Comments on: Just curious

By: robin

robin — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 17:40:34 +0000

Adrienne, you’re right–you definitely work in the equivalent of a chocolate factory. Be strong! And how can anyone walk in there and not find something they want to read? How can that be?

Jen, craving good books and good pizza–you with me on that?

Felicity, that’s quite a pile. But I like your attitude–there is some comfort in knowing you’ll always have something else to pick up and dive into.

Lady S, bless you, my friend. You know, over here in the states we don’t get to hear about all that cutting-edge medical research. And I love the idea of SABLE! Sweet!

Rachel, welcome to the blog! Yeah, a week or two to do nothing but make a dent in the pile–sounds lovely.

By: Rachel Kramer Bussel

Rachel Kramer Bussel — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 22:14:33 +0000

Oh, I absolutely do this! And I start books, and somehow then start new ones, even when I like the ones I’ve already started. It’s getting really bad of late, but I keep on accumulating. Would love a week or two to just sit and read them all!

By: Lady-S

Lady-S — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 14:33:15 +0000

I think you’re a little confused, perhaps - or possibly just unaware of the medical research which shows that book-purchasing is the only addiction which isn’t a problem? Yeah, yeah, there’s a BIT of small print, like the conditions in which the bank account becomes empty or the house so full it’s impossible to open the door to get the parcels in, but aside from that, it’s all good!

You might enjoy the concept of SABLE, which comes from the knitting world, but obviously applies: Stash Accumulation Beyond Life Expectancy.

By: Felicity

Felicity — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 11:18:18 +0000

I have an enormous To Be Read pile! I started to books that I need to read on my beside table/bookshelf (it’s both) but now I have about forty books in it, and about twenty books piled around it. I really need to catch up. I actually like having too many to be read books, because I know that I’ll never run out.

By: Jen Robinson

Jen Robinson — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 04:11:31 +0000

I totally have that problem, Robin! It’s some sort of addiction, for sure.

By: adrienne

adrienne — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 03:56:52 +0000

Sara mentioned the library compounding her problem, but my job involves going to this place where they have all these books lying around that you can take away for free. People are always coming up to me and asking me to help them find books they’re all excited about, and I spend a calculable amount of work time every day reading about books. Then there are the book blogs in my free time and one of the perks of working at a library is that we can purchase books for ourselves at an extreme discount and I can’t possibly pass an independent bookstore without purchasing something lest they go out of business.

Seriously, it’s bad.

Sometimes people come into the library and can’t find anything they want to read, as in finding something they want to read is a problem for them. I feel sad for those people. Sometimes I feel overwhelmed by how many things I want to read, but I can’t imagine what I’d feel like without that comfortable cushion of interesting reading material handy. It’s like a security blanket.

By: robin

robin — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 03:03:03 +0000

Lady T, I’ve never heard of Booksfree–how cool that sounds! And yet it’s a curse, because you’ll always be able to get more and more and more.

A good curse.

By: Lady T

Lady T — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 02:06:05 +0000

I was just in a bookstore today(had some time to kill before seeing There Will Be Blood)and saw several things that I wanted but only got one,which was the latest Kim Harrison paperback,For A Few Demons More.

Meanwhile,I had a book in my purse(long bus ride to the only theater within my area that’s playing TWBB)and am currently reading a few others a bit at a time. Fortunately,I do have my Booksfree account,which loans me two titles at a time(in paperback),so after my book browsing today,I’ll have a few new titles to put on my waiting list.

By: Dylan

Dylan — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 20:20:10 +0000

It is! ^_^ hehe your welcome and I think we probably are! lol

By: robin

robin — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 19:38:45 +0000

Readerdiane, that’s one of the things that must be so great about teaching: you still get the same vacations you did as a kid, when all you wanted to do to fill your time was read and watch movies. How nice to still be able to do that as an adult!

Kelley, I’m the same way–I can’t sleep if I go straight from computer to bed. There needs to be that nice bridge in between, even if it’s reading only a few pages. But the brain does need that break.