A couple of photos from the day - firstly Gary's photo of the garage once all the books were in place and the people hadn't yet descended on it.

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A new LJ user pic - from the SFBC edition of The Parasol Protectorate (volume 1). Awesome cover art and much nicer than that on the original paperbacks.

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This is what I've bought over the last few days:

-- Brennan, Sarah Rees ~ Unspoken

-- Dunn, Carola ~ Miss Jacobson's Journey
-- Dunn, Carola ~ Lord Roworth's Reward
-- Dunn, Carola ~ ( Read more... )

In my search for more and more steampunk to read I had been looking at the Kady Cross titles (interesting covers) but they seemed like they might be a bit romance-y for me. Don't get me wrong - I like romance as a genre and read plenty of it, I just don't do historical romance at all and romance-based steampunk would get into that no-go area ( Read more... )

8 July 2014 is the publication date for the next Meg Langslow title.

Books-to-buy!

(I do wish she would do more with the Turing Hopper series - it was excellent.)

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I said earlier that I'd write a bit about Carola Dunn's twenty-first Daisy Dalrymple title, Heirs of the Body. In fact I'm going to say a bit about the whole series.

Originally I bought a few of them from Book Closeouts, as it was then (now Book Outlet) because I loved the cover art and they seemed to be my sort of read:

-- Die Laughing, Daisy ( Read more... )

Well, here's a quirky little list - the books I bought during 2013. There are some titles in here I can't remember buying ... or reading. Must be lost in the dark recesses of the To Be Read bookcase. :o)

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Let's just accept I'm a big fan of Tamora Pierce's. Started out when Alanna and In the Hand of the Goddess were all there was and I discovered them in the children's section of the library as I filled in time while my husband did genealogy research in another part of the building. Once I got into book collecting I upgraded my 1st UK editions of ( Read more... )

This morning we said farewell to Jill, our overnight guest from Australia, taking her to the bus via Farmers (department store) to buy a couple of the Christmas whirligigs, then I had just enough time to get home and start the washing before book-friend Sue picked me up to go to lunch with her and book-friend Beth in the Esplanade ( Read more... )

The second of my every-holidays days out with my nieces, this time with N1 (12 years old). She took over the camera so we got lots of photos of our day and, her being 12 and all, lots of selfies, most of which I deleted. I am a cruel aunt! ;o)

Since we'd chosen a movie (Frozen, fun but not going to be a classic) that didn't start until 2.15 we ( Read more... )

In this post a while back I mentioned the 'book spending spreadsheet' better known around here as the 'book budget ( Read more... )