Joely Sue Burkhart

Thursday Thirteen (TT#37)

You Know You Love Books When…
1. You need an addition on the house for your private library.

2. You have books stashed everywhere. In the closet, under the bed, in the car….

3. Because you can never leave home without a book! Or two.

4. You need an extra suitcase when you travel–just for books.

5. And you still buy another one (or three) at the airport.

6. You might have 3 or more books started at any one time.

7. When memes ask you to name your favorite book(s), you panic. How can you possibly narrow it down?

8. You’ve joined strangers’ conversations because you overheard a discussion about your favorite author’s series.

9. You named your kids after favorite characters in a book.

10. You won’t lend your prized books to certain people because you’re afraid you won’t ever get them back.

11.Or you’re afraid they’ll dog-ear your pages, crease the spine, leave Dorito fingerprints on the pages…

12. You always check the bookshelves at Wal-Mart, the grocery store, even the gas station (despite have a leaning Tower of Pisa TBR pile) just in case you find a new book you can’t live without.

13. The kids own just as many books (if not more) than you do, and the school LOVES your Scholastic Book Club orders!

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39 Responses to “Thursday Thirteen (TT#37)”

Suprina Says:
August 22nd, 2007 at 7:17 pm
Great T13!
We have a office/library. My husband does #3 all the time and it drives me nuts.
And #13 is my kids to a tee!
Jenny Says:
August 22nd, 2007 at 7:47 pm
#10 is so true for me. It’s almost sick. xD
Lori Says:
August 22nd, 2007 at 8:55 pm
I can relate and my BF is worse than I am:)
kat Says:
August 22nd, 2007 at 9:01 pm
I am all the things in your list except for #13 since I don’t have kids yet but I probably will when I have one

Don’t you just hate dog-ear pages and creased spines?

Happy TT!
Thomma Lyn Says:
August 22nd, 2007 at 9:05 pm
Ohhhh, yeah, I relate, I relate, I relate x 13 — well, x 12, anyway, because my cats don’t own any books.

Happy T13, and thanks for visiting mine!
Lara Says:
August 22nd, 2007 at 9:06 pm
This is me. This is my parents. This is why my basement looks like the Chicago Public Library! I’ve been told to “give them away” to get that Feng Shui look, to declutter, but I think I’d rather give up my left arm (since I use my right to write!). My favorites are the books my parents owned — old cookbooks, old western novels. Brings memories back to me in a second.

Great TT!!
Rae Says:
August 22nd, 2007 at 9:35 pm
I feel your pain. My warning was when my best friend Google’d me and the first hit was my Amazon review page
burntofferings Says:
August 22nd, 2007 at 9:37 pm
We have PLENTY of space here for books… I am not a big reader, but L is, and so far we have designated a small area to them!!

Great list, happy TT! Ours is up if you want to stop by and check it out…
Susan Helene Gottfried Says:
August 22nd, 2007 at 9:40 pm
OMG, why do I resemble so much of this list??? Holy smoke, I might qualify for them all. *pales*

THAT is scary.

Or not.
L-Squared Says:
August 22nd, 2007 at 9:50 pm
Most of your list could describe me - #6 and 7 definitely do. And I don’t have any kids yet, but if I ever do, I might be tempted to do #9 too.
Emma Wayne Porter Says:
August 22nd, 2007 at 9:53 pm
7. Guilty
8. Guilty
10. Guilty
11. Guilty
12. Guilty
13. Guilty

Happy tt
Travis Says:
August 22nd, 2007 at 9:57 pm
Yup times 13! I’ll have yet another author list up tomorrow. I’m almost finished with my lists though.
GutterBall Says:
August 22nd, 2007 at 10:06 pm
*studiously avoids looking at her book stashes*

…

…

*must close her eyes to do so*
Shannon Says:
August 22nd, 2007 at 10:23 pm
Yep, this list sounds about right… My hubby always laughs because I always have about 3 books going at once. Happy TT!
Ann Says:
August 22nd, 2007 at 10:33 pm
That was too funny, and too true. Actually my book buying binges began with the Scholastic book club orders in school. I still remember looking at the catalogs and finding just what I wanted.
colleen gleason Says:
August 22nd, 2007 at 10:54 pm
Ohhh…so true to all of the above.

Love your cover, too. Fabulous and intriguing!
Alyssa Goodnight Says:
August 22nd, 2007 at 11:16 pm
I LOVED Scholastic book orders as a kid, and I’m almost as excited about them now that my kids are getting them. Who can resist a deeply-discounted book??
Damozel Says:
August 23rd, 2007 at 12:33 am
Both my husband AND I fit those criteria, so you can imagine what our house looks like….I wish we COULD have a completely separate library; it’s what we need.

