Adventures in Time & Space (My Bookish Problems)


My top ten book-related problems, in no particular order:
  1. Time: I will never have enough time to read all of these books.
  2. Time: I will never finish my stack of to-be-released books before they all publish.
  3. Time: I will never read all the books on my shelf.
  4. Time: I will never get to all of the classics on my list.
  5. Time: I will never stop acquiring books and expanding the TBR list, which means I will never not have a TBR list.
  6. Time: I will never read all of the backlist of my favorite authors.
  7. Time: I will never discover all of the new authors I wish I had time to discover.
  8. Time: I will never read all of the impossibly long novels I want to read.
  9. Time: I will never have read 100% of the must-read lists of the world.
  10. Space: I will also never have enough space to store all these books.
I love each and every one of these facts with so much of my readerly heart, because combined, they mean I will never stop learning, exploring, and expanding--and I will never know how it feels not to have something to read next.

What are the bookish problems in your reading lives? 



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11 comments

  1. CatherineFebruary 17, 2015 at 3:28 PM

    The insane amount of books being released the first 10 days of March. I have 11 on the shelf and based on what I'm hearing A LITTLE LIFE will take me almost a week to read and a month to recover. Kind of blows scheduling all to pieces.

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  2. Kerry MFebruary 17, 2015 at 3:48 PM

    YES! So many good books in March--and I had the same (good!) problem in February. I've pretty much given up on deadlines for anything but my Shelf reviews, since I don't really have a choice on those deadlines, and am just reading what I feel like. It feels good, too.

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  3. Sandy @ Somewhere Only We KnowFebruary 17, 2015 at 7:49 PM

    I absolutely love your list! And what you said at the end! :) I completely agree 100%! Time is my biggest issue too.

    TTT
    Sandy @ Somewhere Only We Know

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  4. Sarah (Sarah's Book Shelves)February 18, 2015 at 8:43 AM

    I'm picking that one up soon :) I'm a little worried b/c my expectations are so high!

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  5. Sarah (Sarah's Book Shelves)February 18, 2015 at 8:44 AM

    Haha! I love how 9 of 10 of your items are time...so true! That's really all it boils down to, right? It's the only thing that has a fixed pie size. I'm especially lamenting the backlist issue right now too...there are so many I want to read and I feel like I'll never get to them!

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  6. Kerry MFebruary 18, 2015 at 10:45 AM

    That's what I'm starting to think... everyone loves it so much! I'm trying to stay away from the reviews so I can go in relatively blind, but it's hard. It seems to be everywhere.

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  7. Kerry MFebruary 18, 2015 at 10:45 AM

    It's so hard! So many books, so little time!

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  8. Kerry MFebruary 18, 2015 at 10:45 AM

    I know. My husband is building bookshelves for me (we just moved) and most of my books have been in storage for almost 2 years... I'm sure as I unpack I will feel completely overwhelmed by all the books I haven't read and feel like I'll never get to.

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  9. mariahelenaFebruary 18, 2015 at 1:37 PM

    Time and space is really the center of all our bookish problems.

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  10. Shannon @ River City ReadingFebruary 18, 2015 at 8:24 PM

    This is so great...and totally summarizes so many of the problems we all have just perfectly. AND you managed to turn them into a positive.

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  11. AndiFebruary 19, 2015 at 2:54 PM

    Well done! And a resounding YES to all of these.

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