My book fetish ;)

You know.. someone once asked me how many books I own. And at the time, I actually didn’t know.

But I’ve cleaned up my bookshelf, arranged all my reading books alphabetically by author and seriously tidied up the whole entire bookshelf (I can’t say the same for my room though). But I just finished and I counted all the reading books I own and the official count is fifty-two!

But that’s excluding all the children’s books (eg. Guess how I much I love you – the four piece season set) and the picture books (Graeme Base! ♥)

Phew… I spent the day cleaning the oven today as well… God it smelt like crap. Seriously. And I think I might have tasted some of that oven cleaning spray/fluid thing because it was burning my eyes and my mouth tasted like shit for half an hour. Yuck.

Tomorrow I tidy up my desk and start filing away old uni lecture notes and assignments (I’ve already filed away half of them). Yeah, I can be really anal about my books.

I dunno if I’ve ever told anyone before but I’m not the superstitious type or anything, but I’m really superstitious about anything regarding books.

I’m not sure I know all the superstitions about books but my mother always told me never to step on books because it ruins your knowledge and learning or something similar, something like disrespecting the book. You can imagine my face if I ever step on a book. It’s pretty dramatic (in my head).

I hate breaking the spine of my books too. Like… I take so much care how I hold the book so that the spine doesn’t crack…. I hate being so reckless with my books.

I remember once in primary school I was reading a book and I had to put it down to help my friend do something and I put the open book face down on the table. And just that moment, the librarian walks in and asks ‘Who’s book is that and why did they leave it there like that?!’ And I was a total bookworm when I was a kid.

(I got an award for the most books read in a year and I visited the library every afternoon. And not only did I borrow books from the school library and the public library but I borrowed books from my Scottish teacher Mrs. Choo who had a subscription to the Horrible Histories magazines.)

Immediately after hearing the librarian say that my heart literally sank and I was so embarrassed and ashamed of myself for treating a book like that. Now I’m just seriously anal about the way I treat my books. I even tag them… with a little pink sticker of a teddy bear part of a sticker book just to show that they’re MY books and no one else’s.

I remember once I was in Vietnam and my little cousin was reading a childrens book too and he couldn’t read a word and so he got mad and threw the book and started jumping on it! I remember raging and I was all ‘NO, DON’T DO THAT TO THE BOOK, YOU’LL RUIN YOUR CHANCES OF LEARNING’. My cousin was about 6 years old, and I was about 14 years old.
I guess I’ve always been anal about books. Hahaha

Well ciao everyone! I’m gonna sit on my butt and do the usual stuff (ie. Surf the net, watch ranma, be a bum etc)

PS. Did I also mention I fell out of bed this morning? HaiYen called me about going to Sunnybank tonight and I got up out of bed so fast I fell because my foot was caught in my quilt. Silly me >_>