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

skintygerlinky

Other Non Fiction:

Wonders of the Solar System - Brian Cox
Pretty Things - Liz Goldwyn
What On Earth Happened - Christopher Lloyd
How Do We Fix this Mess? - Robert Peston
Africa - Bob Geldof
A Short history of Nearly Everything - Bill Bryson
Everyone Loves You When You're Dead - Neil Strauss
Caught By the River - Various authors

That's the final [STRIKE]6[/STRIKE] [STRIKE]7[/STRIKE] 8

Grand Total = [STRIKE]51[/STRIKE] [STRIKE]53[/STRIKE] [STRIKE]55[/STRIKE] [STRIKE]57[/STRIKE] 60 unread books!!!!!!!

Feel better for posting it here, will also update my signature too.

hickles69

cardi80 wrote: »

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.

I'm going to go to sainsburys later so will look. I ended up at work last night and checked out the free shelf but it wasn't there. Some of my old Lisa g were so grabbed them for one of the deputies to read

Stephen king has always appealed to me but I've never tried any (probably too concerned by the way it may change the films for me)

Hicks

hickles69

kezbabybabe wrote: »

Do others have this problem of buying books for others that they want to read?!


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

Hey I have that problem so try not to buy books as gifts; doesn't really work for me though.

Thank you, think I might read when God was a Rabbit next. Ended up on a sleeper last night so managed a lot of gingerbread housed last night - about 100pages....so nearly there. It has picked up pace which is brill

Giggles86

Yesterday finished First Term at Malory Towers which I've had for a while and never got round to reading. I've literally just taken delivery of Letting Go of Emma (I didn't believe they'd actually deliver it on a Sunday when I got the email!) so will be starting that later today.

BakerBoy

Well I have dramatically changed my ways in the last six or seven years. I was a book hoarder from the age of 17 until I was about 37/38. I began hoarding with the old book clubs which was a bit of an addiction.

For a number of reasons I have moved house 10 times in my adult life and have had to shift so many boxes of books and magazines. A few years ago I got rid of almost the lot and decided that whenever I finish a book I must decide if I will ever read it again. If yes it goes back on the shelf, if no straight to the charity shop.

I now have about 80 books from probably 500 and I am about to reach another milestone - getting rid of a Wilbur Smith. He has been my favourite novelist for over 20 years. I am reading The Sunbird and while I am enjoying it more than the first time I read it I've decided that his standalone novels aren't a patch on his intense sagas. So It will go, this week, and might help me slim-down my collection further.

Cookbooks I categorise differently!!! I have about 50, used to have 150 and decided in 1995 that I would never buy another. Broke my promise with Jamie at Home (but deliberated for 2 years before buying it) and splashed out on 4 Thai cookery books last year. Naughty me.

BakerBoy

I'm not a horror fan and have enjoyed Stephen King's Green Mile and Misery, both films were good representations of the books. Insomnia was so dull I ditched it half-way through.

littlepinkstars44

kezbabybabe wrote: »

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?!

Really loved this series, I found the second one was a bit boring, and more of a "filler" book in the series. I started Reached, thinking it would be the same but it really picked up about halfway through.
Still not sure what I thought about the ending....not wanting to spoil it though...I can see why the book ended the way it did. But I had really hoped it would end differently.

littlepinkstars44

In other news...90 pages left of Die for Me. Will try and get this one finished tonight, so I can start the next one in the series.

Also started Gameboard of the Gods - Richelle Mead in the car, can't really seem to get into it though.

hickles69

Giggles86 wrote: »

Yesterday finished First Term at Malory Towers which I've had for a while and never got round to reading. I've literally just taken delivery of Letting Go of Emma (I didn't believe they'd actually deliver it on a Sunday when I got the email!) so will be starting that later today.

Oh I loved Malory Towers; think my books are still in my mum's loft... must have a nosey next time I'm there. Are there 6 books altogether Giggles? I have just found the entire collection of the Wishing Chair; that may take me a while though

Goldiegirl

I used to love Enid Blyton books. My favourites were Mallory Towers, the Famous Five, the Secret Seven, plus there were a couple of other series that I enjoyed. Even when I read them, I was aware they harked back to an era that had gone, but I think that was part of the attraction. I bought The Ship of Adventure a few years ago, as the kids went on a cruise. I love cruises, so it was a must read for me.

On the subject of must reads, I did download a Kindle book yesterday. It is called 'Dodger', and it is the continuing adventures of The Artful Dodger, after Oliver Twist ends. I saw it in Waterstones, and thought it looked good, and when I got home, saw it had 5 star reviews from everyone who'd reviewed it, which is almost unheard of. So I decided to make the purchase.