{"id":251,"date":"2017-06-19T11:07:00","date_gmt":"2017-06-19T11:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/2017\/06\/19\/book-purchases-2\/"},"modified":"2020-10-26T23:39:28","modified_gmt":"2020-10-26T23:39:28","slug":"book-purchases-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/2017\/06\/19\/book-purchases-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Purchases"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I started pulling books off my shelves in order to write this post, (or more accurately, pulling books off the piles in front of my shelves) and \u00a0I realized that I have been on a bit of a non-fiction book buying binge. Of the eight\u00a0books I am mentioning here only two are fiction. One is pictured above, Bond\u00a0Street Story<\/i>\u00a0by Norman Collins. I read London\u00a0Belongs To Me<\/i> by the same author last year and greatly enjoyed it. \u00a0Here is my review.<\/a> I have been meaning to read something else by him so I am happy with this purchase, especially since the book arrived with such an awesome dust jacket. When you buy books online you are never quite sure what they will look like when they arrive so it is a pleasant surprise when they are pretty as well as readable.<\/p>\n

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The next two books were recommended by a kind reader. The Grand\u00a0Tours of Katherine Wilmot<\/i> is just what it sounds like, the journals of travels through Russia and France in the very early 1800s. The blurb on the front describes Katherine as “clever, witty, and curious” so it should be fascinating. The other recommendation was The Towers of Trebizond<\/i>\u00a0by Rose Macaulay. Macaulay is an author who is familiar to me but I have never read this. It “tells the story of an eccentric party of English who set off for Turkey to explore the possibility of establishing a religious mission there.” As one does.<\/p>\n

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I have been meaning to buy Nella Last in the 1950s<\/i>\u00a0for a while. I have read the other two books in the series and loved them. I don’t know why I never bought this but I have remedied that problem. I am hoping to get to it soon. Hopefully, before my book stacks overwhelm my house and I\u00a0 completely forget what I own. I also bought A Life in Secrets-The Story of Vera Atkins and the Lost Agents of SOE.<\/i>\u00a0I think I just stumbled across this in a list of WWII non-fiction. It is the account of Atkins’ “search through the chaos of Allied-occupied Germany to establish the fate of the agents.” It sounds fascinating even if a bit harrowing.<\/p>\n

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I enjoy reading books that tell me all about how people lived in a different time period. I want to know how they dressed, what they ate, what their everyday life was like. If those books are about life in England, then all the better. I bought Dr. Johnson’s London <\/i>by Liza Picard. It is subtitled “coffee-houses and climbing boys, medicine, toothpaste and gin, poverty and press-gangs, freakshows and female education.” I am hoping it lives up to my expectations especially since I bought a second book by Picard, Victorian London–The Life of a City 1840-1870.\u00a0<\/i>
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\nMy last book purchase is The Assassin’s Cloak–An Anthology of the World’s Greatest Diarists. <\/i>I love reading diaries, they are such a perfect glimpse into a world and thoughts of the past. This is taken day by day through the course of a year. Each day has a few short entries from different people and different time periods. I am considering trying to read it a day at a time starting with the new year. Does anyone think I can be that organized? \u00a0I have my doubts.<\/p>\n

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And last of all, and not a book though it will be used for carrying books, I bought a new backpack and I love it. I wanted something to carry my camera and books on my excursions over the summer. I had a crossbody bag but it would swing forward and get in my way every time I would crouch down to take a photo. I think this will work much better and, besides, it just makes me happy so I am showing it to you. It does make a change from my many, many tote bags.<\/p>\n

Do you enjoy non-fiction? Do you have any recommendations for me? Since, obviously, I am not buying enough\u00a0books and I need to fix that.<\/p>\n

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I started pulling books off my shelves in order to write this post, (or more accurately, pulling books off the piles in front of my shelves) and \u00a0I realized that I have been on a bit of a non-fiction book buying binge. Of the eight\u00a0books I am mentioning here only two are fiction. One is pictured above, Bond\u00a0Street Story\u00a0by Norman Collins. I read London\u00a0Belongs To Me by the same author last year and greatly enjoyed it. \u00a0Here is my review. I have been meaning to read something else by him so I am happy with this purchase, especially since the book arrived with such an awesome dust jacket. When you buy books online you are never quite sure what they will look like when they arrive so it is a pleasant surprise when they are pretty as well as readable. The next two books were recommended by a kind reader. The Grand\u00a0Tours of Katherine Wilmot is just what it sounds like, the journals of travels through Russia and France in the very early 1800s. The blurb on the front describes Katherine as “clever, witty, and curious” so it should be fascinating. The other recommendation was The Towers of Trebizond\u00a0by Rose Macaulay. Macaulay is an author who is familiar to me but I have never read this. It “tells the story of an eccentric party of English who set off for Turkey to explore the possibility of establishing a religious mission there.” As one does. I have been meaning to buy Nella Last in the 1950s\u00a0for a while. I have read the other two books in the series and loved them. I don’t know why I never bought this but I have remedied that problem. I am hoping to get to it soon. Hopefully, before my book stacks overwhelm my house and I\u00a0 completely forget what I own. I also bought A Life in Secrets-The Story of Vera Atkins and the Lost Agents of SOE.\u00a0I think I just stumbled across this in a list of WWII non-fiction. It is the account of Atkins’ “search through the chaos of Allied-occupied Germany to establish the fate of the agents.” It sounds fascinating even if a bit harrowing. I enjoy reading books that tell me all about how people lived in a different time period. I want to know how they dressed, what they ate, what their everyday life was like. If those books are about life in England, then all the better. I bought Dr. Johnson’s London by Liza Picard. It is subtitled “coffee-houses and climbing boys, medicine, toothpaste and gin, poverty and press-gangs, freakshows and female education.” I am hoping it lives up to my expectations especially since I bought a second book by Picard, Victorian London–The Life of a City 1840-1870.\u00a0 My last book purchase is The Assassin’s Cloak–An Anthology of the World’s Greatest Diarists. I love reading diaries, they are such a perfect glimpse into a world and thoughts of the past. This is taken day by day through the course of a year. Each day has a few short entries from different people and different time periods. I am considering trying to read it a day at a time starting with the new year. Does anyone think I can be that organized? \u00a0I have my doubts. And last of all, and not a book though it will be used for carrying books, I bought a new backpack and I love it. I wanted something to carry my camera and books on my excursions over the summer. I had a crossbody bag but it would swing forward and get in my way every time I would crouch down to take a photo. I think this will work much better and, besides, it just makes me happy so I am showing it to you. It does make a change from my many, many tote bags. Do you enjoy non-fiction? Do you have any recommendations for me? 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