Chicks On Lit discussion

...you walk into the supermarket and the first aisle you check out is the books, followed closely by the wine and the chocolate!

you are my kind of wonderful person! Just change the wine to Diet Coke and we are kindred spirits. I still remember and celebrate my first library card when I was only 8 adn that was many, many years ago.
In addition to reading everything I can while I eat a Hershey bar and drink a diet coke I also write books. I have 2 published this year/ Southern Comfort and More Southern Comfort by Joyce Finch Brown. Started with a newsletter to family and it grew into books.
So enjoy your chocolate, your wine and a bood book! Life is short so enjoy it...Joyce

Oh my goodness, I do that, too! I thought I was the only one who actually did that. There's not very often anything I buy there, but I always look. I do the same thing with Target--first to the book area where I usually have to play eenie, meenie, miney, mo to decide which one to get!

You go on vacation at a seaside resort and spend way too much time in the used book store!

You pick buying books over shoes!

Tera wrote: "You pick buying books over shoes!"

I have super wide feet which makes buying shoes difficult at best. Buying books is so much easier--I never have any trouble finding the right size!

and even if you should gain weight...heaven forbide from water retention/ not chocolate/ the book will still fit on your night stand!

Jcwillis53 wrote: "and even if you should gain weight...heaven forbide from water retention/ not chocolate/ the book will still fit on your night stand!"

You have definitely not seen my nightstand! Nothing more will fit on mine--but there's always room under the bed, stacked next to the nightstand, on bookshelves...

in the back seat of my car, and everywhere else that might have a flat service! I am addicted/ plain and simple. I can remember reading the Mistress of Milynn by Daphne Dumaier ( surely that isn't spelled correctly???0 when I was 10 or 11. It was printed in small chapters in a women's magazine that my mother received each month. I think it was McCall's but can't say for sure...anyway...when the magazine came in the house I grabbed it and devoured every word!I think it took 6 months to get all of the book.
It is a very good thing that books don't add pounds or I'd be in SERIOUS trouble.

Wouldn't it be great if they could figure out a way for reading to burn calories?! Without making us read them while walking on the treadmill!

seriously...yes! I think using your eyes and brain should require an abundance of calories to be burned.
I think you will enjoy reading my books. We seem to be kindred spirits. Let me know what you think.
I do love your sense of humor.

Jcwillis53 wrote: "in the back seat of my car, and everywhere else that might have a flat service! I am addicted/ plain and simple. I can remember reading the Mistress of Milynn by Daphne Dumaier ( surely that isn't ..."

haha I have the same problem!! Im running out of room. In fact I "moved" down with my boyfriend for the rest of the summer....I packed one suitcase full of clothes, and 3 bags full of books!!! Its pathetic haha and Ive only been here and week and have bought 5 more books cause the book store here carries more books then the one where Im from....Im not sure how Im gonna get all this home or where Im gonna put it =-D

Me too, bookstores are the best. Especially small tourist town bookstores. The book/magazine isle is my favorite isle in the grocery store too, love to see what is new.

Lori wrote: "Jcwillis53 wrote: "in the back seat of my car, and everywhere else that might have a flat service! I am addicted/ plain and simple. I can remember reading the Mistress of Milynn by Daphne Dumaier (..."

I love that you took more books than clothes!

Hehe, me too. By the way, reading burns 10 more calories an hour than watching tv!!

Why hasn't my butt gotten smaller since I all but gave up tv in favor of books this year?!

Jcwillis53 wrote: "seriously...yes! I think using your eyes and brain should require an abundance of calories to be burned.
I think you will enjoy reading my books. We seem to be kindred spirits. Let me know what yo..."

I checked out the book on Amazon and Barnes and Noble and you get great reviews! It's going on my TBR list for sure! I love to have books on hand that will make me laugh--so many are so sad.

since I am a self promote author how the heck do you get libraries to even think about buying your book? I got one of the snippiest ( great word don't you think...snippy and it rhymes with...) anyway, from a library in Charlotte. They are allowed to purchase ONLY from approved vendors. No idea how to become one of those and she didn't give me any info on that part of it. Evidently Publish America are bad words with her library and heaven forbide they buy one directly from the author. Of course, they would be happy to take a donation of my book...whatever.
Years ago when Readers Digest Condensed books were available I had a subscription and would get my new books from them each month. Each book had 3 "mini" version books in it. I still have 50 or so of those books and libraries will not even take them as a donation! I mean...FREE...and they still don't want them. So I just keep them as old friends and take one off the shelf from time to time and read it again.
If I had to choose between buying a good meal and a good book...well, the book would win and I'd take it home and read it while I ate a peanut butter sandwich!

Jcwillis53 wrote: "since I am a self promote author how the heck do you get libraries to even think about buying your book? I got one of the snippiest ( great word don't you think...snippy and it rhymes with...) anyw..."
Totally--plus you can eat in your pajamas if you want. They frown on that in most good restaurants, oddly enough.

