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Hey all my name is Sandy and I am a book-a-holic!! Love this group what an awesome idea. My husband is always telling me I need to "go to a meeting" about my book disability;-) He actually dreads when I go into a book store because I spend no less than $50.00 each time. I don't like getting the books from the library because I like to keep my books and marvel at how many I have collected and read. I have about 10 books sitting on my night stand ready to be read but I refuse to start another book until I'm done with the one I'm currently reading. Considering I have 3 teenage boys the only time I have to read is before bed. Can't wait till school starts back up so I can catch up. So many great books coming out that I can't wait to read. "Mokinjay" by Suzanne Collins for one and "Clockwork Angles" by Casandra Clair, so excited! I look forward to chatting with you all.
HI, MY NAME IS Mounir AND I AM A BOOK-AHOLIC, and like many people here I have no intention of getting treatment ! I love books, love reading, love browsing library shelves and it is my daily habit to check the newspaper stand for any new books or magazines which may appeal to me. The house is becoming increasingly stuffed with books everywhere. My list of books i wish to read is always much bigger than those i have already finished. And i am also fond of re-reading books i had previously enjoyed. So i am always questioning myself, when will I stop buying books, and how can i read all those books in my lifetime ?
Hello. My name is Steph and I am a book-aholic. I have an overflow of books at home, and I still go out and purchase more when I have the money. I absolutely love to read. I just recently joined this website, looking for an online community where I can share book reviews and recommendations. I'm very glad to be here.
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Hello,My name is Kristopher and I'm a Book-aholic. I have a ridiculous back-log of books on my TBR pile, and still continue to get more in from Amazon.com and any used book store I happen to stumble across. I'm trying to tone it down a lot, as I will be leaving my job in a couple of months and going to school full time. Won't have as much time to read then! (I say that, but am currently working full time and taking 9 credits, and I still get in time to read every evening.) Anyhow, it's great to see some like-minded people on here.
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Hi my name is Caroline and I am most definately a BOOK-A-HOLIC. About a week ago I spent $150 on books and now I have read all but 2. They were great books but now I have to go buy more books :(
Hi, my name is Shelli and yes I'm a Book-A-Holic! I was just notified my Kindle is on it's way, and I'm still not convinced I'll love it. Hope so, but I just love to have lots of books around me!!I look forward to meeting some new people and chatting about books with you here!
Hi, my name is LIsa. I am addicted to Goodreads (a book-a-holic) and I have to quit joining these groups! I just find it so interesting to see what other people are reading! My TBR shelf is now out of control! I have "True Colors" on my bedside table with about 30 others waiting to be read. Maybe I can catch up!
Hi, my name is Bert and I'm a Book-A-Holic...**waits for the crowd to reply "Hi Bert!"** :)
Yeah, I'm an addict. One look at my over 3000 books in my Goodreads bookshelves will be evidence. I know I won't read all the ones in my To-Read list, but I love such a variety of books, I have to add them when I see them, or I'm afraid I won't ever remember them again.
Before I go to the library, I go to my To-Read list, set the order to Random, and print out about 10 pages. Then I will just go through the list and get what the library has. :)
My family doesn't understand my obsession. I have books with me everywhere I go. I have three at work, and so many at home I don't have enough shelves for them all. Whatever you do, if you drop me at a used book store, don't leave me with a credit card :)
Good to see so many other addicts! :)
Shelli wrote: "Hi, my name is Shelli and yes I'm a Book-A-Holic! I was just notified my Kindle is on it's way, and I'm still not convinced I'll love it. Hope so, but I just love to have lots of books around me!!I..."Hi Shelli, I bought the Kindle about six months ago and I absolutely love it. I put all my books on it and it is so easy to handle. You can just bring it everywhere with you. When you finish a book you just start another book. It's great. I hope you love it as much as I do.
