Reading as a cheap hobby

Coxy11

Have just finished The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy - partner book to The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry. Really enjoyed it, but sad. 

Now on Atomic Habits by James Clear. Will read this in conjunction with a yet to be chosen work of fiction. 

MrsStepford

Chatelaine Favourite Books for Autumn

Intermezzo - Sally Rooney 
The Blue Hour - Paula Hawkins
Miss Kim Knows - Chi Nam-Joo
Peggy - Rebecca Godfrey
Heart On My Sleeve - Jeanne Beker
The Lightning Bottles - Melissa Stapley
Blue Sisters - Cleo Mellors
Real ones - Katherena Vermette
The Knowing - Tanya Talaga
So Thirsty - Rachel Harrison
What Have You Done ? - Shari Lapena
In Exile - Sadiya Ansari

Wednesday2000

I read another Andrea Mara book called Someone in the Attic. It was also very good and unsettling in places.

Home alone? Think again...

Anya is enjoying a relaxing bath when she hears a noise in the roof. Through the open bathroom door, she sees the attic hatch swing open, and a masked figure drops to the floor. Thirty seconds later, Anya is dead.

Across town, Anya's old school friend, Julia, sees an online video of a masked figure climbing out of an attic. She suddenly realises why the footage is eerily familiar. It was filmed inside her house.

Why would a stranger target Julia? Unless of course, it's not a stranger at all...

I saw that one of her books is 99p today (Hide and Seek) so I bought that and one of her books is on Prime Reading too.

MrsStepford

Just started Eating Out At Home, by Guardian restaurant Jay Rayner. I bought the Kindle edition for 9.99, which doesn't have photos.

Rayner talks about memorable gustatory experiences over the past 25 years, and more or less recreates them for the home cook. He waxes lyrical about famous restaurants, pub food, Chinese food, KFC, Nando's and Greggs. Well written, with humour.

 If you like to read cookbooks rather than cook from them, this is suitable, as you will learn a lot about chefs, professional kitchens in UK, USA and France plus the history of assorted cuisines to be found in the UK now. I

mehefin

Pipney  Have you read Nella Last? She was the basis for 'Housewife 49' and sounds like it comes from the same stable as the Simon Garfield book ie the mass observation archives. Fascinating stuff and very personal in parts. 

Nelliegrace

£5.60 library fine for DH. I worry he is losing the plot. He was too busy to remember to renew them online. 

MrsStepford

@Nelliegrace when we had a library in Folkestone town centre, I got a fine of 4.50 and was then chased by debt collectors from Edinburgh. 

Brie

MrsStepford said:

@Nelliegrace when we had a library in Folkestone town centre, I got a fine of 4.50 and was then chased by debt collectors from Edinburgh. 

Wow!  Bad enough I was chased for £1.20 or something from Salisbury when I was living in Bournemouth.  They told me I had X days to pay it and they only accepted cash, not cheques or online payments.  I rang them up and said it seemed a bit extreme for me to drive 30+ miles to pay such a small amount and was there anyway around this?  Lovely person on the phone agreed it was costing them more in admin and stamps so they wrote it off.  

elsien

I overlooked renewing mine because I didn’t get the usual email reminder. The library very kindly did write it off as a one off but pointed out that it was my responsibility to doublecheck and I shouldn’t rely on the email reminders coming through. 

I put it on my calendar now to be on the safe side. 

Brie

elsien said:

I overlooked renewing mine because I didn’t get the usual email reminder. The library very kindly did write it off as a one off but pointed out that it was my responsibility to doublecheck and I shouldn’t rely on the email reminders coming through. 

I put it on my calendar now to be on the safe side. 

I've never been a member of a library that sent reminders for renewals or returns!  Best you can get is a print out that you can stick in the book with the date things need to be returned.  After that it's on line for renewing - assuming their website is working.