Weekend Blog Hops - 8 March 2019

It's the weekend once more. That means it's time for my book-blogger hopping.
 
Do you buy all your books? If yes, do you keep them all? If no, where do you source them?

This question is probably best answered by saying that all the ones I do buy, I buy to keep. These days, I won't purchase a book (especially in print) unless I expect to want to keep it. All those on my wish list at TBD are ones I'd want to keep, and family and friends generally buy for me from that list for birthday and Xmas.

However, I do also get a lot of books for free. I receive eBooks from NetGalley (and sometimes direct from publishers and authors) and, of course, those expire after the 60-day reading period. I do also get a handful of print ARCs. With those, I keep some, if I loved them and want them in my library for future rereads.




Opening sentence:
There were four of us--George, and William Samuel Harris, and myself, and Montmorency.

 





From page 56:
I don't know whether it is that I am built wrong, but I never did seem to hanker after tombstones myself.

 
My Current Read 

Three Men in a Boat
Jerome K. Jerome

There are four of them--George, William, the writer himself and that dog, Montmorency--all participants in a boating expedition on the Thames. The difficulties and vicissitudes heaped upon these innocents develop to epic proportions as they experience the hazards of the great English waterway. Their problems are in no way diminished by the outrageous behaviour of Montmorency, who lays waste several riverside communities in the course of their journey.