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bookgazing) wrote2009-09-02 02:43 pm
bookgazing) wrote2009-09-02 02:43 pm
Book Buying - Mini Spree
Glorious book buying, how I’ve missed you! I was very restrained on my first spree after the ban and kicked a bunch of books out of my shopping basket before paying (because I went away this weekend and shopping was involved quite a lot and I need to buy new winter clothes this month). The package I’m waiting for will contain:
Chameleon – This is a GuysLitWire recommendation (so many more books on my list since I started listening to the contributors there). Described as a basketball buddy novel set in Compton, an area patrolled by two rival gangs.
Cycler – When I was a teenager ‘Just 17’ ran a feature about how classic novels might be reinvented as teen movies. One book they dealt with was ‘Orlando’ by Virginia Woolf and I’ve pretty much been waiting since then for someone to write that book. Cycler sounds about as close as any author has ever come to that idea: a female competitive cycler who transforms into a boy for four days every month. I want!
Funny How Things Change – A Chasing Ray rec which I’ve been wanting almost as long as ‘Flygirl’. All about the pressures on teens to leave their home town, even when their best path may lie where they already are.
Flygirl – Yes! A story of racial disguise and tension in the life of one young woman who wants to fly planes in WWII. And it will soon be mine *beams*.
The Mariposa Club – Four gay teens, already used to being outsiders, try to set up their school’s first gay club. I know I’m not officially signed up to the challenge that dare not speak its name, but I would like to read 10 YA books featuring gay or lesbian relationships by the end of the year (I think I’m on 4 so far).
Books that didn’t quite make the cut were:
Gentlemen – Awesome cover, awesome story behind the cover, awesome review at GuysLitWire. Wait why isn’t this in my basket again...
The Legend of Colton H Bryant – I have so much non-fiction I probably wouldn’t get around to this for ages. But cowboys... Can anyone recommend some cowboy fiction (and yes I’ve already read and loved ‘Brokeback Mountain’).
The Girl With Glass Feet – Still only in hardback. Also if I’d bought this one I might have also added ‘The Boy with the Cuckoo Clock Heart’ and ‘Rain Village’ for a fairytale spree, which would hav been disastrous.
Throne of Jade – I love Temeraire and Laurence, but I’m not sure I need this book right now. Right?
Whitehouse Autumn – Again I love Meg but I know this book isn’t going to drop out of print or my memory so it’s ok to wait a while to get it.
White is for Witching – Still only in hardback at Amazon.co.uk – still!
The Jewel Box – Still. Only. In. Hardback. Come on!
The Rules for Hearts – There are only two Sara Ryan novels in existence and my reaction to this shortage is the same as my reaction to the fact that there are only six Jane Austen novels – run away from the situation and pretend it is not real. When she wirtes another book I’ll pick this up.
Sad for them, but maybe I’ll get a couple of these books next month (or maybe the end of this month if my willpower gives out). All the adult books seemed to get knocked out but maybe that’s because a couple were still, still, only in hardback at Amazon! Where is the promised paperback version of ‘White is for Witching’?
You know you have to spill now, right? What books have you bought this week and what have you economised on to increase your book buying budget?
Oh and did I mention I picked up the complete Moomin comics while I was away? Eeeh! I’ve read the first two pages and I’d forgotten how trippy they are. Moomin Papa has built a time machine!
Chameleon – This is a GuysLitWire recommendation (so many more books on my list since I started listening to the contributors there). Described as a basketball buddy novel set in Compton, an area patrolled by two rival gangs.
Cycler – When I was a teenager ‘Just 17’ ran a feature about how classic novels might be reinvented as teen movies. One book they dealt with was ‘Orlando’ by Virginia Woolf and I’ve pretty much been waiting since then for someone to write that book. Cycler sounds about as close as any author has ever come to that idea: a female competitive cycler who transforms into a boy for four days every month. I want!
Funny How Things Change – A Chasing Ray rec which I’ve been wanting almost as long as ‘Flygirl’. All about the pressures on teens to leave their home town, even when their best path may lie where they already are.
Flygirl – Yes! A story of racial disguise and tension in the life of one young woman who wants to fly planes in WWII. And it will soon be mine *beams*.
The Mariposa Club – Four gay teens, already used to being outsiders, try to set up their school’s first gay club. I know I’m not officially signed up to the challenge that dare not speak its name, but I would like to read 10 YA books featuring gay or lesbian relationships by the end of the year (I think I’m on 4 so far).
Books that didn’t quite make the cut were:
Gentlemen – Awesome cover, awesome story behind the cover, awesome review at GuysLitWire. Wait why isn’t this in my basket again...
The Legend of Colton H Bryant – I have so much non-fiction I probably wouldn’t get around to this for ages. But cowboys... Can anyone recommend some cowboy fiction (and yes I’ve already read and loved ‘Brokeback Mountain’).
The Girl With Glass Feet – Still only in hardback. Also if I’d bought this one I might have also added ‘The Boy with the Cuckoo Clock Heart’ and ‘Rain Village’ for a fairytale spree, which would hav been disastrous.
Throne of Jade – I love Temeraire and Laurence, but I’m not sure I need this book right now. Right?
Whitehouse Autumn – Again I love Meg but I know this book isn’t going to drop out of print or my memory so it’s ok to wait a while to get it.
White is for Witching – Still only in hardback at Amazon.co.uk – still!
The Jewel Box – Still. Only. In. Hardback. Come on!
The Rules for Hearts – There are only two Sara Ryan novels in existence and my reaction to this shortage is the same as my reaction to the fact that there are only six Jane Austen novels – run away from the situation and pretend it is not real. When she wirtes another book I’ll pick this up.
Sad for them, but maybe I’ll get a couple of these books next month (or maybe the end of this month if my willpower gives out). All the adult books seemed to get knocked out but maybe that’s because a couple were still, still, only in hardback at Amazon! Where is the promised paperback version of ‘White is for Witching’?
You know you have to spill now, right? What books have you bought this week and what have you economised on to increase your book buying budget?
Oh and did I mention I picked up the complete Moomin comics while I was away? Eeeh! I’ve read the first two pages and I’d forgotten how trippy they are. Moomin Papa has built a time machine!