@Paula and @Paula, I have it, too, but I can’t bring myself to read it and possibly ruin To Kill a Mockingbird for me, as it’s one of my favorite novels ever. @Cathy, that’s exactly what I’m afraid of.
I reread Mockingbird…then read Watchman…I almost wuit reading it because it made me so mad. I guess, if you can read it…and keep thinking of it as entirely different people…but I don’t know. ☹
I read some reviews on ‘Go Set a Watchman’ & I knew myself that I wouldn’t enjoy it, I believe that there is a part of me that wouldn’t let ‘GSAW’ ruin ‘TKAMB’ for me but there is a bigger part of me that wants to remember the characters as they were in ‘TKAMB’? apologies for abbreviations?☺️
@Paula and @Tracy, I am going to get my copy of One of Us Is Lying back from my daughter the next time I go over to her house. I lent it to her for her and my teenage granddaughter to read a couple of months ago. My granddaughter has read it, but my daughter still hasn’t. Time’s up.
I currently have over 700 unread books not including the ones on my nook and still I keep adding to them ? as I read them, I take them to my upstairs bookshelves and then buy more to fill the gaps they leave ?? these are my most current purchases. I think i have a slight book problem! ??
I love big books but only if it is necessary. It came highly recommended so it will be my next book after I get through these library books. Just finished All The Ugly Wonderful Things.
I have 7 books to read sitting on my bedside cabinet ~
The Plague Charmer by Karen Maitland The Princess Diarist by Carrie Fisher Thin Air by Michelle Paver The Sun is also a Star by Nicola Yoon Words and Music by Haruki Murakami The Fireman by Joe Hill The Couple Next Door by Shari Lapena?
And a lot of kindle books & more books to read in a box too.?
You know, sometimes I wish someone was in the room with me so that I could jump up and down with them over a book. @Paula, I have The Plague Charmer by Karen Maitland waiting for me, too. Have you read The Owl Killers or Company of Liars by her? They’re two of my favorite books. A little story involving Karen Maitland and me. I was having trouble finding a book of hers in the U.S. It was a time she was without a U.S. publisher and before Book Depository. I emailed her telling her that I was having trouble finding it, and she sent me a signed copy plus a postcard from Lincolnshire, where she lived at the time. I have held her in the highest esteem since.
@Kathy that was so nice of her, this is my first book by Karen Maitland I have, although I do have ‘The Owl Killers’ & ‘Company of Liars’ on my wishlist, I’m so glad they are your favourites too! I wish I could be jumping about with you about books too?
Let me know when you read The Owl Killers and Company of Liars, okay? I want to jump around then, too. I am going to try really hard to make room for The Plague Charmer this spring.
Dan Brown’s Origin has been on my bedroom floor since it arrived on the day of release. I’ve picked it up to read at least 3 times but just not been in the mood.
@Liz, you have some great reading there to look forward to. Three of my favorites are in those stacks. Peter May’s Blackhouse is outstanding, and is part of the Lewis Trilogy, so you will have two more after it to read and enjoy. Black Rabbit Hall was my surprise favorite read last year, and I hope you enjoy it as much as I did. The Forgotten Garden is also a wonderful read, as are all of Kate Morton’s.
I guess most of mine are books by authors that I plan to keep. I have all John Grisham and Pat Conroy…most of Stephen King and…and Joyce Maynard. When a new one comes out…or I find one I don’t have…I get it. BUT, I don’t rush ? to read it because I’m going to keep it. Then there is Middlesex, The Clan of the Cave Bears series…I’ve collected but haven’t finished…Brotger Odd series by Dean Koontz? yes, there’s more.
My downfall is the libraries used bookstores…. I .ean…50 cents? $1? Why wait? Go I. To check out a book, and find several to buy. Great choice and turnover. I’m doomed.
Every year I make out a reading list of books I want to read, which includes a section for new publications, catch-up on different series, and books that have been waiting on my shelf. It’s so hard to get to the older ones because I do reviewing for new publications. However, a few of these books are Shadow Land by Elizabeth Kostova (usually read hers as soon as they come out, since so few have, including The Historian, a favorite); Under a Pole Star by Stef Penny; the last two Sue Grafton novels, X and Y; The Name of the Star by Maureen Johnson; Runaway by Peter May; Broken Monsters by Lauren Beukes; The Lake House by Kate Morton; and The Secret Chord by Geraldine Brooks. These are authors that I usually read quickly, but have fallen behind on.
