Friday 14 October 2022

Hey Big Spender? No. Just 30p

 If I'm to discover any more really good finds as the car-boot season draws to a close I think I'll need to get up earlier but as that doesn't appeal at all it seems I'm destined to find not a lot.

This was all I bought on a recent Saturday - 3 books for just 10p each.

 I'm specially pleased with the Donna Leon which is an older one the library don't have.


I read the British Library Crime Classic when it was first published a few years ago but will read again and then start a collection to go off to Ziffit sometime. (It's worth 49p at the moment -  a 39p profit- not to be sniffed at in these hard times!)

While I was out last Saturday I took lots of the September library books back to Stowmarket Library, as on closer inspection they just didn't appeal, I wasn't in the mood for non-fiction at all. So I've already started the Donna Leon.

October's library van is due next week and thankfully there will be several crime fiction for me to collect as well as some non-fiction that I've been looking forward to, so I hope they live up to expectations.

Back Soon
Sue


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    1. Sometimes I only want to read crime fiction, my favourite reading

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  2. The Brambly Hedge books are lovely. Is that for the littlies or for your Winter mantelpiece? xx

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    1. Could be both or just because I love the illustrations!
      I forgot I'd got the complete stories but in one large book - not so good to look at for children

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    2. When we were living in France, I picked up some stationery with Brambly Hedge characters on it. Loved it. Used it all up. Didn't know until now that there were books! I will have to find one to read...

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  3. 10p a book is brilliant. We got to hardly any boot sales this year, in fact we haven't since before lockdown. I got 4 books from the big Cancer charity shop yesterday (all their books are 2 for £1) - the lady on the till commented on the fact that I'd just donated a bagful of books...."and now you're buying more!". Well yes, that's the whole idea haha.

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    1. I prefer car-boot sales to charity shops nowadays. I like the good walk round early morning

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  4. Am very grateful for public libraries. With the amount I read it would cost a fortune if I had to buy books.

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    1. It would cost me £1,000s if I bought all the books I read - so thank goodness for libraries

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  5. Brambly Hedge was a favourite of my children and now is for the grandchildren also. Such beautiful illustrations. x

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    1. I love the illustrations too - they'd better feature in a winter blog post

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  6. Bargain at 10p each. I'm working through a pile of books I seem to have accumulated over the last 18 months. The books in the charity shops around here are expensive, nothing cheaper than £2 and the library reservation fee here has gone up to £1. However, I was very excited to see a new Vera book has been released so I have reserved that.

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    1. Thank heavens book reserving is still free in Suffolk!

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    2. Completely unrelated to this post Sue, but thinking of you and your hampers, apparently Poundland are selling 'make your own hamper kits' for £2. Includes all the basket, straw, cellophane etc.

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  7. The Brambly Hedge books are a real treat. I bought our daughter the set of 4 when she was little and she was absolutely gutted when a boy at school wrote in one of them.

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    1. I forgot I'd got all the stories in one large book - must pass that on to someone

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  8. The Winter Story looks so sweet. I have not read Donna Leon but she is popular in our bookstore. I say you got a bargain all around
    Cathy

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    1. You never know how much people are going to want for books at boot sales - although rarely more than £1

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  9. I love a bargain and you've done well finding and buying 3 good books.

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  10. Thanks for the reminder about Donna Leon. I remember reading some of hers awhile ago but for some reason she got left off my list. Now she is back on the list and my library has a lot of her books.

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    1. The library have several of her books but no longer the early ones that I've not read

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  11. Your last comment resonated with me. I am always sad/frustrated when books I've reserved at the library, and waited for ages to receive, turn out to be disappointing--usually I just can't finish them and back they go. Seems to happening a lot lately, so perhaps I need to rethink what I really want to read.

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    1. I'm sure on another day I might have got into them but just wasn't in the right mood

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  12. What a bargain. I normally love a good browse around our library but I'm going through a phase of needing to look at new to me authors so thanks for the ideas.
    Alison in Wales x

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    1. Donna Leon books are crime fiction set in Venice and she writes very well

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  13. Our next Book Group book is George Eliot's Silas Marner - more than enough to keep me going all month.

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  14. Wow what lovely finds! I am - successfully so far - staying away from buying books. I still have so many to read but am slowly working my way through them. I have almost reached my 100 books for the year goal!

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  15. The Brambly Hedge book is a charming treasure to find. And the D Leon reminds me to start rereading the series, maybe this winter. thx

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  16. Wow, you scored with those! Enjoy.

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