The downside to reading so many wonderful book blogs is that my wish list just keeps growing. You guys have to stop telling us about all of these books!. Just kidding — I wanna hear about all of them.
Here are the books I read about this week which I’m adding to my list:
- Vivaldi’s Virgins by Barbara Quick. Historical Tapestry had a great Q&A with the author of this novel recently. More historical goodness that I can’t resist.
- Mozart’s Sisters by Nancy Moser. Ok, I guess I’m not only a historical kick but also on a musical one. heh. Nancy, aka Bookfool had a great review of this book recently.
- Stranger on a Train by Jenny Diski. Dorothy W. wrote about this book of essays which chronicle the author’s experience in getting to know America via train rides. Love taking trains so I had to add this to my list.
- Taking Flight by Kelly Rae Roberts. A book on inspiration and finding your muse. I enjoy these types of books a lot and being that I’m trying to come up with some new book projects I’m sure I’ll find some nugget of inspiration here. Thanks to Avisannschild who mentioned this book.
- Glass Houses by Rachel Caine. Another book about teen vampires but I can’t get enough of these so I’m glad Stephanie reviewed this one as I hadn’t heard about it before.
- The Vampyre by Tom Holland. Yes, another vampire but I guess it is the season. Nymeth wrote a great review of this one so check it out if you get a chance.
I have a feeling I’ll have a lot more new books to add to my list after this weekend because I’ve told my husband that we must go to the bookstore for our date night. For one reason or another it’s been quite a while since we’ve hung out at the bookstore and that is not a good thing. Anyway, I hope you all have a wonderful weekend. I hope to catch up on reading and hopefully finishing some new books for the shop.
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wow
i was just thinking about the same thing, and i was about to call my husband just before popping up on ur blog…:)
i love spending time in bookstoressssss…..
I LOVE bookstores. Period. LOL!
I hope you’ve a great weekend, Iliana. 🙂 Enjoy your books!!
I also took note of those top two titles. I love historical fiction and am in the mood for something good. I have a couple of Jenny Diski’s books as well and Dorothy makes me want to pick one of them up as well!
it is hard to find these book in its original language in Turkey.
And even if you find it, it has a double price then.
But when i read them in Turkish translation, i dnt gain the same taste and like as i feel in its original language.
So in this regard i m a bit unfortunate i guess…
But still, i am trying to catch up with foreign books!
I enjoyed Vivaldi’s Virgins. Very interesting historic details.
Have a wonderful evening browsing through the books!
You always have the best lists, Iliana. I’m pretty sure you’re responsible for at least 70% of the new books I want. 🙂
i agree about The Vampyre book that Nymeth reviewed. Sounds like an intriguing read. I’ve seen my TBR pile grow exponentially on good reads, and I doubt I will finish nearly half of them.
I read Vivaldi’s Virgins and enjoyed the story. Reminiscent of Sarah Dunant’s novels but shorter. I’m adding Mozart’s Sisters to my list of to buy and look forward to reading it.
See my review of VV at http://myobsessionwithbooks.blogspot.com/
Iliana,
I’m having a giveaway and Mozart’s Sister is one of the choices. You should dash over and sign up. I’m so pleased that you’ve put a book on your wish list because of me (even if it does make me a bit nervous when people buy books because of a review I’ve written!).
I hope you enjoy The Vampyre when you get to it! Have a lovely weekend, Iliana, and enjoy your bookstore date night 🙂
iselldreams – Gotta love spending some quality time at the bookstores right! Hope you have fun! Regarding English books in Turkey – I can imagine they are expensive. When I’m in Germany and try to look for English books – I do find quite a bit but ouch those prices! Have you gone on bookmooch or another of those book trading sites? You might be able to get some trading going on. I highly recommend BookMooch.
Melody – Indeed! I hope you and baby are doing well. We’ve missed your posts 🙂
Danielle – I’m not very big on essays but the Diski book sounds just wonderful so I think that’s one I need to try and find soon 🙂
jenclair – Oh I’m glad to hear you enjoyed it too! Did I miss your review? Or has it been a while since you read it?
Andi – Hee,hee… Oh and don’t worry, you manage to get me to add bunches of books to my list too 🙂
Serena – Yea, it’s a bit sad when I think my book wish list will go on forever but well maybe there is a big library in the afterlife and we can continue reading 🙂
nicchic – Oh I’ve enjoyed some of Sarah Dunant’s books so that’s good to hear. Thank you for the link to your review – I’ll check it out! 🙂
Bookfool, aka Nancy – I’m so over there – Pick me! haha… And, nah, don’t worry, we all do that. Not every book will be for everyone but you won’t know until you check it out 🙂
Nymeth – I realize, the American version has a different title – hate it when they do that. I am sure I’ve seen this book at Half Price Books so on my next stop there I’ll look for it! You have a great weekend too! 🙂
The Vampyre recently went on my wish list too. I went to a book sale today that was being held at my office to raise money for a charity and ended up coming home with quite a few new books. I know I shouldn’t have, but I convinced myself it was for a good cause and therefore worth it. 🙂
The first two (Vivaldi and Mozart) sound very good—I love classical music. I’ll certainly check them out! 🙂
yep i enjoyed at the bookstore quite much.
i did not buy any book but i got a DVD.
oh i dnt know about BookMooch. I wll check it out.
Thank you so much for your advice:)
I hope you like the Diski book when you get there! I’ve gotten an amazing number of recommendations from fellow book bloggers, which is a wonderful thing, even if it does make the TBR pile incredibly large!
Literary Feline – Ooh, have you posted on your finds yet? I wanna see what you got 🙂 And, yes, it was for a good cause so you just had to do it!
Matt – Aren’t those composers wonderful? I think when I finally get to those books I’ll have to put some of their music on in the background and sink into the stories!
iselldreams – Glad to hear you had a good time at the bookstore! We did too. Enjoy bookmooch. It becomes addictive too 🙂
Dorothy W. – I know that TBR pile is outrageous isn’t it. Ah well, at least I know there will always be something good to read in the stacks!
I just got Mozart’s Sister and I was thinking about playing Mozart! 🙂