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

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  • Tracey2609
    Tracey2609 Posts: 251 Forumite
    Good luck for tomorrow Ma-ri-ella
    Always be yourself, unless you can be a Unicorn - then always be a Unicorn !
    No More Buying Unnecessary Toiletries - Joined May 2013


    28x UU
  • littlepinkstars44
    littlepinkstars44 Posts: 2,950 Forumite
    edited 11 March 2011 at 12:30AM
    Today I bought and read
    Kissing Perfect (At The Party #4) - Lauren Barnholdt
    Pursued (Witches of Santa Anna #5) - Lauren Barnholdt
    Enticed (Witches of Santa Anna #6) - Lauren Barnholdt

    All short novellas for Kindle. And again £2 odds each, and suprise suprise none of the series' are finished yet, theres still more to be released later this month. I swear this woman must be raking it in! I don't see why she can't write a whole book and release it, instead of releasing little snippets, calling them novellas and charging over the odds for them via Amazon. I want to say I won't buy any more....but I need to know what happens in the Santa Anna series now! She always leaves them on cliff-hangers as well!

    EDIT: I've also realised I haven't updated my list in forever....will do an March update soon with a new list and how many books I managed in February.
  • ma-ri-ella
    ma-ri-ella Posts: 980 Forumite
    did pretty well today took 6 books in and only bought 4 - still less :P
    £365 a year spend challenge - this has included food/clothes/beauty?? who knows where I am
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  • elfen
    elfen Posts: 10,213 Forumite
    Have got a ton on my thread I've updated that are on my iPad. I think I need to go to bed early and read for a good hour or so....Lady Chatterley's Lover tonight.
    ** Total debt: £6950.82 ± May NSDs 1/10 **
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  • Sessie
    Sessie Posts: 364 Forumite
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    Am currently reading The Pile of Stuff at the Bottom of the Stairs and it is ABSOLUTELY FAB!!

    I could have written it myself - find myself nodding in agreement and saying, "Yes!" on almost every page.

    Can't wait for the children to go to bed on a night so I can read a bit more - does that make me a bad mother??? :D

    x
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  • InaPickle
    InaPickle Posts: 5,968 Forumite
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    Sessie wrote: »
    Can't wait for the children to go to bed on a night so I can read a bit more - does that make me a bad mother??? :D

    No, just a good reader! ;)
    Please call me 'Pickle'
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  • InaPickle
    InaPickle Posts: 5,968 Forumite
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    edited 12 March 2011 at 4:11PM
    Have just finished 'My Booky Wook' by Russell Brand.

    It was surprisingly good! I never would have read it in a million years except I was lent it by a friend who recommended it (and I must admit, I would have thought she would have been the second last person ever to read it). It was far more intelligent and better written than I had any reason to expect. Brand comes across as a mainly sympathetic character, but not always, and overall I'm glad I read it as he has had a hell of a life and is jaw-droppingly funny in places.

    Next: hmm, think it had better be something professional.
    Please call me 'Pickle'
    No More Buying Books: ???
    No More Buying DVDs: ???
    NMB Toiletries ??? and I've gone back for my Masters at the University of Use Ups!
    P
    roud to be dealing with her debts 1198~

  • terryw
    terryw Posts: 4,396 Forumite
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    InaPickle wrote: »
    No, just a good reader! ;)

    Good for you Ms Pickle!

    One of my favourite quotations is:

    "Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world."
    — Voltaire

    A pity that I can't dance for toffee!
    "If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
    Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools"
    Extract from "If" by Rudyard Kipling
  • jintyb
    jintyb Posts: 1,758 Forumite
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    InaPickle wrote: »
    Have just finished 'MY Booky Wook' by Russell Brand.

    It was surprisingly good! I never would have read it in a million years except I was lent it by a friend who recommended it (and I must admit, I would have thought she would have been the second last person ever to read it). It was far more intelligent and better written than I had any reason to expect. Brand comes across as a mainly sympathetic character, but not always, and overall I'm glad I read it as he has had a hell of a life and is jaw-droppingly funny in places.

    Next: hmm, think it had better be something professional.

    That IS surprising - I might check that out now! Like you, it's not a book I would have thought of as being any good, just shows how you can have preconceived ideas about things!
    Halfway through The Crying Tree, which I'm thoroughly enjoying. It's a horrible sleety day here - perfect book reading weather!:rotfl:


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  • InaPickle
    InaPickle Posts: 5,968 Forumite
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    jintyb wrote: »
    That IS surprising - I might check that out now! Like you, it's not a book I would have thought of as being any good, just shows how you can have preconceived ideas about things!

    Doesn't it just? I try to keep an open mind, but every now and again I find myself being a bit judgmental about these things. It's nice to get a blast every now and again to prove that prejudices are made to be broken. :)
    Please call me 'Pickle'
    No More Buying Books: ???
    No More Buying DVDs: ???
    NMB Toiletries ??? and I've gone back for my Masters at the University of Use Ups!
    P
    roud to be dealing with her debts 1198~

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