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Have you bought any new books lately?

I have lots of new books, including Stephen King’s, “It”. Dan Rather’s, “What Unites Us”. A book about Leonardo da Vinci. Another book about the Crusades. Lots of stuff about Renaissance art.

Posted - April 2, 2018

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  • 22853
    Sounds like you have a variety of interesting things to read! Enjoy!

    I like King's "It" -- though one answerMugger and I agree on a certain episode in the book --  I'll leave it at that.
    :)

    I'm getting back to a new one for me --  "Shots on the Bridge: Police Violence and Cover-Up in the Wake of Katrina" by Ronnie Greene.


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  • 2515
    Thanks, Welby! I always like reading about new titles. They give me new ideas about what kinds of books are being published. 
      April 3, 2018 9:04 AM MDT
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  • 22853
    You're welcome, Marguerite, the Beloved!
    :)
      April 6, 2018 12:41 PM MDT
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  • two books. practical magic and the green witch 

    i also just bought 12 rules for life on amazon. Ive been trying to listen to the audio book but i just cant stay concentrated 
      April 2, 2018 8:56 PM MDT
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  • 22853
    I read your profile - - with "welcome to the pleasuredome" I'm not surprised you're on my team.
    :)
      April 2, 2018 8:58 PM MDT
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  • 22853
    I'm thinking I would have noticed your 'user name' by now if you've been here such a long while. Did you change your name recently?
    And, yes, I know -- it's none of my business! Feel free to ignore, ha!
    :)
      April 2, 2018 9:05 PM MDT
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  • 2052
    I downloaded a book called "God's Trombones."  
      April 2, 2018 8:59 PM MDT
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  • 17364
    I buy books on a regular basis so I could always answer yes to this question.
      April 2, 2018 9:25 PM MDT
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  • 7776
    Sure I have. The whole Game of Thrones book series, but it was a gift for someone else.
      April 2, 2018 9:40 PM MDT
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  • 41
    "Pretty Intense" by Danica Patrick is a fitness lifestyle book.
    "World Record Watches", Edition 4 by Garrett Belcher tells the most expensive, most complicated, most water-resistant, most antimagnetic, first pocketwatches and first wristwatches, oldest watchmaker still active, smallest, widest, etc.
      April 8, 2018 1:48 PM MDT
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  • 537
    "American Gods" by Neil Gaiman, "Remainder" by Tom McCarthy, and "Annihilition" by Jeff Vandermeer. Remainder is for a reading group, the others are for private reading only.
      April 9, 2018 12:49 AM MDT
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  • 2706
    Yup. Foxe's Book of Martyrs. Complete and unabridged. It's a very good and eye-opening read. :)
      April 23, 2018 9:02 AM MDT
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  • Indeed it is. This is one book that reinforces an important principle: That is, would you endure imprisonment, torture and a gruesome death to defend a lie? Probably not. The devotion and dedication that brought people to Choose martyrdom ahead of compromise, is confirmation of those truths they died for. 
      April 23, 2018 9:20 AM MDT
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  • 2706
    Agreed. Well put. :)
      April 23, 2018 9:25 AM MDT
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  • 2217
    Dixon hawke books 1 and 2 
      April 23, 2018 10:43 AM MDT
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  • 423
    Yes, one by John Collier and another by Arthur Machen - both written decades ago.
      September 7, 2019 12:59 PM MDT
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  • 22853


    I bought two copies of this book -- my favorite book by Shirley Jackson, which is saying a lot since I adore everything I've read from her.
    :)

    EDIT: boy, that's a big picture :)

    Image result for the sundial shirley jackson
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  • 2217
    I recently bought Love Oliver from the authors Andy and Jennifer Gill, but it may not count as new as it was published in 2011 (reprint 2012).

    Before that it was "Oh, it's yersel', ya bugger!" autobiography of Jack Kellet, but that was secondhand. 

    Nevile Davidson A Life to Be Lived by Andrew G Ralston biography of the minister that conducted the confirmation service for my father and thirty years later myself was bought hot off the press.

    Btw the one I last read was published last year, but was borrowed from the church library.

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