Books...

I'm not sure if I've spoken of my book obsession, but I think between the Shelfari, Library Thing and Amazon Wish List widgets you get the picture.

I get cravings for book stores. It's the smell of books that hits me when I walk through the door. It is almost, but not quite, as good as the smell of chocolate. And, luckily in our day and age chocolate and books are never too far apart when one ventures to the local book store.

I'm very careful about the books I choose to buy. They have to be educational, classic re-reads, or really, really pretty. See, I have strict rules to keep my budget in check.

And I use the library a lot. I feel it is my duty to support local libraries by racking up huge fines. It's my way of donating. Of course, I don't think I get the same tax break as a one time donation would get. I'll have to look into that.

There is a problem with all this. I don't always finish a book. I used to be really stict and finish everything I picked up. But then I developed this bizarre short attention span thing. Call it middle age, call it the Internet plague, call it I-keep-getting-interupted but in the last ten years lately I haven't been able to finish a book. Okay, I exagerate. I finish books here and there. I finished that Marlon Brando bio. And that Julie Andrews book  (she was very cheerful).. ..and I finished the latest Vanity Fair. I think that should count as a book, don't you? And hello? Why are there SO many books published at such a constant rate? I can't keep up! What is a girl to do? Peruse of course. And once in awhile, during a hot bath I'll finish a book.

So gandering at our Shelfari widget you can see what we're reading right now. Ms. D is into these Young Royals books. Story's of well....YOUNG ROYALS. It's not the classics. But not quite your Charlotte Mason twaddle...but SHE IS READING!! She highly recommends them. A very awesome book that I sorta finished was Robin Wilson's Lewis Carroll in Numberland: His Fantastical, Mathmatical, Logical Life. Who knew? Well, if you finished Alice in Wonderland you might. And since Ms. D is also getting interested in American Literature, I figured I better do some brushing up of my own. So I checked out:Old World, New World: Great Britain and America from the Beginning by Kathleen Burk and Habits of Empire: The History of American Expansion by Walter Nugent. The former was 848 pages, the later 416. Which one do you suppose I finished? If you answered "Neither" you'd be correct!! But perusing them, I'd reccommend them.

I wanna be her.