Books and shopping

[callmemadam]

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.

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Charity shop books

[(Anonymous)]

Lots of Dan Brown up in this neck of the woods, these days... John (DH) and I used to always joke that it hadn't passed the 'charity shop test' if it didn't have This Old House by Norah Lofts (actually a favourite author of ours). Then it was Some Other Rainbow by John McCarthy and his girlfriend, whose name I'm afraid I've forgotten...

Re: Charity shop books

[callmemadam.livejournal.com]

Ha ha! I've never read anything by Norah Lofts.
Jill something; I can't remember either but yes, their book was everywhere at one time.