The Poster Acknowledges its limitations...Maybe You Can Have Too Many Books in Your TBR Pile - Tor.com - Mary Templeton

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Maybe You Can Have Too Many Books in Your TBR Pile

Thu Aug 5, 2021 11:00am



To read piles taking over lives and houses is a real thing. But I'd have it no other way. 

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