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Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature from The Book and The Bookish.
This week’s Top Ten: Confession from every bookaholic out there. 🙂 Here we go!
- 2nd half of last year, my average monthly spend on books is PhP5,000 (roughly US$100++).
- Books over Anything. Ask any of my officemates. There’s a bunch of times nows that I have no money left for transpo going home, save an MRT card (train prepaid card). So i borrow money from them so I can get home. Ha!
- I literally stalked our local bookstores to see whether they shelved 50 Shades of Grey under the Teen Section. I saw it. Twice. I posted on that local bookstore’s FB page to remove them. weeks later, they are re-shelved.
- This happened to me 3 times. I bought the 1st book on the series, brought it home, read it overnight, then bought the next book the next day. Again, i read it overnight, then bought the next installment. until I reach the last book. First time is with the Twilight Saga (yeah, don’t ask), then Percy Jackson series, then The Mortal Instruments series (books 1-3).
- I buy books then stash them in the office. Come Friday, i bring it home. When hubby asks, i always tell him i all bought the books on sale. 🙂
- I read Colliers Encyclopedia volumes 1-24 when i was young. I favored reading about the different countries and their capitals.
- I always, always finish a book no matter how worse it is.
- I used to not cover my hardbound books. Thanks to Tina, I now put a plastic cover to all of them.
- I love Erotica reads, though i haven’t read as much as i want (blame it on YA). Pleasure in words? So sexy!
- I rarely post something personal here in my blog. They say whatever you share in the net, it’s out there forever. Yeah, i’m paranoid like that.
reading is the ultimate aphrodisiac. 
I love that you got 50 Shades reshelved! Good job there!! 🙂 That really, really makes me happy actually. I haven’t read it personally, but I know just from what I hear about it that it’s certainly not a teen book! Especially if it’s shelved there, that implies good for younger teens too. No way!
Love your confessions! Thanks for sharing 🙂
exactly! i have nothing personal against the book, i just don’t want teens getting their hands on it. 🙂 thank you, Brittany!
How would ANYONE think 50 shades is a YA book? Man… Where I live that would cause picketing, uproars, etc. I also read series like that… the first time (yes, first time) I read Twilight I finished it about 11:00 at night and had to tell myself that no, I couldn’t go to the book store to buy New Moon! Glad I’m not the only one who does that! 🙂
oh, thank goodness you had the same experience! it even came to a point that i wait for the mall to open at 10am just so i can buy the next book ASAP. haha! Thank you, Candice 🙂
Great confessions! I read the Twilight saga back to back as well, and how surprising that you’ve seen 50 shades shelved with YA! I feel book buying shame too sometimes like your #5- it’s easier to hide when they’re e-books 🙂
I can totally relate to #7 too. I have to finish what I started.
Glad to see you joined TTT!
Hey Lucy! book buying shame.. now i know what it’s called! LOL i agree that ebooks are way easier to hide. Haha! i think i’m joining future TTT. 😀
Great confessions. I try to avoid telling my husband about the books I buy at all, a lot easier now that I have an e-reader.
oh yeah, so much easier with my Kindle! thanks Carol 🙂
I think I spend 2k each month over books… and that’s just online. Yay! I’m not alone. :))
At first glance of the cover of 50 Shades, I kind of thought it was a YA book too (like the girl from the book discussion we went to) and the fact that most of the YA blogs that I follow (yes, that includes you) are reading it, so I hold you responsible for the misconception! lol Just Kidding.
I did the same thing with Twilight too. Is it weird that I’m suddenly ashamed over gushing over it? I guess I really did outgrow that series. Hahaha!
Hey! that was last year. you, you still splurge on books until now! and oh man, me too – book shame on Twilight. Shhh. and 50 shades. shhh!
I totally agree with books over anything and everything. I’m constantly having to attempt to restrain myself from buying them instead of things that I supposedly need more. I want to spend all my money on getting the most awesome new, and old, reads available.
yeah! whether old or new books, as long as it’s on my TBR list, i buy it. my dad says i can’t eat my books. thank goodness for that! Else, i’ll be to gorged up to even go to work. LOL thanks Ash!
OMG! 5K a month??!! I spend 3k each month on books, especially if it’s sale, just like now, LOL!
i know *sniffs* i can’t imagine i have all that money last year! haha. thanks Jona!
Love your confessions. I actually don’t want to work out how much I spend on books! And I agree on the whole finishing books thing – I HAVE to finish!!
Laura 🙂 xx
it’s hard to tally my book spend but i distinctly remembered that from last year. Yay for finishing books, Laura! thanks 🙂
Hee I am so bad with covering my books (both paperback and hardbound) in plastic lately. Too lazy, I guess. 😀
i can’t read a book without a cover lately. so it’s a good thing you lent me Disreputable, huh? my plastic cover na pagbalik sayo! 🙂