I've made no secret on this blog of the fact that I love used book sales. I usually end up bringing home a bag (or three) full. It's just so hard to resist a book at an unbelievably low price. Which is why every year, my home library grows quite a bit.
This year, I tried to be good. At each book sale or book store I visited, I set myself a limit (which I didn't always stick to, but I certainly tried!). I really did made a concerted effort to bring down the numbers of books I acquired.
Well, the year-end totals are in (although maybe not, since it's not December 31 yet.). And in 2014, I added . . . 120 books to my library. That's not exactly a small number. Ah, well. There are worse ways to spend money and fill rooms, right? Now the task remains to read them all. I'm extremely excited to do so, but it may take me awhile to get to all of them.
And since books occasionally languish on my shelf for years before I find the opportunity to read them, I decided to do something a bit more productive with these books first:
This year, I tried to be good. At each book sale or book store I visited, I set myself a limit (which I didn't always stick to, but I certainly tried!). I really did made a concerted effort to bring down the numbers of books I acquired.
Well, the year-end totals are in (although maybe not, since it's not December 31 yet.). And in 2014, I added . . . 120 books to my library. That's not exactly a small number. Ah, well. There are worse ways to spend money and fill rooms, right? Now the task remains to read them all. I'm extremely excited to do so, but it may take me awhile to get to all of them.
And since books occasionally languish on my shelf for years before I find the opportunity to read them, I decided to do something a bit more productive with these books first:
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