Spending too much on books!

[maya]

I found a second hand bookshop near my near flat that's a tiny room filled floor to cealing 2 or 3 books deep with fuck loads of books roughly grouped into categories. It's an old guy whose run it out of the downstairs of his house for 20 years. He has no fucking clue what's in there and he's really interesting and everthing is really cheap. I'm falling in love with it already

Ooh we have a shop like that here... The guy who runs it ALWAYS wears a beret, and have a kickass huge moustache and a goatee... You literally can't open the door because there's piles and piles of books stacked on the floor, and when you finally manage to squeeze in through the doorway, you have to tip-toe through a tiny tunnel which is the only available floor space amidst a whole labyrinth of bookpiles, including 8 metre high shelves and ladders wobbling worryingly... He's totally nuts, but I love him... He always buys your books or swap things back in if you suggest that to him, unlike 99% of he other antiquarian sellers who are only interested in the profits and sometimes aren't even nice to customers... This man live and breathe for books

 

[Vintage Paw]

Hahaa!!! Is that YOU?!!

Yes

e2a: would you be nice to me if I told you that was taken the last day I saw my nana alive?

/guilt trip

 

[sojourner]

Yes

e2a: would you be nice to me if I told you that was taken the last day I saw my nana alive?

/guilt trip

Awww!!

Well I was gonna be all lovely about you, but now you've guilt-tripped me I don't think I will!
















*I feel all bad inside now*

 

[Vintage Paw]

Awww!!

Well I was gonna be all lovely about you, but now you've guilt-tripped me I don't think I will!
















*I feel all bad inside now*

mwuahahaha, my nefarious plan worked.

 

[nosos]

Ooh we have a shop like that here... The guy who runs it ALWAYS wears a beret, and have a kickass huge moustache and a goatee... You literally can't open the door because there's piles and piles of books stacked on the floor, and when you finally manage to squeeze in through the doorway, you have to tip-toe through a tiny tunnel which is the only available floor space amidst a whole labyrinth of bookpiles, including 8 metre high shelves and ladders wobbling worryingly... He's totally nuts, but I love him... He always buys your books or swap things back in if you suggest that to him, unlike 99% of he other antiquarian sellers who are only interested in the profits and sometimes aren't even nice to customers... This man live and breathe for books

My god when I retire and/or if I fail in my chosen career I want to spend my life doing that so badly

 

[madzone]

My god when I retire and/or if I fail in my chosen career I want to spend my life doing that so badly

You'd be more successful if you did it well

 

[Dillinger4]

My god when I retire and/or if I fail in my chosen career I want to spend my life doing that so badly

I have to join you on this. I think my little bookshop would be down a little alleyway, somewhere in the left bank in Paris, near the Sorbonne or something. Well, ideally. I would be happy with it just about anywhere.

 

[mrs quoad]

I am once more fkn impressed by Amazon.

Godonlyknowswhy but I got my 'despatched' email at 10pm last night (?!?! Not the first time either! Last time it was dispatched just short of midnight!) and it's just arrived!

Niiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiice

(though this does create a quandary - do I push on with the slightly harder-going books that I've been looking for an excuse not to read; or delay exploring the new uns til later, as a treat?)

e2a: I'm getting 90 pages of Blackburn done per day. Max. It's 450ish pages. That's another 3 days to go of just the one textbook... And it's not easy neither, grarrr. This is a good reason to read something else! Yes!

I'm also going to start taking Rousseau's Social Contract to the gym, as it looks like it doesn't need much concentration

Pure, 100% proof geek

 

[mrs quoad]

sTOP PRESS SHOCK HORRA!!!

AMAZON WRAPPING NOW COMES ADVERTISING JAMES FKN BLUNT ON THE BACK.

ARGGGGG.

very good, carry on, as you were.

 

[mrs quoad]

Both new books are 275 pages long.

This makes for only 4 days' reading if they're easygoing.

Big, phat thumbs up.

 

[Vintage Paw]

I really need to get off t'internetz and read more books

I seem to be replacing it with reading about reading books

I'll just play my scrabble moves on facebook first though, then order some catfood, then check my flickr email, then check to see if anyone else has moved in scrabble, then ....

 

[maya]

My god when I retire and/or if I fail in my chosen career I want to spend my life doing that so badly

- Do it now and follow your dream, before a life of accountancy takes you!!

when one finally gets old and eager, it's always too late... sob