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[Natasha]

Joo The Grand Inquisitor wrote: "I decided that I'd send Hugh Howey my interrogation questions and if he didn't reply I wouldn't read it and if he did, then I would."

Tease! Please expand :-)

[Adele]

Just finished Dominion, not very good IMO, now starting The Shock of the Fall

[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

Jud (Disney Diva) wrote: "So long as you read them it's worth it in my opinion. I've curbed my spending because I was buying books and then not getting round to reading them."

That's what stopped me buying any of the collections, even if I only read the ones I've bought rather than got free I wouldn't be reading them any time soon!

[Lorraine]

Finished Kill Me If You Can,wasn't much of a mystery, but was ok.Starting Tuesday's Gone.

[Fiona (Titch)]

I have decided to read Faceless: A Mystery - Dawn Kopman Whidden.

[Lexie]

I've spent a 40 quid book token! It was lovely - haven't had one for years!

[Michelle]

I've just added all my purchases up and they came to £15 since the start of the year, definitely higher than I had thought. But ive enjoyed what I've read so far this year.

[Jud]

I went a bit Elle (compliment!) a couple of years ago and keep a spreadsheet of all my books so I can keep a track of what I've bought and read and what the value of my unread books are.

[Karen]

I started an excel spreadsheet about the same time I got my Kindle, Dec 2011! and I'm not admitting to how much I spend. But I very rarely bother with free ones these days apart from an occasional classic

[Debbie]

Just finished Somebody Killed His Editor by Josh Lanyon - loved it! Very amusing and easy to read. It's the first book in his Holmes and Moriarity series.

Just starting All She Wrote, which is book two of the same.

Also just finished Fear of Falling by Roz Marshall, which is episode 2 of the White Cairns Ski School series. I read episode 1 and the interlude short story before this. Episodes 1 and 2 are novellas based on the same set of characters, but each focuses on different characters in more detail.

[Elle]

Jud (Disney Diva) wrote: "I went a bit Elle (compliment!) a couple of years ago and keep a spreadsheet of all my books so I can keep a track of what I've bought and read and what the value of my unread books are."

*puffs with pride*

My little organised Jud *pets*

[Jud]

*grins*

I've even made up a spread sheet for the baby items we need to buy before the baby gets here so we can keep track of what we are spending and what is being given as gifts or 'handed down'. Plus with the clearout we are having we are selling a few things and I'm keeping track of that too so we can use that money to buy baby things.

[Joo]

Natasha (Diarist) wrote: "Joo The Grand Inquisitor wrote: "I decided that I'd send Hugh Howey my interrogation questions and if he didn't reply I wouldn't read it and if he did, then I would."

Tease! Please expand :-)"

http://joobook.blogspot.co.uk/2014/01...
He replied and I blogged it.

I love spreadsheets, although I tend to do mine once a month. I did have a colouring system with KUF and GR authors and did I review the books etc and also when I got a book on offer or free, what the normal price is so that I can see just how much I have saved (probably well over a thousand pounds)

[Rosemary (grooving with the Picts)]

*whispers* confession time - I don't know how many books I've bought, or which of them are on my kindle, or how many of them I've read/not read, or what I paid for them *runs away before Elle, Joo & Jud self combust*

[Kath]

I agree Rosemary. If I want a book - I buy it. I tell myself I owe it to myself - and I believe every word I say!

[Natasha]

Joo The Grand Inquisitor wrote: "http://joobook.blogspot.co.uk/2014/01...
He replied and I blogged it."

Like :-)

[Jud]

Rosemary (the Fourth Plinth) wrote: "*whispers* confession time - I don't know how many books I've bought, or which of them are on my kindle, or how many of them I've read/not read, or what I paid for them *runs away before Elle, Joo ..."

I'd be happy to do that if I have gone click happy and completely lost track of the books that I owned

[Elle]

Kath wrote: "I agree Rosemary. If I want a book - I buy it. I tell myself I owe it to myself - and I believe every word I say!"

I don't think having a spreadsheet means that I don't share the same freehearted spirit in book buying you seem to think you have that I lack.

It just means my free spirit is organised afterwards.

[Jud]

Haha! Well said Elle!

[Jay-me (Janet)]

Rosemary (the Fourth Plinth) wrote: "*whispers* confession time - I don't know how many books I've bought, or which of them are on my kindle, or how many of them I've read/not read, or what I paid for them *runs away before Elle, Joo ..."



Snap.



Although I do keep track of what I spend by putting vouchers onto my account.


