I need to read faster

[callmemadam]

Help! In spite of having shelves of books I haven't read yet, these are the books I have managed to buy or borrow from various sources in the past week. I've started Steer by the Stars: which one next?

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[kerrilouise.livejournal.com]

Help wouldn't be pleasant. People who "help" want you to throw away books and not buy ANY MORE!

Last week I bought 28 books in Oxfam (cost £29.05) and 2 in borders (£13.98).

31 books in a week is excessive even for me but still that's how I acquired so many books so quickly in 4 years.

I keep telling myself that I need to stop buying so many books and if I'm not sure that I want to keep them to get them from the library. But I just love owning books and if I want to read a specific book at 2am on Sunday night knowing I can grab it and settle down and read it makes me buy.

Anyway I hope you enjoy the books you've acquired this week. There's nothing like it.

[callmemadam.livejournal.com]

Wise words and thank you for your support in Book Buyers' Anonymous. You have done better (or worse) than me this week and I didn't include the books I bought to sell. I have been known to come home from a boot sale with forty books.

You are so right about 2 a.m. Sometimes you've just got to read that book now and that means owning it.

I hope you enjoy the books you've acquired this week
Thank you! They look promising and even the secondhand ones look new, which makes a change from the dusty old tomes I like to buy as a rule.

[gghost.livejournal.com]

Ah, a reader after my own heart.

[callmemadam.livejournal.com]

Thank goodness for kindred spirits.

Helpful advice

[dovegreyreader.livejournal.com]

Oh the Adichie for sure...no wait a minute the Stef Penney was great, but then Garrison Keillor is soooo good and look, a Fidra book, they are all lovely reads.NO NO NO stop, you have a Penelope Fitzgerald there, read that one NOW.Sorry was it help or hindrance you were looking for?

Re: Helpful advice

[callmemadam.livejournal.com]

Thank you, you are a help :-). It might be the Jonathan Coe as I've wanted to read The Closed Circle ever since finishing The Rotters' Club. OTOH Let the Northern Lights Erase your Name sounds interesting and by coincidence is the current R4 Book at Bedtime. But then you've raved about the Adichie...

I'm glad you Like Garrison Keillor. Lake Wobegon Days is one of my favourite books. I was actually in America when I started to read it, having no idea what sort of book it was. Then on page three I suddenly laughed out loud, and knew. The tape made many long family car journeys bearable.