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[slemslempike]

Today I went bookshopping! I miss it very much. I can buy books for my Nook easily, and Leaves is nice, though small, but I miss just going into a charity shop or a secondhand bookshop and looking at random selections instead of current things, and the possibility of finding something you've been looking for for ages, or of happening to pick something up that turns out to be just amazing and you'd never have read it otherwise.




These are from two bookshops. From the Old Pier Bookshop, which is my favourite, I picked up "Last Term at St Andrews" and "Helen - Television Dancer" from two shelves of girlsown, which was a nice surprise. The others were mostly Lutterworth press semi-evangelical, and Angela Brazil. I am looking forward to reading "Helen - Television Dancer" very much, such a specific thing to do. It seems to fit more into the ballet books than the career novels, but even so.

Of the others "Rose From Blighty" is the sequel to a YA book about a girl getting in with the suffragettes and not being able to cope with force-feeding. "Rebecca's World" I always pick up because people want to buy it, evena n ex-lib copy with scribbles like this. I don't think I've read any Geoffrey Trease before (and should be able to sell it afterwards, I hope, as the GGBP version of "Gates of Bannermere" is out of print and on Amazon for about £20 which is steep), and "Tennis Shoes" and "The Kingdom of Carbonel" I thought I needed but now I've seen my book photos I realise I already have. But they were lovely and cheap so I don't mind. Let me know if any of these are what you're looking for. :)

Keira Knightley is in a film called Begin Again, which came out this summer and is now apparently not in any cinema in the UK, and two films coming out in the autumn, both of which I will be gone before they arrive in cinemas. My life is terribly difficult.

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[everthere.livejournal.com]

Helen television dancer sounds excellent

[mockduck.livejournal.com]

Forget the book; the cover is gorgeous.

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

It is rather lovely, 1958, I think.

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

I hope it will be. I read ht first few paragraphs, and there is a male dancer fiancee (BORING), but a Madame who might be entertainingly megalomaniac. And television dancer!

[everthere.livejournal.com]

Agh you have to type it out as you read it please

[nwhyte]

Oh wow! You got Rebecca's World! One of my previous interns grew up next door to the Nations and knew Rebecca well. (Also went round to her house to play with *real* Daleks.) It's hugely expensive on the internet so the only way to get is is by lucky chance, as you did. Very envious!

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

I can't decide whether getting to play with real Daleks is completely amazing, or something that should scare you to death.

I have actually found about three copies of Rebecca's World now - one I gave to Jen, one I sold to Ankaret, and now this one I will probably actually get around to reading. I used to work in a secondhand bookshop, so I have not lost the habit of picking things up cheaply when I can to resell. Once I've read it I will likely sell this one on too - so if you or anyone else you know wants a cheap (about a fiver, at most) copy with biro scribble that doesn't prevent reading the text on about five pages, let me know!

[orionnebula.livejournal.com]

Sigh. British used bookstores are so much better than the ones here.

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

There was a great one in Santa Cruz when I was there, but as it's mostly British children's books I like and want, UK stores are much better for me. Plus, the paperbacks here all came from a charity bookshop, so they were £3.70 for those, and then £5 for the two hardbacks from the proper used store.

[callmemadam.livejournal.com]

Great little haul! I love the cover of the ballet story.

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

I'd never heard of them before, but if this one isn't dire I shall be interested in the others - Helen, ballet student, and Helen, Musical theatre dancer.

[the_antichris.livejournal.com]

I like Trease, though the historicals more than the contemporaries. I did quite like No Boats on Bannermere, and I got another Bannermere one at this year's book fair with the intention of reading and selling. (Realistically, that means putting it on a shelf and occasionally thinking 'I should get on with that'.)