Not in the South...we just expect you to have your shoes on! I swear I have seen people wearing what looked like Pajama's to me out in public and not just here in the South, either....ha.

Well, that totally blows my image of the genteel South!

and we consider "flip flops" as shoes too.. sorry.

going to take my weary body and painted toes ( to be shown off in my flip flops) to bed now. Have a great Tuesday!

I have another one: when you blow your entire paycheck in a bookstore in one visit!

Oh, Joy--that's bad, very bad! Well...unless you got some really good books at very good deals...Then who needs to eat or pay bills?

I've got another one, too, when you can't sleep, instad of counting sheep, you count books (how many you've got out from the library, the ones you just bought, the ones you've lent out to people). I was doing this last night... :)

They don't have the reader's digest condenesed books anymore? NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

you can still buy the monthly little paper back but I'm talking about the big hardcover books that had 3 stories condensed in them.

It looks like Reader's Digest still makes the condensed books, but they call them Select Editions now and there are now 4 books in each.

http://www.rd.com/selecteditions/

thank you. It is good know that some things are still around even if they are under a new name.

Kelly Jo wrote: "When you're at that seaside resort, spending all your time in the used book store, and have to purchase more luggage to bring home your new books! "

Because how many t-shirts and shot glasses can you really use? Books--the souvenir you'll use.

When you go to all of your doctor's appointments early just so you can sit in the waiting room and read. Then, you get mad if you're called back early.

Katie wrote: "When you go to all of your doctor's appointments early just so you can sit in the waiting room and read. Then, you get mad if you're called back early."

Oh my lord--it's good to know I'm not the only one that appreciates the wait in the doctor's office for the excuse to read it gives me!

Katie wrote: "When you go to all of your doctor's appointments early just so you can sit in the waiting room and read. Then, you get mad if you're called back early."

Haha! So true, Katie!!!

or you have had enough of "people" and pull over at McDonald's for a Diet Coke and a 30 minute book reading time before you drive home??? Now you know my secret to the end of my work day.

You know the employees think you're adding a little somethin'-somethin' to your Diet Coke if you get it then just pull over and drink and read!

that's why I always try and get it in the large size which provides me with a styrofoam cup! At my age I honestly don't care what they think and it gives me the time to decompress before I pull in my driveway to see what my 80 year old mother and my husband have been up to while I was at work. he's presently unemployed and they "tell" on each other. Never dull at my house!!!!!!!!

Katie, Monica and Lisa: I feel the same way about waiting at the dr.'s office. In fact when I do get into the examination room, my GP always looks for my book first, and if he's read it, too, we have a book discussion before we begin! If he hasn't read it, he asks me if I think he should. He's the best!

oh... I wish that I still had mine! That first summer I read like I was possessed which became a pattern for me. Once upon a time I had a collection of Nancy Drew Mystery Books that I got for birthday and Christmas presents. For whatever insane reason my mother "gave them away" after I was grown and had my own home...and no she did not give them to me! A couple of years ago my husband started buying the books back for me/ not my exact books/ but books from that years printing. One of these days they will go to my granddaughter Savannah. She already loves to "read" and she is only 3.

this has nothing to do with what we have been discussing but I'm going to share it to give all of you a good laugh for the day. The other night Lorna and Savannah were getting ready to go to bed. They were putting the left-overs in the refrigerator and before they did Lorna decided to try the salad that they had which hadn't been served . Everyone had been too busy eating the bread and the pasta dish to even think about salad. A friend of the family had provided them with a ravioli dinner including the salad. Lorna took a bite and commented on how good the salad was with the "special" dressing on it. Savannah wanted a bite too. Then Lorna took another bite and so did Savannah. When Lorna decided to get "just one more bite" Savannah told her NO. "She was not going to stand there with a fork in her hand all night....it was time to put the salad in the icebox and go to bed." Now here is the funny part...Lorna is the mother and Savannah is the 3 year old! See why I have so many wonderful stories to put in my books.....

What a cute story! Love it! Thanks for the smile!

you can't leave home with a book in hand or bag

never just one....

I meant to say you never leave home without a book in your hand. I need to read my typing before I hit post. Why would a book addict leave home without a book, lol.

and since books are non-alcoholic, calorie free, drug free we are entitled to have all we want and whenever we want, correct? and at my age they say reading helps keep the mind young so there is a medicinal reason to read!

and if we put the books on the floor we can count calories and exercise when we bend over to get one!
One time when we moved I had so many books that the movers actually complained. Of course, I stupidly marked each box "books"....

You know you're an addicted bibliophile when...
You're having a party, the guests are lingering...and you wish they'd just leave already so you can get back to that great book you started earlier!
Yeah I know....bad hostess...

or you could quote a line from my daddy
"let's go to be now so these good people can go home!"

should have read this before I hit send...
"let's go to BED now so these good people can go home"

LMAO, Jcwillis53 and Suze, et al!

...When you don't have time to BREATHE - much less read the news (!) and you feel like you'll (literally and figuratively) 'die' to get back to ANY book.

Peace!