Bookaholics Anonymous

... an hour beforehand, and you do this only under the assumption that you can bring a book. As a child, your parents tell you that bringing a book to the table is anti-social (unless they're bookaholics too, in which case, they're reading at table too.) You never pass by a used bookstore without stopping in. You get in trouble at school for reading too much. You keep a book on the passenger ...

bookaholics

You know you're a bookaholic when ... You walk into someone's house and you have to check the impulse to ignore them and immediately begin scoping out their bookshelves. You reject purses because their book-holding potential is low. You choose the exercise bike (or elliptical) over other nominally more appealing forms of exercise, because it offers the opportunity to read. You're stressed ...

В галерею

Часто замечал, что в большинстве своём все современные картины, претендующие на эпатажность, выглядят довольно банально и лично у меня вызывают желание смертно заскучать. С одной стороны, это - взгляд одного ничтожного зрителя. С другой стороны, когда автору нечем больше действовать на читателя, кроме шока, - это явный знак его творческих проблем. Сейчас хотел найти картину пошокартнее для ...

Managed another 1000 words, then went to the used bookstore up Micklegate.

Bought a strange collection of poetry from 1986 entitled The Fire Garden and an even stranger book that appears to be a 1950s study in automatic writing. I found it in the Occult section. It's called Swan on a Black Sea . I strongly suspect I'm depressed again. I have got to get through tomorrow with a finished chapter.

Bookaholics Anonymous

... hour beforehand, and you do this only under the assumption that you can bring a book. As a child, your parents tell you that bringing a book to the table is anti-social (unless they're bookaholics too, in which case, they're reading at table too.) You never pass by a used bookstore without stopping in. You get in trouble at school for reading too much. You keep a book on ...

Surviving the Social Faux Pas

... by Yasmine Galenorn, Changeling by Yasmine Galenorn, and Witchling by Yasmine Galenorn.  This was my 2nd copy of Darkling ; I "misplaced" the first.  Of course, that meant a trip to the bookstore.  I only meant to get one book and came home with five.  Never mind that I have a tower of books waiting to be read.  I obviously have a problem and will be joining Bookaholics Anonymous.

Almanac Links of Great Interest

Each year, for the past thirty or so years, I have found a copy of The World Almanac and Book of Facts in my stocking.  The first section I go to always is the obituaries.  Each year, without fail, I am surprised to find people I thought either still alive, or long dead, on the list. For the past few years, the second place I go is the Computers & Telecommunications section. Besides some...

Hey, at least I have a TV guide now, right?

... least an hour beforehand, and you do this only under the assumption that you can bring a book. As a child, your parents tell you that bringing a book to the table is anti-social (unless they're bookaholics too, in which case, they're reading at table too.) (haha yes!) You never pass by a used bookstore without stopping in. You get in trouble at school for reading too much. (I used to miss ...

And more books

...I'm glad I tried it and found out that it can be GOOD writing, as opposed to what I'd been exposed to before. Between us, Thomas and I spent $100. We really need to get back to our 12 step program in Bookaholics anonymous. But, since the discount didn't have to be on educational stuff this one week, we got a whole big bag of books. --For about the price of ONE textbook. Textbooks are such a scam.

... so I can't go, but I'm not a huge fan so it's okay. We also have to stop at Future Shop so that I can redeem my gift card and Chapters because we're both bookaholics. I ordered these books the other day and they should be arriving tomorrow: The Ultimate Understanding - Ramesh S. Balsekar Freedom from the Known - Jiddu Krishnamurti Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind - Shunryu Suzuki New Earth - ...