Books for the TBR Pile... 'Monster Book Haul!' Edition

It's an early post today as I can't sleep at all right now... It's for a good reason though :o) After seven years of trying to clear overdrafts and loans, I am finally debt free as of last night and am riding high on all sorts of feelings about this. Relief mostly :o) It feels like the final door has closed on a particularly shitty point of my life (although can you call sevenish years a point? I don't know...) and I can move forward now. Getting some sleep would be a good start ;o)

But as cool as all that is, you're here because you saw 'Books for the TBR Pile' in the title and thought you'd have a look. Don't worry, we're almost there ;o)
I took a day off, all to myself (I thoroughly recommend you all do the same every now and again), last week and a large chunk of it was spent visiting some favourite bookshops of mine. My cash card took a bit of a beating but that's ok as a one off, I haven't been to Notting Hill Comic Exchange in a couple of years, and there are always interesting looking books there, so I was half expecting it to be honest. Without further ado then, lets take a look at what came home with me.


The sensible thing would have been to make a note of all the 'Walking Dead' books that I'm missing (there are still a few)and grab what I could but I wasn't that sensible. I did remember that I needed the last couple of books though, and they were dirt cheap, so I grabbed them. The next couple of weeks are going to be hectic and I suspect I'll only have time to read comic books so you may well see these feature sooner rather than later.


My Fantasy Masterworks collection grew by one, in the Notting Hill Comic Exchange, and I've got a thing for Neil Gaiman's short stories right now so 'Fragile Things' was also a 'must buy' from the same bookshop. I saw 'Fire & Blood' in an independent bookshop, near South Kensington tube, and I'd never bought anything from there before... Well, that's my excuse ;o)
Out of the three books here, I'm struggling with longer books right now, 'The God Is Not Willing' is the bane of my life, so you're most likely to see a short story or two from 'Fragile Things' (maybe even the whole book, I don't know...) We'll see.


And then I went all 'old school' with these three books. There's a Fantasy Masterworks collected edition of 'The Compleat Enchanter, but every time I order it, something goes wrong and I end up with a refund instead of the book (seriously). With that in mind, I saw 'The Enchanter Compleated' and thought it would be mu best chance of reading any of this series ;o) 'The War Hound and the World's Pain' was an obvious choice, in part because I seem to be better at finishing Moorcock stories if they're in a single book rather than a collected volume. Weird... True though :o)
I've read a few of Tanith Lee's books ('The Stormlord' and 'East of Midnight' are a couple that spring to mind) but had never seen a copy of 'The Birthgrave' until now, that was all the excuse I needed...
Out of these three books, it's a toss up between 'The War Hound' and 'The Enchanter Compleated' featuring first on the blog; I really need to finish 'The God Is Not Willing' first though...


And last but by no means least... I happened across a bookshop, on the Charing Cross Road, that was getting rid of all its stock for a pound a book. There wasn't a lot left to chose from but I was able to grab a copy of 'Lyonesse II' (another one for the Fantasy Masterworks collection!) and 'Dragonsinger' (which I haven't read since I was a kid but that cover though...) It's 'Suburban Gothic' that will be read and reviewed before anything else though. I've been looking forward to this for ages and now it's here... I've just got to make time for a read.

And that's that for what definitely feels like one of the longer 'Books for the TBR Pile' posts that I've done. Anything here catch your eye?

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