{"id":223,"date":"2018-01-24T12:26:00","date_gmt":"2018-01-24T12:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/2018\/01\/24\/books-i-bought-in-london\/"},"modified":"2020-10-26T23:22:12","modified_gmt":"2020-10-26T23:22:12","slug":"books-i-bought-in-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/2018\/01\/24\/books-i-bought-in-london\/","title":{"rendered":"Books I Bought In London"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I bought seventeen books when I was in London. Which, purely by coincidence, is the same number of books I bought last time I was in London. I don’t usually look for specific books. I just wander through any bookstore I come across and buy anything that catches my eye. When I have so many books that I am starting to worry about transporting them home I try to curtail my purchases. This is hard since even though I shouldn’t buy any more books I continue to wander through bookstores. And if you can wander through a bookstore without wanting to purchase more books then you are a stronger person than I am.<\/p>\n

I bought mainly non-fiction this time–eleven are non-fiction and six are fiction. Before I left for London I asked on Twitter for bookstore recommendations. I ended up with a list it would have taken me a month to work through. Mind you, I would have been happy to stay in London for a month but instead I will just have to go back to continue my bookstore quest.<\/p>\n

Of course I went to Persephone Books. I refuse to visit London unless\u00a0 I also visit Persephone Books. It is just so wonderful. I bought three books. They are House-Bound\u00a0<\/i>by Winifred Peck, They Knew Mr. Knight<\/i>\u00a0by Dorothy Whipple, and A House in the Country<\/i>\u00a0by Jocelyn Playfair.<\/p>\n

