Jwil's sorting the debt, the body, the house, the garden and everything else diary!

jwil

Thanks Tattycath, unfortunately there is not the same vim and vigour for the weight loss, I like chocolate too much! I'm hoping if I try and make some small changes I can sneak them under the radar and won't notice, then when I'm ready to do it properly, it won't be such a big change!

I am nowhere near my target for this month, eek! I have one bid already on something I listed yesterday so there's still hope. Need to sort the totals from yesterdays sales and add them to my total. I'll do that tonight.

Good luck with your sales for tonight! My next batch go out tomorrow, but there's nothing moving there. It's relists so not surprised really. They've probably pretty much had their day now.

jwil

I am so so tired today. *Yawn*

Quite enjoying my book at the moment - Alberto Moravia - A ghost at noon. It's one off the 1001 books list. What's everyone else reading at the moment?

peaceandfreedom

jwil wrote: »

I am so so tired today. *Yawn*

Quite enjoying my book at the moment - Alberto Moravia - A ghost at noon. It's one off the 1001 books list. What's everyone else reading at the moment?

I am reading 'A widow for one year' by John Irving. It's the first John Irving I've read and I'm enjoying it a lot. The book before that was 'Shantaram' by Gregory David Roberts. I enjoyed that too, but it was soooo long (933 small-typed pages) that I got a bit fed-up of it in the end.

Not sure what's next- possibly 'The Road' by Cormac McCarthy - it sounds thoroughly depressing though, so I'm not sure. I've got quite a stack of books to read, so I have a reasonable choice - it'll depend what mood I'm in.

Must take another look at that 1001 books thing.

jwil

peaceandfreedom wrote: »

I am reading 'A widow for one year' by John Irving. It's the first John Irving I've read and I'm enjoying it a lot. The book before that was 'Shantaram' by Gregory David Roberts. I enjoyed that too, but it was soooo long (933 small-typed pages) that I got a bit fed-up of it in the end.

Not sure what's next- possibly 'The Road' by Cormac McCarthy - it sounds thoroughly depressing though, so I'm not sure. I've got quite a stack of books to read, so I have a reasonable choice - it'll depend what mood I'm in.

Must take another look at that 1001 books thing.

I like John Irving's books, I've read a few of his (I think a couple are on the list too). Not the one you are reading though, I've been keeping an eye out in case it turns up at a boot sale.

I have The Road somewhere in my TBR pile too, it does sound like a 'cheerful' read!

peaceandfreedom

jwil wrote: »

I like John Irving's books, I've read a few of his (I think a couple are on the list too). Not the one you are reading though, I've been keeping an eye out in case it turns up at a boot sale.

I have The Road somewhere in my TBR pile too, it does sound like a 'cheerful' read!

OK, I have created an excel spreadsheet of the 1001 books and I have read a grand total of 112. Hmmm. Since I read a LOT and always have done, I am surprised at how few I've read, especially from the 2000s. I suppose there are so many thousands of books in the world, you can't read them all.

My best scoring time-period was the 1800s because I've read so much of Dickens/Hardy/Austen/Trollope. I would put Trollope as one my all-time favourite authors.

Here is a summary of my totals:



I like the idea of trying to read a lot of these books and your method of taking a list to car boots is brilliant, jwil. I am going to do a version in alphabetical order to make life easier - myself and DD2 are planning a shopping trip to the Cheddar car boot on Sunday.

jwil

peaceandfreedom wrote: »

OK, I have created an excel spreadsheet of the 1001 books and I have read a grand total of 112. Hmmm. Since I read a LOT and always have done, I am surprised at how few I've read, especially from the 2000s. I suppose there are so many thousands of books in the world, you can't read them all.

My best scoring time-period was the 1800s because I've read so much of Dickens/Hardy/Austen/Trollope. I would put Trollope as one my all-time favourite authors.

Here is a summary of my totals:



I like the idea of trying to read a lot of these books and your method of taking a list to car boots is brilliant, jwil. I am going to do a version in alphabetical order to make life easier - myself and DD2 are planning a shopping trip to the Cheddar car boot on Sunday.

Loving the spreadsheet :beer: I spent hours fiddling with mine when I first made it up.

I'd only read 38 when I started, so you've done better than I had.

I have a copy of the list sorted alphabetically by author surname. If you'd like me to send it to you, PM me your email address. I can do it tomorrow (the latest version is on my work computer). It's excel so can be fiddled with at leisure.

I managed to whizz through many of the earlier books 1700s - 1900s as a good number of them were available on project gutenberg. I would copy them into a word document and read them on the laptop. It saved me a fortune in books! Some of them were really short too, so it was satisfying ticking them off the list.

I'd never heard of a lot of the modern authors, so it has been really good discovering them.

Good luck with the book hunt at Cheddar

jwil

I had a nice surprise when I came home today - a free book from Waterstones to review! :j

Also, a package of washing liquid to test :j

Also, an advent calendar each from my lovely Mum for me and DH :cool::D

jwil

My ebay sales last night totalled £32.40 :T

peaceandfreedom

jwil wrote: »

I have a copy of the list sorted alphabetically by author surname. If you'd like me to send it to you, PM me your email address. I can do it tomorrow (the latest version is on my work computer). It's excel so can be fiddled with at leisure.

Thanks for the offer but I've done that on my spreadsheet using a little formula that cut out the author's surname from each book on the list. Very interesting to see the list in author sequence - there are so many authors whose books I've completely ignored up to now.

jwil wrote: »

I managed to whizz through many of the earlier books 1700s - 1900s as a good number of them were available on project gutenberg. I would copy them into a word document and read them on the laptop. It saved me a fortune in books! Some of them were really short too, so it was satisfying ticking them off the list.

How clever, I never knew about project gutenberg. I have now downloaded the volume that has Oroonoko by Aphra Behn - looks a bit of a strange story but I'll give it a go.

I've had a very unproductive day after my very busy weekend - might as well not have got up to be honest, other than doing the 1001 books list!

DedicatedDFW

Hi Jwil and well done on your e-bay sales. Sorry to hear about the job situation at work. I too have a bit of weight to lose I find it hard with the hours I work and the cost of healthy food.

:j for the e-bay sales, sadly I haven't sold anything that I listed this week. You are doing so well, would be brilliant if we can encourage each other on reducing what we owe.