Yes, I am going on a Book Buying Ban.
This is in no way affiliated with YALC, it's just a fun challenge to celebrate my blogoversary and bithday, build up my excitement, and help myself prepare.
Check back on Tuesday to see the top ten books I want to read before YALC.
Why?
Because I need to save some extra pennies and read the books I already have.
I hope that this will help me curb my spending on books that I might not even read for months to come. And I should definitely save money - extra pennies for YALC always come in useful.
When?
I'm starting on the 1st May and going for as long as I can! Hopefully I can keep it going all the way to YALC, but we'll see!
Sign ups before 1st July are eligible for the giveaway.
How Will I Cope?
I'm aiming to use the library more and tackle my already huge owned-TBR. And some of my disgustingly large NetGalley TBR.
Now that Steph at Dystopia Fantasy Reads works at my local branch some Saturday's I really have NO excuse not to nip around to see her. Which also means I can start doing library hauls again! I've been really neglecting my library recently for a few reasons, but mostly just plain old fatigue. A natter with my bestie is just the motivation I need to walk that mile-ish to the library.
Cheat Days
Yep, there will be cheat days. But only one per month.
The reason for this is that Waterstones Newcastle lets us meet up in their cafe and invade their basement on a monthly basis for the Northern Bloggers monthly meet/book club. And it would be wrong to take advantage of their kindness, excellent book knowledge, recommendations, and the warm dry bookish space to meet.
So yeah, once a month I can spend up to £15 on books in Waterstones.
Join In
Whether you want to save for YALC, your summer holidays, or you just want to tackle your TBR of already-owned books, come join me!
Just write a sign up post about why you're joining in and how you're going to cope, and leave a link to it in the comments. Don't have a blog? Use your twitter to record you goals, use the hashtag, and link your post in the comments.
Will you be joining in?