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Morganville Vampire series

beyondelsewhere — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 20:25:01 -0500

... is a very good one! I am a huge Rachel Caine fan because of that and the Weather Warden one.

I love reading about everyone's picks for this challenge. There's some good stuff in there!

Cat

Beyond Elsewhere and Beyond Books

... and the occasional random post here.

Shops, Libraries, Internet, Remainder Sales, you name it

annejenner — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 19:35:11 -0500

Anne

I confess I am hopelessly addicted. Keep making resolutions not to buy more, even not to borrow more from the now 5 libraries to which I belong, but nothing seems to work. There are a number of teetering piles around various rooms of the house and occasionally when my social life goes into decline, as it does now and then, I manage to make inroads on the piles but never seem to reach the bottom. Could be anything lurking there - dead cockroaches perhaps!! Now and then I think about whichever poor family members will be landed with the task of dealing with all the books when I am no longer around and feel sorry for them, but even that doesn't stem the tide. An old boyfriend once spotted one of my bookcases bulging with tattered paperbacks which I had not been able to bring myself to get rid of and was aghast (rightly so) especially as lots of them were hardly the sort of stuff you'd want to boast about having on the shelves (airport impulse buys etc.) Oh well, I give up but am so glad to hear there are others similarly afflicted!

Online services will be down for almost a whole day

sassymonkey — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 18:57:40 -0500

at my library next week. I think that will be a good day for me to be out of the house because otherwise I'm going to go nuts.

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I use the library all the time too

sassymonkey — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 18:55:51 -0500

But it mostly just keeps my buying in check, it doesn't stop it. With so many wonderful new books being published all the time I don't think I'll ever declare that I have enough books...

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Good luck!

sassymonkey — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 18:54:51 -0500

I'll be routing for you. I have a hard time walking by any bookstore and not going in so I know exactly how you feel.

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I just bought a reference book

sassymonkey — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 18:52:48 -0500

And somehow 3 Georgette Heyer novels hopped into my online shopping cart when I was ordering it. I have no idea how it happened but once they were there I couldn't evict them. That would just be rude! ;-)

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let's hear it for the library

courtenayr — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 17:38:19 -0500

my dad used to get so mad when i'd come home with a bag of books from bookstop. he couldn't understand why i just didn't save my money and go to the library instead. well, i love the way books look on a shelf. and i love to read. but now, years later, i have enough books. i use the library all the time!

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It's such a great idea!

cparizo — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 13:53:55 -0500

It's such a great idea that I've joined! And I'm going to list my loooong reading list in my blog, possibly tonight after 8 p.m. EDT. I love Borders and can never NOT go in. Let's see how I fare.

Christine M. Parizo, RP

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Straw? Sticks? Bricks? Try books! Our house is built of them.

poppy — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 13:47:50 -0500

And I'm not really exaggerating. You should see our house. Two serious bookhounds + two stints at graduate school + out of control book buying habits = house made of books.

So this is such a brilliant idea!

And me with GoodReads and LibraryThing memberships and a wish list a mile-long at Amazon.

But could I do it? And more to the point, could I get my husband to do it, too?

Poppy

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also blogging at The Opiate of the Masses and Mamarazzi

A lot more than 100 unread books

Denise — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 12:19:57 -0500

I am doing a From the Stacks Challenge and not being super successful - mostly because I haven't had much time to read for the last few months.

As I pulled those off my shelf, I realized I could easily have pulled a few hundred more.

After I finish this From the Stacks Challenge, I will do another one.

~Denise
BlogHer Community Manager

Flamingo House Happenings

I did that

Denise — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 12:17:59 -0500

Back when I still had a library card with an online account. Sigh. I checked it every day, several times a day. I still have it bookmarked in my favorites folder thingy that's right on my browser toolbar. Sometimes I click it, just to ... I have no idea why, but I do.

It's a sickness. But a good sickness.

~Denise
BlogHer Community Manager

Flamingo House Happenings

I probably have 100 unread books lying around too...

arduous — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 11:57:00 -0500

But I can't take this challenge!! I have a good excuse though: I'm going back to school and have to buy my textbooks!!

Oh, a novel crept into my cart while I was on Amazon? Huh. I wonder how THAT happened. Oh well. ;)

Ruchi

http://arduousblog.blogspot.com/

I've given up magazines

sassymonkey — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 11:38:25 -0500

It's surprisingly difficult when they stare back at you in the checkout line. But I don't really miss reading them.

When we moved one of my requirements was that it had to be walking distance from a library. Luckily it's a good library system and it's really helped cut down on book purchases.

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Come visit

sassymonkey — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 11:36:06 -0500

And I'll let you raid my shelves. ;-)

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Sigh.

TW — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 11:33:46 -0500

I can't even imagine a life with that many unread books in the house unless we just got the library books for the week.

~TW
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