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

niccatw

Ames wrote: »

I loved Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey

It's one of my many unread books and now has tow recommendations... it'll have to move up the pile methinks

niccatw

Kerfuffle wrote: »

Books from my past that I still have are Enid Blyton's Malory Towers Series and The Twins At St.Clares.

PS, since my addiction to MSE I don't read half as much as I used to.:(

I know just what you mean about the MSE addiction- I am now also trying to fit in reading books and many diaries!

I loved Malory Towers and St Clares. And who wrote the books about about a scool where they played tennis? Maybe Trebizon was in the title? My all time favourite though were The Chalet School books - I really hope my mum still has themall in the loft (the Enid Blyton ones were originally hers so they have the smell I like even better than a new book - an old book )

The book I currently picked up to reread... The Money Diet Any-one know who wrote that

franby64

Morning - can I join you please? I pledge not to buy any more books this year!

We have about 5 bookcases full of books some of which I wouldn't part with, many of which I haven't read and the rest which probably need to go.

My problem is that I grew up in a house with loads of books and for a long time I thought this was how it should be - but it just doesn't fit with our storage needs now. I feel a bit ashamed to say that at the moment we need our bookcases and shelves more for DVD's and games etc than for books . The only one of my kids who is a reader is DD1 and I've realised that she is going to choose her own books to read so it's probably not worth keeping everything I have just on the off-chance that she may want to read it.

Also I have the unread book problem and recently I've decided that it is better to get a book out of the library - READ IT - and take it back than have loads of unread/old books taking up valuable storage space. It seems to be the books that I buy new at full price that I don't read!

So now I've got over the guilt of not wanting a home which is a Library I shall have a sort out. The first book I'm going to read, borrowed from my Mum, is Marie Antoinette by Antonia Fraser - this one will keep me going for a while!

lilian1977

Finished The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown, really enjoyed it - and it was great to learn about the Masonic history of America. I studied Art History so the revelations in Angels & Demons and The Da Vinci Code weren't really that new to me but this time it was fascinating.

So, back to Wuthering Heights now! I did buy a book in a second hand book shop yesterday but more as a collectors item - it's a book about Barcelona written in the 50s and was only £1. I'm very interested in the history of Spain so it'll be interesting to read about Barcelona as a tourist spot while it was still under Franco's regime!

Aspiring_Writer

Morning All,

I read Linwood Barclay's Too Close To Home on Friday! almost in one go, superb read. Definitely buy his debut novel now. But my post is really to ask if anyone has read or is reading 'Night Train To Lisbon' by Pascal Mercier? I started it on Saturday, and am on page 217 so nearly halfway. I'm enjoying it broadly speaking but parts of it are a bit heavy going...

Apologies Inapickle, I'm not helping am I? Buying new books, I bought 3 actually, Harlan Coben's 'Long Lost' is the third...

I know I know...I'm not the Messiah...

InaPickle

Hey all,

Have just finished 'The Code of the Woosters' by P.G. Wodehouse. I have just started 'It's Different for Girls' by Jo Brand (I'm going through my trashy phase! ). I have just returned 5 other books to the library as I got loads of the Wodehouse out on loan, but have started to overdose on them and don't want to stop enjoying them (as I rather unfortunately did with 'The Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy' by reading them one after the other.)

bex37_2

niccatw wrote: »

I know just what you mean about the MSE addiction- I am now also trying to fit in reading books and many diaries!

I loved Malory Towers and St Clares. And who wrote the books about about a scool where they played tennis? Maybe Trebizon was in the title? My all time favourite though were The Chalet School books - I really hope my mum still has themall in the loft (the Enid Blyton ones were originally hers so they have the smell I like even better than a new book - an old book )

The book I currently picked up to reread... The Money Diet Any-one know who wrote that

I think the Trebizon books were written by Anne Digby, I loved these and the Malory Towers and St Clares books too. I think I've still got them all somewhere!

InaPickle

bex37 wrote: »

I think the Trebizon books were written by Anne Digby, I loved these and the Malory Towers and St Clares books too. I think I've still got them all somewhere!

Me too! And I loved 'The Five Find-Outers' books as well. Happy days!

saskia1

hi all

just had to post as this thread was made for me!!!

i USED to buy books - ohh on average 4/5 a week? Hardback didn't matter - if it looked good i bought it!

but since being on a dmp - crikey has that changed!! i now use the library an awful lot - re read old books and borrow books werever i can.

but i work opposite a massive Waterstones and just have to pop in most lunchtimes to see what is there - almost feel like crying when i see my fav authors books - i then just make a list and work out on each payday what i can buy!

i used to do the readitswap it site but as i read so much - there was never a book i wnated to swap with!

i read anything - - my all time fav is Wuthering Heights but am also a avid reader of 'chick lit' / crime novels - as my mum says - ''so long as you are reading it doesn't matter what your read'' !!!

so fellow readers - please let me join this club!!
sas x

lilian1977

OK so it won't be Wuthering Heights next as I've just taken The Lost Symbol back to the library and another book I'd reserved was available - 'Cocktails for Three' by Madeleine Wickham - aka Sophie Kinsella!