A reminder that the 2017 Discussion Challenge is hosted by Feed Your Fiction Addiction and It Starts at Midnight.
The title of this discussion posts comes from a Depeche Mode song, Just Can't Get Enough. If you're not familiar with it, enjoy the video:
I'm guessing that a lot of you are pretty much similar to me, self-proclaimed book addicts. I have a TBR list on Goodreads that has almost 3,000 titles on it. I have another TBR shelf on goodreads that is made up of the books I physically own or have free e-book copies of that is almost 1000 titles long. Yet, whenever I hear about new books coming out by my favorite authors, or even debut authors that sound just like books I already love, I seem to HAVE to have them. I have a physical book shelf at home, a five shelf tall bookshelf, packed full of books. I now have three shelves on a smaller bookshelf in my bedroom packed full of books as well. I will never get through all of these books. And yet, I want more. I can't seem to get enough!
While I've discovered in the past year the awesome $1 finds at the Dollar Tree stores, that keep me stopping into them every couple of weeks, all of the ones around where I live, I have realized it is a bit of an addiction just that. I tell myself that since so many of the books I get are ones that I donate to the high school library where I work, it is okay.
I used to enter every single giveaway I could. But then I started winning. I quit doing that on Goodreads unless I knew I was going to read it. But I still like to enter giveaways on blogs. Often it will be for a book that I want to read, but also know my students will want to read, and even though I know I might not be able to get to it right away, I go ahead and enter, and then I can put it in my school library for my students to enjoy, and when I get time, it will be there ready for me. And whenever I win, this is me below!
But I wonder sometimes if maybe a blogger as well-established as I am, one who holds their own giveaways, should stop entering other blogs' giveaways?
What do you think? Do you still enter giveaways for books? Do you think there is a time when people should stop entering and just accept what they have, or just buy instead of hoping to win a book?
