for me to spend a small fortune on book??!! need to feel less guilty

[lovecamping]

i know i should have gone to the library but my kids have damaged the last few books we borrowed from the library and we're lost a couple so i've had to play for them anyway.

a couple of books are presents for DH...

should i send them back when they arrive???

wot a stupid dilemma .. i know i'm sorry

sorry didn't do proper links . The shame.

thank you ladies. its really nice to someone recommend books as i usually lean towards the chick-lit books (i studied english literature as well as a'level)! it's shamefull i know.

i've put Snobs, Eat pray love, by grand central station i sat and wept, and the golden notebook on my amazon list of books to buy. i'm a bit shopped out for tonight.

i really like the idea of joining a book club but have no idea where to start??

I agree - don't feel guilty, feel proud. not enough kids read these days imo. Then they complain that they're bored all thetime. I fully plan to encourage reading as much as possible in my children. I love it so much, and wouldn't want my kids to miss out on the magic that reading injects into your life. What else would you have spent the money on? computer games? DVDs? Books are much better!

just a thought - I buy most of my books from charity shops as I would be seriously broke otherwise (even with DS, I still manage to get through 1 a week at least - it was 4-5 a week before he started taking an interest in ripping paper).

I do buy DS's books new though - it's books for me I get from charity shops.

I buy most of my books in charity shops, too...or in cheap bookshops....only when I need/want specific Books do I order them...like I did today

Oh god books are one of the last things you are allowed to pay for rather than buy locally and/or grow your own.

Spend woman spend!

saying that my lot get through so many I bring a wheelbarrow to library sales as the way to invest in a hundred or so children's books.

www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/womanshour/01/2008_35_mon.shtml

You might like to listen to this if you are planning on reading 'The Golden Notebooks'.

It is a good interview!

Yes - I have the same 'book club' yearnings too!!!

So tell me... Has anyone ever been to or goes to a book club? What is it like? How do you find out about book clubs in your area?

i think my local library does one or you can easily set them up with friends, i think. there's also the MN book club.

i dont know really, i hear people mention that they're a part of a book club but have never been invited .

good idea abou the library sales, Slur.

mmm.... maybe you should invite yourself "Ooooh - that sounds great - I would love to come along with you one night!"

I don't even think of books as an expense. So my input is useless. Keep 'em.

nkf read the previous posts - lovecamping is going to keep them and buy loads of books for herself and join a book club!!!!!!

She is completely guilt free now!!!

That is the power of MN.

Lovecamping, I spent 30 euros on art equipment for dd today... am feeling like you were feeling last night!

nkf - we are recommending books for adults - any smashers you would like to add?

Even though I read quickly, for some reason, I can't cope with the pressure of having to read something by a certain date.

So I say, unless it's a crazy crazy amount of money, just treat yourself and enjoy the books.

Claudia, Ps, I really loved Eat, Pray, Love.

it only ends up being a problem when the lady in the book shop addresses you by name,sees you coming through the door and has your ordered books ready for you by the time you reach the counter.

As an author I can nod and smile.

I recently read and could recommend:
I am Charlotte Simmons by Tom Wolfe
Enduring Love
And....don't laugh - The Wag's Diary.
Actually, laugh if you want.

I agree to all the above about spending money on books always being good, and I'd like to add that you can always resell them online, on amazon's secondhand books thing! That way you can trade them in!

Nigelatheoriginal - you made with and giggle. unfortunately we dont have any little books near me, only the big waterstones.

i might pop into Books Etc at oxford street on friday - loads of adult books and tea.

i recently read My Favourite Wife (Tony Parsons), Second chance (jane green) and PS i love you. really liked the first two but not too impressed by PS I love you.

Feel abosutely no guilt about the books now (did think i might get slated). Am really excited about receiving the BIG parcel now.

thank you ladies

NigellaTheOrigional - That happens to me too. I thought it was nice - but maybe it is a warning sign!!!!

Litchick - wow wow wow - so ISBNs for your books or titles at least so we can read them PLLLLLEEEEEAAAAASSSEEE!!!!

Sadly if I told you that I'd have to kill you...seriously some of the stuff I post on here would not please my publishers so best to keep anon

Litchick good idea - BUT Oh my goodness - so difficult for me because right now I could be talking to my favourite author living author and not know it!!! And I go all goey talking to people who write for a living.

Come clean... you are Doris Lessings aren't you, Litchick?

• No because if Lessings were on mn her nickname would be "stopsayingiamafemministitbelittlesmymessage"

Jeanette Winterson???? No... she seems too cool for mn.

Zora Neale Hurston - no don't be her I would stop being able to type especially as she is dead.

So I am able to continue typing I am going to imagine you once wrote a poem when you were 7 and it got published in a book that was sold in Baptist churches to raise money for an orphanage in a far away land.

OK I can continue typing now!

See....

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uuurrrrmmm... I was thinking, litchick - could I invite you to become a fooc? I think we would enjoy reading a real writer's take on life.

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/2423/576865

pookiepodgeandtubs - Eat, Pray, Love is good isn't it. I was given it by a friend and thought "uh oh here comes some new agey self-indulgent nonsense about a bored weathly Noo Yorker", but NO, I was wrong, It's great. she is a great writer (well not great in the sense of Dickens of course) but really readable and funny and interesting. I recommend it.

www.amazon.co.uk/Eat-Pray-Love-Womans-Everything/dp/0747585660/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=121979 2717&sr=8-1

You have convinced me - it is on my wishlist now as well!!!

(eeerrrrmmm... hey....psssst... claudia whispers... please please please pop in and post a fooc report - we want to know what is going on in your part of the World. (Whoops - Second foocs plug on this thread - hey, tea play it cool and I don't really think anyone will notice - see they didn't. Smoothly done... bravo!))

Lovecamping - This is my current handbag read - so far it is just beautiful... I think you might like it too....www.amazon.co.uk/Lighthousekeeping-Jeanette-Winterson/dp/0007181507/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1 219793276&sr=1-1