Top Reasons Why My TBR List Never Ever Shrinks

Libraries!

recommendations and assistance from knowledgeable librarians and staff
eye-catching displays
everything's free (for accounts in good standing:-), including access to ebooks & audiobooks, streaming content...

[collage images from top to bottom, then left to right: 1. an assortment of LGBTQUIA+ non-fiction titles arranges on a 3-tiered round wooden display shelf 2. "Celebrate Pride" sign atop the same 3-tiered display from a different angle showing an assortment of fiction and non-fiction titles 3. cover art for The Dreadful Duke by Grace Burrowes 4. cover art for Not Bad for a Girl by Anastasia Ryan 5. cover art for The Woods All Black by Lee Mandelo]

Teasers

excerpts from the next installment in a series or from other authors at the end of books

[4 paperback books: Earls Trip by Jenny Holliday and You Should Be So Lucky by Cat Sebastian, both aranged with their spines up; For the Wolf & For the Throne - both by Hannah Whitten (and requested after reading an excerpt at the end of another awesome Kimberly Lemming book), with front cover art of women in profile wearing cloaks, facing up

Online Book Reviewers, My Own Book-Hoarding Tendencies, New Releases from Authors Whose Work Was Previously Reviewed by Me, Sentimental Favorites, Intriguing Non-fiction Topics

hooked by contagious enthusiasm
joyous privilege of proximity to lots of books
prior good reading experiences grant benefit of the doubt
guaranteed comfort reads
opportunities to expand the scope of understanding the world - past, present & future

[3 images clockwise: 1. a horizontal bookstack from top to bottom - For the Wolf, For the Throne, You Should Be So Lucky, Earls Trip 2. two horizontal bookstacks 3. The Swans of Harlem by Karen Valby, People in Glass Houses by Jayne Ann Krentz writing as Jayne Castle]

[cover art for Teacher by James Eric Riley]

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