CRAZY For Books! posted on October 18, 2006 10:22 AM by rethwyll.
We are like the neighborhood Cat Lady when it comes to our books: we are helpless to resist bringing new books into our home. We have books stacked on every available surface (although, realistically, the dog is only going to stay in that down position for so long.) Our side of the bed has at least 20 books that we are in the process of reading shoved under it. We buy new bookcases as often as some people change socks. We REALLY love books. Fortunately, keeping thousands of books won't make the neighbors call the cops on us. (Well, not for THAT, anyway.)
As you might imagine, we tend to be somewhat possessive about our books. We don't want be selfish with our things, and we love introducing our favorites to others, but loaning out our books, even to our closest friends, makes us consider upping our Prozac dosage until their return. We THINK we've manage to convey to borrowers the importance of treating our books well (although making them promise to wear cotton gloves and face masks may be a bit much.) Just to be sure, though, we're going to place one of these Peanut Butter Bookplates in the front of each one. "rethwyll loves this book more than chocolate loves peanut butter": now THERE'S an unambiguous declaration of love. (Especially since we couldn't find one that said "rethwyll will HUNT YOU DOWN AND KILL YOU IN YOUR SLEEP if you don't return this book.")
Buy it! Peanut Butter Bookplates, $7.00, from pinklovesbrown.com.
Link to this:
http://www.consumeblog.com/2006/10/crazy_for_books_1.html
digg it, del.icio.us it, Google it, StumbleUpon it, Linkroll it.
or, add Consume to your newsreader of choice...
