tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11850330.post111997082248880244..comments2023-08-03T04:54:54.068-04:00Comments on Abacaxi Mamão: Compulsive Book-BuyingAbacaxi Mamaohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06604184268628243496noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11850330.post-1120206058799526212005-07-01T04:20:00.000-04:002005-07-01T04:20:00.000-04:00Thinking about it some more since our conversation...Thinking about it some more since our conversation last night--I particularly like to buy books that I have already read and really enjoyed, but don't own yet, even if I don't expect to re-read them again soon, or ever. (Though in the past few years I HAVE re-read several books that I really liked in my teens and 20s, and found them as good or better than I remembered them.) If I also like to buy books that I haven't read yet, it is partly because I predict, based on browsing through them, that they will fall into this category after I read them. I guess I like to do this because I feel that the set of books I really like describes or defines who I am. By owning all these books, and having them on display on my shelf, other people can see who I am, and I can remind myself of who I am, or (what amounts to the same thing) who I was in the past when I bought the book or first read it. That's also why I tend to be in a hurry to get rid of the few books that I have been given that I really don't like, aside from wanting to free up the shelf space. Some people consider it rude, when invited over for dinner, to spend their time browsing through your books, instead of engaging in conversation. But I like it when people do that to me--that's part of the reason why I own books in the first place. Of course, a lot of my books are in the guest room, where people usually don't see them unless they are sleeping over, or they are on the landing at the top of the stairs, where people rarely see them at all. But what can you do? Most of them don't fit in the living room.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com