(I would also urge people to support their local library before the government closes them all down.)
Anyway, the books I got are:
Notorious Nineteen by Janet Evanovich, the 19th (!) in a series of comedy romance crime novels I enjoy.
Jeanette Winterson's The Stone Gods. I like her books, I was actually hoping for The Powerbook, but it was out. It is a sci-fi romance.
The Streets of Babylon by Carina Burman ('Translated from the Swedish by Sarah Death(!)) Scandi-crime set in Victorian London. I'm far too addicted to Victorian London crime but this seemed a bit different.
And Sara Maitland's Gossip From The Forest, about the origins of fairy tales. I saw this recommended in Vogue but it wasn't in Waterstone's so I have ordered it online.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-20663427
Link to one man's project to read all of Dickens in 2012.
I should totally do this as well. I have enough books I own in the to read pile however to keep me going for all of next year! :/ *adds to the todo 2013 list!*
Ooh, the fairy tales one sounds interesting!
Ive just read Carol Shields 'Unless' that you recommended.
Really useful to get things prescreened by you like this!
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