Reading as a cheap hobby

Wednesday2000

Library book haul today.

-taff

sammy_kaye18 said:

 Im also one of those people who doesnt mind buying second hand copies of books and either keeping if I enjoy or passing on to penpals, friends, other readers too so just as happy to buy. I always get vouchers fro birthdays and never know what to do with them! 

I used to get some books from a second hand vook stall in the market. I got to talking with the lady who ran it once and she said to me, yeah, people who buy books from me usually bring them back so I can buy them back. Not sci fi books though, I don't see any of those back...saying this to me who was clutching her prize of new sci fi books

Currently reading the Peter Brett demon war books..again...

London_1

Wednesday2000 said:

Library book haul today.

'The Five People You Meet in Heaven' is brilliant, I have that book on my bookshelf, also Tuesday with Morrie that I bought in America Let us know what you think of it
Just got the follow up book 'The Next Person You Meet in Heaven' from the library and its my next book by my bedside to read once I have finished the book i'm on at the moment. Hope you enjoy them all

JackieO xx 

kiss_me_now9

I've started reading John Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath (we didn't do any Steinbeck at school but I did manage to 'read' Romeo and Juliet and Jane Eyre four and two times each respectively across my teenage school career) and wow - I am only about 40 pages in but I am blown away. His prose is just beautiful and whilst there's a lot of words I don't quite understand (I've just about figured out that when they say 'cat' they meant a certain brand of tractor, I had to google it though as I thought it was just a generic word for tractor). It is a joy to read. 

sammy_kaye18

kiss_me_now9 said:

I've started reading John Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath (we didn't do any Steinbeck at school but I did manage to 'read' Romeo and Juliet and Jane Eyre four and two times each respectively across my teenage school career) and wow - I am only about 40 pages in but I am blown away. His prose is just beautiful and whilst there's a lot of words I don't quite understand (I've just about figured out that when they say 'cat' they meant a certain brand of tractor, I had to google it though as I thought it was just a generic word for tractor). It is a joy to read. 

Thats exactly why I have things like To Kill A Mockingbird, Jane Eyre, Hounds Of The Baskervilles etc on my reading list as its things I never read in school but feel like they are talked about a lot. 

I also have issues with a book Im reading at the minute - its not a period read or anything similar but there are some words I dont understand - so I have a notepad on my little reading table now and when I dont know a word I wrote it down to look up afterwards! So its giving me a new word to learn and use as well as a good book to read!

kiss_me_now9

sammy_kaye18 said:

kiss_me_now9 said:

I've started reading John Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath (we didn't do any Steinbeck at school but I did manage to 'read' Romeo and Juliet and Jane Eyre four and two times each respectively across my teenage school career) and wow - I am only about 40 pages in but I am blown away. His prose is just beautiful and whilst there's a lot of words I don't quite understand (I've just about figured out that when they say 'cat' they meant a certain brand of tractor, I had to google it though as I thought it was just a generic word for tractor). It is a joy to read. 

Thats exactly why I have things like To Kill A Mockingbird, Jane Eyre, Hounds Of The Baskervilles etc on my reading list as its things I never read in school but feel like they are talked about a lot. 

I also have issues with a book Im reading at the minute - its not a period read or anything similar but there are some words I dont understand - so I have a notepad on my little reading table now and when I dont know a word I wrote it down to look up afterwards! So its giving me a new word to learn and use as well as a good book to read!

I think there's a lot to be said for the classics, they're classics for a reason. But I consistently put them aside for whatever social media tells me I'm meant to be reading! 

Brambling

I read To Kill a Mockingbird as a teenager and have the sequel on my to read list should i see it in a charity shop. On a similar vein is John Grisham's A Time to Kill but I wouldn't call either 'light holiday reading' 

If you enjoy Grapes of Wrath i can recommend Of Mice and Men which is a novella rather than a chunky book and read at school Cannery Row 

Brie

Think I eventually made it through all of Steinbeck's books but To Kill a Mockingbird is a top pick.  I'm quite sure that it's because of that that I started saying "hey" instead of "hi".  To the point where even in emails to work colleagues I'll start it "Hey Bob" or whatever.

edit - I know that Steinbeck didn't write TKAM.

bouicca21

Brambling said:

I read To Kill a Mockingbird as a teenager and have the sequel on my to read list should i see it in a charity shop. 

The sequel is definitely a must.  Not because it’s good, because it isn’t, but for further (and surprising) insight into Atticus Finch.

Wednesday2000

I had to read To Kill a Mockingbird at secondary school for GCSE and remember it well. I feel like I must have read Go Set a Watchman when it came out, but I can't remember it at all.