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

ruby_eskimo

Hi everyone! Finished American Gods by Neil Gaiman, really enjoyed it! Re-read Life of Pi for book club and then just finished Age of Miracles by Karen Thompson Walker. Now I'm reading Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Lani Taylor.

scubaangel

Finished reading Living Dead in Dallas, ready to start Club Dead. Also about half way through Magicians Gambit.

InaPickle

Thrifty_Pixie wrote: »

*shuffles into the room*

i rediscovered a little charity shop in the town i work in at lunchtime and two books JUMPED into my hand, they did *innocent look*

hail mary and all that

*Grave face* *Knowing look* Oh yes. Oh yes indeed.

ruby_eskimo

Finished Daughter of Smoke and Bone and now on to Days of Blood and Starlight (also by Lani Taylor).

Was browsing The Works website earlier and added loads of books to my basket but managed to restrain myself and just close the page! That store is my downfall when it comes to books!

Thrifty_Pixie

InaPickle wrote: »

*Grave face* *Knowing look* Oh yes. Oh yes indeed.

hehe. i know i'm preaching to the choir here

silvermist05

Oh dear I have ordered the True Blood series I'm not sure if it's going to be my thing but I've heard lots of good reviews on the series. The very naughty people aka the book people sent me a code for free delivery so I had to have a wee look and the were only £6.99 for the set so how could I say no? as I told dh it's roughly the same price as a choccie bar for each book.

silvermist05

Thrifty_Pixie wrote: »

*shuffles into the room*

i rediscovered a little charity shop in the town i work in at lunchtime and two books JUMPED into my hand, they did *innocent look*

hail mary and all that

Don't feel guilty about it think of the books as a reward for providing the charity with a donation:A
Well that's what I keep telling myself.

Thrifty_Pixie

silvermist05 wrote: »

Don't feel guilty about it think of the books as a reward for providing the charity with a donation:A
Well that's what I keep telling myself.

yes yes! in which case i should be getting tax breaks for the amount of my charity donations

scubaangel

silvermist05 wrote: »

Oh dear I have ordered the True Blood series I'm not sure if it's going to be my thing but I've heard lots of good reviews on the series. The very naughty people aka the book people sent me a code for free delivery so I had to have a wee look and the were only £6.99 for the set so how could I say no? as I told dh it's roughly the same price as a choccie bar for each book.

I got them for Christmas, am enjoying them but was surprised by how juvenile the writing feels, I'd have taken them for a teenagers series if I'd not watched the TV show first (and the books are very different to the show).

Thrifty_Pixie

greetings peeps!

i finished another keeper last night:

#17 The Secret History by Donna Tartt 5/5

highly recommended.

i've now started The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield.

i also found a few books on my shelves that i had forgotten to enter into my spreadsheet (not recent buys....in fact i'm not sure how they slipped through the net), so my library stats now look like this:

in progress: 1
read: 480
reference: 67
to read: 764
total = 1312

so still quite a way to go

however i have a long, 6-day weekend starting tomorrow, and if i can grab a few minutes here and there not doing building work i hope to get plenty of reading done

:coffee: