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My local library has it! Thanks BW... looking forward to this bad boy!

52 Pick-Up - Elmore Leonard :stars4:

Hey Ricko I picked up "Perdido Street Station" for $1.50 at a booksale on the weekend. Not sure when I'll get around to reading it but I've taken the next step!

Over 14,000 members (obviously not all are active). 70 members in the last 24 hours alone. Yet only 8 votes. C'mon people! :cool:

This makes me sad :sad:

An iPhone - surely there's gotta be an appropriate app for this sort of predicament...

Recently finished The Surgeon Of Crowthorne by Simon Winchester. The Surgeon of Crowthorne - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

From an Australian news website: Lady Gaga fan kills cat for blood

With that sort of an attitude, expect your To Be Read pile to grow considerably! Welcome Phil!

Hi Sarah, always good to see another Aussie! If you are in Brisbane, there is a great ex-library booksale at Nundah and Salisbury until Wednesday 20 April.

Thanks brk_3, I did! Have a look a couple of messages up at the list of my purchases. :)

Thanks Hat, I was not aware that it was number one in a four part series. The booksale goes for another 4 days and I definitely saw another of his books there (not sure of the title... brain's a bit frazzled from scanning all those spines!) so I might swing back and pick it up. Good luck...

So here's what I got... 30 books for $45!!! Killer Instinct - Joseph Finder City Of Bones - Michael Connelly Perdido Street Station - China Mieville Mrs Dalloway - Virginia Woolf The Historian - Elizabeth Kostova Mystic River - Dennis Lehane Cherry Bomb - J.A. Konrath The Crossing -...

The Talented Mr Ripley - Patricia Highsmith 4.5/5

I read this last year and felt exactly the same way. Crazy vocab and crazy ideas made for a challenging read. I would probably try another of his books but I haven't made any effort yet to source one...

The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe - C.S.Lewis :stars4:

The Surgeon Of Crowthorne - Simon Winchester :stars4:

Next Saturday (April 16) I will be going to the Brisbane City Council Library book sale which sells withdrawn books from the library system. All proceeds go to the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation so I usually like to go a bit crazy when I'm there - I bought 21 books last time! Unlike any book sale I...