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

blindtoast

I finished Revived over the weekend and have now started "Incendiary" by Chris Cleave, which is so far pretty depressing and oddly written. It is written as one long letter from a mother to Osama Bin Laden and keeps having random words in capitals, which I haven't worked out the significance of yet! Some are supposed to read like newspaper headlines but others just seem random.

I will persevere with it but I'm pretty sure this will be one that will clear a space on my shelf.

Thrifty_Pixie

i remember Penelope Fitzgerald's The Bookshop being a slow burner but eventually a keeper, but am still failing to find much to love in Offshore. still, i shall persevere.

i am in a quandary though. i have my long coach journey today and i am 48 pages into Offshore, which is only 181 in total. therefore i will probably need another book to take along. i was thinking of going onto David Hewson's The Killing, but when i dug it out last night i realised that it is about 3" thick and 708 pages. a bit chunky to be carting around with me all day. so i have also brought along the Agatha Raisin, which is much slimmer and will decide when the coach arrives and leave the other on my desk.

BUT. what if the Agatha is too SHORT and i end up without anything to READ?!! :eek: :rotfl:

a bibliophile's dilemmas eh?

ruby_eskimo

ChocolateTree wrote: »

Have just bought Faceless Killers - Henning Mankell, Jar City - Arnaldur Indridason, The Secret History - Donna Tartt and Gone Girl - Gillian Flynn (all off Ebay) ..... oh and bidding on three by Jo Nesbo!
If I keep coming on here I'll be buying loads!!!

I liked Faceless Killers but have managed to resist buying the rest of the series so far. Jar City I wasn't quite so keen on but will still read the rest of the series at some point and Gone Girl is on my list of things to want to read!

Sessie

Stayed with my mum and dad last week (hubby working away a LOT lately and sometimes it's just nice to have help with twin 4.5 year olds!) and once the kids were at school had two really nice almost silent days where we sat in front of the fire, drank tea and read books.

Read Sue Townsend's "The Woman Who Went To Bed For A Year". It's light, it's kinda ridiculous but at the same time, VERY witty and you can sort of see everything happening, the way things get swept away out of control in her household. I can see it being made into a two-hour jobbie on ITV for Christmas or something (though I think it would dilute the book somewhat, a lot of the time it's how she describes what's happening, the words she uses).

Am almost done with the zombie book - very enjoyable.

Next up, the serious stuff. Have just started, "Get Real" by Eliane Glaser which is about how governments want us to sit, slack-jawed at the X Factor and not know what's going on in the world, about how we are directed to want "things" and "shinies", about propaganda and misdirection in the media.

I do need to finish the Arnie book - he's currently sitting on my bedroom windowsill but as I haven't slept in that room for a few nights he's been sadly neglected!

Happy reading everyone. I'm off to the shop for some meat and veg so I can do a big batch cook next Monday - frees up more time for reading if I can just bung a home-made meal from the freezer in the oven every day!

S

Thrifty_Pixie

i am sorely disappointed. i bit the bullet and took the chunkier of the two backup books along with me yesterday and then....THEN...the young 'uns from the office decided they wanted to watch a DVD on the coach on the way back.

grr.

i dislike reading when there is loud noise going on around me. i can do it - if i have to - but it's incredibly distracting. so i am still only halfway through my first book.

tonight, though, it will be early night with book methinks. hooooo yes.


Peace,
TP
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Giggles86

I've just this minute finished reading Man and Wife by Tony Parsons. The second in a trilogy. The end surprised me but I'm looking forward to starting the next one later. I'll be interested to see if it all turns out well for the main character in the end

Sessie

Karma played its part today. I started a "book box" in the staff room at work about two years ago and despite putting a ton of MINE in for other people, very few people put theirs in. It really just became a bit of a dumping ground for old copies of Heat and the red-top newspapers.

Have just been in there to make my lunchtime soup and nabbed three books someone's put in:

Jane Green - The Holiday(for my sister who likes her)
Penny Vincenzi - The Decision (possibly for my sis but I might give it a go myself. I'm not a big chick-lit reader but I've read another of hers and enjoyed it)
Marina Lewycka - A Short History of Tractors in Ukraninan. I was always put off this by the title but have read a few things saying it's actually a really good book. As it's free I'd be a fool not to give it a go eh?

This is not really helping the pile of unreads to go down but ... er... darnit I can't think of an excuse!!:o

ruby_eskimo

Finished Phantom by Jo Nesbo. It was probably one of the best yet. Just hope he's going to write some more!

Now reading Night for Day which I picked up from a charity shop for about 20p a long time ago because I liked the cover. The actual story doesn't seem to bad either.

mrs-moneypenny

Sessie wrote: »

Marina Lewycka - A Short History of Tractors in Ukraninan. I was always put off this by the title but have read a few things saying it's actually a really good book. As it's free I'd be a fool not to give it a go eh?

ive read that its really funny and had me laughing out loud in places, its quite an unusual story but i think once you get into it youll be glad you picked it up.

Thrifty_Pixie

hooooeeee. finally finished the damn book. all 181 pages of it :wall:

#7 Offshore by Penelope Fitzgerald 2/5

but it is my FIRST FREED BOOK THIS YEAR _party_

hehe.

now starting #8 Agatha Raisin and the Haunted House by M.C. Beaton


*meep*
TP
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