Little Pixie Posted September 23, 2015 Author Share Posted September 23, 2015 (edited) Since I was down to under 800 books in my TBR - and having trouble deciding what to read - I ordered some more books. An Age of Licence - Lucy Knisley £9.61 The Diplomat and the Gold Piano - Margaret Scherf £4.54 The Treasure Hunt - Andrea Camilleri £2.97 The Heist - Daniel Silva £4.84 The Joy of Doing Things Badly - Veronica Chambers £2.81 The Long Way Home - Louise Penny £4.66 The J Alfred Prufrock Murders - Corinne Holt Sawyer £2.81 The Age of Doubt - Andrea Camilleri £2.22 The Potters Field - Andrea Camilleri £2.80 Wear More Cashmere - Jennifer Sanders £2.80 First Come, First Kill - Frances and Richard Lockridge £2.49 Small Favour - Jim Butcher £1.98 Happier at Home - Gretchen Rubin £2.80 Practical Magic - Alice Hoffman £1.85 Books read : 148 TBR 803 New Books Bought : 178 Total Cost : £ 525.62 Edited September 23, 2015 by Little Pixie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chesilbeach Posted September 23, 2015 Share Posted September 23, 2015 Sounds sensible to me. Nothing worse than looking at the shelves and not having enough choice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Little Pixie Posted September 23, 2015 Author Share Posted September 23, 2015 Sounds sensible to me. Nothing worse than looking at the shelves and not having enough choice. Thank you ! Secretly, I knew it was logical. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Athena Posted September 24, 2015 Share Posted September 24, 2015 Since I was down to under 800 books in my TBR - and having trouble deciding what to read - I ordered some more books. Haha ! I hope you enjoy all the new books . When will they arrive? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karsa Orlong Posted September 24, 2015 Share Posted September 24, 2015 I've had the first six of Camilleri's Montalbano books sitting on my Kindle for ages. Must get around to them Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Little Pixie Posted September 24, 2015 Author Share Posted September 24, 2015 Haha ! I hope you enjoy all the new books . When will they arrive? The delivery dates are mostly Oct 8 - 23. Ooh, I hope I can find something to read in the meantime to keep me going... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Little Pixie Posted September 24, 2015 Author Share Posted September 24, 2015 I've had the first six of Camilleri's Montalbano books sitting on my Kindle for ages. Must get around to them Did you watch the TV series ? Wonderful. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kylie Posted September 24, 2015 Share Posted September 24, 2015 The delivery dates are mostly Oct 8 - 23. Ooh, I hope I can find something to read in the meantime to keep me going... So technically you can get your TBR pile back under 800 by the time your new books arrive, right? You're so brave keeping track of the amount of money you spend on books. It'd be too depressing for me to do that...and it wouldn't curb my book buying, so what's the point?! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Athena Posted September 25, 2015 Share Posted September 25, 2015 The delivery dates are mostly Oct 8 - 23. Ooh, I hope I can find something to read in the meantime to keep me going... Oh that's still a while away. I hope you can find some books in the meantime to entertain yourself with . You're so brave keeping track of the amount of money you spend on books. It'd be too depressing for me to do that...and it wouldn't curb my book buying, so what's the point?! I agree, it is very brave! My budgetting program keeps track of it for me, but I prefer not to look at that particular statistic too much . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Little Pixie Posted September 25, 2015 Author Share Posted September 25, 2015 Camel Library Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Little Pixie Posted September 25, 2015 Author Share Posted September 25, 2015 (edited) So technically you can get your TBR pile back under 800 by the time your new books arrive, right? You're so brave keeping track of the amount of money you spend on books. It'd be too depressing for me to do that...and it wouldn't curb my book buying, so what's the point?! Considering the amount of books I`m buying, it`s made me think that at least I`m not spending £1,000s on books. Though it`s also made me think that over 10 years, that would be £5,000. So maybe that thought will slow me down... Or not. I sign up for emails from Gretchen Rubin, and today`s was about Loopholes and self-justification. I`m trying not to think ` Ooh, those are some really good excuses !`. Edited September 25, 2015 by Little Pixie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Little Pixie Posted September 25, 2015 Author Share Posted September 25, 2015 (edited) Oh that's still a while away. I hope you can find some books in the meantime to entertain yourself with . Thanks ! I`ve forced myself to start a long book which has been on my TBR pile for 2-3 years - Citadel by Kate Mosse - and I`ve read about 300 pages a day ( out of 920: I`ll hopefully finish it tonight ) . I shall push through the Book Blahs. I agree, it is very brave! My budgetting program keeps track of it for me, but I prefer not to look at that particular statistic too much . I`m thinking that I should have also put up last year`s total next to it, as a warning sign to myself. I just looked it up : 2014 Books read : 203 TBR 751 New Books Bought : 213 Total Cost : £391.92 And this year`s so far : 2015 Books read : 148 TBR 803 New Books Bought : 178 Total Cost : £ 525.62 Edited September 25, 2015 by Little Pixie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pontalba Posted September 25, 2015 Share Posted September 25, 2015 Since I was down to under 800 books in my TBR - and having trouble deciding what to read - I ordered some more books. An Age of Licence - Lucy Knisley £9.61 The Diplomat and the Gold Piano - Margaret