Tag: books incoming

I’m not going to lie, this was looking a lot less substantial until the last week – and there’s still a book missing from this because my copy of Star Shipped is still at my mum and dad’s waiting for me to pick it up. Anyway, two of these are already off the pile as you know – because the Richard Osman and the Tom Bower were my airport purchases and I read them on the holiday. So what of the rest. Well the Rainbow Rowell was a pre-order so almost doesn’t count as it was ordered back when Waterstones had that big pre-order offer on back in October – and I still have two books from that order to come. One of which is the final Thursday Next book* which is now expected in mid-October but it does have a cover so it’s edging closer – and of course you can also see here the first Thursday book. Now you may be thinking “doesn’t Verity already own a copy of The Eyre Affair” and yes, yes I do. In paperback and on audio. But this is the 25th anniversary edition – with annotations from the author. According to Jasper Fforde’s instagram, it’s about 8,000 words of annotations. And given that I’m going to re-read the whole series before the final book doesn’t it make sense to read the version of the first ones with the annotations? Certainly all the people I messaged in my indecision over this (full price hardback) purchase agreed with me.

Also bought at the same time is Crime Rangoon, which is the latest Noodle Shop mystery. These are so hard to get copies of in the UK in physical copies or on Kindle at any sort of sensible price that I just couldn’t help myself. More on *where* I bought them next week. The S G MacLean was my purchase at Word on the Water – which actually turned out to be a four book afternoon as I wandered my way back from there via four other bookshops – it would have been five, but I arrived at one just as they flipped the sign over to closed because it was six o’clock. Sad times for me, but potentially a good thing for my walley and my shoulder as by that point I had the Dorothy Dunnett and the Donna Leon in my (not very big) shoulder bag along with the S G MacLean – and soon added the Jill Paton Walsh too.

I would say that that was when I stopped because four books plus a purse, plus a kindle was plenty enough, but I did go to two more bookshops (including Waterstones Gower Street) after that so I’d be lying. And it was only the fullness of bag and the realisation that I was going to have to fess up to all of this when I wrote this post that stopped a couple more purchases! I did have a lovely time though – even if it has undone all the work that I had been doing on reducing the size of the actual pile. I had nearly got rid of the front overspill pile, but that’s now back up to the size of the two behind it. Oops.

Happy Saturday

Well I realise that this looks bad. I’ve been talking about how hard I’ve been working to try and bring the size of the to-read pile down and here I am with another bumper crop of purchases, but bear with me – I can explain. Seven of these came from one day out in Leicestershire (there was also a cook book purchase that isn’t in the picture because it’s down in the kitchen being used!) which I’ve written about the last few Saturdays. And those seen are: the two Emily Wildes and Murder off the Books which are sequels to books that I’ve already enjoyed, In Want of a Suspect – a Pride and Prejudice adjacent books which is a special interest of mine, the Kate Bateman – who was at the Book Extravaganza in person and Just Playing House and Mrs Plansky’s Revenge which were the beautifully wrapped blind date with a books from the Book Extravaganza.

Once you’re take those out of the list, that just leaves Paris Match and Honey Bee Mine which were pre-orders and the George Plimpton which is a second hand copy of his book about Capote and the Angela Thirkell which is the latest in the Virago copies of her Barsetshire books. So it’s actually almost reasonable. If you look at it sideways and squint and don’t think about my logic too hard. I’m fine with it at any rate!

Have a great weekend everyone.

Happy Saturday everyone, we’re in the middle of December and I’m back with a round up of the books that have arrived in the house over the last little while. I’m expecting to be doing a post-Christmas Books Incoming this month too, so consider this a first bite of the December cherry.

As you know, a couple of these are already off the pile – I read Second Chance Romance last week pretty much as soon as it arrived, although I paced myself while reading it to try and make it last. Strawberried Alive from Jenn McKinlay’s Cupcake Bakery series is this year’s Arizona book for the Fifty States Challenge, and Sugar Plum Poisoned will be next years – as will One for the Books from her Library Lovers series for Connecticut. Actually there are quite a lot here that could end up being on the 50 states list next year – To Brew or Not to Brew is the first in a cozy mystery series set in Pennsylvania that I picked up in Waterstones Picadilly when I was checking out their Legami popup, Everyone Dies Famous in a Small Town is a short story collection set in Alaska and the American West, Love is a War Song is a romantic comedy with a pop star and a cowboy set in Oklahoma and On Spine of Death is the sequel to last week’s Book of the Week Buried in a Good Book and set in Washington. That just leaves the non-states books and Do Admit is a graphic novel about the Mitford sisters while How to Spot a Fascist was a purchase in Riverside Books.

Happy Saturday!