While She Knits - Gift Card Version

[checkers65477.livejournal.com]

If you had $100 to spend at your favorite bookstore, what would you buy?



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[willow-41z.livejournal.com]

Madeleine L'Engle's Crosswick Journals, the last three; A Small Rain and A Severed Wasp, also by Madeleine L'Engle; George Herbert's complete works; more Madeleine L'Engle; Girls Gone Mild by Wendy Shalit as well as her latest book; more Georgette Heyer. That would probably use up the $100. :p But if not, Ariel Levy's Female Chauvinist Pigs and Ozy and Millie books (which technically aren't sold in bookstores) and L. M. Montgomery books oh and definitely Dorothy Gilman and and and :p

[checkers65477.livejournal.com]

This is all from my Amazon wish list:

To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis (I've never been able to find this in a used bookstore)
Swordspoint by Ellen Kushner
Havemercy by Jaida Jones
Pennington's Last Term by K. M. Peyton
The New Adventures of the Mad Scientist's Club by Bertrand Brinley
A Civil Contract by Georgette Heyer
Transformation by Carol Berg
Lens of the World by R. A. MacAvoy
The Name of the Wind by Patick Rothfuss
The Mirador by Sarah Monette
The Blue Castle by L. M. Mongomery

And OH somuchmoreonmylist

[philia-fan.livejournal.com]

Pennington! I remember that fondly.

[magicsandwiches.livejournal.com]

Mad Scientist's Club is the greatest. In my family, we can't decide which is better, the original or the new adventures.

[9mil.livejournal.com]

The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith
Pygmy AND Snuff by Chuck Palahniuk
and whatever I can get in english by Stanislaw Lem.

[tearoha.livejournal.com]

Pride and Prejudice and... Zombies? Really?

[sandtree.livejournal.com]

I'm reading 'Pride and Prejudice and Zombies' right now!

[irenengen4ever.livejournal.com]

The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy-I want that so bad! I love that series and it would be awesome to have all of them in one book. To get it online right now is pretty expensive.

[ninedaysaqueen.livejournal.com]

"The Amaranth Enchantment" by Julie Berry

The remaining six volumes I have not read of the manga series "The Devil Does Exist" by Mitsuba Takanashi.

The new Japanese novel from Tokyopop "The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya" by Nagaru Tanagawa.

"A Company of Swans" by Eva Ibostan.

"Cybele's Secret" by Juliet Marillier.

"The Squire's Quest" by Gerald Morris (once it comes out in September).

That would equal about $100, or just a little more.

[reader-marie.livejournal.com]

Oh, no! Gerald Morris has a new book coming out and I don't have it on my list already! (I am failing at my self-appointed role of stalker-of-amazing-authors...)

Thanks for alerting me!

[rosaleeluann.livejournal.com]

Hmmmmm. Hard choices...

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Castle in the Air/House of Many Ways by Diana Wynne Jones
the Chronicles of Chrestomanci Vol. 1 and 3
A Coalition of Lions and ALL SEQUELS

Hmmm.

The some TBRs I think.
Dandelion Wine by Rad Bradbury
Oppel's Airborn books
The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
The Curse of Chalion by Lois McMaster Bujold

I guess I'm to about $100, depending on whether/how many hardbacks I got.

[magicsandwiches.livejournal.com]

Wow, this is weirding me out. I have Dandelion Wine, The Book Thief, and Curse of Chalion on hold at the library! AND I'm currently reading Airborn! And I just started Chronicles of Chrestomanci Vol. 3.

[(Anonymous)]

Hm...well, I do most of my book buying on Amazon, which is TECHnically a bookstore, right? And...whenever I buy from Amazon, I generally buy used books because they're cheaper. But then I have to figure out shipping!

OK, I'll play fair and assume that we're buying these books NEW and in hardcover. *cringes* That will significantly lessen the volume of books I can get, but since this is an imaginary splurge, here goes (these are all off of my Amazon wishlist, and actually the last four are picture books for my fairy tale collection or novel retellings of classic fairy tales)

Airborne, by Kenneth Oppel
Skybreaker, by Kenneth Oppel
Starclimber, by Kenneth Oppel
Graceling, by Kristen Cashore
A Curse Dark as Gold, by Elizabeth C. Bunce
Wildwood Dancing, by Julliette Marillier
The Annotated Classic Fairy Tales, edited by Maria Tatar
The Fairy Tales, by Jan Peinkowski

And that's it?! Already I'm just a hair over $100.....*grumbles* I may have to recalculate this into what I would buy if I was going to go my usual scrimping route. Psh, my mom gave me a $30 Amazon gift card a while back, and ya should have seen what I squeezed out of that! Actually...this is the reason I have so few books to choose from on my wishlist...most of them can be obtained cheaply enough that they don't sit on the list long.

[readsintrees.livejournal.com]

Gah! I forgot to sign in above!

[peggy-2.livejournal.com]

The Fairy Tales, by Jan Peinkowski

I bought his new book Nut Cracker for our 2008 Christmas Book, a retelling of the original German story of the Nutcracker Prince and the Rat King.
It is brilliant. and beautiful.

[philia-fan.livejournal.com]

* is tempted to ship you my copy of Graceling, which was okay but do I really need a hardcover copy of it? *

[tearoha.livejournal.com]

Ooh, what a cool idea! I presume that's 100 USD, checkers? Hope so, cause that gives me 174.825 NZD to play with.

