And I'm addicted to books. I read them haphazardly, set them around the house, pick up new ones before the old ones are finished, buy books on impulse and finger the pages when they arrive...my nightstand is full, my time is limited, and my mind is full of snapshots of pages and words, all running together to make some sort of cohesive thought.
Is there a cure?
teachme2learn
Member
If there is please share.
Hi, I'm Christie and I'm a bibliophile, too. But I don't want a cure. ;)
MamaWebb
Member
i wish there was a like button on here, like facebook has...
I'm with missceegee. No cure needed her but I've got the addiction too! And I've got a new kindle LOL!
I have not found a cure either...my nightstand is overflowing, there are books stacked on coffee table and hearth, my library basket is full and I'm waiting for three more I've requested through interlibrary loan...I don't believe I want a cure, but do believe I could do with a little more discipline so I could get through the ones I have before I request or order any more!
my3boys
Member
Same here.
Could've written each post....I'd say it was "sad, but true" but I don't know how sad it really is?!
@Tia, I do the exact same thing you do. I do eventually finish books, but I start books like I change my....dryer sheets :)
Don't quite know what to do about it...Someone posted Sarah Whitcher's Story (or something like that) and now I'm going to be on the hunt for that one, or at least on the look out for it.
So many books, so little time.
blue j
Member
Me, too... in print and Kindle version, though I prefer the heft of a book in my hands, the smell of the pages and ink wafting up as I turn the pages filled with word-pictures and heady ideas... Ahhhhh, books...
jawgee
Member
Ooops, guilty!!!
mom2fourboys
Member
Guilty as charged... I was just wondering this morning what furniture I could get rid of to make room for more bookshelves. You know you have a problem when you are considering "bunking" kids together to make room for books. Ha ha!
Tammy
Me too, ladies, me too. (Although agree with Christie...don't know that I want a cure!)
Jen
You ladies are all too funny 
I had half a notion to start a thread last week saying, "You know you're a book junkie when... you are in your grandmother's 100 degree attic, when by chance you notice a lone bookshelf behind a few boxes of "stuff", then proceed to forget your real reason for being up there, prop your foot up on one box and lean in, half contourting your body and making sure the other foot doesn't get too close to the nearby mousetrap-all in hopes of finding a treasure. (No such luck this time, either...) I did manage to laugh at myself when my ds12 came up and asked what I was doing?! LOL
@danceandbeglad LOL!
Glad to know I'm not alone. A support group would only serve to fuel our addiction, so...
Bookworm
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I just took a part-time job. Guess where? The library, of course. Now I get to work surrounded by books. It's kind of hard, though. I'll be checking out books for people and I'll look at them and want to just keep them myself, and say to the poor patron, "Sorry, I think I need to read this one first . . ." But the problem is I now have even less time for reading. LOL I did forget to take my current book yesterday, and so when I had to go to lunch, I needed a book. I had to check one out so I had something to read. LOL It was a delightful looking history book that had been staring at me ALL MORNING from the new arrivals shelf . . .
I could definitely enjoy library work. Though I may get fired for hiding in the stacks to read. Self control in indulgences. I'm sure I've read about that habit a time or two. Do you think it applies to books, too? :)
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