PotsandPlots

I’ve been enjoying the community experience of participating in SixOnSaturday with other gardeners. Sharing my photos, seeing other people’s plots and learning a fair amount too.

I hadn’t considered doing something similar on the book front until I discovered the “Book Blogger Hop.” So here I am. This week’s prompt (which I’m a little bit late for, tbh) was,

Do you have any bookish quirks and habits?

The Book Blogger Hop is currently hosted by “The Coffee Addicted Writer,” with new prompts released every Friday.

My answer: Yes, obviously.

Better answer: I have a weird, nonsensical, non-deliberate one that I’m trying to break.

I keep NOT reading new books in series I am enjoying or by authors that I love. – What’s that about?

It started when I tried to keep on top of reviewing the latest releases. I was sent more ARCs than I knew what to do with, and there was always a book with a review deadline that needed to be read.

As a result, I’d pick up books by authors I enjoy, stick them on the shelf, knowing I could read them “one day,” but that day would never arrive.

It became particularly absurd, as to fulfil blogger obligations, I found myself reading free books I wasn’t that bothered about, rather than the books I’d bought with actual money.

For PotsandPlots I took a step away from ARCs and am reading books I want to read. I finished (but haven’t reviewed yet) Richard Swan’s Empire of the Wolf Series.’ I’ve been working my way through On the Calculation of Volume and have finally read the most recent Noah Hawley offering, Anthem. (Jennifer Egan’s Hard Cardy also keeps getting dangerously close to the top of the TBR pile!)

The TL;DR is that I often read books I don’t want to read at the expense of books that I do. – How does that make sense?