Book Buying Bonanza

Now, I'm dating myself here, but there used to be this cartoon I watched when I was a young'un, Quik Draw McGraw. If my heart didn't already belong to Mighty Mouse, I might have gone for that gun totin' horse.

He had this pet dog and when he gave this pet dog snacks, this dog would go into spasms of ectasy. Now looking back with a much more jaundiced air, I think there was probably more than just meat byproducts in the biscuit to have such an effect. Nevertheless, that's how I'm kind of feeling right now.

I've gone on a bookbuying spree, the likes I've never had before! Here is what I've picked up in the past two days!!!

Innocence and Impropriety by Diane Gaston
I've read her other books and really enjoyed them, so I just had to get this one!

Beau Carusoe by Carla Kelly

I've hears such wonderful things about her books and I think I have one somewhere around, but I thought I'd give this one a shot

Games of Command by Linnea Sinclair
I have a couple of others by her. I haven't read them yet,
but Devon is a huge fan of Ms. Sinclair and although they seem to be calling them "Science Fiction Romance" these days, I love a good Futuristic

The Sword and the Sheath by Bonnie Vanak
I don't think it's any surprise that I got this one. I've loved her two previous books so this one was for sure a TBB.

Chosen Prey by Cheyene McCray
I'm not sure what made me buy this one. I haven't heard a thing about it. I do have another one by her but again, it remains in the TBR pile

One Real Cowboy by Janette Kenny
It's a Western! It's on sale! Need I say more?

Now - funny story about these next few. I checked out Chapters and they said they were in stock. Being in a bit of a hurry, I just picked up the book along with the rest of them and hurried home so I could catalogue in my spreadsheet. I love doing that *g*. It wasn't until I got home and took the book out, I realized that I had the wrong book! I had purchased Slave to Sensation instead of Visions of Heat by Nalini Singh. Well - I was going out for coffee on Saturday morning and just by happy circumstance, Chapters was right next to the coffee shop. So I returned Slave to Sensation (which I already had) and looked for the right book this time. They didn't have it on the shelf (grrr - it's awful being a frustrated book buyer). So instead, I got another one I was thinking of getting.

Then later, in a case of real delayed reaction, while on my way to visit Cindy (more on that in a moment) it dawned on me that I had picked up Sighs Matter instead the one I really wanted,

Arousing Suspicions by Marianne Stillings.

Now I ask you, what would be a visit with two avid romance readers be without a trip to a book store.?I had already checked and the other ones I wanted that I couldn't find here, were at the Chapters in Cindy's city. So I returned the wrong book and planned on getting the right one. I read her first one, Damsel in this Dress, and while very disappointed in it, it very good potential. So I wanted to read this one to see if I could see if the potential lived up to what I hoped.

Well, it wasn't on the shelf either and neither was this next one,
Voices of the Night by Lydia Joyce.
I've read her other books and quite enjoyed them.
Well, the sales clerk was so very helpful, much better than the ones near me, that I also picked up a couple more that were on my maybe list.

My Favourite Earthling by Susan Grant
Her new titles sound awful and I think they are
lighter than her first few books, but I've loved of them so I had to give this one a try.

And because the sales clerk was so nice, I picked up on more
isn't it a great thing how we can justify to ourselves?
Blood Secrets by Viva Anna

I've been wanting to try the Nocturne Line and I've seen
this one around.

Maidensong by Diana Groe

And I was also dancing the happy dance when I saw this next one. Not that you would know because my currently reading never matches what it says I am, but I'm reading and loving Erinsong. So when I saw this one on the shelves - well since it's not on the shelves here and I was planning on ordering it online - I was ecstatic when I found it.

Now for more on my visit with Cindy. I (of course) had a great time. I saw her book room that Bob built and it's even better in person than in the pictures! And I also walked on her redesigned bathroom floor! Big deal you might be thinking, but this floor is coooooool . Well, not cool, because it's heated! It does wonderful things to your feet! While I was there, we got to exchanging information on how to do blog stuff. You may have noticed an overabundance on pictures! She showed me how to do them. And she also showed me (well in fact she did it) how to get the banner that Mailyn did for me. *huge grin*. So I've gone a bit wild here. I showed her how to do the pictures on the side bar, so it was a mutual exchange of blogging information :)
I have other huge news - book wise that only Cindy knows so far, but I'll share it next post. Until then, I'm headed back to bed to try and get that hour back!

'til later

ETA
Since I did this early this morning on an hour's less sleep, I did forget to mention what Cindy pointed out! Cindy, Bob (who is such a great guy - Cindy is so lucky) and I also hit IKEA! Boy do I love that store. There isn't one near me, so it's usually quite a treat and a bit of a money drain when I do get there. I saw the greatest kitchen display. I don't know if I've mentioned, but I'm having the kitchen redone - floor to ceiling - and I mean that literally! The ceiling is stucco (yuck - we didn't do it!). I didn't get much - but I did get a new coffee and end tables (which I put together myself I might add with a little bit of elbow grease from Ryan) and a few books ends for the 'library.' Of course hindsight being 20/20, now there's all kinds of things I'm thinking I should have got.