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

jintyb

I must say I also love a trawl through the books in the charity shops and, I agree, there is a world of difference between some of them re prices. My BHF shop charges @ £2.50 for a paperback which I think is a little pricey.

Finished:
The Complaints by Ian Rankin
The Saturday Big Tent Wedding by Alexander McCall Smith

Both from the library and both very enjoyable reads.

Started Rise and Shine by Anna Quindlan - from my pile, yay! So far it's really good!

littlepinkstars44

Haven't had as much time to read recently, last week of uni and all that. Exams started yesterday

But I have managed to get through:
Pretties (Uglies #2) - Scott Westerfeld
Sleeping Beauty Vampire Slayer - Maureen McGowan
Specials (Uglies #3) - Scott Westerfeld
Extras (Uglies #4) - Scott Westerfeld
Hereafter - Tara Hudson
Hunger (Gone #2) - Michael Grant
Ruined (Witches of Santa Anna #7) - Lauren Barnholdt
Gathering Blue (The Giver #2) - Lois Lowry
Switched (Trylle Trilogy #1) - Amanda Hocking
Cinderella Ninja Warrior - Maureen McGowan
Keys to the Repository - Melissa de la Cruz
The Messenger (The Giver #3) - Lowis Lowry
Because it is Bitter - Cassandra Clare
The Clique (Clique #1) - Lisi Harrison
Low Red Moon - Ivy Devlin

and currently reading:
Lies (Gone #3) - Michael Grant (will finish this today)
Numbers - Rachel Ward

UnluckyT

It a bit hit and miss i find, sometimes thiers some good books, others pants. Depends what people bring in i guess.
plus i generaly only look in my local red cross shop and give2give shop unless im going somewhere where plenty of charity shops and i can have a good nosy. i find it can be expensive in the british heart foundation shop and some other charity shops too, put a book down after nearly feinting/cursing at £1.50 if not £2.50 a book in the bhf shop.
just bought 3 game books and a fantasy for 75p each so more to add to the list/pile.

elfen

Lets see what of the Top 200 I've read...the ones left are the ones I haven't or that I need to read but have


6. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
7. Winnie the Pooh, AA Milne
11. Catch-22, Joseph Heller
13. Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks
14. Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier
19. Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Louis de Bernieres
21. Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell
27. Middlemarch, George Eliot - got
28. A Prayer For Owen Meany, John Irving
29. The Grapes Of Wrath, John Steinbeck
32. One Hundred Years Of Solitude, Gabriel Garc!a M!rquez
33. The Pillars Of The Earth, Ken Follett
34. David Copperfield, Charles Dickens - got
37. A Town Like Alice, Nevil Shute
38. Persuasion, Jane Austen - got
42. Watership Down, Richard Adams
43. The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald
44. The Count Of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas - got
48. Far From The Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy - got
52. Of Mice And Men, John Steinbeck
54. Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
55. A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth
57. Swallows And Amazons, Arthur Ransome
58. Black Beauty, Anna Sewell
59. Artemis Fowl, Eoin Colfer
60. Crime And Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
61. Noughts And Crosses, Malorie Blackman
63. A Tale Of Two Cities, Charles Dickens - got
64. The Thorn Birds, Colleen McCollough
67. The Magus, John Fowles
68. Good Omens, Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
71. Perfume, Patrick Süskind
72. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, Robert Tressell
76. The Secret History, Donna Tartt
77. The Woman In White, Wilkie Collins
78. Ulysses, James Joyce - got
82. I Capture The Castle, Dodie Smith
83. Holes, Louis Sachar
84. Gormenghast, Mervyn Peake
85. The God Of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
86. Vicky Angel, Jacqueline Wilson
87. Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
88. Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons
89. Magician, Raymond E Feist
90. On The Road, Jack Kerouac
91. The Godfather, Mario Puzo
92. The Clan Of The Cave Bear, Jean M Auel
94. The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho
95. Katherine, Anya Seton
96. Kane And Abel, Jeffrey Archer
97. Love In The Time Of Cholera, Gabriel Garc!a M!rquez
98. Girls In Love, Jacqueline Wilson
99. The Princess Diaries, Meg Cabot
100. Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie
101. Three Men In A Boat, Jerome K. Jerome
102. Small Gods, Terry Pratchett
103. The Beach, Alex Garland
105. Point Blanc, Anthony Horowitz
106. The Pickwick Papers, Charles Dickens - got
107. Stormbreaker, Anthony Horowitz
108. The Wasp Factory, Iain Banks
109. The Day Of The Jackal, Frederick Forsyth
110. The Illustrated Mum, Jacqueline Wilson
113. The Cruel Sea, Nicholas Monsarrat
114. Les Mis!rables, Victor Hugo - got
115. The Mayor Of Casterbridge, Thomas Hardy - got
116. The Dare Game, Jacqueline Wilson
119. Shogun, James Clavell
121. Lola Rose, Jacqueline Wilson
122. Vanity Fair, William Makepeace Thackeray - got
123. The Forsyte Saga, John Galsworthy
124. House Of Leaves, Mark Z. Danielewski
125. The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver
126. Reaper Man, Terry Pratchett
127. Angus, Thongs And Full-Frontal Snogging, Louise Rennison
129. Possession, A. S. Byatt
130. The Master And Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov
131. The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood - got
133. East Of Eden, John Steinbeck
136. The Color Purple, Alice Walker
138. The Thirty-Nine Steps, John Buchan
139. Girls In Tears, Jacqueline Wilson
140. Sleepovers, Jacqueline Wilson
141. All Quiet On The Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque
142. Behind The Scenes At The Museum, Kate Atkinson
147. Papillon, Henri Charriere
148. Men At Arms, Terry Pratchett
149. Master And Commander, Patrick O'Brian
150. Skeleton Key, Anthony Horowitz
151. Soul Music, Terry Pratchett
152. Thief Of Time, Terry Pratchett
153. The Fifth Elephant, Terry Pratchett
154. Atonement, Ian McEwan - got
155. Secrets, Jacqueline Wilson
156. The Silver Sword, Ian Serraillier
157. One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, Ken Kesey
160. Cross Stitch, Diana Gabaldon
161. Moby !!!!!!, Herman Melville - got
162. River God, Wilbur Smith
163. Sunset Song, Lewis Grassic Gibbon
164. The Shipping News, Annie Proulx
166. Lorna Doone, R. D. Blackmore
167. Girls Out Late, Jacqueline Wilson
168. The Far Pavilions, M. M. Kaye
172. They Used To Play On Grass, Terry Venables and Gordon Williams
173. The Old Man And The Sea, Ernest Hemingway
174. The Name Of The Rose, Umberto Eco
175. Sophie's World, Jostein Gaarder
176. Dustbin Baby, Jacqueline Wilson
179. Jonathan Livingstone Seagull, Richard Bach
180. The Little Prince, Antoine De Saint-Exupery
181. The Suitcase Kid, Jacqueline Wilson
183. The Power Of One, Bryce Courtenay
186. The Diary Of A Nobody, George and Weedon Grossmith
187. Trainspotting, Irvine Welsh
190. Sons And Lovers, D. H. Lawrence - got
191. The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera
193. The Truth, Terry Pratchett
194. The War Of The Worlds, H. G. Wells - got
195. The Horse Whisperer, Nicholas Evans
196. A Fine Balance, Rohinton Mistry
197. Witches Abroad, Terry Pratchett
198. The Once And Future King, T. H. White
200. Flowers In The Attic, Virginia Andrews

