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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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TinkerbellefromYorkshire · 11/08/2023 13:27

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

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.

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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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Busubaba · 11/08/2023 21:03

Secondhand -

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

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.

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.

OneFrenchEgg · 11/08/2023 21:19

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

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.

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.

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.

declutteringonedayatatime · 14/08/2023 16:41

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

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.

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

Marsyas · 14/08/2023 17:39

No impetus.

Nicecupofteaforthree · 14/08/2023 22:39

English Diaries of the XIX Century, edited by James Aitken, charity shop find.

OrangeFlorange · 15/08/2023 12:13

@GalileoHumpkins I started it yesterday and I got about half way through before I had to go to bed.

Reading it feels like a punch to the gut! I'm enjoying it (if that's the right word) but it really is devastating.

Longlist · 28/08/2023 21:17

Madame Bovary, from a charity shop. Last read it in 1981!

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SiouxsieSiouxStiletto · 28/08/2023 21:24

Longlist · 28/08/2023 21:17

Madame Bovary, from a charity shop. Last read it in 1981!

That's what I'm reading now!

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UnalliterativeGeorge · 28/08/2023 21:28

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.

I just bought this last week and read it in two days, absolutely loved it but think it'll be a Marmite book and can't think of anybody I know who'll love it as much as I did.

Longlist · 28/08/2023 21:43

SiouxsieSou, are you enjoying it? I just finished Anna Karenina and someone asked me why I keep reading books about troubled women!

lauraisa · 28/08/2023 21:47

The Whispers - highly recommend!!

UnctuousUnicorns · 28/08/2023 22:01

Margaret Forster, Diary Of An Ordinary Woman, £2 at a charity book sale table at Southwaite services.

my82my · 28/08/2023 22:03

Just finished my round the pool holiday book. Again Racheal by Mariyan Keyes, I loved it.
About to Start Brighton Mermaid by Dorothy Koomson.

Justrolledmyeyesoutloud · 28/08/2023 22:50

Friendaholic by Elizabeth Day.