Brenda wrote: "Shelli wrote: "Hi, my name is Shelli and yes I'm a Book-A-Holic! I was just notified my Kindle is on it's way, and I'm still not convinced I'll love it. Hope so, but I just love to have lots of boo..."Thanks Brenda..I'll let you know!
Shelli wrote: "Brenda wrote: "Shelli wrote: "Hi, my name is Shelli and yes I'm a Book-A-Holic! I was just notified my Kindle is on it's way, and I'm still not convinced I'll love it. Hope so, but I just love to h..."I have a feeling that when I get a Kindle (some day :), I will love the luxury of having a ton of books at my fingertips.
But I will never lose the love of the feel and smell of a paper book...
Hi everybody!My name is Jessica, I'm 25, living in Germany and I joined this group because I truly am a book-a-holic. I'm getting a monthly delivery of about 10 to 15 books and my appartment resembles a library. I am ALWAYS carrying a book in my handbag because you never know when there might be a great opportunity to read a few pages. I'm working a lot so it often happens that I spent a whole weekend just reading. I never go to bed without having at least read a few pages (like a few hundreds of pages actually) and I'm secretly dreaming of being locked up in a book store over night like kids are dreaming of spending a night in some toy store. All my friends think that I've got a serious problem so I agree with Marie. I'm happy to have found people who understand me. :-)
Hi, I'm Marcia and definitely a bookaholic since I typically read a book every 2 days. Just finished Susan Mallerys 'Perfect' series and need advice.I have these books waiting to be read and need to know which to read next:
Christine Dodd's 'Into the Shadows'
Debbie Macomber's '1022 Evergreen Place'
Louisa Edward's 'Just Oe Taste'
Stella Cameron's 'Out of Mind'
Susan Wiggs' 'The Firebrand'
Barry Eisler's 'Rainfall'
Sherryl Woods' 'Dragon Mender'
or Kat Martin's 'Bold Angel'
Suggestions Anyone?
Jessica wrote: "Hi everybody!
My name is Jessica, I'm 25, living in Germany and I joined this group because I truly am a book-a-holic. I'm getting a monthly delivery of about 10 to 15 books and my appartment resem..."
Hi Jessica! I love to read too! Where in Germany do you live?! I'm living in Queidersbach, near Landstuhl.
My name is Jessica, I'm 25, living in Germany and I joined this group because I truly am a book-a-holic. I'm getting a monthly delivery of about 10 to 15 books and my appartment resem..."
Hi Jessica! I love to read too! Where in Germany do you live?! I'm living in Queidersbach, near Landstuhl.
My name is Samantha and I have been a book-aholic my whole life. It is so bad that my husband and I use to get in fights over the fact that I spent money on books that I never read. Do to other circumstances we are not together right now, but I can go to a used book store and spend $20 a week if I have that urge and if they don't get read right away then no one knows but me.
Heather wrote: "Jessica wrote: "Hi everybody!My name is Jessica, I'm 25, living in Germany and I joined this group because I truly am a book-a-holic. I'm getting a monthly delivery of about 10 to 15 books and my ..."
Hi there Heather! :-) I'm living close to Stuttgart. That's about 2 hours by car from where you live. So, what are you doing in Germany? Are you living there permanently?
Greetings Wes and group! My name is Amoy and I'm a Bookaholic. I, like Shari, have been reading books since as far back as I can remember. I've been known to sleep with my books. *giggles* I know exactly what you mean about starting several books at once, Wes! I've also been known to start 5 different books at once, know exactly where I am in each particular book and remember the plots. I'm happy to have found a place where my love of books in appreciated and welcomed, thanks!!!
Jessica wrote: "Heather wrote: "Jessica wrote: "Hi everybody!
My name is Jessica, I'm 25, living in Germany and I joined this group because I truly am a book-a-holic. I'm getting a monthly delivery of about 10 to ..."
