Every so many weeks I head to Barnes & Noble and allow myself some time to catch up on recent picture book releases. I can easily load two or three dozen books into my basket per visit (thank goodness they now have ones on wheels!), then I get a drink and/or snack in the B&N Cafe and park myself for a 1-3-hour reading fest ๐
For each session I would hand write a listโoften times on a napkinโof the books I read to later log on Goodreads. Then a friend (another B&N regular) suggested I snap pics with my phone. Duh! Of course! It never dawned on me to use my little phone in that way (I can actually see all of your jaws dropping ๐ฎ ). Now I do it ALL the time for all sorts of things, especially when shopping!
Anyway, today I finally caught up with logging books read from mid-2016 thru December 2017 (yes, that’s how behind I was and this collage only includes three of the hundreds from the library!). Yesterday I shared a little collage I made from pics of books “in the wild” I’d never gotten around to tweeting and people seemed to enjoy it, so today, going through all these cafe pics, I thought it would be fun to share them too. The difference is that this collage was HUGE! I couldn’t attach it to a tweet so here I am making a post for it. If you love picture books the way I do, I’m sure you will recognize many or most of these books and will catch yourself smiling as you work your way through.
You’ll see all picture books except for one novel and one “writing craft” book. There are three books (all by friends) posted here that weren’t taken by me at the store, one of which I have yet to read ๐ฎ , but I wanted to include them in this little “celebration” of picture books. ALL the others I’ve read, you can be sure!
Now, if you like a little “mystery/clue” challenge, be the first to guess which book I haven’t read, and you’ll win a “Writer Side UP” package (notebook, mouse pad and three bookmarks) ๐ If you actually look at the images and go by what I just stated, you actually can narrow it down to a few and make a guess ๐
To best view this, click on the image to open it in a separate window. I think it’s more comfortable to copy it and save or paste it into an app and enlarge or zoom the image to your liking. And since I wasn’t going to spend unnecessary hours cropping all these, you’ll see snacks, drinks, eyeglasses and whatever else that photo-bombed the pics ๐ In fact, to add a bit to the challenge, if you also properly guess how many images contain a coffee cup, I’ll throw in three extra bookmarks ๐ . Also, after the fact, I noticed I mistakenly pasted an image twice. Name the books in that duplicated image and yet another three bookmarks! hehehe
And this was the one I posted on Twitter:
I hope you’ve enjoyed this and take a shot at the little challenge. Here’s to yet another year of Happy Reading! ๐
Donna, Technology is a beautiful thing. No clue which book you haven’t read, but here’s to a great reading and writing year! xoxo
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Hey, Robin! ๐ I think like most, I have a love/hate relationship with technology, but whatever can make life easier–I’m all for it! Happy New Year, dear friend, and it WILL be filled with great reading–and writing! ๐
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What a great way to show your love of reading! So many wonderful books…so little time to read them all. Here’s to another book-full year of reading! xo
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Yep! It’s easier to keep up with picture books for the obvious reason of word count. My biggest frustration is the lack of time to read the many novels that surround me, waiting to be read! oxox
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That’s a lot of reading, very impressive, I always find that taking a photo of a book I am unsure about for researching later is always a handy way to save money and avoid bad buys. I’m interested to see what you will read this year.
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Hey, Ste J! ๐ How ARE ya? I hope all’s well with you. I’ll have to pop by your blog to see ๐ I’m not sure I’ll post all the books again in this way, but I’m figuring I’ll read about the same amount of picture books. Most are the new releases throughout the year ๐
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I am very well my friend, just got internet working in the last couple of days so happy to be back and visiting again. I will also do my best to supply my blog with many good books too!
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I’m sure you will ๐
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