Don’t panic, but I’m a Book Whore….
Confession Time. I love books. I love books to a fault. Basically, I have accepted that I am, officially, a book whore. Although I like to think I am a discerning book whore. I don’t just take any book that comes along, waving at me from the shelf…whispering in a low, seductive voice, “Psst, hey, Beautiful, come here. You know you want me. Look at my gorgeous, full-color, glossy cover. Go ahead, pick me up, run your hands over me, feeeel that fresh spine…crack me open, smeeellll meeee.”
Okay, that may be a bit much, but it’s almost that bad. Any other book lover out there knows from where I speak! In my case, the book doesn’t even have to be fresh and new, just hardback, with the jacket intact. See, I’m not so easy, I do have rules.
Hi, my name is Jeane and I’m a Bookaholic!
I guess it might be nicer if I said I had an addiction rather than calling myself a whore, but I’m not sure about that. It might prove truer, tho. After all, I will take my last two dollars, skip dinner, and hit the sale basement of the local library just to fill a paper bag as full as possible with every hardback I can find. (My record – 31 hardbacks in one bag! Impossible to pick up. I had to borrow their wheelie thing to take it to my car!) It simply doesn’t matter that I don’t have room in my house now for all the books I already own, it’s a matter of addiction.
However, I am happy to say that there are rules to my addiction/whoreism. I don’t fool around with a book wearing no jacket, or those easy, fly-by-night paperbacks that have been handled by who knows who or how much, or magazines, cookbooks, self-helps, autobiographies, or mini-books. Also, I limit myself to only about 16 specific authors. And I can truthfully say I’ve read, or will read, every single one! Still……I have 💯s of books! Someday, when I get my library/house built, I will get a true count.
I am happy to report that I also know exactly where this addiction comes from…THANKS, MOM! She has gleefully passed this gene on to a number of her children, so fear not, local-library-bargain-basements, we got you covered for a long time to come.
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