The Endless To-Be-Read Pile

So do I have a really long TBR list. I realize myself checking the new bestseller list, and recently released NY times bestseller list, while I already have so many books bought , only to be shelved.

Every now and then, I resign from my work, to read the books all day. But , fortunately (or unfortunately), I haven't dared yet. Did you see the movie "Sabrina", a new version with Julia Olmond and Harrison Ford? In the movie, Sabrina's father loved reading so much that he had become a chauffeur, to secure enough time to read books. Sometimes, I want to become a chauffeur too!

I don't know how I'm just now seeing this post (you're on my google reader and I just came across it here at blogher? how'd that happen?) but thanks for the mention! I'm the same as you... the hours I could spend in bookstores... and the TBR is just never ending. But really, it'd be sad if it did end, yeah? Having a good book to look forward too is pretty awesome.

One of the "casualties" of being a reviewer is that you get lots of books in the mail. These pile up on top of purchased books, borrowed books, and books given as gifts. Thankfully, I love books, but find there's never enough time for the ones I want to finish. I'm starting Lee Woodruff's "Perfectly Imperfect" (recommended by another writer) and I'm in the middle of several new novels, including "Night Circus." I try to read from a variety of genres to keep things interesting.

I probably have 200 books TBR. I save them on my wish list on Amazon and Good reads. Plus I swap books on PBS and I save them on there too. SO yeah, I never stop thinking about it either.

I always have a few books waiting to be read, always have one book I'm reading. It's just part of my life, and always has been. http://www.emptyhousefullmind.com/?p=297

I love seeing stacks of books! I'm not a very fast reader, so my pile grows at an impossible rate. This is my link to my TBR pile...slowly but surely I'm getting through it! Sometimes I often don't ponder what I'll read next until I'm done with my current read, unless it is a newly discovered series...then I might want to fly through it - one after the other. My mood at the beginning of the book may be drastically different at the end, so whatever I might want to read next might not sound so good when the time comes.

I have too many TBR lists. There are all the books I want to read. There are the books I have to read. There are the books I want to read but have to read RIGHT NOW because they are due back at the library. There are the books I want to read that aren't even out yet. Sigh. So many books.

I have 3 books on my nightstand; I read a different one every night. Same as watching a different program on TV every night. And I, too, will go to B&N and peruse the shelves with books on sale, and I can't help picking up all that call my attention. Hubby and I consider ourselves "book collectors." We also like to shop at used bookstores, great finds there too.

Wonderful post, by the way! :)

~Virginia

LOL that's impossible to answer because I think I'm always thinking about the books to come (and the books I've finished). Right now I'm almost finished with the new Flavia de Luce and after that I'm going to read The Underside of Joy and then I'm going to go back to last year's BlogHer Book Club and read something I missed or maybe I'll read some YA that I'm pretty sure will be waiting for me at the library. Then after those, I think I'm going to read The Magician's Elephant because it's on the shelf and will need to go back soon. Then will come some of the short stories in The Best Non-Required Reading. Then I hope the new Willig will be here and I can read that next. Or maybe I will read Willig before Elephant, if it's here... because I'm dying to read that.

I could go on.