Round Table: How We Pick Books to Read

[tessagratton]

We love books! Obviously! This month we decided to chat about how we pick what books to read, especially our favorite ways.

How do you guys pick books? Recommendations? Blogs? Browsing? Let us know in the comments - especially if there's a weird way you do it. We love weird things.

Here's our take:

Tessa: so we're talking about how we pick

Comments

[swhisted]

My book buying habits... hmmmm...

I have a problem actually (as in I bought over 15 books last month). They should come up with a name for it. I ignored reading like the plague so much growing up that now I read like a madwoman playing catch up. And I have this ridiculous *need* to own every book I read. (Luckily there's only been a few that I didn't LOVE).

I mainly buy based on recommendations from friends, blogs or good old Amazon suggestions (who just loves keeping my pocket empty) and I primarily buy my books online. Reason one, there is a better selection and reason two, most of the time on Amazon you can preview quite a bit of the book before buying. Plus, Lord help me if I could actually touch all of the books in an actual store. I'd be in trouble. Beautiful covers and binding excite me to a crazy level. So much so that I'm weary of even lending my books out sometimes because I want them to stay as beautiful as they were when they first met my hands.

I'm a freak, I know this. I'm that book nerd who passes by my bookshelf several times a day just to run my hands over them or admire their pretty nature. And sit and remember the way each and every one of them made me feel.

Darn you girls, I just ordered two more books because this post made me thirsty for more (as if I actually even need more). I'm currently addicted to Sherrilyn Kenyon and the series I'm reading has like 20 books and I'm only on book 7, but at the rate I'm buying/reading them it won't take me long. I seriously have no control. Gah!

[wldhrsjen3]

OMG I am the SAME way. :D Well, I've always loved reading, but I have the same addiction! I covet books like they were treasure, and I hoard them just so I can admire their prettiness. And I rarely, rarely lend books because I hate crinkled pages or bent covers.

(I also just ordered a couple of new books... :P It's a disease, I think.)

[swhisted]

Definitely a disease. Needs a name....

I will sometimes lend out my hardbacks (to people I know respect them the way I do), but never my paperbacks. My mother laughs at me at how I barely open the book to read it just so I don't get a line in the binding. Hehe...