The saddest sauce of all
So I've been particularly hard to find these last two weeks because I went on a kindle bender. A kindle bender of epic proportion. So when I got this ebook reader, I wasn't really sure how to feel about it. I spend a lot of time changing the screen savers, and some time loading music, and playing with the extra bits and bobs included with it, and downloading free license books that are over 100 years old that I will most likely never get around to reading, and then I put it aside for a month or so.
Come mid January I got caught in an obsessive loop that caused me to tear the house apart looking for books that I know I own, but have not yet unpacked from their boxes due to a severe lack of proper bookshelf. I was to have a 7'x3' wooden bookshelf built so I didn't have to stand for this particleboard crap anymore, and it was to be marvelous. Unfortunately that was about 6 months ago and still no shelves. So, knowing that I'm a freak about my books and pack them ever so carefully and properly, unpacking the boxes to search for THAT ONE BOOK was ultimate hell. So I took the easy way out and purchased a copy of it on the kindle. Then some more. Then I bought in on the HUGO nominations, and promised myself that I'd go through all the sci fi/fantasy that was published last year so I can do a good job of nominating. On Jan 26th I told myself that I would go on hiatus and no longer do this anymore. At least until February came around.
This is what happened in February. That isn't actually all of it, it is merely what would fit in a single screenshot. I made a promise to myself that I would do my level best to not purchase ebooks over $4 bucks. Unless they were new releases that I had to own THIS INSTANT (note: there is virtually no bookstore in the town I now live in), and then I'd end up purchasing a paper copy if I indeed ended up loving it (highly likely) the next time I came to a bookstore that carried it. Please refer to above problems with lack of shelf storage.
So I looked about and found that certain books were having promotional sales! As in the first of these series were either $0.00 or $0.99. And I go, oh! What a wonderful deal! I can totally give this book a try if its that cheap. And then I needed all the rest, and some of the other books also on sale, and then I fell into a kindle bender. It BEGAN as a tasteful (as far as I go) kindle bender, but soon devolved as I ran out of my preferred genre for under <$4. Unfortunately smartbitchestrashybooks.com just so happens to have a cheap/free ebooks tag. And a long list of books. I bet you can see where this is going. And that is the story of how I ended up reading 22 books in the last 2 weeks. I'd estimate a bit under half of those are trashy romance. THEY WERE ALL $0.99!!!! AND SO EASY AND MINDLESS TO READ! I COULD NOT STOP MYSELF!
And now my kindle obsession has burnt itself out and I find myself staring mindlessly at the computer. I believe that Amazon may have broken me. I have no desire to do....anything. I feel very lost and adrift. People often ask my why I don't drink and besides my stock reason of being Asian and having no alcohol tolerance whatsoever, its likely that I fear that my obsessiveness may one day extend into booze. I have several drugs of choice, and I need to spend my money sparingly. If I actually spent money on alcohol, how would I save for shit like THIS?!?!? Which by the way, was totally worth it forever and ever.
I lick it every day.
Maybe I really am broken...
Come mid January I got caught in an obsessive loop that caused me to tear the house apart looking for books that I know I own, but have not yet unpacked from their boxes due to a severe lack of proper bookshelf. I was to have a 7'x3' wooden bookshelf built so I didn't have to stand for this particleboard crap anymore, and it was to be marvelous. Unfortunately that was about 6 months ago and still no shelves. So, knowing that I'm a freak about my books and pack them ever so carefully and properly, unpacking the boxes to search for THAT ONE BOOK was ultimate hell. So I took the easy way out and purchased a copy of it on the kindle. Then some more. Then I bought in on the HUGO nominations, and promised myself that I'd go through all the sci fi/fantasy that was published last year so I can do a good job of nominating. On Jan 26th I told myself that I would go on hiatus and no longer do this anymore. At least until February came around.
This is what happened in February. That isn't actually all of it, it is merely what would fit in a single screenshot. I made a promise to myself that I would do my level best to not purchase ebooks over $4 bucks. Unless they were new releases that I had to own THIS INSTANT (note: there is virtually no bookstore in the town I now live in), and then I'd end up purchasing a paper copy if I indeed ended up loving it (highly likely) the next time I came to a bookstore that carried it. Please refer to above problems with lack of shelf storage.
So I looked about and found that certain books were having promotional sales! As in the first of these series were either $0.00 or $0.99. And I go, oh! What a wonderful deal! I can totally give this book a try if its that cheap. And then I needed all the rest, and some of the other books also on sale, and then I fell into a kindle bender. It BEGAN as a tasteful (as far as I go) kindle bender, but soon devolved as I ran out of my preferred genre for under <$4. Unfortunately smartbitchestrashybooks.com just so happens to have a cheap/free ebooks tag. And a long list of books. I bet you can see where this is going. And that is the story of how I ended up reading 22 books in the last 2 weeks. I'd estimate a bit under half of those are trashy romance. THEY WERE ALL $0.99!!!! AND SO EASY AND MINDLESS TO READ! I COULD NOT STOP MYSELF!
And now my kindle obsession has burnt itself out and I find myself staring mindlessly at the computer. I believe that Amazon may have broken me. I have no desire to do....anything. I feel very lost and adrift. People often ask my why I don't drink and besides my stock reason of being Asian and having no alcohol tolerance whatsoever, its likely that I fear that my obsessiveness may one day extend into booze. I have several drugs of choice, and I need to spend my money sparingly. If I actually spent money on alcohol, how would I save for shit like THIS?!?!? Which by the way, was totally worth it forever and ever.
I lick it every day.
Maybe I really am broken...