Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature/meme now hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl. The meme was originally the brainchild of The Broke and the Bookish. This week’s topic is The Ten Most Recent Additions to My Shelves.
Newest Additions to The Hoard (print books)
Newest Additions to The Hoard (print books)
I decided to focus on print books for this prompt, and ignore my digital acquisitions. These are the latest additions to my physical shelves, acquired between late October and the end of December. (I haven’t added any print books since Christmas.)
- Regency Slang Revealed: Grose’s Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue & Later Versions – Organised & Indexed – used copy, for writing research
- The Black Cat’s Clue – used copy, from library sale
- A Spindle Splintered – used copy, from library sale
- Jane Austen’s England – used copy, for writing research
- Love Came Down: Anglican Readings for Advent and Christmas
- The Annotated Anne of Green Gables – used copy, from library sale
- Gwen and Art Are Not In Love – Christmas gift
- Legends and Lattes – Christmas gift (special edition)
- Bookshops and Bonedust – Christmas gift (special edition)
- The Forgotten Beasts of Eld – Christmas gift (50th anniversary hardcover edition)
Nicole @ BookWyrmKnits
Great list! I maybe should have stuck to just print additions to my hoard, too. That way I could have included all of my Christmas gifts instead of just a handful of them.
I was sorely tempted by those special editions of L&L and B&B, but I decided to stick to my ebook copies instead. However, if they add a matching edition for the upcoming third book (and still have books 1 & 2 available), I don’t know if I will be able to continue resisting.
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Lark_Bookwyrm
I am slowly converting my physical “hoard” to treasured volumes, both old and new. But I duplicate as many as I can in Kindle and/or audiobook. In the case of both the Legends and Lattes novels, I have them in all three formats: Kindle for ease of reading, and because that’s how I bought them first; audiobook because we share an audiobook library with Robin, who prefers audiobooks; and these special editions, which I put on my Christmas wishlist because I really wanted durable physical copies (and they were so tempting!) I hope that when the third book comes out, they bring out a matching hardcover!
Lydia
The Annotated Anne of Green Gables looks interesting.
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Lark_Bookwyrm
I’m really looking forward to rereading the book along with the annotations. I’m sure I’ll learn a lot about the author; various literary, cultural, and historical allusions in the book; and Prince Edward Island.
RS @ Literary Loot
Oooh this is a wonderful collection. Do you mind if I excitedly react to basically all of them?
1. That looks like fascinating research, might see if I can get a library copy to browse.
2. Love to see a vintage mystery! Do you have a collection of that series, or what prompted your interest?
4. Outstanding cover, and another I’m adding to the library list.
6. Annotated editions of classics are always wonderful — and from a library sale?? Score.
8-9. Those editions are beautiful, what wonderful Christmas gifts.
10. Anniversary editions are also excellent — I don’t know this book but it also looks beautiful.
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Lark_Bookwyrm
I don’t mind at all! And I have a few thoughts in reply to a few of yours.
2. I fell in love with the Judy Bolton mysteries as a child, reading my mom’s old copies. Except that she only had two or three of them. What appealed to me was not only the mysteries but the fact that unlike most of the other mystery series of its era, Judy grows up, graduates, goes to college, and even marries an FBI agent and has a child. . . all while continuing to solve mysteries. I loved that she wasn’t unnaturally stuck at age 18 or whatever. At any rate, I stumbled across an incomplete set of them at a used bookstore before the pandemic and bought the lot, intending to read through as much of the series as I could. I found this copy last fall in the library bookshop, complete with a dust jacket, and grabbed it without even knowing whether I had a copy at home. It’s pretty unusual for books like these (or the Nancy Drew or Hardy Boys books) to still have a dust jacket after all these years, so it was worth buying this one even if turns out I already own a copy. (I don’t know yet, because my books are still packed away.)
6. Agreed!
10. The Forgotten Beasts of Eld is a fantasy classic that came out when I was in my tweens. I highly recommend it. It’s beautifully written, luminous and lovely. I loved it then and still do, so I was delighted to trade my old mass-market paperback for this beautiful 50th anniversary edition (with, thankfully, larger print than that treasured childhood volume!)
Angela (Angel's Book Nook)
Lots of pretty pretty books. Happy Reading!
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Literary Feline
I decided to go the same route and only list print books. That at least narrowed it down. 🙂 Lucky you, getting the special editions of Baldree’s books! I still need to read the second one. I read A Spindle Splintered a few years ago and enjoyed it. I hope you will too!
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