& It is pigging snowing and my car is halfway down the hill, and I won't be moving it from there so I will be walking home :( I HATE SNOW.

[Debbie]

The idea of putting my book purchases into a spreadsheet is terrifying. I don't think I want to know. Do I? No, best not.

I have much admiration, though! That's super organised!

[Kath]

Nope, I'm not organised and I don't care! :)

[Tim]

Joo The Grand Inquisitor wrote: "I was umming an ahhing about reading Wool, so I decided that I'd send Hugh Howey my interrogation questions and if he didn't reply I wouldn't read it and if he did, then I would.
So I'm going to re..."

Hugh Howey is god. Loved his Wool books (he's the only indie I have in hardback!!!)

[Adele]

Just finished Legacy of Blood and now reading Memory of Bones both by Alex Connor. Really pleased to have discovered this author

[David]

Debbie wrote: "The idea of putting my book purchases into a spreadsheet is terrifying. I don't think I want to know. Do I? No, best not.

I have much admiration, though! That's super organised!"

Wait. We're writers! Can we deduct these as training expenses? Hmmmm. Maybe it's time to start that spreadsheet after all!

[Lexie]

Do you mean I can spend a book token and it's tax deductible? I was already impressed that it counted for four stars on my Waterstone's reward card! (no independent book shops round here)

[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

Hmm, failed on my not buying today, bought this and the first compilation - 50 stories for £1.20, and over 1000 pages

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Thriller-Stor...

[Elle]

Sounds like fun Desley!

[Jud]

I finished Oliver Twist, why haven't I read this before? It was brilliant!

[Fiona (Titch)]

I have finished Faceless - Dawn Kopman Whidden and now about to pick up The Husband's Secret - Liane Moriarty.

[Adele]

Just finished The Shock of the Fall which is utterly brilliant, but very sad so to lighten the mood, now reading The Diaries of a Fleet Street Fox

[Lorraine]

Finished Tuesday's Gone,really enjoyed this,better than the 1st one in the series.Started Original Skin.

[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

Just finished Duma Key, really enjoyed it. Reading one of my early kindle books next, Hide in Plain Sight, will hopefully be a quick read

[Adele]

Just finished reading The Diaries of a Fleet Street Fox yes I did read it quick, mostly because it was not very good

[Stevo]

Just finished Cross Roads by WM Paul Young and just started into High Society by Ben Elton.

[Tim]

Just started Kath's Ravenfold.

[Kath]

Good luck with that, Tim! ;)

[Tim]

Yeah, I'll need it! :P

[Natasha]

Just finished Why Are You Atheists So Angry? 99 Things That Piss Off the Godless by Greta Christina (Four stars. My review).

Just started The Diary of a Nobody by George Grossmith and Weedon Grossmith.

[Michael]

I've just finished Visitor in Lunacy and it's a fine read after a bumpy start:

http://thecultofme.blogspot.co.uk/201...

I'm now onto Hellbender.

[Jud]

I started Man and Wife, and so far the girls at the beginning of the book have grown up, had their own families, died and now their daughters are getting married and I'm only 4% in.

[Elle]

Just started Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

Am 14% in and have no idea what is going on. Really not what i expected.

[Gingerlily - The Full Wild]

Elle wrote: "Just started Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

Am 14% in and have no idea what is going on. Really not what i expected."

It does kind of make sense. Eventually...

[Sam]

Gingerlily - Smiter of idiots. wrote:
It does kind of make sense. Eventually..."

Yes. I was glad I stuck with it.

[Elle]

Ye i liked it enough to continue. Just really wasn't what I was expecting..

[Gingerlily - The Full Wild]

Elle wrote: "Ye i liked it enough to continue. Just really wasn't what I was expecting.."

Its very different to the Hitchhiker's Guide.

[Elle]

See i think its very similar. The first couple of chapters could easily be lifted straight out of a hitchihiker book.

[Gingerlily - The Full Wild]

Funny that - I thought it was really different... maybe because I have read the whole thing a few times. It'll be interesting to see what you think when you finish it.

[Natasha]

Elle wrote: "Just started Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency. Am 14% in and have no idea what is going on."

Gingerlily - Smiter of idiots. wrote: "It does kind of make sense. Eventually... "

It was the other way round for me. It all made sense for ages. But towards the end I lost the plot completely. Apparently, the trick is to read the book twice. I don't think I could cope with that, though.

[Gingerlily - The Full Wild]

I did enjoy it enough to read it more than once. Not the second book though. I think he was either rushing it or running out of ideas on that one. The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul