I could see things(good and bad) in the walnut veneered wardrobe at my grandmother’s house and writing in some bathroom wallpaper I had once…had to change it,drove me mad.
Oh The Yellow Wallpaper. What a book!
I love Conn Iggulden too. I read all his Wars of the Roses series. Haven’t read his Roman stuff though.
Oh, does everyone with a Kindle know about the Price Drop Tracker? Kindle Price Drop Tracker | eReaderIQ UK
You can put books into the tracker with either the price you are willing to pay for a book, or for an amount the price has to drop. You can also track authors. When one of the things you are tracking comes up (an author or a price drop) you get an email. It’s bloody brilliant. At the moment I have about 50 books and another 20 or so authors listed.
It’s brilliant, so mostly I end up paying 99p for most books. And then hold them over until I’m in the right mood for that genre. Which is how I’m currently reading US thrillers and still have about 20 books in the ‘Historical Fiction’ category, another 15 in UK thrillers and about 18 in Sci-Fi. Tooooo many.
Sue
It’s a real book, 50 shades sheds, you can download from Amazon. All about a man and his sheds.
The first ebook that I got was a Sony ebook, you had to download the books from whsmith or other sites from your computer so I have a lot of books that I have on memory stick, I can’t download them onto the Sony as it’s broken the battery won’t charge anymore l was able to transfer them to a kobo, which in turn I now have them on a tablet. I don’t like the kobo very much it costs more to buy books and doesn’t have as much choices of books
Kay
Sue, thanks for the info on the Price Drop Tracker. No I didn’t know about that. I get the Kindle daily deal so I have a lot of 99p books. I do get the daily email from Bookbub which acts as a signpost to cheap books. You get to choose the categories you are interested in. There is still a lot of dross, but the occasional good one in there. Most of them are 99p with the occasional free one. Conn Egguldens Roman series is really good. Enjoyed the way he weaves fiction around historical facts. His Genghis Khan series is also pretty good, although a bit bloodthirsty. Love losing myself in a book.
I get the Bookbub daily email too, and check the Amazon Kindle Daily Deals. Soooo many books. And then I get caught up on here and don’t read as much as I used to.
Oh and for those of you who like a good long, bloody historical novel, I thoroughly recommend ‘When Christ and His Saints Slept’ by Sharon Penman - about ‘The Anarchy’ the civil war between King Stephen and Matilda which led to Henry II becoming King of England. A period of history I didn’t know much about until I read this series (it’s book one of a series of 5, old now, but that doesn’t always matter with historical fiction).
Actually I remember far more about the historical fiction I read than I do thrillers. Hmm maybe I should read more historical novels. And bing, another email from the Price Drop Tracker has just dropped into my email in box!!
Sue
One thing that I do is the books that are at our local Morrison’s my mum looks at the books chooses the ones she likes reads it and then she takes it back the following week. She just got one called King Rat it was set in a Japanese prisoner of war camp, she found it hard to read as my grandfather (on my dad’s side) was a prisoner on the Burma railway. Sometimes the books are really old.
Kay