ETA: Two off the list

jintyb

UnluckyT wrote: »

It a bit hit and miss i find, sometimes thiers some good books, others pants. Depends what people bring in i guess.
plus i generaly only look in my local red cross shop and give2give shop unless im going somewhere where plenty of charity shops and i can have a good nosy. i find it can be expensive in the british heart foundation shop and some other charity shops too, put a book down after nearly feinting/cursing at £1.50 if not £2.50 a book in the bhf shop.
just bought 3 game books and a fantasy for 75p each so more to add to the list/pile.

Our British Heart Foundation shop charges £2.50 for a paperback.It usually has quite a good selection though. I've stopped buying in there though as I think that's a bit steep.
I use the library a lot, I'm very lucky, ours is excellent!
Like you, I like to spend a bit of time and have a good old browse!

Just finished Rise and Shine by Anna Quindlen , thoroughly enjoyable:T:T:T:T
Started The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid by Bill Bryson ( also from my pile)

littlepinkstars44

finished Lies (Gone #3) - Michael Grant and Numbers - Rachel Ward

Currently reading Graceling - Kristen Cashore

Sessie

DFW321 how did you find Her Fearful Symmetry? I absolutely HATED Time Traveller's Wife and I really TRIED, a few times, to read it but it just didn't happen for me.

Someone gave me Her Fearful Symmetry and I'm not one to say no to an author just because I didn't like one of their books but I admit I keep looking at it on the shelf and then choosing something else.

I've finished Pile of Stuff now... would give it a :T:T:T:T and a half. Can't say why as it's a bit of a spoiler but it's the nearest to a 5 I've given a book in a good long time.

Have 3 on the go at the mo -

(1) What In The World Is Going On? which is a synopsis of the main news in the world, explaining in v basic terms what's happening, why etc.. so when you see say, Libya or Afghanistan or arguments about stem cell research or whatever on the news, you have a basic background on the story. It's very interesting but so fact-packed you can only read one bit at a time and then go away and digest it.

(2) The Idle Parent - not as bad as it sounds!! More, explaining that you don't have to play with your children 24/7, leave them to discover/explore for themselves. I have a real problem with doing anything other than being with them when I'm at home and I know I'm making a rod for my own back by always being "available" and not getting on with the housework etc.. I just need someone to tell me it's OK to do it!

(3) ... er... OMG I can't remember the title! It's another of my crime fics. Tend to read a chapter or ten just before I go to sleep, don't really need to think about it but enjoyable anyway.

I haven't bought a book for.... oooh... a week and a bit!! Go me!!



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charlies_mum

Sessie wrote: »

DFW321 how did you find Her Fearful Symmetry? I absolutely HATED Time Traveller's Wife and I really TRIED, a few times, to read it but it just didn't happen for me.

Someone gave me Her Fearful Symmetry and I'm not one to say no to an author just because I didn't like one of their books but I admit I keep looking at it on the shelf and then choosing something else.

I really struggled with The Time Traveller's Wife, but loved Her Fearful Symmetry. Don't be put off, it's much better.

InaPickle

Have been a slow reader, recently: am still on 'The 4 Hour Working Week'. Hopefully I will finish it soon.

jintyb

charlies_mum wrote: »

I really struggled with The Time Traveller's Wife, but loved Her Fearful Symmetry. Don't be put off, it's much better.

I also tried several times with Time Travellers Wife - I just couldnt get to grips with it at all.