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What's the last book you bought, new or secondhand?

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SiouxsieSiouxStiletto · 09/08/2023 07:22

I'll start with The Handsome Man's Deluxe Cafe by Alexander McCall Smith.

I've bought it for DFIL who is a little bit poorly and is enjoying some lighter reads. It's a lovely hardback edition and was from a great little charity shop.

What's your latest purchase? Wink

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Marsyas · 14/08/2023 17:38

Mat Osman's Ghost Theatre in hardback because I was going to hear him talk about it, and because I like Suede, and because I like Elizabethan theatre. It's so bad though. I can't finish it. I didn't go to see him talk about it because I got COVID and now I have now impetus to finish it

UnctuousUnicorns · 14/08/2023 17:35

I also bought The Complete Book Of The Flower Fairies by Cicely Mary Barker, after seeing the exhibition at the Lady Lever last month.

declutteringonedayatatime · 14/08/2023 16:41

Slayer and Chosen by Kiersten White. £2 each from BHF so a bargain overall.

GalileoHumpkins · 13/08/2023 22:27

OrangeFlorange · 13/08/2023 21:26

@TinkerbellefromYorkshire I read that last week and really enjoyed it!

My new book is "My Dark Vanessa" by Kate Elizabeth Russell.

I loved this, it's a devastating and frustrating read.

LikeAnOldFriend · 13/08/2023 21:38

Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin, new that I bought with a birthday voucher. Have read so much about it and looking forward to it.

OrangeFlorange · 13/08/2023 21:26

@TinkerbellefromYorkshire I read that last week and really enjoyed it!

My new book is "My Dark Vanessa" by Kate Elizabeth Russell.

OneFrenchEgg · 11/08/2023 21:19

I just read Nobody is Talking About This by Jean Lockwood which was so good.

MrsVoog · 11/08/2023 21:07

Madly, Deeply - The Alan Rickman Diaries. My lovely 15 year old bought if for me today for no reason other than I needed cheering up because of my awful tinnitus. I am on page 8 and quite enjoying it so far.

LuckOfTheDrawer · 11/08/2023 21:04

I quite liked How to kill your family, but I can't really remember how it ended 😄. The plot seemed a bit random as well sometimes. I did like some of the humour.

Busubaba · 11/08/2023 21:03

Secondhand -

The Crisis of the Modern World. Collected Works of Rene Guenon.

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SiouxsieSiouxStiletto · 11/08/2023 20:35

Bananaspliff · 11/08/2023 13:20

I’ve read How To Kill Your Family and Lessons in Chemistry on holiday and been disappointed by both. I thought the ending of How To Kill Your Family was so half arsed it ruined the whole book for me.
I really wanted to love Lessons in Chemistry but I just found Elizabeth completely insufferable.

Have read Lessons in Chemistry but I was disappointed with How to Kill Your Family too.

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LucyGru · 11/08/2023 20:22

The last op shop book I bought was a copy of The Great Gatsby for dd who is reading it at school. She wanted a copy she could highlight and annotate.

I very rarely buy new books because they cost a fortune where I live, but I did buy The Seven Sisters by Lucinda Riley because the library copy was so well read it was yellowish and had chunks and stains all through. Bleh. Haven't started it yet, but quite looking forward to it.

TinkerbellefromYorkshire · 11/08/2023 13:27

Lisa Jewel
Non of this is true.
One of my favourite authors.
Her latest book. Read them all.

Bananaspliff · 11/08/2023 13:20

I’ve read How To Kill Your Family and Lessons in Chemistry on holiday and been disappointed by both. I thought the ending of How To Kill Your Family was so half arsed it ruined the whole book for me.
I really wanted to love Lessons in Chemistry but I just found Elizabeth completely insufferable.

UnctuousUnicorns · 10/08/2023 22:51

The Plantagenets by Dan Jones, secondhand for £3.80 delivered from Amazon. Haven't started it yet as I'm still reading Fall On Your Knees by Anne-Marie Macdonald, which I bought at a secondhand book sale at a National Trust place we visited one holiday.

Heavensalongwayaway · 10/08/2023 17:19

The mystery of mercy close by marian Keyes. Hard to get into at first but totally loved it. I was given it by a friend for my hols.

GalileoHumpkins · 10/08/2023 17:16

I bought 2 this morning in the Kindle daily deals
The Turn of the Key by Ruth Ware
The Cloisters by Katy Hays.

TattiePants · 10/08/2023 09:13

@Timetochangetheoil this is my first Isherwood too and I love his writing so will definitely be reading more of his books. Goodbye to Berlin is four linked short stories, the second of which is about Sally Bowles and is what Cabaret is based on.

Timetochangetheoil · 10/08/2023 00:17

TattiePants · 09/08/2023 20:06

I bought a few last week in the 99p Kindle sale

Goodbye to Berlin, Christopher Isherwood
Kala, Colin Walsh
Mr Mercedes, Stephen King
Good Omens,
The Storied Life of AJ Fikry, Gabrielle Zevin
First Lady, Sonia Purnell

only read the first two so far and both excellent.

I had never heard of Christopher Isherwood until I saw a book of his in the library this week and now you’ve mentioned another by him that I will need to read. He is utterly fantastic. His writing is intelligent but so readable how have I just discovered him!

Splodgerbodgerbadger · 09/08/2023 23:26

luckydaytoday · 09/08/2023 09:08

Two holiday reads, both 2nd hand:
CJ Samson - Dissolution
Lily Allen - My Thoughts Exactly

I really enjoyed the CJ Samson Shardalke books. Dissolution is the first one in the series.

Longlist · 09/08/2023 23:13

Madame Bovary. Trying to re read some classics.

Splodgerbodgerbadger · 09/08/2023 23:12

I think the last one I bought was The story of Pa Salt by Lucinda Riley. It’s the last in the Seven Sisters series. Not read it yet as it’s the last book and I’m saving it. I don’t buy many books now I tend to get them out of the library.

Enko · 09/08/2023 23:10

Love's executioner by Irvin Yalow. Used copy in good condition.

Splodgerbodgerbadger · 09/08/2023 23:10

oceanskye · 09/08/2023 08:01

Crow Lake by Mary Lawson. It was great, looking at getting another of her books.

I read Crow Lake along with Mary Lawson’s other books last year. Loved them all.

Philandbill · 09/08/2023 23:09

Lachlan's War by Michael Cannon. Onr chapter left to read, it's superb..

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