ten step program
I have a problem. I read way too many books. Librarians cower when I enter, the barnes and noble employees see their sales go way up when they spot me about to come into the store. There's a used bookstore in Lancaster that is extremely annoyed when I come in the door with a list of titles.
This is not an addiction for the classics. I may get less attention if I annoyed people by trying not trying to find titles that are so obscure and irregular and certainly out of print. I'm a big scifi/fantasy reader, as well as an obscure mystery buff. I got started with David Eddings and Mercedes Lackey and have since graduated to Wen Spencer, Kelley Armstrong, Charlaine Harris and Andre Norton. I'm glad the Charlaine Harris "Teagarden" books are being republished it'll keep me from screaming after searching every used bookstore between here and the Delaware river.
My family tolerates my addiction with a slightly irritated nod toward the fact that I'm at least somewhat literate. Until Tom found out that he gets a 30% discount at Barnes and Noble.... Now he cringes everytime a book date comes out and I whinge about going to the bookstore. And if you know me well, I can whinge for hours on end, not letting anyone forget why I needed something or wa annoyed by something in the first place.
So Tomorrow I need to pack for the beach. And I need new books. Not many because I have very little cash, but books nonetheless. So tonight, I'll start making mentions of the two new books that came out this week and how we should definately go to the bookstore, right away.
The List progresses as the following
Dead over Heels - Charlaine Harris
Cry Wolf - Patricia Briggs
and to my shame for not yet owning it
Naked - David Sedaris
now more titles may come just because I have not yet looked at the titles on the actual shelves.
This is not an addiction for the classics. I may get less attention if I annoyed people by trying not trying to find titles that are so obscure and irregular and certainly out of print. I'm a big scifi/fantasy reader, as well as an obscure mystery buff. I got started with David Eddings and Mercedes Lackey and have since graduated to Wen Spencer, Kelley Armstrong, Charlaine Harris and Andre Norton. I'm glad the Charlaine Harris "Teagarden" books are being republished it'll keep me from screaming after searching every used bookstore between here and the Delaware river.
My family tolerates my addiction with a slightly irritated nod toward the fact that I'm at least somewhat literate. Until Tom found out that he gets a 30% discount at Barnes and Noble.... Now he cringes everytime a book date comes out and I whinge about going to the bookstore. And if you know me well, I can whinge for hours on end, not letting anyone forget why I needed something or wa annoyed by something in the first place.
So Tomorrow I need to pack for the beach. And I need new books. Not many because I have very little cash, but books nonetheless. So tonight, I'll start making mentions of the two new books that came out this week and how we should definately go to the bookstore, right away.
The List progresses as the following
Dead over Heels - Charlaine Harris
Cry Wolf - Patricia Briggs
and to my shame for not yet owning it
Naked - David Sedaris
now more titles may come just because I have not yet looked at the titles on the actual shelves.