TGTBTU’s First Annual TBR Pile Beauty Contest!
Written by Gwen - September 5, 2008 at 2:35 pm
Welcome to...
TGTBTU'S FIRST (and probably last) ANNUAL
TBR PILE
BEAUTY CONTEST !!
Never let it be said that we ducks here at TGTBTU can't laugh at everyone else ourselves. By now, everyone has seen Sandy's TBR pile. Thinking of her pile, and my own, I started to wonder how many TBR piles are out there and what do they look like?
And since we nearly always have books and shit stuff to give away, I figured why not combine efforts and host a To Be Read Pile BEAUTY PAGEANT! Eh... Why not - at least it will keep Sybil off the streets for a while. You know that little hooker is just looking for an excuse to get back out there.
So, here's how it will work:
1. Take a photo of your TBR pile, box, shelf, room, mountain range, and send it to redwyne @ gmail . com (minus the spaces, of course), with "TBR Contest" in the header, please. Do this by 11pm Central next Wednesday, 10 September. We'll do the judging next week.
2. The ducks will pick the top three submissions and will post these on the site.
3. Then, the readers get to vote which pile is prettiest. The winner and two runners up all get wonderful prizes, of course (books, books, and more books). Exact prizes To Be Determined, of course - once we've all dug around and pulled out some primo stuff out of our respective piles.
4. We'll also award prizes for Honorable Mentions in categories like "Messiest," "Biggest Fangirl/boy" (nothing but La Nora in your pile?), "Biggest Paranormal Pile," "Made Us Laugh Hardest," "Most Creative Costume," "Most Congenial," etc.
I'll post again this weekend with the prizes. So get your cameras ready, put the tiara on the pile, maybe a boa or two, hey - even a bikini, and start snapping away! Some free shit stuff is only a click or two away!
Here's a few snaps to get some ideas going...
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I think this is Wendy The Super Librarian's TBR pile. Look, it's in alphabetical order by author then title!Is that a card catalog in the background? |
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After filling her storage room, Sandy has had to outsource her TBR. |
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I hear this very phallic TBR pile belongs to Limecello. I TOLD Sybil that girl would be trouble. |
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The high degree of Sci-Fi and Fantasy in this pile tells me it might be Shannon C's. |
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And rumor has it, dear friends, this is Sybil's guest bedroom. You can just make out Lawson coming up for air in the back left corner, I think. |
Have fun everyone!
so sad that could almost be my room....
::shame::
By the way, a TBR doesn't have to be huge. It can be only one or two books or a whole pile. Or just a full eReader of some kind.
We are an EQUAL OPPORTUNITY TBR PAGEANT!
I wish I had that shelving. Seriously.
It is a thing of beauty, isn't it, Wendy?
Wish I had the room and that shelving, too, Wendy. Miss my last condo, had a guest BR very similar to Sybil's, lol.
What's kinda sad is last time I was at Syb's, I think I did have to wade through some books to get from the front door to the kitchen. Not that big though, and she made me pack boxes to send to other people too.
The woman's a slave driver.
Oh my. Haha - I also think all y'all haven't corrupted me enough, because I saw the picture before reading the tag, and my first thought was that it was a bad representation of the bust of Nefertiti.
Oooooooooohhhhhh I want Wendy's TBR library...
Ha ha ha!
I looked at the first pic and thought "well clearly I'm the most beginner of amateurs compared to this TBR splendour". They I slowly got the feeling maybe you were having a bit of fun...
[...] As you know by now, we're hosting a TGTBTU TBR Pile Beauty Contest. [...]
Okay this contest and those pictures are some seriously scary sh*t.
All of the photos are not *really* of the purported TBR owners. I mean, I suppose it's possible for Sandy to be outsourcing her TBR to India...
Well, mine aren't pretty but I'll send them anyway. And I say them because I've got different stacks ~ 4 drawers in my linen closet and 1 large stack in my living room (which used to be 2, I got a little organized last weekend).