Book Heaven
The library at work (which is a large further education college) has been having a sale of books that haven’t been issued for at least 10 years!. And at 10p a book they are hard hard to resist. So yesterday I brought home Nuns and Soliders by Iris Murdoch, four novels by Aldous Huxley; Antic Hey, Eyeless in Gaza, Crome Yellow and Mortal Coils (part of a nice hardbound complete works collection), The History of Rasselas by Samuel Johnson, a collection of modern British Short Stories, The Singing Sands by Josephone Tey, Private Angelo by Eric Linklater, The Threepenny Novel by Bertolt Brecht, England Their England by AG Macdonnell, To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (which I’ve never read yet), a collection of SF short stories and a biography about life in a Hebridean croft.
All a colleague had to say was that if I could find the time to read that lot, they weren’t working me hard enough. Some folk just don’t understand……