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

Bubblesmum

coppers wrote: »

Bubblesmum which book do you mean, The wild boy one or the pms one?

oops the PMS one !

Bubblesmum

I have realised i have not posted this year.

My Goodreads challenge is 55 this year!

1. Bones under the Beach Hut - Simon Brett, thought it was going to be twee and it definitely wasn't! (Lib book)

2. The Amazing technicolour Pyjama Therapy - Emily Ackerman - great read if you have been diagnosed with CFS (with a christian slant) 1/100

3. Starting Over - Marcia Willett - a fav chick lit author based in Devon and the Navy 2/100

4. A Daughters Tale - Mary Soames - Churchills youngest daughter her childhood story oil her marriage, a young woman during the war.

5. A week in December - Sebastian Faulks - a very modern read, about several peoples lives during one week....in London 3/100

6. Second Time around - Marcia willetts ( as 3) 4/100

7. To Hear a Nightingale - Charlotte Bingham - Romance and horse racing 5/100

8. The organised mind - Daniel J levitin - about how your mind works, with regards to memory, and how you could use it better to improve your life. very wordy! (lib book)

9. One hundred years of solitude - Gabriel garcia Marquez - part of my Good Reads challenge, took me a while to get into it, but i was gripped in the end (Reality Fantasy) 6/100

10. Crooked Heart - Lissa Evans. - a good yard, based about petty crimes in WW2 and an evacuee (Lib)

11. Now reading The Boleyn Inheritance by Phillipa Gregory

Sundaysgirl

Finished To Kill a Mockingbird - loved it. Go Set a Watchman added to my TBR list once I'm allowed to buy/borrow off-shelf again!


Now reading Human Traces by Sebastian Faulks. This has been on my shelf for years! Finding it hard to get into this, though I usually find this with his books and am then enthralled by halfway through.

mrs-moneypenny

bubblesmum

Now reading The Boleyn Inheritance by Phillipa Gregory

Love PGs books still got a fair few on my TBR shelves, hope you enjoy it as much as I did.

MitziB

I've 6 books borrowed from the mobile library to read at the moment, all of them ordered after seeing recommendation of the authors/titles on this or another MSE reading thread. All are due back at the beginning of April so I'd better get cracking! I'm very occupied with family duties at the moment and am finding my reading time very interrupted. Certainly no time to make any inroads into the masses of unread books of my own that are waiting reproachfully for me to take an interest in them. I hope library books aren't considered 'cheating' under the terms of this challenge. At least they're free. My days of buying books are long gone!


I started the first of the library ones last night, a book by Diane Chamberlain who I've seen recommended but never read anything by before. The one I chose is Pretending to Dance and although I'm only 12 pages in so far it looks promising.

coppers

Bubblesmum re : Pms book, its an old book, I picked it up years ago from The Works. It just states more or less what I already knew. The best information I have found has been from (NAPS) National association for premenstrual syndrome.

adrisco

MitziB, I've read all Diane Chamberlains' books. She's one of my favourite authors. Pretending to Dance is one of her best!

MitziB

adrisco wrote: »

MitziB, I've read all Diane Chamberlains' books. She's one of my favourite authors. Pretending to Dance is one of her best!

I finished Pretending to Dance in the early hours. I just couldn't put it down, it was a real page-turner (for me anyway). What a brilliant introduction to a new-to-me author who has written lots of others which I now hope to work my way through.


It was maybe not my usual sort of thing and if I'd realised it would be so concerned with adoption issues I may not have chosen it in the first place. I really cared about the characters though and loved the setting. North Carolina sounds a great place to live.

Embles

Please may I join in? I've just gone through my bedroom and sitting room quickly and put 19 books in a newly nominated box! At the moment I'm halfway through A Cruel Bird Came to the Nest and Looked In by Magnus Mills.

Happygreen

Welcome, Embles.