Hi everyone! I hope you’re all well. Today is Wednesday, and it’s time for the next post in the Wednesday Weekly Blogging Challenge hosted by Long and Short Reviews. If you’d like to participate in the challenge, you can find the topics for 2024 here, and if you want to read other people’s responses to this week’s topic, you can do so here.
Books on my TBR List the Longest
I am one of those people who have a habit of buying books while my TBR pile grows higher and higher. It’s a problem. I always think I’m going to find the time, miraculously from somewhere, to read every last book… well, maybe one day.
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austin
I remember adding this one to my TBR list in my late teens. It’s been there ever since. I know it’s a classic, and I intend to get to it one day.
Bleak House
I love Charles Dickens. I love how he describes Victorian London and draws you in, and I’ve read many of his books. Bleak House is one I haven’t gotten around to yet. My dad loved this book, and I want to get around to it because I decided years ago to work my way through some of my parents’ favourite books to try and reconnect with them on some level.
The Cruel Sea
This was my dad’s favourite book, and I have kept his copy on my bookshelf since he passed away in 2008 with the intention of one day reading it for the above reason. The thing that keeps putting me off is the fear that I might hate it.
2001: A Space Odyssey
I am a massive fan of the movie adaptation and would like to read the book someday.
Legion
I loved the exorcist (the book and the movie), and for years, I didn’t know there was a sequel. I received it as a birthday gift many years ago, and it’s been awaiting my attention ever since.
Home Alone
If you’re one of my regular readers, you’ll probably know I love novelisations. Home Alone was one of the first novelisations I picked up. It has been sitting on my shelf, patiently awaiting my attention for over a decade. Perhaps this is the year to read it!
Well, this post has been interesting! It’s made me see that I am a book hoarder. I really should start making my way through my TBR pile. Do you have any ideas on how to stop adding to it? Because I have tried… really.
This has been post 14! (Already!) I’m excited to learn about some of the books you’re all yet to read!
As ever, thanks for stopping by and spending time with me today!
Until next time,
George
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GEORGE L THOMAS 
I didn’t know there was a novel version of Home Alone.
I have started Bleak House once or twice but never finished it.
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Yeah, Home Alone and Home Alone 2 were novelised. I’m guessing they’re just gonna be the standard ‘movie in a novel’ format like most are, but certainly interesting to read!
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You are not alone in the book hoarding, that’s for sure! I hope you can get to some of them soon.
<a href=”https://nerdyreadergirl.wordpress.com/2024/04/03/wednesday-weekly-blogging-challenge-april-3-2024/“>My post</a>
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(spittake) Someone made a novelization of Home Alone?! Can’t say I’d expected that! https://readingfreely.com/2024/04/03/aged-veterans-of-the-virtual-tbr/My list focuses on Kindle titles I bought but never read.
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And Home Alone 2! Oh, I have loads of Kindle titles, too. It’s so easy to add new books… 🙂
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I am exactly the same – right down to having copies of my parents’ favourite books that I both want and don’t want to read, for exactly the same reasons!
I have been adding to my shelves for years and years and years, and never really thought that much about it until I started to receive complaints. I’ve been working on not getting many physical books anymore – I mostly borrow from my virtual library and look out for free books on Audible and some sale books – but I’m still living in an over-abundance of TBR books.
I’ve come across a couple of discussions about this. In one someone pointed out that collecting books and reading books may seem to be the same, but are in fact two different hobbies. Like how some people collect china figurines or Pez dispensers or comic books or stamps. They aren’t judged the same as book collectors for collecting things they don’t necessarily use, so I kind of like thinking of book collecting in a similar way (to a point, of course).
The other was a discussion about how having a large number of unread books is the essence of a hopeful outlook. The hope that, as you said, one day we will pick them up. That we will live long enough to read at least a large number of them. It’s a way of looking to a future.
And for myself, I also feel like having unread books around me creates a wonderful sense of possibility. There are worlds, perspectives, turns of phrase and experiences that are waiting for me, and that’s thrilling. I love having some of my favourite read books on my shelves, but I tend to give away books I’ve read that were okay but not ones I’ll want to revisit. It makes more sense to me to have a lot of books I haven’t read yet on my shelves than books I have read, particularly if I know I’ll never go back to them!
I’ve gotten carried away again. Your posts always give me lots to think about! Anyway, all that to say, I don’t think there’s anything wrong with having a large number of books waiting to be read as long as you can afford them and have the space!
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Thanks so much! I like the idea of collecting books and reading books being different things. It makes sense. I also love the idea that having so many unread books describes a hopeful outlook! What a great way to see it. 🙂🙂
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What an eclectic list from the sublime to the ridiculous (Home Alone is such a farce). I had to look up Cruel Sea, as I had never heard of it. Out of curiosity, did your father serve in the Navy during World War II? I wondered if that was one of the reasons that attracted him to it. The year I lived in England, I found £1 copies of Jane Austen novels and read most of them. The only one I disliked was Northanger Abbey, her parody of a Gothic novel.
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No, he wasn’t born until 1954, but his family were all veterans. He was obsessed with ships and military history. He used to build models of them from lollipop sticks.
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that actually makes more sense. Often times the people who directly experience it don’t want to re-experience it through such reading, but those who have a secondary connection such as a family of veterans do want to connect up to their family in that way.
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That’s a good point, Greta! It does make sense when you think about it. 🙂
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