I just reviewed COLUMBINE on my blog – thought you might be interested in reading the review. If you haven’t gotten it from Hachette, I’d still love to swap books with you. Considering your profession, I’m sure you’ll find the book really fascinating. It’s disturbing, but so interesting from a psychological stand point. Anyway, LMK.

Stormfilled, Ah, a girl after my heart. Nevermind less books, we need a bigger house! My thoughts exactly :p

Lena, I’m glad to hear that coming from you, a person who works in publishing I couldn’t agree with you more. A cover says so much about a book and about the publisher really. It’s ashame that they took that route…

Nymeth, Now I can’t stop thinking about the little bookmooch aliens crying But like I said..I plan on staying on there as well! I really do love Bookmooch. There’s just so many more books available at PBS! I’m shocked really! And of course you can steal the Cover Fail image

Court, You know, I feel the same way…they really should expand and make it a worldwide site. The system over there is actually really good!

Debi, You put my thoughts into words exactly when it comes to keeping books based on their “sophistication” level :p It just feels good for some reason to have those on the “already read” shelf, lol. But I had to finally admit to myself that they deserve better homes….I’m also a sucker for keeping books just for the covers. If a book has a good cover, it’s won my heart for life! You really should join Bookmooch!! It’s not confusing at all! I promise. And it seems to have a better sense of community than PBS as well. I love it!

Memory, I second that. I wish that PBS was international too. It’s really a great site and it’s sad that others don’t have access to it!

Sharry, Well said! I’m just like you when it comes to covers…if it has a really cool cover, then it pretty much has a permanent place on my shelf unless for some reason the book is REALLY bad! And I love seeing full shelves

Bookfool, Me too! Though I seem to already be forgetting what the purpose of my joining these sites was originally…to get RID of books! I just end up using the points to bring substitutes in :p I can’t believe you want to get rid of The Dead and the Gone!!! I loved that book! But I’ll forgive you for that one :p The cover is gorgeous on it, isn’t it?

Staci, It’s already bringing me PLENTY of happiness Thanks!

As for the Liar fiasco…I second everything you said and then some!

Yes, I used to hoard books I didn’t even like all that much — and I do have at least one I keep thinking I ought to get rid of, but I love the cover so much . . . it’s The Dead and The Gone. I’m not as bad as I used to be. Now, I usually just keep books that I honestly believe I’ll reread, someday. Although, confidentially, there’s a little part of me that keeps screaming, “NO YOU WON’T!!!” About the rereading.

I hadn’t heard of Liar, but man . . . what a crock! I can see why you used the word “outrage”. That’s just wrong.

The cover fail thing has got me pretty mad too. I hate it when publishers portray characters as white when they’re actually people of colour, and it doesn’t sound like Bloomsbury is handling the situation very well at all.

LOL…I so understand that hoarding thing. It’s like I somehow want to remind myself that I have read books that others might consider “sophisticated” even if I didn’t really like them all that much. I’m trying hard to rid myself of that though…as I really don’t care how well-read/not well-read anyone else considers me to be. And I sure as hell need to space on my shelves to hold the books I really do love. But you know that kind of surprises me about paperbackswap having books you couldn’t get on bookmooch. I’d always been under the impression that bookmooch had a much better selection. I’ve never joined bookmooch though, because it seems so confusing. (I’m sure it’s probably not if I looked into it more thoroughly.) I don’t like that paperbackswap isn’t international. Anyway, now I’m off to see what you’ve got listed at paperbackswap.