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My DH is also the practical gift giver. I must admit he does have his moments. I still have the "Latin Lady" roses he bought me for our 5th anniversary (he HATES buying flowers, when I see flowers in his hands I always think something terrible has happened.) Four years ago he bought me three Barbie Dolls for christmas. The Rose (she atually looks like a red rose), Princess of the Nile (because she has long black hair like mine, sigh!) and Princess of the Sun (on good days he says I light up his days). Sure beats the blender, salad shooter and ice tea machine (HE Drinks the Tea!). It's those unexpected sweet gifts thatmake the one that leave you scratching your head bearable humorous. Mines a keeper.

I have been thinking of getting a couple of audio books, but enjoy the reading. I think creating the "voice" of the characters for yourself individualizes the story to the reader. I'd like to try an audio though, any suggestions?

I've just begun to investigate the different formats for ebooks as well. I find it interesting that you list the prequel for Lords of the Underworld in that format (Loved the trilogy and hope GS expands the series).

Have you read Lord of the Fading Lands (C.L. Wilson)? Her first book, I highly recommend it if you enjoy fantasy and magic.

 

I tried to limit myself to buying 10 books a month. Then I realised I could trade-in my non-keepers for books that technically are already paid for, read and being swapped; therefore they didn't count towards my purchase total..(That's my story I get to tell it the way I want).. I did pretty good for about three months. I would limit the amount of time I allowed myself to browse books and would go through my TBR pile before going to the store. Then it happened. That event we all fear.....

SOME GENIUS FIGURED OUT I WASN"T SHOPPING MY QUOTA! I was conspired against.

I got caught in one our famous Florida downpours and the only place I could go... you guessed it. B&N! I spent three hours in there waiting for the rain to relent. I ended up buying 47 books (And 3 DVDs). Talk about no control. (They actually had someone following me around to cart my book selections to the check-out.)

My beloved husband just shook his head and walked away mumbling when I got home. Something about he preferred when I brought them home a few at a time at least then it wasn't so obvious I had no self-control. Did I mention this is my BELOVED husband?

If you can't stop buying at least you keep them neat and organized. (We own a custom cabinetry shop and I have been working on a minimized storage system.)

It's all good. You could have worse vices. Oh, books and cats seem to go together. I have two babies that love to sit with me when I read. Six is definitely not too many.

Good Luck!

I was stressing because this has been a very busy first half of the year. What with trying to keep my business running and all, I am way behing on my reading. I believe I'm at 57 with my next three taking me to 60 by month end. I haven't gotten to read as much as I would like and still have a couple of hundred in my tbr pile.

**Sigh**, wish I could say I was going supernova at four digits! Gotta love it!

Brilliant! I try to post my reviews at least one biweekly. (I am swamped trying to keep my business afloat these days. With everyone cutting their expenses back, being in the construction industry...not so good.)

I think that anyone that sends in a review via snail mail should get double credit. It's tough enough to sit and type it. Writing it long hand has to be tougher. My mind moves way too fast to get it all down on paper.

Way to go!!

 

Impressed! You would love the bins I found in my garage when I moved. I have 4 toughie bins of (late 80's through mid 90's) HR, Sillouettes, Desires, Loveswepts, etc. Roughly 600 to 700 books. Wish I had your discipline.

Twice a year during the change of season. We all look forward to the charades. It used to freak me out at first. Now I enjoy just looking at people blankly when they speak to me. I know it's terrible, but there was a woman complaining about her life in general behind me in a store (and being rather obnoxiuos about it) and I turned around and signed "at least you can complain loudly". She left the line.....

I find that fresh lemon in ginger tea and honey brings my voice back pretty quick. (So does eating a lemon on its own, but that's harsh!)

Hope you're better soon.

How do you get so much time to read? I think if I was they type, I would be jealous. Do you read anything in particulr or everything in general?

WOW......

You wouldn't mean "Been Caught Stealing" by Jane's Addiction that song was in the 90's. About how much fun it is to steal then wallow in it as a pile? 

If I had thought of it back then, I would have made a huge pile of books and "swam" in it.

I went to college when I was 16...Not a brilliant age for me (another story)...I was in the library archive looking for microfische, for a term paper. Someone opened the door and said library is closing in 10 minutes... needless to say, I didn't make it out of the archive until after the lights went out and by the time I bumped my way around to the front door I was locked in. From 10pm to 6:30am...

The lights in the bathroom work on a different light switch than the keyed main lights. I spent the night running from shadows and picking books at random to read a chapter of this and a chapter of that. It was spooky as heck in there. But what a great time reading... to myself, aloud and to the shadows. (By the way, did you know that when you open a can of warm soda it erupts out of the can? Also, it sounds like a gunshot in a dead quiet library.)

The librarian almost passed out when she opened up in the morning and found me in there. But surprise changes to angry rant pretty quick... She made me put back every book I had stacked up by the bathroom.

They changed policy after that. The rooms all had to walked through before she could close at night and I PERSONALLY had my own sign in/sign out sheet for about a year.