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

InaPickle

youngmummy wrote: »

Hi All,
Can i join please... I don't have many books,(about 10) but don't want to buy anymore till ive read the ones i've got,
thanks, take care x

Of course, youngmummy! :wave:

Pull up a chair and make yourself comfy. Let us know if you read anything good: we will add it to our lists!

mrs-moneypenny

finished Eden Close, but its a double book and has strange fits of passion in as well so im going to have to read that next.

Sessie

Ladies and gents, yesterday was ....was HUGE!!

Not only did I manage to go to Tesco - and BOTH twins were asleep in the buggy so I had time to browse the book section - and NOT buy a single book but....

ALSO....

I got my booklet from The Book People and I threw it away without buying anything!

I cannot guarantee that such good behaviour will continue but thought I should report it as normally I am such a wuss with this thread's aim.

x

InaPickle

Sessie wrote: »

Ladies and gents, yesterday was ....was HUGE!!

Not only did I manage to go to Tesco - and BOTH twins were asleep in the buggy so I had time to browse the book section - and NOT buy a single book but....

ALSO....

I got my booklet from The Book People and I threw it away without buying anything!

I cannot guarantee that such good behaviour will continue but thought I should report it as normally I am such a wuss with this thread's aim.

x

:T _party_ Well done, Sessie! _party_ :T

Keep it up! I had a Near Purchase Incident (NPI) myself as the college library was selling lots of books of at £1. I didn't see anything I liked, but I shouldn't have been looking in the first place! :mad:

scubaangel

Well done Sessie, I finally picked up a 'real' book again this evening when I went for a bath, so am currently reading 'Queen of New Beginnings'.

youngmummy

InaPickle wrote: »

Of course, youngmummy! :wave:

Pull up a chair and make yourself comfy. Let us know if you read anything good: we will add it to our lists!

hiya im quite enjoying the book im reading atm, the secret life of a slummy mummy i think its called or something like that ,, not read too far into it yet tho will let you know as i get into it more, my friend told me yesterday that a local charity shop sells books @ 3 for £1 but not going too have a look till i have read the ones i have got atm, elsei will be temped to buy the ones that i think i will like :rotfl:
hope everyone is well and enjoying their books
take care all xx

littlepinkstars44

I think I need to be placed in the time out chair.

Over the past 2 days I have ordered 23 books...crazy I know! And I am still waiting for 8 books being delivered that I ordered earlier in the week and have 3 books on pre-order. Not counting the 4 that turned up yesterday.

SueMaggie

I haven't posted for ages (sorry!) due to a combination of mad things happening at work and doing lots of reading, plus some confessions I have to make...

Anyway, since last I posted have finished Jasper Fforde's The Well of Lost Plots and the next one in the series Something Rotten in which the heroine Thursday Next has to find a cloned Hamlet in order to rebuild Shakepeare's original play and try to win a croquet match in order to save the world. I love these books - there are currently 6 in the series, plus a couple of others that are kind of connected, and they're a must for anyone who loves books.

Also finished the one I was sent to review by Waterstones - Burned by Thomas Enger. It's a Scandinavian crime novel and ok, but not as good as I'd hoped it would be.

Finished Living Dolls: The Return of Sexism by Natasha Walter (sent to me by the Virago First Reads book club). It was a very serious read, but I enjoyed most of it and got a lot out of it.

I also sorted out more books to go to the book stall for a charity day (which was today) - so in the past 3 months have given them 200 books!

However, now comes the confession. I had a birthday last week for which my husband not only gave me a huge parcel of books he'd been buying for me in Poundland for months and squirrelling away, but he also got me a Kindle. Friends and family also gave me Amazon vouchers, Waterstones vouchers and Book Tokens, so the "no buying books" thing has now descended into farce! It just demonstrates how well they know me...

I don't think it's all bad though, as the reason I'm trying not to buy books is more to do with reasons of space and clutter than the amount I'm spending, so a Kindle is a good idea. So far have downloaded some freebies for it and read a 49p crime novella called The Basement by Stephen Leather which I quite enjoyed. I've also used some of my birthday vouchers to download Caitlin Moran's How to be a Woman, which I'm really enjoying. It's very funny - I've laughed out loud a few times - and thought provoking, but quite raunchy in places so beware if you don't like that kind of thing. There's a hilarious bit about the wonders of a well-fitting bra that made me howl with laughter.

I also received a book to review from Real Readers yesterday - Private Lives by Tasmina Perry. I haven't read any of hers before so am looking forward to it.

So all in all, lots and lots of books in - and not many out. Must try harder!

InaPickle

SueMaggie wrote:

I also sorted out more books to go to the book stall for a charity day (which was today) - so in the past 3 months have given them 200 books!

Well done, you! :T That's amazing!

As for the 'ins', they were presents, so don't worry about it too much, but if it's space you are trying to create, perhaps it's an even greater incentive to make your way through some more of those books you already have.

Sessie

Have just finished the QI Book of Ignorance and now wish I could get on Who Wants to be a Millionaire as my head is quite simply STUFFED with facts!!

Am still reading "The Passage" (Justin Croener? sp?) in the bedroom and "Sing you Home" (Jodi Picoult, a major favourite) in the living room (I need to ring a number up in front of the book and you get a free CD to go with it! Hurrah for free things! Don't have the book with me or I'd do it now).

Tried to start Tony Blair but even the first few pages are peppered with politico-speak and I will need to have my head on to read it - starting at 8 pm when I've had a day with 3 year old twins is NOT the greatest time!! Will try it when they start pre-school in September and I have a couple of mornings a week free.

Haven't bought any more lately so doing quite well still.

Of course, we know this won't last and I do have £50 birthday money left....

x