Sunday, January 17, 2010

New Books in the house

Two wonderful people have weekly memes about what has shown up in our mailbox the previous week.

Kristi at The Story Siren
& Marcia at The Printed Page.
Jump over to see what others have received this week.


Review books that have arrived this week:

18 Billion
The Culture of Excess
Dino Vicelli Private Eye: in a World of Evils


Purchased (physical store):
wow, not even at Friends of the Library!


Purchased (Mail order delivered):
I really should start writing down my ebook purchases ;-)


A Special Thank You to A Reader's Respite
The Puzzle King


copyright Book Dragon's Lair 2009-2010

8 comments:

fredamans said...

I'm supposed to review The Culture of Excess on Monday but still waiting...

http://fredasvoice.blogspot.com/2010/01/in-my-mailbox_16.html

Stephanie aka The Stark Raving Bibliophile said...

I really like your title and header. happy reading!

Rebecca said...

Awesome books you got this week. The Puzzle Ring looks interesting. Hope you enjoy reading all your books.

Laura (The Bookie Bunch) said...

Great books! The Puzzle Ring looks good.

Here's what I got this week: http://bookielaura.blogspot.com/2010/01/in-my-mailbox-1-17-10.html

Have a great week!

Kaye said...

I remember reading a couple of good reviews of the Puzzle King a while back. I hope you enjoy all your new books. Have a great week.

DCMetroreader said...

The Culture of Excess sounds thought provoking. Hope you enjoy your books!

Brooke from The Bluestocking Guide said...

Nice haul!! Happy reading. Here is mine

Alice Teh said...

I'm curious as to what 18 BILLION is about...

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New blog goal for 2010. I'm going to try keeping a running total of the following. We'll see how long it lasts... well, let's try this again for 2011! Just remember, anything with an ISBN counts, even the short stories.
Up to date as of December 18 (to the best of my knowledge)

Books read, new: 231
Books read, re-read: 27
New to me authors: 64
Pages: 19,841 plus 168 ebooks
Reviews posted: 29


Nonfiction: 10
Picture Books to Young Adult: 34
Banned/Challenged Books: none? fix this next year!

books left to read in 2012

Don't know if this will work or not but will give it a try. . .

As of May 25, early a.m., I have the following books left to read to complete all of my open challenges.

68 separate ISBNs
22 21 specific states
1-6 :: 0-5 :: 0-4 cozy mysteries
1 Mystery/Suspense with a weapon in title (Poison)
4 3 Dystopia
1 Fairy Tale
1 from 100 Best list
1 Science Fiction
1 Literary Fiction
1 Classic (Hound of the Baskervilles)
3 Memoirs
1 Fae
?? The Unread Book
7 Harry Potter
7 Narnia
3 by Dean Koontz
5 Song of Fire and Ice series - Game of Thrones
7 free ebooks
Redwall
Easy Prey
Magic Kingdom for Sale-Sold
1 Disney Lit
311 Pelican Court
5 specific colors
1 foodie
12 11 specific...Summer Book Challenge
8-10 8-9 specific...Summer Reading Challenge
5 specific..Getting Lost in a Comfortable Book
1 AlA's Top Ten/2011
"x" title
review 2+ personal books
review 8 already read ARCs
review 15 ARCs
Room
11 Shelf Discovery books


Some of these can/will overlap but it is still a HUGE list.