Apparently other people have the same relationship with books that I have...
Excerpt from Patrick Rothfuss's blog:
"My life has always operated on a book-based economy.
When I was a kid, that’s where my allowance went, and things didn’t change much in high school, either.
In college, I was all kinds of poor. It wasn’t odd for me to go 6 months without buying clothes. I once wore the same pair of shoes for three years. I even cut my own hair a couple times to save money.
But I bet I never went a full two weeks without buying a book.
Through all of this, the only breaking mechanism on my book hoarding tendencies was money. I was poor as a kid, poor as a student, poor as a teacher….
And then I got published. Suddenly not only did I have money to spend and to lend, but every book I bought was tax deductible. Which was important because now I had enough money for the government to want some of it.
So I bought books. So many books. Crazy amounts of books. I bought books until I ran out of shelf space. Then I bought shelves until I ran out of space in my house. I’m thinking of buying a new house now, and you know what one of the biggest reasons is? I need more space for books. I’m not even kidding."
Other than the "published writer" bit of things, that's basically a summary of my life. Sigh. All the books, I love them so
"My life has always operated on a book-based economy.
When I was a kid, that’s where my allowance went, and things didn’t change much in high school, either.
In college, I was all kinds of poor. It wasn’t odd for me to go 6 months without buying clothes. I once wore the same pair of shoes for three years. I even cut my own hair a couple times to save money.
But I bet I never went a full two weeks without buying a book.
Through all of this, the only breaking mechanism on my book hoarding tendencies was money. I was poor as a kid, poor as a student, poor as a teacher….
And then I got published. Suddenly not only did I have money to spend and to lend, but every book I bought was tax deductible. Which was important because now I had enough money for the government to want some of it.
So I bought books. So many books. Crazy amounts of books. I bought books until I ran out of shelf space. Then I bought shelves until I ran out of space in my house. I’m thinking of buying a new house now, and you know what one of the biggest reasons is? I need more space for books. I’m not even kidding."
Other than the "published writer" bit of things, that's basically a summary of my life. Sigh. All the books, I love them so