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

littlepinkstars44

My list seems to have grown again, i forgot to add audio books!! I listen to them on the bus to and from work/uni!

Books

[STRIKE]The Van Allen Legacy - Melissa de la Cruz (Blue Bloods book 4)[/STRIKE]
Keys to the Repository - Melissa De La Cruz (Blue Bloods book 5)
[STRIKE]Burned - P.C Cast (House of Night book 7)
Blood Ties - Gabriella Poole (Darke Academy book 2)[/STRIKE]
Bloodlust - Alex Duval (Vampire Beach book 1) currently reading
Initiation - Alex Duval (Vampire Beach book 2)
Divine by Mistake - P.C Cast (Partholon book 1)
Divine by Choice - P.C Cast (Partholon book 2)
Shiver - Maggie Stiefvater
Wicked Lovely - Melissa Marr
Glass Houses - Rachel Caine (Morganville Vampires book 1)
The Dead Girls Dance - Rachel Caine (Morganville Vampires book 2)
Midnight Alley - Rachel Caine (Morganville Vampires book 3)
Feast of Fools - Rachel Caine (Morganville Vampires book 4)
Evermore - Aylson Noel (The Immortals book 1)
Blue Moon - Aylson Noel (The Immortals book 2)
Shadow land - Aylson Noel (The Immortals book 3)
Second Glance - Jodi Picoult
Change of Heart - Jodi Picoult
Dear Nobody - Berlie Doherty
Second Star to the Right - Deborah Hautzig
Running on Empty - Anna Paterson
Skin Game - Caroline Kettlewell
Smashed - Koren Zailckas
Spin Cycle - Zoe Strachman
Negative Space - Zoe Strachman
My Summer of Love - Helen Cross
The Host - Stephanie Meyer

Audio Books

[STRIKE]Harry Potter 1-7[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]The Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]Catching Fire - Suzanne Colllins (Hunger Games 2)[/STRIKE]
Mocking Jay - Suzanne Collins (Hunger Games 3) currently listening to
The Magician's Nephew - C.S. Lewis
The Carrie Diaries - Candace Bushnell
Handle With Care - Jodi Picoult

mrs-moneypenny

finished the memory keepers daughter so reading the unfortunates by laurie graham now

My tbr shelf
a wing and a prayer - lynn andrews --read
the memory keepers daughter - jodi picoult --read really recommend
perfect match - jane moore --gave away
unchained melanine - judy astley --gave away
everyone worth knowing - lauren weisberger --gave away
the unfortunates - laurie graham---currently reading
across a summer sea - lynn andrews
friends forever - lynn andrews
angels of mercy - lynn andrews
love and a promise - lynn andrews
when daylight comes - lynn andrews
mist over the mersey - lynn andrews
my sisters child - lynn andrews
valentine - tom savage
hanibal - thomas harris
the slience of the lambs - thomas harris
adam and eve and pinch me - ruth rendell
deja dead - ruth reich
the surgeon - tess gerritsen
under the skin - michael faber
model behaviour jay McInerrey
the blindfold - siri hustredlt
the black dahlia james ellroy
twilight - T Lobsang Rampa
killing me softly - nicci french
happy like murderers - gordon burn
regeneration - pat barker
ann prachett - bel canto
to die for - catherine jinks
little beach book - a freebie of shorts for prima mag
a big boy did it and ran away - christopher brookmyer
blowback - chalmers johnson
outcast - jose latour
the rosewell incidnet
rambo III david morrell
the pelican brief - john grisham
seven - anthony burns
saving private ryan - may allen collins
die hard 2 - walter wager
cliffhanger - jeff rorin
the fugitive - J M Dillard
good wives - louisia m alcott
little women - louisia m alcott
jane eyre - charlotte bronte
the abbey girls again - elsie oxenhart
pearl harbour -randall wallace
birds of prey - wilbur smith
6 wives of henry VIII - antonia frazer
mary queen of scotland and the isles - margaret george
mary queen of scots - antonia frazer
fatal majesty - reay tannahill
the other queen - philippa gregory
the wise woman- philippa gregory
zeldas cut - philippa gregory
fallen skies - philippa gregory
perfectly correct - philippa gregory
bread and chocolate - philippa gregory
tudor england - john guy
henry VIII - alison wier
the secret life of Elizabeth I - paul doherty
in the shadow of lady jabne - edward charles
the concubine - nora lofts
the lute player - nora lofts
crown of aloes - nora lofts
the gunpowder plot - antonia frazer
the duchess - amanda norman
madame du barry - jean plaidy
thornyhold - mary stewart
the last enchantment -mary stewart
the grafton girls - annie groves
a mothers sin - lynda page
no going back - lynda page
our street - gilda O'neill
the house of lanyon - valeric anand
ambitions - audrey howard
gallows thief - bernard cornwell
hardacre - CL Skelton
the red tent - anita diamat
all he ever wanted - anita shreve
the pilots wife - anita shreve
sea glass - anita shreve
fortune rocks- anita shreve
diary of a young girl - anne frank
wuthering heights - emily bronte
shirley - bronte
divas dont knit - gil McNeil
needles and pearls - gil McNeil
home truths - freya north
last train to memphis -peter guralnick
the seagull - anton chekhov
a woman of no importance - oscar wilde
a streetcar named desire - tennessee williams
the captive queen of scots - jean plaidy
dress to kill - eddie izzard
the beach - alex garland
galdiator - david franzoni
along came a spider - james patterson
clean cut - lynda plante
the other womans shoes - adele parks
playing away - adele parks
larger than life - adele parks
jemima J - jane green
spellbound - jane green
siberian dream - irina pantaeva
deception point - dan brown
angels and demons - dan brown
the beachcomber - josephine cox
the pursuit of happiness - douglas kennedy
prince of clouds - gianni riotta
the wild - esther frend
the rose of sebastipol - katherine McMahon
the historian - elizabeth kostova
the principessa - christie dickason
the princess bride - william goldman
the glass painters daughter - rachel hore
the babushka inheritance - CC Chambers
girl with a pearl earring - tracy chevalier
perfume - patrick suskind
lucia lucia - adrianna trigiani

