Anyone who’s been to university or college knows that textbooks don’t come cheap. To help mitigate the costs, the hubby and I trade in our areoplan miles for chapters.ca gift certificates. Today, some of the books we recently ordered arrived in the mail *yippee*.

• The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil – Philip Zimbardo
• Telling Ain’t Training – Harold D. Stolovich
• Training Ain’t Performance – Harold D. Stolovich
• Transferring Learning to Behavior: Using the Four Levels to Improve Performance – Donald L. Kirkpatrick, James D. Kirkpatrick
• The First-Time Trainer: A Step-by-step Quick Guide For Managers, Supervisors, And New Training Professionals – Tom W. Goad
• Crossing The Chasm: Marketing and Selling High-Tech Products to Mainstream Customers – Geoffrey A. Moore
• Inside The Tornado: Strategies For Developing, Leveraging, And Surviving Hypergrowth Markets – Geoffrey A. Moore
• Born In Death – JD Robb
• You Suck Lp – Christopher Moore

I also had an Amazon.com gift certificate burning a hole in my online account that was given to me by Susan and Erica as part of their Debut a Debut contest prizes. I had the best intentions when I went shopping on Amazon – intending to either pick-up a book by new debut author or put it towards a textbook – but in the end I ended up picking up a new series of books by a “new to me” author.

So, from Amazon I ordered the following and am now anxiously awaiting their arrival:

• Undead and Unreturnable – MaryJanice Davidson
• Undead and Unappreciated – MaryJanice Davidson
• Undead and Unemployed – MaryJanice Davidson
• Undead and Unwed – MaryJanice Davidson

Thanks to Laughing Muse I now have a list of recommended books to read once I chug through these ones.

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I think I need to set a new goal. It’s only the beginning of the 5th month and I’ve already read 50 books. I’ve ordered some new textbooks and training manuals with the bulk of my vast collection of Chapters.ca gift certificates and hope they’ll arrive sometime next week.

I’m breaking the list down into two parts. The fist list will contain paperback and hardcover books I’ve been able to find and list on Shelfari and the second list contains all the eBooks I’ve been reading that I can’t figure out how to add to Shefari yet. Their ISBN’s don’t bring up any information. If anyone knows how to get an eBook added to Shelfari, please let me in on the secret.

Hardcover/Paperback

1. A Dirty Job – Christopher Moore
2. The Last Juror – John Grisham
3. Goal Analysis – Robert F Mager
4. River’s End – Nora Roberts
5. Rebellion – Nora Roberts
6. Don’t be Afraid – Rebecca Drake
7. Who Moved My Cheese – Spenser Johnson
8. On The Run – Iris Johansen
9. Every Which Way But Dead – Kim Harrison
10. Five Point Someone – What Not to do at IIT – Chetan Bhagat
11. One Night at the Call Center: A Novel – Chetan Bhagat
12. Jack Knife – Virginia Baker
13. The Opium Clerk – Kunal Basu
14. I, Lucifer – Glen Duncan
15. Our Iceberg is Melting – John Kotter, Holger Rathgeber, Spenser Johnson
16. The Thirteenth Tale – Diane Setterfield
17. Dead Until Dark – Charlaine Harris
18. Living Dead in Dallas – Charlaine Harris
19. Club Dead – Charlaine Harris
20. Dead to the World – Charlaine Harris
21. Dead as a Doornail – Charlaine Harris
22. Definitely Dead – Charlaine Harris
23. Practical Demonkeeping – Christopher Moore
24. Mind over Matter – Nora Roberts
25. Island of Flowers – Nora Roberts
26. Unfinished Business – Nora Roberts
27. Irish Thoroughbred – Nora Roberts
28. Irish Rose – Nora Roberts
29. Deja Dead – Kathy Reichs
30. Death du Jour – Kathy Reichs
31. Fatal Voyage – Kathy Reichs
32. Bare Bones – Kathy Reichs
33. Monday Mourning – Kathy Reichs
34. Dragonflight – Anne McCaffrey
35. Dragonquest – Anne McCaffrey
36. The White Dragon – Anne McCaffrey
37. A Mortal Bane – Roberta Gellis
38. Sullivan’s Woman – Nora Roberts
39. Irish Rebel – Nora Roberts
40. The Master Stroke – Elizabeth Gage

eBooks

1. Stripped – Rhonda Stapleton
2. Improper Longings – Dawn Ryder
3. High Seas Desire – Mlyn Hurn
4. Call of the Untamed – Michelle M. Pillow
5. After Sundown: Redemption – Eden Robins
6. Crime Tells: Lyric’s Cop – Jory Strong
7. Elisabeth’s Wolf – Lora Leigh
8. Malachi – Shiloh Walker
9. Mythe: Vampire – Shiloh Walker
10. Stud Finders Incorporated – Alexis Fleming

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You’d think I’d have more time to read now that I’m unemployed – but it’s just not working out that way…

I’m breaking the list down into two parts. The fist list will contain paperback and hardcover books I’ve been able to find and list on Shelfari and the second list contains all the eBooks I’ve been reading that I can’t figure out how to add to Shefari yet. Their ISBN’s don’t bring up any information. If anyone knows how to get an eBook added to Shelfari, please let me in on the secret.

