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Many people indulge in retail therapy but mine takes a unique form. When I feel sad, I buy books. And when I feel happy... I also buy books. ("Damn, that conversation was upsetting, I guess I better hie me to a bookstore and fetch home treasure to comfort me!" "Yay, that's so cool, what I need to celebrate is to buy some books!")

If more people were like me, the publishing industry would be well on its way to recovery.

Now if only I could find time to read all the books that I buy....

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Date: 2011-01-05 11:31 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] http://users.livejournal.com/la_marquise_de_/
That's me, too. Books are the best therapy.

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Date: 2011-01-06 11:36 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] pbray.livejournal.com
They really are. I've felt this way ever since I was a child, which, perhaps, explains why I became a writer...

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Date: 2011-01-05 11:37 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kirylyn.livejournal.com
Now if only I could find time to read all the books that I buy

THIS THIS THIS

this is why I generally have a book (or three) in my car for when traffic jams happen. I remember being caught in one for like 2 hours, everyone else was getting upset/angry. I just shrugged, pulled out my book and didn't notice the passage of time!

(its also why I don't like books on tape/cd when I'm driving -- I so lose myself into the book that I forget to pay attention to the road!)

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Date: 2011-01-06 11:37 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] pbray.livejournal.com
My standard for buying a purse is "Can I fit a paperback in here?" Because, of course, you need to be able to have a book precisely for those occasions.

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Date: 2011-01-05 12:07 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] lagilman
Buying a book is a mitzvah. Reading a book is a mitzvah. Two mitzvahs for the purchase of one!

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Date: 2011-01-06 11:38 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] pbray.livejournal.com
:-)

Some days I think of it as going to the shelter and adopting homeless books.

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Date: 2011-01-05 12:28 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mtlawson.livejournal.com
Now if only I could find time to read all the books that I buy....

Therein lies the kicker, unfortunately.

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Date: 2011-01-06 11:38 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] pbray.livejournal.com
In my next life, perhaps.

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Date: 2011-01-06 11:56 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mtlawson.livejournal.com
Methinks I ought to add a section in the will about that. All of the books sitting in the TBR pile go to...

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Date: 2011-01-05 01:27 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] fireun.livejournal.com
Books are the best therapy.

Alas, there will never be time to defeat the TBR pile. Especially not when adding books to the pile is a common occurrence.

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Date: 2011-01-06 11:38 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] pbray.livejournal.com
I think they breed when my back is turned.

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Date: 2011-01-05 01:29 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] queenoftheskies.livejournal.com
I do the same thing!

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Date: 2011-01-06 11:39 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] pbray.livejournal.com
I suspect our obsessive love for books is part of being writers.

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Date: 2011-01-05 01:53 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] madkestrel.livejournal.com
*smiles* I feel your pain, hon! There's a stack of books next to my bed waiting for my attention, and what did I do this past weekend? Spent my Amazon gift card...on more books.

It's a sickness, but I don't want to get well. :D

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Date: 2011-01-06 11:39 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] pbray.livejournal.com
It's incurable! It's a good kind of sickness, the way some bacteria is actually good for you! I could stop at any time, I just choose not to!

:-)

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Date: 2011-01-05 02:16 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jjschwabach.livejournal.com
Send 'em to me ;-)!

I'll read 'em during chemo and tell you what they say...

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Date: 2011-01-06 11:44 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] pbray.livejournal.com
Mine! Mine! All mine! (Just ask [livejournal.com profile] fireun how successful she's been at prying books out of my hands.)

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Date: 2011-01-06 02:20 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jmward14.livejournal.com
After we had the living room painted in October, I reorganized the books. I sent enough to storage, I was able to fit all the TBR pile into shelves. They filled an entire six-foot IKEA bookcase. Oops.
IOW, I feel your... Pain is totally the wrong word. Obsession?

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Date: 2011-01-06 11:46 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] pbray.livejournal.com
We book hoarders must stick together! At least until we get our own reality show and they stage an intervention and scan all our TBRs onto our new tablets...

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