Chareads | November Book Haul @Chareads | Uploaded December 2014 | Updated October 2024, 44 minutes ago.
This is going to be a rambly essay-length description, go get some tea before you start. I was watching a video by Raeleen (padfootandprongs07) about book buying and guilt - youtu.be/W8fyhNSWMZo - which you should totally watch because it's great, and I started to feel quite guilty about this video. I buy a lot of books that I do want to read, but often it's a 'some day' and not a 'right now' thing, and that sucks. Then they're just there growing dust, and that sucks.
There was a lot of that this month because of all the CHEAP DEALS but, do I really want to read 3 Edith Wharton novels? Nope. And I want to read The Miniaturist, for sure, but will I get around to it soon? I don't know, I'd like to, but like Raeleen says it's so much nicer buying something you're excited for and getting started on it straight away. Guilt, what a bitch.
So I decided to do something about it, and not a purge because the idea of giving away things that I've paid for without getting any value from them makes me feel even more guilty because I probably couldn't afford them in the first place. Instead I reordered my bookshelves (practically a weekly ritual) into #1 things I've read #2 things I want to read next and #3 things I want to read eventually (I don't think I have anything which doesn't fit into these three categories, which is good). If I keep #2 under, say, 20 books, when I buy books they go on that shelf (which will hopefully pull my book-buying down a little and make me more aware of what I do buy) and then over time I'll transfer things from shelf #3 to shelf #2 when I'm really up for reading them, thereby slowly reducing the size of shelf #3. The idea is to not add to shelf #3 because that's the thing that's making me feel guilty in the first place. Sense? Sense.
The Double - Fyodor Dostoyevsky (youtu.be/6hFpT656YyI)
Mother Night - Kurt Vonnegut
Everything - Ernest Hemingway
A Few Things - Edith Wharton
Penguin Great Foods
The Prince - Niccolo Machiavelli (youtu.be/vpsTwO0FrFk)
Some 'Classic' Great Ideas (apparently they're not all classical)
The Miniaturist - Jessie Burton (Waterstones book of the year!)
The Novel Cure - Susan Elderkin and Ella Berthoud
On Friendship - Michel de Montaigne (youtu.be/YKbIhyJ14V4)
The Manual (https://themanual.org)
GOODREADS
goodreads.com/user/show/5008298-charlotte-dann
YOUTUBE
youtube.com/charbytes
WEBSITE
charlottedann.com
This is going to be a rambly essay-length description, go get some tea before you start. I was watching a video by Raeleen (padfootandprongs07) about book buying and guilt - youtu.be/W8fyhNSWMZo - which you should totally watch because it's great, and I started to feel quite guilty about this video. I buy a lot of books that I do want to read, but often it's a 'some day' and not a 'right now' thing, and that sucks. Then they're just there growing dust, and that sucks.
There was a lot of that this month because of all the CHEAP DEALS but, do I really want to read 3 Edith Wharton novels? Nope. And I want to read The Miniaturist, for sure, but will I get around to it soon? I don't know, I'd like to, but like Raeleen says it's so much nicer buying something you're excited for and getting started on it straight away. Guilt, what a bitch.
So I decided to do something about it, and not a purge because the idea of giving away things that I've paid for without getting any value from them makes me feel even more guilty because I probably couldn't afford them in the first place. Instead I reordered my bookshelves (practically a weekly ritual) into #1 things I've read #2 things I want to read next and #3 things I want to read eventually (I don't think I have anything which doesn't fit into these three categories, which is good). If I keep #2 under, say, 20 books, when I buy books they go on that shelf (which will hopefully pull my book-buying down a little and make me more aware of what I do buy) and then over time I'll transfer things from shelf #3 to shelf #2 when I'm really up for reading them, thereby slowly reducing the size of shelf #3. The idea is to not add to shelf #3 because that's the thing that's making me feel guilty in the first place. Sense? Sense.
The Double - Fyodor Dostoyevsky (youtu.be/6hFpT656YyI)
Mother Night - Kurt Vonnegut
Everything - Ernest Hemingway
A Few Things - Edith Wharton
Penguin Great Foods
The Prince - Niccolo Machiavelli (youtu.be/vpsTwO0FrFk)
Some 'Classic' Great Ideas (apparently they're not all classical)
The Miniaturist - Jessie Burton (Waterstones book of the year!)
The Novel Cure - Susan Elderkin and Ella Berthoud
On Friendship - Michel de Montaigne (youtu.be/YKbIhyJ14V4)
The Manual (https://themanual.org)
GOODREADS
goodreads.com/user/show/5008298-charlotte-dann
YOUTUBE
youtube.com/charbytes
WEBSITE
charlottedann.com
