Peggy is now thinking about her journey back home to Pennsylvania, she only has a few more days here in Scotland with us. She has been trying to pack her bags and unfortunately she has discovered that she is now way over her baggage allowance.
She did go a bit crazy in the secondhand bookshops and charity shops, coupled with the fact that she packed far too many clothes (who doesn’t?) it was inevitable that she’d be in trouble. I think she said she has bought 54 books. You can read about her book dilemma here.
I’m feeling virtuous though because I’ve bought far fewer than she has, however, she did bring me a pile of books from the US, all by authors new to me, apart from Patricia Wentworth.
1. Case for Sergeant Beef by Leo Bruce
2. Mount Vernon Love Story by Mary Higgins Clark
3. Murder Scholastic by Janet Caird
4. The Sound of Insects by Mildred Davis
5. The Suspect by L.R. Wright
6. High Tide at Noon by Elisabeth Ogilvie
7. The Silent Pool by Patricia Wentworth
8. The Taste of Murder by Joanna Cannan
9. Daniel Plainway by Van Reid
These are all books which she thoroughly enjoyed reading herself so I have high hopes of them – when I can get around to reading them. I’m reading the Leo Bruce one now, I chose that one first as Eric Bown is a Leo Bruce fan, but I don’t know which one I should go for after that, any recommendations?
This may well be too late for Peggy but I know when my husband was shipping something heavy to Canada he found that a courier was much cheaper than Parcel Force and they delivered within a couple of days. There was a massive difference in cost, something like £120 Parcel Force against £40 by the courier.
Anyway it sounds like you’ve had a wonderful time together, I wish Peggy a safe journey home and many hours happy reading.
Karen White,
We got estimates from Mail Boxes Etc and they were almost as expensive as the Post Office, so she has bought another suitcase to put all the books in. I suppose if she had bought all the books online and had to pay for postage separately it would have amounted to even more, that’s the way she’s looking at it anyway.
Van Reid is one of my favorite contemporary authors and I think his Moosepath series is charming and funny. So, I’d vote for Daniel Plainway.
Joan,
I’ll read that one next then and I suppose I’ll have to get the rest of the series from the internet or in ebook form as I don’t think they’re published in the UK.
Where’s a better place to go crazy than a bookshop?
Lorraine,
I know, I keep telling myself that there are worse vices to have!