The wonderful blogger Tasha from The Bookie Monster Blog, has wrote a great post about books and being addiction to buying them. Tasha is a book blogger at The Bookie Monster.
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Hi everyone!
To celebrate 23 Review Street’s ‘2 Year Blog Anniversary’
Sophie has organised a week of guest bloggers, so here I am! Thanks Sophie for
letting me be a guest on your blog!
I’m a huge bookaholic, which unfortunately means not only
does my bank balance suffer but so does my bookshelf! I’ve recently moved house
so my two huge bookshelves had to be reduced in size and number as I lacked the
space. I’m still holding out in the future for a spare room that I can turn
into a library!
While there is no ‘Bookaholics Anonymous’ that I can attend,
and I doubt that I’ll get over my addiction to books, I can almost certainly
highlight the symptoms of becoming addicted. If you have two or more of these
symptoms then you can definitely self-diagnose yourself as a bookaholic!
·
You buy
your books in bulk
If you find
yourself going on extensive book hauls then you are a bookaholic. Especially if
you do multiple hauls in a month then you are extremely addicted.
·
You spend
most of your time in bookshops
You can’t quite
work out whether it’s the smell of old books, or just looking at the newest
book releases, but when you’re asked what you’re doing ‘just looking/shopping
for books’ is the most common answer.
·
You can’t
walk past a bookshop without walking in
It doesn’t matter
whether you have somewhere to be, or even that you didn’t intentionally decide
to go in, but you physically can’t walk past. Even if it’s just to ‘sweep
browse’ you need to step foot into the bookshop. It would be wrong not to!
·
You need
the latest book releases
Whether you choose
to pre-order, you decide to queue up, or you run to the nearest bookstore on
publication day to grab the book, you need the newest releases. You may not read
them straight away, but at least they’re on your bookshelf.
·
Your TBR
list is growing all the time
It never seems to
stop! Since you’ve been adding them to your Amazon and Goodreads lists, you are
constantly finding new books to be read. I’ve come to the realisation that I
will never finish my TBR list!
Hopefully you aren’t as addicted to
books as myself – it’s become a costly habit!
Thank you guys so much for
reading, and thanks again to Sophie for letting me blog on 23 Review Street!
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