Padraig couldn't wait to get into bed so he could chow down on his Maeve Binchy
Tis a truth oft acknowledged that we like nothing more at House and Home to pass the time than being on the receiving end of a nice press release full of made up statistics. Like this one from Lindemans wine, for example.
The boozey banter contained therein reveals that while the shelves of the nation might be more stacked than Jordan's bra, 70% of the books on 'em remain unread. That results, apparently, in a book 'waste' of 80 tomes per house. And what's worse is we're intending to do sweet shag all about it. Nope: 35% of us have no intention of reading any of them. Zip. Nada. None.
All those carefully-cultivated titles we placed there for show are going to gather dust, spines uncracked because 40% admit the books on their shelves are purely there for display purposes. In fact, our true reading habits are rather different to what we'd like visitors to our home to believe. Yep, we want our pals to think it's all Nabokov and Murakami but the truth is, it's far more Grisham and Clancy: 47% revealed they secretly prefer to indulge in light-hearted or trashy novels which they read under cover of darkness and never let out of the bedroom.
So, 'fess up, oh readers of Houseandhome.ie, in this, the safe space of internet anonymity. What do YOU have on your Ikea Billy that's been there for oh, over 12 months that you know you'll never open? And what inveterate rubbish have you lapped up with undisguised glee in the past 30 days? To the comments!
