Shelfie Saturday

When I got back into reading during the Pandemic, I did not own a lot of books from my childhood (some, but not many). I slowly started building up a small library here at home. My house is small and I don’t have the space for a bookshelf anywhere. I ended up buying a narrow one to shove next to my nightstand in my bedroom. And I also bought a book cart with nowhere to really put that either (also shoved into a corner in my bedroom).

Then we all know that I stopped spending money on books in 2023. The only physical books that come in to my house are ones I am sent for free, find in a Little Free Library, or acquire with credit from the used bookstore from turning in books to them.

I moved my bookshelf and cart into the room we call the kids playroom two years ago when we needed room for the dog’s stuff in my bedroom. This is my shelving situation as of today…


There is no real organization with these books whatsoever! Many of these books are up for sale on PangoBooks (most of those are on the cart) and I have all the James Patterson books shoved together on the bottom two shelves.

I don’t know how else to deal with all these books, so this is what it’s gonna be until all the books I am selling on PangoBooks get sold.

My Entire Book Shelf (Virtual and Physical)

I want to make sure in 2026 I try to read books that I have in my possession as much as possible. I already decided to stop accepting ARCs because I just have too many books I’ve neglected. I don’t have a huge amount of physical books in my house, but I definitely have a ton of eBooks on my Kindle.
Note: I will ALWAYS use my library as my best source for getting to read books for free. That will never change!

If you’ve been around my blog long enough you know I love me an awesome spreadsheet. Randomly because I was not looking for anything book related I found a free spreadsheet through BookTube (thanks to Library Unbounded) and plan to input my entire owned books into said sheet (which I know will take me from now until the end of this year) so that when 2026 comes around I’ll be all set up and ready.

I do keep up with too many reading spreadsheets, but honestly, I love them all equally!