Comments on: Bookaholic?

By: Claire M. Caterer

Claire M. Caterer — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 12:20:52 +0000

My personal quirk: If I attend a book signing or reading, I buy the book. Or, at the very least, I buy another of the author's books that are sitting on the table. This should be good news to all of you authors out there: It does pay to appear at events in person! I bring home stacks of library books, determined not to be lured by the pretty covers in the B&N and Borders (yes, I frequent both, as well as the most fantastic indie, Rainy Day Books in the Kansas City metro area). But somehow, even if I just stop in at one of the above for a cup of coffee, something ends up in my purse. (I buy it, not steal it.) And I have a shelf and a half full of books waiting to be read.

By: bfav

bfav — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 04:08:29 +0000

I just binged on 9 books at B&N. It's the smell. I'm glad there are others like me.

By: Joan Mora

Joan Mora — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 15:46:05 +0000

If you haven't already stocked up:
THE POSTMISTRESS by Sarah Blake (If you liked Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Society)
ALL OTHER NIGHTS by Dara Horn (Genius Civil War spy drama)
Both with vivid, flawed characters.

Have a great vacation!

By: Carolyn

Carolyn — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 17:41:55 +0000

I can heartily recommend Meljean Brook's steampunk novella Here There Be Monsters in the anthology Burning Up.

Read it. It's wonderful.

By: Lisa Eckstein

Lisa Eckstein — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 17:39:00 +0000

I own, I guess, a few hundred books -- not an impressive collection by booklover standards, but large enough. I have probably only read half of those books. Since I thoroughly intend to read most of the rest, I don't allow myself to buy new books. Except when, oh, there's a book coming out that I really must support. Or when I'm in an independent bookstore. Or when I'm in a chain bookstore. Or...

Yes, I too have a problem.

By: Adrienne

Adrienne — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 15:22:36 +0000

Every time I enter a bookstore, I give myself a limit. One book, maybe two. And before I know it, I'm heading home with four or five because I just couldn't put them down.

Not only that - I am constantly rearranging my bookshelves and complaining how I don't have enough space. You know how some girls love shoes and would love a walk-in closet? I'm like that with my books. My living room is slowly turning into a library.

By: M.banks

M.banks — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 08:16:37 +0000

Hearing that you also have this problem makes me feel better about myself! I worked in a bookstore for three years and continued to get use out of two corporate member cards (that were not my employer's).

I'm finally getting around to Kingsolver's The Lacuna. It's a beautiful, beautiful novel. Also, Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude is still one of my favorite summer reads!

By: Lynn

Lynn — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 00:04:36 +0000

I forgot to mention that I just finished reading Guillaume Musso's Seras-Tu Là? It was literally a page turner. When you thought the story couldn't possibly get any more interesting or exciting, he kept coming up with another twist! I havent' read the English translation, Will You Be There, so I don't know if the translation is as good as it is in French.

By: Lynn

Lynn — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 23:49:03 +0000

I would say I have around twenty books that are duplicates of books I've already owned and three or four that are 3 of a kind! I definitely need to carry a list of the thousands of books that I own to stop this nonsense! Then again I always have a ready gift on hand to give away when the need arises!

By: Michelle Hodkin

Michelle Hodkin — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 23:43:49 +0000

Yep, that's me, too.

I shipped over 100 lbs of ARCs home from BEA. And as soon as BEA ended, what did I do?

Went to The Strand and bought more books :/

Recently, I'm loving SUPER SAD TRUE LOVE STORY (Shteyngart) and LINGER (Stiefvater). You?