First Post!

Number of books that entered the house today: 0
Number of books ordered: 0
Number of books mooched:10+

Current reads- Hidden Lives by Simon Garfield (downstairs and handbag); Old Bailey by Theresa Murphy (bedside table).

I am in the wonderfully difficult position of having rather a lot of Bookmooch points and very little to spend them on. Having saved them up for the last two months (not voluntarily but due to the international move) I can have potentially 147 books in my hand. The problem is finding those books when I have been actively trimming my wishlists both on bookmooch and Amazon. As I have got older I have been letting go of my desire to define myself by the books on my shelves and what they might say about me. I have been actively searching out books to read for pleasure rather than out of some twisted sense of duty and wanting to impress others. In the process reading has become more of a pleasure again rather than some sort of endurance challenge and there have been glorious rediscoveries of long-ignored genres. Books that I loathed or even just didnt enjoy can now be skimmed out of my library and passed on, there is no longer that need to hold onto them to impress others. Here's hoping that this can continue!