It was so very wet here on Thursday night and yesterday. I needed to go shopping and only just about got through a deep flood, everyone was being sensible, driving through slowly, taking it in turns one at a time. I came home up the main road instead. I wanted to go to the Hog and Hen farm shop for some of the local butter but that would have meant a detour through a low spot......... which often has small floods, on a back road. Decided against - hopefully things will have drained away a bit by this morning.
December's library book photo ....8 books ordered and collected giving me plenty to read............. for the quiet days after Christmas and into January.
AND...........I've still got 7 at home from last month's haul.... below.
A few have been read - added to the Books Read 2019 page - two have gone back unread as I failed with the Nicola Upson. This series uses the real author Josephine Tey to solve mysteries. I've read all the earlier books but this one started in a complicated way by having a bit set in 1948 then going back to 1938 and then jumping back to 1915, by which time I was feeling lost. So I gave up. I'm sure it's a good story but not for me this month. Couldn't get on with The Victory Garden either.
Back Tomorrow
Sue
Not much hope of the floods going down, it is still raining this mornng. I had an alarming moment yesterday when carefully making my way through a flood when the water appeared over my car bonnet. I came back a different way and am thinking I will stay home today. I note another Donna Leon here, are you liking her? I hope so.
ReplyDeleteYes enjoying Donna Leon - you said I would! only down point is the library don't have many of the early ones anymore
DeleteDonna Leon paperbacks regularly turn up in charity shops.
DeleteI read your blog frequently but never comment, but I felt i just had to say that Helen Cox is my niece, what a surprise to see her book in your selections. I hope you enjoy it.
ReplyDeleteHow brilliant - Lovely to hear from you - I like finding a new author so look forward to reading your niece's book.
DeleteI do hope you like it - it's set in York as you might guess from the title. I read your blog whenever there is a new entry, and enjoy being allowed a little peek into your life.
DeleteWe don't get much flooding round here but the bits that do flood have flooded and Parkrun has been cancelled this morning because many of the paths are under water. At the moment it is sunny and cheerful but we have had rain and I bet we will get more later on. Really not great weather.
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I'm waiting for some fine days to do washing - but it just keeps raining - A couple of fine hours today between rain
DeleteInteresting reading, how come you have so many books from the library though? I always thought it was 4 we were allowed.
ReplyDeleteWe are allowed 20 here in Suffolk!! - much needed for mobile library users with the van only coming once every 4 weeks but branch library users can also have twenty. (and the mobile library man will over-ride the system if you want even more!)
DeleteI hope your flooding recedes today. That is quite a nice haul of reading material. I need to ask how long you can keep books without them being due? Here we have three weeks, but you can renew for another three weeks.
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Borrowing from a branch library it's 3 weeks but you can renew online several times unless the book has been requested.
DeleteBecause the mobile library only comes once every 4 weeks we can keep them for 8 weeks - but they rarely charge fines anyway
You have delightful piles of books!! Like having an open candy box. -smile-
ReplyDeleteHope the weather calms down and the water drains away, so you can venture where you want to.
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Thank you,It's been better today able to get where I wanted
DeleteYou read a lot of my favorite writers -- and I'm looking forward to more time to do that in the new year!
ReplyDeleteI've got rather a lot of reading to do in the next month!
DeleteI'm reading the Nicola Upson book at the moment and enjoying it. Still waiting for the Anne Cleeves book you recommended! Have you read anything by M.C. Beaton? Her latest, "Beating About the Bush", was on the list in our local newspaper today. Seemingly she's 83 years old, lives in the Cotswolds and writes three crime novels a year. Amazing!
ReplyDeleteI'll have to try the Nicola Upson book again sometime as I liked all the earlier ones.
ReplyDeleteI tried M.C. Beatons Agatha Raison books but found them just a bit silly for my liking
I've read Confessions of a Bookseller and can thoroughly recommend it. If you enjoy this one, then do read Shaun's earlier 'Diary of a Bookseller'. It won't matter that your read the later book first. In both books Shaun refers to various books and authors that have caught his interest and I found myself making notes on these - As a result I've quite a few new authors to keep me going over the next few months. Some have turned up trumps! Wishing you a very happy Christmas and Book Reading.
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