Scherf £4.54 The Treasure Hunt - Andrea Camilleri £2.97 The Heist - Daniel Silva £4.84 The Joy of Doing Things Badly - Veronica Chambers £2.81 The Long Way Home - Louise Penny £4.66 The J Alfred Prufrock Murders - Corinne Holt Sawyer £2.81 The Age of Doubt - Andrea Camilleri £2.22 The Potters Field - Andrea Camilleri £2.80 Wear More Cashmere - Jennifer Sanders £2.80 First Come, First Kill - Frances and Richard Lockridge £2.49 Small Favour - Jim Butcher £1.98 Happier at Home - Gretchen Rubin £2.80 Practical Magic - Alice Hoffman £1.85 Books read : 148 TBR 803 New Books Bought : 178 Total Cost : £ 525.62 Great logic! Makes perfect sense to me. Sounds sensible to me. Nothing worse than looking at the shelves and not having enough choice. Absolutely! FYI, I subscribe to a great book blog and thought I'd share..... /evil grin/ http://www.shelf-awareness.com/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Little Pixie Posted September 25, 2015 Author Share Posted September 25, 2015 FYI, I subscribe to a great book blog and thought I'd share..... /evil grin/ http://www.shelf-awareness.com/ Great site ! It had this link on the front page - Israel open air library. I just love the look of it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Little Pixie Posted September 28, 2015 Author Share Posted September 28, 2015 (edited) A cat-themed pic - Xiao-Xiao with some lovely book covers, and a 5p bag-for-life ( from Oct 5th, all the supermarket bags are charged for instead of free ). Edited September 28, 2015 by Little Pixie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Signor Finzione Posted September 28, 2015 Share Posted September 28, 2015 Awwwwwww look at the kittyyyyy!! Torties rule. :wub: As an aside, did that tiger-striped cat ball used to have a white feather attached to it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Little Pixie Posted September 28, 2015 Author Share Posted September 28, 2015 Awwwwwww look at the kittyyyyy!! Torties rule. :wub: As an aside, did that tiger-striped cat ball used to have a white feather attached to it? No - that`s the plain version. I`ve seen the mice ones with the feather, and didn`t think they`d last long. I assume that`s the case ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Signor Finzione Posted September 28, 2015 Share Posted September 28, 2015 No - that`s the plain version. I`ve seen the mice ones with the feather, and didn`t think they`d last long. I assume that`s the case ? Yeah, feathers don't last long at all in our house. I think the record is about two hours. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Athena Posted September 29, 2015 Share Posted September 29, 2015 I hope you enjoy your new books ! And awwwww I love that Xiao-Xiao is in the picture . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Little Pixie Posted September 29, 2015 Author Share Posted September 29, 2015 (edited) Yeah, feathers don't last long at all in our house. I think the record is about two hours. I worry about feathers getting stuck in her throat. Edited September 29, 2015 by Little Pixie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Little Pixie Posted September 29, 2015 Author Share Posted September 29, 2015 I hope you enjoy your new books ! And awwwww I love that Xiao-Xiao is in the picture . Thanks ! I had to sneak up on her with the books, `cos she runs off squeaking sometimes when she sees the camera ( it`s the flash and the clicky noise ). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Signor Finzione Posted September 29, 2015 Share Posted September 29, 2015 I worry about feathers getting stuck in her throat. I always used to as well, until the vet pointed out that cats eat birds all the time. For us, our main worry is dangly stuff. Last year Fili swallowed what turned out to be a ribbon (that she'd pulled off a cat toy, no less), and she very nearly died after it got tangled up in her intestines. All that stuff you hear about cats playing with balls of string . . . well, not in our house!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Little Pixie Posted September 29, 2015 Author Share Posted September 29, 2015 I always used to as well, until the vet pointed out that cats eat birds all the time. For us, our main worry is dangly stuff. Last year Fili swallowed what turned out to be a ribbon (that she'd pulled off a cat toy, no less), and she very nearly died after it got tangled up in her intestines. All that stuff you hear about cats playing with balls of string . . . well, not in our house!! Poor Fili. Xiao-Xiao has supervised play with string, after getting tangled up and nearly throttling herself. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Signor Finzione Posted September 29, 2015 Share Posted September 29, 2015 Poor Fili. Xiao-Xiao has supervised play with string, after getting tangled up and nearly throttling herself. Oh god. What would they do without us??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karsa Orlong Posted September 30, 2015 Share Posted September 30, 2015 My neighbour's cat, Treacle, got hit by a car a couple of weeks ago. It displaced her hip and knocked her insides about badly. Somehow she managed to drag herself from the road, through their cat flap, up the stairs and under the bed before they found her. She had an operation, which went well, and was allowed to come home. She was supposed to be confined and not allowed to move around too much, so they bough a special cage to put her in whilst she recovered. Rather stupidly, I think, my neighbour allowed her out of the cage. The wound got infected. She went back to the vet and they did their best. She died yesterday Poor little thing, she was only 1 year old and she was so sweet and friendly. She used to walk along the sill outside my front window and look in to see if she could spot Pixie. I think Pixie's missing her already Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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