How many books inhabit my To-Be-Read pile?...

21st June 2011

Book Blogger Hop

I don't actually take part in this meme (mainly because I don't post reviews about all the books that I read) but I do think the questions posed can be interesting... and thought provoking...

This particular question made me laugh out loud... 

Question:  

“How many books are currently in your To-Be-Read (TBR) Pile?”

After all I live in a house that has at least one book case in every room (including the attic) except the kitchen and bathroom...  The small bedroom which is nicknamed the book room...  has a lovely blue futon sofa bed (very comfy to lounge on for reading) but which has long since ceased to be used as a spare bed as it cannot be opened up due to the number of bookshelves that now surround the walls.   

Other than all the books packed onto every shelf usually lying on their sides (I discovered I could fit more books onto the sh

elf this way as I didn't like the wasted space above the books) usually two piles deep...  so many novels, biographys, fascinating non fiction, historical tombs... a multitude read... many more waiting to be read... 

imaginary and real worlds hidden within books of mythology... folklore... fairy tales...  all of which I fully intend to explore and lose myself inside...  when time allows...

So in answer to this hilarious question...  too many to be counted...

I've even taken to borrowing books in the to-be-read pile from the library in audio book format so that I can "read" listen to them while I am working...  new method of multi-tasking...

My mum taught me to read when I was 2 1/2 and by the time I started school a week before my 4th birthday I had already read all of the reading books for the first year...  

The highlight of my world when I was tiny was the arrival of the mobile library bus at the parking area just beyond our gates... where I would proceed to read and browse most of the children's books before deciding upon which ones I wanted to take out to read again...