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

InaPickle

And what a start to the reading year for Pickle...I've just finished my 6th book of the year 'The Perks of Being a Wallflower' by Stephen Chbosky.

It's pretty good, but I think the end needs more than one read. I'm not sure what to make of it 100%.

Maybe now I will finally get to finishing Judi Dench's memoir...

Thrifty_Pixie

doing ok in the Pixie Nest. sort of

on the :A side of things i finished two books this weekend:

#8 Agatha Raisin and the Haunted House by M.C. Beaton 3/5
#9 What's Your Poo Telling You? by Josh Richman 4/5

both of which i am freeing into a new life! _party_

and today i am starting David Hewson's The Killing

on the :doh:side of things, we had another visit from our generous neighbour yesterday and i have added 4 more free books to my collection:

Wonder by R.J Palacio (pb)
The World of Poo by Terry Pratchett (hb)
The History of the World in Bite-Sized chunks by Emma Marriott (hb)
French Women Don't Get Fat: The Secret of Eating for Pleasure by Mireille Guiliano (pb)

there is also a boxful going to our boys abroad, a small pile for friends, and a few i am still considering whether to keep or not.

oh, and also a pile of around 7 brand new Terry Pratchett paperbacks that i'm thinking of swopping in for the careworn editions on my shelves.

so i have, once again, edited my goal/signature/yadda yadda


*meep*
TP
:coffee:

mrs-moneypenny

finished all he ever wanted yesterday, it was OK but not a keeper so ill be dropping it off to the drs reading shelf later today

am now reading starting over

InaPickle

Thrifty_Pixie wrote: »

The World of Poo by Terry Pratchett (hb)

oh, and also a pile of around 7 brand new Terry Pratchett paperbacks that i'm thinking of swopping in for the careworn editions on my shelves.

Ooh, LOVING the Pratchett goodness! :T Have seen the map of Ankh-Morpork that has just come out and I wants the precious, but I cannot have it! :rotfl:

Have just finished another book - Groomed - by Laurie Matthew. It's the true first-hand story of a young girl who endured genuinely shocking abuse at the hands of members of her family and strangers. I kept seeing books like this in the supermarket and wondered why on earth people wanted to read books like this, and it was on the 'theme' table at my library, so I picked it up last time I was there. You wouldn't want to read many of them else your life would be quite depressing, but it was nice to see that this girl got away from her horrible situation and managed to create a good life for herself once she got away from her abusers. (She has since become a world renowed expert on child abuse.) Fair play to her! :T

Thrifty_Pixie

InaPickle wrote: »

Ooh, LOVING the Pratchett goodness! :T Have seen the map of Ankh-Morpork that has just come out and I wants the precious, but I cannot have it! :rotfl:

i am a big Pratchett fan, bur rarely buy any new anymore. i kind of overdosed on him a few years back and still have a few to read on my shelves for when i'm in the mood. some of his more recent books do not yet live on my shelves, but i keep my eyes peeled when i'm in charity shops

new map? i have one that was published many years ago...have they re-released it?? *googles off*


Edit: eep! just checked and i actually have 8 Pratchett books to read. i must move some further up the TBR list methinks...

kellbobs

I can't quite decide if i'm failing or not...... so far I have read 5 books but only 2 of these are books from my to read pile, the others are from the library.
Now at the start of this year I made the statement "I'm not buying anymore books" so technically I'm doing ok however I also said I was going to reduce my to read pile by at least a third!!

Thrifty_Pixie

kellbobs wrote: »

I can't quite decide if i'm failing or not...... so far I have read 5 books but only 2 of these are books from my to read pile, the others are from the library.
Now at the start of this year I made the statement "I'm not buying anymore books" so technically I'm doing ok however I also said I was going to reduce my to read pile by at least a third!!

well...you've reduced your TBR pile by 2, so that's a start. and we're only in February

also you haven't bought any, which is better than some of us *ahem*

i'd say you're doing ok!

Maisie_M

Hi all

Well had 6 hours at Bristol Airport on Wednesday so read Dan Brown's Digital Fortress. One down several hundred to go lol. Going to try Angels and Demons next as that's the order he wrote them in although they decided to do the De Vinci Code first when making the films.

Thrifty pixie Another Agatha Raisin Fan here. I totally love these books and they do make me laugh. I have a whole load of the Hamish MacBeth Series to try as well but will move on to them when I have finished my Dan Brown ones.

Thrifty_Pixie

Maisie_M wrote: »

Thrifty pixie Another Agatha Raisin Fan here. I totally love these books and they do make me laugh. I have a whole load of the Hamish MacBeth Series to try as well but will move on to them when I have finished my Dan Brown ones.

i find them to be very cosy reads, which i enjoy once in a while. i had to force myself to donate them though, as the set was starting to need a bookcase all of their own! and realistically i probably won't read them twice. now it's one in, read, then out the door.


a mixed bag of news from the Pixie Nest again here. another visit from my frustratingly generous neighbour has plumped up the 'acquired in 2013' pile once more:

Buddhism for Sheep by Louise Howard (hb)
Sh*t My Dad Says by Justin Halpern (pb)
Complete Short Story Omnibus by H.G. Wells (beautiful gilded hb)
What Has Nature Ever Done For Us?: How Money Really Does Grow On Trees by Tony Juniper (pb)

i guess i'm still sticking to my vow of not buying any, but i'm still not reading fast enough! at least i'll be donating The Killing when I'm done...which is a bit of a beast, and will free up a little space. DH is being deployed for about two weeks from Thursday and he has given me strict instructions to READ MORE. :rotfl:

anyway, in good news i did finish a wee book yesterday (although it's a keeper for now ):

#10 Buddhism for Sheep by Louise Howard 4/5


*meep*
TP
:coffee:

Giggles86

This week I finished reading the third in the Man and Boy Trilogy Men from the Boys I've gone back to try and finish 50 Shades Darker but I@m not being very quick about it. Determined to finish it this week though.