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4 Monetary Tips to Reducing Your To Be Read Pile

by Keira 03.19.2011

Chances are you have one, and your friend, and your other friend, and of course I have one. They sneak up on you. When you first start reading, there might be one to three books in the pile and you read them and go out and get new books. Somewhere along the way they developed [...]

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7 Organizational Tips to Help Reduce Your To Be Read Pile!

by Keira 03.09.2011

Last time I gave you 4 Monetary Tips to Reduce your TBR pile. This post is going to give you some ideas on how organizing your TBR pile can motivate you to get through it. 1. Start a Spreadsheet. Enter all the books from your current to be read pile and then all the books [...]

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Defend Your (Sub-)Genre

by Susan S. 09.09.2010

by Susan Sigler, guest blogger Confession time! I’ve been harboring a secret wish. A hope that someone, somewhere will give me a satisfactory reason to venture outside of my comfort zone. I’m very content you see. Here in my dark paranormal genre. There’s shapeshifters at every turn and vampires with seductive brooding qualities. In paranormal [...]

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Reader Highlight with Meghan of Medieval Bookworm

by Keira 05.16.2010

Keira: You own over 1000 books. Do you have special bookcases to display them all and a picture you can share with us? Now, looking at your bookshelf what color pops out the most to you or what color is the most dominant among the shelves? What do you think this color says about you? [...]

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Reader Highlight with Scarlett Moore

by Keira 03.28.2010

Keira: Let’s take a look at your bookshelf (nightstand, floor, wherever lol). What color covers do you have the most of and are they by a bunch of different authors or by one author? Why do you think you bought those books? Scarlett: The predominant book cover colors are red (Goddess of the Hunt by [...]

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Reader Highlight with Heidenkind

by Keira 03.16.2010

Keira: Which do you like more: finishing a book or starting a new one? Heidenkind: Probably finishing a book, because I like to think about what to read next. Keira: Which historical romances do you prefer more and why: Classical Novels or Current Regency Based Novels? Heidenkind: Contemporary novels set in the Regency era tend [...]

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Reader Highlight: Susan’s Success Story!

by Keira 05.25.2009

I got an email on Friday from Susan thanking me for my TBR pile series and telling me about her own bookshelf cleanup project. I’m so excited to share with everyone, Susan’s success. Using a tip from 7 Organizational Tips to Help Reduce Your To Be Read Pile she took her unmanageable bookshelf and got [...]

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Lots of New Old and Out of Print Books

by Keira 11.07.2008

I’ve spent the last couple of days reorganizing my space (which is small) for several new (to me) books were coming my way. I got a second bookshelf (surprise, surprise) and cleared out a corner for it. This took some ingenuity as this used to be my junk corner. The corner I knew would contain [...]