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

charlies_mum

mrlevity wrote: »

Getting a bit fed up with (auto)biographies now as I haven't read a good one for ages.

Have you read Chris Evans' autobiography. That would definitely get a 6 claps if I could

InaPickle

charlies_mum wrote: »

Have you read Chris Evans' autobiography. That would definitely get a 6 claps if I could

I read that. T'was good. He is considerably more intelligent than many people give him credit for.

charlies_mum

InaPickle wrote: »

I read that. T'was good. He is considerably more intelligent than many people give him credit for.

I know, I really enjoyed it. Wish he would hurry up and finish the next one

Currently reading The Olive Farm by Carol Drinkwater who was in Creatures Great and Small. Really good, and there is a follow up to read next

Sessie

I'm a little late to this thread but have only started posting a few days ago after being a long-time lurker.

Books are My weakness too - especially those darn supermarkets doing their two for £7 (or close to that!) deals.

Have made a vow not to buy any more until I've read all of my unreads too (of which there will be about 60!). With 2 year old twins my reading time is severely limited so I think my next book purchase will probably be about 2017! .

Difficult to say my favourite genres, I like some autobiographies, horror (Koontz and King RULE!), Nicci French, Sophie Hannah and some of the "deeper" chick-lit (not Shopaholic, boyfriend/girlfriend stuff, but more the ones where there's a deep secret somewhere that "shatters lives" blah blah... or ones with a subject that's controversial or makes you think). Fave author at the moment is Jodi Picoult - she had better not release anything else until close to Xmas so I can ask for it for a present rather than buy it!

Hopefully posting here will make me walk away in the shops now as I'll know I have to tell you all if I falter.

I SHALL BE STROOOOONG!!

suered

Oh my word (ahem) - just stumbled over this thread. Please may I join? This is what I've been saying to myself for the last couple of years, but have I been strong? Have I heck! Car boots at 50p/book for 3 for a pound, sometimes even 10p each - what's a bookoholic to do?

I currently have (whispers) just over 3000 books (how do I know - because I'm such a saddo I created a whole database and put them in so that I could carry the printout around and try not to buy any duplicates) and there must be at least 500 unread.

The nearest I've got to having a good clearout is weeding the 3 bookcases in my bedroom - which all went into banana boxes because they have to be either read or reread to make sure I don't want to keep them - but I'm so busy reading the other stuff I haven't touched them.

If only there was the book equivalent of a nicotine patch.............

InaPickle

Sessie wrote: »

I SHALL BE STROOOOONG!!

Welcome, welcome! I particularly like your last sentence. Perhaps we should adopt it as out slogan. Or we could adapt the lyrics to 'I Will Survive'.

We Will Survive: The Anthem for Surviving the Lure of Bookshops

At first I was afraid,
I was petrified.
Kept thinking I could never live
without more by my side.
But I spent oh so many nights
thinking how I did them wrong:
I grew strong.
I learned how to carry on.
And so I'm back
from Waterstones:
I just walked in to find them here
with that sad look upon their face:
I should have changed my reading ways
I should have made me read them all.
If I had known for just one second
they'd still be here ten years or more...

[Chorus] Go on now, go, I'll go no more,
to the bookshop:
new books aren't welcome anymore.
Weren't you the ones who tried to lure me with your guile?
You think I'd crumble?
You think I'd sit down and buy?
Oh no, not I:
I will survive.
As long as
I know how to read,
I know I'll stay alive:
I've got all my life to live
I've got all my books to give
And I'll survive...
In book denial!

It took all the strength I had
not to fall apart.
Kept trying hard to mend
the pieces of my broken heart.
And I spent oh so many nights
just feeling sorry for myself.
I used to cry
Now I hold my head up high.
And you see me:
Somebody new...
I'm not that person still addicted to
books oh-so new.
Shops want me always dropping in
and just expect me to be free,
Now I'm saving all my loving
for old books that stood by me [Repeat chorus]

Sessie

LOL Pickle!!

:T

That's GREAT! I'm going to be singing it ALL day while I batch cook for the next couple of weeks!

*goes off to chop apples and make crumble for all*

PS: Uh.. cookbooks don't count in this book purge right?? Right?? I've got... um... rather a few....

InaPickle

Sessie wrote: »

*goes off to chop apples and make crumble for all*

PS: Uh.. cookbooks don't count in this book purge right?? Right?? I've got... um... rather a few....

They are in my 'reference' section, which isn't quite the same.

The day cookery and language learning books count, I'm going to have to start a whole new thread!

P.S. Crumble over here, please!

Vixstar

Pickle that was great.

Finished Guernsey Literary Society and it was as good as I hoped it would be, heard bits of it on radio a year ago and was intrigued. Its a gentle book but an interesting insight into wartime Guernsey with some wonderful characters.

Was going to follow my pattern of fiction followed by non fiction but as the unread fiction books are probably slightly outnumbering non I thought I'd read an Agatha Christie.

InaPickle

I've just fnished 'Tickling the English' by Dara O'Briain.

It was good, with more history thrown in than I might have anticipated, but he writes well, intelligently and, not unexpectedly, funnily, so it ripped along at a fair pace. 310 pages took less than a day. I'm not sure whether it deserves four or five claps, so maybe I'll give it four and a half for now, only hampered by the fact that it would be mean to cut one of our little clappy smileys in two.