Cutting the Cost of Book Buying
Here’s a shot from Livraria Lello in Oporto that I visited back in June. Surely another trip away is on the cards! Books have always been a weakness for me but I hardly ever pay full price. Here’s ten ways…
Lovely Grey Day ... Revisited
Living in the realm of curiosity
Lovely Grey Day ... Revisited
Living in the realm of curiosity
Category Books
The Wild Silence
I wrote before how I read The Salt Path by Raynor Winn in super quick time. It tells the tale of how the author and her husband Moss walked the South West Coast Path after being made homeless. The other…
Piano by Jean Echenoz
Every so often I come across a book that stirs a desire in me. I must read everything the author has ever written. In my childhood it was Enid Blyton. I was doing nicely. Until that is a teacher told…
Temptation
One of the best ways of not spending money is to avoid shops and online shopping sites. Buying things from eBay and the charity shops to resell is therefore hazardous. The temptation to acquire things for personal use comes in…
The True Deceiver
Now I’m in two minds about The True Deceiver by Tove Jansson. Yes, its author is the woman who wrote the Moomintroll fantasies. There’s a Moomin hanging from the back window of Klaus the Knaus, my motorhome. The girl in…
Man’s Search For Meaning
A quote heavy post today! I thought that I’d share possibly one of the most thought provoking pieces of writing that I’ve ever come across. It is deserving of a place in my rainbow bookcase. Indeed, after I first read…