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I keep wish lists on Amazon. The only books on my to be read list here are books I've already bought. And I don't automatically put those on the list when I get them.
My to-read list here is really more aspirational than anything to do with reality. Scattered about my home I also have a few dozens notebooks with pages devoted to 'books that sound good' which I am slowly locating & putting into Goodreads so that I have a centralised location for things I might someday read.I really like the idea of a TBR queue, since I actually do have a physical shelf of books that are about to be read, mostly things from the library that are going to be due soon. (I have a terrible, terrible library habit which I am trying to rein in so that I can read the books I actually *own*.)
Cera wrote: "(I have a terrible, terrible library habit which I am trying to rein in so that I can read the books I actually *own*.) ..."haha - I like this :)
I am so far in control of my library habit, however, I can feel myself slipping... Today my husband and I went and I intended to just check out 1, but I came away with 3, and I have 2 more on hold that I am going to pick up on Tues (the branch I listed to pick them up at is closed on Sundays and Mondays, otherwise I would have those as well!), and I am on 2 more hold lists...
Hi EverybodyAs a few of you know my personal TBR is over 1000 a fact which I love but I do understand that some people could not cope with this amount...
I adore it as when I read a book I always find something that will lead me to my next book ( I call it my Book Trails-I have a few on the go at any given time ).
I still have a wish-list of books that I am looking for as for me I have bookshops that I regularly go to and know the staff and owners so well hat some of us exchange Christmas Gifts!
I am planning a year of reading from home next year ( after reading TOWARDS END IS ON THE LANDING by Susan Hill, as it struck a chord with me when she said about buying books that you would love to read but other books come along and ale over).
I am starting a warm up just now....Apart from 2 Holidays as one is a much loved and favourote Bookshop,which is an independent that I only get to once a year and I have just discovered I will be unable to get to next year (I say this with great sadness in my heart) and the other time is my Birthday/anniversary trip this year when I shall get a day to WIGTOWN Scotland Book Town,I very much doubt that I will be able to restrain myself much at THE WATER in Aberfeldy with knowing that I will not get next year!!
But I look forward to my year of reading from home......
THE WATERMILL is what it should read.Apologies for typo!
DJ wrote: "Hi EverybodyAs a few of you know my personal TBR is over 1000 a fact which I love but I do understand that some people could not cope with this amount...
I adore it as when I read a book I always ..."
I have that book on my TBR list :) I am planning on doing a year without TV so I can actually read the books I already own... Good luck with your 'read from home' experiment!
Joy wrote: "DJ wrote: "Hi EverybodyAs a few of you know my personal TBR is over 1000 a fact which I love but I do understand that some people could not cope with this amount...
I adore it as when I read a bo..."
Thanks...
Good luck to you to!
I would love to get rid of the TV but I hink Husband would revolt!
I'm starting properly on Jan 1st 2011 , how about you?
Looking forward to seeing how we get on....
Joy wrote: "DJ wrote: "Hi EverybodyAs a few of you know my personal TBR is over 1000 a fact which I love but I do understand that some people could not cope with this amount...
I adore it as when I read a bo..."
Thanks...
Good luck to you to!
I would love to get rid of the TV but I hink Husband would revolt!
I'm starting properly on Jan 1st 2011 , how about you?
Looking forward to seeing how we get on....
Paula-I can totally relate. If I keep a pile that I intend to read in the near future, it gets forgotten pretty quickly. So, I have an ongoing list, and when the mood strikes, I will choose one. And Barnes and Noble is a bad habit I succumb to every time!
DJ wrote: "Joy wrote: "DJ wrote: "Hi EverybodyAs a few of you know my personal TBR is over 1000 a fact which I love but I do understand that some people could not cope with this amount...
I adore it as when..."
I am planning on starting Jan 1st as well! It will definitely be an interesting experiment :)
I am so grateful to Goodreads that I can just click a button to add TBR books to my list as I read about them in these threads. I used to have a small shelf of TBR books, but like Paula and Christopher, I tend to read by whim and the TBR shelf has grown and grown and grown....