Hardcover/Paperback

1. A Dirty Job – Christopher Moore
2. The Last Juror – John Grisham
3. Goal Analysis – Robert F Mager
4. River’s End – Nora Roberts
5. Rebellion – Nora Roberts
6. Don’t be Afraid – Rebecca Drake
7. Who Moved My Cheese – Spenser Johnson
8. On The Run – Iris Johansen
9. Every Which Way But Dead – Kim Harrison
10. Five Point Someone – What Not to do at IIT – Chetan Bhagat
11. One Night at the Call Center: A Novel – Chetan Bhagat
12. Jack Knife – Virginia Baker
13. The Opium Clerk – Kunal Basu
14. I, Lucifer – Glen Duncan
15. Our Iceberg is Melting – John Kotter, Holger Rathgeber, Spenser Johnson
16. The Thirteenth Tale – Diane Setterfield
17. Dead Until Dark – Charlaine Harris
18. Living Dead in Dallas – Charlaine Harris
19. Club Dead – Charlaine Harris
20. Dead to the World – Charlaine Harris
21. Dead as a Doornail – Charlaine Harris
22. Definitely Dead – Charlaine Harris
23. Practical Demonkeeping – Christopher Moore
24. Mind over Matter – Nora Roberts
25. Island of Flowers – Nora Roberts
26. Unfinished Business – Nora Roberts
27. Irish Thoroughbred – Nora Roberts
28. Irish Rose – Nora Roberts
29. Deja Dead – Kathy Reichs
30. Death du Jour – Kathy Reichs
31. Fatal Voyage – Kathy Reichs
32. Bare Bones – Kathy Reichs
33. Monday Mourning – Kathy Reichs

eBooks

1. Stripped – Rhonda Stapleton
2. Improper Longings – Dawn Ryder
3. High Seas Desire – Mlyn Hurn
4. Call of the Untamed – Michelle M. Pillow
5. After Sundown: Redemption – Eden Robins
6. Crime Tells: Lyric’s Cop – Jory Strong
7. Elisabeth’s Wolf – Lora Leigh
8. Malachi – Shiloh Walker
9. Mythe: Vampire – Shiloh Walker

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We’re a quarter of the way through the new year and I’m over half way to my goal of reading 52 books this year. This week I’ve been reading a lot of Nora Roberts – mainly because I have a tonne of her books sitting on my bedside table that need to be read before I can pass them on to friends. Once I’ve made it through these ones I’ll move on to the Kathy Reich’s (Bones) books piled next to them…

I’m breaking the list down into two parts. The fist list will contain paperback and hardcover books I’ve been able to find and list on Shelfari and the second list contains all the eBooks I’ve been reading that I can’t figure out how to add to Shefari yet. Their ISBN’s don’t bring up any information. If anyone knows how to get an eBook added to Shelfari, please let me in on the secret.

Hardcover/Paperback

1. A Dirty Job – Christopher Moore
2. The Last Juror – John Grisham
3. Goal Analysis – Robert F Mager
4. River’s End – Nora Roberts
5. Rebellion – Nora Roberts
6. Don’t be Afraid – Rebecca Drake
7. Who Moved My Cheese – Spenser Johnson
8. On The Run – Iris Johansen
9. Every Which Way But Dead – Kim Harrison
10. Five Point Someone – What Not to do at IIT – Chetan Bhagat
11. One Night at the Call Center: A Novel – Chetan Bhagat
12. Jack Knife – Virginia Baker
13. The Opium Clerk – Kunal Basu
14. I, Lucifer – Glen Duncan
15. Our Iceberg is Melting – John Kotter, Holger Rathgeber, Spenser Johnson
16. The Thirteenth Tale – Diane Setterfield
17. Dead Until Dark – Charlaine Harris
18. Living Dead in Dallas – Charlaine Harris
19. Club Dead – Charlaine Harris
20. Dead to the World – Charlaine Harris
21. Dead as a Doornail – Charlaine Harris
22. Definitely Dead – Charlaine Harris
23. Practical Demonkeeping – Christopher Moore
24. Mind over Matter – Nora Roberts
25. Island of Flowers – Nora Roberts
26. Unfinished Business – Nora Roberts
27. Irish Thoroughbred – Nora Roberts

eBooks

1. Stripped – Rhonda Stapleton
2. Improper Longings – Dawn Ryder
3. High Seas Desire – Mlyn Hurn
4. Call of the Untamed – Michelle M. Pillow
5. After Sundown: Redemption – Eden Robins
6. Crime Tells: Lyric’s Cop – Jory Strong
7. Elisabeth’s Wolf – Lora Leigh
8. Malachi – Shiloh Walker
9. Mythe: Vampire – Shiloh Walker

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Over the past few days, we’ve buckled under and cleaned out the office/library in order to find the floor and the desk. In addition to sorting out the keep and discard piles in the room, we’ve pulled out a number of books to hand out via bookcrossing. If anyone is interested in any of these books before I head out to start dropping them off around the city, check the list of “available” books on my bookcrossing bookshelf and send me an email (or leave a comment and I’ll get in touch with you). I’ll find some way to get the book to you.

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