Books!!
May I present …
my backlog…
a book stash to rival the yarn stash and the fabric stash.
I had made a little headway with the situation, but of course everybody knows how much I love to read and so I was inundated with oodles of lovely books for Christmas and my birthday.
I’m not going to buy any more.
For a very long time. Make that a very, very long time!
I’m going to be particularly wary of Amazon, which I now see is a very dangerous place to go, especially late at night, when I am clearly a very weak creature!
Yet another excess that I need to get under control. I’m rather looking forward to it actually – there are some really interesting nuggets among this little lot!
I’ve already read two very good books since New Year: Inheritance by Christopher Paolini (the last part of the Eragon saga) – which was a huge tome, but I loved it and couldn’t put it down, and Siege by Helen Dunmore, an excellent novel about the siege of Leningrad in the Second World War.
There’s plenty more where they came from, but I think I need to be snowed in for …oooh…five years!
Helen
January 12th, 2012 at 9:54 pm
I understand… I have 3 vices…. fabric, yarn, and books. The teacher in me wants to collect books, even though I usually do not read them a second time. And then there are the KNITTING books, and the QUILTING books, besides the fun-to-read books… my shelves overflow!
Hope your knee is feeling better!
KAT
January 12th, 2012 at 9:58 pm
Hi Helen, I love to have a back log of books – I enjoy quilting, embroidery, cooking and knitting but give me a book (especially a huge tome as I am a fast reader) and I am in heaven and defy anyone who wants a meal. I’ve never heard of the Eragon saga so will have to check that out when I next to to the library – our book shelves are groaning and I try not to buy any fiction.
We appear to be well on our way to being snowed in so I’m glad I did the week end shopping this morning and can now enjoy being housebound without any worries. I might even finish up my charity quilt which will give me a good chance to practice my machine quilting.