The Ever-Growing TBR List

My friend Cath posted some photo's of her latest book buys, which made me think I should do that too.. a little book porn never hurt. Except in my case they are not used books so it hurts in the ol' wallet! It seems England has some great charity sales around where Cath lives and so she gets some really great bargains!! I may not get many bargains but I am always happy when someone else gets them, for there are few of us that couldn't use bargain books!

So here is the pile of newest books I've gotten. (no, not all at once!)

Garth Nix's book of Sabriel was sent to me by my adopted son Chris a few weeks ago. In turn I went to amazon and ordered the other 2 books of the trilogy. Book 3 arrived shortly after but book 2 was "out of stock". (grrrrrrrrr) After waiting for a few weeks I finally got book 3, but now I am reading stuff for RIP so these will wait a touch longer.

The next three just sounded like something I'd like so one or two at a time I ordered them. The Ghost Writer is one of this years recommendations from Carl. I can't imagine any book being nearly as good as the Thirteenth Tale but we'll see what this one has to offer.

I've read Obert Skye's Leven Thump books with enjoyment so when I read this:

fifteen-year-old Beck Phillips travels by train to the secluded village of Kingsplot to live with his wealthy but estranged uncle, Beck discovers some dark family secrets. A buried basement, a forbidden wall, an old book of family history with odd references to... dragons?

Well.. I mean.. it says "dragons"! Of course I'll give it a go!

And as for The Magicians and Mrs Quent.. .. a little magic never hurt right?

Before the RIP Challenge began I had already sent for the book on Mary Pickford but since then I also sent for The Parade's Gone By and The Star Machine. The Pickford book and Parade's Gone by relates mostly to the time when silent movies were king, which I can't seem to get enough of. Hopefully these books should be enough, along with all the books I've already read recently, to satisfy me for a while.

I've often enjoyed Biography's and Autobiographies but after I read the book "Stan and Ollie" by Simon Louvish I seemed to have become obsessed with reading about many of the actors who began in Vaudeville, went to Silent Movies and then to talkies.. especially when the books tell me a lot abut the making of Silent Movies and how things were back then. I hope by getting these 3 books , that by the time I read them I will have had " my fill" for a while!

I've enjoyed every book I've read since the Stan and Ollie book which included Money Business by the same author, The Other Side of Oz by Buddy Ebsen, Making Movies by Sidney Lumet, and Movies, DW Griffith and Me by Lillian Gish.

It's strange how certain topics can grab you when you least expect it. I suspect it has something to do with reading things by authors that do more than just state the obvious.

So... that's the newest stash.. which brings my TBR list up to FOURTY-FIVE BOOKS! *gasp!