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

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  • mrs-moneypenny
    mrs-moneypenny Posts: 15,519 Forumite
    the book thief has to be one of my all time favourites.
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  • ruby_eskimo
    ruby_eskimo Posts: 4,795 Forumite
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    charlies_mum wrote: »
    Amazon have this on offer for the Kindle for 20p

    Not really encouraging anyone to buy, surely it doesn't count as it is a 'virtual' book :p

    It is a really good read...not that I'm encouraging people either :D
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  • citizenkitten
    citizenkitten Posts: 419 Forumite
    two books on my read list

    - black banners by ali soufan (think that is how it is spelt) he is a expert terrorist negotiator
    - the dictators handbook - how bad behaviour = good politics.

    so nice light reading for me! LOL! though i have already read a few chapters.
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  • ruby_eskimo
    ruby_eskimo Posts: 4,795 Forumite
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    I've finished The Hobbit. Can't decide what to read next though!
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  • Giggles86
    Giggles86 Posts: 526 Forumite
    I've just finished Hannah's Gift. I'm glad in a way that I was sat on the bus...if I'd been at home finishing it I'd have cried floods! Going for another Michael Morpurgo next. A nice quick read before Christmas! I might even get 2 read if I'm lucky (or 3 if I'm unlucky and stuck on buses for hours on my daily commute!)
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  • mrs-moneypenny
    mrs-moneypenny Posts: 15,519 Forumite
    edited 18 December 2012 at 12:23PM
    Giggles86 wrote: »
    I've just finished Hannah's Gift. I'm glad in a way that I was sat on the bus...if I'd been at home finishing it I'd have cried floods! Going for another Michael Morpurgo next. A nice quick read before Christmas! I might even get 2 read if I'm lucky (or 3 if I'm unlucky and stuck on buses for hours on my daily commute!)

    i love his books
    why the whales came and kensuki's kingdom were excellent reads
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  • ruby_eskimo
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    I have just finished The Lovers Dictionary by David Levithan; it's a love story written through little snippets like dictionary definitions. Was a quick yet quite captivating read.
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  • wouldbeqaulitymoneysaver
    wouldbeqaulitymoneysaver Posts: 6,150 Forumite
    Amazons 20p Kindle books are my downfall. Even if i firmly resist the 99p ones' the 20p's one are sufficient to have me buy at least 5 for my sins.
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  • wouldbeqaulitymoneysaver
    wouldbeqaulitymoneysaver Posts: 6,150 Forumite
    I have abjectly failed in this Challenge: I now have 522 books to read, including hard copy and new Law books.
    If there is any thread of a Benefits Card being brought in then hoarding against the evil day might be a good day, as well as the Library and dignify myself with many fine books to defy the utilitarian dullards attempting to micromanage my spending.
    Books being my antidote to all the misinformation and false stories out there because I am stupid enough, adventurous enough to go after [books] I really really want, no matter how daft, insane or stupid.
    #TY[/B] Would be Qaulity MSE Challenge Queen.
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  • Giggles86
    Giggles86 Posts: 526 Forumite
    I've read 2more quick Michael morpurgo books this week... Mr Nobody's Eyes and Friend or Foe which were both (as always))great stories. Not sure what I'll read next... Probably another of his for a quick one again
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