Posted by NikkiT2 on September 22, 2004, at 14:16:23
OK, so it wasn't even a splurge! I had my book tokens to spend..
So, I had been saving them for the new big waterstones. I got to work early last Friday (it was opening at 8am) and went straight there.. Well.. Its a horrid book store!! Its big, bright, spacious, white and TONS of people. The staff were really nice.. but, I just didn't like the feeling of it. I bought one book - "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" Its been on my reading list for ages, and hadn't found it in the smaller book shop I was using, so took this opportunity to buy it!!
I was still finishing "Widow for one year" by John Irving (loved it, loved it!!) and we went to the in laws for the weekend. Friends of the inlaws were coming for dinner on Saturday, and D, a wonderful german woman, is an avid reader.. as my mother in law suspected, we hit it off immediately and spent all night talking books!
One of her many reccomendations.. the one she got most excited about was "Sabriel".. Its (not suprising for me I guess!) a young adult fiction book.. But came HIGHLY reccomended by Philip Pullman (aka my Hero!) so that was my first purchase! I'm just over half way through now (barely able to put it down since buying it!) and its wonderful!! About Sabriel, a 16 year old girl (maybe 17 actually) who has to travel to the "Old Kingdom" to find her father who is a kind of Necromancer.. the Old Kingdon is amagical one, so lots of magic and stuff!! I also bought "Lirael" which is the second part.. the third part "Abhorsen" is recently out.. only in hard back though (and we know my hate of hard back books *l*), but I think I shall be breaking down and buying it very soon!! They're by Garth Nix.. HIGHLY reccomended!! the writing isn't, ofcourse, in the same class as Pullman, but pretty close, and a wodnerful story so far!And I also picked up "Nostradamus Ate my Hamster" by Robert Rankin.. I will either love this or hate it!! I've heard so many mixed reports.. everyone seems to love Robert Rankin or hate him.. so we shall see!!
All in all, a good book week!! I so love getting great reccomendations off people.. thats one of the htings I love so about this place.. finding those gems of reccomendations.. (Ones from memory, just as a little added bonus feature.. "Prayer for Owen Meany" - not my fave John Irving, but it did introduce me to his other books!.. "House of Sand and Fog", "Middlesex", "A Confederacy of Dunces".. my brain has now given up on me.. sorry!!! There are more I know!)
have fun people.. happy reading :)
Nikki xx
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