I would buy this gorgeous special edition box set of the Harry Potter series: http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51HhG3qdQZL._SL500_AA240_.jpg
Here's a picture of a single cover: http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/images/0747569614/ref=dp_image_0?ie=UTF8&n=266239&s=books

I already have most of these books, but these ones are special. They're hardbacked, clothbound, and gilt-edged. I've lusted after them since I was twelve years old and saw the cloth-bound Chamber of Secrets. Sadly, that's still about 400 NZD, so I'd have to content myself with just a couple.

And then I'd jump onto Amazon and find a hardcover KoA, because my softcover is sadly mangled.

[kitsune-rains.livejournal.com]

Those books are beautiful! I... I want them now! Gah!

[philia-fan.livejournal.com]

-Sid Fleischman's The Trouble Begins at Eight
-The new re-releases of The Thirteen Clocks and The Wonderful O by James Thurber
-Hmmm, MAYBE Starclimber by Kenneth Oppel (except that it's only out in hardback, which is silly because the other two only came out in paperback, so the three will look mismatched on the shelf, and besides, shhh! rumor has it it's not as good as the first two)
-a couple more of Eva Ibbotson's fluffy-but-not romances
-copies of anything by Robert Westall I haven't read
-a new Harriet the Spy which is not completely falling apart and also has a decent cover, preferably the original art
-do I have any money left? I would buy more poetry. Don't seem to have quite enough lying around the place.

[checkers65477.livejournal.com]

The new re-releases of The Thirteen Clocks and The Wonderful O by James Thurber

Ohmygosh! I just bought the new Thirteen Clocks. I was in a lovely children's bookstore a few weeks ago and just could not resist it. It's SO beautiful. (http://search.barnesandnoble.com/The-Thirteen-Clocks/James-Thurber/e/9781590172759) With a forward by Neil Gaiman.

I'm a huge Thurber fan. Being from Columbus, I grew up reading his stuff.

[kitsune-rains.livejournal.com]

These books I wouldn't buy new, but that's only because the editions I want aren't the newest.
I would want a good copy of The Biography of a Grizzly by Ernst Thompson Seton, that green hardback copy of East of Eden that I read last week, and that nice softback brick-sized Les Miserables.

New, I would want to round out my collection of the Death Note and Jing: King of Bandits manga.

I don't know if that would be less than or more than a hundred dollars. I would probably see other pretty books and have to buy them.

[ornon.livejournal.com]

I'd get something (or somethings) Terry Pratchett and/or Discworld, the hard back copy of "Song of Susannah" by Stephen King that I've been lusting after for a while, whatever the next Matthew Stover book is, and "Here, There Be Dragons" by James A Owen (which, if y'all haven't read, you ought to, because all the fantasy/mythological allusions are great.) If that doesn't finish up the 100 bucks, I'd get some of Gaiman's "Sandman" series, because the library inexplicably only has the first three issues and none of the later ones.

[reader-marie.livejournal.com]

Ooh, boy!

A Coalition of Lions by Elizabeth E. Wein
The Sunbird by Elizabeth E. Wein
(I'd want The Winter Prince, too, to complete my collection, but it's out of print and I don't know where to get ahold of it these days.)
The upcoming Percy Jackson and the Last Olympian by Rick Riordan
Sunshine by Robin McKinley
The Niagara River by Kay Ryan (poetry; just read it for book club and really, really loved it!)
I'm ashamed to admit that I don't own a copy of The Queen of Attolia yet, so it's definitely on my list. I want the reissue cover with the hook, of course, since I think it's beautiful.
Book of A Thousand Days by Shannon Hale (haven't read it yet, but want to)
And my current collection of books that I own does not include The Chronicles of Narnia (though a boxed set puts me just over 100 dollars)...so I definitely need them.

Most books I buy are books I've already read and know I want to keep and reread. I do make exceptions for books by authors I love or that I'm too impatient to wait for the library to get!

[ninedaysaqueen.livejournal.com]

"Book of a Thousand Days" is a lovely, lovely book. You most certainly should read it.

[idiosyncreant.livejournal.com]

I love this topic!

...it's too bad $100 isn't very many books, but it's more than I'm currently buying for myself.
Books I haven't read and want to:

How to Ditch Your Fairy (Larbalestier)
The Demon's Lexicon (Sarah Rees Brennan)
Wizard of the Pigeons (Megan Lindholm, AKA Robin Hobb, who I met this weekend)
The Bell at Sealy Head (McKillip)

aaaaaand then I'd fill in the cracks with however many 400 yen comics I could get from Amazon.co.jp. Whatever conversion that would be. Probably volumes of Skip-Beat. ^_^

[philia-fan.livejournal.com]

Have you seen the cover art for the paperback of How To Ditch Your Fairy? Best cover EVER. Makes me wish I hadn't bought it in hardback!

[aged-crone.livejournal.com]

Things that are in my shopping basket but I haven't ordered yet...

EARTHQUAKE DAYS: THE SAN FRANCISCO EARTHQUAKE AND FIRE IN 3D
AMAZING GRACE: WILLIAM WILBERFORCE AND THE HEROIC CAMPAIGN TO END SLAVERY
THE LAST OLYMPIAN, by Rick Riordan (last Percy Jackson book, due out soon!)
THE FOUR ADVENTURES OF RICHARD HANNAY, by John Buchan
PICTURING THE WORLD: THE ART OF ALICE AND MARTIN PROVENSEN

I think that's around $100.