5 down 114 to go

feedumall

jintyb try the hunger games trilogy, my teenage grandaughter loved them as did i,the next big thing in my opinion .

littlepinkstars44

feedumall wrote: »

jintyb try the hunger games trilogy, my teenage grandaughter loved them as did i,the next big thing in my opinion .

Yay! Another hunger games fan!! I have only recently discovered the books (well audio books in my case) Downloaded them free from audiable with the code from Mugglecast.

Finished the first one the other day, started the second one last night, they are amazing aren't they?!

Do you know they are making a film out of them, due to be released in 2012!:j

jintyb

feedumall wrote: »

jintyb try the hunger games trilogy, my teenage grandaughter loved them as did i,the next big thing in my opinion .

littlepinkstars44 wrote: »

Yay! Another hunger games fan!! I have only recently discovered the books (well audio books in my case) Downloaded them free from audiable with the code from Mugglecast.

Finished the first one the other day, started the second one last night, they are amazing aren't they?!

Do you know they are making a film out of them, due to be released in 2012!:j

Thanks for taking the trouble to reply - have taken note of your recommendations! Thanks a lot!:A

feedumall

little pink ,the second is the best in my opinion.looking forward to the film ,grandaughter has told me we are going to see it the first chance we get.When book three was released had to buy two as neither of us wanted to wait for the other to finish,although we had both read them in two days:D,sold one on amazon so not to naughty .oh and be warned gets sad dont listen in public i blubbed loads.feed xx

littlepinkstars44

feedumall wrote: »

little pink ,the second is the best in my opinion.looking forward to the film ,grandaughter has told me we are going to see it the first chance we get.When book three was released had to buy two as neither of us wanted to wait for the other to finish,although we had both read them in two days:D,sold one on amazon so not to naughty .oh and be warned gets sad dont listen in public i blubbed loads.feed xx

Thanks. I'm just at the bit where shes found out she has to go back!!:eek::eek::eek:
That was a bit of a shocker on the bus this morning!! I always get funny looks on the bus anyway when i'm listening to podcast, and burst out laughing. People must think i'm a bit of a nutter anyway!


I'm finding that listening to audio books takes so much longer than reading the actual books. I do like it though, it's a nice wee change kinda reminds me of when i was little, and my mum used to read to me before bed.

At the moment all other books are on hold until i finish the hunger games trilogy!

elaine12022

I've only just seen this thread - made me smile. I have gone a bit mad buying books recently, I got 3 for 30p each a couple of weeks ago, (fund raising stall for local school) and still reading ones I've got. I have books downstairs I'm reading (one about women in the 17th century). Upstairs I have started an autobiography of a Welsh punk rocker (my husband actually bought this),and the story of the journalist who was kidnapped in Beirut (brain fog alert, can't remember the name). Have a pile of books by the bedside now to catch up on!

I do pass books on, share with family and friends and/or to the charity shop (just remembered I acquired a novel last week from someone giving it away! eek) but it has now built up, so this thread echoed what I was telling myself. I have just finished one novel, so will pass that on quite soon.

These are the books I have started and have downstairs. :eek: I read them in short spurts as my concentration can be a bit dodgy.


The Weaker Vessel by Antonia Fraser (about 3/4 of the way through)
Whatever Happened to Britain by John Eatwell (nearly finished)
The English Civil War by Tristram Hunt (OH's book)
The Great Rebellion 1642-1660 by Ivan Roots (ditto)
British Constitution made simple by Padfield & Byrne
No More Fears by Dr Douglas Hunt (given by friend having clear out! There's another similar one as well, not started that).

The books I bought myself were all second hand. The only problem with the books above is I don't think I'll want to get rid of them, at least for a while, as they're handy for reference. Although I do have 2 novels I have read & decided to pass on, including the one mentioned above.

So need to rein myself in for a while. Good to know there's a club of like minded people :j

mrlevity

Forgive me for I have sinned. There was a book sale in aid of the NSPCC last week and my youngest and I just had to go because it was for a good cause (and the books are cheap).I was very controlled and only bought one book, though little'un got four. Technically I suppose I bought five as it was me who paid, but only one was for me.

Oh dear oh dear.

Then I finally got round to listing all the books I haven't read.

:eek: 275 !!!!!!!! :eek:

Mrs L was not pleased, I can tell you !

Xandersmum

Your forgiven Mrlevity - I often have a wobble in the name of charity!!

I don't personally count little man's purchases of books - I rarely buy him them new and I think discouraging him from reading is a crime!!

Anyway just returned from a few days away, so just caught up on everyones readings! I read Louise Candlish's I'll be There for You which was dreadfully slow but improved towards the end, and Debbie Macombers 44 Cranberry Port, which was great! (but I am a bit biased as love this series)

Just started Judy Astley's Laying the Ghost...