read the books i own before buying any more

Gabriel Garcia Marquez – Love in the Time of Cholera
A.M. Homes – The End of Alice – Started
Cooksley – Aromatherapy
Stephanie Kallos – Broken for You – Started
Anne Rice – Cry to Heaven
A.M. Homes – Music for Torching – Started
Alice Hoffman – Here on Earth – Started
Sue Monk Kidd – The Mermaid Chair – Started
Anne Rice – Christ the Lord – Started
Anne Rice – The Vampire Lestat – Started
Anne Rice – Queen of the Damned – Started
Anne Rice – Vittorio the Vampire
Anne Rice – Lasher – Started
Anne Rice – Taltos
Anne Rice – The Witching Hour
Dan Brown – Angels and Demons
Bram Stoker – Dracula – Started
Aldous Huxley – Brave New World
Greg Mortenson – Three Cups of Tea – Started
Frank McCourt – Angela’s Ashes
Thomas Harris – Hannibal
Caleb Car – The Angel of Darkness
Cyndi Lee – Yoga Body, Buddha Mind – Started
Stephen Batchelor – Buddhism Without Beliefs – Started
Steve Hagen – Buddhism Plain & Simple – Started
Lawrence LeShan – How to Meditate – Started
Candace Bushnell – Sex and the City – LOVE the show!!
Charlotte Bronte – Jane Eyre – Started
Emily Bronte – Wuthering Heights
Elizabeth Wurtzel – Prozac Nation – Movie?
Gregory Maguire – Wicked – Started
Alice Sebold – Lucky
Alice Sebold – The Almost Moon
Nicholas Sparks – Nights in Rodanthe – Started
Poe – Ten Great Mysteries
Augusten Burroughs – Running With Scissors – Liked the movie
Melinda Haynes – Mother of Pearl
Charles Dickens – Great Expectations
Baigent, Leigh and Lincoln – Holy Blood, Holy Grail
Carl Sagan – Cosmos – Started / TV Series?
Plato – The Republic – Started
Paul Ekman – Telling Lies
Jo-Ellan Dimitrius – Reading People – Started
George Orwell – Animal Farm – Started
Dinaw Mengestu – The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears
Boorstein – It’s Easier Than You Think – Started

...I think that’s all of them… This might take awhile!

Most women have an addiction to shopping. I think it’s hard wired in our DNA. Either buying shoes, or purses, maybe clothes or curtains, we all have something that gets us going.

My problem is books. I spend hours at a time going between amazon.com and half.com. That’s actually how I ended up at this site! I will find an interesting book on amazon.com, go to half.com and find it cheaper, then add it to my wish list. I’m wishing for about a hundred books at the moment.

Any book is interesting. I especially love the Twilight series, Anne Rice’s vampire novels and some of Oprah’s suggestions. I also love to learn about religion, philosophy, sociology and psychology. I own many cook books, tips on maintaining a clean house, and three books about cats. I just adopted little Jasper a few weeks ago, and he’s having a hard time adjusting. Lastly, I’ve been reading sort of ‘self-help’ books, mostly based on Buddhism.

I’m really discovering myself through the books I read, but I can’t seem to stop buying them. This week I spent my grocery money on three books, and am reduced to peanut butter sandwiches and cereal until my next paycheck. I wouldn’t feel bad about it if I actually finished (or even opened) the books, but I just can’t seem to do it.

So I’m making a promise to myself. I need to finish every book in my bookcase before I make another purchase. No ifs, ands or buts… unless there’s a great deal on one of those post-secret books, those never drop below 10 dollars…

Current Reading: You Shall Know Our Velocity. I’ve heard great things bout it, hope its good!