I don't mind paying full price for books, but I tend to just impulse buy based on the cover (bad, I know) or if I like the author. I don't tend to read the 'Top Chart' books until waaaay after everyone else has, as I like to ignore the hype and not let it affect the story I'm reading. The Girl on the Train is a perfect example, whilst the hype around the book isn't quite dead, I have already read it. I can't say I was too impressed actually, or blown away, so I really don't know what all the hype was around that book. I hate it when you expect so much & the book and author come off worse for it, so I tend not to read books when they're above 50 and below in the chart.
I am signed up to a website which you can freely swap your books with other members, the only charge being the postage you pay. Usually people post 2nd Class, non recorded and just get proof of postage, so the receipt. I've swapped quite a few times now and haven't had problems at all. You basically upload the books you have that you're happy to swap, and you can either wait for people to swap with you, or if you have a particular book in mind you can search for it and request swaps with others! The website link is www.readitswapit.co.uk - it'd be great to get more readers on there! 2 of the books above were from this site, so only cost me £4.50 for both of them in postage on what I'd sent back!
I bought the other books (excluding the Marco Polo guide to Australia)from a Bargain Book Store shop in Skegness when myself and Luke were up there for our anniversary weekend - the books were 3 for £5 so I paid a mere £10 for 6 books all of which state around £7-8.99 on the covers!
I used to read the Charlaine Harris Sookie Stackhouse series but ended up getting in the middle of my exams and just forgetting! So I bought the first book to get back into them, from what I remember I really liked them.. I bought The Mystery of the Clockwork Sparrow purely for the cover, it's beautiful. When I review the book I'll have to show you, I did this too with Drakenfeld, it looks really medieval and interesting. I read the blurb for this and it seems a bit intense and heavy compared to what I'm used to, so probably won't be a holiday or casual read book, but still worth a go!
I bought the Marco Polo Guide to Australia as I'm going for 2 weeks next year (hopefully), my Aunt lives in South Australia near Mt. Baker so I'm sure she'll be showing me all the sights, but I'm hoping to tour the whole of Aus at some point so thought it'd be great to get an idea of what I'm doing to do!
Have you read any of these? Would you recommend any?
Let me know if you sign up to ReaditSwapit, I'll look out for your books!
