I love books. I'm probably addicted to them. I won't loan them out for fear of them not coming home. If I loan them out it is really because I have said goodbye to them and have released them back into the wild. What ended the loaning out was seeing my favorite book that I had loaned to a friend sitting on the floor of her backseat covered in an ex-Happy Meal. True bibliophiles will know the horror of that moment :). (Ok, maybe not the Zen Bibliophiles, if there are such things, who have gotten past attachment, but the rest of us will get it.)
(Note: After reading Stephanie W.'s profile I feel the need to edit mine :). She is definitely a true bibliophile and I wish I could grow up to be as generous with books as she is. I am still a greedy little miser. I am getting a bit better though. I am releasing more books as I realize some I will never feel the need to read again, even if they are good books. There are just too many other books to read to repeat certain ones. One exception from my miserly ways is Handbook of a Reluctant Messiah which has often been treated with a more Stephanie-esque attitude and because I wanted to share it with people I bought many copies of it.)
Books were a wonderful escape when I was growing up. I was lucky to find a best friend who had similar interests and we would spend hours together, silently reading our separate books. There was no shortage of books in the house. They lived in every room, including the garage, except the kitchen and bathrooms. The collection was a bit shy on the children's books but full of everything else. To go from that to summers with a family that had nothing but a few Reader's Digest condensed books felt like I had been pulled out of the water and was gasping for air. Luckily some older cousins had some Mad magazines and so I found something to read besides the backs of cereal boxes.
My shelf has a large number of children's books, which I actually read as an adult while working in a teacher's supply store on slow nights. Maybe I was making up for lost time.
The books on my reading list are ones that I'm most currently in the middle of reading. There are other books scattered around the house with bookmarks in them. I have a very bad habit of having a large number of books going at once. Unless I become captured by a book that tends to happen. Literary ADD.
I tend to update my myspace page more often than other sites I'm on - www.myspace.com/morganna42.
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