I love this idea that Bibliophile By The Sea is hosting and I think it will fit nicely into the other challenges I have signed up for 2010. Yes, you can combine challenges – meaning that if you are signed up for a Suspense Mystery Challenge for 2010 and 5 of those books are off your personal book shelves, those books can be used for both challenges. I have shelves full of books i have purchased and found at Library sales. Books that are wonderful, but sit waiting patiently on me. This will intentionally give me purpose to pull some of these treasures off the shelf throughout the year.
Here is the info:
So with 2010 just around the corner, we are encouraged to lesson the weight on our bookshelves, by reading books from our shelves, and then passing the books on to someone else: a friend, relative, the library, used book store, swap them, just as long as the book leaves our homes once it has been read.
My personal goal is going to be the minimum of 20. I will try to read the book and set it free if I can…. I really hang on to a lot of my books, especially the ones I love.
Does this sound like something you’d like to do as well? If so, head over to Bibliophile By The Sea and get the instructions to sign up from there! 🙂
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What a wonderful idea, Sheila! I’ll be sure to visit Diane at her blog for the full details of this challenge!
Good Peter! I hope to see your blog on the sign up! 🙂
This definitely sounds like something I would love to do. Although, my bookshelf isn’t especially full, but there are so many books waiting to be read, and I feel like I always seem to leave them for “later.” Whatever that means. Anyway, I’m heading over to check it out now!
Oh good Jennifer – I hope you join! 🙂
Nice blog.
Thank you Jackie!
So happy you decided to join in. Have fun reading and shelf cleaning 🙂
Thanks Diane! I will…. this will be so good for me to pull some of them down that I have been wanting to get to!
I’m signed up already…love this challenge as I have plenty of my own books that MUST be read!!!
Oh good Staci!
This will fit in great with the other challenges I’m doing and will be a great incentive to get through enough books so that there are no longer books in my dining room!
Exactly Lisa! Thats the spirit! 🙂
Letting go started for me about three or four years ago. Before then, I was the same way.
I am still working on that. 🙂 The letting go.
Sounds like a great idea, but I have a problem letting go of my babies…er, I mean, my books. *L*
Will have to think about this one, but would definitely help with my huge piles of books all over the house. And like you pointed out, we can combine it with other challenges. But to have them leave the house after being read might be painful…..hmmmmm. Will have to sleep on it!
Thats me too Alexia… they are hard to give up! 🙂