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Books I've Acquired in 2014 - and What I Did With Them

12/12/2014

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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: 
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Have a merry bookish Christmas!

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Pat @ Posting For Now link
12/12/2014 12:11:54 am

Love your tree of books! Happy Holidays!

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Julie @ Smiling Shelves link
12/13/2014 06:02:01 am

Thanks, Pat! Hope you have a merry Christmas!

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Joyful link
12/12/2014 01:42:14 am

Nice picture of your stack of books! FUN! My husband would go crazy if I brought that many books home! In fact, I am currently weeding out things we have all read and will not likely read again. (making room for some new stuff??) mmm, mabye.

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Julie @ Smiling Shelves link
12/13/2014 06:03:06 am

I thought I was doing so well at limiting myself this year, until I saw the pile. Whoops! :) Good luck with the purging of your shelves! (New books have to go somewhere, right? ;)

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Jackie link
12/13/2014 03:28:55 am

Holy moley! 120 is a lot of books! ...I'm jealous ;)

Your Christmas Book Tree is a really clever way to display the books, and of course I adore the ampersand tree topper!

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Julie @ Smiling Shelves link
12/13/2014 06:04:28 am

Thanks, Jackie! The ampersand was my husband's idea. He is way too supportive of my love of books! ;)

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Jade @ Bits & Bobs link
12/16/2014 01:05:43 am

I love your book tree!! Merry Christmas, Julie!
:-)

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Julie @ Smiling Shelves link
12/23/2014 09:54:37 am

Thanks, Jade! Merry Christmas to you! :)

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