BOOKS ARE LOVE.

Oh God. I am far too obsessed with buying new books. Lately, I've been all burnt out on reading and have only been reading a new book, like, once every two weeks when at the beginning of the year I was reading two or three in one week... yet I just can't help myself from drooling over more books I want to read (even when I still have a bunch of unread ones sitting on my shelf) and adding them like crazy to my Amazon wishlist. Which is currently about fifty books long. Eep. But right now I'm mostly drooling over these; I mean, there are a lot of writers there that I don't really know very well or don't care about but the concept as a whole is just brilliant. I especially want this one and this one, like, right this instant. But that's a shitload of money to spend on authors that I've never actually read anything by no matter how sure I am that I will love them. But the want is so much more overpowering than practicality! Plus, I think I am taking a rather large sum of money out of the bank soon. Which is technically to go towards the Maria Taylor concert I am attending (next Sunday, oh my God!) but I know I'm not going to spend that much there so perhaps I can fulfill these very strong urges as well. I also want this real bad even though I am not familiar with Alice in Wonderland at all. It just looks so nice and definitive. And come on. If you're pretty certain you'll like something, wouldn't you rather buy the fancy, collectable, definitive version if there's one available first instead of buying some less awesome copy and then figuring out it's an amazing book therefore spending more money to replace it with the fancy version? This makes sense, right? I mean, $60-70 is a crazy amount for three books (especially considering the fact that I haven't bought an actual brand new copy of a book in quite a long time), but considering the amount of content in them?... not so crazy anymore and pretty worth it, I think. Though this also looks really good and I still need to get this and also T.S. Eliot, anyone? That also happens to be rather expensive (but sturdy and quite definitive!). Also, this seems good and kind of Special Topics in Calamity Physics-esque (and not in the totally insane plot developments aspect but in the "outsider comes in and changes/ruins everyone's lives" aspect which is a premise I'm very fond of); it looks as though it's rather impossible to get new in the U.S. but relatively cheap to get used. Not to mention the forty-some other books on my list. Argh! Why can I not be rich?!? I would just spend all my money on all books all the time. Seriously. I've gotten crazier about buying books than I am about music now. Probably because you can enjoy music the same whether you pirate it or actually buy it but, for me anyway, reading a book on your computer screen is nowhere close to the same experience you get from actually holding a book in your hands. And this is getting rambly. But if anyone wants to buy things for me?... I'm totally into that. :P

Edit: OMG, this looks pretty brill too. The preview on Amazon was really funny. I hate reading those, though, because then I want to read more and I can't and it drives me crazy! I really need to stop now. I should be in bed. But it is a disease, I'm telling you.