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Diana's Sending out the second hand books
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Excellent idea for a challenge. I love both The Art of Fielding and A Tree Grows in Brooklyn Diana. Your other titles sound excellent too. Have a great reading year!
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Great challenge, Diane. Good luck and happy reading 📚📚
Really great idea, Diana! I've got to do something to reduce my TBR books in every category! I'd better create a challenge that does that or I'll be carrying a huge trunk of books to heaven!
Thanks everyone. I have 5 weeks off over Christmas so hope to get stuck into a few books then.
Diana wrote: "I op shop most of my books and want to clear out more than I purchase. My goal is to include as many second hand books as I can in challenges. As I never double up my challenge books trying to get ..."I love Ree Drummond's blogs and her photography. I'll be interested to read your rating Diana.
What a great idea Diana! Good luck! Happy reading then giving to the op shop! :)
Excellent challenge, Diana! I'm taking a page out of your goal for this year, as well! So far so good as I've managed to do all my annual challenges and all the upcoming ones with owned books plus a few library books mixed in! I joked that I've entered the challenges with no purchase necessary! I absolutely have to use some self control in purchasing new books this year!
Happy reading and best of luck! I'll be keeping my eyes on you! 😉 ; )
Have read 4 second hand books so far this year includingThe Inaugural Meeting of the Fairvale Ladies Book Club by Sophie Green so first off this challenge's list.
Others from my second hand piles (!) read this month were
Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty
A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
We Are All Made of Molecules by Susin Nielsen
Another second hand book finished Like Me: Confessions of a Heartland Country Singer by Chely Wright
A really lovely memoir finished The Mighty Queens of Freeville: A Mother, a Daughter, and the People Who Raised Them by Amy DickinsonAlthough I am not strictly following my original post I am making my way through my TBR second hand pile.
Finished Before I Let You Go by Kelly Rimmer This one was second hand by rights as it was given to me by Tracey and was on my TBR pile
Another second hand book finished. This one came from my friend, Vivian. 51 Sycamore Lane by Marjorie Weinman Sharmat
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Brenda wrote: "Doing well Diana :)"Thanks Brenda.
He is...I Say: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Neil Diamond by David WildIn a Dark, Dark Wood by Ruth Ware
From India with Love by Latika Bourke
Geektastic: Stories from the Nerd Herd by Holly BlackThis ends the year for me with 37 second hand books read in 2018.
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I'll nominate 12 books but these are subject to change due to my mood at the time. I also hope to read more than this from the TBR pile and will add them at the time if this is ok.
A Cruel Bird Came to the Nest and Looked In by Magnus Mills
Resistance is Futile by Jenny Colgan
The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach
'Zine by Pagan Kennedy
The Inaugural Meeting of the Fairvale Ladies Book Club by Sophie Green AAGeektastic: Stories from the Nerd Herd by Holly BlackAlfie the Doorstep Cat by Rachel WellsThe Pioneer Woman: Black Heels to Tractor Wheels by Ree DrummondGirl Waits with Gun by Amy StewartSee You In September by Charity Norman AA
I Will Always Write Back: How One Letter Changed Two Lives by Caitlin Alifirenka
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith