I just saw this posted in Book Talk on BookCrossing, and had to share it over here... I was all :rofl: while reading it... I think more then a few of us over here can relate!

The Last Book

That sounds about right. :rofl:

Unfortunately so true. I was not going to buy a book for me to read just swapping books but I just received a gift certificate for Chapters

Oh, well, I'm never going to buy another book again either.

Except for someone else.

And books by Terry Pratchett. He doesn't count. Neither do books by Garth Nix or Mercedes Lackey or Cornelia Funke or Diana Wynne Jones or any author I've actually met in person... or even just sort of seen at a distance. Maybe even just their picture... so long as it's 2 different pictures at least.

Oh, and of course, if it's a book in a series, I'm naturally allowed to buy any other books that come out in the series, provided I own some of the books in the series. Or have them on my wishlist. Or have passed them in the bookstore and commented that they look shiny.

Or if I try to get a book in a swap, and don't, then I'm allowed to buy it.

I'm also allowed to buy any new author that people tell me is good, because it can take such a long time for me to get it through the library or a wishlist and I might forget about it and clearly it's better for everyone if I just buy the thing.

If anyone who's book judgment I trust, or two complete strangers mention that a book is good.... I'm allowed to buy it.

But other than that, really truly honestly, no more book buying for me.

At least.. not until I get Mount TBR down to, oh, I don't know, under 50 books or so. :D

Oh, how true :rofl:

I know better than to even think that much less say it out loud. :P :rofl:

:giggle:

I've actually seriously challenged myself to read more books with that threat. I must read at least one book each week from -- oh, I think I started back in June -- to the end of the year, or I am not allowed to buy more books or sign up for more bookrings until I've read through all the books I currently have in my possession at this house. I have permitted that, if I read several shorter books (ie: Scarecrow's Bible and Oranges are not the Only Fruit and Sexing the Cherry) in one week, that is a bit of a safety net for when I come up against great thonkers like Grapes of Wrath and the new Harry Potter.

It's a scarey threat, but one I should be able to manage, as I have moved to a new house and did not move my collossal Mount TBR with me. It's still languishing at home and taking up most of my childhood bedroom in my parents' basement. Here I only have one-and-a-half bookshelves full of mostly newly acquired and bookcrossing books **smiles** I'm impressed, actually, at how many I managed to accumulate in the space of a year. I did bring some with me, y'know, important ones, ones I was dying to read. Most of them are still on the bookshelf, waiting, but I did have a window just when I started this challenge where I managed to read a few of my TBRs and get them off into the bookcrossing world! (Which reminds me, I have promised someone my copy of Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen in one of the TBR challengers here on bookobsessed, but was suddenly snowed under a pile of bookring books that I am STILL not out of, so it got moved back. I'll read it, I swear! And get it to you, honest!)

My fiancé is 100% in favour of bookcrossing, if only it means that the majority of the books I currently possess will find their way out of our home. **laughs**

Although I love my family and desperately want to go home to visit, I fear that such a visit would mean I would be required to pack up "my things" and move my monsterous Mount TBR back up here with me. (I fear it, while at the same time I am excited by the prospect: there are many wonderful books abandoned back there that I really want to read!)

I'm doing really well with reading at least a book a week, too. It makes me happy that I've managed it, thusfar. I am a little nervous that I'll be going back to college when September comes, and that may put a kink in my intentions. Still, I'm very hopeful that I'll still be allowed to buy books come January. And, even if I'm not, I suspect my family will keep up it's long-held habit of buying many many books as presents for eachother for Christmas and birthdays, so at least I'll have a fresh influx at the very end **laughs**

Wish me luck!

This is really funny. Thanks for posting the link. It's actually been worse for me ever since they put a brand new Goodwill store right next to my work. It's just two doors down. Now everybody, guess where I spend my lunch hours?