Sunday 4 February 2018

Books That Sue in Wales Might Not Have!

It's not really a competition to see who has the most WWII books of diaries and about rationing! ..........but it could be :-)

I've been collecting for quite a while - 20+ years and they were featured in bookshelf  BLOG POSTS BACK IN 2015.
This is one section of my books that hardly decreased with selling to Ziffit or donating to charity shops, going by the counting up done back then there were around 76 books in my collection.

Here are some that Sue might not have

and here they all are re-shelved among the others.






 Having a count up...............seems I have 102 + the small book "Wartime Recipes" which is in the kitchen. How on earth have I collected so many more in 3 years?


So no competition ....................just War!! ( and if anyone takes that statement seriously I shall scream!)

Back Tomorrow
Sue

 

32 comments:

  1. I loved Mrs Milburne's Diaries.
    And you should start a lending library of your own - it is an amazing collection of books.
    J x

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  2. Good lord! What a stash, very cool!

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    1. We had about 1,500 books before we downsized!(not all war ones)

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  3. What an amazing collection, Sue. Love to read both your blogs and always enjoy when you share your books. Catriona

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    1. Love seeing other book shelves and getting ideas

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  4. Wow! You'll never have the chance to get bored, will you?! Have you read them all?

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    1. I've read about two thirds of them I think. The odd thing is that there are still new books about WWII appearing.

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  5. An absolutely brilliant collection 😊

    I HAVE got Mrs Milburn's, Joan Strange's and Betty's wartime diaries ... all currently on my bedside table waiting to be read and I thought I had The Wartime House, but mine is Life in a Wartime House ... a completely different book.

    I have quite a few of your others too ... but overall you sort of win ... although I'll never officially surrender 😉

    My favourite read up to now has been The Ministry of Food by Jane Fearnley Whittingstall, and I'm currently reading Marguerite Patten's Victory Cookbook, which is three of the books off your shelf all rolled into one ... We'll Eat Again, The Victory Cookbook and Post-War Kitchen. I'm busy with mini post-its marking recipes for next week.

    Lovely post Sue, I love a nosey through other peoples bookshelves ... and the title made me laugh.

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    1. You have more thrifting books so I reckon a draw and truce!

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    2. White flags at dawn ;-)

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  6. Wow what a great collection, you could start your own library.

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  7. Gosh what a collection, really interesting to read the social history xcx

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    1. Being born in 1955 ,the war was still being spoken about and some rationing had only just finished so I think that's how I've always been interested

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  8. Your shelves are better stocked than our mobile library. Last month the large van was retired from service, so they have allocated a small transit-style van. If more than three people climb on board it becomes impossible to see what is on the shelves. Library Services being squeezed again. Wonderful to be able to browse your shelves at a leisurely pace, you have an excellent and enviable collection.

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    1. I was quite surprised to count just how many I had

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  9. Oh goodness - I had such a chuckle when I saw the headline to your post today! I had been reading Sue's blog regularly and following her challenging year progress. It is amazing the number of books that focus on wartime, digging for victory etc. I was born in 1944 in Scotland, where my dad was stationed and then we moved to Kent. When rationing was ended, we heard the announcement on the radio, and my dad asked my mum and I what we would like. My mum wanted a Lyons chocolate bar with nuts in. So he biked to the village shop. Unfortunately, the lady that ran it had not heard the announcement but she did sell him the chocolate. Its funny the things one remembers. Jean Winnipeg

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  10. La la la....covering ears and not looking at the photos....I went and bought a second hand copy of a book you featured here in December...I'm on a book ban at the moment!
    Arilx

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  11. Sue, crazy envy here on your wartime books. I love reading them but have only found in my part of Canada the Nella Last diaries (LOVE those) and the Marguerite Patten ones. Thanks for sharing these titles.

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  12. That is a wonderful collection of books, Sue! I'm as bad as you but with interior design books, but I do also have a lot of social history books - the books by David Kynaston are excellent (about Britain just after WW2 and how we got back our feet again, so to speak.) All social history books appeal to me, particularly those by Pamela Horn and Anne de Courcy. I think your selection is wonderful!
    For letters, my favourites are The Lyttelton Hart-Davis Letters (Duff Hart-Davis's father, Rupert, being one half of this correspondence. I see you have Duff's book in your current pile)
    Margaret P
    www.margaretpowling.com

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  13. Great collection of books, Ive written some of the titles down to see if I can order them from the library.

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  14. What a wonderful collection. In the past I have ordered books you mentioned from the library so thank you for the titles. I don't know why I like reading about the Home Front in WW2. It is just a fascination for an era I missed but my older siblings remember.

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  15. I tried to look up a few of your titles but apparently we can’t get them. (USA) I’m not usually a fan of that era, or cookbooks, but some did pique my interest. Like the Edith Holden book I did find. Even though it’s not a contest, I think you won.
    Debbie

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  16. I think books about surviving war time, especially written by ordinary people, can be very comforting. They did it and so can we.

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  17. Wow! What a lovely lot of books. I admit I like reading some of the war fiction there is around. Mum is holding onto a couple of titles until I come over in the summer so I can read them. As someone else said, some of the books aren't available here in the US.

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  18. What a great collection of books! I love both of your blogs and enjoy the fun banter between you. You two do seem to have a lot in common! Have you ever met in person? I bet you could visit for ages if you did get together!

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    1. Unfortunately we live over five hours drive apart, at opposite sides of the UK, in fact almost in a straight line dissecting the map. I used to be much nearer to Sue when we lived in Oxfordshire.

      Who knows though, we might meet one day ... in the meantime we will continue with our banter and our book competitions ;-)

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    2. I know exactly where Sue lives!!
      And if Col gets well enough for us to travel I'm sure Wales will be a favourite destination as it has been many times in the past.

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  19. I wouldn't mind reading some of those books. My daughter as well as she likes WWII history. If you like them and read them, why not keep them? I have quite the collection of cookbooks. One of my favorite authors has a new cookbook. Do I need it? Um..maybe for my birthday. I like how you shelved all the books .

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  20. My Ma in law gets lots of books off a lady who gets them off a lady who gets them off a lady and a few are WW11 fiction romances. If you'd like to be the next lady in the line of ladies, just say!
    I feel some ancient cookery books and I love to read them. I'm always amazed at the actual availability if ingredients they could lay their hands on! I once made Bourbon biscuits with the kids at school from a WW11 recipe. They were 'interesting' and they featured parsnips for the sweetness.

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    1. Thank you for the offer but I'm more into crime than romance!

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