2. Continued lust from an adolescence of looking into Manhattan brownstones where the walls were lined with endless curious tomes.
3. A tendency towards obscurer reading, and a tendency towards only buying things on sale, meaning if there's any chance I'll want to read a book someday, and I find it cheap enough, I'll grab it, because when that day comes, I will not be able to find it again.
― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 1 February 2007 18:32 (seventeen years ago) link
Um. What exactly do they do for spare time?
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 1 February 2007 18:33 (seventeen years ago) link
― M. White (Miguelito), Thursday, 1 February 2007 18:36 (seventeen years ago) link
My mother quilts and plays bridge, and town politics are sort of a spectator sport here. Sometimes she knits sweaters for upcoming birthdays. Bridge is kind of an indulgence, but it doesn't cost any money -- she's horrified at the number of movies I own. My father, well, he's got his own recreations. (He's Very Religious, along Pat Robertson type lines.)
― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 1 February 2007 18:37 (seventeen years ago) link
I keep the ones I keep because I like having them to open and read from. About 160 of them are volumes of poetry. About fifty are various reference works. The rest are just damn good books.
― Aimless (Aimless), Thursday, 1 February 2007 18:39 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 1 February 2007 18:39 (seventeen years ago) link
this is pretty much the reason why i have so little vinyl. freaks me out. feel like i need more stability for me n vinyl to happen.
― rrrobyn, breeze blown meadow of cheeriness (rrrobyn), Thursday, 1 February 2007 18:41 (seventeen years ago) link
I have kept a running list of every book I've read since January of 1992. Seriously! This may seem obsessive, but sometimes I'll think of something from a book but won't remember where it came from - or need to figure out a title or author - and it really helps.
(I also have a running list of books I want to read, but that is so out of hand that it should never be discussed.)
― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Thursday, 1 February 2007 19:01 (seventeen years ago) link
― Edward Trifle (Ned Trifle IV), Friday, 2 February 2007 09:32 (seventeen years ago) link
― Frogm@n Henry (Frogm@n Henry), Friday, 2 February 2007 14:04 (seventeen years ago) link