Top Ten Tuesday #20: Ten Confessions

Top Ten Tuesday hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. Their blog can be found here.

July 8: Top Ten Blogging Confessions 

(More like Blogger and General Bookish Confessions...)

1. For a while now, I have been looking at all the Pretty Books on NetGalley. Afraid to request any of them because I figured I would be rejected. (I accept that I am new to blogging and just don't have the neccessary stats yet to get several approvals). But the main reason why I didn't request any was because I thought that the REJECTIONS hurt my SCORE. I saw that I should aim to have 80%. So I thought with every rejection my score would go down. Apparently that isn't what happens. So I have decided once I put a dent into my current TBR list, I am going to start requesting some titles from NetGalley. And I am super excited that I recently got approved to read Salt & Storm. 
2. I signed up for this shortly after creating my NetGalley account, and I am having so much trouble figuring out how to do things. Like I haven't figured out where to update my Blog/Follower Stats. So I haven't requested anything from this site yet. And I am not sure if I will venture to do so any time soon.
3. I feel like I am TERRIBLE at commenting. I LOVE to visit other blogs and I read so many of the posts, but I don't usually comment. Sometimes it is because I am not sure what all to say, and I am worried that just writi ng "I loved this post" is too generic. Sometimes it is because I read it then have to run to do something else and don't come back to comment. But I really want to try to comment more on other blogs. 
4. I have more BOOKS then I have been able to read, yet I still buy new books. I own so many books (I have no idea how many) and I have read probably less than half of them so far. But it hasn't kept me from buying more books. 
5. I absolutely LOVE the smell of books. Books have different smells and sometimes one of the first things I do when I pull books out of a box or out of the bag when I am home is to smell them.
6. I have several books that I own the physical copies of the books as well as the e-book versions. Mostly due to the fact that I buy them on my Kindle then if I buy the second book as a physical book, then I have to go back and get the first one, even if I already have it on my Kindle. I like having my series either as all physical books or all e-books. I don't like having some physical copies and some e-book copies mixed together when they are a series. (Yes, I know I am weird and picky.)
7. Having a mix of hardcover books and paperback books that are in the same series does not really bother me. There are times when I think "Yeah, it would probably look better if all of these were either hardback or paperback copies...oh well." But it doesn't irritate me. 
8. Sometimes I WISH I was okay with writing in my own books. I think the major thing stopping me is simply that the pen will bleed through to the other side. (And ink smearing) If it wasn't for me worrying about that, I would probably be okay with underlining favorite passages in books and making notes in the margins. (I absolutely love my author-annotated books that I have with all the little notes!) And I did this to textbooks that I bought in college without feeling bad about it at all. 
9. I'm still not really sure how to promote my blog very well. I participate in some memes and link up my reviews. I link to different social sites and comment on other blogs. Sometimes it feels like I am doing what I know to do, but then there are other times when I think to myself, "Is there something else I should be doing?"
10. I like to have a book or my Kindle with me pretty much any time I leave the house. You never know when you will have time to squeeze in some reading. (Especially if I am not the one driving.) Also, I probably read a lot when there are other things I "should" be doing. Like cleaning the house and sleeping.