Have you seen the Bill Murray film, The Man Who Knew Too Little? In it, he says, "you guys can't be making a dime on this." Well, that's how I feel about
Book Depository. They will send me books way across the Atlantic with no shipping charge. I'm in real trouble now.
I love TBD! They are *dangerous* no shipping and no minimum purchase. I ordered House at Riverton last week alond with The Needle in the Blood.
ReplyDeleteWe both were taken with the BooksPlease review, weren't we? :<)
ReplyDeleteWhat is The Needle in the Blood??
Oooh, oooh, oooh! I want that Kate Morton book! I saw it over at BooksPlease, too. I so need to go visit TBD. Thanks, I think. ;)
ReplyDeleteIt is the best place, Les! There are so many British books I love that never seem to make it to stores over here, so I am way thrilled.
ReplyDeleteOK, let me add myself to the group. I ordered House at Riverton also from Book Depository. I also read the review on BooksPlease. We should have coordinated and mailed the book to each other! Ha! Seriously, Book Depository could be way addicting. I also ordered Beneath the Bleeding which is by Val McDermid (Wire in the Blood).
ReplyDeleteI think Miss BooksPlease has a lot to answer for. :<)
ReplyDeleteGosh, I had no idea! I hope everyone enjoys The House at Riverton as much as I did - I'll feel so bad if you don't.
ReplyDeleteI also have Needle in the Blood, but not read it yet. It's a novel about the women who sewed the Bayeux Tapestry and people over here have raved about it.
Wire in the Blood is chilling, don't you think? Sometimes I can't watch it (the Robson Green TV series that is) and I don't think I could read it.
By the way there is a Mr BooksPlease and I've been trying to persuade him to write about Huck Finn, which he enjoyed, but he's waiting for me to read it as well, or so he says.
Oh, my goodness! I did not know that this "no charge for shipping from the UK" was even possible. I've never even used The Book Depository. Now I must go investigate further...
ReplyDeleteThe book about Alan Titchmarsh must be interesting. I always looked his "Gardeners world" on BBC. Is he also known in the US?
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Remembering St. Ives looks like a beautiful little book. I come from that area of Cornwall so will have to look that up sometime. I have Needle in the Blood to read too, but not The House at Riverton. Yet.
ReplyDeleteBooksPlease, I'm not able to watch Wire in the Blood either. I look forward to a posting from the Mister. :<) I'm not a big Huck Finn fan so I eagerly await his (and your) thoughts.
ReplyDeleteJill, you are truly in trouble monetarily.:<)
Oh, yes, Barbara, Mr. Titchmarsh is known in the US. I loved Groundforce, and I own the first autobiography he wrote called Trowel and Error. I listened to it on audiotape and loved it so much I wanted to buy it. He is a truly kind, gentle soul and I look forward to Nobbut A Lad.
Cath, I read about the St Ives book at (I think) Mary's Library blog. It is just what I love and I'm so excited to read it. Lucky, lucky you to have grown up there. My husband and I went to Cornwall on our honeymoon and stayed at Lamorna Cove. Beautiful country.
I think the BooksPlease review put me over the edge! I have also jotted down Harriet Devine's blog regarding this book. The Needle in the Blood is a historical novel about the Bayeux tapestry. Dovegreyreader and Elain at Random jottings loved it.
ReplyDeleteNan, you are quite the book enabler! I roamed around TBD and found/ordered a book of Yeats poetry edited by Seamus Heaney--a combo that I just couldn't resist! I'll post at Owl's Feathers when it arrives.
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