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

ma-ri-ella

wow thats a good list :P the only "new" bookshop i have in town is waterstones,so not much temptation..however there is a decent sized oxfam bookshop which im partial 2.will try and write a list like the other challenges,nothing better than scoring something off the list!! has the bookpeople got any good deals? no i kid i dont want to know...honest....hmm its in my head now might just have a wee lookie

littlepinkstars44

Finished Revolver last night. I didn't think it was all great, its been getting raving reviews on Amazon. Yes it a book that made stop and think, but apart from that it was pretty much one scene dragged over 200 odd pages. And all the skipping through time annoyed me.

I now have 9 books i've requested from the library - i don't think anyone should have told me about the online catalogue, and inter library tranfsers yesterday!!

p.s - it's my birthday So i pretty much plan on doing nothing today, then out for dinner tonight


And updated list:

[STRIKE]Last Sacrifice - Richelle Mead[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]Misguided Angel - Melissa de la Cruz[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]Awakened - P.C Cast[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]Divided Souls - Gabrielle Poole[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]Bloodlust - Alex Duval
Initiation - Alex Duval[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]Ritual - Alex Duval[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]Legacy - Alex Duval[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]The Deceleration - Gemma Malley
The Resistance - Gemma Malley[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]The Legacy - Gemma Malley[/STRIKE]
Divine by Mistake - P.C Cast
Divine by Choice - P.C Cast
Shiver - Maggie Stiefvater
Linger - Maggie Stiefvater
Lament - Maggie Stiefvater
[STRIKE]Revolver - Marcus Sedgwick[/STRIKE]
Wicked Lovely - Melissa Marr
Ink Exchange - Melissa Marr
Glass Houses - Rachel Caine
The Dead Girls Dance - Rachel Caine
Midnight Alley - Rachel Caine
Feast of Fools - Rachel Caine
Lord of Misrule - Rachel Caine
Carpe Corpus - Rachel Caine
Fade Out - Rachel Caine
Evermore - Aylson Noel
Blue Moon - Aylson Noel
Shadow land - Aylson Noel
Dark Flame - Alyson Noel
Hush Hush - Becca Fitzpatrick
Second Glance - Jodi Picoult
Change of Heart - Jodi Picoult
House Rules - Jodi Picoult
Sister - Rosamund Lupton
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
Entangled - Cat Clarke

InaPickle

littlepinkstars44 wrote: »

I now have 9 books i've requested from the library - i don't think anyone should have told me about the online catalogue, and inter library tranfsers yesterday!!

p.s - it's my birthday So i pretty much plan on doing nothing today, then out for dinner tonight

:bdaycake: Haooy birthday, LPS! :bdaycake:

Have a nice read and then enjoy your dinner out. And as for the library books, you are getting your new book fix out of them, but not paying - what's not to love?!

ma-ri-ella

Books to read

Ghost town-rachel caine.current
The hungry years-william leith.also reading
Lets meet on paltform 8-Carole Matthews
The sweetest taboo-carole Matthews
Captain Corelis Mandolin
Minority report
Songs of the humpback whale
The last anniversary-liane MORIARITY
A small part of me
The naming of the dead
The virgins lover- Phillipa Gregory
Gene-stel paviou
Freeglader-The edge chronicals
The curse of the gloamglozer
Magic lost,trouble found
The green machine-ecology and the balance of nature
Magic study
The story of stuff
The borrowers afield
Bitter sweets-Roopa Farrook
An unkindness of ravens
Mansfield park
Agatha Raison and a spponful of poison


I have more to list but this will keep me busy for ages :P

Flat_Eric

The B&&k people catalogue has dropped through my letterbox today :mad: I really do not need any more temptation to buy books!!!

I went a bit mad last week and ordered quite a few books from Am$zo$. So add these to the books I have in my cupboard, the books on my bookshelf, the books I have by the side of my bed, not forgetting of course the books in my loft ! (boxes of them !!) and I somehow think I have enough books to mean that I don't need to buy another book for the next five years :rotfl: (at least !) oh and lets not even mention my subscription to audible thats been going for the last two years ? and all the books i have stacked up to listen to.....

I'm not including of course the books I have on hire at the library at the moment/plus the ones I have on reserve also. I'm very lucky in that I have two libraries at my disposal as I live on the border between two counties so benefit from two different libraries who both seem to have different stock !

Yet I still find myself flicking through the catalogue received today and wanting to buy x, y and z ! (some of those ten books for a tenner collections) but I really must stop buying more when I have so many to read and a sick bank account !!!

