If you weren’t expecting this today, you should have been. When have I ever been able to go through an airport without a) buying books and b) taking photos of the options. And it’s been six whole months since the last time I was in an airport so the choices have changed somewhat!
I’m starting with the non-fiction because when I was thinking about what I might buy at the airport ahead of the holiday, it was the non-fiction selection I was most excited to look at – and then the most disappointed in when I got there. Most times I go to the airport there is either a non-ficiton hardback I’m looking for or I stumble across something I hadn’t heard about that turns out to be good. But this time I already have the Liza, and I read Entitled last holiday. There are a couple of books that I’m sort of interested in, but I already have other books by the same author on the shelf waiting to be read and I’m trying to be better about that.
On the airport (hardback) fiction front it was also a bit of a disappointment. The Impossible Fortune wasn’t out last holiday so that was on the list although as the (normal) paperback is out this week coming I wasn’t averse to waiting for that if there were better choices. But I’ve already read Meet the Newmans, I have at least two Tom Hindles in the backlog, the Dan Brown is insanely long and this format of paperback is unwieldy enough without that! I was tempted by The Ending Writes Itself and Yesteryear but that was about it.
This isn’t the best photo, but it illustrates my problem – the things that I’m interested in like Atmosphere, Heated Rivalry I already own and the rest is Not For Verity. And to be honest, that’s about it. I have other photos, but there is a lot of duplication in them and not a lot of books that I’m interested in. There was more stuff that I have read already – like Happy Place and Before the Coffee Gets Cold – but I was hoping for better from the new book selection. Hey ho, better luck next holiday.
Happy Saturday everyone!
Verity Reads Books (lots of them) 
I definitely sympathise as I went through Heathrow last week and felt that the selection was very uninspiring.
Such a disappointment for a girl…