So many, but when I was out and about before the Great Bug of 2012 I saw this winking at me from a shop window.
Steampunk Poe
Lovely isn’t it. I don’t linger at jewelry store displays, never have. Rather I salivate in bookstores. Should I ever marry I think a book over an engagement ring would suit me perfectly. This one was beautiful. Thick glossy sheets of images along side the words of Poe. What a brilliant idea.
I must have it.
Blast this pledge to read the books I have before buying more. Blast and double blast.
I have book envy and will pass the bookstore at every opportunity now. I shall be a book stalker. There will be a poster of me on telegraph poles warning others about my predilection. Children will hide from me, women will shield their husbands lest I tempt them away with my sirens call. Little do they know it is only for the book.
I must have it.
Curse you New Years Revolution. Curse you Peter Walsh for talking me into being happy with less. What a crock. If I’d know Steampunk Poe was about to lure me in, I’d have plucked you off my shoe like a piece of gum. Now I shall shake and shiver, going cold turkey as I dream of wind up Ravens and a clock work Annabel Lee.
Being a book lover can be oh so painful.
A fair start on revealing more of your not-always-nice authentic self, though book stalkers like us hardly cause goosebumps. Good luck with the Great Bug of 2012. Sounds like a lot less fun than “The Gold Bug.”
I don’t know John. My famous must have that book glare is frightening.
I feel your pain. I have 26 books to read before I can buy anymore (although i will break that rule when Scott Siglers next GFL book comes out lol)
LOL Oh I see, a cavet for your pledge. I should have thought of that.
The cover…and a little more
Cruel, oh so cruel. Sobs into my tea.
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Oh, no! I totally want this now. I have the same dilemma. I have decided to not purchase any new books until I read the ones I already have. However, I bought myself a New Year’s gift–Meta Maus (which is illustrated–you can rationalize steampunk Poe by the illustrations and say it’s not a normal novel then it’s okay to buy).
It’s wantable isn’t it, and will look so good on my coffee table. I’m tempted to use your rational. So tempted.
Hee hee! I spent about a year and a half working part time at Barnes & Noble bookstore and it was torture– I constantly ran across books that I just MUST have… each payday I’d realize that I had to pay for all these books I’d put on hold for me in the past week or two, and it would inevitably eat half my paycheck… I think I still have books I bought back then that I still haven’t read, but just HAD to have on my bookshelf.
Also– YAY POE! I live in one of his “hometowns” (Richmond Virginia) so enjoy seeing the Poe Love