Friday, April 9, 2010

another update

I'm getting this blog all caught up again! I realize I haven't posted many of my reactions yet in 2010, but that doesn't mean I'm not reading anymore. On the contrary, I've got 12 books under my belt thus far (a pathetic number, but Term III and graduation are coming up, so pretty soon I'll have a lot less time being taken up by homework).

Over the next few days, I'll be filling in my reactions/reviews of the books listed below. I have finals on Monday and Tuesday, and I'll be at a conference from Wednesday-Sunday (the 18th), so if all else fails I'll be back around the 19th, diligently filling in the empty spots and hopefully adding more completed books!

So I haven't disappeared...I've just been ridiculously busy. I'm still a bibliophile in remission, and I know the only way I can go back to buying books is to read more! It's been pretty difficult, but I honestly haven't strayed too much from my original goal of not buying any more books until all of the others are completed. On that vein:
  • I've sold quite a few more books on Amazon
  • To get rid of books that are selling for like $.01 on Amazon, I joined a site called Bookmooch, which allows you to swap books for free with others. So far I've sent out 4 books to happy new owners! I've created a wishlist on that site, so if any of the books I really want become available, I can mooch them from others. But I won't really be using this site to accumulate more, don't worry!
  • I did pick up some books at a sale in February. But let me explain: the proceeds went straight to the public library in my city (and I'm ALL FOR supporting local libraries, of course). Also, the only reason I bought some was that the sale was ending, so buyers could fill a plastic bag with books and pay only $3! A friend and I filled the bag with 26 books, and seriously, they were only $3. And NOT all of them were mine. So I think that was an okay digression from the book-buying thing.
Besides that, I've been good about refusing to buy! My to-read pile has diminished somewhat, but I still haven't made a big dent. I guess that means I'll just have to read more. :)

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