Charity shop book haul…yet another five for a pound haul (part one).

So, I'm now playing catch up. Having been under the weather for a while, there are a number of posts to catch up on, including several book hauls.

Let's see what I got this time from the charity shop that keeps giving with their five for a pound offer.

All the ratings are from the Goodreads website (as of writing).

1) The Fry Chronicles, an Autobiography by Stephen Fry. 3.84 average review rating, 22132 ratings, 1232 reviews.

“Stephen Fry arrived at Cambridge on probation: a convicted fraudster and thief, an addict, liar, fantasist and failed suicide, convinced that at any moment he would be found out and flung away.

Instead, university life offered him love, romance, and the chance to stand on a stage and entertain.”

Link: The Fry Chronicles 

2) Animal, The Autobiography of a Female Body by Sara Pascoe. 4.15 average review rating, 8839 ratings, 639 reviews.

“Women have so much going on, what with boobs and jealousy and menstruating and broodiness and sex and infidelity and pubes and wombs and jobs and memories and emotions and the past and the future and themselves and each other.

Here's a book that deals with all of it.”

Link: Animal, The Autobiography of a Female Body

3) Only Fools and Stories by David Jason. 4.24 average review rating, 805 ratings, 67 reviews.

“…in a follow-up autobiography, he tells us about the many other lives he has lived – his characters. From Del Boy to Granville, Pop Larkin to Frost, he takes us behind the scenes and under the skins of some of the best loved acts of his career.”

Link: Only Fools and Stories

 

4) As Good As It Gets, Life Lessons From A Reluctant Adult by Romesh Ranganathan. 3.91 average review rating, 2687 ratings, 179 reviews.

“Confronted by the realities of adulthood, Romesh Ranganathan must face an uncomfortable this is not quite how he imagined it. Watching his friends descend into middle age, his waistline thicken and his finances dwindle to fund his family’s middle class aspirations, Romesh reflects on the demands of daily life and the challenges of adulting in the modern world.”

Link: As Good As It Gets

5) The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid by Bill Bryson. 3.93 average review rating, 65331 ratings, 5244 reviews.

“Bill Bryson grew up with a rich fantasy life as a superhero. In his case, he ran around his house and neighbourhood with an old football jersey with a thunderbolt on it and a towel about his neck that served as his cape, leaping tall buildings in a single bound and vanquishing awful evildoers (and morons)—in his head—as The Thunderbolt Kid.”

Link: The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid

So, quite a collection, four comedians/comedy actors (and part-time authors I suppose). Then there is Bill Bryson. You can't go wrong with Bill Bryson. More to add to the “must read at some point” pile.

Part two to follow.