help! i can't stop!

 
       so i'm excited about the little ups delivery i'll be getting on tuesday, yeah? the only itty bitty detail that i didn't take into account when i decided on this splurge is... i'm a convicted bibliophile. my last book splurge was roughly four years ago, when our local library had it's annual used book sale. they take books that were donated to the library throughout the year and sell them for $0.50 for a paperback and $1.00 for a hardcover to help raise funds for the following year (this library, blessedly, doesn't have late fees--it's quite wonderful). anyway, i don't remember how much i spent, but i purchased somewhere around 80 books. not much of a splurge, put in financial terms, but i did have to bring another bookshelf from home. now i won't have to bring another bookshelf for this latest spree (even though i do need one, i have three here in my apartment--two full-sized, one half-sized--and my books are starting to be stacked on top of each other), but i do need to stop sometime soon before my kindle won't be able to hold them all. in the last, what, two days? i've queued up somewhere around 60 books to be downloaded once i charge up my wonderful device. and that 60 isn't including the complete works of austen, dickens, and shakespeare that i ordered. haha. oy.

       oh... i just had a thought... i don't know where i'm going to start! there are so many... classics, newbies, things in the middle. hmm. yes, i do know. "world without end" by ken follett. the sequel to his wonderful "pillars of the earth." then one of the neil gaiman books (i got three ). then either lois lowry's "gossamer" or gregory maguire's "wicked." hmm. i have an ayn rand that i want to work in there, too. hmm. i still have paper books waiting to be read... "the catcher in the rye" and the fourth musashi and diana wynne jones' "castle in the air," the sequel to "howl's moving castle" (which was awesome). can't forget about those. gah! not enough time!

       i'm addicted, though. i'm not paying for all of them, of course. most of that bunch were free classics. the complete works weren't free. most of the rest were. but i need to stop. mhmm. maybe just a couple more...

       i had a ponder, but i can't think of what it was now... i got too excited. so many books!

       have you read anything good lately? any suggestions? i need to branch out into the more "adult" novels, i think, but i still prefer my young adult fiction. grownups muddle things up too much. nevertheless, any ideas?