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"When girl meets duke, their marriage breaks all the rules..." #abouttoread #theduchessdeal by #tessadare #romancenovels #avonromance

[jimjimcherie]

New read. 💜✨ #sixofcrows #leighbardugo #abouttoread #newread

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Bit on the blur, but true enough

[angelcd1805]

Yep. Nerd alert! ⚠️👓 #shamelessselfie #sorrynotsorry #geek #abouttoread 📚 (at 🎧 Liquor Store Blues 🎧)

[baysidebooks]

Book tag: Reader Problems

In lieu of Top 5 Wednesday, I bring you this book tag from Tiffany’s BookTube channel, About To Read (original video here). While filling this out, a few other "reader's problems" sprung to mind: buying books despite having 200+ books on my TBR, refusing to talk to people because I'm in the middle of a good book, trying to schedule readathons around "real life," yelling at a book while in public, and panicking when I find myself anywhere for ten minutes without a book in hand.

As always, if you want to participate, consider yourself tagged!

1. You have 20,000 books on your TBR. How in the world do you decide which one to read next? I probably have closer to 250 books on my TBR, and most of the time, I’m far more inclined to pick up a new book than choose one from my unread library. When I get around to tackling my TBR, though, I just go for the one that most interests me, or the one I’ve been putting off the longest. I usually won’t force myself to read something that I’m not at least moderately interested in. (That said, I’m working on a 2015-specific TBR of 150 books to help me curb this impulse and read books that matter, even when I don't feel like it.)

2. You’re halfway through a book and you’re just not loving it. Do you quit or are you committed until the end? It takes a lot for me to quit a book once I’ve committed to it. If I’m halfway in, chances are I’m going to finish it.

3. The end of the year is coming and you’re so close, but so far away on your Goodreads reading challenge. Do you try to catch up? If so, how?

I recently upped my reading challenge goals from 30 books to 100. At the beginning of December, I was 11 books away from completing the challenge, so I put myself on a strict reading schedule in order to catch up. It paid off – yesterday, I finished my 100th book!

4. The covers of a series you love do not match. How do you cope? I don’t cope. I also don’t buy or read many series, but the idea of, say, my Harry Potter books not matching would make me pretty anxious. I would likely donate the books with covers I didn’t like and repurchase the correct editions so that everything matched.

5. Everyone and their mother loves a book you really don’t like. Who do you bond with over shared feelings? My sister. She’s the only person I know who doesn’t get swept up in the latest novels and fads.

6. You’re reading a book and you’re about to start crying in public. What do you do?

Cry. I’m not ashamed. If you catch me crying in public while reading, ask me what the book is about and I’ll probably give it to you. (I say this because I don’t cry easily over books, so it has to be a pretty special one to elicit that kind of emotion.)

7. A sequel of a book you loved just came out, but you’ve forgotten a lot from the prior novel. Will you re-read the first book? Skip the sequel? Try to find a synopsis on Goodreads? Cry in frustration?!

I might look up a synopsis on Wikipedia (Goodreads doesn’t satisfy my need for detail the way Wikipedia does), but I won’t re-read the prior novel(s). I am a firm believer in re-reading, but usually limit that pool of books to my favorite ones.

8. You do not want anyone borrowing your books. How do you politely refuse to lend books when people ask?

This is my biggest fault: I always say yes when people ask to borrow my books. I’ve been burned before – friends have returned my books with crinkled, stained, and torn pages and dust covers, and yet I can’t bring myself to say no. I’m working on it.

9. You’ve picked up and put down five books in the last month. How do you get over your reading slump?

Readathons. Readathons for days.

10. There are so many new books coming out that you’re dying to read! How many do you actually buy?

All of them.

11. After you’ve bought the new books you can’t wait to get to, how long do they sit on your shelf before you get to them?

Three out of five books will be read right away, and the others will join my dusty, neglected, ever-expanding TBR.