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

lilian1977

sunshineyday wrote: »

lilian1977, I read Starter for Ten a few months ago and really enjoyed it. Have you read his latest book 'One Day', it's one I couldn't put down, had to reach for the kleenex at one point though.

I have - I enjoyed it but not as much as Starter For Ten. Don't know if it's because I love the film?

scubaangel

I think now might be a good time for me to join this one.

I just moved in to a shared house, and brought with me a bag of 20 unread books, leaving behind all the books I have on my bookcases at my Dad's house and annoyingly having had to deactivate my greenmetropolis and amazon marketplace accounts (had to leave the boxes of books at the house as there's no storage space here).

As since my move I am not only without bookcases but going to do a poorly paid job I simply cannot justify my book habit any longer. The plan such as it is, read the books I have here, re-join greenmet under a new account which I can operate until I move again and can bring the other books here (don't want to delete the listings utterly as most are top 10 in the listing display and dropping to the bottom of the listings would kill sales at a later date), then once these books are read join the local library and only purchase books from the local charity shops or other second hand sources when I have spare cash and no others waiting to be read.

InaPickle

Welcome scubaangel! You are among book kinfolk here!

mrs-moneypenny

Finally can say ive finished two books, i took 'Elzabeth and Leicester' & 'Fen' on holiday and finished them both. Ive started Knit Two now (the follow up book to the friday night knitting club)

fen is going on the shelf in the doctors next time i visit but ill have to keep elizabeth & Leicester.

footymadgal

I'd love to join this challenge, what a great idea, Pickle. Heard about this on the no buying toiletries thread. I've read through most of the thread and have been jotting down names of books to read in the future, when I've offloaded a few books, of course! I used to keep all my books but the older you get the more books you accrue and so a few years ago I changed my mindset and now only keep books that have sentimental value. It’s very rare I re-read a book so why keep them? I give the books I’ve read to charity shops or pass on to friends or family. I have plenty of books waiting to be read though. Every now and then the OH has a moan about the number of books around and at that point some have to go up into the loft. The days have also long gone when I would persevere with a book because I felt I had to. There are too many books out there and life is too short for that!

I have just started reading The Devil's Novice, a Mediaeval Whodunnit by Ellis Peters.

InaPickle

Hehe, footymadgal - welcome, welcome! Newbies always accepted & I can't help but feel that you are right - sometimes life is too short with a book you just aren't 'getting'.

Happy reading!

ladsmadd

QUOTE=InaPickle;35650177]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][/QUOTE]

InaPickle thanks for sharing this fab tune.

have finally managed to list the books i have read

the chocolate run by Dorothy koomson:) last book posted

Barefoot soldier by Johnson beharry.- :j:j
Little girl lost by Barbie Probert-wright & jean Ritchie :T
Taken by sharon hamiton:T

Confessions of a demented house wife by niamh greenE:)

Dear fatty by dawn French:rotfl:

Handle with care by Jodi Picoult :T
Cut by cathy glass

that’s another story by Julie Walters.:rotfl::rotfl:

Twenties Girl bysophie kinsella :rotfl::rotfl:

songs of the humpback whale by Jodi Picoult:)

Ghost girl torey Hayden:T:T

Hidden by cathy glass :T

Welcome to My World by coleen mclaughlin :T:T

yours faithfull by sheila o'flanagan

Am reading
Birthday girls by Annabel Giles &
Thin by grace bowman [reading this during bus trips]

have also fallen of the wagan the other day the shop that i voulteer in have b1g1f on books at the min so picked up julie andrews home and alone by pip granger for £1.25,am trying not to look to much at the books,but it very hard when i am in charge of changing all them books once a week.

InaPickle

Well done, ladsmadd: that's a lot of books. Best of luck with the rest you have to read!

footymadgal

charlies_mum wrote: »

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

Glad to find somebody else who likes The Olive Farm. I have also read the follow ups:

The Olive Season
The Olive Harvest
The Olive Route

I'm a massive fan of these books. I've got The Olive Tree waiting to be read, but like to read these books when I'm on holiday lying in the sun so that I feel like I'm there! Return to the Olive Farm has now been published but I shall wait until the paperback is out, or I suppose now I'm doing this challenge I should order it from the library!

svb53

I've just finished the new Adele Parksone, quite good but not her best. I'm now halfway through the new - ish Ian Rankin one, The Complaints. Complicated but good. Hubby is amazed that I'm actually workingmy way through last years xmas presents at last!