Book Buys

I had a lovely wander into town today with no specific purpose in mind. I found myself checking out the bookshelves in a few charity shops, of which we are not short of in this area and came home with the four pictured above. Yes, it is true that there are approximately 400 books in boxes under my bed - all paperback fiction, others in cupboards downstairs, on shelves, however, I see no reason to stop adding to my TBR pile, book shopping has become a love of mine, it's innocent surely? Once home I added these to my Library Thing library - another love of mine, cataloging my books, anything that allows me to have piles of novels next to me, to handle them, check them out, read the blurb, admire the covers, decide which should be next to read........

I can't quite remember when my love for books began. 1984 by George Orwell was certainly a turning point for me at school, I had read very little until we were reading this in English - it totally captured my imagination - it wasn't until recently that I decided to acquire a copy for myself. I had a friend who devoured The Famous Five, I admired her for it, but still that didn't kick off my habit. I feel it has crept up on me in the last 10 years, gathering speed with each passing year. It was only last year that I began to use LT quite regularly and now I'm an addict.

My current read of New Moon by Stephenie Meyer has become a little hard going for me once again. I originally had trouble getting into it, thinking I had perhaps leapt in too soon after

Twilight. I left it after 100 or so pages, read another two novels and returned to it yesterday. I managed about 150 - 200 more pages whilst sitting in the sunshine yesterday. Of course I am no teenage girl, however, the werewolves theme seems a little unoriginal and even outrageous after the vampires, which, incidentally, I thought was brilliantly written. I've had to walk away from it again. I shall get stuck into My Year Without Shopping by Judith Levine tonight to clear my head and maybe another novel also. Anyone else had similar probs?

Booktalk aside - I made a few sets of beads yesterday which will be listed on eBay this evening. My listings have disappeared since I began supplying two bead shops, however, if I find myself with too much time on my hands between orders then I shall create and list once more for eBay. My beads and charms can be found here. I currently have a week off so am just relaxing, reading and pottering about. Let's hope the sunshine returns