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

ladsmadd

InaPickle wrote: »

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

thanks inapickle, all the books have been ready from april to present day, just never got around to posting.

charlies_mum

footymadgal wrote: »

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!

Brilliant, I thought there was only another one. You do realise you have now encouraged me to buy two more books :rotfl:

footymadgal

charlies_mum wrote: »

Brilliant, I thought there was only another one. You do realise you have now encouraged me to buy two more books :rotfl:

Oops, but you will enjoy! I passed these books onto a friend and she loved them too. She's since passed them on to someone else and so they've been good value for money.

footymadgal

For anyone who's interested there's a website for Carol Drinkwater's books: www.caroldrinkwater.com/. I hadn't been on here for a while but just had a look and a documentary is going to be made called The Olive Route inspired by Carol's books :j.

chevalier

InaPickle wrote: »

"My name's feedumall and I'm a bookaholic!"

ditto me too:rotfl:

Can't see OH getting into books like yours did unfortnately, he has this theory that he was never read bedtime stories and never read for pleasure as a child, so he doesn't like it now, which I think might have something to it - I was always reading as a kid. What do others think?

My two DS's have always been read bed time stories, yet the older one you virtually have to force a book in his hand to read, where my younger one, if he has gone silent (!) it is because he has picked up a book and reading it.

it is getting to the stage where i think I am going to have to increase my contents insurance, because some of my books probably counts as a collection by now. Ie I have most of the Star Trek Books for TNG, DS9, and Voyager. I live in new zealand and it is a land of contrasts. New books are VERY expensive about 3 times the cost of the same book in the UK. I am therefore estatic that i bought my 5 tall bookcases of books (most of which are double stacked on every shelf) with me. I have over 200 Star Trek books alone (gulp). On the other hand some book shops to a 5 or 6 books for $20 or $25 (about 10 or 12 pounds) and so of course I think wow what a bargain and get them. Do that a few times and you have to 3 book stacks by my bed LOL. So I too am not buying books at the moment.

The last book I read was Pure Chance by Dame Felicity Peake who served in WW2 in the WAAF. Very interesting life she had. Was a real pioneer. Well worth a read.

One other thing worth mentioning, is old peoples libraries . My MIL has loads of books she has read over the years, some published by family, and they are SO different from books now, in how they are written. Can still be ripping good reads though.
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InaPickle

You might both be right about the reading thing...there's a French writer called Daniel Pennac who wrote a book called 'Comme un Roman' ('Like a Book') about literacy, and he says that the love of books is a natural extension of the bedtime story. He advocates reading a bedtime story to children way beyond the age after which most people have stopped reading to their children, and in my experience, the bedtime story seems to work: when I was little my dad always used to tell me a bedtime story (he only knew two, so it was either 'The Three Pigs' or 'Red Riding Hood' ), and mum used to take me to the library once a week to get a fresh supply of books.

It seems that some things stick.

sunshineyday

Morning peeps :wave:

Finished 'The Weight of Silence' last night. It turned out to be a very good read, although it was a bit predictable in parts.
Would give it :T:T:T

Off now to try and decide what to read next, I am determined to get through this challenge, just taking it one book at a time;)

Sessie

Just popping my head round the door to say I'm still around!!

Some of you have very similar reading lists to me!!

I have just read House Rules by Jodi Picoult (really good - I'd say more but some of you may have it waiting to read and I don't want to spoiler it).

I am now reading What Alice Forgot - can't remember the author - only started a day or so ago so can't really say much about it yet. I keep looking at the pile of books waiting for me to jump into their stories and wondering why I haven't read them before now.

Alas, I start work in 10 mins so must go and make coffee!!

I shall return!!

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scubaangel

Finished the book I started when I moved, The Club, by Mandasue Hellier.

And started the application for my new local library, just need to find someway to prove my address twice over - challenging as I'm a lodger.

slowlyfading

ladsmadd wrote: »

the chocolate run by Dorothy koomson:) last book posted

I just finished this and liked it also just read the ice cream girls by her as well - another good book