Extracurricular Reading kicks my ass

hello, all. Being a student who likes to read for fun and who also delights in procrastination is not a good thing. Especially when I walk into a used bookstore and come out with an armload of NEW BOOKS. Not books for class, just fun books... whose goal in life is to distract me.

It started when I saw a boxed edition of the Griffin and Sabine trilogy. For anyone who hasn't come across these gems, they're a collection of books about a paranormal correspondence between and English artist and a stamp designer in the South Pacific Islands. The most unique feature of these books is the fact that you can REALLY READ THEIR LETTERS. Affixed to the pages of the book are envelopes with letters inside! You can open the letters and read them- like you're reading someone else's mail!! I first came across these books at a friend's house and have wanted to buy them ever since. And the whole trilogy was only $20!!! BOO-YAH!

Then it began. I saw a hardcover edition of Sense and Sensibility I had been looking for...and I decided to pick up a paperback copy of Lord of the Rings to write in and abuse (which I can't do to my collector's edition)... then I found the Celestine Prophecy, another book I had been planning on buying...and I decided to get the sequel as well...

This would have continued indefinitely (I also had my eye on a boxed set of Proust's Rembrances of Things Past as well as the Winnie the Pooh books (in a boxed set) but I stopped myself! *Oof* well...not until I had also bought a cookbook. Or two. : )

So now I have even MORE books (that I want to read) that will distract me from Middlemarch by George Eliot (the book for class I have to read). I must say that I was excited about George Eliot at first (Mill on the Floss turned out to be awesome) but Middlemarch just doesn't have me. yet. Maybe I should hold on to the hope that it will suddenly get really good.