Piling Up on Friday - May 25

Piling Up on Friday is a weekly meme from Finding Your Gibbee. All you have to do is list the books you've added to your to read shelf in the last week.

It just so happens that I was on vacation for the past week! I just got back this morning. So, since I was on vacation, I allowed myself a slightly higher book buying allowance... So these are the books I bought while I was in Toronto:

 I got Colonize This! Young Women of Color on Today's Feminism, edited by Daisy Hernandez and Bushra Rehman, at the Toronto Women's Bookstore. Oh my goodness, I could have shopped forever in that bookstore! It was hard to leave with just one book!

Gwynne Dyer once spoke at my university, and I really like his bluntness. He's amazingly pessimistic. Anywho, apparently in this book he's less pessimistic! So this I've got to see. But seriously, this is a guy who knows what's going on. I'm looking forward to reading this one.

I've been vaguely interested in learning about sacred geometry ever since I read The Druidry Handbook, and then I found this brief guide to it for cheap at a used book store. Yay!

I bought the second book in this trilogy ages ago, and then was never able to find the first book, Hammerfall. I finally found it!

And then of course, I had to do my usual R.L. Stine search! Amazingly, I never saw a single Goosebumps or Fear Street book anywhere! I thought that was really weird. But I did find these two Mostly Ghostly books.

Piling Up on Friday - May 11

Piling Up on Friday is a weekly meme from Finding Your Gibbee. All you have to do is list the books you've added to your to read shelf in the last week.

In theory, May is supposed to be a no-buy month. I'm going to be in Toronto for a week, where I imagine there are wonderful book stores, so we'll see. But anyway, this week I didn't buy any! The only book I got was a birthday present. Jonathon (my partner) got me this one for my birthday (which was on Monday). Normally my presents would include more books, but he seems to think I have too many already! Imagine that! :-P

Piling Up on Friday - April 13

Piling Up on Friday is a weekly meme from Finding Your Gibbee. All you have to do is list the books you've added to your to read shelf in the last week.

My books this week are from The Book Fair, a used book store that I don't visit nearly often enough. I happened to be in the area with some time to kill, so I popped by. I didn't have my list with me (the one that tells me what R.L. Stine books I need), but they kindly let me check my Goodreads on their computer! How lovely. :)

Give Yourself Goosebumps Special Edition
#1: Into the Jaws of Doom

Goosebumps Series 2000 #24:
Earth Geeks Must Go!

Goosebumps Series 2000 #25:
Ghost in the Mirror

Give Yourself Goosebumps #21:
The Twisted Tale of Tiki Island

Goosebumps Horrorland #1:
Revenge of the Living Dummy

Give Yourself Goosebumps
#36: Ship of Ghouls

Piling Up on Friday - March 30

Piling Up on Friday is a weekly meme from Finding Your Gibbee. All you have to do is list the books you've added to your to read shelf in the last week.

It's been a while since I've had anything to put in this meme! I was managing to not acquire any new books for most of March, up until this week...

I requested Bandwidth by Angus Morrison on NetGalley. It's those featured title emails that keep me from exercising any kind of restraint... without me even visiting the site, it tells me what the best books are! I can't resist that!

Leaning Into the Corner: On Becoming a Different Kind of Woman by Shelley Whitney is the memoir of a trans* woman, talking about her experience with sex reassignment surgery and other aspects of changing her gender in society. I ordered this e-book because a friend of mine (who I think knows the author) sent out a Facebook message to all her friends recommending it.







And last but certainly not least, Catching Fire and Mockingjay! I read The Hunger Games last weekend, and I couldn't wait to get the rest of the trilogy!! (Also: Publishers who keep books in hardcover only for a very long time because they're selling well and you'll make gajillions of dollars by ripping off people who desperately want the books but would normally buy paperback: you are jerks. There, I said it.)

Piling Up on Friday (on Monday)

I was sad when I realised I'd missed this meme on Friday, especially since it was a big week for me in terms of book buying. But then today I saw that Finding Your Gibbee was late posting hers, too, so what the heck! I'll just do it a few days late!

So these are the books I added to my TBR pile last week. I'm just going to write a list, no pictures, because there are just too many of them!

