Well, I may not be reading very much at the moment but I am still buying books to add to the TBR pile (which by now constitutes most of my house….)
It was our wedding anniversary yesterday and on our way to see Thor (which will be reviewed here at some point in the next day or two) we had a small diversion to a well known chain bookshop “just to have a look”; the outcome of this “looking” was:
- Mr Chartwell by Rebecca Hunt – has had some good reviews and looks very interesting, plus I liked the cover
- Great House by Nicole Krauss – again some good reviews and shortlisted for the Orange Prize
- Harbour by John Avide Lindqvist – oooh, I’ve been waiting for this to come out in paperback for ages, what will he give us after Swedish vampires and Swedish zombies, I wonder?
Now I just have to start reading again…..
Bride of the Book God 
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May 31, 2011 at 4:40 pm
bloglily
What a lovely photo. Something about all that glow makes me want to go in. I imagine they’d hand you a cup of hot chocolate while you browsed on a rainy night. Or lemonade if it was hot. I began Nicole Kraus’s book (I really liked History of Love), but was not drawn in. Maybe it was my mood. I do think it’s worth going back to and I look forward to hearing what you think. And Happy Anniversary!
May 31, 2011 at 4:52 pm
brideofthebookgod
Sadly the book shop (John Smith & Sons (Glasgow)Ltd)no longer exists; it was my local when I was a student and it was a wonderful place. This is a snip of a much larger photograph which was sold in the shop as a postcard, and as you say a lovely glow on a typically wet Glaswegian winter’s day.
July 24, 2011 at 5:01 am
Susan
Oh, I so want to read Harbour! I loved Handling the Undead. I don’t think it’s here yet. Have you read it yet? How are things with the changes?
July 26, 2011 at 9:17 pm
brideofthebookgod
I haven’t started it yet but Silvery Dude finished it recently and recommended it highly.