Top Ten Tuesday: Top Ten Blogging Confessions

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Top Ten Blogging Confessions

It took me a long time to love my library. It's not that I didn't love it, really; it's just that I usually insist upon owning most of my books. Once I began writing more seriously and had to perform market research, I began visiting more often. Now, I go in regularly--even if it's just with the kids to borrow books from the teens section.

I haven't read a lot of classics. This won't surprise many of you. I've talked about it before. I simply have so many more recent books I want to read that I don't make time for the classics. Most that I read in high school didn't do much for me, so I haven't delved into them much as an adult.

I purposely don't visit bookstores often. I know I should support the stores over Amazon, but I find I can better control my impulse spending if I don't enter a store. As soon as I start browsing the aisles, I know I'm buying something.

I love buying books for research purposes. Though I tend to borrow more books for research projects than purchase them, I'm not opposed to dishing out cash if I know I will use a resource more than once.

I usually like to read a series in order. It bugs me when I discover I've read a series out of order. If they are total stand alones with different characters, then it doesn't matter as much, but I still prefer to read a series in order.

I can't stop downloading Kindle freebies. I don't believe I've read more than a quarter of my Kindle books, but if I read a great synopsis on a freebie, I will download it.

I'm addicted to blogging. Even when I don't have time, I will stress myself out posting at one of my numerous blogs because I crave the creative outlet. 

I own so many books that my office floor is littered with them. I've run out of bookshelves, so I have books piled up on my office floor along one entire wall. The neat freak in me hates it, but I'm too cheap to invest in new shelves right now.

I rarely read popular books when they are popular. I'm not good at being a follower, so I don't tend to read popular books that everyone is raving about until a good deal of time has passed. That means Harry Potter, Twilight, The Maze Runner, and The Fault in Our Stars are still "to be read" books for me.

There are actually a couple of TV movies I prefer over the books. I thought the Anne of Avonlea movie, which is based on Anne of Avonlea and Anne of Windy Poplars by Lucy Maud Montgomery had a better overall plot and romantic storyline than the books. I also preferred The Thorn Birds movie to the novel, though it followed the book closely. The book dragged in spots. The movie captured all the pivotal points.