Confession: I’m a book hoarder. Even if I have a to-read tower wobbling in the corner of the room and a stack of un-reads on my study table, I can’t control myself—I’ll still buy more. The tug of bookstores is just irresistible, and it’s almost a rarity to find my bag sans a new novel and my purse still full at the end of the day.
My first solution is to leave excess money at home whenever I’m going out, so as not to further ruin my already messy budget plan. Sometimes I cut my allowance so I won’t be tempted to purchase brand new books. Then all of a sudden I’ll feel the insistent magnetism of the nearest secondhand bookshops, full of titles cheap enough not take a huge chunk of the meager money I allowed myself to have for a day. I’ll hear a wicked little voice saying something like, “Look, look, book sale! What’s another twenty pesos off your pocket? Who knows, you might find that rare book you’ve been hunting for quite a while now!” Poof! I’m back to square one. Even if I don’t find that rare book, I’ll still be marching out the shop with a new novel in my hand. I just can’t help it. It’s like a sickness or an addiction or something. LOL.
This sounds just like me.
This is me. In a nutshell.
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one of my favorite books and prized possessions: first edition of a previously banned book, Revolutionary Suicide.
You really don’t understand the beauty in death do you? The atoms that make up your body become part of the earth and the universe. You aren’t becoming nothing when you die. You become everything. The purpose of life is to live. Who needs more than that? It is wonderful and it is enough.
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~m.j: and this, my friends, is why my first two books of poetry are titled, dust and ashes.
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Continuing the sifting through of my mass hoard of books I found this gem—now, to recall who bought this for me…lol *shrugs*
Next book I plan to purchase.
one of my favorite and most inpiring books ever. probably top 5. okay, maybe 7. well, def top 5 non-fiction.
http://www.haymarketbooks.org/
Haymarket Books is a nonprofit, progressive book distributor and publisher, a project of the Center for Economic Research and Social Change. We believe that activists need to take ideas, history, and politics into the many struggles for social justice today. Learning the lessons of past victories, as well as defeats, can arm a new generation of fighters for a better world. As Karl Marx said, “The philosophers have merely interpreted the world; the point however is to change it.”
These are good books. Take advantage of this.
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“The saddest thing for a girl to do is to dumb herself down for a guy.”
-Emma Watson
emma + books ………………………………………….
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might have to use one of these books as a prototype for my finger tattoo…
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thoroughly enjoying Bohemia.