My best friend lives near Stuttgart! We're both in the Air Force. She's stationed there & I'm stationed here. She's going to be stationed here next summer & I'll be here another 2 years. How about you? How did you come about to move to Germany?
My name is Jessica, I'm 25, living in Germany and I joined this group because I truly am a book-a-holic. I'm getting a monthly delivery of about 10 to ..."
My best friend lives near Stuttgart! We're both in the Air Force. She's stationed there & I'm stationed here. She's going to be stationed here next summer & I'll be here another 2 years. How about you? How did you come about to move to Germany?
Heather wrote: "Jessica wrote: "Heather wrote: "Jessica wrote: "Hi everybody!My name is Jessica, I'm 25, living in Germany and I joined this group because I truly am a book-a-holic. I'm getting a monthly delivery..."
The Air Force? That sounds interesting! I'm always listening to AFN Eagel...
I actually am German :-) I joined goodreads because I'm solely reading English books and preferably ones written by US authors / with a story playing in the US.
Through goodreads I got my hands on a lot of good books in the last few months...the only problem is, that there's nobody to discuss these books with me as my friends aren't reading English books and very often the books I'm reading are not even published in Germany yet...
Hello my name is Richard and I'm a Bookaholic. Everyday since I was young I usually wake up to a pile of either books I bought or books I checked out from the library each day. Every time I go to the bookstore its very hard to resist not buying a whole series sometimes. And since my mom works at the library she's usually annoyed when I check out a stack of books taller than me.
Hi Everybody, I'm Flora and I too am a book-a-holic. I also come from a line of book-a-holics--both my parents and my brother are book-a-holics and I seem to have passed the book-aholic gene onto my children as well. I can't ever remember not being a book addict. I've been trying really hard lately to not buy so many books. My bank account keeps rebelling in these hard economic times. So instead I make regular trips to the library and I have lots of free books on my ereader. I really need to stop checking out books and catch up on what I have at home. So far that hasn't happened tho lol.
Flora wrote: "Hi Everybody, I'm Flora and I too am a book-a-holic. I also come from a line of book-a-holics--both my parents and my brother are book-a-holics and I seem to have passed the book-aholic gene onto ..."Welcome Flora!
Oh, I know the feeling. Currently I've got 20 books at home (which I have all bought) and I really have to force myself to read these first before I order new ones. It's just that I always need a widespread assortment of different books at hand.
I just can't bring myself to check out books from the library. Books are my trophies and I have to own them...I truly am an addict...
I understand what you mean about loving to own the books that I read. But I was running out of room and the bf was begining to complain and my bank account wasn't too happy either. Since there is no way I'm giving up reading I decided to compromise and buy fewer books and check more out from the library. I've also been getting books off bookswap here at goodreads. Plus getting books from the library and goodreads is more environmentally friendly so I'm doing my part :)
Uh, tell me about the complaining boyfriend! It's the same here :)I guess I'll have to give the library thing a chance sooner or later...
Hello. My name is Emily and I am a book-a-holic. In the year 2010 alone i've read over thirty books averaging 3-5 books a month. i keep a list because i'm just that crazy. i want to get to fifty before the year is over. I have books stacked everywhere and i do not currently have a book shelf to put them on. I have them lining up the steps and on top of my dresser drawers...also there are books in every room besides just those places. I get annoyed if i don't have something to read, which doesn't happen often.
Emily Marion wrote: "Hello. My name is Emily and I am a book-a-holic. In the year 2010 alone i've read over thirty books averaging 3-5 books a month. i keep a list because i'm just that crazy. i want to get to fifty be..."Hi Emily! Do you keep a book journal, or where do you keep the list of books you've read? I write the book titles on the calendar - on the day I've finished them. Then I keep the calendars (I had 5 or 6 years worth but got rid of them after posting what I'd read here)! I love the image of books piled up everywhere in your house! I hope you get a bookcase for Christmas so you don't trip on a lounging book as you're going up or down the stairs! :)
Bonjour! My name is Susanna-Cole and I've been a book-a-holic from the age of three (or so my mother says) and can't remember a time in which I wasn't obsessed with reading and books.I knew I had to join this group as soon as I saw the opening quote by Desiderius Erasmus, as I myself have always said the same. Food may nurture the body, but books nurture the soul, after all.
