Book Gluttony! Are your eyes bigger than your book belly? Do you have a habit of buying up books far quicker than you could possibly read them? Have you had to curb your book buying habits until you can catch up with yourself? Or are you a controlled buyer, only purchasing books when you have run out of things to read?
If there is a controlled buyer out there, I would really like to meet them! I’m certainly not one. I can’t hold back. That’s why my TBR pile is 350 books strong, mostly books that my mom is generous enough to buy me from our favorite charity shop. I buy new books, too, in alarming quantities. I should curb my book buying habits. I’m much better when I’m poor, as now. I’ve told Keith that I’ll certainly catch up because we’re too poor to buy many books, but he thinks that as soon as I get a job and have an income that I’ll be using the extra to get more and more books. Heh. Heh. We’ll see. I do have so many books these days that it takes me a half hour just to choose what I want to read next if I haven’t decided it already. I’ve started pulling out two or three books at once and reading them in a row to avoid these choices. A little like my read-a-thon pile, only smaller!
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Secondly, I have a very special announcement to make. We are all book bloggers but we also have lives outside these blogs. When special events happen, we want to celebrate together, because we are a community. With this in mind, Amy, Michele, and I have put together the Book Blog Social Club so that we can celebrate virtually, the same way we all know each other. We’re kicking off with a baby shower for Jen at Devourer of Books tomorrow.
Of course, the website was designed for all of us to take part and host our own parties and celebrations. We invite you to make use of it in the future, on a first come first served basis. All you have to do is send an email to bookblogsocialclub at gmail dot com and we’ll be happy to discuss it with you!
oh…I had seen the book club link before, but as far as I remember there was a form or something, now it isn’t there. I don’t know, may be I am confusing it with something else.
Anyway, I think it’s a great idea.
and yes, 350 books is a huge number but I bet you do enjoy the look of it and the choices it offers
I’m definitely not in control when it comes to book buying. Everything else I can control, but not that
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I’m with you – I have more books than I can read and I keep bringing more of them into the house. I’m excited about the Book Blog Social Club!
I am out of control when it comes to books. I love the Social Club idea. So glad you guys thought of it.
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I have NO control! It’s a little bit ridiculous! And I love the social club idea – you guys are so smart!
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Instead of buying I borrow from the local library. I always borrow too many though and always have to bring back books that I haven’t read. But I keep them on my TBR list with the hope that I will borrow it again or break down and buy it!
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350? I won’t even count mine! LOL. My TBR pile is huge, and new ones arrive every week, adding to it. And then, I have this habit of reserving too many books at the library and not having enough time to read them all before they need to go back.
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I am a glutton.. my post is here at The Burton Review.
I’ve been using Facebook for the socialization aspect but I will check out the Club as well.
The Social Club is an AAAWESOME Idea
Marie Burton’s last blog post..Booking Through Thursday
You guys are so creative and clever with the Social Club idea! I can’t wait for the fun tomorrow.
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I thought I was the only one suffering from a book addiction! I have a (growing) slew of my own books to read, yet every few weeks I get a new slew from the library, which in turn prevents me from reading the first slew at all! My logic is sound: “The library books aren’t mine … I have to return them so I better read them first … while the others, my books, will be here long after the library books have been returned!” My husband can’t understand why I want to buy more and more new books when my shelves are filled with many I haven’t read. But my wares number nowhere near 350 … I’ll have to tell him about your mammoth shelf as it makes my habit seem mild
Proud to be one, but I try not to buy. I grab the ones that I’m most desperate to read and leave the rest on a list.
I love the social club idea- great!
Marie’s last blog post..Booking Through Thursday
350 books? Wow. Well, now I don’t feel quite like such a glutton. I have maybe a hundred, but definitely not 350.
Christina’s last blog post..Book Lust
Thanks for posting about the BBSC!!! I am so behind.
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350 books in the TBR pile, thats impressive!
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What a great idea on the new blog!
I sometimes have a problem figuring out what books to read from my TBR pile but usually I’m turning to hurry and read a library book, so I don’t pay my own books much attention.
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