July First Reads

 This month: 

1. John Grebble is Gone (thriller - bonus short read)
2. How to Ruin a Wedding (rom com)
3. No Light but the Stars (hist fict)
4. Ransom (legal thriller)
5. When She Was Ours (book club fiction (really, what is this category)
6. Oxford Detective Society (cosy fiction - their spelling)
7. Fields of Asphodel (hist fantasy)
8.  Dead Girls Tell No Tales (psych thriller)
9. A Heartbeat at my Feet (women's fiction - how is this different from book club fiction?)
10. Where Her SEcrets Lie (thriller) 

Cutting out all the thrillers is easy.  None of the rest have been ordered by the library yet, so I can't cut them down that way.  Picked Fields of Asphodel, but might recommend Oxford Detective Society and How to Ruin a Wedding to the library. 

 

 

A Vinted update

 Well, Vinted is going pretty well.  Made $47 in June, and about that in July.  I've been selling mostly clothes, but one Nintendo 3DS game and a Kpop album (which I underpriced), and a pair of figurines.  Unlisted a few things that hadn't sold in 6 weeks, and need to round up more stuff to list.  And have a dedicated spot for the listed stuff, so I don't have to go hunting for it. 

The Vinted experiment

 The Offspring discovered buying on Vinted while she was in the UK, and since then, I decided to try selling things on the site.  Mostly clothing, being easy to ship, but other stuff as well.  Bought a pack of plastic envelopes to mail things in, since those are waterproof-ish and flexible, and only 10 cents each.  

So far, it's been a fair success.  We won't get rich, but we've sold some clothes, a Nintendo game, a K-pop album, and a DVD.  Listing is simple enough, and the site doesn't take a cut off the seller's end, so it's been worth trying.  I've sold 10 things so far, I think.  Time to look at what I've had listed for a few weeks, and either drop the price or just donate it somewhere.  

 I've also done a little buying myself, partly to get a feedback rating.  But, also, found a great beach wrap and a sari that will be great tablecovers or whatever, and some foreign coins.  

 

 

June First Reads

 June, so another two-book month.  

Choices: 

• The Safe Room - freebie short story (thriller)
• The Sky Beneath Her (book club fiction)
• A Voice in the Dark (police procedural)
• The Tomorrow Tree (women's fiction)
• The Museum of Second Chances (contemporary fiction)
• The Date (psych thriller)
• The Delivery (thriller novella)
• Happier Here With You (book club fiction)
• What Remains of You (suspense)
• A Single Captive Spark (fantasy)

My picks - Happier Here With You and Museum of Second Chances (and put the Tomorrow Tree on hold at the library)  

May First Reads

 This month, we've got: 

1. Two Lives With You (women's fiction) 
2. Murder By Design (police procedural)
3. The Promise of Wonder (historical fiction)
4. The Confession Artist (serial Killer)
5. The Magic of Us (romance) 
6. The Girl in the Lake (suspense)
7. Westerly (women's fiction)
8. THe Quitters Club (contemporary fiction)

This month actually has a couple of interesting-looking books.  Library has Quitters Club and Murder By Design on order. I went with Westerly, and may have the library order Promise of Wonder at some point.  

April first read

 This month: 

 

• when the Storm Passes (suspense)
• Where the Sea Lavender Grows (hist fict)
• the Dead Room (psych thriller)
• Wake Up Calls (womens fiction - really, is there a mens fiction?)
• Roaring Ridleys (historical mystery, with bad reviews)
• The Last Sunday in May (women's fiction)
•  The Final System (sci fi)
• Ways to Find Yourself (book club fiction)
• Kimi the Ballerina (picture book) 

Ended up with Sea Lavender.  

Oh, Goodwill, I couldn't resist

 Went to Goodwill yesterday in search of a backpack for my upcoming trip.  Found two, at bargain prices.  Resisted the yarn and puzzles (Yay Me!), did find a pack of 3-D dog erasers.  Best find was a GladLock container full of jewelry-making stuff, including a pair of round-nose pliers and a pair of wire cutters.  Only $2.86 for the whole container, so I bought it.  

 

 

 While I waws there, I saw a set of dishes, in a familiar pattern.  Mikasa Studio Nova's Adirondack pattern.  Now, 25+ years ago, I bought two cups and saucers in this pattern for my college dishes.  Always liked the pattern.  But I didn't buy them yesterday.  

Yeah, I went back today.  For $75, I came home with I believe 8 dinner plates, 6 salad plates, and 6 sandwich or luncheon plates.  Plus four plain white bowls that are very deep, just the way I like them for soup.  I didn't buy the serving bowls ($15 each), the coffee cups and saucers, the $10 salt & pepper set, or the wannabe sugar & creamer set that was actually a creamer and a coffee cup on an oval saucer.