Accidental Reads

[Buttalapasta]

So, I should be working through the many, many unread books I have both in real life but also on kindle. Instead I thought I thought I would start a thread for books you come across "by accident" and end up reading. I love the serependity of finding a book that you would never usually look at but deciding to read it anyway. Books which are left behind on trains, in holiday homes. Books that you find in book swaps or that are left for you to find in little free libraries. Only books that you did not pay for or actively search for allowed!

My two recent finds were:

• Bogart on Bogart by Stephen Bogart - Humphrey Bogart’s son explores his relationship with and memories of his father. I don’t normally go for biographies but I enjoyed this.
• Jennings goes to School by Anthony Buckeridge - apparently the first in a series of Jennings adventures at boarding school. Delightfully dated but such an enjoyable read with such likeable characters.

So - what are your "accidental reads"?

We rented a cottage in Norway once and it turned out to be an old homestead. Among all the old books, I found a really good all round craft book that really kept me entertained. It was from the seventies. I didn't even know that such books existed.

I didn't really know chick lit books before we moved to Britain. I had read Jane Austen, Doris Lessing, Mary Clark, and Mariah Keynes, but I didn't know for instance Sophia Kinsella or vampire romance books. I found a very funny book called "Getting rid of Mathew", that I still think about sometimes.

Not sure I have anything to add but had to reply to say the Jennings’ books are fabulous! The humour is so clever at times, such as when he goes looking for a “kettle of fish” and the confusion about squaws and hippopotamuses in the maths class.

@RainbowSlimeLab Yes, I agree. I found it much funnier than I thought I would and will definitely look out for others in the series.

I got 'The woman with all the answers' by Linda Green as an Amazon First Reads book for my Kindle last month and enjoyed it far more than I thought I would! I've had a few dire Kindle freebies from Amazon but I got surprisingly invested in this one.

I downloaded The Maid instead of The Housemaid.
I did get to The Housemaid afterwards.
Both were equally terrible, so I ballsed that up big time 😂

😂 Oh no....I read The Housemaid too according to Goodreads but I cannot for the life of me remember anything about it. Must have been amazing...