Then my mind wandered on the book topic and I thought of all of the other books I need to read and purchase. It's a rather extensive list of at least ninety or so, excluding the nine or ten spin offs/re-tellings of Pride and Prejudice that are on a list of their own. Needless to say, I'll be buying and reading a plethora of books before I'm done adding the ever growing amount of books to my list. A mind of logic would tell me to borrow them from the library, but that would be too easy and it wouldn't be nearly as satisfying. I have a dream, yes a dream, of owning multiple bookshelves packed with books to read and re-read whenever I want from the comfort of my home. As you can see, borrowing the books would severely hinder making this dream a reality of mine. Yes, it's weird and out of the norm nowadays, but I love books so judge me however you wish; I could care less.
Some of the books that I need to get, aside from Hosseini's new book, are:
- The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
- Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
- Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
- Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell (I'm looking forward to this one)
- The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini (I've read this one, but I would love to add it to my collection)
- Animal Farm - George Orwell
- Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding (Pride and Prejudice parody/re-telling, but I kept it on this list)
- Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl (I have no shame)
Until recently, The Invisible Man was on my to-buy list, but at the end of my American Lit class the instructor passed out copies of novels he bought from thrift shops. I was lucky enough to get a copy of this book, so it was crossed off my list. I haven't gotten around to reading it yet, but it's up next after the next book in my series as a filler novel until I can get the rest of it. Don't think that since I'm reading it as a "filler" that I don't think it'll be any good; it's the opposite. I've read reviews about it, and I think I'll like it a lot. I wanted to use that filler spot to re-read Pride and Prejudice, but every book deserves at least one read before I cycle through my list again. The other filler choices would have been The Cather in the Rye or Planet of the Apes, the former I've read once; the latter at least three times. So thankfully I received a new book and switched up the ranks!
That sums it up for this entry. I hope I didn't bore you with my book-talk, but if I did you had fair warning if you read the title. Now I'm off; until next time!