A Tough Time of Year

With two conventions/conferences coming up in the month of July, the first one starting (YIKES!) a week from today, I try my very best to curb my book buying as I never know which ones I might get. But with SO MANY books out in June, July and August, these are just some of the books I'm wanting to get.



As you can see, it's quite a list! And these are just the ones I want RIGHT NOW. As the month goes on and others post about books they've read and really enjoyed, the list gets longer and longer and longer. And when it comes to books I want, I'm not used to waiting; to seeing them on the shelves and telling myself no!!

And not only that, but Chapters just had to have a buy three, get one free promotion on. It has been tough, real tough I tell you, not to give into the seductive lure they have thrown out there. But I've been checking the authors who are going to be at either RomCon or RWA or both and there are quite a number who have the books I want.

So all I need to do for the next month is to make sure I don't drive the Chapters route on the way home from work and try not to check out their on line site to see if the books are in stock and I might make it. Maybe. If I stand firm.

I can do it!! I mean, it's not like I don't have books to read. There have been a few I couldn't resist getting, like Joanna Bourne's The Forbidden Rose. And of course when I saw Love in the Afternoon by Lisa Kleypas at Walmart - with a 25% discount - I just couldn't walk on by now could I??

But now I'm making if official. NO MORE BOOKS!!


Now I'll just have to see if I stick to it. It's going to be painful.

(I wish!)

Well, after spending most of the weekend doing nothing but sleeping; seriously - I went to bed at 7:45 on Friday night and did a lot more all weekend, I finally feel like I'm getting back in my groove. As you can see, I didn't get around to recaping the rest of the week. I had plans to, but the need for zzzzzz's trumped the desire to recap.

One of the few things I did manage to get done was cataloging the books I brought back. I still haven't really unpacked yet, but the books are now up-to-date in LibraryThing, Shelfari, Goodreads and the spread sheet. It's all about priorities.

But I did want to mention a couple more workshops I made it too. I've pretty much decided that I need to get an ereader so when I saw a workshop that Jane of DA, Sarah of SB and Angie of Carina Press were putting on, I thought I'd get some good info. The only trouble was I think I was the only one in the room that didn't already have one and the conversation was over my head for a lot of it. But I did get enough by osmosis to realize that there isn't a devise that has everything I want.

S0.....

I've decided to go with the Kobo. I like the price!!! $149.00 is pretty hard to turn your nose up at. Unlike the Kindle, you aren't limited to buying books just from Chapters, the store that supports it in Canada. It doesn't have WiFi like the Kindle and Nook do, but then that will also allow me to shop at some of the smaller epresses which is what I wanted. I think I'll order one in the next couple of days. I can only hope that it isn't too hard to download from the computer to the reader. I shall be crossing my fingers that day let me tell you!!

There are so many great things about going to conventions/conferences. And one of them is the books one can get. After spending so much time cataloguing them, now I just have to share the books I got

Author	Title
Aguirre, Ann	Blue Diablo
Aguirre, Ann	DoubleBlind
Bond, Stephanie	Finding Your Mojo
Byrd, Rhyannon	Touch Of Seduction
Carlyle, Liz	Wicked All Day
Cooke, Lisa	A Midwife Crisis
Crane, Carolyn	Mind Games
Dahl, Victoria	Lead Me On
Dare, Lydia	A Certain Wolfish Charm
Dare, Lydia	Tall, Dark And Wolfish
Day, Alyssa	Atlantis Redeemed
Day, Zuri	Lessons From A Younger Lover
Dow, Candice	Feelin' The Vibe
Duran, Meredith	Wicked Becomes You
Eisler, Barry	Fault Line
Fennell, Judi	In Over Her Head
Gibson, Rachel	Nothing But Trouble
Grainger, Jess	Beyond The Shadows
Hendricks, Elysa	Star Raiders
Hieber, Leanna Renee	TheDarkly Luminous Fight For Persephone Parker
Howard, Linda	MacKenzie's Heroe's
Jackson, Brenda	Hot Westmoreland Nights
Jeffries, Sabrina	The Truth About Lord Stoneville
Lee, Jade	Dragonborn
Low, Genita	Virtually His
MacLean, Julianne	Nine Rules To Break When Romancing A Rake
Madison, Tracy	A Breath Of Magic
Maverick, Liz	Crimson And Steam
McCoy, Judi	Making Over Mr. Right
Medeiros, Teresa	Some Like It Wild
Pineiro, Caridad	Sins Of The Flesh
Quinn, Tara Taylor	In Plain Sight
Reece, Christy	Second Chance
Robards, Karen	Scandalous
Rush, Jamie	Touching Darkness
Rush, Jamie	Out Of The Darkness
Thomas, Sherry	His At Night
Walker, Shiloh	Hunter's Need
Wilds, Elissa	Darkness Rising
York, Rebecca	Dragon Moon

I probably would have got even more at the book signing but alas, I wimped out. But still, I think I did rather fine. They were all from the conference. Nath and I made a run to a bookstore and then we went to another one along with Mollie. With the price being so different in the US as opposed to Canada and the dollar being almost par and Nath having coupons, well it just didn't make sense for us not to go!

I wish I hadn't pooped out as there was so much other stuff going on that kept us going almost non stop. But enough to say it was such a wonderful time and I can hardly wait until my next one!!