Hello. My name is Lisa Bentley and I am a book addict.
Ok, so this isn’t new or groundbreaking reportage but I just wanted to share with you all the extent of this addiction.
I suppose the best way to describe my attitude toward books is gluttonous. I see books and I want them, not enough to fill m up and feel comfortably full. Oh no. That would be far too easy. I want them all. I am a slave to the “Buy with 1-Click” button; my first stop in any shop is the book section. I constantly have an inner turmoil happening, telling myself that I don’t need the book but damn it, I want it.
So I decided to look at my book purchases this month. It consisted of Kindle purchases, NetGalley downloads and the classic physical copy, both purchased and those I have borrowed from the library. Here goes:
Kindle Purchases
Empire Girls by Suzanne Hayes
Everyday Sexism by Laura Bates
Cigarettes and Alcohol by Phil Sloan
Bridal Bootcamp by Bella Bailey
Effortless With You by Lizzy Charles
The Distance Between Us by Kasie West
Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins
When Alice met Danny by TA Williiams
Love Always, Kate by D Nichole King
Lola and the Boy Next Door by Stephanie Perkins
Will Grayson, Will Grayson by John Green
The Language of Dying by Sarah Pinborough
Make it Count by Megan Erikson
Desperately Ever After by Laura Kenyon
Soy Sauce for Beginners by Kristen Chen
The Trouble with Knights in Shining Armour by Valerie Anne Baglietto
Ice Cream at Carrington’s by Alexandra Brown
The One Before the One by Katy Regan
Written in the Stars by Ali Harris
Fan by Danny Rhodes
Reasons not to Fall in Love by Kirsty Mosely
Structuring Your Novel by KM Weiland
500 Ways to Write Harder by Chuck Wendig
One Night in Italy by Lucy Diamond
Write Your Novel from the Middle by James Scott Bell
Writers block by Judith Flanders
Dash and Lily’s Book of Dares by David Levithan
Melo Hearts by Ella Marie
The Mysterious Bakery on Rue de Paris by Evie Gaughan
The Dating Experiment by Jennifer Eddlund
The Unfinished Symphony of You and Me by Lucy Robinson
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
Coffee Cigarettes and Crisis by Jana Misho
Legacy of Love by Louise Pakeman
Lotties Luck by Amanda Egan
Me Without You by Kellly Rimmer
Don’t Even Think About it by Sarah Mlynowski
Shotgun Lovesongs by Nikolas Butler
The Perfume Collector by Kathleen Tessaro
The Reluctant Celebrity by Laurie Ellingham
I Am Pilgrim by Terry Hayes
Stupid Girl by Cindy Miles
Butter by Erin Lange
Ghostwritten by Isabel Wolff
Amy and Matthew by Cammie McGovern
Styling Wellywood by Late O’Keefe
Half Bad by Sally Green
The Etymologican by Mark Forsyth
The Truth about the Harry Querbert Affair b Joel Dicker
The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August by Claire North
The Breakup Doctor by Phoebe Fox
L’Amour Actually by Melanie Jones
A Part of Me by Anouska Knight
Are You Happy Now by Richard Babcock
Paper Aeroplanes by Dawn O’Porter
Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
Kingdom Collection by Marie Hall
The Unpredictable Consequences of Love by Jill Mansell
Nerd Girl by Sue Lee
Since You’ve Been Gone by Anouska Knight
What’s A Girl to Do by Aimee Duffy
A French Girl in New York by Ana Adams
Life in a Rut, Love not Included by JD Hollyfield
There’s More to Life Than Cupcakes by Poppy Dolan
The Magpies by Mark Edwards
The High Street Bride’s Guide by Samantha Birch
Amanda’s Wedding by Jenny Colgan
Library Books
Tony Hogan Bought Me an Ice Cream Float Before He Stole My Ma by Kerry Hudson
In Between Days by Andrew Porter
Last Bus to Coffeeville
Note To Self by Alina Simone
Submarine by Joe Dunhome
Youth In Revolt by CD Payne
60 Postcards by Rachael Chadwick
I Slept With Joey Ramone by Mickey Leigh
A Working Theory of Love by Scott Hutchinson
Havisham by Ronald Frame
Stuff I’ve Been Reading by Nick Hornby
Ziggyology: A Brief History of Ziggy Stardust by Simon Goddard
NetGalley Downloads
The Final Testamony of Ralph Ignatious Phoenix by Paul Sussman
Only With You by Cecelia Gray
The Broken Heart Diet by Tom Formaro
My Salinger Year by Joanna Rakoff
Yours for Eternity by Damien Echols
One Two Three by Elodie Nowodazkij
Love Lies and Lemon Cake by Sue Watson
Facing the Music by Tim Thorogood
Apart At The Seams by Melissa Ford
A Gift to Remember by Melissa Hill
Flirty Dancing by Jenny McLachlan
Liberty Silk by Kate Beaufoy
How We Deal With Gravity by Ginger Scott
First Tango in Paris by Shelley Thrasher
Before You by Amber Hart
The Atlas of Us by Tracy Buchanan
Where Love Lies by Julie Cohen
Between the Lives by Jessica Shrivington
Your Beautiful Lies by Louise Douglas
It Had To Be You by Ellie Adams
These Days Are Ours by Melissa Himoff
Mademoiselle by Rhonda K Garlick
Chelsea Bird by Virginia Ironside
The Last Days of Rabbit Hayes by Anna McPartlin
Physical Books
Being Sloane Jacobs by Lauren Morrill
Pitch Perfect by Mickey Rapkin
The Never Ending Story by Michael Ende
Love and Other Perishable Items by Laura Buzo
All That Glitters by Pearl Lowe
Happily Ever After by Elizabeth Maxwell
Love Is A Mixtape by Rob Sheffield
Looking at the amount I feel a little bit sick. Holy crap. Anywho, my pledge to myself is to not buy any more until I have read the majority of the books on this list. The reasons for this are simple. It is costing me a fortune and also I am running out of space on my kindle.
If anyone can think of any aversion therapy that they think may help with my addiction please do get in contact.