Reading as a cheap hobby

Wednesday2000

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.

PipneyJane

Nelliegrace said:

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.

- Pip

Nelliegrace

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

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

annieb64

Have just read "The Balkan Trilogy" by Olivia Manning for book club. It was 1050 pages long so feeling quite pleased with myself. It's set in Roumania and Greece in the early days of WW2 and I did have to keep my tablet handy so I could look up  was happening in the war at that time. 
It was enjoyable though and I'm wondering whether to order the second volume from the library. It's not on Libby.

Brie

I wonder how many people simply take the books without paying?  Or are like me and pay a £1 when only 50p is needed but then feel entitled to take a another a week later when I have no coins on me.  Or take one for free and pay the £ the next time I'm there.  (local Tescos so no, I'm not frequently visiting the vampires.)

DigForVictory

Back when the children were in school & we lived a more organised life, we were huge library users - now I forget which books are library books (even from Their Own Bag) & end up paying a lot of fines. So I tend to get my books from charity shops & shelves as that way I can misfile them without worrying about a fine. I think a shelf of books should be in very waiting room but then I've the kindle app on every bit of kit that can cope so, as long as I have the juice, I'll be strolling through Pemberley no matter what the medics have to explain later.
I've also got a hard disk of ebooks which I have not read, doubtless quite a lot of pulp (the boys actually read the warhammer stuff, for example) but I am keeping that out of the awareness of Middleson who is helping me declutter. Not least as his methods are are Kondo with a twist - "does getting rid of this give me joy" - he hired a skip & then marched crates of books past me with a "they stink of rat !!!!!!, mum". My sense of smell doesn't work reliably so I had to take his word for it & there went all my Agatha Christies with the beautiful cover art... (As well as two other bookcases crated for moving house a decade previously, ahem.)
Currently happily rereading assorted Heyer & planning to convert the mobi files from my old kindle to I can re-read Mary Stewart, Terry Pratchett, Bill Gibson etc

Floss

DfV, as a child, we had lots of books (librarian parents!) and a "library book table" with a shelf under, where all the library books were kept so they didn't get misplaced!

Savvy_Sue

Nelliegrace said:

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. 

Now I read the first of his and was disappointed, because I didn't actually CARE about his characters, he didn't give me much reason to do so. And we do have men on our coffee rota. But ...

Brambling said:

I saw today that they have televised Richard Cole's books I think it was channel5 who have made six of them. 

I shall go and take a look at them, they might work better on screen. 

Savvy_Sue

BTW, I know this is a reading thread, but lovers of The Thursday Murder Club (Richard Osman, and I do very much care about his characters), may have spotted that the film is in a few cinemas this week, prior to going on Netflix, which we don't have. 

Unfortunately it's not any of the regular cinemas so we have had to book at the 'posh' one, which has settees and probably brings your popcorn to your seat. And they don't do Meercat Movies. So it's costing at least three times what we usually pay, but at least we haven't had to squeeze it into next Tuesday or Wednesday, which would be challenging. 

And I've suggested b-i-l might want to ask m-i-l if she wants to go: it will be quite the adventure and she may not feel up to it, because it means a long period in her wheelchair, but we won't know if we don't ask her. We do get her out and about a fair bit but it's mostly just lunch and medical appointments! 

On Front Row (R4) this evening someone said "I have seen it, we're not allowed to review it yet, so I'll just say lovers of the books won't be disappointed!"