I have an ever growing MTBR

The trouble is, second hand books especially are too affordable, and my curiousity knows no bounds, so I'm always checking out titles that look interesting wherever books are sold. I currently have one-and-two-thirds drawers filled with books that I haven't read. I'm challenging myself to read half a drawer by early autumn and to pass on or register and release all but the ones I think I'll definitely read again in the next few years. Otherwise they're best off shared.
I'm starting with this one, which has been made into a TV series that is currently on BBC One. I spotted it in a discount bookshop as I was passing, couldn't resist because the TV series is funny, and also alarming if you have to rely on the NHS. Though the author stopped working as a doctor in 2010 and who knows whether the NHS has got better or worse since then? It has made me appreciate the staff at my GP's surgery a lot more and also made me keen on taking up as little of their time as possible.

This Is Going To Hurt: the secret diaries of a junior doctor by Adam Kay.

I saw your message over at the BC forum, Spartaca. Glad to have you join our group!

I know all about the appeal of second-hand book shops! I like to look for them and browse in them when I'm in a new city, but the pandemic has put a temporary stop to that, as I've not travelled much in the past two years.

Good luck with your challenge!

>1 Spartaca: Welcome Spartaca. Right now one of my favourite local bookstores is having a sale of all their used books at half off. I'm so tempted to go and see what bargains I could pick up but I'm trying not to give in. The sale ends on Sunday, Feb 27th so only a few more days to resist!

Thanks for your messages.
I have just finished book number 2, "On More Dangerous Ground" by Roger Cook. I don't know if anybody remembers his investigative programmes, The Cook Report, that were on ITV until about 1999? I better remember Checkpoint, his programme on Radio 4 before that. The book is the background to how his team chose and researched stories, the sting operations they did to catch criminals in the act, and the internal politics of the TV companies they worked for which eventually took them off the air. You can't get copies of these programmes now, or at least, none listed on a certain monopoly company that sells DVDs. They are probably very much of their time and won't have much of a market now, but reading the book has made me wish I could see a few of them again. There are only a few short clips on youtube. It was pioneering and risky journalism. Worth reading this book if you can get a copy. I think it's out of print (published 2007) but there may be some second hand copies about.

I went hunting at an OBCZ at Rhode Island cafe in Altrincham, couldn't find any books with bookcrossing labels but inevitably I picked up a few non-registered books. There is a lovely wide variety of books on book shelves in the cafe, though some you would need a ladder to pick out as the shelves go up to the ceiling.
I'll take some books back again, duly registered, when I've read them.

>4 Spartaca: I'd never watched episodes of The Cook Report. It sounds like it might be similar to The Fifth Estate, a Canadian investigative journalism TV series.

>5 Spartaca: That OBCZ sounds wonderful!