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A mini #bookhaul from the remainders/discount bookstore. I was super excited to find these as 3 out of 4 were on my wishlist for years.

Clockwise from top L:
1) Stream System - Collected Short Fiction of Gerald Murnane
2) Territory of Light - Yuko Tsushima (I think the cover is pretty but it doesn't show up well in the pic)
3) Looking for Mr Goodbar - Judith Rossner
4) The Fortnight in September - R.C. Sherriff

Thanks for the tag @BarbaraBB this is my #Top23of23 ! I downloaded a new photo app on my phone that somehow doesn't go up to 23 grids (doesn't it understand our Litsy needs?!) so I gave up on the photo collage 😆 And I feel bad for not including the translators above. 2023 was a fantastic reading year 💜 I even had to leave out so many, like the Edith Wharton rereads & some of the Furrowed Middlebrow & Golden Age mystery club titles that I liked.

#Top10Summer2023 reads (June-August) @Cinfhen

Thanks for the tag, @BarbaraBB @youneverarrived !

Feel free to share yours @Bookwomble @Leftcoastzen @Cathythoughts @quietjenn @quietlycuriouskate @Graywacke

Here we go! My Kindle Fire is coming along! Why? Because apocalyptic miracles can happen and my friend is a genius who can figure things out 😆 @RaeLovesToRead #ihavequestions #belovedbooks

The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
The Owl Service - Alan Garner
Howl's Moving Castle - Diana Wynne Jones
Villette - Charlotte Bronte
Middlemarch - George Eliot
Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
Crime and Punishment - Dostoevsky
To the Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf

It's probably because I'm reading Bora Chung's Cursed Bunny at the moment, but this is 100% true.

Not sure if you guys can relate...

Not me, of course, I'm in total control of my TBR; my TBR is not in control of me 🤣

(stolen from Twitter)

Guess where we are this #NewBookTuesday? 🤓😎🥰

I just noticed that my TBR for the physical books I own is 999, which has a certain rightness about it. Obviously, I'm now going to have to resist the temptation to buy a new book for every one I read! 📚📚📚📚📚

Because we all need help with our TBR, it's my duty to share this list http://www.paperbackparis.com/paperbackparis-best-new-books-2021/

There's some books that I've heard about and some fascinating ones that I haven't heard about and I've slowly been going through it and adding it to my list and that's been the highlight of my week so far 😂

I thought I must be a lay librarian but I'm afraid it's verged into tsundoku master territory. Although I do think I've read most of them (don't make me count). Where do you fit? Link to article in comments.

I'm going to see if I can make any impact on these book piles - maybe I can get some of them on shelves!

I'm not sure what the #future holds—and much of it is too scary to contemplate—but I think this much will remain true... 📚📚📚

#MOvember @Cinfhen

Trying to sort out my October reading...

Spooky month so want to read ALL of the spooky books.

#Victober & I love Victorian novels & I want to read ALL of Victorian lit.

The Tempest is so interesting for #ShakespeareReadAlong & want to read ALL of the Tempest retellings while it's fresh in my mind.

The Secret Commonwealth comes out & I want to reread the trilogy & FINALLY get around to Book of Dust.

So clearly I'll read none of these 🤣

Sometimes I wonder why it took me so long to get to my storage stash .I kept magazines if they were special in some way and slipped in the pile is this Daedalus catalog from 1991 .Featured 8 Zora Neale Hurston books,a set of Twain,2 pages of Nabokov ,Trollope‘s Palllister novels published by Oxford .Where is my time machine?

I don‘t know if I feel comforted by knowing that there‘s an actual term for having a very large TBR pile or not! 🤣😜 📚

After reading at a cafe I tenderly and very carefully, with a parting fond glance at the cover, placed my book into my book sleeve (thanks @erzascarletbookgasm 😘) in the manner in which one might swaddle a baby, and then looked up and saw someone at the opposite table staring at me in utter bafflement 🤣🤣 #caringforbooks #itreallybelikethat #onlyLittensunderstand

😁👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

https://www.google.com/amp/s/bigthink.com/do-i-own-too-many-books-2613918326.amp...

#LNN #TheLitsyNewsNetwork #tsundoku

My friend and I have coined a new phrase/portmanteau.

Her: "I want to go to Barnes and Noble but need no more books."

I said we could go to browse and just be around the books and the book atmosphere. Also - I have a coupon.

So we decided that we will go, and we will call it "book bathing" or "tsundoku-yoku" - a play on shinrin-yoku (Japanese therapy of forest bathing) and tsundoku (piles of unread books).

#tsundokuyoku #bookbathing #bookstore

My desire to explore used bookstores will never be sated.
#constantcraving #timbittunes @Cinfhen @TheKidUpstairs

1>6>1=optimal

And coffee. I need that too.

And sometimes LEGOs.

Well, you guys know how that goes 😂

(Courtesy of BloomsburyBooks on Twitter)

THIS! http://www.monkeyspaw.com/the-biblio-mat/

I was at the bookshop & is December is the most *intense* month for parents & children? 😅 There was a mother firmly telling her son that there is only X amount of money to spend on books & he had to choose which book he really wanted. He had a look of PURE ANGUISH on his face. I totally relate, kid. And I'm sorry to say, the anguish doesn't lessen even after you grow up & earn $$. Still can't afford ALL of the books 😭 Stay strong, lil' reader

Uh huh.......
(Well let‘s assume he means to include women as well)

I really identify with this, even though I have “only” about 5000. About 1500 are on Kindle, leaving about 3500 physical books. I hope to keep a minimum of 1000 to move to the east coast, but there‘s a chance I‘ll have to let even more go.

There's a name for it! #tsundoku https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-44981013?utm_source=pocket&utm_medium=email&utm...

Only 20?!?

Amateurs.

When you go to check some bookish accounts on Twitter to add more books to your TBR and get called out 😂

@BarbaraTheBibliophage #2468Giveaway Wow love the 2468 followers!! Littens, the fabulous @BarbaraTheBibliophage is hosting a giveaway for her milestone!!!💖💖💖💖👍👏👏👏💐 check out the details on her page and congratulate this warm and welcoming litten!!!

Stopped at the Brattle Bookshop and one other used bookstore in #Boston yesterday 😊 #brattlebookshop

You know you‘re a book person when your job is working with books and then you go see more books on your days off. 😂

Nooooooooooooo

I think I found a word that describes my life pretty well

I was doing so well getting through my library pile, but then I went to return a stack of books. And it occurred to me: This week is the end of term. The kids will be on Easter break for over two weeks. What if the weather is really bad, and we run out of books while the library is closed for Easter? 🙀 So I filled my backpack. I should probably go back at least once more this week, just in case. Right? #LibraryHaul #NoSuchThingAsTooManyBooks

We've clearly gone mad http://bit.ly/bwbbookmad #sale

This sale is so good it's madness! http://bit.ly/bwbbookmad

This is from today's guardian. The thought of this will keep me going after all my not so happy medical tests. But on has to keep on and not lose hope.

I read this article today and learned there is a name for our "affliction": Bibliomania ??

http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/bibliomania-the-dark-desire-for-books-that-...