Now unfortunately living hours and hours away from any bookshop that stocks English books, I feel like I've had my right arm cut off. So instead I while away the time on Amazon, popping things into my virtual basket. I love my Amazon basket. I squirrel things away there, keeping them for a rainy day, exaggeratedly pondering the will I buy-won't I buy question. And Amazon looks after my groaning basket of books. Like an eager little puppy, there it is reminding me about my basket every time I return.
Then in a flurry of activity, prior to having guests come out to visit us, I go into an ordering frenzy, demanding friends fill their suitcases with weighty tomes. The thicker the better, I won't even consider a book under an inch thick these days. 2 inches or more is Much Better. Gotta make my reading experience last, savour it as long as possible. It's a very sad situation being a book lover, cut off from books. So thank goodness for my Amazon basket.
Here's some of the current books in my basket:
Anatomy of a Disappearance
Kitchen: Recipes from the Heart of the Home
The Digital Photography Book
The Handmaid's Tale
The English Urban Renaissance: Culture and Society in the Provincial Town 1660-1770 (Oxford Studies in Social History)
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