Old English Rose Reads

In my mailbox

“In my mailbox” is a weekly meme hosted by The Story Siren in which people share the books that they have acquired that week.

For one reason or another (chiefly not being home at the weekends) I’ve not done one of these for a month now.  Consequently, the book haul looks rather horrendous, I know, and I’m going to have to put a stop to my acquisition habit this month.  This mammoth pile is the combined result of books requested on BookMooch and books from charity shops as usual, with a few thrown in here and there from ebay or Amazon marketplace.  This time around the biggest culprit was a charity shop I passed when I was out pottering during my lunch break which had a sign in the window bearing the fatal words “All books 50p”.  Now how was I supposed to resist that?  At least I can ease my book guilt by the knowledge that I’m not spending much money and other people are benefiting from my habit.

I think I’m just going to list these because there are too many of them for me to comment on them all and this would become an incredibly long post.  Now that I’ve caught up I’ll try not to leave it so long next time (oh, and to cut back on the books too, honest).

From BookMooch:

• Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
• The People of Lavender Court by Kathleen Dayus
• The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne
• 98 Reasons for Being by Clare Dudman
• The Witching Hour by Anne Rice
• The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy by Tim Burton
• The Enchanted April by Elizabeth Von Armin
• The Courage Consort by Michael Faber
• Gould’s Book of Fish by Richard Flanagan
• A Month in the Country by J. L. Carr
• The Outcast by Sadie Jones
• Winter Rose by Patricia McKillip
• Wildwood Dancing by Juliet Marillier
• Marie by Madeleine Bourdouxhe

From charity shops:

• Desdemona – If Only You Had Spoken by Christine Bruckner
• Novel on Yellow Paper by Stevie Smith
• Two for the Lions, Last Act in Palmyra and Dying Light in Corduba by Lindsey Davis
• Prodigal Summer and The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver
• Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Other Stories by Robert Louis Stevenson
• In the Company of the Courtesan by Sarah Dunant
• The World my Wilderness by Rose Macaulay
• Hours Before Dawn be Celia Fremlin
• Try Anything Twice and Mrs Miniver by Jan Struther
• The House in Dormer Forest by Mary Webb
• Diana of the Crossways by George Meredith
• The Turquoise and The Mistletoe and the Sword by Anya Seton
• Miss Mapp, Lucia’s Progress and Mapp and Lucia by E. F. Benson
• White Swan, Black Swan by Adrienne Sharp
• Alone in Berlin by Hans Fallada
• The House at Riverton by Kate Morton
• Affinity by Sarah Waters
• The Eleventh Plague by Darren Craske
• Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand by Helen Simonson
• The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes and The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
• Stardust by Neil Gaiman
• Life of Pi by Yann Martel
• The Masterharper of Pern by Anne McCaffrey
• Blood on the Dining Room Floor by Gertrude Stein
• The Lifted Veil by George Eliot
• Lady Audley’s Secret by Mary E. Braddon
• The Shutter of Snow by Emily Holmes Coleman
• The Golden Child, The Blue Flower and At Freddie’s by Penelope Fitzgerald
• The Wedding by Dorothy West
• The Blade Itself, Before They Are Hanged and The Last Argument of Kings by Joe Abercrombie
• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
• The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry
• Henrietta Brandon by Sonia Prentice Clary
• A Place of Secrets by Rachel Hore
• The Shadows of Elisa Lynch by Sian Rees

From Amazon and Ebay:

• William: An Englishman by Cicely Hamilton
• The Warden by Anthony Trollope
• A Study in Scarlet and The Sign of Four by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (both read now)

Received for review:

• Flowers for Alys by Irene M Redpath

So, in summary:

Books off the TBR pile in the past four weeks – 6

Books on the TBR pile this fortnight – 67 (shhh, don’t tell)

Change – +61

TBR pile stands at – 584 books (oh dear)

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