Last Books Bought in 2023 | Secondhand Classics

Did I go to the charity shop again, and bought some delightful matching editions of classics? Yes. Have I run out of space on my shelves? Also yes.
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Books mentioned:
The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
Villette by Charlotte Bronte
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
The Medieval Cookbook
Adam Bede by George Eliot
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott
Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
The Tower of London by W. H. Ainsworth
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
The Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb
Lorna Doone by R. D. Blackmore
Virginia Woolf's Common Reader by Katerina Koutsantoni
Virginia Woolf's Women by Vanessa Curtis
Diaries and Journals of Literary Women from Fanny Burney to Virginia Woolf by Judy Simmons
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[@RaynorReadsStuff]

What a fantastic haul of books. Glad to see you back. Great video 😊

[@TheEclecticLibrary]

Thank you!! 😊

[@gms4635]

Happy new year Celine! Glad to have you back!

[@TheEclecticLibrary]

Happy new year! Very glad to be back 🙂

[@NarendraNarala]

Hi Celine, you look beautiful in green 💚.happy new year again 🎉🎉🎉

[@TheEclecticLibrary]

Aw thank you 😊

[@noteworthyfiction]

Love the moonstone and hope you enjoy it! What a beautiful set of books you found! Love when that happens. Sooo excited you got a copy of The Tower of London. I agree that Ainsworth's books sound "sensational." I always keep an eye out for him.

[@TheEclecticLibrary]

Thank you!! I can't wait to dive into The Tower of London

[@novelideea]

Fun to see you back! Some fantastic editions and additions to your shelves. Uncle Tom’s Cabin is heartbreaking. You have to get past the dialect she wrote in. Lorna I read 2 years ago and loved the sweeping, sagacious, quiet nature of it. Very slow.

[@TheEclecticLibrary]

Thanks Deea, I'm very glad to be back! If the dialect is a bit too rough, I might try an audiobook - that usually helps. Glad you enjoyed Lorna! It's not a book that I've seen many people read

[@ankitapattanaik5451]

Happy New Year Celine 🎉. Congratulations on your new job. My first read for this year is The Great Gatsby. I'm enjoying it.

[@TheEclecticLibrary]

Happy new year!! Thank you 🙂 Glad you're enjoying Gatsby! It's one of my favourites

[@josephcossey1811]

If you enjoy Harrison Ainsworth's "Tower Of London" then I strongly recommend his "Old St.Paul's" which was written at about the same time and is the very definition of a "ripping yarn!"

[@TheEclecticLibrary]

That sounds delightful, I'll keep my eye out for it!

[@NarendraNarala]

Happy new year 🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@TheEclecticLibrary]

Happy new year!

[@NarendraNarala]

@@TheEclecticLibrary hii Celine,how are you?

[@michaelchandler490]

This comment is non- book related but I just had to comment on your non-accented English. As a Canadian Anglophone who has struggled all his life to speak my countries other official language (French) your English, which if you are from the Netherlands, I assume is a second language ,is perfect.

[@TheEclecticLibrary]

Thank you Michael! Yes, it is a second language 🙂 To be fair, I too find French really difficult. Dutch is actually the national language closest to English, so we do have a little bit of a head start

[@jamgart6880]

I remember watching the Black Beauty tv show when I was a kid and enjoyed it. So last year I thought I’d read it for the first time and I hated it. It’s more of a commentary on how absolutely awful people are. I think if you have kids that like riding horses and maybe own one, then definitely make them read this and hopefully they’ll treat their animals with kindness and compassion. 😊

[@TheEclecticLibrary]

I had no idea, that's so interesting! I was never much of a horse girl so I don't really have any expectations