At the moment I am reading Lucky by Alice Sebold. Has anyone else read this ? I haven't read Lovely Bones but do have this somewhere in the house ? to read. Lucky is Alice's personal memoir of her brutal rape and beating when she was at college and just 18. It doesn't make for easy reading particularly the chapter about the rape itself.:( but it is proving to be a strangely gripping read. I am finding particularly interesting Alice's reflections on life - as she recounts stuff that happened when she was a child that takes on a different meaning as an adult.


I collected Twenties Girl by Sophie Kinsella and Manual of Detection by Jedediah Berry from the library today

I also have on my bookchair at the dining table Acts of Violence by Ryan David Jahn!!

hmmm too many books - not enough hands/eyes/time

littlepinkstars44

Finished Sister today.
WOW!!!!! loved it!

scubaangel

Just been for a walk coz the smell of dinner coming from the slow cooker was making me hungry and joined the local library. Now I'm home again I've decided to rehome the bag of books from the spare room in to the livingroom to encourage me to start reading them while I'm sitting around.

Currently reading I heart Paris by Lyndsey Kelk
The bag currently contains

Four books from The Vampire Diaries - The Awakening
The Struggle
The Fury
The Reunion
Judgement and Wrath - Matt Hilton -- apparently about half way through this one
The Russian Concubine - Kate Furnivall
The Concubines Secret - Kate Furnivall -- read this one last year so got it listed on greenmet
Union Jack - V.L McDermid
Queen of New Beginings - Erica James
American Gods - Neil Gaiman
Heros - James Holland
Dear John - Nicholas Sparks --need to read this before Autumn when the boy starts PDT again
I See You - Gregg Hurwitz
The Charmer - Mandasue Hellier
Forgotten Voices of the Somme - Joshua Levine
The Book Thief - Markus Zusak
Last Night at Chateu Marmont - Lauren Weisberger
3para - Patrick Bishop
The Third Secret - Steve Berry
The Dark River - John Twelve Hawks
The Redbreast - Jo Nesbo
The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon - Stephen King
Cell - Stephen King
Cujo - Stephen King
Rules of Engagement - Tom Collins
Armed Action - James Newton
Monte Cassino - Matthew Parker

jintyb

littlepinkstars44 wrote: »

Finished Sister today.
WOW!!!!! loved it!

Oh great! I have that book in my pile!

Finished Miss Julia Speaks her Mind by Ann B Ross, quite enjoyable. It's the first in a series and I get the feeling the stories will get better as the books progress.
Started The Devil Rides Out by Paul O'Grady, so far ok, but not nearly as good as his first book. Very easy reading so should be finished today.;)

charlies_mum

jintyb wrote: »

Started The Devil Rides Out by Paul O'Grady, so far ok, but not nearly as good as his first book. Very easy reading so should be finished today.;)

I totally agree, nearly finished and just :T:T:T from me.

Bought Room on the recommendations on here, so maybe that one next

Sessie

Am just having a clear out of the children's room and so have got to the rest of my unread books. They are:

Tony Parsons - My Favourite Wife
Dean Koontz - Forever Odd
Stephen King - Salems Lot
Stephen King - Duma Key
Stephen King - Lisey's Story
Philip Pullman - The Golden Compass books
Minette Walters - The Devil's Feather
Kate Mosse - Labyrinth
Daphne Du Maurier - Rebecca
Arthur Golden - Memoirs of a Geisha
Mums at Home - Sophie King
Louise Candlish - The Double Life of Anna Day
Isabel Wolff - A Question of Love
Carole Cadwalladr - The Family Tree
Oliver James - Affluenza (psychology of spending - very MSE!! non fiction obviously!)
Nicole Krauss - The History of Love
Ben Elton - Blind Faith
James Naughtie - The Accidental American (non fiction)
Tim Griggs - Redemption Blues
Douglas Kennedy - The State of the Union
Stephen Clarke - A Year In the Merde (non fiction)
Bill Bryson - Made in America (non fiction)
Greg Palast - The Best Democracy Money Can Buy (non fiction)
Bill Clinton - My Life (non fiction)
Orham Pamuk - Snow
Douglas Adams - All the Hitchhikers books in one big book!

Surprised at quite how much non fiction and politics I found in there! I used to be quite a politics officionado until the children came along - nowadays I'm lucky to catch one full news programme a week!!

Anyhow, there were about ten others - some light reading, some crime stuff etc... which I'm going to take to work on Monday and put in the Book Club box so that's good right?

When am I going to find TIME to read all of these??? This really should tell me (incluidng my earlier post with all the other unreads) that I SHALL NOT BUY ANY MORE BOOKS!!!!

er...

EVER!! by the looks of things!!

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