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I was browsing through my old post a while ago and
was just marveling that I managed to keep up with this blog for quite a
number of years One of the purpose I started this blog was because I
wasn’t able to properly keep track of what
I have read. There were many instances when I have double titles in my
collections all because I forgot that I have that particular book
already and bought another one. While that still happens, it is
happening much, much infrequent. There were also instances
when I started a book only to realize that I have read it in previous
occasions. What that happened, I would end up being extremely annoyed
with myself for the time and sometimes resources wasted. This blog has
helped me in keeping track of all these especially
from the
INDEX page, I was able to see at a glance where I am at
particular with series.
Like my subtitle says, I also love to talk about
what I read except I can’t really talk to family and friends about it
as not everyone in the family nor my friends share the same hobby and I
can’t very well discuss a book each time I meet
up with friends who enjoy reading nor do I want to spoil it for others
with ‘spoilers alert’ which might happen in a discussion. Such, this
platform serves me extremely well too in this aspect as it allows me
express my opinions over the books that I read
without any prejudice.
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During one of the years, I did a lot of committed
posts which I committed to publishers who sent me ARC (Advance Reading Copy) of new titles, either physical book or e-book. I have stopped
taking part in such activities as I find that
it can be quite a tiring experience and I wasn’t able to really enjoy
reading title that I truly like and the whole process became quite a
chore and pretty pressuring after a while in trying to observe the
deadline in finishing a book and posting up the review.
I won’t mind picking it up again in the future if I have the time to do
so but for now, I am just grateful for that experience.
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Another extension of my love for reading would be
my flea market sales. I have been doing this a few times a year, time
permitting for the past couple of years. This year I think I took part
in about six flea markets which usually run
over the weekend. As I am sure you will agree with me, there are
books that you keep as collections and there are books that you are
quite happy to let go off after reading them. The opportunity to be
able to sell my books to other readers out there is
quite encouraging. Not only I can manage my collection more wisely,
the income from the sales contributes back to purchase of new titles
which otherwise, can be quite limited as books are not cheap!
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| A photo from two years ago |
It is also a lot of fun to
recommend titles to people I would meet during the flea market. There
are those who knows very well what they like and don’t like but there
are also some who are open to new titles and
authors and welcome recommendation which I enjoy doing. It is quite
joyful too when I met someone who like a particular author that I do too
or a particular series and we would have a quick animated chat over
it. I remember feeling worried that there might
not be many readers out there who would like this series and I have two
books from this series to let go off. Imagine my surprise when a lady
says she loves the No. 1 Ladies Detective Series (which I do too, which
you know!) and it was so easy to recommend
these two books to her as they are from the same author and thus she is
so open to trying them out.
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