I can’t stop buying books!

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Help!

I picked up a huge stack in Asda for my holiday, which I then started to read.

Then I got some more on Amazon, which I’ve broken into.

Then I got even more in Asda today! I just can’t help myself! I’ve read five in five days!

@SingForYourDinner I felt like my eyes needed bleaching after reading a snippet of 50 Shades that included anal fisting and the Bible in the same sentence... over a friend's shoulder... in a place of holy pilgrimage, complete with nuns 😲Needless to say, I never did get around to reading anything else from that series! (To be fair, I was a naive teenager, and anal fisting had never crossed sullied my mind before that!)

Stop it 🤣

I like to check in on my favourite authors and as soon as a new book is announced put a request (80p) at my lovely library.
The best feeling in the whole world when you might just be at the top of the wait list, then that feeling of an unsullied hardback cracking open!
Preferably in a coffee shop!

My library does reservations/deliveries which can be made via app (books come from 4 or 5 counties!) but thankfully it doesn’t charge for this. The length of time it takes for books to arrive is very variable but I tend to have a few reserved or being transported so I get a good flow.

Someone else mentioned that reserving books online means you can’t have a good browse which is true. However I use the Goodreads to track and rate my books and not only is it really easy to search for books/authors it also makes recommendations of books it thinks I may like. I can read the blurb online and then go onto my library app to reserve/get delivered to the library.

you are supporting authors and the book industry, can't be anything wrong with that

It’s Balzac, not Balsac. It’s almost like you’re not as well-read as you think.

An entirely unrelated observation: I’ve never met a snob who was actually very bright. Especially the ones who try to dress up their snobbery behind a facade of attempted humour. Embarrassing behaviour.

Seriously, read some the mentioned books, you might benefit!

It's hardly snobbish to say that the books Asda stocks will be the lowest common demoninator, not surprisingly, because it's a supermarket, not a bookshop, and no one goes there to buy books -- disposable thrillers and romance, romantasy, cookery books, minor celebrity autobiography, the dopier end of self-help etc. The only non-shit title I saw last time I looked at books in an Asda was Patrick Radden Keefe's London Falling.

Beginning your sentence with ‘It’s hardly snobbish to say…’ doesn’t, I’m afraid, make it less snobbish.

Also it’s ’denominator’, not ‘demoninator’. Hope that helps.

I’ve read all those authors. I didn’t read them in translation though; I read them in the original French when I was a teenager.

I also have a 1st class honours degree in English Literature.

I have 138 in my GoodReads that have at home that I want to read. Still bet I’ll buy more though!!

Take it here nobody likes the mindf*ck series then? 😂😂

Books are a fine addiction.
I get the postman to hide them until it’s safe to smuggle them in

I’m sure those books are fine. If anyone wants a book that’s topical and makes you think, I can heavily recommend It’s Not What You Think by Clare Mackintosh.

Ironically, the title is very apt. A brilliant, on the nose book that is thought provoking and delightfully written. I devoured it this evening.

Personally I’m also not interested in “chick lit” written by white men. I feel it’s a rather narrow group of authors to stick to, really.

I shall give it a try, thank you for the recommendation.

It’s not from the 18th century, nor was it written by a man, so I doubt it’ll fit your standards.

I love a good book OP my to read pile never goes down because as soon as I finish one, I buy two more.

I've posted this before, but, in the words of Umberto Eco himself.

Yes I do see books as a bit of a panacea really. An escape.

I have not read anything from teh 18th century, I think.

Maybe look at Oxfam online or similar to get a pile of bargains.
And feel suitably sanctimonious as you are contributing to a good cause

I get all my books second hand on Vinted, I read them too quickly to pay full price. I find people selling books for £1 each and only buy if there are several I want from the same person to keep postage costs down, and then I pass them on or resell them when I’m done!

Do grow up.

It's not quite like eating too many hamburgers though is it ? 🙄. If they're getting read and the op can afford them, there is no downside.

Only on Mumsnet can people turn reading a lot into some kind of damaging addiction.