A year of no book buying. Anyone care to join me?

[Parisbanana]

I've had a dummy run, starting at the beginning of the school year in September, just so it didn't seem too daunting! But so far I'm embracing it. I buy a lot of books generally and just thought we'd got so many in the house. I do read the vast majority of what I buy, but I do have books I haven't read, and my husband and teenage kids have some great books I would love to read.
So over the past 3 months I have definitely decreased my bedside pile. I am currently reading A Christmas Carol which dh reads every December but I never have. It's quite a joy to browse our book cases and spot things I haven't read and think this is the year I'll get round to it! Or to reread old favourites.
And I've just been made redundant so tightening the book buying belt is even more important.

Anyone fancy giving it a go?

That's how I feel about board games Momma - I tried just going a month without buying any but couldn't even do that! Books, well I'm doing ok so far but I have a huge to read pile that I want to make progress on so that's helping - I'm thinking some books will be donated or sold after reading and we really need a declutter, so it's a good incentive.

I bought Joanna trollope new book in paper back €12:50 ( well it's in post from book depository).
Looking forward to reading it. She is my guilty pleasure 😉 Will do better next month.

I bought the second Outlander book - Dragonly in Amber. . Am obsessed at the moment. I suspect I will be buying the rest of the series.

I have gone straight into reading it after finishing the first one but will read one from my pile between each one from now on. I'm not a member of a library but suppose I could join and borrow them. We will see.

This thread seems to have slipped into

'Books we are buying in spite of trying not to'!

I know! However I am not buying any Kindle daily deals and am avoiding bookshops.

I had a thought that I bought some of the Outlander series for my mum years ago so they might still be at my dads. Will have a hunt when I'm next there. Prob not for a few months though.

I'm on book no. 4 for February-Longbourn by Jo Baker. I also read Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie, The Thrill of It All by Joseph O'Connor and Mind Change;How Digital Technologies are Leaving their Marks on our Brains by Susan Greenfield. I still haven't bought a book in 2017.
Balzac was lovely. The Thrill of It All started so well but the second half really dragged. I was a little disappointed with Mind Change. It felt like Susan Greenfield was cherry-picking research to back up her point of view and it wasn't very engagingly written at all.

I've only technically bought one book this year which was a preorder from last year! It's saving me a small fortune not buying those 99p books although I have almost been tempted by books on my wish list dropping in price! Just means I'll have great ideas for birthday and Christmas presents at the end of the year and hopefully less of a pile of books TBR

Still not bought a book but certainly don't think anyone should feel guilty for slipping up. For goodness sake we have enough things in life to make us feel guilty, if we take a lot of pleasure from buying a book, then no one should begrudge us. However as someone down (up?) thread said, if we are a little more mindful about what we buy then that's a good thing.

Anyway I'm still on the book about a barge bookshop (actually taking a break from it as I wanted something to get my teeth into over half term). So finally reading Noughts and Crosses which both my kids loved, and is a sort of must-read. About half way through. Such an eye opener, really makes you think.

I like Malorie Blackman. I read Boys don't cry a while back Paris and thought it was great. May have to go to the library and get noughts and crosses out. No more books bought here either since the Book People accidental order...

I've wrote out all my fiction and my main cache of none fiction books so I can work through them systematically.
Currently have books of short stories by Stephen King and one by Neil Gaimon on the go along with Oryx and Crack by Margaret Atwood.
Non fiction I just bought a few but gonna stay out of The Works and work through Small Talk and The Epigenics Revolution simultaneously

I'm just finishing about 2-2.5 years of reading all the books I own (I have rather a lot!) - fiction & non-fiction. I'm down to the last few non-fiction and am so looking forward to reading for 'pleasure' again. I've actually bought about a shelf's worth of new (fiction) books over the last month so am going to savour them (some from MN recommendations).
It's a good way of making you really appreciate what you've got & your old favourites.

Still resisting and have made a litte hole in the collection. Most of my books are in storage before we move but I did keep quite a few back, which I am reading and then passing to the local Charity Shop. I do try not to linger in there because they do have a lovely bookcase full of almost new books in very good conidtion. I have noticed that my credit card bill is much shorter without all the 99p bargains I used to snap up every so often -virtually every day-.

I'm going to alternate between paperback and kindle I think. Currently trying reading Baby Doll which is in the R&J 2017 Book Club. It's OK, a bit juvenile in its writing style but I'll read it.

I'm going to alternate between paperback and kindle I think. Currently trying reading Baby Doll which is in the R&J 2017 Book Club. It's OK, a bit juvenile in its writing style but I'll read it.

I'm in to my 13th book The Breakdown - B A Paris. This was my accidental purchase and I thoroughly enjoyed the debut novel by this author so hoping this one is just as good.

Not buying but also not reading much either Where is this year going?

Just finished 'I am Pilgrim' great read but I struggled slightly as at nine hundred pages I think it's longest book I ve ever read!

Two more library books to go!

We'll done bootygirl I have about 70 pages left of baby doll so hope to finish it tonight

nearly finished 'The Last Murder' by Anne Holt. It is quite good, nowhere near Jo Nesbo but quite readable! Then maybe I shall read something that is not a crime novel.....

So The Breakdown by B A Paris wasn't as gripping as the first novel but still enjoyable and a good enough read. Now onto 206 bones - Kathy Reichs which I borrowed from the library. 14th book of tha year might actually be getting somewhere!

I've bought more of the Outlander series. Currently on book 4. And I spotted the new Philippa Gregory in Sainsbury's yesterday for £2.99 - I've been waiting for it to come out in paperback so it went in the trolley!

I know it's not adhering to the no book buying but I'm really enjoying the Outlander books and am reading more than I'm on here which is good. I've gone through stages where I spend so much time on here that I hardly read. I'm aiming for 60 books this year on Good Reads after doing 50 last year. I'm currently at 12 which apparently is five ahead of schedule.

I am sticking to the no 99p kindle impulse buys or just wandering into Waterstones and coming out with more books. And once I've finished the Outlander books I don't think I will be tempted by anything else. So then I will get back to getting through the books on my unread shelf in the spare room and the unread kindle ones.

Just finished The More of Less by Joshua Becker. It's about "finding the life you want under everything you own". I thought it fitted nicely with our no book buying challenge!

severed was it any good? I d like to be a minimalist but I am lazy TBH! And the Kondo book seems extreme!

I finished two more of my tbrs. I've had A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man on a shelf for ages and I feel good that I've finally read some James Joyce but it wouldn't inspire me to go and read the rest of his oeuvre. I also read The Next Big Thing by Anita Brookner. I think that I bought it in 2003 and I don't know why I never got around to reading it. It was wonderful. Now I am reading Nanjing 1937: A Love Story by Ye Zhaoyan. It's much lighter and funnier than I was expecting.

FINALLY fucking FINALLY finished Delusions of Gender. Really enjoyed it. I'm just a very slow reader (I get brain fog) and it's worse with non-fiction. I was feeling really demotivated because I was plodding along and only just got past 50%! But it turned out most of the second half is footnotes etc. So I'm done. Yay!

Still reading The Rosie Effect which I'm enjoying, and I need to finish my manga and then start a book of Japanese short stories as my friend let me borrow them aaaages ago and I really must give them back!