laurashambles in Ireland is doing 30 things including…

Read the books I own before buying more


 

laurashambles has written 2 entries about this goal

Ugghh... 2 months ago

I bought more. Slap on the wrist for me. =[

44. Just in Case by Meg Rosoff
45. American Gods by Neil Gaiman
46. Let The Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist


1. The Restaurant at the End of the Universe by Douglas Adams
2. Life, the Universe and Everything by Douglas Adams
3. The Penelopiad by Margret Atwood
4. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
5. Double Cross by Malorie Blackman
6. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
7. Oscar Wilde and the Candlelight Murders by Gyles Brandreth
8. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
9. The Magicians’ Guild by Trudi Canavan
10. Going Solo by Roald Dahl
11. A Scanner Darkly by Phillip K. Dick
12. The Snapper by Roddy Doyle
13. The Van by Roddy Doyle
14. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
15. The Luxe by Anna Godbersen
16. Summer Of My German Soldier by Bette Greene
17. Replay by Ken Grimwood
18. Heaven’s Net Is Wide by Lian Hearn
19. Slam by Nick Hornby
20. About a Boy by Nick Hornby
21. The World According to Garp by John Irving
22. The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
23. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
24. The Gunslinger by Stephen King
25. The Drawing of the Three by Stephen King
26. Prince Caspian by C.S. Lewis
27. The Voyage of the Dawn Treader by C.S. Lewis
28. The Silver Chair by C.S. Lewis
29. The Last Battle by C.S. Lewis
30. The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch
31. Sabriel by Garth Nix
32. Lirael by Garth Nix
33. Abhorsen by Garth Nix
34. Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
35. The Colour of Magic by Terry Pratchett
36. Cirque Du Freak by Darren Shan
37. Cinema: The First Hundred Years by David Shipman
38. Funny Ladies: 100 Years of Great Comediennes by Stephen M. Silverman
39. Wringer by Jerry Spinelli
40. Q&A by Vikas Swarup
41. The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
42. Live From Golgota
43. Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
44. What I Saw And How I Lied by Judy Blundell
45. Stolen by Lucy Christopher



This is slightly embarrassing... 4 months ago

I’ve got 43 books (how appropriate! =]) sitting on my bookshelf that I haven’t read. I ordered two more online tonight and I’m going to Dublin in a few days which inevitably means one thing and one thing only: More books. I have a problem.

On the shelves:

1. The Restaurant at the End of the Universe by Douglas Adams
2. Life, the Universe and Everything by Douglas Adams
3. The Penelopiad by Margret Atwood
4. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
5. Double Cross by Malorie Blackman
6. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
7. Oscar Wilde and the Candlelight Murders by Gyles Brandreth
8. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
9. The Magicians’ Guild by Trudi Canavan
10. Going Solo by Roald Dahl
11. A Scanner Darkly by Phillip K. Dick
12. The Snapper by Roddy Doyle
13. The Van by Roddy Doyle
14. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
15. The Luxe by Anna Godbersen
16. Summer Of My German Soldier by Bette Greene
17. Replay by Ken Grimwood
18. Heaven’s Net Is Wide by Lian Hearn
19. Slam by Nick Hornby
20. About a Boy by Nick Hornby
21. The World According to Garp by John Irving
22. The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
23. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
24. The Gunslinger by Stephen King
25. The Drawing of the Three by Stephen King
26. Prince Caspian by C.S. Lewis
27. The Voyage of the Dawn Treader by C.S. Lewis
28. The Silver Chair by C.S. Lewis
29. The Last Battle by C.S. Lewis
30. The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch
31. Sabriel by Garth Nix
32. Lirael by Garth Nix
33. Abhorsen by Garth Nix
34. Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
35. The Colour of Magic by Terry Pratchett
36. Cirque Du Freak by Darren Shan
37. Cinema: The First Hundred Years by David Shipman
38. Funny Ladies: 100 Years of Great Comediennes by Stephen M. Silverman
39. Wringer by Jerry Spinelli
40. Q&A by Vikas Swarup
41. The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
42. Live From Golgota
43. Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut

And on their way:

44. What I Saw And How I Lied by Judy Blundell
45. Stolen by Lucy Christopher



 

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