Books that came into my house today

Doctor Olaf van Schuler's Brain by Kirsten Menger Anderson
Tomato Girl by Jayne Pupek
Between Here and April by Deborah Copaken Kogan
New Stories From The South 2008 edited by ZZ Packer
My Fathers Paradise by Ariel Sabar

a paperback copy of Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling
Two Faces :Walking in Two Worlds by George McMullen
Ruby a Novel by Mary Summer Rain
Aaron's Crossing An Inspiring True Ghost Story by Linda Alice Dewey
The Unanswered Question Death, Near Death, and the Afterlife by Kurt Leland

The Last Day by Glenn Kleier
Icy Sparks by Gwyn Hyman Rubio
Ellen Foster by Kaye Gibbons
The Land of Osiris by Stephen S Mehler
Atlantis and the Kingdom of the Neanderthals: 100,000 Years of Lost History by Colin Wilson

Geez, close the door before you become a whole darn library!

ROFL Funnee! seriously funny comment..


Lucky, if you ever sw my house...

bookshelves on each side of the fireplace in the living room, 3 five shelf units upstairs...
four shelves in my dining room, but there are a few baskets there too....
two small shelves and a headboard in my bedroom...

and I stack books here and there and behind other books and ...

well..

you get the idea..

I used to have tons of books, until I had to move them....three times. Now they have lost their luster, and I own very few, but I am at the library all the time!

I get a little overwhelmed with too many additions at once. It stresses me. Same thing when I have too many sewing projects to attend to. It's something in my character. I think you must be mellower than me kath. I think I'm more stressed.

thebutlerdidit wrote:I get a little overwhelmed with too many additions at once. It stresses me. Same thing when I have too many sewing projects to attend to. It's something in my character. I think you must be mellower than me kath. I think I'm more stressed.

Me too! The stress and the guilt, it's just too much!

I makes me feel so wealthy to have a nice big stack of TO Be Read books!

I love it..

I moved to MA and back to PA years ago..... during that time, I had to find homes for 25 boxes of books....lol

now I don't keep most novels... and I only have about 800 or so books.. my goal is to keep it under 1000. EAch year I give the ones I purge to the Humane Society Book Sale...
and I use a site where people trade books...it works..

lol

I'm a certified Book-a-holic. I have books in every room of my house and I even keep a novel or two in my car, {who knows when you may get stuck waiting somewhere with nothing but 3 year old Golf magazines?}.
It would be soooooo much cheaper to join the library, but sadly enough I'm too irresponsible. After years of paying late fees and lost book fees I gave up

If I got a haul like kath I would think Christmas had arrived early!

kath can you tell me more about the trading site you belong to?

absolutely! I will pm you some info

oh and regarding being mellow? lol comes with age.... its easier to see that it is pretty much all small stuff when you pass 50, I think? ( at least, having been all the other ages.. that seems to be the case for me..)

today?

House of Spirits and Whispers by Annie Wilder

Land of Osiris by Stephen S Mehler

Thescarlett ... did youcheck out the sites?

Amazon


Another Door Opens: A Psychic Explains How Those in the World of Spirit Continue To Impact Our Lives... by Jeffrey A. Wands

The Jesus Papers: Exposing the Greatest Cover-Up in History by Michael Baigent

Ghosts Among Us: Uncovering the Truth About the Other Side by James Van Praagh

THE TEMPLAR REVELATION - Secret Guardians of the True Identity of Christ by Lynn & Prince, Clive Picknett

and from mooch

The Isles of the Blest by Morgan Llywelyn

Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire

The Lady in Blue by Javier Sierra

Saucer by Stephen Coonts

Saucer: The Conquest by Stephen Coonts

Big Russ and Me: Father and Son--Lessons of Life by Timothy J. Russert

Heaven Sent by Montre Bible

dogfood by Judith Adler & Paul Coughlin

All from the Bargain table at B & N..
came in under 15$ used a gift card!

Lucky wrote:I used to have tons of books, until I had to move them....three times. Now they have lost their luster, and I own very few, but I am at the library all the time!

Me too, got sick of dusting them, moving them, and just plain tripping over them. Rounded them all up, gave a few hundred to the library and now I get them all from the library. the rest got passed along to family, we have a big sharing circle. Altogether I have less then 20 that I keep. I use the library A LOT. Far far cheaper that way. My daughter still has a couple hundred kid books, but as soon as they are outgrown, off they go too.

But what kids of furniture do you have if you have no bookcases???

LOL, I have three tall ones .. five shelf.. upstairs.. built ins on either side of my fireplace, and two in the dining room. You are so right about the dust though..

and cost? I limit myself to 20$ or under a pay.... and stay out of Starbucks, Target etc... It is my reward to me. Then I give them away, or trade them or keep selected ones...

I think that if I had only 20 books left it would give me hives.......

How do you get so many books into your house in one day?

I have over 1000 books (unfortunately for my husband). I read over 5 books a week usually and I have multiple copies of some books. I can be halfway through it before I remember that I have read it. but i still don't remember the ending, so I just keep reading.

I can never have enough books. I have short timers memory (from reading too fast?) so each book is usually brand new until I get halfway through it.

Wow oregondiver I thought I was a book junkie!
You've got me beat by a mile

Welcome oregondiver! You remind me of my son... or myself before kids. I love to read but hate getting interrupted mid-book so don't do much of it now. Can't wait til all the kids are in school!

I received an advance copy of The Lace Reader
and I am dying to read it. I am currently reading Not In Kansas Anymore: A Curious Tale of How Magic is Transforming America. Aso very good.

Of... what?

And nice to see you, Kath! I've missed you. Have you been enjoying your time off of school?

sorry Karen I was editing.. the link thingy is not working...
I am back to work now for a month... but off again after next week..

yes.. all is welll thanks Karen, how about you?

Other than the fact that my babies are crazy insane, things are fine. And no, it's not anything in particular that they're insane about. They're just in the mood to yell and throw food, I think.

Glad all is well with you

I have been popping in nearly every day... usually very early.

Take care