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Original poster

To be precious about my new book

31 replies

TreeTrunkThighs · 20/01/2010 21:39

My new book arrived today from amazon. Mil scoffed at the title then read the back and asked if she could borrow it for her holiday next week. I muttered something non-committal.

When she was gathering her stuff to go home I hid my book from her. I love books. Especially shiny new ones. She forgot it.

Was IBU?

OP posts:
GoWithIt · 20/01/2010 21:41

YADNBU.

winnybella · 20/01/2010 21:42

Definitely YWBNU.
What was she thinking?
As long as you will lend it to her when you have read it.

LauraIngallsWilder · 20/01/2010 21:43

YADNBU

What is your shiney new book called then?

Obviously I wont scoff at it!

ChilloDOESNOTLIKELIARShippi · 20/01/2010 21:51

YANBU.

Pushmeinthepool · 20/01/2010 21:54

YANBU, hide it and don't let her get her paws on it!

wuglet · 20/01/2010 21:56

Oh I thought you meant your own actual book that you had written.

YANBU though, I don't like letting new books go until I have read them - and get cross if they come back with the spines bent!

havoc · 20/01/2010 21:56

YANBU, she's a cheeky mare!

Whats the book?

BelleDameSansMerci · 20/01/2010 21:56

Of course YWNBU! But it would be VU not to tell us what the book is...

Original poster
TreeTrunkThighs · 20/01/2010 21:59

Good! Not just me then.

It's 'Their eyes were watching God' by Zora Neale Hurston. Can't wait to get stuck in.

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Alibabaandthe40nappies · 20/01/2010 22:01

YANBU. Highly rude to want to borrow something before the owner has even read/listened/used it!

2rebecca · 20/01/2010 22:10

I would have said no in the first place. Agree very rude to ask to borrow a new book so would have had no qualms about being blunt in return.

2rebecca · 20/01/2010 22:11

I don't take decent books on holiday (as I wreck them), so would be disinclined to lend them to other folk to take on holiday.

callaird · 21/01/2010 10:11

YADNBU - I get stroppy if someone reads a MAGAZINE before I have read it, try to read a book before I have read it and there will be violence!!

I don't even like it when my dad picks up a book I am reading, opens it to my bookmark and reads that page!! Of course, I don't say anything to him about it though.

BigBadMummy · 21/01/2010 10:16

DDDDNBU

I love new books. In fact I am about to pounce on the post man because I am expecting a delivery from Amazon today.

I would have battered her for even touching it.

I am the same with magazines. And if anybody touches my newspaper and then gives it back with the pages skew whiff I get irrationally angry.

I got an eReader for Christmas so people can not touch my books now and read them without me reading the first (other than above book, which is Louise Hay's You Can Heal Your Life, and is not available as an ebook).

crankytwanky · 21/01/2010 10:16

YANBU!

Send her a link to Amazon or TheBookDepository.

CMOTdibbler · 21/01/2010 10:18

YANBU - reading someones new magazine before they have read it is bad enough, but a new book is yours, and yours only, to savour

Babieseverywhere · 21/01/2010 10:20

Ooo, What is eReader like ? I have thought about an electronic book, drool all the books you can carry with you but dislike the idea of the battery going or losing my bookmark.

MmeLindt · 21/01/2010 10:21

OP
No, YANBU. Why would she first scoff at the book then want to read it. Cheeky.

Alambil · 21/01/2010 10:21

absolutely not

what book is it?

I have loads of books from Christmas and my birthday to get through - NOONE is to read them before me!

MmeLindt · 21/01/2010 10:22

BabiesEverywhere
I have Kindle for iPhone, it is a free app and very good.

nickelbabe · 21/01/2010 10:22

never ever ever lend your books to anyone!

if she really wants to read it, buy it for her!

why on earth would someone try to borrow your book beforeyou've even read it???
that's just selfish and mean!

Poledra · 21/01/2010 10:23

YADNBU - what, have someone else read your new book and get all the pleasure of that new book smell (though books don't smell as nice as I remember them doing when I was young [old gimmer emoticon])? And if they break the spine, I would probably have to commit murder....

I don't often lend out books and when I do, I alwasy pt a book mark in them. I am a control freak, I think.

Alambil · 21/01/2010 10:25

oooooo it sounds great!

preggersplayspop · 21/01/2010 10:29

YANBU, I also hate it when someone rifles through my magazines before I get to them. They feel sullied afterwards. Same with books. I like to break the spine myself , can't bear if it someone else has done it.

I'm the same with cans of fizzy drinks as well. I hate it if someone opens it and takes a sip before I do. My DH pretends to do this just to wind me up.

MrsMellowdrummer · 21/01/2010 10:30

That's a lovely book - you are definitely not being at all unreasonable.

I have an e-reader (an Amazon Kindle), and I can say without a moment's hesitation that, husband and children aside, it is my favourite thing in the whole world.