New books this week.

Personal Collection:

1. America's Women by Gail Collins

    I have wanted to read this book ever since I read and used (quite extensively) Collins' book on second wave feminism for my final thesis paper for my degree.

2. I Spy a Duke (Covert Heiress #1) by Erica Monroe

    Completely a "oh, nice cover and good blurb and it's only 99 cents" impulse choice.

Library Loans:

3. The Whole-Brain Child by Daniel J. Siegel and Tina Payne Bryson

    You may see me reading more of these kinds of books since in six weeks my sweet baby boy will enter kindergarten. It is a pretty slim volume, so hopefully I won't get lost reading all the hard science.

4. The Dressmaker of Khair Khana by Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

     I have been thinking of reading this book since I read Ashley's War by the same author. Lemmon has a way of describing a culture that is very foreign to me without dumbing it down.

5. The Carousel Painter by Judith Miller

    I love carousels. That cover. This was such an impulse choice.

6. The Mercy of the Sky by Holly Bailey

    I have a thing for non-fiction books about natural disasters. I think it stems from my work in the military (Emergency Management). This one is about the tornadoes that hit Moore, OK in 2013.

7. Revelations (Blue Bloods #3) by Melissa de la Cruz

8. The Van Alen Legacy (Blue Bloods #4) by Melissa de la Cruz 

    Trying to get back into the Blue Bloods series. I tend to think about this series only in August and September for some reason, which is why I am only on books 3 and 4.

Toss Out:

9. Bitter is the New Black by Jen Lancaster

    I could not stand the humor of this book. I read the prologue and the ending, and decided it wasn't for me. Since I didn't read enough of the book to feel warranted in giving it a DNF, I just deleted it from my shelves.

*bookish meme created by Moonlight Reader

Big Fun! A massive cross over with all of Dynamite's female heroes.  What's not to love?

Final research paper of my academic life is now complete. This book helped me tremendously and I recommend for anyone who wants to know the beginnings of the second wave feminist movement.

Now, I need a shower and a looooooonnnnnnggggg nap. Followed by lots of romance reading while waiting for my final grade.

All of these are priced from 99 cents to 1.99. Or at this moment at least. No idea of the quality of some of these - they're here because I once read something somewhere that made them sound good. I'm still narrowing down which I'll pick myself. If something in here you've read is exceptionally great or absolutely awful, do chime in!

I figured I'd stuff as many of these into one entry and maybe some of you folk would be interested. Because as usual my I'm Interested In This list is always a mishmash of subjects - lots are things that caught my eye eons ago and are only now on sale. Also there were more books than this - this is just the amount I decided to share before I got tired - narrowed down from 58ish books. Some I dropped since they were more than 1.99, which I always feel is a great price for "oh I'll give it a try." Which is why I currently have so many unread ebooks. ...Which is my way of saying, fair warning, perhaps pay no attention to all this.

While I haven't made my mind up on everything I can tell you what I did buy immediately - the one on Madame Tussaud. Because it's one of two books on her I've wanted and the woman has always fascinated me.

I'm assuming all the book images above will give you links to Amazon (again US Amazon, check to see if there's price matching in your location) - here are the ones that wouldn't fit:

Showgirls, Teen Wolves, and Astro Zombies: A Film Critic's Year-Long Quest to Find the Worst Movie Ever Made by Michael Adams

Talking to the Dead by Barbara Weisberg

The Man Time Forgot by Isaiah Wilner

Love and Madness by Martin Levy

Anne Frank by Francine Prose

Girls to the Front: The True Story of the Riot Grrrl Revolution by Sara Marcus

The Lives of the Muses by Francine Prose

The Best American Crime Writing 2006 (Best American Crime Reporting)

Periodic Tales: A Cultural History of the Elements, from Arsenic to Zinc by Hugh Aldersey-Williams

Reality Matters: 19 Writers Come Clean About the Shows We Can't Stop Watching by Anna David

The Fellowship by Roger Friedland (Author), Harold Zellman (Author)

[I'd forgotten this was on Frank Lloyd Wright and had to look it up because I thought it was about LOTR]

The Greedy Bastard Diary: Around the States in 80 Days by Eric Idle

The Map That Changed the World by Simon Winchester

Note, if you're going to make an impulse buy on Amazon sales, go for the ones marked 99 cents more quickly. Those sometimes go away in a matter of hours. The higher the price the longer you can dither while making up your mind.

As always, books on my watch list pop up on sale when least expected. As of today's alerts:

The Invisible Woman - 2.99 (recently made into a movie, thus the new cover)

America's Women - 1.99

Out of Africa and Shadows on the Grass - 2.99

Which means that if you like perusing Amazon for sales it might be worth it to take a peek and see if there's anything else interesting on sale.

In particular there's a whole page of Loved the Movie? Read the Book with all ebooks on sale for 2.99 or less.