'No More Buying Books Until I've Read the Ones I've Already Bought' Thread

InaPickle

Have just finished Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte. I liked the darkness of many of the main protaganists as I normally find that, in ye olde books, they are all twee and good and humble. Not sure what to make about the death at the end, though, and would have liked a bit more precision as to whether or not said cadaver was buried exactly where its former occupier wished to be buried or not.

I won't say more in case I ruin a good book for anyone out there, but it's worth a read.

Clap rating: :T:T:T:T 1/2.

P.S. That means that I've now read 18/25 books I wanted to read this year. I've had a quiet month or two just gone, but will try to get into the 20s before the end of the year. I'm fairly happy about that as I've been a bit quiet on the whole reading thing this past few years, so it has been nice to have an aim, and has increased my volume of reading no end. I probably won't hit 25 before the end of the year, unless I finish The History by Stephen Fry, which I'm just not feeling at the minute even though I can tell I *should* be really enjoying it, then deliberately choose lots of very short books, but that's defeating the object of just enjoying the reading, rather than doing it just to tick of boxes on my 'To Do' list. :cool:

scubaangel

InaPickle wrote: »

Hope it lives up to your expectations. You'll have to post us a review and let us know what you think about it.

So far so good. It's charging up at the moment but I read for a couple of hours this morning and found the screen as comfortable to read as 'real' paper. Found it quite strange holding it but thats something no doubt I'll get used to. Only got the free books on it so far, but I can see that it'll be way too tempting to download everything I see and fancy reading which could well cost me a fortune. :rotfl:

InaPickle

scubaangel wrote: »

So far so good. It's charging up at the moment but I read for a couple of hours this morning and found the screen as comfortable to read as 'real' paper. Found it quite strange holding it but thats something no doubt I'll get used to. Only got the free books on it so far, but I can see that it'll be way too tempting to download everything I see and fancy reading which could well cost me a fortune. :rotfl:

It's sooooo easy to do: online music is equally damaging to the purse strings!

scubaangel

InaPickle wrote: »

It's sooooo easy to do: online music is equally damaging to the purse strings!

I only use spotify for music these days and buy physical CD's when I'm mystery shopping as I don't like listening to music via earphones/earbuds so on that count I'm fairly safe so far, lol.

InaPickle

scubaangel wrote: »

I only use spotify for music these days and buy physical CD's when I'm mystery shopping as I don't like listening to music via earphones/earbuds so on that count I'm fairly safe so far, lol.

I just don't buy online (unless it's a physical CD) as I know what a bad, bad idea it will be to let me loose, otherwise. Plus, nowing my luck with computers, I would spend thousands on music which would then get wiped when my hard drive/external hard drive die. (I've had a lot of stuff die that way! )

jintyb

Hi all,
looking for some advice folks.
I want to buy some books for my 12 yr old niece. She loves the Twilight series and also Jacqueline Wilson, but I think she will have read all of them.
Can anyone recommend anything similar that would be suitable?

Thanks a lot!

InaPickle

jintyb wrote: »

Hi all,
looking for some advice folks.
I want to buy some books for my 12 yr old niece. She loves the Twilight series and also Jacqueline Wilson, but I think she will have read all of them.
Can anyone recommend anything similar that would be suitable?

Thanks a lot!

Hmm...teen fiction not currently my strong point. Not sure what to recommend. What about book tokens? OR perhaps have a look on Amazon etc. at the type of books she likes, and then see what else other people have bought in that 'People who bought this also bought...' section, then click through to the reviews and see what people are saying about them.

HTH.

*Jellie*

I'm not going too fast on this challenge as I'm doing most of my reading on my ereader. 2 books decluttered this week!

footymadgal

Last week I finished reading The Queen's Fool by Philippa Gregory. I read a few of the reviews on Amazon before I started to read it - some of them were quite scathing about whether the author had got her historical facts right and also about the main character Hannah and so I thought I was going to be disappointed. However, I don't know enough about the historical facts to question them and I thoroughly enjoyed the book and loved Hannah, I actually thought she was very brave! I've got The White Queen to read but will read something completely different next. I've selected Windfall by Penny Vincenzi from my bookcase. It's been ages since I've read one of her books.

Since I started this challenge I haven't bought any books :A and I'm not intending to ask for any for Xmas, but if Santa decides to give me some that's fine by me!

littlepinkstars44

jintyb wrote: »

Hi all,
looking for some advice folks.
I want to buy some books for my 12 yr old niece. She loves the Twilight series and also Jacqueline Wilson, but I think she will have read all of them.
Can anyone recommend anything similar that would be suitable?

Thanks a lot!

Even though i'm 23, i read young adult stuff mostly. If she likes Twilight, i would recommend:

Harry Potter series
Blue Blood series
Vampire Academy series
House of Night series
The Hunger Games series
Night World series
Morganville Vampires series
Dark Visions series
Immortals series
Vampire beach series
Shiver - Maggie Stiefvater