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The confession
May. 24th, 2012 09:57 amI figure that I should probably 'fess up about the books I bought, particularly as I just spent some time carefully listing them for my own anal cataloguing purposes.
( Cut for list length )
Listing it out somehow makes it that tiny bit worse...
I couldn't remember where everything came from, which is why some have nothing next to them. I kept feeling guilty for leaving shops without at least taking one thing :-)
The Chalet School books are things that I'm especially proud of, particularly that first one. The School at the Chalet had major cuts when it was put into paperback so I've been itching to get hold of the full text for ages. Admittedly, those two books cost about four times what the rest cost combined but I honestly don't care. After all, I saved for exactly this kind of thing :-) It was so tempting to leave with more - Rose's had loads of great hardcover Chalet Schools and I'm sure that I'll be ordering from her in the future. She also had a terrifying cabinet of "things too expensive for mortals to touch" with more Chalet Schools. That kind of thing, I suspect, will always be out of my price range and I'd be terrified to actually touch and read them even if I did have them.
It did make me wonder whether I should, at some stage, get my own books assessed if only to make sure that my house insurance covers them.
I'm planning to hit another bookshop this afternoon but it should be much less disasterous. Although I do have plans to visit Foyles tomorrow and Forbidden Planet when I'm in Manchester on Tuesday as well, so there is still disaster potential.
It's a good thing my luggage only weighed half my allowance when I left, that's all I'm saying. I'm going to dread weighing this lot when I'm going home...
( Cut for list length )
Listing it out somehow makes it that tiny bit worse...
I couldn't remember where everything came from, which is why some have nothing next to them. I kept feeling guilty for leaving shops without at least taking one thing :-)
The Chalet School books are things that I'm especially proud of, particularly that first one. The School at the Chalet had major cuts when it was put into paperback so I've been itching to get hold of the full text for ages. Admittedly, those two books cost about four times what the rest cost combined but I honestly don't care. After all, I saved for exactly this kind of thing :-) It was so tempting to leave with more - Rose's had loads of great hardcover Chalet Schools and I'm sure that I'll be ordering from her in the future. She also had a terrifying cabinet of "things too expensive for mortals to touch" with more Chalet Schools. That kind of thing, I suspect, will always be out of my price range and I'd be terrified to actually touch and read them even if I did have them.
It did make me wonder whether I should, at some stage, get my own books assessed if only to make sure that my house insurance covers them.
I'm planning to hit another bookshop this afternoon but it should be much less disasterous. Although I do have plans to visit Foyles tomorrow and Forbidden Planet when I'm in Manchester on Tuesday as well, so there is still disaster potential.
It's a good thing my luggage only weighed half my allowance when I left, that's all I'm saying. I'm going to dread weighing this lot when I'm going home...
