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Amazon book order 3

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Placed another Amazon order. Kids books, a new cookbook, and some more fiction. I may even manage to save some of it until our trip in July...

Amazon book order 2

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Placed an order with Amazon:

Whose Body? [Mass Market Paperback] by Dorothy Sayers
Online recommendation. May have been in ceej's journal long long ago.

The Speed of Dark [Hardcover] by Elizabeth Moon
Online recommendation. Heard about it in her newsgroup and enjoyed the portion of the first chapter posted at Amazon.

Royal Assassin (The Farseer Trilogy, Book 2) [Mass Market Paperback] by Robin Hobb
Have had the first book for a long time.

The Wellstone [Mass Market Paperback] by Wil McCarthy
Recently read and enjoyed his previous book, Collapsium

The Chronoliths [Mass Market Paperback] by Robert Charles Wilson
Amazon recommendation.

Ventus [Mass Market Paperback] by Karl Schroeder
Amazon recommendation

Green Rider [Mass Market Paperback] by Kristen Britain
Online mention in one of the sff.net newsgroups.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer - The Complete Second Season [DVD]
Replaces copy we got for xmas with cracked DVDs. This may have been a manufacturing defect, or it could have been due to toddler damage. The damage was discovered after the 30-day return policy in any case.

Unreal Tournament 2003 [CD-ROM]
For Rich, who recently bought himself a new computer capable of playing this at a decent frame rate.

Order status.

Surprise gift

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Got a surprise book from Janet today! Thanks, Janet! (The book is What Einstein Told His Cook: Kitchen Science Explained... you'd think she knew I just bought Cookwise)

Book order 1 arrived

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Oooh! My book order from Amazon arrived.

Amazon book order 1

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Ordered a bunch of books from Amazon today.

The Riddle of the Wren [Paperback] by Charles De Lint
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay [Paperback] by Michael Chabon
Coraline [Hardcover] by Neil Gaiman, Dave McKean (Illustrator)
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress [Paperback] by Sijie Dai, Ina Rilke (Translator)
Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters [Paperback] by: Mark Dunn
Cookwise: The Hows and Whys of Successful Cooking [Hardcover] by: Shirley O. Corriher
A College of Magics [Paperback] by Caroline Stevermer

ETA is Jan 15-Jan 21

Order page is here