Many of the books I'll be using for this challenge probably won't count as books for the monthly themes, but they'll be good filler books for when I'm taking a short break from the themed books. I'm going to set an arbitrary number of books as a goal but it may reach higher than that by the time the end of the year rolls around.
Challenge Goal: 35 books between now and December 31st.
That averages out to about three to four books a month, which I think is doable.
-Gabe
I buy books like crazy too. Only, I really read them. Maybe not in the month I buy them, but I do read them. :]
ReplyDeleteI *mean* to read them, I really do. And some of them do get read automatically. I start them the day that I buy them and finish them that day (or shortly thereafter). For the most part, however, I stockpile books. I know they're there and I know that eventually I'll read them, but I just never seem to get around to it.
ReplyDeleteI also have the (mis)fortune of having friends who like to give books as gifts. My friend, Marianne, actually cleaned off her shelves and showered me with her unwanted books the last time I went to visit her. Even when I don't buy them, it seems that books find their way into my hands. :)
If only I was so lucky. I love antique books. And so they are usually what I end up buying in large amounts. However, antique books are much more expensive than regular books.
ReplyDeleteYou sure did comment back fast.
Yeah, I'm at work, so I see my emails quicker than if I was out doing something.
ReplyDeleteLol. That makes no sense at all. If you're at work...shouldn't you be working?
ReplyDeleteI'm a library supervisor, which means that for the most part I supervise other people who are working. I go around the library to check that everything's in order and I make up carts of returned books, but usually I sit at a desk and make myself available for people if they have questions and I designate duties to the student workers.
ReplyDeleteIt's a tough* job but someone's gotta do it.
*Read: cushy
Read cushy...is that like a book or a post you made?
ReplyDeleteOh, no, I meant that the word "tough" should be interpreted as "cushy". I was being clever...and it failed.
ReplyDeletePS: You're a bad influence on me. I'm less than twenty pages from the end of this book and instead of reading it I'm debating with you. Not a complaint, just an observation. :D
ReplyDeleteI'm a bad influence on you?!? You are on me! I could have finished my book as well, the one that never seems to end for some reason...and it's actually short...odd. I'll have to put that on my review. Anywho, it was funny after I got what you were saying.
ReplyDeleteI'll never deny that I'm a bad influence. :)
ReplyDeleteI've read a few books like that. Bend Sinister was one of them but there have been others. It's always disappointing to me when a short book takes too long. It's almost as if the author wanted to keep you reading but he didn't want to write a whole lot so he just made his narrative move at a slower pace.
Yep. That's it. It's a good series, but this book was just written poorly.
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