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Compulsive much?
Feb. 27th, 2006 07:59 pmWe all know about the To-Read Pile of Doom, yes?
So what did I do on Thursday but have an accident in Waterstones. I blame my boss for alerting me to the fact that there's a new translation of the Gilgamesh epic out. Obviously I had to have that. While I was there and armed with the annual Waterstones post-Christmas coupons, I got myself a copy of The System of the World, which I have coveted since it came out in paperback[1] but have been plagued with cash flow problems. And The Historian was half price, so it would have been rude not to.
Today, I had to return some library books. The plan was to return them and not get any more.
Whoops.
I look at it this way. I have a tendency to be compulsive, but as long as I'm only indulging this tendency by acquiring more books than I can read and not messing up the budget, it's not hurting anyone so why worry.
[1] Personally I think I've shown great restraint in not running out and purchasing it as soon as it came out in hardback, given that the people I borrowed the first two volumes from have left the country.
So what did I do on Thursday but have an accident in Waterstones. I blame my boss for alerting me to the fact that there's a new translation of the Gilgamesh epic out. Obviously I had to have that. While I was there and armed with the annual Waterstones post-Christmas coupons, I got myself a copy of The System of the World, which I have coveted since it came out in paperback[1] but have been plagued with cash flow problems. And The Historian was half price, so it would have been rude not to.
Today, I had to return some library books. The plan was to return them and not get any more.
Whoops.
I look at it this way. I have a tendency to be compulsive, but as long as I'm only indulging this tendency by acquiring more books than I can read and not messing up the budget, it's not hurting anyone so why worry.
[1] Personally I think I've shown great restraint in not running out and purchasing it as soon as it came out in hardback, given that the people I borrowed the first two volumes from have left the country.
