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#bookhaul Cashing in some credits at the used bookstore. My main goal with this purchase was the hardcover edition of The Shadow Rising, since my husband‘s 30-year-old mass market paperback did not survive my reading it. Unfortunately this edition is a different size than the hardcovers he has of later books. 😡

#bookspree

Ruthiella That‘s so frustrating when publishers change the size like that! ☹️ 1w

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Bookwomble

The Gormenghast Trilogy | Mervyn Peake

I think this was less a #BookHaul and more a #BookSpree 🤭 Especially if the other five books I bought while we were away are added in! 😳
• I have the Gormenghast trilogy (+Maeve's sequel) already, and have read them many times as they are amongst my very favourite books and Peake is a favourite author and poet, but only in a collected edition, so now I have the individual editions in a 1973 printing.
• The Detective in Film is a 1972 vintage, ⬇️

Bookwomble ... so naturally focuses on movies up to that date, and primarily the Hollywood Golden Era. Lovely photo illustrations, and makes a good companion to the classic horror film books I picked up earlier in the year.
• We are Not Numbers are short essays by young Gazan people, and look likely to be simultaneously enlightening and heartbreaking. Published in April 2025, some of the contributors have since been killed in the ongoing genocide 😢 1w

Bookwomble • The Setting Sun by Osamu Dazai is, I've read, one of his best regarded novels, and I enjoyed the short stories of his I've read, so high hopes for this one.
• Blade Runner: A Movie is the Burroughs' story that Ridley Scott borrowed the title from for his actual movie, which Burroughs' book isn't, and it turns out he borrowed the title from someone else! I haven't liked the little of Burroughs I've read, but I'll give this a go. 1w

Bookwomble • I Am a Bird from Paradise by Hāfez selects some of his poems translated by Davis, and I'm reading and enjoying this one.
• Retrograde collects three short stories by, again, Osamu Dazai, and:
• The Glow in the Dark by Bolivian author Liliana Colanzi is a short story collection of "gothic horror and cyberpunk" tales themed around the consequences of a real nuclear fallout disaster. 1w

AnnCrystal 📚👏🏼🤩👍🏼💝. 1w

TieDyeDude Nice haul/spree! 1w

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LauraAndTaraAndBooks

The Most Fun We Ever Had | Claire Lombardo

(Leaving dentist) Brain: "don't do the bad thing, don't go to the bookshop."
(Walking into bookshop) Brain: "don't do the bad thing, don't buy the books."
....
Brain (resigned): "fine, but if you're going to do the bad thing, at least don't buy more th- ...oh screw it, I quit."

#bookhaul #bookspree #oops #sorrynotsorry

Amiable Ha! Literally my brain every time I am within a 5-mile radius of the bookstore! 😀 6y

AmyG My dentist is NEXT to a bookstore...an amazing one, too. I have an appointment on Thursday. 😳 6y

Ruthiella I wouldn‘t be able to resist the temptation either! 😀 6y

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Cathythoughts Nice stack. I like your taste . I‘m reading Broken Harbour by Tana at the mo. Love her (edited) 6y

LauraAndTaraAndBooks @Amiable @Ruthiella 😆 glad I'm not alone! You guys are so great at assuaging my (admittedly short-lived) guilt 6y

LauraAndTaraAndBooks @AmyG eagerly anticipating Thursday's bookhaul pic!! A reward is definitely deserved after visiting the dentist. 6y

LauraAndTaraAndBooks @Cathythoughts thank you! I'm looking forward to checking out Tana's Dublin Murder Squad books after reading The Wych Elm. Apparently it's quite a different style though? 6y

AmyG Ha! 2 new teeth...I may not be able to afford any books. 🤣 6y

LauraAndTaraAndBooks @AmyG oh no! Will be thinking of you 💛 6y

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writerlibrarian

A Song for Summer | Eva Ibbotson

I did a little book shopping on this, my first day of summer break. These are new, gorgeous, lovely covers for Ibbotson. Bookriot really knows how to push my buttons. They are coming out early September. #bookspree

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jreyks

The Lying Game | Ruth Ware

I have become quite obsessed with all Ruth Ware‘s books. I cannot wait to start The Lying Game. And of course I couldn‘t go to Indigo and not by more than one thing! 🙈 #ruthware #katewhite #thelyinggame #slash #duffmckagan #comfyandcozy #bookspree

Jess7 I own the secrets you keep. I haven't read it yet, but it's on my #TBR. I liked The Lying Game 8y

jreyks @Jess7 just starting the secrets you keep. I hope it‘s a good one!! 8y

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LauraAndTaraAndBooks

Middlemarch: a study of provincial life | George Eliot

Whoever said "size doesn't matter" clearly wasn't talking about books! #bookhaul #doorstoppers

Went a little crazy in the bookshop today, ended up having to spread my payment across book tokens, a full stamp card, loose change, and my severely crippled bank card. I. Have. A. Problem. ??? #oops #bookspree #sorrynotsorry #noshame

RealBooks4ever 🤣🤣🤣💜 9y

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LauraAndTaraAndBooks

Norse Mythology | Neil Gaiman

So I was already in town when my friend postponed our plans for a couple of hours. I clearly had NO choice but to head to the bookshop. And then once I was there, I had NO choice but to buy a book. And then once I'd chosen one book, I had NO choice but to buy another...and another...and......you see where this is going! #bookspree #oops #sorrynotsorry

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