Bought when there was a sale on at the local Pagan shop:

• Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype by Clarissa Pinkola Estés
• A Morning Cup of Tai Chi: One 15-Minute Routine to Nurture Your Body, Mind, and Spirit by John A. Bright-Fey

Children's Hospital Book Sale books (this is my downfall...):

• The Road to Dune by Frank Herbert, Brian Herbert, and Kevin J. Anderson
• The Butlerian Jihad (Legends of Dune #1) by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson
• The Machine Crusade (Legends of Dune #2) by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson
• The Battle of Corrin (Legends of Dune #3) by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson
• Vincalis the Agitator by Holly Lisle (I bought this because I read Diplomacy of Wolves like a decade ago and loved it [though I was in junior high at the time so I don't really remember it], and I JUST NOW realised that this is a prequel to that series!)
• Starrise at Corrivale by Diane Duane (because the Young Wizards series is SO GOOD that I must read everything she has written)
• After Human by Michael Cross (You know I've been at a book sale for too long when I start actually browsing and getting things by authors I've never heard of. Bad for the towering pile!)
• The Witches of Worm by Zilpha Keatley Snyder (One of these days I'll write about how The Egypt Game changed my life.)
• Scream of the Haunted Mask (Goosebumps Horrorland #4) by R.L. Stine
• The Ooze (Ghosts of Fear Street #8) by R.L. Stine
• Don't Ever Get Sick at Granny's (Ghosts of Fear Street #16) by R.L. Stine
• Invasion of the Body Squeezers, Part 2 (Goosebumps Series 2000 #5) by R.L. Stine
• Fright Camp (Goosebumps Series 2000 #8) by R.L. Stine
• Attack of the Graveyard Ghouls (Goosebumps Series 2000 #11) by R.L. Stine
• Return to Horrorland (Goosebumps Series 2000 #13) by R.L. Stine
• The Haunted Car (Goosebumps Series 2000 #21) by R.L. Stine
• Tales to Give You Goosebumps: 10 Spooky Stories by R.L. Stine
• Even More Tales to Give You Goosebumps: 10 Spooky Stories by R.L. Stine
• Still More Tales to Give You Goosebumps: 10 Spooky Stories by R.L. Stine

The last half of that list probably looks a bit weird... One of these days I'll also write about my R.L. Stine thing!

Library books:

• MWF Seeking BFF: My Yearlong Search for a New Best Friend by Rachel Bertsche
• The Autobiography of Malcolm X, as told to Alex Haley

So, yeah. It's a good thing those book sales only come a few times a year. I lose all self-control. Basically any progress I've made on my TBR pile since starting this blog has just been cancelled out. But on the bright side, look at all the pretties!! :) Anywho, I'm now back on no-buy mode for at least the rest of February, and probably March, too. I will get this pile under control!

Piling Up on Friday - February 3

Piling Up on Friday is a weekly meme from Finding Your Gibbee. All you have to do is list the books you've added to your to read shelf in the last week.

I'm starting to realise that NetGalley is the reason my to read shelf doesn't get any smaller even though I haven't bought a book in over a month... I requested Xoc on NetGalley yesterday. I must admit, the reason I requested it is that it starts with an X, which is an awesome find for the A-Z Book Challenge. :) But it also looks neat. It's a kids'/teens' book that follows a great white shark as he makes a journey across the ocean. I hear it's sort of a rant about humans destroying the oceans, which some people apparently don't like, but sounds great to me!

Piling Up on Friday - January 27

Piling Up on Friday is a new weekly meme from Finding Your Gibbee. All you have to do is list the books you added to your to read list this week.

Hopefully I won't be doing this meme every week, because that would mean that I'm acquiring more books than I should be! As it happens, I've been on a book buying ban this month, so I haven't bought any new books, but I did get a new NetGalley...

This week, I added The Whipping Club by Deborah Henry to my to read list. There's kind of a funny story behind that... I've been trying not to request any NetGalleys for a little while, since I'm a bit bogged down with books at the moment, but NetGalley sent out an email specifically about this book, so I was taking a look. Then, I went to click the More Info button for this book to read more about it, and accidentally clicked the Request button instead! (Haha, maybe accidents are my subconscious making its desires known...) So, now I have the e-book. I'll be reading it in early February, and I must say I'm quite looking forward to it!