Claudia Dain's Passion
I have a passion and that passion is books. I buy and buy, and I don't care that I don't really have space for another five or six books, or that it might take me a year to read the book I just bought, or that I just spent $100 that I probably shouldn't have spent. My passion is so great for books that I don't even have the energy to feel guilty.I love books. I love all kinds of books. I love all kinds of fiction, even (gasp) literary fiction. I do! It's like anything else: it's not all good or all bad. Some literary fiction is great and some, not so great. I've recently read The Help, literary fiction, and I loved it. If you haven't read it, do yourself a favor and dive in. You won't be sorry.
I love non-fiction. That may be my biggest addiction. A book about the WWII battle at Guadalcanal? Why stop at one? I just bought six. You just never know what tiny bit of information book two has that the other five don't include. Just ten minutes ago I was looking at books about the development of the railway system in England. In ten minutes I found nine books that looked very worthy of purchase. I'm going to search the house for coupons and see how much I can save before I buy, buy, buy.
If I had to choose (and I do) I'd rather go without food than go without books. I'd rather live on hot dogs and potato chips than not buy a beautiful, non-degradable book. Books feed me. Books entertain me. Books lift me out of myself. You can't say that about a steak dinner. Well, you can, but you know what I mean.
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