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

Different_Corner

Oh Pickle, one of those things.
I used to use library but its closed on my day off, and I never go into town on a Saturday. Life is too short.

Struggling with 'We are all made of glue'. I'm not a big fan of mini history lessons in the middle of a fictional story. Not sure I'll make it through to the end. Waterstones voucher is still untouched so I am behaving.

jintyb

charlies_mum wrote: »

Depends on what you like, these are some of my favourites

The Pirates Daughter by Margaret Cezair Thompson
Anything by Nicci French
The Brightest Star in the Sky by Marion Keyes
Babylon series of books by Imogen Edwards-Jones
Twilight series by Stephenie Meyer
Anything by Jodie Picoult
Crossstitch series by Diana Gabaldon
Anything by Barbara Erskine
Some of the Dean Koontz books
Anything by Celia Ahern
Shopaholic books by Sophie Kinsella
Five People you Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom
Death and Life of Charlie St Cloud by Ben Sherwood
Anything by Philippa Gregory

Thanks for the suggestions, I love to hear what other folks have enjoyed!
Gives me good ideas.
Finished The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society :T:T:T:T:T
Loved it!
Now reading Blacklands by Belinda Bauer - really enjoying that too! :j

Pickle: Will post a synopsis of A History of Tractors in Ukranian later.
Its the first book by Marina Lewycka. Ive read her second - Two Caravans - which is about a group of immigrant workers and their experiences. I really enjoyed that so I thought I'd read her first book.

jintyb

Pickle: A History of Tractors in Ukranian - from Amazon

'Two years after my mother died, my father fell in love with a glamourous blonde Ukrainian divorcee. He was eighty-four and she was thirty-six. She exploded into our lives like a fluffy pink grenade, churning up the murky water, bringing to the surface a sludge of sloughed-off memories, giving the family ghosts a kick up the backside.' Sisters Vera and Nadezhda must put aside a lifetime of feuding to save their !migr! engineer father from voluptuous gold-digger Valentina. With her proclivity for green satin underwear and boil-in-the-bag cuisine, she will stop at nothing in her pursuit of Western wealth. But the sisters' campaign to oust Valentina unearths family secrets, uncovers fifty years of Europe's darkest history and sends them back to roots they'd much rather forget...

Tete_en_l'Air

Jinty, glad you enjoyed the Potato Peel book, I'm thinking of that one once I finish His Dark Materials (STILL two chapters to go on The Subtle Knife, I haven't actually finished a book since this challenge started )

I love the History of Tractors, so funny, never been tempted by Two Caravans though, not sure why!

elfen

Have to recommend Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer. It's really good, and talks about Jews and Anti-Semitic views during the war, and trying to find roots. It's really sad at the end too, and I love it.

I'm also reading Charlie Brooker's Screenwipe and it's just funny, it's his Guardian columns and they're just so funny

lilian1977

elfen wrote: »

Have to recommend Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer. It's really good, and talks about Jews and Anti-Semitic views during the war, and trying to find roots. It's really sad at the end too, and I love it.

Wonderful film as well x

InaPickle

Returned books to library and was given Twighlight (gotta see what all the teenagers are going crazy about!), and Of Meece and Men (short, sweet, a classic off the list and on the library Book Club List for this month.

setmefree2

Tete_en_l'Air wrote: »

I love the History of Tractors

Me too...:T:T:T:T:T

Sorry to hear about the fine Pickle

Happy Reading

mrs-moneypenny

sorry to hear about your fine pickle

have only managed a few pages here and there of my own reading. I also love philippa Gregorys Books If you dont want to go down the historical route 'The little house' is well worth a read.

have just started reading kensukes kingdom by michael morpurgo to youngest DS, borrowed from libary

jintyb

Finished "Blacklands" by Belinda Bauer - excellent thriller! :T:T:T:T:T

Started "The Secret Speech" by Tom Rob Smith on train this morning. If its as good as his first book, Child 44 ,I'll be delighted!

These are from my library book pile - so guilt-free!:j