I write sometimes, and keep a blog where you can read some of my writing, if you like, http://girlmeetsnyc.blogspot.com.
More of my interests listed on my profile, perhaps, we'll have something in common besides being book-a-holics.
Bert wrote: "Hi, my name is Bert and I'm a Book-A-Holic...**waits for the crowd to reply "Hi Bert!"** :)
Yeah, I'm an addict. One look at my over 3000 books in my Goodreads bookshelves will be evidence. I kn..."
Hi Bert!!!!
****SAME HERE!****
lUCKY I dont have a credit card.....never leave me with money in a secondhand bookstore ^_^
Japi wrote: "Bert wrote: "Hi, my name is Bert and I'm a Book-A-Holic...**waits for the crowd to reply "Hi Bert!"** :)
Yeah, I'm an addict. One look at my over 3000 books in my Goodreads bookshelves will ..."
Hi, Bert! Welcome!!
Hello everyone. My name is Bethany and I'm a bookaholic. I enjoy buying them sometimes more than reading them. I love the smell of new books. I never need to be left alone with money in a book store. My two best friends are also avid book readers one is my roommate. At one point in time there was a book in every room house..even the bathroom. We have books everywhere. Both my roommate and I love to re-read books but recently I've been trying to read new ones. I have also decided, according to my pocket book, that buying second hand books also isnt bad although I prefer new ones. A new second hand bookstore opened about an hour away from me near where my parents live and it happens to be on an exit on the way to my parents house. I have already made a pit stop there and planning on another for the thanksgiving holidays. The last time I was in there I bought 9 books....but only spent about $35. I was in book heaven. Now its been about a month and i'm almost finished will all of them and 2 more. I can't wait to go back. They buy back books too so I'm selling some that I have either read and didnt like or never planning on reading them.
I tend to like sci-fi/fantasy..I've been stuck on vampire supernatural books lately..and reading three series about that. Now i'm trying to branch out a little. (They are getting too predictable as far as the supernatural lore) So that's me.
my name is marlene & i'm a bookaholic. my addiction started when i was young and before i knew it, it grew to love as i got older. i am especially obsessed with older literature. i hope to someday have a room full of books i own (a big room). the end.<3
My name is Tyler and I am a Book-a-Holic.It all started reallyw when I was in college and one of the girls that I was seeing was into Manga... Next thing that happened was you rarely saw me without a comic in my fingers... and that just escalated when I got into the service... Now when you open my Rack I have to devote a good 3' X 4' section of my very very limited storage space to Graphic Novels; my christmas gift for myself was an E Reader... Man, that was a Great Gift right there! got a stack of a good 30 or so total books that I got to burn through... about 50 50 graphic novels to traditional horror/mystery/Pulp Fiction novels.
It does not help that I live on a seculuded Island in the middle of the alutian chain in the cold north... nothing like a hot coffee, a comfortable seat, a sweater blanket, and a good story to burrow into!
is it bad that I don't think about picking women up at a Bar or a gym, but I can't help but consider Comic Book Stores and Coffee houses with comfortable chairs and a lot of good coffee table books as fair game?
Hello my name is Shay and I am a bookaholic! My personal library is in what we call the "creepy" room. We think its haunted so my hubby doesn't want his football card collection in there. Besides my dead tree editions I also own a Kindle and a Nook. Why? Good question. I am not a hoarder though. I donate a lot of books each year. If I am not reading I am writing, playing video games, painting or shopping for books. I was recently diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis and have been on the hunt for good books on that subject.
