A couple of incomings to the TBR to report. It’s looking quite svelte at the moment, still, although I have to admit that I’m somehow reading THREE books at the same time: a big, fat biography of Frances Partridge which is super, a lovely book about travelling in the Andes by dear Patrick Leigh Fermor which I’ve been reading in the gym, and a Joanna Trollope for those insomniac moments when only light reading will do …
This is very exciting. We all know how much I love pony books, right? And some time ago now, I came across, via the Twittersphere, I think, a lovely lady called Jane Badger who has an online shop selling pony books. She has an interesting blog, too, and in fact I interviewed her for my Libro Small Business Chat series back in August 2012. Well, Jane has only gone and written a book about pony books! How could I resist that? You’re right: I couldn’t. In fact, I’m a bit late to the party, as the pre-order stock ran out. I know some of my friends have received and read it already! So this one will be promoted up the TBR pile – after all, it’s about pony books AND it’s by someone I know, so how can it not be?
I can’t even resist that cover – so many lovely books! How many do I have myself? I’m not sure, but I know I’ll be poring over it and all the lovely illustrations forthwith. In fact, it was a bit difficult to resist sitting down and reading it as soon as it arrives, but I do have to earn the money that pays for these lovely books somehow … You can order the book from here, by the way.
Acquired earlier but definitely second in the excitement stakes, we’ve got (a rather dark) Tony. Remember how I read that very funny book about Margaret Thatcher earlier this year (which I didn’t completely love but the bits I did like were excellent)? Well, this is by the same Leo Abse, Labour MP, and by that I mean old school, Old Labour MP, taking apart young Tony. I can’t remember when it was published (and I’m sorry, it’s on the TBR now and I’m a floor away from it up here in Libro Towers), and it does look like it came out early in his reign, but it will be all the more interesting if it was written while he was riding that wave of popularity. Expect some potty training and dodgy reasons for what he did and how he behaved, if the Thatcher book is anything to go by!
And of course, being part of my collection of Political Biography, it doesn’t count. M picked it up for me from a pile of books a colleague was discarding – good spot!
Have you acquired anything new recently? Any confessions you’d care to share …?
heavenali
May 29, 2013 @ 15:16:35
No confessions here – despite having an Amazon voucher burning a hole in my virtual pocket I have banned myself from buying books for myself for ages my TBR is out of control.
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Liz at Libro
May 29, 2013 @ 15:24:28
Wow – I’m impressed! If I manage to finish the three I’m reading at the moment, the next State of mt TBR post isn’t going to look tooooooo bad …
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heavenali
May 29, 2013 @ 15:23:30
Now I’m not in to Pony books myself – frankly have never seen the attraction – but knowing how you love them I can imagine how excited you are by that book – wonderful cover too 🙂 enjoy.
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Liz at Libro
May 29, 2013 @ 15:25:45
Indeed! I dread to think what that will do to my TBR, though, as I rediscover old, forgotten favourites …
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Gill Rose
May 29, 2013 @ 22:34:37
My confession is that I am hardly reading anything at the moment. What with work, the weekend papers and my Twitter-storm for Giving Voice, I am lucky if I manage a couple of chapters a night.
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Liz at Libro
May 30, 2013 @ 11:10:55
Oh no, Gill! Mind you, my reading has been a bit patchy recently, too …
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Alex
May 30, 2013 @ 11:02:50
Have you read Frances Partridge’s journals? I’ve just checked and I seem to have got rid of my copies or I would have passed them on to you. If you’re interested in that period did you know that the Barber has a lunchtime lecture followed by an evening session on Dora Carrington (Ralph’s first wife) coming up? I can let you have the details if you’re interested.
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Liz at Libro
May 30, 2013 @ 11:11:41
I have an abridged version of the lot of them which I clearly recall reading but have no recollection of, if you see what I mean. And that would be interesting, can you pass me the details, please? Cheers!
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Alex
May 30, 2013 @ 11:19:39
The lunchtime talk, ‘The Life and Works of Dora Carrington and Vita Sackville-West’ is in the Barber lecture theatre on Wednesday July 3rd at 1.10 pm and then the following evening from 6.00 to 9.30 they are combining a screening of the film ‘Carrington’ with a tour of the exhibition ‘Defining Faces’ which includes a portrait by Carrington. I will definitely be at the former and probably the evening event too.
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Liz at Libro
May 30, 2013 @ 13:22:22
Thanks for that, I’ll pop it in the diary!
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