My new haul :)

So as I mentioned yesterday, I went book shopping :D Are you curious?

Keep in mind that the reason I went book shopping yesterday was because of Customer Appreciation Day at Indigo, Chapters and Coles. This meant that I had 20% off on all the books I bought :D

First, I went to Indigo:

I got the Alexandra Hawkins because Breezing Through is planning a buddy review, but the two other historicals are impulse buys. I've read some Elizabeth Boyle and while some have been misses, others I've enjoyed a lot :D As a result, I'm taking the chance on How I Met my Countess. As for the Tracy Anne Warren, well she's a new author for me :)

Lately, many of my close blogger friends have been reading Sarah Dessen. LOL, yes, that's all it takes for me to go out and buy a couple of her books :) I've read Along for the Ride earlier this week and it was cute :D I'm not planning to read all of her backlist though. These two and The Truth About Forever were the ones that interested me most.

After Indigo, I went to Coles - that's the bookstore where I leave my list of new releases to be put aside - and picked up:

Wooohooo, total score LOL!! I'm really looking forward to Moonlight Road - I think I'm going to like the pairing featured. Also, Cindy has just recently reviewed Pleasure of a Dark Prince - it looks very promising :D

I actually hesitated picking up the books at Coles, because I have another coupon, a 5$ off on a purchase of 35$ and plus, expiring at the end of this month. I'm hoping that some books that I'm looking forward for beginning of March (Roadkill by Rob Thurman, Shadalor Lady by Anne Bishop and Don't Kill The Messenger by Eileen Rendahl) will be available early... but there's no guarantee, so I wanted to keep some books in case... but I totally caved, because I really wanted Moonlight Road.Ah well, I'll be crossing my fingers the whole week :P

By the way, does the elusive book syndrome ever happen to you when you go book shopping? I mean, you embark on a shopping spree to buy a particular book and just can't find it? Well my elusive book this week-end was Vicious Circle by Linda Robertson. I didn't really set out to buy it, but while book shopping at Indigo, I came across to Hallowed Circle which is book 2 of the series. It sounded interesting and so I wanted to give this series a try and looked for book 1 - Vicious Circle. The computer said there was only 1 copy at Indigo and I couldn't find it :( No copy at Coles :( 2 copies at Chapters and 1 copy at Indigo near my house. Hmmm, I didn't really have time to go to Chapters, so decided to give the other Indigo a chance. I called them while I was at work (reception job at the Missionaries of Africa) and the clerk said yes, they had a copy and he'd put it aside for me. I asked him to go check on the shelves and he just said: it's okay, the computer says they have one. Of course, you can easily guess... It wasn't there when I went to pick it up. The sale clerk searched for an hour, but couldn't find it. Sigh. The worst is I had a feeling this would happen. Which is exactly why I called first to make sure they had it. Ah well, it's okay, I got a coupon of 15% off on an item, to be used whenever I want... which I'll definitively be using on a hardcover book :) So not a bad trade-off. As for the Linda Robertson, I'll try to look for it next time I go to Chapters.