Hallo Everyone!My name is Devina and I'm a Book-A-Holic!I havn't got alot of space for them but I make them all fit somehow!My entire Harry Potter collection is in a shoebox under the dresser(protection form destructive siblings).There's a stack on my desk in my room and I've made it a habit to plastic all of my paperback books as I buy them,I highly reccomend this,my Three Musketeers look brand new two years after(I plastic the Harry Potter books too).
I've recently received a kindle and I'm reluctant to read on it for fear I'll stop loving my lovely scented,thick,page filled volumes,but I've realized that it wasn't possible.I enjoy writing short stories and poems in my spare time.
Hello All, My name is Kelsey and I'm a bookaholic. I can't walk past a bookstore without going in andI always end up with an armful, then have to go around putting them back cause I can't afford them all. My house looks like a library and i use books for tables and doorstoppers because it puts a smile on my face to see them throughout my house. It's so much fun to share such a wonderful passion with all of you!
Hi, my name is Yağmur and I'm a bookaholic.
When I start reading i can't stop. every time i went to book store i want to buy every single book in the store.
When I start reading i can't stop. every time i went to book store i want to buy every single book in the store.
Hi, My name is Maneden and I am a bookaholic.I own too many books to read and still buy more. Found a gorgeous 24-hour book store and sometimes forget to go home. My family is usually not impressed during those times. Oh well.
I keep books in my handbag, my work desk, my bedside table and every other flat or stable surface I can find.
I am perfectly thrilled to have found a place where there are other people who understand this need and indeed obsession for books.
Greetings everyone:) My name is Ana (but I absolutely love my nickname Ananda and prefer to be called that way:) and I too am a bookaholic. I love reading, but then again..it's no big news to say this around here:) Hoping to find some great friends and book recommendations around here.
Hi my name is Iris, and I am a bookaholic.My friends have to set time limits in bookstores for me, or I end up the next to last person in line for the checkout at closing time scrambling to pick books within my price limits. I have 200+ books downloaded to my phone, I haven't had my phone for 3 months yet...
Hi my name is Jenny and I am a bookaholic although I got a kindle for Christmas and I LOVE it! Makes it so much easier to manage my addiction. I read anything really but my favorite is historical fiction. My favorite author is Diana Gabaldon who wrote the Outlander series and I am in love with it. I can't put them down and contemplate re reading them all the time but fortunately she has some other books that I can read when I start to miss her writing while waiting for her newest book in the series to come out.
Hi! I LOVE to read. I don't remember a time when I couldn't read. Fortunately, I work at our local library and I can keep up with all the new books!Sometimes, I just go to the bookstore to see whats out and to smell the new books. (no, I'm not insane, the new books do have a smell)My husband has learned to wait patiently for at least a half hour while I look around for new books to read. :)
hi my name is soad and im a bookaholic my mother used to hide my books from me when i was a child fearing i would soon be blind it took me a whole week to find her hiding spot (laundry basket)
Hi my name is Leah and I am a Book-aholic. I currently own 22 books. Though my mother wants me to spend my money on other things like food, I can't help but go on a bookstore and buy myself a good read :)
Hi fellow bookaholics. My name is Ruthie, and I am a college student who loves books to my very soul (which probably resembles a book). Fantasy is my favorite, but I will read almost anything except biographies. I am currently in the middle of reading 7 different series. I haven't finished only because it takes so long for new books to be published. None of my friends understand my love of books, so I decided to join this group of wonderful people who share my same interest. I am very much looking forward to sharing and hearing stories from all of you!
Hi my name is Noellie and I'm a book-aholic. I just love reading so much I can't get enough of it. I always end up reading a handful of books at a time and whenever I go to the thrift store I buy so many books to fill up my bookshelf.
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I'm Kassandra I'm from Arkansas and I'm a Book-A-Holic.I have 2 or 3 book cases full of books.I'm glad I'm in a group were people understand and can relate to me.My favorite book of all time is King Of The Wind.