By Debra H. Goldstein
Once again, my TBR (to be read) stack is out of control. I know I shouldn’t buy anymore books, but I can’t help myself. It seems that every time I’m on a panel, I need to buy at least one or more of the books written by the authors I appear with. I can’t help it. Their comments and descriptions of their books call out to me.
The same thing happens when any of the writers I share blog space with (The Stiletto Gang, Booklover’s Bench, Writers Who Kill) or who appear as guests on my own, It’s Not Always a Mystery, has a new novel. It’s even worse when I’m introduced to a writer’s works a few books into a series. If I like the one I read, it is humanly impossible for me to refrain myself from reading all of them.
When we downsized a few years ago, I donated my personal library to a rural library that had a wonderful building but no money for a collection. I only kept three or four bookcases of children’s books for my then upcoming grandchildren and another for my cookbook collection (yes, the woman who doesn’t cook collects cookbooks). The biggest bookcase we moved housed my TBR collection. As I write this, TBRs are piled on my desk, my dresser, and an old fashioned telephone table.
During the past few months, I wasn’t writing, but I was reading a book every day or two days. I made a dent in my TBRs, but I quickly filled any gaps in the bookcase with new books. What’s worse, I’ve taken to buying e-books for my Kindle. It is amazing how a click here and there probably means my kindle has more unread books on it than are on my bookshelves. I shudder to think about the numbers of books waiting to be read. To be or not to be is the question.
How about you? Do you keep up or are you overwhelmed by your TBR list?
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