Ooooo...I Love Charity Shops

[pastafreak]

Since getting my e-reader a few moths ago-my love of reading has been reawakened. I'm building up a library of free classics on it-but I'm also making up for lost time,and catching up on some modern fiction. I've been picking up everything by Kate Atkinson-on the recommendation of my brother-£1.50-2.00 per book...Also found The Help,Room,and books by several other authors whose work I've enjoyed in the past. Yesterday I found 4 for 99p in Barnardos...including
The Curious Incident of The Dog in The Night-Mark Haddon
The Woman in Black-Susan Hill
The Accidental-Monica Alli
The Lighthouse-PDJames

Who else likes a good bargain? and any recommendations I should be looking for?

[gness]

Hi Pasta....I love a mooch in a charity shop. Best recent bargain....two pairs of brand new curtains in black and dusky green stripes....excellent quality....lined....£5. Didn't need any but you know how it is. :-) Perfect with new cartridge headings for the spare room and the second pair made cushion covers with some black braid..another bargain find waiting to be used.

[boxtops]

It's impossible to recommend books for other people (even for my OH) we all like such different styles. My sister loved the Dog in the Night, but I couldn't get on with it at all.

[gness]

Just noticed your category....Whoops...I have books on curtain making..There!

[dotty.]

I've just read The Secrets of The Tides by hannah richell, quite an unusual book in that the family seemed quite ordinary but it is a story well told.

[boxtops]

I read on holiday "The Pile at the Bottom of the Stais" - light reading disguising issues abuot marital relationships - it was one of 3 books I bought for a fiver from the Works.

[Jules001]

A book that was on daughter's A Level suggested reading list was The Wasp Factory by Iain Bankes, she chose other books, but I was always on the look out for it in the charity shops and found it in time to take on holiday. It was very strange and not one that I am sure will be to everyone's taste, but certainly very different to anything else I have read. One I would recommend is The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho - I know it has been around for a while, but if you haven't read it - try to do so - it is a real feel good factor book. I have just finished Incendiary by Chris Cleave - I found this to be very upsetting and couldn't read it at bedtime as it gave me bad dreams.
Do you find that some charity shops charge a lot more for books than others, our Oxfam always seems very overpriced to me, whereas our Barnados and Mencap shops are much more reasonably priced.

[naomi24]

Difficult to recommend books to other people. I was asked by a local reading group to recommend a book for them. I chose 'The Shadow of the Wind' by Carlos Ruiz Zafon - an excellent read in my opinion - but they hated it.

[pastafreak]

@naomi...I've seen that quite often in charity shops lately...maybe I'll give it a go.

And jules-It seems the prices have gone up a lot recently...books in charity shops used to be 99p...;-(

[chaptazbru]

Bought three Peter James books in a charity shop today for the princely sum of £4 - what a bargain! I'd recommend him to anybody, but I know not everyone has the same tastes.

[Ric.ror]

Could I suggest you try amazon
They have some really cheap 'pre-loved' books but beware of postal charges

[pastafreak]

I often buy on Amazon...get the .01p ones-with standard £2.80p+p...great if it's a hardcover.

[quizzywig]

I must admit pastafreak that I do the same especially with paperbacks.