New books! Used.

I have had this strong feeling coming up. You know, the one where one can't resist any longer, where one needs to lay hand on new books. At least new books to me as they are all gently used.

I got The Blind Assasin by Margaret Atwood, Geisha of Gion by Mineko Iwasaki, Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel and The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai. All but Geisha of Gion are Man Booker Prize Winners. I bought the books used or got them from Bookmooch.

Have you read any of them?

New Books! Are you on NetGalley?

If not I would highly recommend it. At least for owners of an e-reader. It has a great variety of (un-)released ebooks. I requested seven books and already was allowed to download six of them. The titles are:


The Art of Forgetting by Camille Noe Pagan (Penguin Group USA)
The Lake by Banana Yoshimoto (Melville House Publishing)
Miss Timmin's School for Girls by Nayana Currimbhoy (HarperCollins)
White Woman on the Green Bicycle by Monique Roffey (Penguin Group USA)
The Oriental Wife by Evelyn Toynton (Other Press)
Cain by José Saramago (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) *no picture*

The publishers only ask you to write a review of the books they offer, but this is something we book bloggers do anyway, don't we?

I'm already half way into Miss Timmin's and though I thought the first chapter wasn't that intriguing, I am satisfied now. The Lake I plan on reading for the JLC 5.

I hope to squeeze in some extra reading time for the lovely titles I got. I'm off reading!

Do you know or have read any of the titles yet?

New books!

I have three new books in my posession. Atonement by Ian McEwan I got via Bookmooch.
I have read a review of Wildthorn by Jane Eagland at Bookworm with a View's blog and decided I had to have it. I bought it used.
Cleopatra by Stacy Schiff is going to be my first audiobook.