The post-Christmas period before I go back to work is always a good time for a bit of a tidy, and shuffling the books into some kind of order has been fairly essential – though the current TBR is now so big and scary that I daren’t look at it…
And I discovered when tidying that there were a few new arrivals I hadn’t shared here – but for the sake of transparency I should confess that these lovelies have come into the house, and it was ENTIRELY MY FAULT!!
Ahem. Well. Two of them came from the local Oxfam charity bookshop (so it’s a good cause and that’s my excuse!)
I don’t own this Nabokov (one of the few I was missing) and it was £1.99 – so I didn’t even bother to argue with myself. On a second occasion over the hols I stumbled on the Hogg, which is a title I had been considering after it came up in a list of Scottish books to read I’d been meandering through. So it *would* have been rude not to snap it up, wouldn’t it?
As for this:
Well, I completely blame Lord Steerforth for this. If my increasingly feeble memory serves me correctly, he praised it up on Twitter and I was a bit sold. And it was cheap. So there.
So, I’ve confessed to profligate book buying despite receiving loads for Christmas. I don’t necessarily feel better for it, nor do the rafters and book shelves, but at least I’ve been honest…. 😉
Kaggsy's Bookish Ramblings 
Jan 04, 2018 @ 07:31:06
Your punishment for bing s naughty is to dust all those shelves.
Jan 04, 2018 @ 11:34:54
They could probably do with it…. 😉
Jan 04, 2018 @ 08:26:49
We are of course addicts, but instead of empty bottles our TBR piles are full, to be imbiibed by and by over time. My latest reason for breaking the NYR not to buy until the TBR pile is diminished: a pre-publication purchase, after all it’s not adding physically to the TBR pile!
Jan 04, 2018 @ 11:34:43
Yes – definitely addicted, but as my Youngest Child often tells me, I could be addicted to so many much worse things!!!
Jan 04, 2018 @ 08:38:35
It is a well known fact that books bought for the good of a charity simply don’t count. If I tell myself this often enough my tbr list falls by around 75%.
Jan 04, 2018 @ 11:18:28
Excellent! That’s wonderful justification for my constant visits to the charity shop! 🙂
Jan 04, 2018 @ 09:30:49
Ha ha well done – definitely all in a good cause. I am going to try to stop buying books for a few weeks until the Christmas book pile that is on the floor can be fitted on to the tbr shelves. I have little confidence in myself.
Jan 04, 2018 @ 11:17:49
:))) We just can’t stop amassing those books, can we??
Jan 04, 2018 @ 10:41:22
Your honesty can only be commended 😀
Jan 04, 2018 @ 11:17:27
:))))) The fact that another one arrived today that I haven’t declared yet is beside the point (Robinson, for HeavenAli’s Spark readalong – so I had to have a copy, right????)
Jan 04, 2018 @ 11:22:38
Of course 😀 It barely counts, it was a necessity!
Jan 04, 2018 @ 11:35:49
Absolutely! 🙂
Jan 04, 2018 @ 10:52:01
See my post to come today for TWO incoming books, however one is not a reading copy, so that’s OK, right. Right?
Jan 04, 2018 @ 11:16:48
Ermmm – Yes, of course! The fact it takes up space is irrelevant!!!
Jan 04, 2018 @ 13:47:21
We will always be able to justify buying more, someone has to do it 😉
Jan 04, 2018 @ 14:52:18
Yup – and I am that person! 🙂
Jan 04, 2018 @ 14:06:32
I always say there will be no new books – so anything second-hand is OK…!!!
Speaking as an Oxfam Bookshop volunteer, I’m delighted you support the charity so well. And look at it this way, not only are you helping people in desperate need – you’re also rescuing a book from the recycling bags!
Jan 04, 2018 @ 14:52:08
Absolutely! It’s for a good cause and it makes more space in the shops for new stock to go on display… 🙂
Jan 04, 2018 @ 15:24:20
I call that excellent capital expenditure. There’s not much you could but that would give so much pleasure for such a small outlay.
Jan 04, 2018 @ 15:53:12
Exactly! I am easily (and cheaply!) pleased!
Jan 04, 2018 @ 21:27:41
I loved The Private Memoirs and Confessions, so I definitely think it would have been rude of you not to buy it!
Jan 05, 2018 @ 13:59:14
It would have been, wouldn’t it? I’m rather looking forward to this one! 🙂
Jan 05, 2018 @ 21:21:26
What I like is the way you find so many used books. They’re inexpensive, and you have so many books to read on a rainy day–ha ha! Bookselling is in better shape in the UK than it is in the U.S. We have a chain used bookstore here, and it’s pretty good, but I don’t find the kind of books you do
Jan 06, 2018 @ 14:22:58
I must admit, the charity shops round here *are* pretty good – and I find myself turning down more than I pick up nowadays. But then I *am* am omnivorous reader and there are so many titles I *could* read, given more time….
Jan 05, 2018 @ 23:53:07
One must take their pleasures when they find them🐧🐧🐧
Jan 06, 2018 @ 14:22:04
Precisely. And mine are usually book shaped…. 😉