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

mrs-moneypenny

Gem-gem wrote: »

Hi everyone,
Succumbed and bought a book - The Shack - for 10p.
Borrowed it off a friend a few years ago and read it. Cried through it. Want to read parts of it again.

Mrs Moneypenny- phillipa Gregory titles:
The constant princess, the white queen, the red queen. I souls also have the other Boleyn girl somewhere!!!!
Is there an order that I should read her books in?

33 unread books plus 11 that my husband received.

constant princess is about Catherine of Aaragon (loved that book-she is my favourite of his wives. he should have stayed loyal to her)
other boleyn girl is about his affair with Annes sister mary and the way familes used their daughters as power pawns. the subsequent marriage then beheading of Anne Boleyn
so those two sort of follow each other.

the red and white queens are set further back in the historial time line as they are before the time of Henry VIIIs birth - wars of the roses time. both books tell the same story but through the eyes of a different woman, the white queen was Elizabeth Woodville, king Edward IVs wife and the red queen (Margaret Beaufort) his mother. reading the white queen i hated the red one but reading the red queens version of events i did soften to her a bit. funnily enough i was reading these while our city was being dug up looking for the bones of Edwards brother King Richard. i keep saying i must go to the new visitors centre we now have set up about him.


they are from two different series shes done but a all good stand alone storys

according to her website this is the order the tudor series should be read in

The Constant Princess (Katherine of Aragon)
The Other Boleyn Girl (Mary and Anne Boleyn)
The Wise Woman (A young girl forced out of her nunnery and into the real world during the reformation during Anne Boleyn's time of being queen)
The Boleyn Inheritance (Jane Boleyn, Anne of Cleves and Katherine Howard)
The Queen's Fool (A young Jewish girl's story of her service in the court of Edward VI, Mary I and Elizabeth I)
The Virgin's Lover (Elizabeth I, Robert Dudley and Amy Robsart)
The Other Queen (Mary, Queen of Scots, George Talbot and Bess of Hardwick)

and the The chronological order of the cousins series books is

The Lady of the Rivers
The White Queen
The Red Queen
The Kingmaker's Daughter
The White Princess
The King's Curse

HTH:)

still reading The making of us, its about a sperm donor and the lifes of the children he helped create.

Bubblesmum

Morning

Just counted up !

1. Round about a Pound A Week - library via this thread :rotfl:
2. Undersong - my bookcase
3. Medieval Women - my bookcase
4. Heaven and Hell - kindle
5. Fairy tale of New York - library via this thread ???
6. Beating Chronic Fatigue - kindle

Like television programmes I dip into a chapter daily.

Oh yes - I've also got the audiobook Politiz Jo Nesbo on the go.

Plus I have sinned - The Happiness Project on Kindle - Amazon daily deals :rotfl:

So really lots to keep me busy ......

mrs-moneypenny

i really liked the happiness project, youve got some good books there.

ive just spent the morning book folding a couple of old books that are going to be donated to the local school libraries

Bubblesmum

mrs-moneypenny wrote: »

i really liked the happiness project, youve got some good books there.

ive just spent the morning book folding a couple of old books that are going to be donated to the local school libraries

They look fab, must admit don't think I have the patience

Penguins86

I have today finished a 'real' book Cabin Fever by Jeff Kinney. It's one of the Wimpy Kid books and is on one of the "bestseller" lists I'm reading my way through. It's only taken 2 days on the bus and I didn't find it overly inspiring but I can understand why it appeals to children, with lots of simple pictures to add to the story. There's another one on the list which I imagine will be just as quick a read. I'm hoping I can pick it up in the library when I join! Not sure what I'll start next. Probably another shortish one so I can get through it on my shorter bus journeys and clear my shelf a bit!

Thrifty_Pixie

mrs-moneypenny wrote: »

i really liked the happiness project, youve got some good books there.

ive just spent the morning book folding a couple of old books that are going to be donated to the local school libraries

WOW. these are great! :T where did you learn to do that? i'd love to have a go...

Thrifty_Pixie

good morning all :coffee:

i watched 'Little Ashes' over the weekend, a film about the relationship between Frederico Garcia Lorca and Salvador Dali. i thoroughly enjoyed it, but realised that i wasn't overly familiar with Lorca's poetry even though the title 'Poem of the Deep Song' rang some bells. so i tootled over to my poetry shelves, and, sure enough, there it was...and, according to my records, it has been since 2006 :eek:. it's only a slim volume, so i read that on Sunday, and it's staying in the permanent collection.

#47/60 down

mrs-moneypenny

Thrifty_Pixie wrote: »

WOW. these are great! :T where did you learn to do that? i'd love to have a go...

thank you
someone posted a link to it on the knit a square thread, if i can do it anyone can. all you need to remember is that when it says you are using 150 pages you need a book with 300. as they are counting each double sided sheet of paper not numbered pages.

ill see if i can quote their post over on this thread for you later, ive got to go to work now.

the school librarian loved the book i gave her yesterday:D

mobo1980

Hi

Would you mind if I joined you please ? I used to get so much time to read but now the books are piling up ! There's a lovely lady who I work with who keeps giving me the books she's read , problem is she reads sooo fast ! I've had to give some away because I was overwhelmed and then I felt awful ! Soo my books to read soon are
1) Kimberley Chambers -The Traitor
2)Anna Smith -Betrayed
3)Debra Webb -Impulse
4)Debra Webb- obsession
5)Debra Webb-power

I love love Kimberley Chambers so If I find one of her books at a car boot etc the others go to the back of the list !

I am determined to start reading more and this thread sounds brill

Mobo xx

Thrifty_Pixie

good afternon gentlefolk :coffee:

and welcome mobo1980

forgive me, readers, for i have sinned. i went into town to have my eyebrows tamed at lunchtime (it usually involves eye protection and sharp shears for the tamer and a lot of swearing from the tamee) and i nipped into a couple of CS's while i was waiting. i only picked up two books though, even though there was a special offer of 4 for £1 in one shop:

Jo Nesbo's Cockroaches for 99p
Gregory Maguire's Son of a Witch for 50p

in my defence (oh here she goes again...) i have a handful of the later Harry Hole books, but have been waiting to find the first two before i can start them, so i'm just looking for The Bat now. also Wicked has been languishing on my shelves for far too long, so i thought the sequel might hurry me along to reading it. i've updated the totals in my signature, but it's only actually changed by 1 as i discovered that i have two copies of Nesbo's The Redbreast so one will be going straight back to charity :embarasse

ewps.

anyway, i hope you're all well. i've nearly finished my current book and am perusing my spreadsheet for my next victim...