Drugs . . . I mean books?

[raisintorte]

I am hooked on books. Seriously. (also, wow that sounds CHEESY) BUT I mean it.

I am on a book binge. It started off innocently with Julia Quinn, just picked one up and it was good. Less than a month later? I've read her entire book list.

And then I saw Stephanie Laurens had a lot of books. That was 3 weeks ago. I'm 10 books in to her book list and I can't read them fast enough.

I want to read more. I keep having to stop myself ordering them all off of B&N.com.

And fanfic isn't doing it for me - I want my historical romance with dukes and lords and ladies and balls and society and dresses and just EVERYTHING.

It has been so long since I just ran through book lists - I did it in high school and college. I would pick and author and get all of their books from the library and gorge myself. I did it with probably 30-40 authors over the years.

And now I'm doing it again. The only problem is I keep picking authors that don't have hardbound books in the library and we don't have a good second hand store around here. Which means I'm actually buying them all new. Which is getting expensive.

I'm limiting trips to B&N and limiting the number of books I buy - but then I usually run out early in the week and go through withdrawal. It's a VICIOUS CYCLE.

It's probably a good thing I'm out of new books this week - I need to write my ronon_love story and I'm having a dinner party on Saturday that I need to plan dinner and dessert for.

Comments

[http://users.livejournal.com/tesserae_/]

Have you read Dorothy Dunnet's Lymond series?

[lavidaessueno.livejournal.com]

I edit books like that. LOL.

[rigel-7.livejournal.com]

Heee! We have the same taste in historical romances :D Regency is my all time favourite genre.

I have all of Julia Quinn and Stephanie Laurens and I'll add another author I really like onto the pile for you: Eloisa James - and she has a nice long list of books for your to work through as well. My favourite of hers is the set of interlinked books about the 4 Essex sisters, starting with "Much Ado About You".

And I totally sympathise with the spending of all my money on these books buying them new (even if they are the relatively cheap $15.95 each as opposed to regular fiction which runs more toward the $35 range...) www.abebooks.com is a good alternative to find second hand copies online where the shipping isn't as bank breaking as Amazon (or at least shipping to Australia which is pretty pricey anyways :P)

[lilac-way.livejournal.com]

Have you checked out paperbackswap.com? I've not used it yet, but people who have say it is great.

What are you going to serve for your party?