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

blindtoast

Finished "Numbers" by Rachel Ward. Its about a girl who can see the date of peoples deaths when she looks in their eyes. It was interesting to see how it dealt with the inevitability of the deaths in the book and whether you can change them.
Have now started "Garden Spells" by Sarah Addison Allen, which my Godmother lent me.

Thrifty_Pixie

i got all excited. finally managed to get rid of a bag of books from the house to send to our troops overseas and slid an extra one in. i was tough. i was all 'i really won't read that again, so it can gogogo too...'

determined.

then i was given two bags of books to also donate and there was one book that i HAD to read:

'The Real Middle Earth: Magic and Mystery in the Dark Ages' by Brian Bates.

how could i not?

so that's one out and one in

now picked up 'The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner' and i think this will go when i'm done too....along with all my other Twilight books.

yes. yes indeed. *fistpump*

Thrifty_Pixie

oh, and blindtoast:

i LOVED 'Garden Spells'. it introduced me to Sarah Addison Allen and i'm now a huge fan

lotti379

Ooh please may I join this thread?

I have a pile of books waiting to be read kindly donated to me by Mr L's mother (she's a real bookworm too, I can spend hours and hours browsing her bookshelves!), and a pile of read books pending a decision about their futures...

Recently I've read "The Lady and the Unicorn" by Tracy Chevalier (which was fun) and "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini (which wasn't fun, but was brilliant and will stay in my head for a long time I think).

I currently have James Herriott's "It Shouldn't Happen To A Vet" on the go by way of light relief! I love his books, I bought the whole set in paperback with Thelwell drawings on the covers from the bookstall at the village fete years ago!

My book-buying is mainly from a) charity shops, b) village fetes (although the last fete I went to had a dreadful book stall, probably no bad thing for my purse) and c) used books on amazon marketplace. Nothing beats the smell of a new book though! I am slowly collecting Boris Akunin's "Fandorin" series after chancing across one in the library; however, I think I have to get rid of a lot of less-loved titles before I allow a new one into my precious little library!

I also have dreams of turning a spare room into a library... one day, one day... Either that or I'll move into Alnwick Castle and just live in the beautiful library there!

lotti379

Thrifty_Pixie wrote: »

i got all excited. finally managed to get rid of a bag of books from the house to send to our troops overseas and slid an extra one in. i was tough. i was all 'i really won't read that again, so it can gogogo too...'

I never knew about sending books for the troops! How do you do it?

blindtoast

Thrifty_Pixie wrote: »

oh, and blindtoast:

i LOVED 'Garden Spells'. it introduced me to Sarah Addison Allen and i'm now a huge fan

I have read the 1st few pages and so far so good. My Godmother has lent it to everyone she knows I think and she says not one person hasn't enjoyed it - quite a claim for a book!

lotti379 wrote: »

I also have dreams of turning a spare room into a library... one day, one day... Either that or I'll move into Alnwick Castle and just live in the beautiful library there!

Hi Lotti, I don't think I've been to Alnwick Castle but the Old Station book shop at Alnwick is my idea of heaven!

lotti379

blindtoast wrote: »

Hi Lotti, I don't think I've been to Alnwick Castle but the Old Station book shop at Alnwick is my idea of heaven!

Barter Books?

I love that place. Have only been lucky enough to go there once, I loved every second and didn't want to leave!

blindtoast

lotti379 wrote: »

Barter Books?

I love that place. Have only been lucky enough to go there once, I loved every second and didn't want to leave!

Thats the one - its amazing! I went on holiday for a week up there a few years ago and went to the shop twice They do really good lunch as well!

InaPickle

Welcome lottie! :wave:

I'm still reading Dracula, but I'm near the end. It's still really good.

Thrifty_Pixie

lotti379 wrote: »

I never knew about sending books for the troops! How do you do it?

i don't think there's an official way, but my husband works with the Forces so he takes them to work and they're loaded onto the plane from there

welcome by the way! :wave:

lotti379 wrote: »

Barter Books?

I love that place. Have only been lucky enough to go there once, I loved every second and didn't want to leave!

Barter Books! *rubs thighs* I could die there!