I went to Cameron Toll. W H Smith's has 3 for 2 on everything (yes, everything!), and Waterstone's has 3 for 2 on selected items. Today's purchases are...
- A spot of bother by Mark Haddon;
- Love over Scotland by Alexander McCall Smith;
- Salmon fishing in the Yemen by Paul Torday;
- The English by Jeremy Paxman;
- Empire by Niall Ferguson; and
- Adrian Mole and the weapons of mass destruction by Sue Townsend.
Reviews in due course.
I also bought a DVD: Delicatessen, which is a French movie about a butcher in France just after the war, who is keeping up with demand by killing people. Could be interesting...
Meanwhile, I finished another book Ik mis alleen de Hema by Manon Sikkel and Marion Witter. Stories about people who emigrated from the Netherlands. Some stayed abroad, some returned. For some of them it was exactly like they expected, other people's lives took a very unexpected turn. All in all rather quite enjoyable reading, but nothing world-shocking. Also, only two of the people actually said they missed the Hema. I don't, because we've got good shops here too and I was never addicted to Hema-rookworsten anyway.
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