This post is a part of the Slice of Life challenge which is hosted on the Two Writing Teachers blog. The month of March the challenge is to write a blog post a day.
I just got home from Half Price Books where I bought this book stack:
Although all of these books were in the clearance section and I got a fabulous deal, I really had no business buying more books. I think I might have a problem. Is there a book-lovers anonymous to help me with this book addiction?
The reason I should not be buying more books is the fact that I already have waaayyyy too many books on my to-read shelves. Yes, that's right it is plural. These are my to-read shelves at home:
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| This one only has books on 2 of the shelves |
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| This one is stacked full of books that I have yet to read. |
This does not include the dozens of books that I want to read in my classroom or the ones I have stored on my Kindle (must stop looking at the daily deals). I seriously need to stop spending money on books for a while. This year, with the addition of Twitter into my life, I have become even more of a book nerd than I used to be. Now I know all the titles on the clearance shelf at Half Price Books, and I want to buy the whole warehouse at Scholastic sales. The worst of it is that somewhere along the way, I converted my husband into a book nerd too. (This isn't really a bad thing it just stops us from having the voice of reason when it comes to book buying. He is on a graphic novel kick right now and our collection is growing steadily)
So I am starting it now. No more book buying. Hello, my name is Andrea and I am a book addict. It has been an hour since I bought my last book. Where is the twelve step program and the support network for me?
I can so relate to this post! My TBR piles/shelves are ridiculous! If you find information on that twelve step program please share!!
ReplyDeleteRight there with you. A couple of years ago, a former college student said, "You taught me to love books." Thinking about the piles and piles and piles at my house, I wasn't so sure that was totally a good thing!
ReplyDeleteI'm a displaced librarian. I used to have thousands of dollars to spend of the books I fell in love with. Now I have two grand kids and a Young 5's classroom and books and Amazon Prime and a Kindle. It's not pretty!
ReplyDeleteI need to take this pledge with you. I make a conscious effort to request books from the library, not buy them. My husband would laugh if he read this line. I'm not too successful, especially when bargains at Half Price Books beckon to me.
ReplyDeleteI'm impressed you have shelves for your books-to-read. Mine are stashed in boxes and baskets around the house and classroom. My name is Kay, and I have a book habit, too, but I'm not sure I'm ready to admit I have a problem. I probably should catch up on some of the reading (and my reading of books is slowing down with all the slicing this month) before I buy too many more, but the Scholastic Book Fair with BOGO is coming up right after spring break!
ReplyDeleteI am a book lover also! Because of limited space, I try to limit the books that come home. I buy books every week when I volunteer at the Friends of the Library bookstore, but most of them I then sell on to fellow teachers:) I get the joy of buying books, but they do not crowd my house.
ReplyDeleteI moved 2 years ago and now live way too close to both a Half Price Book Store and Scholastic Warehouse. It is dangerous. Today I volunteered at the Scholastic Warehouse and was paid in books then I stopped by Half Price Books and bought a box of books. I always tell my husband they are all for school but far too many still live in my house on TBR shelves as well. Not to feed anyone's book finding habit but I did write my first blog post today about how to get free/low cost books to build your classroom library http://bit.ly/Y186ba Check it out and add your favorite ways to wrangle books in the comment section.
ReplyDeleteI got a real chuckle from your post. I would have to say that I am one as well. I keep saying "No more books. I will not buy abnother book" Then I go into Costgo or someone recommends a great book and I have to get it! I am trying to read my TBR stacks but it may take me 10 years of steady reading!
ReplyDeleteI have the exact same "problem." Your shelves look full of great choices!!
ReplyDeleteHalf Price Books has a clearance section? That I will be checking out. At least a book addiction is calorie free!
ReplyDeleteI so-oo understand your addiction. Unfortunately I to am an addicted bibliophile. I now tell parents of kids that show symptoms of developing this addiction - "Teach them how to build bookshelves."
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