Hello, all! How has your week been? I felt more stressed than usual this week, but today I am off from work and looking forward to my four day weekend. I have lots of reading planned as I realized that I have to read 11 more books by January 1 if I want to reach my goal of reading 50 books in 2012. 11! I am not a very fast reader so I have concerns that I will not be able to read that many in such a short amount of time, but I will give it my all and have fun trying!
One of the best parts of my week was coming home to packages, lovely packages that held beautiful new books. I received 4 new titles from the Penguin English Library, a Muriel Spark, an Elizabeth Bowen (who I’m eager to try after reading this post), a Virago and a title I found on this list. I love welcoming fresh, gorgeous books into my library – a completely justifiable expense, in my opinion!
What do you have planned for the weekend? Have you received any exciting packages lately?
Have a splendid weekend!
A Certain Fondness 
I received the Penguin English Library edition of Far from the Madding Crowd this week too! I won it in a giveaway and can’t wait to read it as I love Thomas Hardy.
Good luck reaching your goal of 50 books!
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Isn’t the cover of the Hardy lovely? How lucky for you to have won it!
Reading furiously to reach my goal…
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Beautiful plants and books, we just need cake or chocolate for the perfect combination! I got The Illustrated Journeys of Celia Fiennes 1685 – 1712 in the post today, it looks like it’ll be good.
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I’ll have to include some nice treats in my next post 😉
I’ve never heard of Celia Fiennes – look forward to your thoughts.
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I’m drooling over those Penguin English Library editions. Where did you order them from? I took a quick look on Amazon, but it looked as though they only had a handful of titles.
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I ordered them from The Book Depository – they seem to have nearly all the series available and you can even pre-order the ones that are coming out in November and December. And no shipping fees!
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I love waiting for books to arrive – the sense of expectation & anticipation. You do have some lovely ones there, and some authors I’ve never read (Hardy and Bowen). Happy reading!
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Getting packages is one of my all-time greatest pleasures in life. A bad day can be made heaps better by a little gift in the mail – even if the gift is given to yourself.
I’ve never read Bowen either, but I adore Thomas Hardy.
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I’m resisting reading Christmas at Cold Comfort Farm & Nancy Mitford’s Christmas Pudding until later in November. Thank you for linking to The Guardian list I enjoyed reading it. Happy Reading!
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Those two Christmas books sound wonderful – perfect holiday reading!
Isn’t that Guardian list interesting? I’ve bought two books so far from it.
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50 is my aim too, and I’m a slow reader also. It’s nice to hear someone else has that goal, everyone seems to be speeding past so fast. What a great mix of books, and they’re all classics! I like how you blended the seasonal photographs in 🙂
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You have some great reading ahead of you! Love all those books. I hope you will read “To the North,” one of the best books by Elizabeth Bowen, very readable. Right now I have given myself the gift of rereading Nancy Mitford’s “Pursuit of Love” and “Love in a Cold Climate.” I am in reading heaven. I am off to check out your links.
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I do like Middlemarch in pink! I’ve been browsing the Penguin English Library titles, too. I’m thinking of ordering Daniel Deronda, because I’d like to read some more Eliot.
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Those Penguin books are beautiful. I have also received some book parcels this week, will be discussing them later this week.
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wonderful arrivals ,I ve one of the english library penguins so far will get some more over time ,all the best stu
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I’m especially fond of the English Library editions. Enjoy your new beauties!
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Thanks for stopping by, Andi!
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