I had fingers crossed that there would be no hitch with the arrival of the Mobile Library this week as there were 14 waiting for me and I'd read all of last months books.
A very mixed bag this time - or actually two bags to balance me up on my walk back down the road!
There are three here that I've read before, including the two by Katherine Stewart. After re-reading her Croft in The Hills last month I thought I might as well re-read the other two. 'Where Stands a Winged Sentry' by Margaret Kennedy is a wartime book about factory workers and I was reminded of it somewhere and could remember nothing about it so I've borrowed it again.
There are three other Non-Fiction and I hope 'Way of The Hermit' is a good read. One classified as Teen Reading 'Under a Fire Red Sky' which is set in war-time. Five crime fiction which I'm sure will all be good and a couple of ordinary fiction including a very old one by Norah Lofts - who lived in Bury St Edmunds when I worked in the library there in the 70's. She never came into the library herself but had a researcher who spent hours in the Reference library doing all the work - hope she was well paid! I'm not sure why I ordered it but details must have popped up somewhere. I also know nothing about 'Bookshop of Secrets'.
Last month, at the beginning of April I collected these 10 books and read them all except that new Elly Griffiths and so many were really good and could be recommended.
I'll give that one by Elif Shafak a mention on tomorrows post and all that I've read have info on the 'Books Read 2025' page.
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Sue
Sue, I was surprised to see that The Garden in the Hills was written by Katharine Stewart. That's the same name as the sequel to Hovel in the Hills by Elizabeth West. I saw your copy of "Hovel" so many times when you posted pictures of your home library that I hunted it down here in the US and read and enjoyed it. The sequel wasn't as good but still interesting, especially her list of foods that could be foraged in Britain.
ReplyDelete--Maxine aka mikemax
Same title, different author and Scotland rather than Wales. Elizabeth West's books are two that I'll never be giving away!
DeleteI loved Hovel in the Hills but preferred Garden in the Hills. So interesting reading about them digging a garden out of nothing.
DeleteThey worked so hard inside and out. She also wrote a recipe book, Kitchen…, very plain cooking and thrifty. My least favourite but still worth a read. J’nan
Yes I have Kitchen in the Hills too. E. W. Wasn't happy with that book as she had to alter all the recipes from 2 persons to 4 for the publishers which she thought made some of the recipes go wrong.
DeleteI was going to ask if you take a trolley for your haul, but now I shall ask you if you do your weight lifting reps with a bag of books in each hand. Happy reading!
ReplyDeleteI ought to- always surprising how heavy books can be
DeleteI'm currently reading Hitler's Pope, which is quite scholarly, and my next read will be The Tigers of Lents. Lents is one of the poorest neighborhoods in Portland, Oregon, and I grew up in an adjacent neighborhood which isn't any better. The closure of Marshall High School, which I attended in the 1960s, figures prominently in the book, so this should be fun (for me, anyway). I don't usually check out too many books at one time because I get indecisive and can't decide which to read!
ReplyDelete--Maxine, again.
Good to find a book about an area you know.
DeleteI'm back reading on my kindle apt, so I am finding new to me authors, Kindle link me to others I might like.
ReplyDeleteI'm not sure how I would get on with a kindle
DeleteI do hope you enjoyed Rivers. One of my favourite books of the year so far.
ReplyDeleteI did, although at first look I wasn't sure, - details on tomorrows post!
DeleteThere are enough there to keep you busy for a day or two!
ReplyDeleteI hope so!
DeleteI've been slogging through Jim Kelly's Death Toll. I've had such a hard time keeping track of who is who. I'm almost at the end but really had trouble concentrating on this one. Enjoy your May pile!
ReplyDeleteSounds complicated - I'd probably give up! That one is in a different series to the ones I've read
DeleteThanks for the mention of two other Katherine Stewart books, I will have to hunt them down. I'll be interested to hear what you think of the Norah Lofts book too, it isn't one I've read. Happy reading!
ReplyDeletePenny
I once owned them - but like so many others they went in one of the moves
DeleteYou've got a good collection of books for May. The changes at the library seem not to have impacted the delivery of books to you. Thank goodness.
ReplyDeleteSo Far! They have promised to keep mobile libraries going in some form - we shall see what happens in July when things may change more
DeleteYou really need your mobile library -- I hope they do maintain it. I like your book posts, interesting to see what you've enjoyed.
ReplyDeleteI'm just reading In Memoriam by Alice Winn and really enjoying it.
ReplyDeleteNone of your currents are familiar to me but I have a different Jim Eldridge on my to be read shelf, just waiting.
ReplyDeleteWhat a lovely lot of books!
ReplyDeleteI'm still trying to work my way through the bookshelves!