Guys. Usually my library selection is a dumpster fire of poop... but today it was full of some really good books that I had no choice but to yoink not 1 but 2 books! And I have until September 15th to read them!

Now that my TBR for September is officially destroyed. Has your local library destroyed your TBR lately?

Hey everyone! I love all the different ways you can mark a book on PB. I am so used to Goodreads where it’s TBR pretty much. It got me thinking, how do you guys decide whether a book is TBR or interested?

I noticed when perusing through others libraries that some people have an even split and then some have all books pretty much in “interested” and only what their immediate TBR is as TBR!

I usually just have everything as TBR because I plan to read it someday but I started marking a few as interested just to test it out.

In case anyone hasn't heard, Dolly Parton passed away today, and because of this I wanted to make a post about the imagination library.

"dedicated to inspiring a love of reading by gifting books free of charge to children from birth to age five, through funding shared by Dolly Parton and local community partners in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Australia and Republic of Ireland."

Dolly Parton created the imagination library because she was inspired by "her father’s inability to read and write Dolly started her Imagination Library in 1995 for the children within her home county. Today, her program spans five countries and gifts millions of free books each month to children around the world."

Here's the website (Imagination library) In case anyone wants more information on it.

I am yet to have a 5 star read this year, which is very rare for me as it is usually one of the most common ratings i give books (i am an optimistic rater LOL)

so!! convince me to read a book you loved, sell me on it! i read pretty much anything and everything, and my TBR listed here is all books i own if you want to take a look, but i am very open to any and all recs.

Hi, hi, I'm really craving a romance that has an academic setting; it can be just about any genre, but I'm not a fan of dark romance, though. I also don’t want a closed door. 🙂‍↕️ Thank you guys in advance. 🥳

Who are the youtubers that you trust with your (book) LIVES. Anything they say about a book is gospel and their reviews are always on par? Or even do you have any recommendations for youtubers who talk about the plot of books…etc.

My answers to the above are cari can read, they are so entertaining and im relying HEAVILY on their ACOTAR forgot the plot series before the new books come out.

So, I decided at the start of this month for a few reasons to support getting my life together and really stepping away from the consumerism of it all, I will be undertaking a No Spend for the rest of this year and most of, if not all, of next year, to get my spending under control and also work on paying down my debt and start saving for a flat deposit.

I have always been a prolific library user from a physical book pov, and since being able to use Libby on my Kobo as well it's been a game changer once I found a library that used it here in the UK.

However, buying books has always been a HUGE weakness of mine (alongside borrowing them) over the last few years particularly. Given reading is my main big hobby, I really wanted to move my habit from ‘buying’ automatically to ‘borrowing’ automatically to really work on resetting the consuming urge, and, actually, maybe having to endure some delayed gratification shock horror if there was a wait list at the library for said book. I also have a huge number of books on my own TBR shelves that I should be reading from before adding to them!

As part of this, to hammer the point home to myself, I decided to keep a running list of all of the books I borrow from the library, and how much they would have cost me to buy new based on the Waterstones price (I am a UK girl), and also by fair comparison because I do use it a lot, on the Kobo store as not all of my purchases would have been physical (I have a 75/25 spilt).

Fair to say not even one month in and i’m already shocked! I’ve read 11 books from the library this month and saved £165 against the physical price and £89 on the EBooks!!!

Just wanted to mention it for anyone who is doing something similar and who might want a little bit of motivation to see how much money you are saving, whilst still being able to enjoy what you love :)