Book Restlessness

Ok so in less then 6 1/2 hours I will walk into Books-A-Million and pick up a freshly printed Dreamfever and I will carefully open up the cover and flip to the middle and smell the delicious book smell that only truely new books have. (Yes, I am aware that I am crazy and that that sounds totally luny, and you know what I dont care. Yes, I completely embrace the craziness.) After absorbing that unique smell I will gently and carefully hold my book while I make my way back to the Bargain Book section and start my carefully planned out search. For you see I, Amanda Mae, intend to buy not only Dreamfever but four other books also for all under $30.00. Yes I do sound insane and trust me I worked hard to pick out the books that interest me the most and yet are relatively cheap. BAMM says that for members only they will sell the book for 46% off. When I heard this I jumped so high from excitement I almost went through the roof. (Well not really but I think you know what I mean.) For you see this book is $26 but with that wonderful 46% off it comes to a grand total of $14.04. If you are not a member at BAMM do not fret for at Borders they have it 30% off which only comes to $18.20. Which should bright up your day as it has mine. The only sad part to this wonderful day is work. For at 12 I will have to venture out into the real world for 3 1/2 hours, which as all us avid readers know it means that I cannot start my new book until I return home and can lock my bedroom door and bunker down for however many hours it takes me to read it. Maybe even twice. I so cannot await the hour when I may do just that. Well you may be asking yourselves what about the other books I mentioned, well let me tell you about them. If the BAMM website is to be completely trusted these should be the prices of the books if they are on the bargain tables. And to the dear Lord I pray they are.


Private Places
by Robin Schone,
Claudia Dain,
Allyson James, &
Shiloh Walker
Publisher: Berkley Trade
Pub. Date: August 5, 2008
Pages: 368
BAMM Price: $3.57

Description thanks to B&N:

USA Today bestselling author Robin Schone shares a tale of a man and a woman in a notorious club, who learn how very dangerous desires of the flesh can be. Claudia Dain heats up this collection with the story of two voyeuristic young courtesans who might just take part in a very public seduction at the theatre. Allyson James has a card-playing, cunning widower and a desperate young widow learn that passion is the ultimate wild card. And finally, Shiloh Walker introduces a short story of a woman saved by a shapeshifter. Now, if only she could think of a way to repay him...

Rarely does such blush-worthy, heated erotica exist—and almost never all in one book.


Harstairs House
by Amanda Grange
Publisher: Berkley Trade
Pub. Date: December 4, 2007
Pages: 304
BAMM Price: $3.57

Description thanks to B&N:

From the author of Mr. Knightley's Diary and Lord Deverill's Secret comes a sparkling tale of a woman, her inheritance, and the rake who could ruin everything.

Inheriting a house from a stranger was shocking enough. Then Susannah Thorpe learns that in order to claim her inheritance, she must either wed in a month, or else spend the next thirty days in Harstairs House-a place purported to be haunted. Not about to marry, she makes the arduous journey to her new home, only to discover that there's already a tenant living there: a broodingly handsome man named Oliver Bristow, who has no intention of leaving before his lease runs out-in another month. Now Susannah must share her quarters with her mysterious, rakish tenant- without falling head over heels in love.


The Chosen Sin
by Anya Bast
Publisher: Berkley Trade
Pub. Date: October 7, 2008
Pages: 320
BAMM Price: $3.57

Description thanks to B&N:

A sensuous and lust-filled otherworld--from a "sinfully hot" (Ilona Andrews, author of Magic Bites) bestselling author.

The Chosen are vampiers fighting for their very existence. It is Daria Morris's destiny to become one of them...

Daria is a special forces agent with one obsession: to wreak vengeance on the vampire who nearly destroyed her. But to succeed, she must become something she detests: a vampire. Her fate rests upon Alejandro Martinez, a sexy vampire with whom she once shared an unforgettable night of scorching passion.

Now, while Daria struggles against her newfound bloodlust, the two must slip into the shadows to bring a monster to justice-even as their desire threatens to consume them...


The Jane Austen Book Club
by Karen Joy Fowler
Publisher: Plume Books
Pub. Date: August 28, 2007
BAMM Price: $2.67

Description thanks to B&N:

In California's central valley, five women and one man join to discuss Jane Austen's novels. Over the six months they get together, marriages are tested, affairs begin, unsuitable arrangements become suitable, and love happens. With her eye for the frailties of human behaviour and her ear for the absurdities of social intercourse, Karen Joy Fowler has never been wittier nor her characters more appealing. The result is a delicious dissection of modern relationships.

-For this one I am very excited. I have seen the movie numerous times but have just never read the book. I truely would hate to buy it just so it can land on my TBR pile and never be seen again, but with a price like this how can I resist.

Well, they all sound good to me and I just hope the prices are the same when I get there. As I read them I will post my thoughts for you to read.

Maybe now that i've written some I can sleep. Doubtful but i'll try.