yes, i went to chapters today...on the way home from small group at UTM
and i fell in love all over again
there's just something about all those beautiful books...lined up, stacked up, ready for me to eat them all up! and i never really paid all that much attention to chapters before---i was a library kid. looooved the library, went all the time, still live right around the corner, knew exactly where my books were.
then they renovated the library
now every time i go in there my favourite section is in a different spot, because they finish one area, move everything in there to work on a different area, etc....and i can't find the exact book i want...and it's scary! like my comfort zone has gone and kicked me out. blech.
so i shake the dust off my feet and enter heaven--oops i meant to say chapters.
i guess i never considered buying books a valuable thing to do with my time or money (hello, it's probably not all that smart. materialistic kinda girl that i am...but shouldn't be, as i'm also a university student, studying to be a starving artist) but having a copy of a favourite book at home to pick up whenever i want to is just so nice!!
here's where the funny part is.
i don't buy books from the adult fiction section...(no, not the nonfiction section either) well i've got a few from the christianity section, but that's cool.
what's funny is...all the books i buy lately are from the ages 9-12 section (i am 20 going on 21)...(well, going on 12 i guess) brian jacques redwall series! i think i have some small amount of obsessive compulsive disorder where if i'm going to buy a book in a series, i want to have the whole series on my shelf. i read most of the redwall series back in grade 7 and 8...but there are new ones. so now i'm reading them over again, one by one, and slowly but surely adding them to my collection. and enjoying every minute of it. ...and there are some beauties in the teen fiction, teen series section that i'd like to check out...
but walking into chapters is so...beautiful...and there's all my old favourites that have been republished and redesigned with nice colours and they look so comfy... and it's like i have to see each one and promise i'll return one day to get it...and then there's the newer ones (ok, i liked sisterhood of the travelling pants...but that's as 'girly' as i get) i never read babysitters club or whatever that series was, or nancy drew. i read classics! jean little, roald dahl (priced out the roald dahl treasury at chapters, 45 bucks...but SO worth it. christmas present for myself?) tamora pierce. but there are so many (can't remember all of them of course) there are so many that just LOOK like classics. like i'll love them. eragon, and the newest addition, eldest. cornelia funke! wow, inkheart was so great...and the thief lord. and i'm raving.
but these days books are published with beautiful colours and everything too, reminds me of candy... (like the big single volume of the chronicles of narnia--gorgeous book!! $25! and i have like three different copies of the series at home already...)
i'd just like to close this post with a proposal:
in cornelia funkes' inkheart, there is a crazy aunt. she lives by herself in the middle of nowhere with a house full of books. creepy i know, but i could do that... ...i'm crazy enough, right? i mean, i'd love to spend crazy stupid amounts of money on books and line my house with them and spend years just reading...
be sensible. hello, selfish. end up fat. and secluded/crazy/talking to myself.
'i can't help it it's so beautiful'
then they renovated the library
now every time i go in there my favourite section is in a different spot, because they finish one area, move everything in there to work on a different area, etc....and i can't find the exact book i want...and it's scary! like my comfort zone has gone and kicked me out. blech.
so i shake the dust off my feet and enter heaven--oops i meant to say chapters.
i guess i never considered buying books a valuable thing to do with my time or money (hello, it's probably not all that smart. materialistic kinda girl that i am...but shouldn't be, as i'm also a university student, studying to be a starving artist) but having a copy of a favourite book at home to pick up whenever i want to is just so nice!!
here's where the funny part is.
i don't buy books from the adult fiction section...(no, not the nonfiction section either) well i've got a few from the christianity section, but that's cool.
what's funny is...all the books i buy lately are from the ages 9-12 section (i am 20 going on 21)...(well, going on 12 i guess) brian jacques redwall series! i think i have some small amount of obsessive compulsive disorder where if i'm going to buy a book in a series, i want to have the whole series on my shelf. i read most of the redwall series back in grade 7 and 8...but there are new ones. so now i'm reading them over again, one by one, and slowly but surely adding them to my collection. and enjoying every minute of it. ...and there are some beauties in the teen fiction, teen series section that i'd like to check out...
but walking into chapters is so...beautiful...and there's all my old favourites that have been republished and redesigned with nice colours and they look so comfy... and it's like i have to see each one and promise i'll return one day to get it...and then there's the newer ones (ok, i liked sisterhood of the travelling pants...but that's as 'girly' as i get) i never read babysitters club or whatever that series was, or nancy drew. i read classics! jean little, roald dahl (priced out the roald dahl treasury at chapters, 45 bucks...but SO worth it. christmas present for myself?) tamora pierce. but there are so many (can't remember all of them of course) there are so many that just LOOK like classics. like i'll love them. eragon, and the newest addition, eldest. cornelia funke! wow, inkheart was so great...and the thief lord. and i'm raving.
but these days books are published with beautiful colours and everything too, reminds me of candy... (like the big single volume of the chronicles of narnia--gorgeous book!! $25! and i have like three different copies of the series at home already...)
i'd just like to close this post with a proposal:
in cornelia funkes' inkheart, there is a crazy aunt. she lives by herself in the middle of nowhere with a house full of books. creepy i know, but i could do that... ...i'm crazy enough, right? i mean, i'd love to spend crazy stupid amounts of money on books and line my house with them and spend years just reading...
be sensible. hello, selfish. end up fat. and secluded/crazy/talking to myself.
'i can't help it it's so beautiful'
me and my book addiction.
excuse me i have some reading to do
2 comments:
My personal favourites?
Richard Munsch and Bill Peet. Someday, I am so going to own all those books. I love them! You gain a new appreciation for kids books when you read bedtime stories to little ones.
Jolene
YEAH
bill peet too---i haven't found his treasury yet at chapters, i saw it at sheridan once, and said i'd be back. but i missed it. aaaaah but i don't read bedtime stories to little ones...i read them to myself....!!
:D
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