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

littlepinkstars44

not much to report in, have finished Catching Fire and am now on Mocking Jay audiobooks.

Not had much time to read recently! 1 more week off uni, then 6 weeks of freedom! I can't wait!

InaPickle

Right, have been very impressed with people listing their 'book stashes', so I decided to do my own. This is not exhaustive, as I know I've got the Annals of Confucius somewhere in the attic (and that probably means he's got friends as well), but it is good enough for now. Bold print means it's a library lend,red means that I've already started it (could be reading it now, could have stoped reading ages ago for whatever reason) - the rest are my own, in my little collapsable crate. I'm surprised at how many one relatively small box can get in.

Here we go:

Factual (36):

Book no1 to do with potential career
Book no2 to do with potential career
Book no3 to do with potential career
Book no4 to do with potential career
Book no5 to do with potential career
Book no6 to do with potential career
The Naked Jape: Carr, Jimmy & Greeves, Lucy
Seamus Heaney (study guide): Murphy, Andrew
Stephen Fry in America…you guessed it!
Work Your Wardrobe: Wan, Gok
Osteoperosis: the Silent Epidemic: Glenville, Marilyn
Spanish Means Business: BBC Tape pack
OO book
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy: Collins
My Grammar and I (or should that be ‘Me’?): Taggart & Wines
Cassel Guide to Literature in French (Ed. Worth-Stylianou)
QI Book of the Dead
Relativity and Quantum Physics for Beginners: Manly, Stephen L
The Ode Less Travelled: Fry, Stephen
QI Book of General Ignorance: QI Elves
No Logo: Klein, Naomi
La France (book published in China)
The Film Book: Choosing and Using Colour and Black and White Film: Hicks & Schultz
The Art of Scenic Photography: Grill & Scanlon
Trinny and Suzanna: The Survival Guide
Trinny and Suzanna: What You Wear Can Change Your Life (presents, people!)
Passage to Power: Kenton, Leslie
The Fragrant Pharmacy: Worwood, Valerie Ann
The Beatles Illustrated Lyrics: Ed. Aldridge, Alan
Small Business Guide 2000: Lloyds TSB
HTML Publishing on the WWW: Teach Yourself Ed
A Guide to Tolkien: Day, David
Mencius think this is factual)
Trinny and Suzanna: The Body Shape Bible
Janice Robinson’s Wine Course: Robinson, Janice
The Complete Kodak Book of Photography

French Factual (6):

Histoire de la guerre d’Algerie: Droz et Lever
Madame Bovary: Balises study guide
Qu’est-ce que la literature? Sartre
Les Romanciers du Reel: Dubois, Jaques
Le Guide Hachette des Vins
Histoire de France: de Sauvigny
Code de Route: Michelin

Fiction (24):
The Gormenghast Trilogy: Mervyn Peake
Far from the Madding Crowd: Hardy
Middlemarch: Eliot, George
The Canterbury Tales: Chaucer
The Last of the Mohicans, Fenimore Cooper, James
Child of Time: Asimov, Isaac
Atonement: McEwan, Ian
The History: Fry, Stephen (library)
The Hippopotamus: Fry, Stephen
The Liar: Fry, Stephen
Opened Ground: Heaney, Seamus
Beowulf: Heaney, Seamus
Hamlet: Shakespeare
Treasure Island: Stevenson, R.L.
David Copperfield: Dickens, Charles
Frankenstein, Shelley, Mary
A Farewell to Arms: Hemingway, Ernest
Octo!!!!!: Fleming, Ian
The Man with the Golden Gun: Fleming
The Simarillion: Tolkien,
The Island: Hislop, Victoria
The Horse Whisperer: Evans, Nicolas
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd: Christie, Agatha (I’m sure I borrowed this from a lecturer at uni and read it, but bought this edition to keep)
The Gioconda Smile: Huxley, Aldous

French fiction (32):

