I used to live in Rochester it's a lovely place ☺️ its a nice secondhand bookshop big enough that you can just wander for ages and they leave you alone
My ears perked up when i heard "Afterlife" and immediately saved it on my amazon list 😄. i looked for it in my library's catalog but they only have a few of the later books in the series 🙄 i hate it when they do that haha
Not that I’m in favor of defacing books, but it is kind of neat when you find personal handwritten notes inside the books. Sundiver was great… you’ll love it!
Nice haul. I blitzed through Dickens in my 20s ( just realising that's 30 years ago !) and it was a a bit of slog by the time I finished his works. I do intent to revisit some of the highlights at some point. I am also a fan of old Panther editions which often have terrific cover art,
I used to visit Rochester on a regular basis and yet I somehow never went to Baggins! Though I'm sure I've been to that Oxfam. I've not read any of the books you found, but this really made me crave a good long afternoon spent in charity shops and second hand book shops. They're so good for finding classics, in particular those more obscure 20th century sci fi ones.
You missed out, but you may have saved yourself a small fortune 😂It has a great SFF section but really the fiction sections are quite a small part of the shop. I love old second-hand shops because you never know what you will come across.
What a haul! So many treasures! I am proud (smug) to report I didn’t buy any books in September! That gives me permission to go all out in October though right?!
The amount of books I buy in one month seems to bear no relation to the amount I buy in the next month, but I like to imagine I will be good in October 😁 You should definitely go crazy in October.
Nice haul, lots of stuff I’ve not tried either but I’m intrigued. And I loved the Railway Children. The film always used to make my Mum cry, and the book had the same effect on me.
I love that you channel name can be either a celebration of achievement or an aggressive suggestion 😂❤. Oh no bad Dickens decisions are the worst decisions 😅 - hope Little Dorrit goes ok - I've never read that one. I waited on for the potential cathedral bits at the end, but it was a tease! I'll have to google it instead - Rochester sounds cool!
Nice shopping! Read Shardik in secondary school. Don’t remember much about it except that I liked the story. Dickens generally bores me. He wrote many of his books as “chapters” for newspapers. The pressure to meet a word count to fill space caused his prose to be bloated and flowery. I’ve come across other authors who suffered the same problem. It isn’t the best way to write a story and should have been heavily edited before publishing in book form. I’m keen to read the Uplift books by Brin, but humans may be uplifted before I get them started, lol. 😺✌️
After reading more about it, I actually do think humans are uplifted in the first book 😆I do believe that is partially why I've struggled with Dickens, but I have loved other serialised books. I think it's because his characters are extremes too, makes it harder to connect with them for me.
Ooo that bookstore is only an hours drive from my parents house in Essex so maybe I can visit when I next go over 🤔 I loved Little Doritt, not my favorite Dickens as there is one section that drags but a good one.
@@AaronReadABook That’s not true! I did not like Hard Times. And even if it were true … 😃 I actually think Little Dorrit is one of his most complicated stories. Still excellent! And then you can watch the mini-series with Claire Foy. Spectacular!
I came so close to buying a massive hardback of The Shell Seekers, but I put it back because it was too expensive and heavy. You would spend a fortune in there!
Nice! Good old Chris Foss cover on “Skylark”. I’ve not read the Farmer (as I was waiting to get the sequel to that book- which I picked up in Baggins!) If you could contain yourself till November, would happily do a buddy read on “Scattered Bodies”..
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Great haul and what a beautiful-sounding bookshop! ❤
@@NicolesBookishNook it is lovely, I could have been in there all day.
I used to live in Rochester it's a lovely place ☺️ its a nice secondhand bookshop big enough that you can just wander for ages and they leave you alone
Yes, it was nice, I only really saw one other person. It has a great SFF section too considering most of the shop isn't fiction.
Dickens - always scribbling away. 😂
Alice would have been delighted to hear that she’d inspired you to go to that bookshop. And that you bought a dickens! 🧡
I hope so! Although, I'm glad it's not even closer as I would potentially financially ruin myself there.
My ears perked up when i heard "Afterlife" and immediately saved it on my amazon list 😄. i looked for it in my library's catalog but they only have a few of the later books in the series 🙄 i hate it when they do that haha
@@grace_silva it sounds bonkers. There's probably cheap old copies on eBay etc. I'll review it later in the year.
Not that I’m in favor of defacing books, but it is kind of neat when you find personal handwritten notes inside the books. Sundiver was great… you’ll love it!
Yeah, I've found a few letters before too, always fun!
Not read any of them, but good finds and hopefully I'll read little dorrit one day!
Lovely tribute to Alice.
I don't have high hopes for Little Dorrit, but maybe one day I will find a Dickens book I like.
@@AaronReadABook the pickwick papers is still my favourite so far, it's really funny, especially the free audible version. Really brings it to life.
