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

hickles69

littlepinkstars44 wrote: »

Finished Deadly Sting (Elemental Assassin #8) - have promised myself I can get it after I have finished another 5 books. I think thats a really good deal lol!
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I'm struggling with 'Gingerbread House'. Only read 30pages so hoping it's just a slow starter.... I did buy 'The Man Who Broke into Auschwitz' yesterday but that was a pricing opportunity (got it for £1 cheapest I have ever seen)... I have a series of books I've gotta read before I'm allowed anywhere near a bookshop


Saying that my friend kept putting books in my basket this morning, I was able to take them out and keep walking (even though a couple were ones I want to read)


Hicks

silvermist05

I finished Me before you by Jojo Moyes this afternoon, have to admit I'm a little bit disappointed with it.
I did shed a tear at the end but I feel that Jojo Moyes has taken on a very controversial subject and hasn't done it justice. I would of expected this book to take me on emotional roller coaster, I would of liked it to have really made me think about my own beliefs on the subject and to question my own beliefs. I would of liked to have gotten inside the heads of the characters to of seen each characters side of the story but I didn't. I think maybe this was because I don't feel that the author showed enough of the
characters emotions and they were lacking passion.
Don't get me wrong I did enjoy the book but I just feel it could of been written better.

I think I'm going to start a Jodi Picoult next. But which one? I have a few on the to read pile.

mrs-moneypenny

just started the memory box by margaret forster

cardi80

hickles69 wrote: »

Golly, I have never come across anyone else who has read Lisa Gardner.... so all my reader friends got one of her books last Christmas Could you let me know how Touch & Go is please; it's one of the books I was really wanting to buy last week. It can be my treat when I've read the pile next to my bed :cool:

Hicks

So I finished this last night and I thought it was really good! I got it in Sainsburys on special offer last month so you never know it might still be cheap if you decide to get it...

I'm starting Stephen King's The Green Mile tomorrow - I have read it before (although I think it's about 16 years ago now) and bought it second hand a couple of months ago to read again.

kezbabybabe

littlepinkstars44 wrote: »

Reached (Matched #3) - Ally Condie

I bought this for my cousin at Christmas, how did you find it? I've put it on my Possible Reads list @ Goodreads, so I hope to read it one day after my collection is finished. Do others have this problem of buying books for others that they want to read?!

hickles69 wrote: »

The Curious Incident of the dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
When God Was a Rabbit - Sarah Winman

Have read both of these and thoroughly enjoyed both of them. Hope you do too, when you get to them.

I'm here a bit earlier than usual, as I won't be able to update tomorrow, as usual. I've had a great book reading week, with Legendary Girlfriend finished on Thursday (staying up late to do so, but not 6am!)
Started and finished The Bumper Book of Simon's Cat on Friday's lunchtime, well it is only cartoons...
Started The Prisoner of Zenda, by Anthony Hope. Another Classic Adventure book. I'm now two books ahead for my 2014 reading challenge.

skintygerlinky

Right!! Here We Go! Game On!

Have counted and sorted through unread books, put them into categories and am owning up to it here! Some of these I've started or read part of them - but no matter, want to go back to the beginning with all of them. Will post different categories separately so I know where I am. If anyone has read any of these, your thoughts are most appreciated!

Classic Fiction

[STRIKE]A Month In the Country - JL Carr[/STRIKE]
Chronicles of Narnia (full set) - CS Lewis - Read!
Grimms Fairy Tales (full set)
House of Mirth - Edith Wharton
Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
Emma - Jane Austen - Read
Pride & Prejudice - Ditto
Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
Great Expectations - Ditto
[STRIKE]Lolly Willowes - Sylvia Townsend Warner[/STRIKE]

I'm saying [STRIKE]9[/STRIKE] 9 unread books here - counting Narnia as 1!!!

skintygerlinky

Modern Classics/Contemporary Fiction:

On the Road - Jack Kerouac
Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S Thompson
[STRIKE]Snow Flower and the Secret Fan - Lisa See[/STRIKE]
No Country for Old Men - Cormac McCarthy
Butcher Boy - Patrick McCabe
To Kill a Mocking Bird - Harper Lee
Sophie's World - Jostein Gaarder
The Outsider - Albert Camus
I Heart Paris - Lindsey Kelk
The Summer We All Ran Away - Cassandra Parkin - NOW READ
A Map of Nowhere - Martin Bannister
Fried Green Tomatoes at The Whistlestop Caf! - Fannie Flagg- NOW READ

OK...another [STRIKE]8[/STRIKE] [STRIKE]9[/STRIKE] 11 there...

skintygerlinky

Starts getting really serious now. I love music and reading biographies of musicians. And also, NOT reading them, clearly!!

Music Biogs of:

[STRIKE]Johnny Marr - but am reading this right now!![/STRIKE]
Public Enemy
Slash
Led Zeppelin
Another Led Zep
Keith Moon
Nico - READ
Tony Wilson
Joe Strummer
Roger Eagle
Rolling Stones
Pink Floyd - READ
Abba
Michael Jackson
Hymn To Her - READ
[STRIKE]

13 inc. current J Marr. Oh God.
[/STRIKE] [STRIKE]12 unread[/STRIKE]


Now on 14!!!

skintygerlinky

Biographies - other:

Kylie Minogue
Gene Kelley
Natalie Wood
Courtney Love
Miranda Hart - READ
Barbara Walters
Jane Fonda
Dita Von Teese
Liz Kershaw - read!! Can't use the strike key for some reason?!

...another 8 here.

skintygerlinky

Self-Help/Spiritual

Happier - Tal Ben-Shahar
5 Secrets of the Dying - Bronnie Ware
Soul Pancake - Rainn Wilson
Art of Happiness - Dalai Lama CURRENTLY READING
7 Habits of Organised People - Stephen Covey (should probably read this??? And complete the corresponding workbook I also bought & never read??!!)
The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari - Robin Sharma
The Power Of Now - Eckhart Tolle
A New Earth - Eckhart Tolle

...another 9....