One of the things I really enjoy about blogging is coming across kindred spirits who share similar tastes in reading material. It is really useful to me when the said kindred spirits blog about books. Down here in deepest France there are no English bookshops to browse through and the only English Sunday newspaper available here is a potted version of the Sunday Times, minus all the supplements, which has a severely cut book review section.
So you see I rely on the internet for my book fix. My Amazon wish list is now huge and after a very scary credit card bill last month it is going to be a while before I can convert it into hard purchases.
In order to cushion my disappointment I thought I would show some of the most coveted books on my wish list and reveal the sources from whence they came...
The fabulous Christina Lindsay from
Fashions Most Wanted wrote a superb post about Marchesa Casati and recommended these books, check out the post
here.
Christina also mentioned these books in another
post, which have also gone onto the wish list:
I have just looked at Christinas blog to research these books, basically I could go on and on as we share very similar taste but I don't want to hijack all Christina's books so I suggest you hop over there and check out her fantastic blog.
Another kindred spirit is Lisa Borgnes Giramonti from the wonderful
A Bloomsbury Life Lisa recently
posted about a book that has been languishing on my wish list for ages:
I got very excited when I read this post sadly Sybille Bedford is not that well known so it was great that Lisa posted about this book. Here is another fabulous book by Sybille although I have it so it is not on the wish list however I would not mind the hardback edition.
The charming David McGrievey from
An Illustrated Life recommended this book to me after reading
a post I did on Lady Emma Hamilton. It is a romantic novel based on the Love triangle Between Sir William Hamilton his wife Lady Emma Hamilton and Lord Nelson. I told David this would be a really interesting read for me as I have read a lot about Susan Sontag but never read any of her work.
The cultured Daniel Halifax from
Hibernian Homme wrote a
post about this book he loved, another one that has been on my wish list for far too long!
I had also written a
similar post about The Happy Valley Set and told Daniel to check out this book:
These next books are my own selections:
I hope I can afford to purchase these books before they go out of print!
Wishing you all a fabulous weekend.
