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

Happygreen

I failed - I bought a book! I managed to get a signed copy from the author. I had read it before from the library and I thought then it was a keeper...not fiction. Blossom - What Scotland needs to flourish by Lesley Riddoch.
Other than that I'm battling on with the books I had started what feels ages ago...I'm spending more time trying to reduce the pile of newspaper sections I had kept "for laters", mainly the book pages, lol.

mrs-moneypenny

That's not a failure happy green, it's a reference book and a signed one at that
I won a book from good reads last week so have an IN as well.

Made a start on larger than life last night an so far am enjoying it, nice easy style to read.

LolaLemon

Happygreen wrote: »

I failed - I bought a book! I managed to get a signed copy from the author. I had read it before from the library and I thought then it was a keeper...not fiction. Blossom - What Scotland needs to flourish by Lesley Riddoch.
Other than that I'm battling on with the books I had started what feels ages ago...I'm spending more time trying to reduce the pile of newspaper sections I had kept "for laters", mainly the book pages, lol.

Is it good? Ive hummed and hawed about reading it for ages.

I follow Lesley (look 1st name terms and everything, that Referendum sure changed a lot lol) on facebook and found her to be inspirational last year. I had heard she ws supposed to be at our yesmas ceilidh and was a bit dissapointed when she wasnt there

Happygreen

LolaLemon wrote: »

Is it good? Ive hummed and hawed about reading it for ages.

I follow Lesley (look 1st name terms and everything, that Referendum sure changed a lot lol) on facebook and found her to be inspirational last year. I had heard she ws supposed to be at our yesmas ceilidh and was a bit dissapointed when she wasnt there

Definitely, a must read - now as it's in the post-referendum edition (it's white). I listen to her podcast and have heard her live twice. She is an amazing source of knowledge and most captivating speaker. I wish I could talk like that! I expected also to see her at a conference on food politics in Edinburgh but she can't be everywhere! :rotfl: I caught myself quoting her work to all these academics and government representatives! :rotfl:

LolaLemon

mrs-moneypenny wrote: »

Finished the battle for christabel. Took a while to get into as it was written in a quite unusual style different to the other Margaret Forster book i read (diary of an ordinary woman)
Christabel is a little mixed race 5 year old and when her single white mum dies in an accident christabels aging middle class grandmother and her aunt decide it would be best if she is placed for adoption, her mothers childhood friend .who has known christabel all her life is charged with putting the wheels in motion. The family wrongly thought they could have some kind of say in who adopts christabel and how much contact they still get with her. What they don't realise is once you start a process like offering a child for adoption the state takes over and what they consider best goes above any family concerns or wishes. and so they battle for Christabel began, a very moving story about a confused little girl, the family who didn't realise how much they wanted her until faced with losing her and social services who have only have what they consider the best interests of the child in mind.

I've picked larger than life by Adele parks off the TBR shelf for my next read.

I want to now put this book on my to read list... its never ending haha.



Finished A Clash of Kings last night, itching to get started on the next one, but i have ice hockey twice this weekend and my team won our conference last week and we get the Cup tonight, so will be a late one no doubt.

I also gave in and bought the kon marie book :mad:, the hardback was the same price as the kindle edition and i dont really enjoy reading on a kindle as much as i do with a real book - something about getting excited cause u know you are near the end, you just dontget all that from a kindle, and ive had kindle apps from way before amazon bought it. just doesnt do it for me, although i do take advantage of the free or £0.00 books, mostly cook/health books.
Anyways, back to this book, i figured the idea is toread it, use it for around 6 months and then i should be good to pass it on, as it will no longer be of joy? haha... It arrived yesterday so i am taking it with me where ever i go and i will read it bit by bit. Normally i would have read it at the weekend, but with so little time available, i want to spend that on the game of thrones so i can have them finished for the new series starting April time...

LolaLemon

Happygreen wrote: »

Definitely, a must read - now as it's in the post-referendum edition (it's white). I listen to her podcast and have heard her live twice. She is an amazing source of knowledge and most captivating speaker. I wish I could talk like that! I expected also to see her at a conference on food politics in Edinburgh but she can't be everywhere! :rotfl: I caught myself quoting her work to all these academics and government representatives! :rotfl:

I find it the same with most of the 'no-bodies' before, everyone is a Someone now. and it didnt matter what side you voted, if you are well informed, everyone knows about you! Like phillipa whitford... and many more! Incidently, people who where a Somebody have turned into non entities - like Lamont and Sarwar! :rotfl:. This May is going to be Interesting to say the least.
She was booked to come and speak at the ceilidh, even on the door i was asking if she was coming and the organisers saying yes she was still coming... dont know what happened but she didnt arrive, if i remember rightly, it was snowing everywhere, apart from Greenock that week.

I think i'll go hunt it out at the library.

mrs-moneypenny

Sorry I've already donated it to the book circle at work Lola otherwise I'd have happily posted it on to you.

Bubblesmum

Finished The Casual Vacancy - I couldn't put it down....... All the characters so vividly portrayed and well the ending had me crying my eyes out.

Then went on to Bookclub book DO No Harm by Henry Marsh.... He's a brain surgeon about to retire and Epsom it's him reflecting about his career with patient stories and how it hates how the NHS has become

For a bit of light relief I've picked up On the Edge by Jenny Pitman.... A horse racing modern fiction .....

Happygreen

I've just started The View from Here" by Brian Keith Jackson. A friend MADE me take it home as she loved it. It's written out of the perspective of an unborn child. I think I'll enjoy it, so it will go back to its rightful owner soon

LolaLemon

startedd a sword of storms book 1 today. and the konmarie book at the weekend.