It’s The End Of BLOB As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)

The end of BLOB is upon us! On Monday we’ll be able to do whatever we want. I’m going to celebrate the end of BLOB with some purchases on Amazon (with gift cards) and at a semi-local Indie – Daniel and I are making a special trip down on Tuesday. After that, though, I think I’m going to have to be even stricter with review copies than I was this month, we are hoping to be out of our place by mid-March. Yes, we’ll still have to go back to get mail, but I don’t really want a bunch of books clogging up our tiny mailbox. I could have books sent to the office, but we are supposed to move buildings sometime around August, so I don’t really want people to get used to sending to this address either. What are your post-BLOB plans? Are you continuing on? Doing BLOB-light? Binging? Some mix of all of the above?

BLOB is wrapping up on Sunday and I m going in for my final cuts. Is there more to purged? It’s hard to imagine that there is. I had made a considerable amount sf space on my shelves but lots of pre-BLOB acquisitions are showing up to fill them in!

Will also be going through my hole inbox to see what damage can be done on that front. Surely it is too late to get a lot of the books that I was offered earlier this month- but I might be tempted to see in a few cases. February is a short month!

I just took a book from a swap site, Nine Lives, which Nicole has repeatedly recommended to me. In my defense, I was planning on ordering it from Amazon on March 1st. Of course, that isn’t much of a defense, because now I’ll just pick something else to buy, because I haz gift cards.

I’m also planning to go down to an Indie bookstore I now love the first day in March I’m off work and buy at least one book. They may also let me go through their ARC shelf…

I’m trading books with a fellow blogger. I’m spending her three and she’s sending me two. Do I count one as a give-away copy? Do I add points to my score or take any off? I was thinking since I stay with almost the same amount of books to just add the -2 pts for the last book while counting the first two as gifts. Any thoughts?

Blob is costing Dawn pairs of shoes but I’m realizing it’s costing me magazines. Since the beginning of BLOB, I’ve been buying magazines left and right. Oprah, Art Journaling, Poughshares, and more. The bad thing about it is that I DON’T read magazines! I might glance through them now and then, but I don’t usually buy them because I won’t read a whole magazine.

Today I went into Borders to buy a journal and came out with two journals and four magazine, blowing my budget. Thankfully I didn’t come out with any books though. The next time I see a magazine in a store, I’m going to run away!

Okay, so I entered a contest on an author’s blog for a galley of her new book back in January and didn’t win. Today she dm’d me on Twitter and told me that she has an extra copy, and to send her my address and she’ll send it out. Is that pre-BLOB acquisition, or a pitched review copy? I think it stems from me entering the contest, but wanted to get opinions

I finally broke down and entered two contests. One for Mockingbird and the other for that darn Louisa May Alcott book. I just couldn’t resist and I will gladly take the other 5 points if I get it. In other news I think that I am going to accept a couple of ARCs. I want Willow. Someone tell me that it wasn’t good!

One wonders why I even bothered trying this game…. I’m such a loser!!!! L L L L L

Even with no mail delivery yesterday I ended up getting 6 books! 4 came from FedEx in one package, then UPS brought me 4 separate packages, with one book each. Sorry, though, Nicole, they are all pre-BLOB acquisitions!

Trying to get Stealing Buddha’s Dinner for the THIRD time via PBS. Last two came from smoking homes. Why do I want this book so much? It got mixed reviews!