Monday, 28 March 2011

So many books, so little time...

Well, I had a really busy weekend and didn't have time to post here for a few days - it was my housemate's 21st birthday, and my boyfriend was visiting for a few days. But you don't really want to hear about my weekend, do you. (In a nutshell: I ate lots of junk food and got pretty drunk. Standard party stuff, really...)

So instead, I thought I'd show you some of the exciting new additions to my TBR list.

From top to bottom:
The Seas - Samantha Hunt
Repeat it today with tears - Anne Peile
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
Babel Tower - A.S Byatt





The best thing about these? I didn't have to buy any of them. I got The Seas from my boyfriend as part of my birthday present, my mum got me this copy of P&P (no, I don't know how I've got to 21 years of age without reading it yet), I was given Babel Tower by my aunt, who got it from someone who was getting rid of a load of their books, and I got Repeat it today with tears from the awesome people at Serpent's Tail, the publishers, after they ran a book giveaway on Twitter.

So there we go. Tomorrow I'll hopefully be able to get my hands on a copy of The Land of Painted Caves by Jean M. Auel, which will most likely be fast-tracked to the top of my list. At the minute though, I'm about 100 pages from the end of The Seas, which is pretty good except the narrator scares me a little...

Happy Monday, everyone!

2 comments:

  1. Awesome. Books as gifts are the best. I'm looking forward to your reviews. I've only read P&P, so I'm especially looking forward to the other reviews- many titles I'm unfamiliar with.

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  2. I definitely recommend The Seas (but then if you've read my review you'll already know that by now)!
    As for the others... I'll let you know when I get to them :)

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