Hey guys! As I wrote in one of my previous posts, I studied this past semester in Scotland, at the University of Glasgow. And one of the things I was most excited about was all the bookshops I would get to go to. Living in Portugal, there aren’t many places to go and buy books in English, and where I can actually physically hold and (yes) drool at. I read mainly in English so most of the books I own I bought them online.
But living in the UK for almost four months definitely ruined my bank balance. There were bookshops everywhere, and I plan to make a post about my favourites. But WATERSTONES my god was I in love. There were also so many great second-hand bookshops! And let’s not forget about Fopp (!!!!). I went crazy and bought a bit over 30 books. Luckily they did all fit in my luggage.
I’ll also include the Goodreads page for each book in the (x).
So here are the books!
These first nine books are the ones I had to buy for this semester. I actually had to get 19 books for uni (thank God for second-hand bookshops), but I decided to leave 10 of them for charity at the local Oxfam. These nine books are the ones I decided to keep:
Peter Pan and Other Plays by J.M. Barrie (x)
The Tempest by William Shakespeare (x)
Greek Lyric Poetry translated by M.L. West (x)
Theogony and Works and Days by Hesiod (x)
The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart by David Greig (x)
The Trick is to Keep Breathing by Janice Galloway (x)
The Communist Manifesto by Marx and Engels (x)
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft (x)
The Cheviot, the Stag, and the Black, Black Oil by John McGrath (x)
The rest of the books I bought throughout the months at different bookshops, both new and second-hand.
It by Stephen King (x)
The Green Mile by Stephen King (x)
The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness (x)
Call Me By Your Name by André Aciman (x)
More Than This by Patrick Ness (x)
Philip K. Dick’s Electric Dreams by Philip K. Dick (x)
All The Light We Can Not See by Anthony Doerr (x)
Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh (x)
A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara (x)
Turtles All The Way Down by John Green (x)
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (x)
The Unexpected Everything by Morgan Matson (x)
It Only Happens in Movies by Holly Bourne (x)
Every Day by David Levithan (x)
The Inexplicable Logic of My Life by Benjamin Alire Sáenz (x)
The Sudden Appearance of Hope by Claire North (x)
Looking for Alaska by John Green (x)
Bossypants by Tina Fey (x)
Warm Bodies by Isaac Marion (x)
William Shakespeare Boxset: The Bard’s Guide to Abuses and Afronts; The Complete Plays in One Setting; Love Sonnets of Shakespeare.
Sometime mid November, I went to a Shelter shop and I found thwo hardcover First Editons for the Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (x) and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (x). Altough second-hand, they are in prestine conditon and I’m so pumped to have them on my shelf!
So that’s it! And now I’m going to spend the rest of the year practicing my self-control and not buy any more books (hahahaha) because my wallet cannot take it.
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