Books Are My Bag! – Miss Write

My wonderful local library, Towcester Library, are holding a book sale. This was no ordinary sale… Anyone can go along and grab a jute bag and fill it with books! Amazing idea – and it only cost £3 per bag. I say “per bag” because I could have walked away with one on each arm, but I showed great restraint in only filling one. That’s more than enough to last me until the end of the year and through my next holiday, hooray!

I was a little disappointed there was no one volume there which was on my ‘to read’ list already, but all the better in a way – my ‘to read’ list has become longer and I am going to be trying new authors as a result of some literary gambles. Nothing could be worse than Don Quixote, the novel I’m reading at the moment for part of my 30 Before 30!

So how did I pick my books?

Three of them are a present for my fiance: Surviving Extremes (just his cuppa tea), Villainous Victorians (he loves history) and a book on how to improve your swimming technique. He wasn’t too overjoyed with me choosing the last one for him – he’s a good swimmer already – but I think he was 66% pleased, so that’s not bad!

Another book chosen is intended as a present for a friend I’m borrowing a car parking space off next month. He loves to travel by bus and gets his money’s worth of his pensioners bus pass, so the Great British Bus Journeys was irresistible as a little ‘thank you’ present. 

And the rest of the books – all for me! Whoopee! Cancel my social life, I’ll be reading! 

I’m chuffed I found an Iain M. Banks novel (love him), and I know Small Island is a winner; I read it a few years ago and loved it – so glad to have my own (almost free) copy! Jodi Picoult is a throwback to my teen years, so it’s a bit digressive, but I know I’ll enjoy it. Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry will bring back memories to anyone in my Mr Leslie English class at school – we studied it for SATs or GCSE (I forget which) and I can’t remember any of it, so I grabbed this copy to remind me. It’s one of those ones you should read, if I remember correctly. The rest are total mysteries to me, author and title. I hope I’ll discover a new writer I love… if not, they’ll all end up in a charity shop!

I’m starting to wade through the volumes this lunch time with Paul Torday – The Girl On The Landing. 

#ILoveLibraries
#ILoveBooks

15 books for £3. That’s 20p each. Bargain. Thanks, Towcester Library! 

Lou x

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