Resolutions ... and it's Day 2!

I thought I was going to be a good girl with the book buying vs reading...hehehe! Yeah right! I might have gotten alittle better.

I like the idea of reading a older tbr book whenever you read a new book. My current read is a brand new book and I plan on reading one I bought last year. I am trying to set a goal this year with trying to get my dusty tbr pile down.

what constitutes a book on TBR ....... how long must it exist in your house before it's classed as old enough to be a TBR?

or rather what constitutes a NEW book? .... new releases? ... a brand new book, never read and still being published?

where does one fit in the books that arrive "used" from V. V. or from eBay?

so far in Jan 2008 I've ordered 8 books, they haven't yet arrived ... and I have a previous eHarl order from December on it's way ........ so these are new books, however, as soon as they arrive they are placed in TBR

I think if we are being challenged to read TBR's, we need to clarify that it's books we've had kicking around for ages and ages ..... say older than a year? ....... maybe Cady clarified all this last year when she made the Challenge ... I think it's a good challenge and wouldn't mind participating .....

A lot of people seem to have found (and are worried by the fact) that as they have even bigger Wishlists due to the blogs, they only ever read the books they have just bought and so all the older (less recently bought) books in the TBR just languish there, even though at one stage they caught our eyes with enough insistence that we actually shelled out hard-earned dosh for them

And hence the dichotomy between old TBR and new TBR was born.

I read fast enough that I don't care what TBR it's in, when I want to read it, as long as it isn't in the NY, CA or TX TBR I can get at it.

Part of the problem is buying books in lots, not wanting to get rid of the ones you haven't ever got around to reading, but wanting the space they occupy for books you've actually chosen as opposed to just acquired

Of course there's nothing stopping the bloggers from turning OFF their computers, locking themselves indoors and reading the pile down to nothing, but willpower to resist the blog entries and the temptation to add more names to the wishlist seems to be lacking

Maybe Jayne could bottle some and sell it online but why would the people in the bookstore want her to?

Hugs

Sadhbh

Hi Kathy!  I wasn't expecting this site to be up till maybe next week...so it was a nice, somewhat scary surprise to get back from the city last night and not recognise anything here. I'm looking forward to learning my way around.

I really enjoyed Cadys challenge to read more of the older tbr books we all have collecting dust in our tbr's, that are often being past over for the flashy new reads. I think the challenge was to have 25% of a months reads be older tbr books, or something like that...i know i set my challenge for myself at 50% older reads...and had lots of fun reading from books that had been waiting forever for me to get to them...and had likely completely given up on ever getting read.

Good luck to you reading from your older tbr books...i hope you have fun with it also.

TC, Kathy

okay, I'm just an oddball

I buy a lot of new books here at eHarl ..... plus I subscribe to a couple of imprints ..... but I'm one that may read about 20% of those brand new books coming in ..... I'm always reaching for the older books, trying to clear them out for more room ..... plus when I discover a new to me author and want to read more, I tend to collect their backlists and want to read from the earliest release forward (esp. with authors that love to link their stories)  ...... so often my new TBR's are languishing! 

so this year I thought I'd try to challenge myself to read more of the books that have just arrived or are currently being sold on eHarl (not out of print)  ...... sort of a reverse of your TBR challenge LOL

You want us to leave you alone???

But you know I had to check

So be prepared to be bugged by me

   Hehe...I'm so evil.  Not to brag or anything. I've read 19 books so far this year and all of them have been from my older TBR (the ones I got from my mother's house. Trying to clean out that stack some.  I've purchased 10 here on e-harlequin and will probably get a couple of more from a brick and mortar store.

I'm literally drowning in books though. I've got to start clearing them out some...so that is my goal for this year. To remove at least one or two rubbermaid containers full of old books from my house. To avoid whenever possible acquiring new ones that will take their place, but mostly to read up more of the old ones.

Good luck to you guys with your goals too! 

I usually read older ones ..... but I'm going to try to read at least a few current releases each month ..... we'll see though .... usually my reading line up changes once Lorie starts with the mini-challenges 

The reason I was able to do so is that I've decided to get control of my spending this year (I need to know where my money is going) and start saving more. Therefore, I will be spending less money on books (sigh) and less time looking in stores for new books.

Also, I haven't felt like do anything, bur read and sleep because I got a nasty cold at Christmas and I'm just now recovering. I don't recommend that as a way to find more time to read, but it has helped my numbers.

....feeling better soon!  {HUG}    This is how I feel like walking around at work lately b/c EVERYONE is sick with something!!!

I don't even know if I want to slow it down   I am going to try and make a dent in the books that I have right now.

You know, I really don't have a TBR pile growing at home.  One, I don't buy a lot of books at one time anymore b/c I never know if I'm going to end up loving or hating them and two, I've signed up for a service that keeps tracks of what I want and sends them to me as they become available.  Granted, I like having books on hand to read but I like that it's a managable pile and not 50-1000 books sitting there.  I think I might go a little crazy knowing that I had that many books to read!  And yes, I am a tad anal so it would drive me nuts!  LOL  I would probably ignore everthing around me in order to read all of those books!!!!!  How does that urge not overtake you?!?!?!  I just couldn't imagine!  Too much pressure I guess!  LOL

that sounds like me - would you like a picture

Except
I'm only at 26 for the year so far because I'm in a bit of a slump and
most of the books I pick up get put down again after a couple of pages

I'm blaming the bronchitis, but it may be just plain reading slump

I'll know when the bronchitis is gone, but the reading slump's still here

Hugs

Sadhbh