Du Contrat Social: Rousseau
Gargantua: Rableais
Le Banquet/Phedre: Platon (Plato)
Atala/Les Aventures du dernier Abencerage: Chateaubriand
Arsene Lupin contre Sherlock Holmes: LeBlanc
La Femme Rompue: de Beauvoir
Madame Bovary: Flaubert
La Chartreuse de Parme: Stendhal
Maria Chapdelaine: Hemon, Louis
Clair de femme: Gary, Romain
Cannibale: Daenickx, Didier
Fatale: Manchette, Jean-Patrick
Vendredi, ou les limbes du Pacifique: Tournier
Monsieur Malaussene: Pennac
Monsieur Malaussene au Theatre: Pennac
Cyrano de Bergerac: Rostand
Le Comte de Monte Cristo: Dumas (currently Missing in Action)
Le Comte de Monte Cristo II: Dumas
Le Misanthrope: Moliere
Trois Carres Rouge sur Fond Noir: Benaquista
La Mort des Neiges: Aubert, Brigitte
Nestor Burma en direct: Malet, Leo
La Condition Humaine: Malraux
Lettres Portugaises: lettres d’une peruvienne
Chretien de Troyes: Perceval ou le Roman du Graal:
Les Chouans: Balzac
Les Mains Salees: Sartre
Votez Berurier: San Antonio
Coup de Flambe au Coeur: Randa, Peter
Le Flambeur: Vexin, Noel
Debout les Morts, Vargas, Fred
Harry Potter et le Prince de Sang-Mele: Rowling
Billy-ze-Kick

Spanish Fiction (1):
Harry Potter y el caliz de fuego

Como Agua Para Chocolate

Chinese Fiction (1):
Fairy Story (not sure which)


Read (4):
Zlata’s Diary: Zlata Flipovic
The Secret: Rhonda Byrne
Phedre: Racine
The Sadeian Woman: Angela Carter

Will put the books I've read in the attic, and might try to sell Zlata's Diary. Can't imagine I'd get much, though - it's not in a perfect state.


And sad as this sound, I feel like this list has helped me focus to get stuff off it. Good times!

InaPickle

Have just rearranged the top shelf of the bookshelf next to my bed in line with the following rule: if I started it, I must finish it. Therefore all the books in red have made their way there.

Also realised that I had a copy of Le Guide Hachette des Vins hibernating there, so I've sent it to The Book Box for perusal later on.

I've also realised that this might mean that I need to edit the two bookshelves above my bed as well. Now that's a scary thought! :eek:

mrs-moneypenny

finished "The Unfortunates" by Laurie Graham this afternoon, so thats another off the list. not sure what to start next. will post again once ive chosen one.

Picklepud

whooo hooo finally finished heart shaped box Joe Hill I will decide what to read tomorrow. Inapickle your books are certainly not ordinary !!

happy reading all

scubaangel

I'm coming to pay my penance now...we have The Book People in work tomorrow, there are several of their sets in the current catalogue I want so will probably buy while I can get them without paying postage.

kochi1

Zlata's Diary - I remember reading that when it first came out. About to tackle Benazir Bhutto - Daughter of the East. Its been on my shelf for a year now so time to knuckle down and read it.

InaPickle

Right, discovered a few more book lurking on my shelf, so I've added them to the list in green. That makes it up to a round hundred books. Oh I'm going to be a busy girl!

jintyb

mrs-moneypenny wrote: »

finished "The Unfortunates" by Laurie Graham this afternoon, so thats another off the list. not sure what to start next. will post again once ive chosen one.

How did you find it? I love Laurie Graham but not read that one.
Just finished Started Early, Took my Dog" by Kate Atkinson, which was excellent, currently reading "Rush Home Road" by Lori Lansens which I'm really enjoying - cant put it down in fact!;)

mrs-moneypenny

i enjoyed it, i got it because of how much i loved 'the future homemakers of america' by her.

the unfortunates is quite sad in places but other bits had me chuckling to myself while i was reading. its written as if the main character (Poppy) is telling her lifestory, and what a life she had!. id say its worth a read if you like laurie Graham.

am nw reading a mothers sin by linda paige, quite a gritty story about the daughter of a prostitute who does not wish to follow in the family trade