It seems silly that I often buy books that stand around unread for years just because I felt like buying them, but not reading them. So to save myself some money and space I will try to limit myself, but just you wait for 2013, I'm going to buy ALL the books!
This quest also serves a great purpose, I get to rant about the books I buy. Anyone who has ever met me right after I've bought a handful of books knows that I could stare at them, talk about them, cuddle them for hours on end.
So far I have bought four books:
- Charles Dickens: David Copperfield
- Mary Shelley: Frankenstein
- Joseph Conrad: Heart of Darkness
- Edith Wharton: The Age of Innocence
And I have read Jane Austen's Emma. I am taking my sweet time reading the books, simply because I can. I'm enjoying actually having the time instead of having to rush through one book and on to the next.
Currently I am reading Bram Stoker's Dracula and I had the immense pleasure of, while on the train back from my parents house, correcting some young girl who was sighing about how amazingly hot and cool Edward Cullen is by firmly smacking her hand with my book. I would have gone for the head, but she was all the way across from me, and Twilight is not worth the effort of leaning forward.
Moving on from the Twilight massacre of 2012 I have discovered an interesting fact. In Dracula, the Count is not killed by sunlight, he just cannot change appearances from what he was when the sun rose. I wonder where the "no sunlight" idea came from.
Someone asked me the other day what was going to be my quest in 2013 and I was all "Whoa, it's January, let's not get ahead of ourselves". Which was mostly a cover up, because I have actually thought about it and honestly; I have NO idea. Suggestions anyone?
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