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.

Did I tell you about the recent book purchases I got? I don’t think I did. I’m still organizing my shelves and I was adding these new additions when it dawned on me that I hadn’t mentioned them. Well, here are the goodies I got last week:

• Dead of the Day by Karen E. Olson. This is the third in the Annie Seymour series. This time the intrepid reporter might be facing off with the police chief.
• Shadow Man by Cody McFadyen. I think I first heard about this book via Les and have had it on my list for a while. It sounds like a fast-paced thriller.
• Too Darn Hot by Sandra Scoppettone. I loved the first Faye Quick book — just read it last month. So I had to get the second and find out what investigating Faye gets up to next.
• Funeral Music by Morag Joss. This is one of those series I’ve had on my radar for a while. I may have to substitute this one as one of my reads for the First in a Series challenge.

So that’s my little bounty of books. I think I need to stay away from the library from now until the end of the year. That’s not a real goal but I’m going to try and stick to my books and maybe make some headway in all those TBR stacks.

Oh, and don’t forget you still have time to enter the Sweetsmoke Giveaway!