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Reading as a cheap hobby

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  • Wednesday2000
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    I'm about to start one of my library books. Ruth Mancini - One Dark, Two Light. I have a stack of books to be read and a book to read for my book group, but I'm going to read that one nearer the time.
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  • PipneyJane
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    A good idea to put the hospital charity book stall in the waiting area for blood tests. The opening hours have been halved so the queues are long. After reading several chapters I decided the book was worth the 50p. 



    What's the title, @Nelliegrace?    

    Yes, very clever of the Charity team to position their bookstall near the vampires Blood Test Department.  Outpatient waiting rooms are also a good spot.

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  • Nelliegrace
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    Murder Before Evensong by Richard Coles, 2022. Definitely fiction because there was a man on the church coffee rota. Multiple murders expected because Removal of a few Pews is on the Church Council Agenda. 
  • Brambling
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    I saw today that they have televised Richard Cole's books I think it was channel5 who have made six of them. 

    Our small hospital (what they used to call a cottage hospital) also has book cases dotted around,I usually make sure I have some change as I usually succumb to at least one.

    I've finished 18 books since my operation, I'm just about to start some Rachel McClean books I picked up three when volunteering at Petworth they are detective books based in Dorset and as I grew up there they are familiar locations
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