Book shopping fall 21 - Forum

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Here's my list for the rest of the year in physical copies. I've worked on keeping them to max 10 a year due to enviro reasons (and money. Ebooks are cheaper, so I only get books i expect to enjoy in physical copy firsthand now.) you might also have noticed I haven't even read all my other anticipations for this year yet (e.g. I was super excited for The living sea of waking dreams, and fairly excited about In the ravenous dark - which i might have to add to this list.)

What is yours?

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Reading ebooks is so hard ouff. I think I have bought everything I need this year tho, cus I still have like 5+ books I need to read.
I have bought uhhhh this year
-in the miso soup (read)
-lolita (read 50 pages lmao)
-piercing
-schrödingers cat trilogy (all three parts in one book)

hmm mby some more I don't remember but I think thats it
I tried looking at the big norli in oslo near karl johan but I couldn't find any interesting books I hadn't read from before

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Aaa I really want to read she who became the sun
Recently I bought The Priory of the Orange Tree, The seven husbands of Evelyn Hugo, Norwegian Wood and Normal People

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ouch wrote:
Reading ebooks is so hard ouff. I think I have bought everything I need this year tho, cus I still have like 5+ books I need to read.
I have bought uhhhh this year
-in the miso soup (read)
-lolita (read 50 pages lmao)
-piercing
-schrödingers cat trilogy (all three parts in one book)

hmm mby some more I don't remember but I think thats it
I tried looking at the big norli in oslo near karl johan but I couldn't find any interesting books I hadn't read from before

I know! It's much easier on a tablet tho. Reading on phone/laptop is last resort. Audiobooks are good for travels tho but lowers reading quality a lot for fiction imo. Non fiction be okay.

I still have a few to finish up too:
- the children of ash and elm (got this year)
- the bone people (got last fall)
- the goddess of nothing at all (earc)

And some others on ebooks (spin the dawn, we hunt the flame, star daughter, city of brass) but some just needs to be read while the hype is there which means the other ones are posponed for when there's no hype.

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Aaa I really want to read she who became the sun
Recently I bought The Priory of the Orange Tree, The seven husbands of Evelyn Hugo, Norwegian Wood and Normal People

Saaame! I've been awaiting it for so long and it's finally here!! I sorta want the pocket edition.

I loved Evelyn Hugo!

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Mymble wrote:
Aaa I really want to read she who became the sun
Recently I bought The Priory of the Orange Tree, The seven husbands of Evelyn Hugo, Norwegian Wood and Normal People

Saaame! I've been awaiting it for so long and it's finally here!! I sorta want the pocket edition.

I loved Evelyn Hugo!

I've actually started buying pockets again, easier to hold than my hardcovers

Good, I'm looking forward to it! I have to read 1984 and Norwegian Wood first tho, I'm doing a reading challenge with my mother haha

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Mymble wrote:
Aaa I really want to read she who became the sun
Recently I bought The Priory of the Orange Tree, The seven husbands of Evelyn Hugo, Norwegian Wood and Normal People

Saaame! I've been awaiting it for so long and it's finally here!! I sorta want the pocket edition.

I loved Evelyn Hugo!

I've actually started buying pockets again, easier to hold than my hardcovers

Good, I'm looking forward to it! I have to read 1984 and Norwegian Wood first tho, I'm doing a reading challenge with my mother haha

Yeah. Like I'm gonna finish some series in hardcover, but there are some im just like... I'd like this in a paperback bc my wrists will be suffering and I've been way too exhausted this year tbh

Thar sounds super cozy!

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[The organization(?) issues of figuring which covers and physical copies you're gonna get]

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lain wrote:

Nesta wrote:

Mymble wrote:

Nesta wrote:
Saaame! I've been awaiting it for so long and it's finally here!! I sorta want the pocket edition.

I loved Evelyn Hugo!

I've actually started buying pockets again, easier to hold than my hardcovers

Good, I'm looking forward to it! I have to read 1984 and Norwegian Wood first tho, I'm doing a reading challenge with my mother haha

Yeah. Like I'm gonna finish some series in hardcover, but there are some im just like... I'd like this in a paperback bc my wrists will be suffering and I've been way too exhausted this year tbh

Thar sounds super cozy!

Yes! I finished the acotar-series in hardcover, pain
Pocket edition from now on, unless theres a special edition I want

It is! We have a poster with book titles where you scratch (like skrapelodd) the book you've read

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Mymble wrote:

Nesta wrote:

Mymble wrote:
I've actually started buying pockets again, easier to hold than my hardcovers

Good, I'm looking forward to it! I have to read 1984 and Norwegian Wood first tho, I'm doing a reading challenge with my mother haha

Yeah. Like I'm gonna finish some series in hardcover, but there are some im just like... I'd like this in a paperback bc my wrists will be suffering and I've been way too exhausted this year tbh

Thar sounds super cozy!

Yes! I finished the acotar-series in hardcover, pain
Pocket edition from now on, unless theres a special edition I want

It is! We have a poster with book titles where you scratch (like skrapelodd) the book you've read

Ohh that's soo cool! I have a world map similar to that.

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I think I'm gonna get all on the list except she who became the sun and Intersectional enviro. in hardcover. Mostly bc it would match the books i already have in that series or by the author. Mostly US covers also bc they are normally superior.

If there are some i will end up getting later then it will probably be paperback bc then they are finally released

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They only have the uk cover in softcovers 😭

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i think i shouldn't buy any more books now bc i have enough that i haven't read yet that will probably last me the year (i'm so slow at reading sometimes)

i recently bought girl interrupted by susanna kaysen (read) and the things we don't see by savannah brown (currently reading, like one third left)

then i have like. three or four more books i've bought earlier (one that's just a short story and that i've borrowed from my dad) to read, and also found out there's a bunch of swedish literature you can get as ebooks for free so i'm gonna try to read some karin boye (like, kallocain and kris are the ones i'm aiming for, i recently read all of her poetry now i wanna try her prose sdghk)

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i think i shouldn't buy any more books now bc i have enough that i haven't read yet that will probably last me the year (i'm so slow at reading sometimes)

i recently bought girl interrupted by susanna kaysen (read) and the things we don't see by savannah brown (currently reading, like one third left)

then i have like. three or four more books i've bought earlier (one that's just a short story and that i've borrowed from my dad) to read, and also found out there's a bunch of swedish literature you can get as ebooks for free so i'm gonna try to read some karin boye (like, kallocain and kris are the ones i'm aiming for, i recently read all of her poetry now i wanna try her prose sdghk)

Sounds reasonable!

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oh i have like seven books i wanna buy but i decided not to buy any new books before i get a stable income again, which might be a while. but if i can find them second hand i might get some of them

the starless sea
the night circus
the enchantress of florence
midnights children
kafka on the shore
the hunchback of notre dame
den sidste kejser (couldnt find the english title)

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bee wrote:
oh i have like seven books i wanna buy but i decided not to buy any new books before i get a stable income again, which might be a while. but if i can find them second hand i might get some of them

the starless sea
the night circus
the enchantress of florence
midnights children
kafka on the shore
the hunchback of notre dame
den sidste kejser (couldnt find the english title)

Sounds like a smart decition. Have you considered your local liberary for some of them? The night circus and kafka have been out so long it's quite likely they are there.