The January Library Book Photo

Thank you to everyone for so many comments yesterday. There were some good memories.General consensus was that some of the energy/money saving ideas were a good idea and have been used for years by anyone with commonsense, some people are able to take offense at anything and home energy prices are going up everywhere which is going to cause real hardship for many people.

 Personally, after years of  frugal living in cold houses without central heating, where the only heat was after the fire was lit, years of reading the meter everyday so that we could work out where to cut down and scrimping and saving to achieve our goals, I'm very glad to be able to afford a warm house. Coming out of my cold bedroom(I never heat my bedroom) into the warm hallway and living room every morning is a pleasure that I'd rather not be without anymore.

Now to the real subject of today's post........................

 I collected the books that I'd reserved online from the library van yesterday.

Mostly crime, 3 by authors that were new to me last month (Marion Todd and Jim Eldridge......see last months photo below). The Devils Dice is a completely new-to-me author - noted from a pen-friends letter. The Pimlico Murder and Three Dog Problem are new books by crime authors I've read before. At the top is another collection of pieces by Alison Uttley which has come out of County Reserve and Ask a Policeman on the right was originally published in 1933 and is a collaboration between several famous crime authors of the time.

The Long Field by Pamela Petro is about her love and longing for Wales from where she lives in the U.S and right at the bottom Christmas at River Cottage is mainly recipes with other things thrown in by Lucy Brazier with notes and recipes by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall. 

 Last months books, below, have been read or returned un-read, although I've  kept  'Veg In One Bed' and 'Forecast', the book about the weather changes, for another month.

The two new-to-me crime authors were both a success, which is why there are others by them in my new pile. I didn't read Sitopia - too dull and Little Stories of Your Life is about writing about your life, which I do on the blog anyway. I'm trying to read Forecast which is good but I keep getting sidetracked by things more interesting.

As usual the books I've finished are all listed on the separate Books Read pages - some in 2022 and some at the end of 2021.

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Sue