BWA (Book Whore Anonymous) Bulletin

[reviews_and_ramblings]

more than 3000 books on my LibraryThing!

So I think it's time for a bit of Stats:

554 Reviews

3.011 books of which:
- 2.038 in English
- 970 in Italian
- 3 in Spanish

Original Language:
- 2.731 English
- 266 Japanese
- 8 Italian
- 4 Spanish
- 2 French 

Format:
- 1.735 in print
- 1.316 in ebook

Genre:
- 796 M/M
- 1 F/F
- 2.214 F/M

Most Common Publishers:
- 540 Harlequin
- 204 Torquere Press
- 174 Loose Id
- 154 Bluemoon (Italian Publisher)
- 125 Euroclub (Italian Publisher)

Most Shared Books:
- Bridget Jones's Diary by Helen Fieldind (5.602)
- I Know This Much Is True by Wally Lamb (3.039)
- Can You Keep a Secret? by Sophie Kinsella (1.774)
- Bitten by Kelley Armstrong (1.289)
- Naked in Death by J.D. Robb (915)

Most Shared M/M Books:
- Menage by Emma Holly (113)
- All Through the Night by Suzanne Brockmann (102)
- Comfort and Joy by Jim Grimsley (87)
- The Back Passage by James Lear (62)
- Bareback by Chris Owen (38)

Most Old Books:
- A Pirate's Love by Johanna Lindsey (1978)
- Whirlwind Courtship by Jayne Ann Krentz (1980)
- Paradise Wild by Johanna Lindsey (1981)
- Glorious Angel by Johanna Lindsey (1982)
- Hidden Fires by Laura Jordan (1982)
- From This Beloved Hour by Willa Lambert (1982)

  
  
   

So... someone wants to share opinions (about my obsession) or libraries?

Comments

[snowmore.livejournal.com]

Elisa,
I would like to know how you find the time to read and share your thoughts. :)

Have you finished "Comfort & Joy"? If so, what did you think of it!

Keep up the great work!

[elisa-rolle.livejournal.com]

I start Comfort and Joy just today. Dan and Ford are headig toward Dan's hometown for Christmas. For now I like it but I have a book to finish before this one, so I think I will finish Grimsley book in a day or two. For sure you will know when cause I will write about it on my LJ.

Elisa

I bow to your ultimate BW-ness...

[zamaxfield.livejournal.com]

I am just a rank amateur comparatively speaking... Plus there's something vaguely sad about the fact that you belong to BWA while I belong to Book Sluts Anonymous, indicating, I fear, rather a lack of discernment and compensation on my part... Alas. Still... I stand in awe of how you keep track.

Love all your posts, and rely on them.

Abstractrx

Re: I bow to your ultimate BW-ness...

[elisa-rolle.livejournal.com]

In a way Book Slut sound more funny than Book Whore... sluts doing for pleasure, whores for money? but I didn't gain nothing on my obsession, if not books... well, yes, I'm more a whore than a slut...

Regarding the tracking process, I think it's more a nut thing than a virtue, but then, I have a very straight mind (only the mind!!!)

Elisa

[louisaclark.livejournal.com]

Good lord, this looks serious! Have you considered getting help for your condition. *grins* When I grow up I want to be just like Elisa.

Keep up the good work gal, and keep those pages turning!

LouisaClark

[elisa-rolle.livejournal.com]

> Have you considered getting help for your condition. *grins*

many times yes, I really think to be a bit nut, but I also think that I'm not dangerous for anyone, so... I prefer to spend my money in books than in therapy!

Elisa

[markprobst.livejournal.com]

Astounding collection! I'm just curios about one thing, though. What do you mean by "most old books"? Surely you are not saying that in your huge collection, none of the books were published befor 1978? That would mean you do not own any classic literature!

[elisa-rolle.livejournal.com]

Ops, I should add a title to the Library: it's my "romance" library, I have only catalogue my romance books. Oh I have many other books, more or less I have 4000 books in print, but never have the time, or patience, to classify them. I think my most old book was a late eighteen century novel of a totally unknown author: think, I found it in a garbage... and when I said late eighteen, it's not a recent reprint, it's a real late eighteen book.

P.S. I remember that I have also two bibles, one of the sixteen century and one of the seventeen century (one of the first bible in vulgary and not in latin).

Elisa

[cicirossi.livejournal.com]

Oh, Johanna Lindsey. How many of started on her all those years ago. I love her

[elisa-rolle.livejournal.com]

My first was Kathleen E. Woodiwiss and soon after Johanna Lindsey. And I'm really fascinated by the mystery around Mrs Lindsey: she doesn't have an official website or any other way to contact her... And I read she is the most sold in romance genre, more then 90 million of books.

Elisa