Books read in 2015
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wellinghallThe Day of the Triffids, John Wyndham (re-read, occasioned by buying a 1st edition in the Oxfam bookshop on Park Street when we went there with pellegrina)
Tyntesfield House guidebook, National Trust (the first time I have read this new edition, purchased when we went there on New Year's Day)
Terror and Wonder: The Gothic Imagination, ed Dale Townshend (the book of the exhibition at the British Library)
Dragons and Warrior Daughters: Fantasy Stories by Women Writers, ed Jessica Yates (after seeing a copy on MastermindChampion's shelves)
Moonfleet, George Meade Falkner (not as good as the film)
William - in Trouble, Richmal Crompton (from the Oxfam bookshop in Taunton yesterday; I had read some of the stories before in other collections)
Means of Evil and other stories, Ruth Rendell (re-read)
The Real Dad's Army: The Story of the Home Guard, Norman Longmate (library)
Towards Zero, Agatha Christie (library)
Constructing Nations, Reconstructing Myth: Essays in Honour of TA Shippey, ed Andrew Wawn et al (inter library loan; skimmed, as rather heavy)
The Viking Discovery of America: The Excavation of a Norse Settlement in L'Anse Aux Meadows, Newfoundland, vol 2, Helge Ingstad (inter library loan)
The Space Eater, David Langford (finally finished)
The Square Egg, Saki (read the biography and plays that I haven't read in other collections)
Nothing Serious, PG Wodehouse (partial re-read)
Rough Guide to the Highlands and Islands (leafed through)
... and doubtless others I have forgotten ...
ETA:
Northanger Abbey, Val McDermid (part of the Austen Project)
Kirkwall & Orkney: The official guide book, WS Hewison (1956, courtesy of![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
bouncy_elf)
Light, Gesture, and Color: Voices That Matter, Jay Maisel
The Dragons of Crumbling Castle, Terry Pratchett (today)
Tyntesfield House guidebook, National Trust (the first time I have read this new edition, purchased when we went there on New Year's Day)
Terror and Wonder: The Gothic Imagination, ed Dale Townshend (the book of the exhibition at the British Library)
Dragons and Warrior Daughters: Fantasy Stories by Women Writers, ed Jessica Yates (after seeing a copy on MastermindChampion's shelves)
Moonfleet, George Meade Falkner (not as good as the film)
William - in Trouble, Richmal Crompton (from the Oxfam bookshop in Taunton yesterday; I had read some of the stories before in other collections)
Means of Evil and other stories, Ruth Rendell (re-read)
The Real Dad's Army: The Story of the Home Guard, Norman Longmate (library)
Towards Zero, Agatha Christie (library)
Constructing Nations, Reconstructing Myth: Essays in Honour of TA Shippey, ed Andrew Wawn et al (inter library loan; skimmed, as rather heavy)
The Viking Discovery of America: The Excavation of a Norse Settlement in L'Anse Aux Meadows, Newfoundland, vol 2, Helge Ingstad (inter library loan)
The Space Eater, David Langford (finally finished)
The Square Egg, Saki (read the biography and plays that I haven't read in other collections)
Nothing Serious, PG Wodehouse (partial re-read)
Rough Guide to the Highlands and Islands (leafed through)
... and doubtless others I have forgotten ...
ETA:
Northanger Abbey, Val McDermid (part of the Austen Project)
Kirkwall & Orkney: The official guide book, WS Hewison (1956, courtesy of
bouncy_elf)Light, Gesture, and Color: Voices That Matter, Jay Maisel
The Dragons of Crumbling Castle, Terry Pratchett (today)
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Date: 2015-02-24 01:06 pm (UTC)What news of the Tolkien scraps?
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Date: 2015-02-27 09:14 pm (UTC)(I'll try and do some more soon).
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Date: 2015-02-28 12:53 am (UTC)Don't stress, I was just wondering, and definitely not intending to be harassing.
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Date: 2015-02-28 07:40 am (UTC)