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

Dinah93

verynewmoneysaver wrote: »

Just finished "In the Red" by Alexis Hall. Good book about a spendaholic and how she overcomes it.

Just started this one this morning, so far its good but she does need a bit of a shaking at times - but at least she realises this!

Couldn't sleep last night, again, so I read the last 259 pages of 'The Calligraphers Daughter'. I really enjoyed it, but I felt it ended quite suddenly just as things were getting interesting again (and a bit more optemistic!), I would have loved it if it had continued to tell the story of the next ten years, rounding off Najin's life more, and become more of a James Clavell-esque Asian saga.

setmefree2

Vixstar wrote: »

I like the idea of clap ratings

Ooooo me too:D My Dan Brown book "The Lost Symbol" is currently getting a 5 star clap rating :T:T:T:T:T Loving it

Ames

Where are you all getting these ace smileys from?!

Tete_en_l'Air

InaPickle wrote: »

I think she's very funny as well, but would recommend the books as more of a library lend than a purchase.

Why, naturally!! :rotfl:

setmefree2

Ames wrote: »

Where are you all getting these ace smileys from?!

They are just images from google- search on smiley reading..... or something like that...

InaPickle

Tete_en_l'Air wrote: »

Why, naturally!! :rotfl:

:rotfl:Sorry, I haven't explained my own internal book logic. For me, I would only hope to purchase a book that I will either love so much that I want to read or refer to it again and again and again, or something that is very difficult to obtain elsewhere, if the former is not the case (like books in French for me, for example). Jo's books are quite funny, but I can't see me ever revisiting them, so for me they count as a 'library lend', irrespective of the financial aspect. (Well, OK, it has something to do with money and space as well, but you get what I mean. )

Tete_en_l'Air

I see, I think most people go by that kind of logic, but I like to have books and keep them even if I'll probably never get around to reading them again. I only get rid if I REALLY didn't enjoy them!

Vixstar

Tete I'm with you on this one, books are almost ornaments - am often willing to pay more for a nice hardback copy. I find it very hard to get rid of any - only if I really didn't enjoy them or once or twice I've decided I've "grown out" of them (though will probably regret that later).

InaPickle

Vixstar wrote: »

Tete I'm with you on this one, books are almost ornaments - am often willing to pay more for a nice hardback copy. I find it very hard to get rid of any - only if I really didn't enjoy them or once or twice I've decided I've "grown out" of them (though will probably regret that later).

I was probably a bit like that before I did my degree and had to scribble all over tons of paperback versions of all the books I was studying. I'm quote happy with a paperback most of the time, but evey new Pratchett and Rankin is bought hardback without quibble, and is perferably signed by said author as well!

Had another pretty good reading day: read 20/30 or so pages of 'La Dame aux Camelias'. Am now about halfway through, as I started from about a hundred pages in where I had finished off last time. If I'm lucky I might get halfway the 'The Count of Monte Cristo' by the end of the month.:D I'm so pleased: I haven't read for ages and now I seem to be steaming through them. I'm making a point of making a list of all the books I've read, and it should be fairly long by the end of the year if this keeps up. Woo hoo! :T

Ames

I agree about keeping books, I like walking past a bookshelf and seeing one and remembering how much I loved reading it, even if I wont read it again. And some authors I buy in hardback as soon as they come out. But I really need to get rid of the scratty old paperbacks that I've replaced in hardback, it's just so hard to let go of a book I've had for 20 years!

Pickle, what's Le Dame Aux Camelias like? I've got it in English but haven't got round to reading it. In fact, I've got quite a few Dumas' that I haven't read yet, mainly because I loved The Three Musketeers. Even if I did see the characters all as cats and dogs!