read the books I have

I’m not happy with the book searches. Sometimes it comes up with the book I’m looking for and it has a picture, but it loses its picture when I add it to the list. Sometimes it comes up with lots of items for the same book, and I don’t know what to pick. I’m going to follow the siren song of Goodreads and see if I can use it without ending up with more books to read.

finally. one book. But I liked it! Blessing in Disguise, by Barbara Rommer. It’s near death experiences, and she includes what she calls “less-than-positive” experiences as well as the more well-known blissful ones. I like reading about NDEs a lot, ever since I discovered they existed a few years ago.

Still haven’t figured out if I should make use of goodreads.com yet. It seems like it might entice me to buy more (like Amazon does), and my goal is really to read the books I have without buying more.

One book. One, count it, one. Then I’ll only have 3,000 left to go. Or 300, I haven’t really counted them (should I?) On the super-plus side, I haven’t purchased any more since I chose this goal, and not for lack of wanting to.

Oprah had the author of Eat, Pray, Love on her show. So while I was knitting (good), I was coveting yet another book (bad). I’m trying to appease myself by putting it on my Amazon wishlist. So it’s safe, bwah hah hah….

It’s tied to other things I want, like becoming debt-free, and reducing clutter, and wanting what I already have, and being realistic about my time, and finishing what I start, and living more simply, and not being such a pig when most of the rest of the world lives on so little.

Well. That’s huge. I didn’t realize it was so important in so many areas. Now, I could also have a goal of using all the yarn I have before I buy any more, but I break out in hives thinking about that, so I’m going to start here. It’s only slightly less emotionally laden anyway.

I don’t really know how to go about this. In addition to the tons of books I own that I haven’t read, I have lots I’ve read one or two thirds of and then set aside when the new pretty book came along. Also, I’m wondering if starting a list on Goodreads.com will help, or if that’s just dancing around the edges. I don’t think I need to catalog them all first (ack!), but it might be nice to see them somewhere as goals by themselves. OTOH, I could just make a stab at something and not try for perfection. OK, I don’t need perfection, but I do need an approach that will work.

What doesn’t work: going to bookstores, surfing Amazon (darn those recommendations), responding to advertisments about sales (hurry! now! before it ends!).

I wonder if borrowing from the library is cheating….

But I really do want to read the books I have. I have them because I really wanted to read them (I’ve given away the ones I kept because someone else wanted me to read them, or they were purchased by an earlier, unrecognizable incarnation of myself). So the library really doesn’t help me accomplish the heart of the goal.

I’ve been told I over-analyze. Naw…. ;)

Yet, I realise I will be buying books for the rest of my life, without having time to read them all.

i have been contemplating on this for so long. my mom was so against it. so is my husband. but thats not stopping me this time.if the opprtunity knocks it will happen.

I’m making progress, but there’s so much to life that requires my attention it’s hard to find a certain peace of mind to sit down with a book even though I love it so much. I guess that reading books on a daily basis is still not wholy my habbit. I do write much so I get to read my own words.

=D

Anyway, I’d like really to finish Dune. And my other books. But I’m always buying it seems and the pile to be read grows larger.

How do you deal with your book habbits?

When I’ve finished ALL of the books I already own, then I want to read an Agatha Christie mystery and something by Hunter S. Thompson. After that I want to re-read all of Jane Austen’s stories.

I’m really going to have to find a way to stay awake past 9:30 p.m. if I’m to do all this reading before I go completely blind & senile!

Right now, at no great speed mind you, I’m reading both Weighing the Soul: Scientific Discovery from the Brilliant to the Bizarre, and Make Compost in 14 Days by Editors of Organic Gardening Magazine.

Both are very interesting. I just wish I could read more than a few words before I fall asleep with the book on my face!