I bought the whole series ages ago but never got around to reading it. I hope to dig into it soon. ? I thought the whole series was collectively called GOT . ? Kristin @Kristen
Sitabz Garg Song of ice and fire ? Game of thrones is the first volume, most people think that bc of the tv series, I love the series so much that the books pale in comparison … the acting etc …but the books are truly great too, you have something to look forward to
Got a whole bunch of them 😛
titles 😉
Beknopte geschiedenis van nederland, Keltische legendes, Neuromancer, The circle, And the last 2 books of the maze runner series to name a few.
Go Set A Watchman x
I have a copy too & I can’t bring myself to read it☺️
Made me mad….now I don’t like either one.
@Paula and @Paula, I have it, too, but I can’t bring myself to read it and possibly ruin To Kill a Mockingbird for me, as it’s one of my favorite novels ever. @Cathy, that’s exactly what I’m afraid of.
I reread Mockingbird…then read Watchman…I almost wuit reading it because it made me so mad. I guess, if you can read it…and keep thinking of it as entirely different people…but I don’t know.
☹
I read some reviews on ‘Go Set a Watchman’ & I knew myself that I wouldn’t enjoy it, I believe that there is a part of me that wouldn’t let ‘GSAW’ ruin ‘TKAMB’ for me but there is a bigger part of me that wants to remember the characters as they were in ‘TKAMB’? apologies for abbreviations?☺️
Hey, I shortened them too….way too long!
@Cathy thanks hen x
Too many
name a few 😉
The Rooster Bar, What Happened, Before We Were Yours, The Color of our Sky, Logavina Street….
Far too many! ?
examples 😉
The Mortal Instruments series, The Covenant series, Caraval, One Of Us is Lying, so many Stephen King and Jodi Picoult! So many books! ?
@Tracy Read One of Us Is Lying soon!! x
@Paula and @Tracy, I am going to get my copy of One of Us Is Lying back from my daughter the next time I go over to her house. I lent it to her for her and my teenage granddaughter to read a couple of months ago. My granddaughter has read it, but my daughter still hasn’t. Time’s up.
casual vacancy
same x
The only book I haven’t read by J.K. Rowling yet is Casual Vacancy. I plan on reading it sometime though.
I bought it almost 5 months ago but haven’t read it yet. Got stucked in Nicholas Sparks.
I currently have over 700 unread books not including the ones on my nook and still I keep adding to them ? as I read them, I take them to my upstairs bookshelves and then buy more to fill the gaps they leave ?? these are my most current purchases. I think i have a slight book problem! ??
I do the same thing. I def have a book buying addiction.
I have a few. The Historian is one I want to read bad. Too many library trips. Really need to read my own books and the 200 I have on my tbr.
The Historian was really good, though a bit longer than it needed to x
I love big books but only if it is necessary. It came highly recommended so it will be my next book after I get through these library books.
Just finished All The Ugly Wonderful Things.
@Darla on my tbr as well x
Its an extremely harsh book! Good but dark!
@Darla, The Historian is one of my favorite all-time books.
Its next on my list.
I have a 2 gig flashdrive full to bursting of tbr e-books.
Doesn’t sound like a lot, but those are some tiny files.
?Lol…I plead the fifth
I have 7 books to read sitting on my bedside cabinet ~
The Plague Charmer by Karen Maitland
The Princess Diarist by Carrie Fisher
Thin Air by Michelle Paver
The Sun is also a Star by Nicola Yoon
Words and Music by Haruki Murakami
The Fireman by Joe Hill
The Couple Next Door by Shari Lapena?
And a lot of kindle books & more books to read in a box too.?
You know, sometimes I wish someone was in the room with me so that I could jump up and down with them over a book. @Paula, I have The Plague Charmer by Karen Maitland waiting for me, too. Have you read The Owl Killers or Company of Liars by her? They’re two of my favorite books. A little story involving Karen Maitland and me. I was having trouble finding a book of hers in the U.S. It was a time she was without a U.S. publisher and before Book Depository. I emailed her telling her that I was having trouble finding it, and she sent me a signed copy plus a postcard from Lincolnshire, where she lived at the time. I have held her in the highest esteem since.
@Kathy that was so nice of her, this is my first book by Karen Maitland I have, although I do have ‘The Owl Killers’ & ‘Company of Liars’ on my wishlist, I’m so glad they are your favourites too! I wish I could be jumping about with you about books too?
