Book Collecting: Update #23

Technically there are three other book hauls I should be posting before this one, but I just picked these up from my dollar bookstore (yes, all the book you are about to see cost $1 a piece!) earlier this week, and remembered to take photos of them when I got home! So, here’s what I bought!

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• Star Wars – Episode 1: The Phantom Menace by Terry Brooks
• Wizard at Large (Magic Kingdom of Landover #3) by Terry Brooks

Talk about a random selection of Terry Brooks book, right? The reason behind these particular books is simple: I was going to a Terry Brooks signing later that day!

I don’t actually own any books by Brooks, so before I went to the signing, I thought I’d check to see my $1 book outlet store to see if they had any of him in-stock.

These were the only two books they had of him (I would have preferred hardcover), but they were in like-new condition, and I they later got signed!

I’ll be putting a post up of that event (hopefully) soon!

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• The Left Hand of God (Left Hand of God #1) by Paul Hoffman
• The Last Four Things (Left Hand of God #2) by Paul Hoffman
• The Beating of His Wings (Left Hand of God #3) by Paul Hoffman

The Left Hand of God trilogy, is a series that I have been waining to read for a couple years now. I first discovered it on one of those top Grimdark lists, and later found out it ranked very high on many of these Grimdark lists.

The outlet store had had books 2 and 3 for a while, but never seemed to get the first in. Later last year though, there finally did! However, that was when it was 2 for $5, and I never actually planned one reading this as soon as I bought them, or picking them up for a sining, no are they all new hardcover releases – so at the time, $7.50 for the three seemed expensive (I’m being cheep, I know). But when I saw them this time, and being only a buck a piece, perfect time to add them to my collection 🙂

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• Shadowrise (Shadowmarch #3) by Tad Williams
• Shadowheart (Shadowmarch #4) by Tad Williams

I have never read Tad Williams;  I did pick up The Very Best of Tad Williams when it was released a few year back… but never got around to reading it 😦 So my intention are good! The first by him I intend to read is Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn. I do not yet own any of those books by him, but everytime I come across a good condition (and theses were both like-new condition) hardcover or paperback, I pick it up!

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• The Lost Chronicles: The Official Companion Book with Bonus DVD Behind the Scenes of LOST by Mark Cotta Vaz

If you looked at my featured image closely, you may have noticed that there were actually two of these LOST books. That’s because one if for me – but the other is for dad for father’s day!

LOST is our favorite show of all-time! And this little companion books with the DVD(!) looked like it’d be an awesome time to check out, here and there.

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• The Sound and the Furry (A Chet and Bernie Mystery #6) by Spencer Quinn

Last is another A Chet and Bernie Mystery book. I have only read the first book, Dog on It (my review), but I freaking loved it so much! It’s told form the dog’s POV, and it is hilarious! XD I haven’t gotten around to reading any more them since that first one, but it made such an impression on me, that I am always on the look out to pick up the rest of the books that I am missing from the series.

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Read any of these books yet? Been to any author signings lately?

Let me know what’s good!

-DJ