Reading as a cheap hobby

London_1

Yay just picked up 4 Kate Atkinson books from my local library, if you order them and they are on the system but not at the branch it costs 80p per book, but they are such good books they are worth every penny to order 

JackieO xx

Wednesday2000

cbsexec said:

Just finished none of this is true.    

What did you think of the book?

cbsexec

I enjoyed it.  It’s crime but fantasy as well.   And definitely an ending with another book to follow.   Took a few chapters to get into it but I was pleased I did.   I don’t think it will be to everyone’s taste tho.   

Nelliegrace

I paid 50p each to reserve four of The Blind Detective series by Christina Koning. They will be delivered to our local library. 

The town library had covered Ordinance Survey maps for sale at 20p. I suggested that the grandsons might try map reading and plan a walk. We used to borrow maps and guide books for our holidays, and visit the local library on holiday. 

Wednesday2000

I'm on my 19th book of the year. The Psychopath Next Door - Mark Edwards. I'm not really enjoying it to be honest and I'm about halfway through.

Brie

Picked up a Simon Schama hard back at a charity shop for £1.  Called Dead Certainties.  I bought it for the OH as he likes Schama as his take on history is so interesting.  This apparently is a historical fiction about the death of General Wolf in Quebec so I might take a look at it too at some point.  

Wednesday2000

I picked up my library book. I don't think i have read anything by this author before.

Savvy_Sue

Found Guilty by Definition by Susie Dent in a CS, enjoying it so far but it may be a bit clever for me! Always enjoy her columns in Saga magazine. 

PipneyJane

May I recommend My Brother Michael by Mary Stewart?  

Set in 1954, it is the story of Camilla Haven on a trip to Greece.  The opening line is “Nothing ever happens to me”, which Camilla writes in the letter that she is sending to the friend who was meant to travel with her, while she’s sitting in a cafe in Omonia Square, Athens, trying to figure out how to stretch her budget so that she can afford to go to Delphi.  She feels like life is passing her by:

I feel just a little bit high and dry. You’d have thought that something – some sniff of an adventure – would have happened to a young woman… marooned on her own in the wilds of Hellas, but no: I go tamely from temple to temple, guide-book in hand, and spend the rather long evenings writing up notes for that wonderful book I was always going to write, and persuading myself I’m enjoying the peace and quiet.’

Of course, she is tempting Fate…  (No spoilers.)

As mentioned previously, this was a re-read, the first time in over a decade.  The book hasn’t aged.  It’s as fresh as if it was published yesterday.  It kept me gripped and I really wished there were a couple more chapters after it finished.  There is so much more that I want to know about Camilla’s adventures.  (I always have, even the first time I read it, whien it was a compulsory text at school.)

- Pip

Moorviews

PipneyJane said:

May I recommend My Brother Michael by Mary Stewart?  

I did very much enjoy that one but don’t have my own copy unfortunately. Thank you for reminding me of it. It will go on my list as something to get hold of and read again. I do have The Moonspinners. Also by Mary Stewart and this time set in Crete. I have lost count of the number of times I have re-read it and despite clearing out books I haven’t been able to part with it.