Must Love Books: Book buying spree

"The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go." — Dr. Seuss

"A room without books is like a body without a soul." — Marcus Tullius Cicero

"Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back." — John Green (An Abundance of Katherines)

"I have always imagined that paradise will be some kind of library." --Jorge Luis Borges

"You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children." --Madeleine L'Engle

"It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it." --Oscar Wilde

"The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid." --Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

"Wicked people never have time for reading. It's one of the reasons for their wickedness." --lemony Snicket

"You know you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend." --Paul Sweeney

"I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than a book!...When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library." -- Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

"In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them." --Mark Twain

"Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live." --Gustave Flaubert

"What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you feel like it." --J.D. Salinger, Catcher in the Rye

"When I have a little money, I buy books; and if I have any left, I buy food and clothes." --Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus

"I cannot live without books." --Thomas Jefferson

"Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?" --Henry Ward Beecher

"Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home."--Anna Quindlen

"Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else." --Mark Twain

"A good library will never be too neat, or too dusty, because somebody will always be in it, taking books off the shelves and staying up late reading them."--Lemony Snicket

"Books are my friends, my companions. They make me laugh and cry and find meaning in life." --Christopher Paolini

"Once you learn to read, you will be forever free." -- Frederick Douglass

"When I look at my room, I see a girl who loves books." --John Green, Looking for Alaska

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Thursday, September 8, 2011

I went on a book buying spree!

Today I decided to allow myself to buy as many books as I wanted (well, close to as many as I wanted) because it will be the last time I ever get to shop at a Borders books. NOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!! *cries* I ended up going to three different Borders. One of them today was it's last day and every book was 50 cents! One of the others had everything at least 85% off, and the other 70%. I went a little crazy. I got.....

Clarity by Kim Harrington (read library copy before)
Bright Young Things by Anna Godbersen
Bite Club by Rachel Caine
Tempestuous by Lesley Livingston
Passing Strange by Daniel Waters
Secrets and Shadows by Shannon Delany
The Seven Rays by Jessica Bendinger
Return to Paradise by Simone Elkeles
Trance by Linda Gerber
Vampire Academy by Richelle Mead (for a friend)
The Good, the Bad, and the Undead by Kim Harrison (for my sister)
A Fistful of Charms by Kim Harrison (also for my sister)
Magic to the Bone by Devon Monk (already read but wanted still)
Warrior Avenged by Addison Fox (cover totally caught my attention)
Private Demon by Lynn Viehl (also another one where I liked the cover)
Dark Calling by Darren Shan
The Rising by Temple Mathews
The Sword of Armageddon by Temple Mathews

Those last two are "Borders exclusive" books and I don't know much about them, like wtf is the first book and why does Borders never have it?

I did have to limit myself on some of these. I was kinda mad cause some of the books I got back at 25% off were still there.... for 85% off. Should have just waited two weeks. sigh oh well. There were other books I'm now wishing I would have got but decided to hold back on.

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