So I think we can all agree that collecting books and reading books are different hobbies lol. I love to check out op/thrift shops for books, so I’ve collected heaps of physical books, but I’ve read less than half of them.

My bookshelf is sectioned and organised by author alphabetically. I’ve started turning each section backwards (spines to the back) and then reading them one at a time. If I DNF, it doesn’t go back on the shelf.

I did also get a Kobo, so that’s taken over, but I’m still slowly working through my physical TBRs. Feels like a little project.

How do you guys transition from collecting to reading?

Hello boundlings and sorry for the delay (June has been kicking my ass!). You know the drill… what’s a complaint (no matter how big, small, dramatic, serious, silly) that you need to shout to the void?! 🗣️

“The pot is swaddled in a crocheted yellow cozy, probably a project someone knitted once, back when knitting was something the Knit-Wits actually did at their weekly luncheons.”

PLEASE tell me I’m just misunderstanding this sentence because crochet and knitting are not the same thing 😭 I really hope I’m just misunderstanding because to call a group the Knit-Wits and then conflate knitting and crocheting is bonkers to me.

What’s your niche interest? And what book would you recommend for people to learn more about it?

I’m sure most people have one, so I’m curious!

(For the sake of clarity, I mean a specific sub-genre of a more general subject. Instead of ‘geography’ (too general), maybe something like coastal erosion or tectonic plates.)

For example, my current niche interest is radium and the use of it as a ‘cure all’ in the early twentieth century. I’ve read Radium Girls by Kate Moore and its grimly fascinating: how much money was tied up in making people believe in the wonders of radium, how many people suffered and died as a consequence of that misinformation, and how radium made its way into the most everyday of items like toothpaste and energy drinks! If you have any recommendations for more books on radium, I’d love to see them.