Knowing one's Weaknesses

[muninnhuginn]

Embarking on year three of buying no books for myself* I find I'm considering falling off the wagon.

I lapsed once last year**. I was killing time in Forbidden Planet when I found a couple of Allen Steeles I hadn't read. And now a Porcupine is trying to tempt the Ravens with another Steele I've missed.***

It's good to have identified my literary Achilles heel.

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* No income = no book-buying. The failure of buy one book for every two read policy to reduce the unread pile = no book-buying. The growth of the bedside to be read pile to the point where M built a new bookcase for it and I've still got books piled on the floor = no book-buying. The continuing growth of the to-be-read pile without my actually going shopping....
** That was February-ish too. Coincidence? You bet.
*** There's a fable in there somewhere. With a moral. Possibly about not buying books.

Comments

[the-marquis.livejournal.com]

Doesn't "The continuing growth of the to-be-read pile without my actually going shopping.... " make all the self-denial a bit moot?

[muninnhuginn]

Maybe, maybe not. I've plenty of books I'll enjoy eventually (and several thousand to choose from if I want to reread old favourites), time and energy permitting. And I'm saving several hundred quid a year that I can't justify spending.

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Nothing to do with books, but have you seen this?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_9390000/9390840.stm

[muninnhuginn]

I'd missed that. Fascinating, we says!

Thanks.