Sigh, so many books, so little time!
Paula wrote: "PThe end result is bookshelves that are a bit overflowing and a realization that I need to stop buying and start reading books I already own!! "Never gonna happen. Book buying is as much an addiction as any physical addiction. You don't have a prayer of stopping buying books until you have read the ones you have.
I even tried once only allowing myself to buy a new book when I had finished reading one. Lasted about two weeks. It was almost physically painful to want a new book and not be able to buy it because I hadn't finished one yet.
Nope. You aren't going to make it.
Everyman wrote: "Paula wrote: "PThe end result is bookshelves that are a bit overflowing and a realization that I need to stop buying and start reading books I already own!! "Never gonna happen. Book buying is a..."
Hahahaha so true! We are all tragic addicts.
This time, Eman, I'm ok that you're right. I have slowed down considerably, though!! Two books in 6 weeks is actually really good for me. No library trips either, except for audiobooks for my commute. The rest I already owned.
I've been trying to use the library and online bookswap more, and if I *must* purchase a book, to support the independent local bookstore. But I have a not-so-secret used bookstore habit as well. I've started keeping some in the closet because I've run out of bookshelf space!
Joy wrote: am so far in control of my library habit, however, I can feel myself slipping... I've been doing well keeping myself restrained since my daughter was born last fall, since I don't have as much time to read as I used to. But my library has free inter-library loan with a lot of university libraries, many of which are completely full of obscure Victoriana (not just fiction; I'm a sucker for Victorian biographies and histories and poetry and drama and...), and it's really hard not to request dozens of books and end up with a stack of books taller than I am! And meanwhile my own shelves go unloved...
So right now I have 2 requests out, one a piece of recent non-fiction (The Victorian Home by Judith Flanders), and one a book of letters between Edward Dowden (19th century Shakespeare scholar) and various friends of his, which will probably be entertaining because Dowden is often quite interesting. But I digress!
Cera, you can't digress when the topic is Victorian books! I love that you use the university inter-library loan option. I am a 'friend' of my local university so that I can have access to their stacks, and often feel a bit geeky when I wander the shelves drooling over books. And you're right - that really is the best place for non-fiction; the books are too expensive to buy outright and too obscure for most public libraries.
Cera wrote: "Joy wrote: am so far in control of my library habit, however, I can feel myself slipping... I've been doing well keeping myself restrained since my daughter was born last fall, since I don't have..."
I am reading The Victorian Home at the moment and really enjoying it. Full of interesting facts and written in a lively style.
Joy wrote: "DJ wrote: "Joy wrote: "DJ wrote: "Hi EverybodyAs a few of you know my personal TBR is over 1000 a fact which I love but I do understand that some people could not cope with this amount...
I ador..."
Great ,
Maybe we could do a monthly comparission?
DJ wrote: "Maybe we could do a monthly comparission?..."That would be fun! Once it gets closer we can set up threads like we did with the 2009 Victorian Challenges and be able to post out progress, see each others, and compare notes!
Amanda wrote: "Oh, Oh I just did a blog post about my neurotic methods of choosing what book to read next:http://deadwhiteguyslit.blogspot.com/..."
This was a fantastic post, Amanda, and I had to comment because I *love* your methodologies. We are clearly nuts in the same ways. :-)
Amanda wrote: "Cera wrote: "Amanda wrote: "Oh, Oh I just did a blog post about my neurotic methods of choosing what book to read next:http://deadwhiteguyslit.blogspot.com/......"
Loved the blog, Amanda. Sometimes I can't settle on anything to read despite the many unread and read books on my shelves. I call this unhappy state a reading crisis. It happens less and less, thanks to Goodreads, because people's reviews inspire me and I don't feel all alone in the wilderness wondering what to read next.
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Paula, I am like you too, i.e., in that I select my next read based upon mood, whim, angle of the sun rising, etc. The "in-the-queue-TBR" list is nothing more than a convenient method of culling out a group from the 130 books from my "To Read" shelf.