Books and shopping
Mar. 23rd, 2011 09:04 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Do you play the game of 'which book is currently most commonly found in charity shops'? I looked in a few shops yesterday and the answer is: anything by Dave Pelzer. Also Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. No doubt many people, like me, bought and then never read it.
Remember the knitted Royal Wedding? The Book People have the knitting book for £3.99. Still with wedding fever, The Book Depository offers me this morning a free eBook: The Royal Wedding for Dummies. Where are the tea towels?
In other news on the high street: our lovely hardware shop where you could buy thingamyjigs has become a Surplus Store; two new charity shops have opened. So much for the Waitrose factor, which was supposed to increase the town's prosperity.
Remember the knitted Royal Wedding? The Book People have the knitting book for £3.99. Still with wedding fever, The Book Depository offers me this morning a free eBook: The Royal Wedding for Dummies. Where are the tea towels?
In other news on the high street: our lovely hardware shop where you could buy thingamyjigs has become a Surplus Store; two new charity shops have opened. So much for the Waitrose factor, which was supposed to increase the town's prosperity.
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Date: 2011-03-23 09:52 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2011-03-23 10:00 am (UTC)Have you downloaded it?
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Date: 2011-03-23 10:11 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-03-23 10:19 am (UTC)Though actually, you know, a free ebook is a free ebook and all that.
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Date: 2011-03-23 10:10 am (UTC)It always used to be 'Shardik' and David Niven's autobiographies. One I often see nowadays is that one with a doughnut on the cover, which I think is called 'This Book Will Change Your Life'.
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Date: 2011-03-23 10:13 am (UTC)The new shops are Julia's House and Lewis Manning.
The doughnut book is a new one on me.
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Date: 2011-03-23 01:05 pm (UTC)I use it mostly for the loos, and quite a few people use it for the cafeteria.
Whether people who cross the bridge to reach it go further into the island is a question. - it really annoys me that they don't stock island cheese or meat - it's all from the mainkand
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Date: 2011-03-23 02:20 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-03-23 02:57 pm (UTC)i agree that Co-op staff training tends to be a bit slack, but i knew most of the people who worked there - and most of them now work for Waitrose
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Date: 2011-03-25 06:24 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-03-25 07:24 pm (UTC)I have mixed feeling about local shopping. We still have an independent bookshop but they never have anything I want and it's half price on Amazon anyway. Then when I recently asked for something in the chemist's (pharmacy) the assistant actually suggested I look online; no 'we could get it for you'. They have to provide what people want or they can't expect people to shop with them.
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Date: 2011-03-28 09:12 pm (UTC)Re: Charity shop books
Date: 2011-03-29 06:53 am (UTC)Jill something; I can't remember either but yes, their book was everywhere at one time.
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Date: 2011-03-31 08:24 pm (UTC)Nicola@vintagereads
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