Books Glorious Books!

I like books....
And I can be prety anal when it comes to my own books.

Lol. I was just having a conversation with Sandra in the afternoon... haha...
Was sharing with her that all my books are wrapped in plastic...I hate my books looking like dog-eared moth-eaten tattered literary pieces.

And I read my books in such a way that I try not to create any creases in the spine of the book.
The cover of the book needs to be protected as well, no creases there too....else it'll just break my
heart... ahhaa...

I just did a count...there's 33 books on my shelf...vying for space with my age-old CDs...

Oh yah, I have 4 books floating out there somewhere.

Two have been with an ex-bf for the past few years. I think they've migrated and are never coming back. Sigh.
Another is with a current colleague. And the last one is with an ex-colleague and has been with her for the past 2 years at least...I hope to get this one back though....It's the "5 people You Meet In Heaven" by Mitch Albom.

My hands are itchy..I feel like buying some more...But I don't really have spare space on my shelves already...:(

Sandra asked me why I wanna buy books. I said it's nice to own a book. It just feels nice.
And I feel happier reading a nice new book with clean pages and straight spines and covers with straight edges.

I'm anal I know. Hahaha..

Oh yah! And I hope I am being a god influence to the man. Lol, he's the owner of 2 John Grisham novels already....Which was an unheard of thing if it were 4 years back hahaha lol....;p

Am currently reading "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini. This is his 2nd novel after critically acclaimed and full-blown success of "The Kite Runner".

The setting is still in Afghanistan in the same era as that of The Kite Runner.
I've yet to read enough to know the full storyline though. And I did not read any synopsis just so I really read it with a clean slate of mind without any preconceived notions & expectations haa...

But I do know, it's yet another simply written novel. Centering around human emotions.
Of love lived and lost. Of hopes alive and dashed. Of resignation, faith and dogged perserverence.

Think I shall go bathe now & then have a round of reading before I go to bed.

Work can be done tomorrow....:)