I am the same, in that respect, Setanta. As I don't drink or smoke, and I don't like eating much, I have more money to spend on books, and I would say that at least a quarter of my disposable income through life (perhaps a third,) has gone on making it ever more impossible to fit them all in a house. I figure that it's better to spend money on travel and literature, because the products of which stay with one a long time...
Yes, bookstores are always a huge temptation; especially when one spends about four hours in them... what was the last thing that you bought?
delight for the taste-buds
Sweet are the vses of aduersitie
Which like the toad, ougly and venemous,
Weares yet a precious Iewell in his head:
And this our life exempt from publike haunt,
Findes tongues in trees, bookes in the running brookes,
Sermons in stones, and good in euery thing.
The Jewell in the Crown
(DetR, the last book i bought was a small, bound copy of Hard Times. When i like a book, i'll re-read, often several times, and will buy a copy if my last copy has grown legs.)
The Moonstone
(There's no point in reading a book without reading it often. I've come back to my Shakespeares, particularly The Tempest and Measure for Measure, at least thirty times... I think rereadability is one of the clearest signs of a good book.)
A Moon for the Misbegotten
'Ring the moon like a broken bell.'
The Little Mermaid (a statue of whom is in the harbor at Copenhagen, in honor of Mr. Andersen)
Little Dorrit.
(I've been right by that statue, Set. It's very different to how most children's books would wish to present her..)
Bleeding Heart Yard
(Indeed, DetR, i'm sure good Protestant don't want their children to know about nipples and other such nasties . . . )
(Nipples and the like must not be included in 'all things bright and beautiful,' Set ;D...)
Bird of Prey - Fatboy Slim
Bird on a Wire - Leonard Cohen
