What did you buy today? March 2012

I hope you don't mind me starting.

I dropped off a load of furniture at our Habitat for Humanity store and found these in their book section all in good shape.

A Folio Society edition of Cicero's On the Good Life.
One on my favorite architect The Architect of Desire: Beauty and Danger in the Stanford White Family.
And one that just looked interesting An Affair to Remember: The Greatest Love Stories of all Time.

this is confusing. do you still mean what did i buy on 7th march, or what did i buy today (being 12th march) ?
please clarify before tomorrow or we may have to start again.

Any particular day in March will do.

thank you. today i bought airgunner magazine and was reminded that it would soon be mothers' day and so i bought a card also, it says "to someone who is just like a mother to me" which is strange as she really is my mother as far as i know.

I have just bought Royal Assassin and Assassins Quest by Robin Hobb to complete that trilogy from my local British Heart Foundation charity shop, they are in excellent condition, don't appear to have been read.

Been good *and* bad lately. Got a little money unexpectedly. Paid some bills (good), put some in savings (good), and then splurged (bad). Over the last couple of weeks, I've brought home:

* Mariana by Susanna Kearsley (bought it last Wednesday, finished it Thursday, then read The Winter Sea in two days and yesterday started Season of Storms; she is now an autobuy)

* When Maidens Mourn by C.S. Harris (latest historical mystery in the Sebastian St. Cyr series)

* The Cocoa Conspiracy by Andrea Penrose (historical mystery, number 2 in a series)

* A Night to Surrender by Tessa Dare (historical romance; one of these days I'll have to read her to see if I should stop buying her books....)

* Make a Scene: Crafting a Powerful Story One Scene at a Time by Jordan E. Rosenfeld (highly recommended by the husband of a friend of mine)

* Right Here I See My Own Books: The Woman's Building Library at the World's Columbian Exposition by Sarah Wadsworth and Wayne A. Wiegand (it's such an esoteric subject at a university press price that I almost didn't buy it, until flipping through it I spotted the title of a book I happen to be reading right now, Fettered for Life, and took it as a sign I should spend the money)

I have nothing on hold right now, but did see a 2-in-1 of two Georgette Heyer books I don't think I own yet (must finish getting books into LT), and I'm waiting for books from Meredith Duran, Teresa Grant, and Bryan Sykes...

Brought home an ARC of The Book of Lost Fragrances by M.J. Rose this week.

The weather's so beautiful and the economy still bad enough that business at the bookstore is very slow. I'm losing several shifts over the next couple of weeks and need to behave: no spending money on books for the near future....

Made a purchase Friday, but only titles that are in series/that I've been waiting for. Put several books back. Also brought home an ARC:

* _Lord of the Black Isle_ by Elaine Coffman (time travel romance, ARC)
* At Your Pleasure by Meredith Duran (historical romance)
* Imperial Scandal by Teresa Grant (historical fiction; sequel to Vienna Waltz)
* Master of Heathcrest Hall by Galen Beckett (alternate history fantasy, third book in a trilogy)

Now I'm only waiting for the Bryan Sykes book, AFAIK.

I have a folio society edition of Cicero's On the Good Life. I was disappointed however that it does not have the excellent index the Penguin edition has. It is one of my favorite books. I love the long introduction my Michael Grant who was one of my favorite authors. I must have read 40 or 50 books by him. This is the best short anthology on Cicero I have ever seen. I was very happy to get it in a FOLIO society edition. I know my tattered paperback version will not last my lifetime.