Develop a nasty book habit
I look forward to the day when I can spend my usual £30 or so each month in bookshops and not think twice about it.
( chickenlady b3ta's very own Elizabeth Taylor, Fri 24 Oct 2008, 13:31, 1 reply)

I still buy secondhand versions online
- even though the postage is about 5 times the cost of the book. The only book I've bought new from a shop in the past year is Anne Enright's short stories Taking Pictures because when I heard the first story from it being read on Book at Bedtime it made me sob uncontrollably for an hour. I went straight out and bought the damn book the next day and cried all over again.
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Fri 24 Oct 2008, 14:31, closed)

I can't seem to leave any branch of Waterstones
without buying 3 books - damn 3 for 2 offers!

I have a shelf full of books waiting to be read....but I just can't seem to stop myself from buying more of the bloody things. Yesterday I bought three poetry books, today three popular fiction on 3 for 2. I'm singlehandedly keeping Waterstones afloat.

And don't get me onto Amazon....

A couple of weeks back I spent £10 on secondhand books in Oxfam too.

I buy my kids (and my) clothes in the sales and any cheap shops going just so I can keep up the book habit.

It'd be cheaper to be a druggie.
( chickenlady b3ta's very own Elizabeth Taylor, Fri 24 Oct 2008, 17:29, closed)

And now I'm going to google Anne Enright
thank you.
( chickenlady b3ta's very own Elizabeth Taylor, Fri 24 Oct 2008, 17:30, closed)