TBR collections
Book lovers come in all shapes and sizes.
There are those who buy books by the dozen, read them all by the dozen and give them away too by the dozen.
Category number two includes those who read for the love of reading but don’t buy books if they can help it.
They believe in borrowing, from libraries or from kindred friends. While most members of this class do remember to return the books to their original owners, it is not unlikely to find certain specimens (I have a couple of such friends) who pick up books from one friend, read them and then pass them on to someone else!
A third sect of book lovers are those for whom reading is on their wish list but who never get going because they cannot bring themselves to prioritise the habit. Their favourite tagline is, “I used to read a lot but...”
An elite section of book lovers are the collectors. They are not avid readers, they are book purchasers. These book lovers take pride in handpicking their collections and presenting them in stately shelves.
And then there are those whose passion for books make them both avid readers and avid collectors. You will find them talking of their ‘read’ shelves, ‘to-be-read’ shelves, ‘to-be-read-again’ shelves, ‘owned’ shelves and ‘to-be-owned’ shelves.
They buy books like a collector, taking time to choose titles worthy of their ‘read’ and ‘owned’ shelves. But show them a book sale and, their worthiness parameters entirely forgotten, they’ll be grabbing all they can, though they know these would only go into their already well-piled up ‘to-be-read’ (TBR) shelf.
Even the fact that their TBR stack could be occupying any available space in their homes wouldn’t deter them from making newer additions to it.
This last-mentioned group is where I belong. What about you?
Vidya Shankar
Published in The Gulf Today / Short Take, dt Sept 22, 2018)
http://gulftoday.ae/portal/87e91fe3-8457-452c-8c14-3c6537f57271.aspx
Here's my first book! An ensemble of poetry and photographs.
Click the link below to watch a 30-second promo video.
https://youtu.be/5BhbjMaIwpk
You can buy it at this link:
https://notionpress.com/read/the-flautist-of-brindaranyamwww.facebook.com
There are those who buy books by the dozen, read them all by the dozen and give them away too by the dozen.
Category number two includes those who read for the love of reading but don’t buy books if they can help it.
They believe in borrowing, from libraries or from kindred friends. While most members of this class do remember to return the books to their original owners, it is not unlikely to find certain specimens (I have a couple of such friends) who pick up books from one friend, read them and then pass them on to someone else!
A third sect of book lovers are those for whom reading is on their wish list but who never get going because they cannot bring themselves to prioritise the habit. Their favourite tagline is, “I used to read a lot but...”
An elite section of book lovers are the collectors. They are not avid readers, they are book purchasers. These book lovers take pride in handpicking their collections and presenting them in stately shelves.
And then there are those whose passion for books make them both avid readers and avid collectors. You will find them talking of their ‘read’ shelves, ‘to-be-read’ shelves, ‘to-be-read-again’ shelves, ‘owned’ shelves and ‘to-be-owned’ shelves.
They buy books like a collector, taking time to choose titles worthy of their ‘read’ and ‘owned’ shelves. But show them a book sale and, their worthiness parameters entirely forgotten, they’ll be grabbing all they can, though they know these would only go into their already well-piled up ‘to-be-read’ (TBR) shelf.
Even the fact that their TBR stack could be occupying any available space in their homes wouldn’t deter them from making newer additions to it.
This last-mentioned group is where I belong. What about you?
Vidya Shankar
Published in The Gulf Today / Short Take, dt Sept 22, 2018)
http://gulftoday.ae/portal/87e91fe3-8457-452c-8c14-3c6537f57271.aspx
Here's my first book! An ensemble of poetry and photographs.
Click the link below to watch a 30-second promo video.
https://youtu.be/5BhbjMaIwpk
You can buy it at this link:
https://notionpress.com/read/the-flautist-of-brindaranyamwww.facebook.com
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