No one responded to my giveaway of Heather Gudenkauf's novel One Breath Away. So--that means I will gift this novel to someone in my family and friends circle.
What the heck? I guess I will have to think long and hard about trying that again.
August is here, and I am at 91 books towards my goal of 125 for the year. It helps to have a few days off, hot weather, and central air. Kept me reading this past week and making inroads in my gigantic piles of books.
But not enough.
Somehow I think moving piles of books around from one spot to another will make them shrink. This is not working. They are still the same size.
While I'd like to make a firm plan that I won't read anything new in the bookstore, this would last about halfway into tomorrow, when I see some great new reads at work. Instead, I'm going to make about 75% of my reading for August come from those piles on the floor, those double and triple stacked rows on the bookshelves. Uggh.
And you probably wonder where I get all those books I have all over my house.
I buy them.
A few are ARCS, but mostly (90%) books I have bought. So while I am appreciative of getting ARCS (saves me some money!) and love getting books from Netgalley and Edelweiss, I do spend an awful lot on books. I like to own them. I don't like to borrow from the library, and I don't like to borrow from friends. An employee discount comes in handy! I don't get too many books as gifts. Pretty much none. My wonderful Bud does give me gift cards to B&N for special occasions, so that helps. If I get an ARC for something that I won't read, I leave it for others to enjoy. When I'm done with an ARC, if I don't want to keep the book on my shelves, I take them to work to pass onto other book lovers.
But I still have a lot of books. I think I may adopt the rule of: For every one that comes in, I must take one out. It may very well kill me, but I have to try!
Here's to August and another full month of reading. Tomorrow night at my B&N we are welcoming author Tracey Garvis Graves, author of the very enjoyable and hard to put down On The Island. Looking forward to meeting her and telling her how much I enjoyed her novel. If you haven't picked it up, do it! It's a quick read and really sucks you in very quickly.
I am hoping to reach my goal of 125 books by November 1st so I can give NaNoWriMo a shot! Can't wait. How is your reading goal for the year?
