Reading as a cheap hobby

iza_belle1

My guilty pleasure is the Alexander McCall- Smith series, Ladies detective stories. Not particularly challenging but very gentle and relaxing to read, like a warm hug in a book! 

Savvy_Sue

I don't think anyone's mentioned Terry Brooks. So versatile!

His Magic Kingdom series is an absolute delight for children - think Truckers, Diggers, Wings from Terry Pratchett, not too convoluted, laugh out loud. 

He has also written lots of 'Shannara' books, and I have not read them all, they are more like Tolkien, and excellent. 

What I had not appreciated is that his Word & Void series is the start of the Shannara saga. Running with the Demon (1997), A Knight of the Word (1998), Angel Fire East (1999): I can still barely speak about the impact they had on me ... 

Matty246

iza_belle1 said:

My guilty pleasure is the Alexander McCall- Smith series, Ladies detective stories. Not particularly challenging but very gentle and relaxing to read, like a warm hug in a book! 

I first came across these when one was read on Radio 4. I was glad I did as I can hear the voices when I'm reading. 

-taff

@Savvy_Sue agree, especially the last bit. Also forgot about the Tower books by Stephen King...and the Robert Jordn books. I sometimes wonder if the game of thrones books will ever be finished or most likely, finished by someone else...

MrsStepford

I have been naughty.. bought 28.97 of cookbooks from Oxfam today. Firstly, didn't have a food delivery at all this week so budget is looking good. Oxfam website has had gremlins so haven't been able to order any books for about three weeks either. Also, just earned a £10 voucher with Hunter & Gather. 

I bought:

From Seed to Plate Paolo Arrigo (Seeds of Italy) signed copy
Jamie's Italy Jamie Oliver
The Mediterranean Zone Dr Barry Sears
La Dolce Diet Gino D'Acampo 
Bon Appétit Peter Mayle

Plus on Amazon for my Kindles, The French Revolution Michel Roux Jr 3.99 ETA: Reading this at the moment and Michel Roux Jr cooks with vegetable oil not olive oil, butter, saindoux, ghee etc ::::::::faint:::::

The Richard Olney book about Domaine Tempier and Lulu Peyraud bought from eBay turned up today, that's very fast ! 

Don't have enough books to fill the kitchen bookrack yet, but getting there. 

One of my earliest book memories was a blue book on dieting from Woman magazine. My mother is a serial dieter and Monday was Liquid Day. I worried that when I was a grown up, I too would be expected to live on soup and grilled grapefruit ! Pa's idea of a bedtime story, was to read The Count of Monte Cristo to bro and I. Not really suitable for small children, I think he read it more for himself. It took months to finish. 

Wednesday2000

I have my Shari Lapena book from the library to read and another book has come up ready to pick up. Rosemary's Baby - Ira Levin. I have seen the film.

Brambling

My sister and I popped into Waterstones whilst in town today to check something on a map following a lunch time 'discussion' and spent a long long time browsing in their non friction department which has chairs 😁 we had to drag each other out. She did buy a book but I refrained until the charity shop where they were selling two for a £1 and i brought a couple of Peter James, she also brought a couple of books and we'll swap.  We both inherited my dad's reading gene 

London_1

I daren't read through this forum, or I would be making a list of books to read I have just been decluttering my books to the CS as I'm hoping to move within the next couple of months as my house is sold .

I have kept around 80 of my favourites but the rest had to go.

I have got two by Fiona Cummins from the library that my DD recommended, and I started the first yesterday and already have read 200 pages Its called 'Rattle' and is set virtually where I grew up in London in the 1940s-50s on Blackheath. The roads mentioned are ones I would walk down on the way to school on the Heath and its weird seeing them in print in a book, but the book itself is good and I'm enjoying it.

I read at least two a week as there isn't a room in my house that doesn't hold a book , once I have finished my library books I have at the moment (4 on the side table and two on order ) plus the one I'm reading I will have to slow down on getting any more from the library.

 I'm not a great fan of Tv and it doesn't go on until the 6.00 pm news then off after the local news and only goes on if there is something I particularly want to see live.

 I record stuff on my TiVo box and watch it now and again Mainly history or documentaries and if there is a good drama series that catches my eye I will record the whole series and watch it back to back.I watched Finders Keepers this week that I had recorded as I quite like Neil Morrisey as an actor and it also had the great Fay Ripley in as well. But I never have tv on as background as a lot of my friends do.

 If I'm not actually sitting watching it I usually I'm  reading.
 But I do knit while watching so multi task.

I like the radio and listen to Nick Ferrari on LBC in the morning . Never listen to music unless its a CD that I have then it will be while I'm baking I do like to multi-task This morning as usual I will listen to The Archers omnibus while prepping my veg for the week But reading is definitely my first love and I can sit and get lost in a book so easily.

  JackieO xx

annieb64

I have just read a couple of "cosy mysteries" on my kindle which are also set in Blackheath. They are by Katherine Black and are available on Kindle Unlimited - one is called "A Most Malicious Messenger" There are only two in the series and that was the second.

Wednesday2000

We drove through Blackheath on the way to Kent the other weekend. I was saying how I remember walking over the heath from my secondary school in Greenwich. It does have lots of nice shops and restaurants there still.