Reading as a cheap hobby

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Brie said:

They took our one for Switzerland too!!?!!??  Cheeky fluffers!!!

I bought that one years ago for the chalet school references. Never been obviously. 

MrsStepford

I have been to Switzerland. The cowbells kept me awake, the wine was hugely expensive and we ate too much pizza and chocolate. 😉

Sometimes you see a book you really really want but it's too expensive. The Real Mediterranean Diet by Dr Simon Poole MBBS DRCOG FBMA MIANE is such a book. Eventually found it on eBay yesterday and saved £16 on the RRP 😁,

Got a lot of reading in, over the Bank Holiday weekend. Now just three achievements away from completing the Kindle Reading Challenge !

Savvy_Sue

I returned my rather large library book yesterday and thought I'd look out for one of the Alexander McCall Smith "No 1. Ladies Detective" series I don't think I've read. BIG mistake. He's got at least THREE other series I hadn't even heard of! I don't get on with all his series, but I need to try out one of these, set in Sweden ...

Wednesday2000

This is the next book I'm reading. I have another book of his on reserve at the library.

Savvy_Sue

A couple of books I'd reserved at the library arrived yesterday so I've picked them up: two more by Carlos Ruiz Zamon, fortunately less weighty than the first one of his I read ... 

MrsStepford

Bought two more cookbooks on Kindle last night. Both are entertaining, with lots of stories. 

The Tucci Table by Stanley Tucci, includes the story about how he met the sister of his co-star, Emily Blunt, and fell in love. Lots of Italian-American family recipes as well as British classics from the Blunt family.

An A-Z of Pasta: Stories, Shapes, Sauces and Recipes Rachel Roddy. Rachel is married to a Sicilian and divides her time between Rome and Sicily. She's a food writer for The Guardian. This book tells the history of selected pasta shapes, takes you on tours of pasta factories, teaches you how to make fresh pasta and gives lots of recipes for both fresh and dried pasta. 

MrsStepford

Husband grumbled that the kitchen was awash with canned beans, pasta sauces, gluten free pasta, pesto, tapenade, olives etc. He suggested that I bought some more Mediterranean cookbooks.

I went on eBay and got some incredible bargains 😁

From Gino D'Acampo:
Gino's Italian Escape (2013)
Gino's Italian Escape: A Taste of the Sun (2014)
Fantastico! Modern Italian Food (2007)
Buonissimo! Minimum Effort, Maximum Satisfaction (2013)
Gino's Healthy Italian For Less (2017)

From Nigella Lawson:
Nigellissima: Instant Italian Inspiration (2012)

From Antonio Carluccio & Gennaro Contaldo:
Two Greedy Italians (2011)

From Gennaro Contaldo:
Gennaro's Italian Family Favourites (2012)

The entire lot for  21.82 with free postage. 

I recommend Wob (World of Books), CMediaGroup and Baham Books. I have used them lots of times before with no problems at all and I'm not affiliated to them in any way. 


 

Pennypincin

I second world of books too, sometimes they do offer such as 3 for 2 or buy 3 get the 4th free.
Abe books ive looked at, but postage is often charged with Abe books, but if I've found that books can be found without postage or minimal postage charges.

Brie

MrsStepford said:

Bought two more cookbooks on Kindle last night. Both are entertaining, with lots of stories. 

The Tucci Table by Stanley Tucci, includes the story about how he met the sister of his co-star, Emily Blunt, and fell in love. Lots of Italian-American family recipes as well as British classics from the Blunt family.

Tucci's Taste mentioned a few confrontations in the kitchen between his wife and his mother, particularly over roast potatoes.  Do let us know how you get on with The Table book as I think it might be a future purchase.

gardeningwinseverytime

-taff said:

Love the Rivers of London series, but aren't the novellas expensive! I bought one by mistake...Also Mark Lawrence books

I was sneaky and got to use the bookcase in the next year up at primary school until I fluffed it by getting a book I didn't like and not being able to tell the teacher the one time I didn't read something what it was about...I managed to join the adult library a couple of years before you were allowed to because i'd read everything in the childrens.. I didn't understand much of a marxist winnie the pooh though.....two books that stick in my memory of the childrens library were one about a journey a young boy? makes through the representations of the zodiac, I do remember the scorpion stinging him on the head to send hm back to his world, and another which scared the pants off me, there was a demon or something in it called The Shadrach but blowed if I can find what it was, this would have been late seventies...

Could the scary one have been The Hunting of Shadroth? 

Between that and sneaking my older sister’s Ira Levins out of the cupboard where she’d hidden them, it’s no wonder I can’t do even mild horror these days.