My 'library' currently contains 315 books. I would have more but before I had enough money I used to sell my books to get discounts on new ones. Then I found online shopping and MUCH cheaper books so now I can keep them all. My books are spread across 3 bookcases because I absolutely have doubling them up on a shelf, unfortunately I still have to because I have little space and lots of books.
Of that 315 books I only have 46 that I have never read. This number seems large because I recently re bought the famous five and secret seven box sets of my youth and have yet to get to them. This means only 14.6% of my library is unread.
This year I have read 109 books, though that number will likely reach 110 by bedtime. This is 34.6% on my library read in 9 months! My current goal is 120 which at the time of setting was half my library but I guess now I shall have to up that number to 158 by the end of the year. At my current pace I think it'll be tight but possible.
How do I read so much? I have multiple books on the go. One smaller one in my handbag ( Five have plenty of fun by Enid Blyton). One in the bathroom for reading in the bath or on the loo :-p ( Wicked Appetite by Janet Evanovich). And finally one in my bedroom which is the one I'm typically most absorbed in. Currently I'm half way through Kresley Cole's Untouchable. And I love it! So I read a range of genres from young adult and almost kids books from my childhood, to paranormal romance which is definitely not fit for kids!
I hope one day when I have my own house to have a proper library and it HAS to have a sliding ladder!!!
Sliding ladder libraries are amazing xx - Alyce
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