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I went to Waterstones a few times. I usually try to frequent more of the small, second-hand bookstores but we were there over Christmas week and many of them were closed. Plus, Waterstones is an excellent place to duck into when you are cold and your husband needs another cup of coffee. I bought four books there during the course of the week. The Diary of a Bookseller<\/i>\u00a0is the only one I was specifically looking for. I read a few rave reviews about it so knew it was a book I wanted to bring home. It is also the only book I have read so far and I thoroughly enjoyed it. The Marches<\/i>\u00a0by Rory Stewart is one my husband found for me. Actually, he found it on a whole table of books about the U.K. countryside. I could have bought them all. He insisted I\u00a0also buy Jane Austen’s England<\/i>. I wasn’t going to but he said could I please just buy it right then because otherwise we would just have to return when I changed my mind. That man knows me very well. Letters From the Suitcase<\/i>\u00a0is the correspondence between a couple during WWII. Obviously, I was going to have to buy it.<\/div>\n
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Skoob Books was a recommendation from someone on Twitter. We bought three books there. One is my husband’s-something scientific about the way our brains work, one was a Penguin mystery for my mom to go with the Penguin Tote bag I bought her, and one was for me. It is Together and Apart<\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0Margaret Kennedy. I read The Feast<\/i>\u00a0by Kennedy last year and enjoyed it so I was happy to find another lovely Virago by her.<\/div>\n
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Any Amount of Books is a wonderful bookshop on Charing Cross Road. It is small and was jammed full of people sheltering from the rain and I loved it. So, thank you to the several people on Twitter who recommended it. The basement is full of bargains. I don’t have any photos because it was so busy but here are the three books I bought. I read Watching the English<\/i>\u00a0a few years ago and wouldn’t mind re-reading it. I was also pleased to find an Ivy Compton-Burnett. I read one of her books a few years ago and somehow how never gotten around to reading another. That will be remedied now. P.<\/i> G. Wodehouse-A Life in Letters<\/i> was reviewed on a blog recently (I can’t remember which blog) so it seemed like a fortuitous find. Besides, I grew up on Wodehouse.<\/div>\n
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Notting Hill Book & Comic Exchange was another Twitter recommendation. It was wonderful. I ended up having to cull my pile of books because this was an early stop in the week and I didn’t want to buy too many books right away. I still bought six so you can imagine what my initial pile was like. I was particularly pleased to find the life of Charles Dickens since I read Tomalin’s biography of Jane Austen a year or so ago and thought it was very well done.<\/div>\n
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I am deeply regretting all the bookstores I didn’t manage to get to. A few were closed. For example, we tried to go to Heywood Hill and I was very disappointed when we arrived and it was shut for the week. And as for the rest, we just ran out of time. I’ll have to go back. Maybe with an extra suitcase and definitely with my very patient husband.<\/div>\n
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I bought seventeen books when I was in London. Which, purely by coincidence, is the same number of books I bought last time I was in London. I don’t usually look for specific books. I just wander through any bookstore I come across and buy anything that catches my eye. When I have so many books that I am starting to worry about transporting them home I try to curtail my purchases. This is hard since even though I shouldn’t buy any more books I continue to wander through bookstores. And if you can wander through a bookstore without wanting to purchase more books then you are a stronger person than I am. I bought mainly non-fiction this time–eleven are non-fiction and six are fiction. Before I left for London I asked on Twitter for bookstore recommendations. I ended up with a list it would have taken me a month to work through. Mind you, I would have been happy to stay in London for a month but instead I will just have to go back to continue my bookstore quest. Of course I went to Persephone Books. I refuse to visit London unless\u00a0 I also visit Persephone Books. It is just so wonderful. I bought three books. They are House-Bound\u00a0by Winifred Peck, They Knew Mr. Knight\u00a0by Dorothy Whipple, and A House in the Country\u00a0by Jocelyn Playfair. I went to Waterstones a few times. I usually try to frequent more of the small, second-hand bookstores but we were there over Christmas week and many of them were closed. Plus, Waterstones is an excellent place to duck into when you are cold and your husband needs another cup of coffee. I bought four books there during the course of the week. The Diary of a Bookseller\u00a0is the only one I was specifically looking for. I read a few rave reviews about it so knew it was a book I wanted to bring home. It is also the only book I have read so far and I thoroughly enjoyed it. The Marches\u00a0by Rory Stewart is one my husband found for me. Actually, he found it on a whole table of books about the U.K. countryside. I could have bought them all. He insisted I\u00a0also buy Jane Austen’s England. I wasn’t going to but he said could I please just buy it right then because otherwise we would just have to return when I changed my mind. That man knows me very well. Letters From the Suitcase\u00a0is the correspondence between a couple during WWII. Obviously, I was going to have to buy it. Skoob Books was a recommendation from someone on Twitter. We bought three books there. One is my husband’s-something scientific about the way our brains work, one was a Penguin mystery for my mom to go with the Penguin Tote bag I bought her, and one was for me. It is Together and Apart\u00a0by\u00a0Margaret Kennedy. I read The Feast\u00a0by Kennedy last year and enjoyed it so I was happy to find another lovely Virago by her. Any Amount of Books is a wonderful bookshop on Charing Cross Road. It is small and was jammed full of people sheltering from the rain and I loved it. So, thank you to the several people on Twitter who recommended it. The basement is full of bargains. I don’t have any photos because it was so busy but here are the three books I bought. I read Watching the English\u00a0a few years ago and wouldn’t mind re-reading it. I was also pleased to find an Ivy Compton-Burnett. I read one of her books a few years ago and somehow how never gotten around to reading another. That will be remedied now. P. G. Wodehouse-A Life in Letters was reviewed on a blog recently (I can’t remember which blog) so it seemed like a fortuitous find. Besides, I grew up on Wodehouse. Notting Hill Book & Comic Exchange was another Twitter recommendation. It was wonderful. I ended up having to cull my pile of books because this was an early stop in the week and I didn’t want to buy too many books right away. I still bought six so you can imagine what my initial pile was like. I was particularly pleased to find the life of Charles Dickens since I read Tomalin’s biography of Jane Austen a year or so ago and thought it was very well done. I am deeply regretting all the bookstores I didn’t manage to get to. A few were closed. For example, we tried to go to Heywood Hill and I was very disappointed when we arrived and it was shut for the week. And as for the rest, we just ran out of time. I’ll have to go back. 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