Time to actually try and get into some kind of blogging habit, Even my mum has told me that I should be doing it! I am so far behind with sharing what I was reading towards the end of 2014 (and let's face it, 2014 seems like aaaaages ago now), that it makes more sense to start afresh and then revisit those reads at some point. So, I thought I'd do a really easy post of what I have been buying in 2015. This has the added benefit of being a confessional. My name is Sarah, and I am addicted to tracking the price of e-books and swooping when the price drops. I know, I'm the sort of person who is destroying the future of bookshops. But to counter this I am also unable to walk past a bookshop without making a purchase, so I'm not all bad.
This is the state of the problem two weeks into 2015. Don't laugh.
I can't wait to get cracking on this. I loved Peter May's Lewis trilogy and gave his latest, Entry Island, 5 out of 5 stars in the autumn. Runaway was published this week and sounds every bit as good.
Total contrast, but I love a good family saga, Joanna Trollope or Maeve Binchy stylee, and I have read great things about A Place For Us, also published in the last week. And Harriet Evans is lovely on twitter, so do give her a follow if you read this and enjoy it.
The House of Silk isn't newly published, but the price of it dropped below my threshold this week, and it has been on my list for a while. Sorry again, publishers and bookshops.
Ditto this. I have a few gaps in my Lacey Flint collection, as I started with book 4 and then went back to the beginning.
Matt Dunn is a great writer. If you enjoyed the Lucy Robinson or Mhairi Macfarlane books that I recommended last year, you'll like his work. AND, if you have Amazon Prime, it's FREE here! What more can you ask?
And finally,I bought the Complete Mapp & Lucia for the princely sum of 77p. This week I finally watched the series that was on television over Christmas, and it had me in hysterics, so I am really looking forward to this.
Well, that doesn't look too bad really, does it? We'll gloss over the books that I bought at the end of December for now, because looking at my account at a certain online retailer, there were quite a few. Ditto the books that are currently on my purchasing wish-list. There's a whole extra blog post right there, and I'll try and write it in the very near future.
Thanks for reading! Let me know what books you have been buying so far in 2015, and make me feel better about my habit!
Sarah x
P.S. I've got some weird formatting things going on, because I tried writing this on my iPad and it didn't really work out. So sorry, I will try and get rid of them and/or not do that again!
Oh heck, daughter! I didn't expect you to add to my 'to purchase and to read' list :)
ReplyDeleteI've made up for your lack of bookshop purchases I think - though mine were all children's books for Riley.
Still trying to clear my backlog from 2014! And when Poldark starts, I'll want to re-read all 10 of those again!!