I mean, I've liked a lot of books this year, but not in that "My precious...shiny. Want!" way that makes them hard to take back. I am glad half had "A Year On The Killing Streets" though cause I read it five times.

Mistaken Zygote Theory

amyparker, please to explain?

I lurve the library. It's where all of the scripts live. Much cheaper than ordering from Samuel French and Dramatist's.

I've been known to leave garbage bags of them on the sidewalk.

I trade mine in at used bookstores. Helps pay for my book addiction. Also, I donate the rest to libraries..hehe!

You ended up in the wrong family and it's nobody's fault.(Mistaken Zygote) I heart half.com.

Now I'm in love with Book Crossing.

The Crusie's got to go, but perhaps after I've read some more.

erika beat me to it.

Somebody tell me that if I put the porch swing up, I may not spend the rest of the afternoon reading gardening books and drinking lemonade? The party is Friday, and there's too much to do.

I'm sorry...apart from my mom, I'm a total MZ, is all. There's a whole chapter in "Women who Run With The Wolves" on it.

From the last 6 months, I have really liked the following:

Mystic River
Coraline
Middlesex
Fast Women
A Gracious Plenty
Girl with a Pearl Earring
A Cold Day for Murder

I have liked enough to keep them (or would if they were mine to keep):

Cold Mountain
You are not a a stranger here
Play with Fire

I have started a lending circle for my Crusie's and will do so with my Lippmans and Lehane's also. Everything else either gets sold on half.com or released ala bookcrossing.com.

I've never read it either. It just happened to be a book that wasn't available at my grade school.

That’s okay, because your aren’t a full,tenured English professor at a highly respected institution of higher learning.

When I like something, I don't want to give it back. And I form an irrational attachment to the actual physical book I read the first time. No, I don't want a shiny new one of my own, I want this on

me too. Plus, I can’t wrap my mind around spending money for something I’ve already read. It’s why I don’t own many DVDs. I don’t want to spend money on a movie I haven’t seen, I might hate it, and once I’ve seen it, why spend money on it. I guess I’m just cheap.

I had too many bad books from my book-of-the-month club phase, and not enough shelves.

I have a hard time throwing books away. If I really hate it, I might give it away, but that’s hard, because I don’t want to inflict a bad book on anyone else. For example, my mother gave me a copy of “the Rules”. I will never read it, yet I can’t bring myself to throw it away. In fact, it is turned around in my bookshelf because I am ashamed to own it, but still, I don’t throw it out. I need help.

Vortex, this is when you leave the book on a stoop somewhere. Someone will pick it up and read it, and it's out of your hands.