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

Vixstar

Finished Miss Pettigrew Lives For A Day :T:T:T:T , a gentle cinderella tale written in 1938 and the film is as good but slightly different.
Unfortunately added another 2 books to my tbr pile. Been trying to get through my first world war history during the week but it has the unfailing ability to send me to sleep.
Fact from a mag: A cup of tea + 6 mins with a good book = 68% less stress

InaPickle

MIA but back now, and have finished Chris Evans' autobiography 'It's Not What You Think' in the meantime. It was very interesting, even though I wasn't all that much of a CE fan beforehand, and shows a different side to the brash Radio 1 DJ that I might otherwise have not expected to see.

Clap rating: :T :T :T :T

Vixstar

charlies_mum wrote: »

Can thoroughly recommend this one :T:T:T:T

I can see why you recommended A Thousand Splendid Suns, I got halfway through it in one night always a good sign!

Vixstar

Finished the other half of A Thousand Splendid Suns last night (early this morning!) definitely :T:T:T:T:T even though I cried at the end, think I'll be keeping this book. Back to the World War I book for a few days now - no chance of reading that until the small hours!

InaPickle

Am currently on 'The Count of Monte Cristo'. I like what I've read so far (I'm only on page 56), but this is going to be a mammoth task as it's two volumes, the first of which is 703 pages long! :eek:

See you in a few months!

jintyb

Vixstar wrote: »

Finished the other half of A Thousand Splendid Suns last night (early this morning!) definitely :T:T:T:T:T even though I cried at the end, think I'll be keeping this book. Back to the World War I book for a few days now - no chance of reading that until the small hours!

I loved At housand Splendid Suns too - I read it a while ago, but the story has stayed with me and I still think about it, usually when there's something on the news about Afghanistan. The Kite Runner is also a brilliant book and the film is excellent.

Im on here to confess - I went to the library the other day to pick up my reservations and they were selling off books for 30pence. I bought six!
The pile is increasing despite reading like mad! Sorry!
Currently reading "Twilight" by Peter James. Its ok, but not "grabbed" me yet!

I was on hols last week and read four books:

Alices Tulips - Sandra Dallas :T:T:T:T:T Loved this!
Angry Houswives eating BonBons - Lorna Landvik :T:T:T:T:T

We are All Made of Glue - :T:T:T:T:T

A Redbird Christmas - Fannie Flagg :T:T:T

InaPickle

I was out buying bits and pieces today and passed a 50p bargain bin of books, so I just couldn't help myself and bought Middlemarch, The Murder of Roger Acroyd and The Last of the Mohicans.

Like any of you lot could have resisted, either!

setmefree2

Finished Peter Kay's "The Sound of Laughter". Funny in parts - nice bloke. 3 claps from me :T:T:T

Started Frankie Boyle's "My !!!!!! life so far" this was my youngest DS's. I wasn't expecting much but am really enjoying it so far. Not as rude as you might think:eek: and very engaging....



Happy Reading

InaPickle

setmefree2 wrote: »

Started Frankie Boyle's "My !!!!!! life so far" this was my youngest DS's. I wasn't expecting much but am really enjoying it so far. Not as rude as you might think:eek: and very engaging....

I was wondering how the Frankie Boyle one was. Thanks for the advice!

scrooge2008

Hi everyone.

I hope you are enjoying your books. I recall saying that I never kept books once i'd read them. Well I was just starting the last of my unread books, 'The Kite Runner', when I ventured up into the loft to see if there were any ebay pickings.

I found boxes with hundreds of books in them, that I had read over twenty years ago, so I was obviously a horder in a previous life. Anyway it's got me all excited and I have pulled out 24 to re-read by the end of the year. Here's my list for all you book lovers .

Testament of Friendship - Vera Brittain
Cider With Rosie - Laurie Lee
The Wind in The Willows - Kenneth Grahame
Lord Jim - Joseph Conrad
Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
Phoenix Fled - Attia Hosain
Tender is The Night - F Scott Fitzgerald
Under Milk Wood - Dylan Thomas
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe - Douglas Adams
Life, the Universe and Everything - Douglas Adams
Go Ask Alice - Anonymous
Landscape For a Good Woman - Carolyn Steedman
The French Lieutenant's Woman - John Fowles
The Crying of Lot 49 - Thomas Pynchon
The Social Contract - Rousseau
The Theban Plays - Sophocles
The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
August 1914 - Solzhenitsyn
Christina Rossetti - Selected Poems
William Blake - Songs of Innocence and Experience
Aldous Huxley - Brave New World
Sophie's World: A Novel About the History of Philosophy - Jostein Gaarder
Travels with Charley: In Search of America - John Steinbeck
The Alchemist - A Fable about Following your Dream - Paulo Coelho