Originally hosted by Melissa from i swim for oceans, Smash & Kt took her original inspiration, and made it their own, expanding it to more than just books. Let’s get personal (but respectfully so) and learn more about one another! Each week, a different question will be posted along with a place to link up your posts and visit other people’s responses. This meme is definitely meant to bring out conversation and meet new people. So, Let’s Talk!
Today’s Question:
How many books do you own (keepers) and how many are in your to-be-read pile?
Feel free to include pictures!
I own over 600 books! I tell people I have a book buying sickness and I buy faster than I can read them. Plus, I borrow from the library, too, so it seems my at home TBR shelves don’t go down near as fast as they should. I still have all my childhood books like Goosebumps and Animorphs, too. Since I just recently bought my own house, I am still trying to get my office/library area set up. I am also bad about buying books that I see for good prices that I eventually want to read, so I buy them, even if it may be 10 years before I finally do read it. I can’t even begin to tell you how many books are in my TBR stack! Even some of my must-have-right-now books are still unread (bad me). And once I do read them, even if I hated them, I just can’t bring myself to get rid of them, unless I am doing a giveaway. I do giveaway all of my ARCs after I read them pretty much, but the books I have already had for a while I can’t. I would really love to have my own personal library one day and I’d say 600+ books is a pretty good start!
Here are a couple of pics of the mess that currently is my office area. There are also at least 3 more boxes of books that you can’t see in the corner. All these books and only 1 lonely bookshelf. After Christmas I will definitely be getting more (I want the walls lined with shelves).
So what does everybody else’s piles of books look like?
On The Shelf 
I’m getting better about giving books away. I at least try to match them to people who really want to read the book. I just ran out of room to keep everything.
I have shelves and boxes. It’s an illness!
I agree it really is! Everytime am around books I am itching to buy them!
Holy cow, over 600 books! I have only recently started buying books regularly (recently as in this year), because I work in a library, so I get most of my books from there. But since I started blogging, I’ve started buying books more regularly. I have plans for a little nook off my kitchen that I want to line with bookshelves. That would be amazing!
I can only dream of owning that many books. I have two living rooms, so the front one has become my room for all my books. We have shelves and a place for everything that goes with blogging. It’s my hideaway… 🙂
Jenea @ Books Live Forever
I really wish I had my own hideaway for books. Eventually, me and my boyfriend will be sharing my office, but I’d love to have a space just for me!
Wow… I didn’t even think about my kids childhood books. I even have some of mine. I refused to count mine for this meme because I thought it would be too embarrassing. At least now I know I’m in good company. 😉
Oh, yeah, definitely! Every book counts for me 🙂
Animorphs!! I almost forgot about those! 🙂 After reading your post, I kind of regret donating all my childhood books. They weren’t being read anymore, and I wanted to make space for new things. So…I don’t own too many books now, and I have been going through my sisters’ bookshelves instead of buying new books. Good – I spend less money and I read things I might not normally have read on my own. Bad – there’s so many books I want to buy, though!
I am hoping that my kids will also want to read them and enjoy them like I did, plus I’m a bit of a hoarder, so I never got rid of them, haha. When I am extra broke, the library is my bookshop, but there really are sooo many books I want to buy!
Book buying sickness! *giggles* We all have that! It’s contagious, too!
Yes it is! 😀