It’s a familiar scene: full shelves, books stacked slotted in to every space, or in piles on the desk. I had a bookshelf problem, until last weekend when my parents came to visit and brought a new bookshelf with them. It’s from an auction and it’s quite small, but it’s enough to ease the pressure on my otherwise groaning shelves.
So I’ve had a bit of a glut in terms of new books recently – although, let’s be honest, when don’t I?
At Shortstoryville a couple of weeks ago I resisted buying three new short story collections, but I did buy:
- ‘Plainsong’ by Kazushi Hosaka.
I’ve been requesting books from NetGalley, which sends free digital galley proofs to book bloggers in return for reviews, so I have the following three new additions to my Kindle:
- ‘Mrs Bridge’ by Evan S. Connell
- ‘In The Shadow of the Banyan‘ by Vaddey Ratner
- ‘Big Ray’ by Michael Kimball
I entered LibraryThing‘s reviewers’ promotion and they recently sent this book for my Kindle:
- ‘A Subtle Thing’ by Alicia Hendley
BookOxygen emailed to tell me that I can shortly expect my first book from them, as part of the Inner Circle:
- ‘The Confidant’ by Helene Gremillon
In Penguin news, I entered a Twitter competition by @PenguinEngLib to be the first to post a photo of an object from the cover of one of their 100 classic novels. I posted a photo of a needle and was sent a beautiful copy of:
- ‘North and South’ by Elizabeth Gaskell
And finally I have, at last, bought on Kindle (for the purposes of reviewing/seeing what the hype is about/taking the mick):
- ’50 Shades of Grey’ by E.L. James
That’s it! Eight books and I only paid for two – not bad going. And at least I have somewhere to put them all.
- gildius -
4 comments
August 2, 2012 at 5:34 pm
has anyone told you of http://www.bookcrossing.com yet?
in essence: register a book on the site, and either leave it somewhere, or pass it on to someone, and see where it goes!
Simples!
It allows you to pass books on, but in return, you’ll get books back – you find them in the most unexpected places, and sometimes random people will send you one! (only if you tell them your address, of course). Gives you the excuse to buy more books, but you get as many “free” ones as you can handle – all you need to do is take part
August 2, 2012 at 6:59 pm
I have heard of it – I think my mum found one years ago when I was a kid – but I haven’t signed up. I think I will now though, thanks!
August 2, 2012 at 9:46 pm
Hi there, thanks for all of your fun ideas to get new books. (truth be told, I never leave the library with less than five), but more is always better right?
Is it weird to enjoy having them around?
August 3, 2012 at 11:20 am
You’re asking me, so of course I’m going to say it’s not weird!
I agree more is better – I just can’t seem to help myself. I don’t NEED any more, I have enough to last me years, but I can’t stop.
Glad you liked my post!