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Old 10-02-2018, 10:55 AM   #4779
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Originally Posted by issybird View Post
Absolutely. Ultimately this thread shouldn't be about sheer numbers, but about frugality. And not in its penny-pinching connotation, but in getting full value for your expenditures and enjoying them, guilt-free. Great story.
I suppose this is true. And I must admit that I'm pleased that my average purchase cost this year is just £1.56

I'm also pleased that I don't think I regret any of my purchases:

Spoiler:
10 Inspector Morse
12 Rebus novels
16 Inspector Montalbano Mysteries
A Call to Vengence
A Tale of Time City
A Talent for Murder
A Wrinkle in Time
Admiral Hornblower Omnibus (counted as four books)
All Creatures Great and Small
Analog SFF July/August 2018
Analog SFF March/April 2018
Analog SFF May/June
Analog SFF September/October 2018
Asimov's SF July/August 2018
Asimov's SF March/April 2018
Asimov's SF May/June
Asimov's SF September/October 2018
Bookburners
Caine's Mutiny
Castle of Wizardry
Child of Earth
Classic (Mary Berry cookbook)
Cobra Traitor
Deadly Election
Deep Secret
Do Androids
Dream of Electric Sheep?
Dragon Song
Enchanted Glass
Enchanter's End Game
Enemy of God
Excaliber
Exile's Honor
Exile's Valor
F&SF January/February 2018
F&SF July/August 2018
F&SF March/April 2018
F&SF May/June 2018
F&SF September/October 2018
Fools and Mortals
Games Wizards Play
Georgia on my Mind
Grantville Gazette #75
Grantville Gazette #76
Grantville Gazette #77
Grantville Gazette #78
Grantville Gazette #79
Guardians of the West
I Captured the Castle
Icerigger
Interim Errantry2: On Ordeal
Jeeves Omnibus 2
Kill Before Dying
Making History
Man-Kzin Wars III
Man-Kzin Wars IV
Man-Kzin Wars V
Midnight Snack and Other Fairy Tales
Miss Phryne Fisher Investigates
Miss Pym Disposes
Mission to Moulokin
Needle
Neogenesis
Oathblood
Oathbreakers
Oathbringer
Passing
Pawn of Prophecy
Project Elfhome
Pulse
'Rommel?' 'Gunner Who?'
Science of Discworld II and IV
Smiley's People
Stir Crazy (cookbook)
Surely You're Joking Mr Feynman?
Take a Thief
The Best SF&F of the Year
The Cackle of Cthulu
The Chalk Pit
The Chrysalids
The Constant Gardener
The Crossing Places
The Dark Side of the Sun
The Deluge Drivers
The Diamond Throne
The Diary of a Young Girl
The English and their History
The Fifth Season
The Flowers of Vashnoi
The Franchise Affair
The Genius of Jane Austen
The Girl on the Train
The Honorable Schoolboy
The Jeeves Omnibus Vol. 1
The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying
The Mission Song
The Name of the Rose
The OathBound
The Player of Games
The Russia House
The seven Narnia books
The Singing Sands
The Winter King
The Worst Witch
Though Hell Should Bar The Way
Through the Eye of a Needle
To Love and be Wise
Unnatural Habits
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