Bibliophiles discussion

You can add here basic information of you being a bibliophile.

Greetings bibliophiles.

Hello my I love reading books duh that's why I'm on here.

same

I always have a book on me. My TBR shelf is overflowing!

I never go anywhere without buying a book or taking a book. It's kind of a habit.

@Angelica and Christina

Ditto :)

I've been having the urge to go to the Library, like all the time. Also I want to buy the second book in a series I've never read because it's cheap and the cover is pretty! This is the book

I always check out 6 books from the library (it's the number I've been checking out since before I could read myself haha), but I can't finish 6 good-sized books in 6 weeks, so I always have to take back some unread. It always makes me feel sad :/ The real problem comes in when I check out 6 books from multiple libraries, I start a mini-bookshelf haha

Amy wrote: "I always check out 6 books from the library (it's the number I've been checking out since before I could read myself haha), but I can't finish 6 good-sized books in 6 weeks, so I always have to tak..."

I have a problem where I don't limit myself and I go crazy cause I need ALL THE BOOKS! So I understand the mini bookshelf thing

Hello all,

I thought I would join your group. I honestly sounds like I am in the right group in that I always have a book and honestly usually reading two books at one time or at least have a few going. The reason is that I have an app on my phone so usually reading ne through that and then another actual book, because I am nostalgic and love a actual book. I look froward to trying to reading the books have or are reading.

Look forward to hearing thoughts on books.

Hello,
My name is Cherie and I'm a Bibliophile. I have a degree in Fine Art, but I work in a library. I worked for the public library for 10 years, quit to stay home with my kids.I went back to work four years ago at an academic library.
I love fiction. The longest book I ever read was Atlas Shrugged, but I liked War and Peace much better. I'm trying to read the classics, but I also enjoy books like The Hunger Games Series.

Cherie wrote: "Hello,
My name is Cherie and I'm a Bibliophile. I have a degree in Fine Art, but I work in a library. I worked for the public library for 10 years, quit to stay home with my kids.I went back to wor..."


I love the classics too! :) I need to read War and Peace - Anna Karenina whetted my appetite for Russian literature.

I loved Anna Karenia.

Welcome Tara and Cherie, I too am usually reading more than one book in fact I'm currently reading three. I've always wanted to work in a library!

Courtney Lives On wrote: "Welcome Tara and Cherie, I too am usually reading more than one book in fact I'm currently reading three. I've always wanted to work in a library!"

LOL, That's what lots of people say. We really don't read all day. It's a little like being a secretary that does a lot of research. It does enable my finding books.

Cherie wrote: "Courtney Lives On wrote: "Welcome Tara and Cherie, I too am usually reading more than one book in fact I'm currently reading three. I've always wanted to work in a library!"

LOL, That's what lots ..."

I just want to be surrounded by books all day everyday.

Tara wrote: "Hello all,

I thought I would join your group. I honestly sounds like I am in the right group in that I always have a book and honestly usually reading two books at one time or at least have a few ..."

Welcome to the group :)

We are happy to have you here.

What's your favorite genre for this year?

Cherie wrote: "Hello,
My name is Cherie..."

Welcome to the group, it's good to have you here.

Enjoy and share with us more of your thoughts on the correspondent folders :)

Cherie wrote: "I loved Anna Karenia."

I just saw the movie and loved it :)

Welcome to the group everyone :)

I always have at least 2 books with me. Just in case i finish one. I can not walk by a bookshopp. I always have to go in. I have an e reader for traveling but I still love the feeling of real books. so i just use it for traveling ( my other favourite thing beside reading). I love to be on public Transport because I can read there and I learn spanish so I can read Isabell Allende in spanish one day ( hopefully).

Biding my time at the office today (TGIF!) before heading off by subway to the downtown bookstore during lunch hour to buy 4 books I put in a request for last week.

As a bibliophile who loves to make lists of books I intend to buy (or wish I could buy), I always enter a bookstore with a sense of keen anticipation. :)

Hi, I'm Jordan and I have some distinctly bibliophilic tendencies. ;) I haven't really used Goodreads much, but I love the idea of discussing books and reading with fellow bibliophiles! I definitely buy/borrow/otherwise acquire too many books and but I generally do read them all...eventually. I also re-read books a lot, so while I do periodically trim my collection, I try not to get rid of things I'm likely to want to read or reference again. The bad thing about that is that all my books really do add up and take a lot of space! My tastes are pretty varied and I read novels from quite a few styles and genres as well as various kinds of nonfiction, poetry, drama, etc.

Welcome Jordan! I also try and trim my library by getting rid of the books I dislike and no longer want. I mostly keep the books that I love and the ones no one else wants. I wish I owned more book than I do. Some of my favorites are not in my collection but if I get anymore I will need another bookshelf. Such is the life of a bibliophile.

I used this quote on my website MyPassionIsBooks.com and associated blog:

I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.

