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Showing posts with label wishlist. Show all posts
Showing posts with label wishlist. Show all posts

Tuesday, 8 December 2020

10 Books I Want Right Now!

 


As time runs out in 2020 and our book buying opportunities disappear I wanted to write a post with my (Mrs H) personal current wishlist...or more so want list haha.

Obviously, up until this year, we have been mainly secondhand book buyers - charity shops were our jam! Also obviously, I have not been inside any building except my house all year, let alone a charity shop so our while our pockets have been spared somewhat, our shelves have suffered!
Next year is likely to be no different at all, therefore with online shopping being our only option we've given ourself a budget. For each book we have read this year, we have £1.50 to spend next year...that means so far with my 56 and Mr H's 36 reads we have £138 or £11.50 per month. Not much at all really.

I mention the above because I'd like to buy the books in this post right now to avoid taking big chunks from our budget next year haha. 












The Nature of Middle-earth



I didn't expect to, because we haven't exactly got a lot of extra funds right now, but we actually got one of the books above each since putting together this post. My Dad gifted us some money and so while buying some household needs on Amazon, I thought I'd treat us to a couple of books...it had been a while! So I chose the Natural History Museum's 'Fantastic Beasts' book that accompanies their exhibition at the museum seeing as there is no chance we will be able to attend. For Mr H I picked the 'A Middle-earth Traveller' because you can never go wrong with something LOTR for him!
I hope to be able to find the others as bargains at some point as I really, really want them haha.





Tuesday, 16 June 2020

May & June Book Wishlist



You read that right, wishlist not haul. I haven't personally written a 'wishlist' post on any blog in a good many years...well minus the Disneyland ones in my Countdown to Disney series on my main blog - Underland to Wonderland.
As I mentioned in April's book haul, most of our books are bought second hand from charity shops and the like. Coupled with the fact our income took a hit the past couple months, book buying has had to take a back seat for a bit. Therefore, what is the next best thing to buying books? Window shopping! Here is Mr H and I's current book wishlist.



Books We Need To Complete Series':
Inheritance by Christopher Paolini
The Secret Commonwealth by Philip Pullman
The Wizard's Promise Cliff McNish
The Testament of Loki by Joanne Harris
The Beating of His Wings by Paul Hoffman
Tales of Terror from the Tunnel's Mouth by Chris Priestley
Uncle Montague's Tales of Terror by Chris Priestley
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix – Hufflepuff Edition

A Series of Unfortunate Events Series by Lemony Snicket [Books 8,10,11 & 12]
Mistborn Series by Brandon Sanderson [Books 2 - 6]
Time Quintet by Madeleine L'Engle [Books 3 - 5]


Books from Our Amazon Wishlist:
The Haunted Mansion: Imagineering a Disney Classic by Jason Surrell  
The Lost Magician by Piers Torday
The Wonders: Lifting the Curtain on the Freak Show, Circus and Victorian Age by John Woolf  
Mary Poppins, She Wrote: The Life of P. L. Travers by Valerie Lawson  
The Squirrel Squire: and the Tournament of Oaks (A Fantastic Tails Adventure) by Erik DeLeo
Raven Bloody Eye by Giles Kristian
An Ember in the Ashes by Sabaa Tahir
Prince of Thorns by Mark Lawrence
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by J R R Tolkien
Runemarks by Joanne Harris



So yeah, these are some of the books we'll be keeping an eye out for and hopefully some of the next to be added to our collection. A couple of them are 'needed' sooner than others to continue reading some of the series' we're in the middle of. When it comes to our Amazon Wishlist it is pretty beefy and to list every book from it would be crazy, therefore both of us have just chosen 5 at random that we'll be excited to get around to purchasing at some point..!