I’ve definitely had the book-filled suitcase + bag filled with books from the airport shop; I never go anywhere without coming home with half a dozen books I didn’t own when I left….sigh.
Nicholas Says:
August 23rd, 2007 at 1:18 am
3, 10 and 11 are so true in my case!
Isabel Joely Black Says:
August 23rd, 2007 at 2:16 am
This is so completely true. I have a “library” in my apartment now. I’m running out of space though, and the books are gathering in piles on the floor instead.
Tink Says:
August 23rd, 2007 at 6:01 am
That’s me… Book addict, and proud, haha!
Thanks for visiting my Maia pictures TT.
Susan B. Says:
August 23rd, 2007 at 6:53 am
Um, uh-oh. Yeah.
My daughter’s name is Briar Rose, chosen mostly because it’s pretty. Other character names were considered. A boy would have been Roark.

You know, you think you’re getting to know someone, you talk about how you don’t lend out books because sometimes they don’t come back, she seems like a trustworthy bibliophile…. Months later you’re back at Amazon, buying a new copy. Learn!

Great list!
Jess Says:
August 23rd, 2007 at 7:11 am
Sounds about right.
Wanda Says:
August 23rd, 2007 at 7:24 am
These are all true and I’d also add — you know you love books when your home begins to smell like a library or book store. You know that smell I mean? I love that smell!
Ann(ie) Says:
August 23rd, 2007 at 8:00 am
Those sound frighteningly familiar…
Cindy Lynn Says:
August 23rd, 2007 at 8:36 am
Oh, that’s SO, so, so true. I have books crammed into every room of my house, and I am still trying to figure out how to get more. :-/

I even have to have a binder that I carry with me to library book sales, to make sure I don’t buy what i already have.
Sparky Duck Says:
August 23rd, 2007 at 9:11 am
#7 made me laugh.

I am guilty of #10 and #11 and I scour wherever there are books, though I argue that its because u never know what is on sale.
tanabata Says:
August 23rd, 2007 at 9:13 am
Oh I can relate to so many of those!!
Nancy Says:
August 23rd, 2007 at 9:36 am
LOL! Oh yeah, I get this. I just want to say that being addicted to books is not a bad thing. It could be so much worse. LOL! I still can’t get my husband to dress up like my favorite male…..Somday.
Comedy Plus Says:
August 23rd, 2007 at 9:56 am
Oh my…I’m in trouble too. I panic if I finish one book and don’t have a couple more at my fingertips. Great TT and have a great day.
Gabriella Hewitt Says:
August 23rd, 2007 at 10:13 am
#10 is too true. Of course I had to find out the hard way. Interestingly enough both were hardcovers! I’m not friends with those people anymore. Cheap bastards.

Thank you for visiting my TT last week. This week I am thanking my fellow TTer’s. Come by and get your thanks!
May Says:
August 23rd, 2007 at 10:26 am
I refuse to acknowledge how many of them apply to me.
Joy Renee Says:
August 23rd, 2007 at 10:39 am
oh yeah. i plead guilty to most of these. when we moved to the Silicon Valley in 99 my Dad and brother and the others who volunteered to load the U-haul got grumpy about the fact it took them twice as long to load the books in as all the rest combined. all that survived of those books was a single backpack full–long story. my dad once sent me a clipping of a man who had to be rescued by the fire department after the books he had stacked like a brick wall around his bed collapsed on him. before our library system shut down, i often had over 80 books checked out at once. with bookmarks in every single NF. I could do my own TT on this theme.

btw Joystory is back at blogspot. long story. come read about it and 12 other things about my Wretched Wednesday if you dare tho i don’t know why you would want to thoroughly thrash your Thursday like that
J. Lynne Says:
August 23rd, 2007 at 11:55 am
Oh, yes, Scholastic Books LOVED me.
Nicole Says:
August 23rd, 2007 at 2:00 pm
Scholastic books loved me too. Though I’m not sure… I may have loved them, more. (Our love affair was so strong that my mom volunteered to help with the book fair at our school for several years running.)
Tempest Knight Says:
August 23rd, 2007 at 4:29 pm
*LOL* I sooo hear you on #1. I bought my 5-room house thinking about my books only.
Donica Covey Says:
August 23rd, 2007 at 4:47 pm
I’m guilty of 1, 7, 8, 9, 10, and 12. My son’s name came from a J.L. Book. The hero’s name was Colt Thunder. After I named my son there were Colt’s that cropped up everywhere. So much for unique, right?

Great TT
Huggles,
Donica
Xakara Says:
August 23rd, 2007 at 5:14 pm
I’m guilty of so many. There are books all over the apartment and I can’t walk into any place that sells books and not look. I’m physically incapable of not at least peaking.

But what your list brought most to mind was moving when I was ten to a townhouse that had a book-mobile (mobile library) stop right outside our door. I went every time it showed up and my mom and I *still* went to the closest branch of our public library and loaded down with paper grocery bags worth of books.

Those are some of my best memories. Thanx.

Glad I saw your list.

~X
Joely Says:
August 23rd, 2007 at 8:45 pm
It does my heart good to see so many bibliophiles!!!

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