Booking Through Thursday - On Your Shelf
I’m playing a bit of catch-up with the Booking Through Thrusday prompts I missed while at the writer’s conference, so I’ll be posting up three BTTs today…
For today:
Okay–here was an interesting article by Christopher Schoppa in the Washington Post.
“Avid readers know all too well how easy it is to acquire books — it’s the letting go that’s the difficult part. … During the past 20 years, in which books have played a significant role in both my personal and professional lives, I’ve certainly had my fair share of them (and some might say several others’ shares) in my library. Many were read and saved for posterity, others eventually, but still reluctantly, sent back out into the world.
“But there is also a category of titles that I’ve clung to for years, as they survived numerous purges, frequent library donations and countless changes of residence. I’ve yet to read them, but am absolutely certain I will. And should. When, I’m not sure, as I’m constantly distracted by the recent, just published and soon to be published works.”
So, the question is his: “What tomes are waiting patiently on your shelves?“
Haha. These kind of questions always amuse me because I reckon I have one of the worst TBR shelves out there. I actually have had to by shelves so I had a space for all my TBRs.
I chronicle what I’m reading and what I’m going to try to read next in my Tuesday Book Lists, but the sad fact is that my Tuesday lists don’t have all the books on my shelf on there. I can count over a dozen books on my TBR self right now that aren’t on that list.
Sad stuff.
But I will read them… Eventually… Anyone what to pay off my student loans so I can take off working for a while to read?
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