~Anna Quindlen, "Enough Bookshelves," New York Times, 7 August 1991

I now have 20 books (previously read by me) in one of my Barnes & Noble canvas bookbags that I intend to donate to the neighborhood used book store in the coming weeks. Much as I love my books, once I finish reading them, in the interests of space, I cull a number of them from my collection and either sell them online or donate them to the neighborhood used bookstore. It gives me a good feeling to know that these books will go on to be read and enjoyed by other bibliophiles.

Fran wrote: "I used this quote on my website MyPassionIsBooks.com and associated blog:

I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building e..."

Haha, that's great!

Fran wrote: "I used this quote on my website MyPassionIsBooks.com and associated blog:

I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building e..."

No children for me, thanks. However, I like Quindlen's decorating tastes. ;)

KOMET wrote: "Much as I love my books, once I finish reading them, in the interests of space, I cull a number of them..."

I fully understand. My personal library reached a maximum of 10,000 editions a few years back. Books were literally (pun, huh? :) ) pushing me out of my home. I had to cull. I've since, via giveaways to friends/family and donations, shrunk my book inventory to a more manageable 2/5s of its original size. I may cull down further given more time. I'll always have books in my home, though. Always.

~Eric

I and a mutual friend were recipients of some of Eric's culling :-)

Two times for me.

You were in the right zip code at the right time. Sometimes it works out like that. ;)

Jutta wrote: "I always have at least 2 books with me. Just in case i finish one. I can not walk by a bookshopp. I always have to go in. I have an e reader for traveling but I still love the feeling of real books..."

wow, that us a great goal :)

I have a book from Isabel in spanish, so whenever you would like to read it we could buddy read :)

¿Cómo estás?

Jordan wrote: "Hi, I'm Jordan and I have some distinctly bibliophilic tendencies. ;) I haven't really used Goodreads much, but I love the idea of discussing books and reading with fellow bibliophiles! I definite..."

Welcome to the group :)

Fran wrote: "I used this quote on my website MyPassionIsBooks.com and associated blog:

I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building e..."

Interesting :)

KOMET wrote: "I now have 20 books (previously read by me) in one of my Barnes & Noble canvas bookbags that I intend to donate to the neighborhood used book store in the coming weeks. Much as I love my books, o..."

Thank you for sharing :)

I readily admit that I seem to never have enough books. My husband and my two boys tease me that I have my own library downstairs. I own well over 2,000 books and have so many TBR's that I will never be able to get them all read before I die even if I lived to be well over 100 because I just keep adding more and more!

Courtney Lives On wrote: "I've been having the urge to go to the Library, like all the time. Also I want to buy the second book in a series I've never read because it's cheap and the cover is pretty! This is the book [bookc..."

My number is fourteen. That way I have a book for each day of the loan period.

I started my own little library as soon as I could read, about age four, now others are adding to it. I will only add it to the shelves once I have read a book. That way, no unread book can go hiding.

I eagerly anticipate returning to the downtown B&N bookstore on Labor Day. (Next week, I have to go out of town - not a vacation, but rather a family visit to my home state in a distant part of the country.)

I've just reviewed my list and 2 of the paperback books there --- MaddAddam by Margaret Atwood (with whom I share a birthday) AND Hothouse: The Art of Survival and the Survival of Art at America's Most Celebrated Publishing House, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux by Boris Kachka --- I'm keen to read.

Hello, all.

I figured I should introduce myself. I'm Sarah from Pennsylvania. My home--my life--is inundated with books. I don't usually have a "to read" list, because my train of thought is what leads me from one book to the next. I can honestly say that I will never read all the books that I own. And there will only be more to come. :)

Welcome Sarah!

Julie wrote: "I readily admit that I seem to never have enough books. My husband and my two boys tease me that I have my own library downstairs. I own well over 2,000 books and have so many TBR's that I will nev..."

wow that is awesome!

Kristan wrote: "I started my own little library as soon as I could read, about age four, now others are adding to it. I will only add it to the shelves once I have read a book. That way, no unread book can go hiding."

interesting :)

KOMET wrote: "I eagerly anticipate returning to the downtown B&N bookstore on Labor Day. (Next week, I have to go out of town - not a vacation, but rather a family visit to my home state in a distant part of t..."

You could share your reviews on our folder Bibliophile reviews, if you like :)

Sarah wrote: "Hello, all.

I figured I should introduce myself. I'm Sarah from Pennsylvania. My home--my life--is inundated with books. I don't usually have a "to read" list, because my train of thought is what ..."

Welcome to the group :)

@Christina "I never go anywhere without buying a book or taking a book. It's kind of a habit."

Me too :)

Hi, I'm Lyra from the Philippines :)

Hey Lyra welcome to the group!

Hi, Carol from upstate NY. I can't stop reading.

Chrizia wrote: "@Christina "I never go anywhere without buying a book or taking a book. It's kind of a habit."

Me too :)"

Ditto :)