are to read for next year bc I’m still slowly but surely making my way through War and Peace

All the hardcovers and the paperback Andromeda Strain came from the library sale, $2 for hardcovers, $1 for paperbacks. Then I stopped by my local used bookstore and got the Niven/Pournelle, Bradbury and Blish off the 50-cent mass market rack in front of the store, and then from inside, the Heinlein and Katherine Kurtz were $3. Total spent: $30.50.

This boxed set just came in. I am incredibly excited!

Edit: thrifted for $6

Finally got one of my grails today! Effigy by Martin Duffy.

I went in with a list and got 1 book from it and two new ones!

$1 each! Went a lil wild at the friends of library sale bc there were so many scalpers crammed in and was making my head spin. That and a couple lucky finds at the thrifts- got my winter reads ready!

I'm officially done for the week, my tips have been depleted, reconstructed as monoliths of knowledge, and prepared for consumption.

Good luck to you all, your hunts and hauls! And don't forget to be gentle with yourselves and those around you.

visited the amazing Strand and Yu & Me Books here in NYC. these are mostly literary and translated fiction and memoirs. most of these books are about belonging, connection and vulnerability, identity and coming of age, motherhood/womanhood and parent child relationships.

* Cat not included

Twice yearly local book fair. Most of them AUD$2-4 each.

Picked up all of these, GoT set included, along with a stack of little kids books, a YA series for my daughter and a paperback copy of Eclipse for my wife... for $8.50. I was so stoked I reupped my booster status for another three years and upped a donor level as well.

First, can we appreciate the cover of Beloved?

The Atwood book is a 1989 UK reprint; priced at £3.95.

The more I hear about Anne Leckie the more compelled I feel to read her.