Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme created by The Broke and the Bookish
and hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl.
It’s all about bookish lists!
Share your lists and remember to stop by That Artsy Reader Girl to add your link
and The Broke and the Bookish to see where it all began.
Top Ten Books That I Refuse to Let Anyone Borrow
(submitted by Savannah Grace @ Scattered Scribblings)
Here’s my lending books horror story.
Once I lent my absolute favourite out of print books to a guy I was kind of dating. BIG MISTAKE. He moved away and I never got them back. I had mistakenly, excitedly, given him the cool cover version, too.
To top it all off, the books he lent me in return were… shall we say… NOT GOOD. I read all the way almost to the end then DNF’d in the last 20 pages or so. This was only the first book in the trilogy. I didn’t even crack the second and third.
I don’t lend my books to anyone anymore.
Besides, all of my books on display are ones I haven’t read. The ones I HAVE read are packed away in storage crates at the back of my garage. So if anyone asks to borrow anything they can see, I have to have this awkward, “Um… I haven’t read it yet, so no. SORRY!”
And if anyone asks to borrow anything they can’t see, I have to have this awkward, “Um… I think it’s packed away in storage…” thing.
So basically, don’t ask to borrow my books. The answer will be no.
Share this:
About Nemo
A lover of kittens and all things sparkly, Nemo has a degree in English Literature and specialises in reviewing contemporary, paranormal, mystery/thriller, historical, sci-fi and fantasy Young Adult fiction. She is especially drawn to novels about princesses, strong female friendships, magical powers, and assassins.
