Just recently? Two?
It’s fairly routine for me to have as many as three books going at the same time. Get with the program, you wuss.
Now, rocking chair
Be careful. If you have an addictive personality, you will read it and immediately become filled with the urge to go out and buy the whole three volumes. It’s a phenomenal read.
You have been warned.
hey, how’d italics get in there?
I spent $10 on Monarch notes CD recently. Has more than 1000 texts, plus notes on tons more. IT’s going to save me a lot of reading .
Like an unsuccessful attempt to get one’s rocks off with a buxom, matronly hooker, according to the last thread I perused. 
You’re evil. Repent while there’s still time.
agisofia, I have to read people’s hands & fingers, the TV, the computer & the phone (TTY). I dont’ have time for books.
thanks for the warning, agisofia. i have taken short history out from under the bed and moved it to the “read next” shelf. holy wisdom?
The day a class started the books came in. Everybody goes and gets it. The instructor starts assigning us work from the book. We sit there confused. We have the new edition, he has the old edition.
I can read a novel or two in a day. I can’t afford to buy what I’m capable of reading in books.
I’m usually unable to keep up with my “habit” with new books. I either buy used or discounted, re-read what I’ve got, or borrow from a friend. I have GOT to get a library card. Oh, and thanks to Danalan for my new sig line. I’ve been trying to decide on a quote and his eleventy-first post did it for me…
Sooooo…
TURN OFF THE FREAKING TV!!!
Monarch Notes. Yeesh.
Guilty here too. PLD and I buy tons of books even when we have tons unread. We can spend upwards to $150 or more at a time and the sad part is that’s on bargain books (1/2 or more off each) so there’s even more for that money. We also love the library and I have the same affliction there–I always take out more than I can read.
I am curious now if anyone else stacks up books beside the bed–lots of them–because you never know which you’ll want to read before you drift off. (I suspect they’re also some sort of security blanket–keeping books and notepads close at hand…just in case…)
Cheers,
Peta
Another voracious reader checking in. When I was young there was a annual ‘tent sale’ of books in my hometown where you could buy books for a dollar! Good books!A.C. Doyle, Emerson, Irving, Twain, etc. I remember saving my allowance for months and filling the back of my mom’s station wagon.
And to answer the previous posts, I have a huge stack of books next to my bed, TV, kitchen sink. I am usually reading at least 2 books at once. I have no idea what I spend on them and don’t want to know. The one I just finished was Lee’s Last Campaign, about the confederate army after Gettysburg.
Stack them up beside my bed?
Hell, I put a bookself beside my bed just for bedtime reading.
I periodically cull my personal library when my bookshelves get stuffed to overflowing. I go through and decide what I’m likely to reread, and if I don’t think I will, it goes in the pile. I then haul the pile off to my friendly neighborhood used bookstore and sell them.
Guess what I usually end up spending the money on.