I have a dedicated space on my bookshelf for all my unread books. While I was putting together this post, I didn’t think it was this many – 97! And it doesn’t include the books that are on my Kindle, the ebooks and ARCs. I’m not proud of this, don’t get me wrong. But I love hoarding books.
They say retail therapy is the best therapy and I cannot agree more. For me, it is books and shoes and they are just never enough. I turn a deaf ear and keep a blind eye to Marie Kondo and her decluttering ideas when it comes to these two things. Can’t help it! Ouch! I think it is perfectly okay to have an enormous pile of To-Be-Read books.
Tackling the Unread Books
Stack Them All Together: There were a good number of books that I had completely forgotten about and I am, in a way, happy to rediscover them. Why I didn’t know about its existence before was because they were there everywhere. I used to color coordinate my books earlier and didn’t have the slightest idea of this humongous, evergrowing TBR pile. So, I have stacked them all together to visualize my reading goal.
Organize by Genre: Another way to tackle your TBR is by organizing the unread books by genre. I believe, like me, you’d read books based on your mood and state of mind. This technique helps in picking up more books to read. You can even assign a “Crime fiction” reading week or “Romance week”.
Read-a-thon! Ever heard of it? On my Bookstagram account with my darling Golden boy, I do read-a-thons. It is a fun way of picking up a book and joining like-minded bloggers/Instagrammers to read the book along, during an assigned date. It’s a great way to get some reading done.
Join a Reading Challenge: At the beginning of the year, I was so pepped up to read a lot of books that I joined about 4 or 5 Reading Challenges. I’ve already failed one miserably! But I am keeping track of the others. I have a dedicated spreadsheet with all the challenges, their prompts and the books I have chosen. This helps me read a variety of books and not just stick to one genre.
You can also look for reading challenges and reading sprints on Instagram.
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TBR Unhaul/Giveaway
Yes, I am giving away one book from my TBR pile for I found out that I had two copies of the same book. One was a Christmas Santa gift and the other I had bought without knowing that my Santa would be sending me the same copy. Well, that’s just me!
I have read the book (I couldn’t help but read it when I ‘rediscovered’ it from the unread pile) and it is brilliant! Of course, I will be giving away the new unread book. Duh! The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris has gone on to top the charts around the world and for a reason. You can find the blurb here.
To win this giveaway, all you need to do is follow these simple set of rules:
- Follow me on Instagram @kohleyedcapers
- Follow me on Twitter @kohleyedme (Please don’t follow to unfollow, that’s really mean!)
- Tell me on the giveaway post on Instagram your favorite historical fiction and tag three friends.
- Share the post which is on Instagram to your stories and tag me.
That’s all! The giveaway is from 24 April to 30 April.
I hope you’ll drop by tomorrow too.
My theme for the A to Z Challenge this year is ‘Celebrating the Bibliophile in me’, where I would share the books, authors and fictional characters that I love, loathe and tolerate.
Ah, there could be more!
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Random Musings says
I totally agree with you about the Marie Kondo thing – I recently wrote a blog post about how she really doesn’t “get” books haha. I really love a good declutter, but to me, books aren’t clutter
Debbie
Noor Anand Chawla says
I’m just like you Shalini- a book hoarder in the true sense! I have so much reading to catch up on this year. After the AtoZChallenge is over, I plan to bury myself in books and escape!
vidhya Thakkar says
Woow these are some apt tips! loved it
Priyanka Nair says
I loved this post and the idea of Read-a-thon, joining your golden boy right away at the bookstagram account.
Harjeet Kaur says
I am a hoarder too.I hate to give away anything.Read a thon sounds good