Nice haul. I blitzed through Dickens in my 20s ( just realising that's 30 years ago !) and it was a a bit of slog by the time I finished his works. I do intent to revisit some of the highlights at some point. I am also a fan of old Panther editions which often have terrific cover art,
They had an amazing range of old panther editions in there, I had to resist buying 10 or so just for the covers alone.
I used to visit Rochester on a regular basis and yet I somehow never went to Baggins! Though I'm sure I've been to that Oxfam. I've not read any of the books you found, but this really made me crave a good long afternoon spent in charity shops and second hand book shops. They're so good for finding classics, in particular those more obscure 20th century sci fi ones.
You missed out, but you may have saved yourself a small fortune 😂It has a great SFF section but really the fiction sections are quite a small part of the shop. I love old second-hand shops because you never know what you will come across.
What a haul! So many treasures! I am proud (smug) to report I didn’t buy any books in September! That gives me permission to go all out in October though right?!
The amount of books I buy in one month seems to bear no relation to the amount I buy in the next month, but I like to imagine I will be good in October 😁 You should definitely go crazy in October.
Great haul. I haven’t read any Evelyn Waugh, but I’ve got this edition. I nicked it from my dad’s bookshelf.
I read Scoop recently and enjoyed it, apart from all the racism, you have to kind of ignore those bits.
@@AaronReadABook you can’t look at old literature with 21st century eyes, just use your 21st century head to consider it.
What a fabulous haul. Great video. Love the expression “I got a bit Gavin’ 😊
@@RaynorReadsStuff Bookshops are just looking out for things I've seen on booktube these days 😁
I live in Rochester! Rochester, NY, USA. 😄
Baggins should open a shop there!
@@AaronReadABook I would love that actually. 😍
Rochester is not that close to me, but i feel like i want to make a trip to visit. Enjoy all your new books :)
Thanks! It's a nice little place and the castle, cathedral, and bookshop are all right next to the train station.
@@AaronReadABook Oh great! I travel everywhere by train so that’s great 😄
Nice haul, lots of stuff I’ve not tried either but I’m intrigued. And I loved the Railway Children. The film always used to make my Mum cry, and the book had the same effect on me.
I won't read that on the train then, although that would be apt.
@@AaronReadABook It’s happy tears, if that makes any difference!
I love that you channel name can be either a celebration of achievement or an aggressive suggestion 😂❤. Oh no bad Dickens decisions are the worst decisions 😅 - hope Little Dorrit goes ok - I've never read that one. I waited on for the potential cathedral bits at the end, but it was a tease! I'll have to google it instead - Rochester sounds cool!
I forgot to film at all in the cathedral, I'm a terrible blogger and I think maybe Jesus would get mad at me or something.
Nice shopping!
Read Shardik in secondary school. Don’t remember much about it except that I liked the story.
Dickens generally bores me. He wrote many of his books as “chapters” for newspapers. The pressure to meet a word count to fill space caused his prose to be bloated and flowery. I’ve come across other authors who suffered the same problem. It isn’t the best way to write a story and should have been heavily edited before publishing in book form.
I’m keen to read the Uplift books by Brin, but humans may be uplifted before I get them started, lol.
😺✌️
After reading more about it, I actually do think humans are uplifted in the first book 😆I do believe that is partially why I've struggled with Dickens, but I have loved other serialised books. I think it's because his characters are extremes too, makes it harder to connect with them for me.
@@AaronReadABook
If humans were uplifted, why are half of them of below average intelligence? 🤔
Just being too pensive, I guess. 😉
Oldish books certainly have a unique style with their cover artwork, don't they?
@@book-ramble I generally prefer them, lots of variations!
Ooo that bookstore is only an hours drive from my parents house in Essex so maybe I can visit when I next go over 🤔 I loved Little Doritt, not my favorite Dickens as there is one section that drags but a good one.
If only one section drags I would be happy 😂The bookshop, castle, and cathedral are all really close together so it's quite a nice little visit!
Little Dorrit is fantastic! Not my favorite, but so good. 💛
You think all Dickens is fantastic though Kelly! i will have to find out.
@@AaronReadABook That’s not true! I did not like Hard Times. And even if it were true … 😃 I actually think Little Dorrit is one of his most complicated stories. Still excellent! And then you can watch the mini-series with Claire Foy. Spectacular!
@@booksimnotreading I do love Claire Foy, I love Gillian Anderson too but she couldn't convince me to finish Bleak House.
@@AaronReadABook That is scandalous!
Nice haul!! (I am terrible at vlogging too LOL)
I came so close to buying a massive hardback of The Shell Seekers, but I put it back because it was too expensive and heavy. You would spend a fortune in there!
Nice! Good old Chris Foss cover on “Skylark”.
I’ve not read the Farmer (as I was waiting to get the sequel to that book- which I picked up in Baggins!)
If you could contain yourself till November, would happily do a buddy read on “Scattered Bodies”..
I'd be up for that, it sounds mental so would be an interesting buddy read I think. I nearly bought about 20 books in there based on cover alone.
@@AaronReadABook cool! Let me get Victober out of the way, then I’m ready whenever:)