Let me know when you read The Owl Killers and Company of Liars, okay? I want to jump around then, too. I am going to try really hard to make room for The Plague Charmer this spring.
Company of Liars is an excellent book
11.22.63 ??
I read ‘11.22.63’ when I was working nightshift on my breaks, it took me awhile but it was worth it?
I have about 40 under my table TBR right now 🙂
boxes
Dan Brown’s Origin has been on my bedroom floor since it arrived on the day of release. I’ve picked it up to read at least 3 times but just not been in the mood.
I’m not listing alllll those! ?
a few would suffice 😉
Welll….ok
Bought these but haven’t read. It’s a sickness. ???
several of those on my tbr as well x
@Liz, you have some great reading there to look forward to. Three of my favorites are in those stacks. Peter May’s Blackhouse is outstanding, and is part of the Lewis Trilogy, so you will have two more after it to read and enjoy. Black Rabbit Hall was my surprise favorite read last year, and I hope you enjoy it as much as I did. The Forgotten Garden is also a wonderful read, as are all of Kate Morton’s.
Kathy, thanks for the comments.
I just enlarged your photo @Liz & I’m now sitting here saying to myself, “I’ve read it”, “oh that looks good”??
@Paula Glad to help.?
@Liz thanks for the fab photo hen x
No cure
I guess most of mine are books by authors that I plan to keep. I have all John Grisham and Pat Conroy…most of Stephen King and…and Joyce Maynard. When a new one comes out…or I find one I don’t have…I get it. BUT, I don’t rush ? to read it because I’m going to keep it.
Then there is Middlesex, The Clan of the Cave Bears series…I’ve collected but haven’t finished…Brotger Odd series by Dean Koontz? yes, there’s more.
I’m exactly the same way! I have to have it…but no rush to read
Well, we know it’s there!!!
Oh…and then there’s the kindle….?
I like knowing the book is there too, I have a few books for over a year but I’m like “it’s ok, I know it’s there”☺️
Not a lot of them. However, I do want to keep about a bookcase ahead (approx. 100) when it come to my books to be read.
My downfall is the libraries used bookstores….
I .ean…50 cents? $1? Why wait? Go I. To check out a book, and find several to buy. Great choice and turnover. I’m doomed.
.Lol….. I have a TBR next pile for that purpose…. and keep adding to it …. but what can we book lovers do …. ????
Every year I make out a reading list of books I want to read, which includes a section for new publications, catch-up on different series, and books that have been waiting on my shelf. It’s so hard to get to the older ones because I do reviewing for new publications. However, a few of these books are Shadow Land by Elizabeth Kostova (usually read hers as soon as they come out, since so few have, including The Historian, a favorite); Under a Pole Star by Stef Penny; the last two Sue Grafton novels, X and Y; The Name of the Star by Maureen Johnson; Runaway by Peter May; Broken Monsters by Lauren Beukes; The Lake House by Kate Morton; and The Secret Chord by Geraldine Brooks. These are authors that I usually read quickly, but have fallen behind on.
Kostova, …read her Historian, I’m scared to try another in case it doesn’t reach the same standard
I’ve still got Broken Monsters on my short list x
@Sultana, I know what you mean, but I loved The Swan Thieves, her second novel, too, even though The Historian is still my favorite.
@Paula, I loved The Shining Girls, so I’m surprised that I haven’t gotten to this one yet.
Obsidian
So many.
The two latest murakamis
I dont even know where to begin haha
95% of my 3 050 books!!!
all 13 boxes of them…………..
I have a stack of books I’m saving to read in case I’m ever banished to a deserted island!?
same days I can only hope I am ?
Game of thrones ?
Song of ice and fire you mean ?
Yup. Probably ???
Sitabz Garg a game of thrones is volume 1, but take your time, he takes his time writing them too ?
I bought the whole series ages ago but never got around to reading it. I hope to dig into it soon. ? I thought the whole series was collectively called GOT . ? Kristin @Kristen
Sitabz Garg Song of ice and fire ? Game of thrones is the first volume, most people think that bc of the tv series, I love the series so much that the books pale in comparison … the acting etc …but the books are truly great too, you have something to look forward to
Well, I admit this is another stack I bought but haven’t gotten to yet.
The Lilac Girls
So, so many lol…. i might have a problem
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