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

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  • InaPickle
    InaPickle Posts: 5,968 Forumite
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    Righty-ho folks, we seem to be doing very well here, so as someone who also has a guilty hoarde of DVDs, I made a similar challenge for us DVD collectors called 'The 'No More Buying DVDs Until I Have Watched the Ones I Already Own' Thread'.

    Feel free to join if you know you should already be there! ;)
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  • candygirl
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    I am currently reading The Secret by Rhonda Byrne, very thought provoking:DIt is from the ,library which I use a lot, plus order books from there for only 60p a time.We get 3 weeks for each book, and can often renew them as long as there's nobody waiting for them.If we don't all use our libraries they will close down :(:(
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  • carolbee
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    candygirl wrote: »
    I am currently reading The Secret by Rhonda Byrne, very thought provoking:DIt is from the ,library which I use a lot, plus order books from there for only 60p a time.We get 3 weeks for each book, and can often renew them as long as there's nobody waiting for them.If we don't all use our libraries they will close down :(:(

    gosh, we are lucky, only have to pay 25p here in Kent to reserve a book
    Carolbee
  • Aspiring_Writer
    Aspiring_Writer Posts: 1,536 Forumite
    carolbee wrote: »
    gosh, we are lucky, only have to pay 25p here in Kent to reserve a book

    do we? oh....:rotfl:
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  • carolbee
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    Aspiring_Writer wrote: »
    do we? oh....:rotfl:

    we do in my bit anyway!
    Carolbee
  • Ames
    Ames Posts: 18,459 Forumite
    Aspiring_Writer wrote: »
    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...

    Oooh I bought Too Close To Home last weekend! I've read No Time for Goodbye, which was good, but a little bit predictable. I'll move TCTH further up the list.

    I've just finished The God of Small Things, for my book club tonight, so I want something a bit easier to read next.
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  • Aspiring_Writer
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    carolbee wrote: »
    we do in my bit anyway!

    They probably do in my bit aswell carolbee, I'm just not that au fait with my local library. MIND and other charity shops and occasionally, like last Thursday, Waterstone's...very guilty very pleasurable...

    But as I said in an earlier post, I did donate about 50 or so to MIND on the same day...

    AM I off the hook?
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  • lilian1977
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    carolbee wrote: »
    gosh, we are lucky, only have to pay 25p here in Kent to reserve a book

    It's free in Manchester!
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  • carolbee
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    Aspiring_Writer wrote: »
    They probably do in my bit aswell carolbee, I'm just not that au fait with my local library. MIND and other charity shops and occasionally, like last Thursday, Waterstone's...very guilty very pleasurable...

    But as I said in an earlier post, I did donate about 50 or so to MIND on the same day...

    AM I off the hook?

    most definitely off the hook!!!

    this thread has made me re-assess my books, and although I'm not getting rid of any I havn't bought any more. am up to about a fiver though on reservation fees because of the all the recommendations on here.

    great thread
    Carolbee
  • paybacktime2008
    paybacktime2008 Posts: 1,208 Forumite
    lilian1977 wrote: »
    It's free in Manchester!

    70p in Wiltshire:mad:
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