My name is s2m, and I am a book addict.

[slr2moons]

 

Today I hit two bookstores. I have a good excuse though!! Really, I do! I needed to pick up a gift card from Borders for my fave cousin *waves at her* (she knows she's getting one) and they're having a buy one get a 2nd one half-off graphic novel sale for all of January. In these situations I stick to my more expensive manga, such as VizBig ($20 a pop) and Dark Horse or Del Rey books ($11 to $15 a pop). But of course, they didn't have either of the two VizBig volumes I needed (Vagabond 2 and Kenshin 4) so I went to the backup plan of Gaiman's Sandman vol2 and an OEL recced by one of you guys *waves*, Yokaiden. I read the first few pages of this one in Powell's last week while waiting for another flist member *waves a third time*, and decided to buy it when next I had the chance. So I did. :B It's research, I tell you! And yes, I count my manga purchases off on my tax return. :D *saves receipt*

Then I went to Barnes & Noble. I haven't been to this B&N, so it was an adventure. I also had a 15% off coupon. :3 They even had both of the VizBigs I wanted! I chose Vagabond 2 'cause Kenshin really is easier to find and scarfed up We Were There 2 (OMG great HS drama manga, best one I've read in years!) . Thanks to my membership, I always save %10 off B&N books, so it's really cheaper to shop here, unless Borders is having an uber-sale (I like their buy 3 mangas get a 4th free version) but Borders tends to have the larger selection, AND it's close to my bank, so I usually end up there. :P I have to admit, this B&N has a respectable manga section! Will definitely come back. I think I can walk here, too, though a round trip would take about 2 hours of walking and wipe me out. At least I'd sleep well that night!

So there I was, on my way to the counter with my books, when I spy with my little eye a huge discount table of hardbacks marked with red stickers. $20 and $30 hardbacks on sale for a fourth of that. Yes...I caved. I found three fiction novels that sounded good. One chick lit, one spy thriller, one comedy. (In defense of my extravagance, I had eyed a collector's edition of Oscar Wilde's complete works on sale for $20, but I passed on it. See?? I have a backbone sometimes!) After I read these prose books, I'll trade them off of paperback swap. =D Unless one becomes my favoritest book ever, which is rather unlikely. :P

Now I'm sitting here trying to decide what to read first. At the moment, I'm in the middle of a series of borrowed manga (Kindaichi Case Files) from a friend, yet another flist member. *waves yet again* I had paused reading a HS romantic comedy (High School Debut) to read the loaner series Kindaichi (I needed some bloodshed to balance the sparklies) but I had paused in my massive Basara manga marathon to read HIgh School Debut in the first place. So once I finish Kindaichi then I need to finish HSD or Basara, but by then I'll prolly want a break from manga and read some prose, yet I'm also in the middle of Guns, Germs, and Steel (a very interesting book, BTW) that is a good 600 pages long and I'm on 75 or so. And I really wanna try my new fiction!!

Ttaku. I have a reading backlog that defies the mind. Seriously. Half the boxes I brought with me to OR were just for books. I'm trying to thin them out and keep only the ones I know I'll read again, but there's a drawback to that:
 
I have to read them first. :P

To think I left my apartment only intending to buy 3 books today....*headdesk* So yes. My name is slr2moons, and I am a book addict. *sigh*