In trying to make a comfortable writing space, it was necessary for me to move several pieces of furniture in the room. It seems as if the more books I unload from an area, the more books I discover I had stuck there for "the time being". They've spent months sitting on shelves collecting dust bunnies, waiting for me to pick them up again-many of which have never been read.
Beth Carswell from Abe Books lists the following reasons why these dusty relics have yet to be read:
- It's a book I feel like I should read
- It's part of a series and I have not read the others yet
- Everyone I know is recommending it
- It's intimidatingly enormous
- It's a classic
- My reading stacks get wildly out of control
- The siren call of the bargain bin
- The author wrote something else we like
- It's a textbook or assignment
- We have a friend who works at the bookshop
- It was a gift (my addition)
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