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

Maisie_M

Well finished The Rose Petal Beach by Dorothy Koomson. Also read beside and before the Rose Petal Beach but haven't logged these as they aren't really books but little anecdotes to do with the book if that makes sense. I totally loved this and once I started it I couldn't put it down, it was so addictive.

Not sure what to start next

Domayne

I'm not very MSE when it comes to books...admittedly, I've been good for a few months and only bought a few new ones, but I'm a bit of a book snob and don't like reading a book if someone else has read it! I love the fresh smell of a new book and I love being the one to crack the spine, LOVE the feeling of a brand new book and it's the reason I won't get a kindle
I do have a few I haven't read yet though and a few series that I can read over and over again...currently re-reading the siren by Tiffany Reisz and I'd recommend it to any 50 shades of grey fans as its a much less twilight version of that!

InaPickle

kezbabybabe wrote: »

Oooh, could I join this for 2014? I have quite a list of books I hadn't read this year, about 86, and I've managed to read about 23 of them, though there have been some additions along the way....

Will be refreshing the list for 2014 and starting all over again.

When I was younger (back in '91-'92) I collected a series called Classic Adventures and I've never been able to finish reading them all! Thought it was about time I did. Just finished Oliver Twist, which I found to be hard going. Dickens uses a lot of words to describe things!

I'm also on GoodReads, same username, if anyone wants to connect.

Currently reading: When God Was a Rabbit, by Sarah Winman
Very good so far, reads easily and it's a good story to read.

Edit: By the way I found you through Maisie's signature, as I live in the Cross-stitch cafe most of the time.

Well hello and welcome! :T Don't wait until 2014...there's no time like the present. Start now and get ahead on your Christmas reading!

Goldiegirl wrote: »

Hello, I think I need to join this thread.


My problem isn't so much books, as virtual books.


I've had a Kindle for nearly two years, and I LOVE it.


I do download some of the freebie books, but my main problem is the 'deal of the day'. At 99p, sometimes it seems rude not to download it! Also, my husband has a Kindle as well, which is registered on my account, so if I manage to resist the temptation, then he starts asking for something to be downloaded.


I am trying to resist the temptation to download any more, unless the book is one by an author I really like, or a story that is of real interest to me.

Welcome Goldiegirl! Let's face it, who can resist a bargain and it's so much easier when they don't take up physical space like real books! Well done on cutting down. Perhaps you could tell yourself you can only download another book for every 2/3/X number of books you finish on the Kindle?

Best of luck everyone. I'm juggling about 3 books at once at the minute. I'll let you know how they went when they are finished.

mrs-moneypenny

welcome to all the new readers.

did my review for the house we grew up in. and have started another book - that makes 3 ive started now. its called the 12 days of christmas.

kezbabybabe

InaPickle wrote: »

Well hello and welcome! :T Don't wait until 2014...there's no time like the present. Start now and get ahead on your Christmas reading!

Oh don't worry I already have. I've had a list of books that I haven't read for this year already. Due to them being very quick reads, I completed Peter Pan and Wendy as well as Tuesdays with Morrie (due to slow running trains last week on my way to London).

Have now started Pollyanna, another Classic Adventure book.

What I do is to pick up the next 5 books I want to read and these are stored in my bedside cabinet, so that I know what I am looking forward to next.

Goldiegirl

InaPickle wrote: »

Welcome Goldiegirl! Let's face it, who can resist a bargain and it's so much easier when they don't take up physical space like real books! Well done on cutting down. Perhaps you could tell yourself you can only download another book for every 2/3/X number of books you finish on the Kindle?

I was doing really well ...... I hadn't downloaded any since 26th November, but I downloaded three today !


They had quite a few on the deal of the day, and these three were right up my street, and I think my husband will like at least two of them too.


I've counted up all the Kindle books I have to read, and there's now 26. But I have made an effort to read some of the ones that have been on there the longest, so I think some progress has been made.


If I can read at least two more books before I download another one, that'll certainly be a step in the right direction, so I think I'll try that.


Also, I think the NSD challenge that I'm taking part in will help. If the day has been otherwise a NSD, I'm not going to 'spoil' it by doing a download.


I'm currently reading The Shadow Project by Scott Mariani. It's an action / thriller type of book. It'd one that my husband downloaded, but I like that sort of book from time to time, and this is a good example of the genre.

kezbabybabe

Just to let you know that I have finished Pollyanna and that's certainly a good book to read if you are a glass is half empty kind of person.

Now reading The Rule of Four by Ian Caldwell and Dustin Thomason, which apparently is a Dan Brown for intellectual people. Not sure they know that I'm reading it! Going well so far.

InaPickle

:Hi all. This is a very quick post before I go away for Christmas.

I have read Eclipse and New Moon by Stephanie Mayer. The first is 500 or so pages of nothing happening and the second actually has stuff happening, which is an improvement.

I'm not mad on the Twighlight series, to be honest. Not sure what everyone seed in iy. Hod only knows why I am going to read the final one. It's 699 pages long!

Merry Christmas everyone! :xmassign: :xmastree:

scubaangel

Since others have mentioned e-books I should possibly admit at the moment to having over 10,000 (unread) free ebooks on my amazon account, I'm slowly working through them, and deleting ones I'll never read and the ones I have read.

My to read list of tree books happily hasnt got any longer, although goodreads first reads is tending to keep it topped up. At some point I'll dig out the tree books from the boxes of things I've not unpacked since I moved and make a fresh list but at the moment the one I have on hand is Love is the East Bit by Mary Grehan, planning to start it over the weekend when I finish the current e-book.

Goldiegirl

InaPickle wrote: »

:Hi all. This is a very quick post before I go away for Christmas.

I have read Ecliose and New Moon by Stephanie Mayer. The first is 500 or so pages of nothing happening and the second actually has stuff happening, which is an improvement.

I'm not mad on the Twighlight series, to be honest. Not sure what everyone seed in iy. Hod only knows why I am going to read the final one. It's 699 pages long!

Merry Christmas everyone! :xmassign: :xmastree:

I read the first in the Twilight series, but didn't bother with the rest.

It was too much like teenage fan fiction for my liking.

I've just finished reading 'Winter Solstice', by Rosamund Pilcher. First time I'd read one of her books and I really liked it. It was set at this time of year, mostly in the far north of Scotland, and was a story about a set of people who were really likeable.

I nearly bought a book this morning. I was looking at Kindle books, whilst browsing on my iPad, and saw one I thought looked good. A bit later I was on my laptop, went to buy it, and couldn't find it! So I've managed to save a bit of money, by not buying a book I didn't really need.