Book-a-holic

No, this isn't an actual picture of my office...but it could be!

My husband swears that when the next big earthquake hits, they're going to find me dead, buried under a mountain of books. I say, what better way to go??

Seriously, can you ever have too many books? I don't think so. I like having a TBR mountain close at hand. I've always got at least one new book going and sometimes more than one. If I simply cannot wait to get going on a book I've been waiting for, I just dive in and then go back to the one I abandoned when I'm finished with the new one.

And you can't open a closet in safety in my house. Stacks of books will come tumbling out. My husband does not get this. Why keep a book once you've read it? he asks.....So I can read it AGAIN, I tell him. The concept of Keepers is lost on him.

I just added another one to the Keeper pile yesterday. Nora's latest, Morrigan's Cross. I rushed through that book like a starving woman finding a Hershey bar. Couldn't stop. Didn't savor. Just felt the pull of the magic and dove in. When I was finished, I started over at the beginning and this time, took my time, relishing it like Godiva. It was even better the second time and I know I'll be reading that one again.

About fifteen years ago, I read a book called THE MIRROR, by Marlys Millheiser, and it's STILL with me. Out of the blue, I'll think about that story and wonder. Remember the characters and the chills I got reading it. That really is a kind of magic, don't you think?

Like good friends, books are always there when you need them most. Just have to remember to be careful when opening my closets!

Have a book that's stayed with you? What is it? Why do you love it?

posted by Maureen Child @ 6:19 PM