I am the first to admit I have some awful reading habits. I am also the first person to laugh at myself about them! You are more than welcome to laugh at me as well 🙂 I can even deal with some light judging. (But if I feel like you are attacking me for my habits I will get bitterly defensive) This is a fun tag to flaunt all our bad habits so lets have some fun and make fun of each other! (did I mention fun?)
Thanks to Maria @ Bookgraphy for tagging me!
Bad Habit #1 – Dog Ears
I am going to jump right in with both feet and start with my worst habit. I dog ear corners on my books.
I know! I’m a monster! But it gets even worse; by the time I am done reading a book the cover is usually bent or torn and its all a mess. It is really hard for me to keep a book in good condition. I just toss it in my backpack or my gym bag or my car or my bat bag. Sometimes I will even read in the shower and the humidity makes the pages wrinkly. I take the book with me everywhere and it suffers. But I believe a well worn book is a loved book! I don’t purposely try and ruin my books! I do try to put them in places where they won’t get smashed, but its often a futile attempt. By bags have a mind of their own and I can’t keep anything pristine!
I will note that I only do this to my books. On the rare occasion I borrow a book from a friend or the Library I will make sure it stays in its original condition. It takes a lot of work for me too keep a book nice and its just too hard when its my personal book!
Bad Habit #2 – No TBR
Do I really need to continue after my Bad Habit #1? Isn’t that bad enough for you guys? No? Okay! My next bad habit is that I cannot follow a short term TBR to save my life. I do have a giant TBR of books I would like to read someday, but I can’t plan out the books I am going to read next. I am a total mood reader and TBRs will send me into slumps if I am not 100% feeling the next book on my list.
Bad Habit #3 – Book Hoarding
I hoard books. It doesn’t matter if I hated the book or never plan on reading it – I am keeping it! I have a room dedicated to books and I want to fill it up!!! Last time I counted I had a little over 500 physical books, almost 250 ebooks, and 15 Audio books. So total 775 ish books!
Though, while I hoard books, there are very few I am actually attached too, so if I were to lend a book to a friend I don’t care about the condition they return it in, and honestly I probably wouldn’t even notice if they never returned it.
I Tag:
As always, don’t feel obligated to participate! But if you do let me know so I can check out your answers!
Perfectly tolerable bad habits. LOL
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yes! You are awesome ❤
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Can’t have a full library without some books you don’t like. lol
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I like the way you think!
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I also like to keep books I don’t like😂 maybe it’s a bad thing? But I want my library to groow! Also I’m not sure why but lately I haven’t been able to follow my monthly tbr, I’m becoming more of a mood reader😂
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Exactly!! I want a big library! If I only keep the books I have read, or liked then it would be a whole heck of a lot smaller 😂😂 Are you ok with being a mood reader? Or is your TBR important to your blog (i.e. do you have a lot of ARCS and books you should be reading?)
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I’m an unabashed book hoarder, lol.
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Yay! Hoard all the books!
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My philosophy, yes! lol
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I totally hoard books too!! I do think I’ve gotten rid of a few books that I really hated but usually I hold onto everything! I want that Belle’s library! hahaha. Thanks for the tag! ❤
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Haha I am sure I have gotten rid of some but I can’t remember 😂😂 And yes I want it too! ❤ You are very welcome!
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YOU MONSTER! 😂 Why do you take your book to THE SHOWER?? that’s where I take advantage of audiobooks, so that I don’t literally kill them! I have the same problem with my TBRs though, I just can’t make my brain follow a damn list….
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Haha I know!! I’m the worst 😂 😂 I don’t completely ruin them!! They just get a little wavy! I don’t put them under the water or anything but the humidity gets to them 😂 😂 I can’t hear my phone speaker over the sound of my shower so I would need to get a better speaker in order to listen in the shower, tho that is a great idea 😀
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Oh my God, you beautiful disaster 😂
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I hoard books as well. Actually I probably have more unread books than anything. I try to explain to people I want my own library where I have endless shelves and vast options of books to read! Good to know I’m not alone 🙂
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Now that you mention it I probably have more unread books than read books too 😂 It sounds like we want the exact same thing ❤
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I’m a mood reader too and usually don’t pick out more than one book ahead, even though I do have a long range TBR (we’ll call it “guidelines”, as the pirate says). So yeah… and I used to hoard, I had boxes of used books I got at used bookstores, but lost some of them in college, so… I still buy too many books though!
Fun tag!
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Yes! Lets be book Pirates!! ❤ oh my god I need to make that into something! And Yes, Guidelines is a perfect definition for my TBR 😂😂 Thats so sad you lost books haha I have lost some too. Mostly my original Harry Potter books which I am pretty sure my sister stole 😂
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Ooh your sister? Wow Potter fandom can be cutthroat haha! But yes you should do a pirae post!!
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hahah ‘I dog ear corners on my books” *GASPS* Me too lol I love to discover other “I dog earers” 🙂
My worst? I DNF 90% the books I read 🙂 just your opposite 🙂 love this tag Fun to know more about you 🙂
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We need to make a club!!! Haha there are so few of us!
I think you need to get better at choosing your books if you don’t finish 90% of them 😂 😂 How far do you usually get before you give up?
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20ish % 😊
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how the HELL do you read in the shower!?!
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Haha ok so I don’t like baths I think they are too quiet and weird. So I plug the drain and run the shower and sit in the tub and let it fill up. I LOVE the sound of the running shower, its really what is relaxing to me. Since I am sitting in the tub but with the shower running and I hang my arms over the edge of the tub so they are outside of the shower curtain and I read holding the book out of the tub but it still gets a little misted 😂
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This is honestly the most ingenious solution that I have ever read in my life. I don’t reeally enjoy baths either but take them to relax for 10 mins before getting bored lol.
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I can relate to this except the first one. 😂
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😂 😂 I don’t think many people can relate to the first one 😂
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Haha! You are the opposite of me! My TBR is out of control. I’m a little ocd. Working on it… but…
Love the sound of your library. The gif was especially good! ❤️❤️
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Haha that is awesome 🙂 everyone manages their reading differently!! And I love that gif too ❤
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The only time I HAVE a TBR is well… ARCs and blog your copies because I’ll forget about them until the week before and omg I can’t do that. 😂 Otherwise I’m a no TBR type of girl aside from what I’m interested in reading (should we even call it TBR? Why not Looks Interesting to Read? 😂)
I CANNOT read in the shower though – they’re banned at my place unless I want to start a fire. 😂😂😂
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Yea I have a list of ARCS and books I have to read but I only have two books on it now and I try to not do too many ARCS.
And I love the idea of calling it an “Interested in reading” list! Thats a great idea 🙂
How are showers banned and why would a shower start a fire?!?!
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Now Brittany I don’t know if book hoarding is really a bad habit for a book worm LOL
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Hahah good point!!
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