I Need A Book Icon
Jan. 31st, 2005 10:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mishalakI was making a suggestion to ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
alias_lilacgirl about cravings to write about. Being me I suggested a book addition.
Her: "I just need one more, man! Just a little one. Someting to calm my nerves. I'll take a magazine."
I sometimes think the only reason that readers joke about being addicted to books is so that the public won't know that it is true. For me books are even worse than sex. I dread the day when someone stumbles in upon me stroking the spine of a favorite volume and I have to swear nothing is going on.
Book people exist as our own strange little sub-culture. Amoung the non-readers, nearly invisible, and totally strange to outsiders. We get movies like The Ninth Gate and cried at the end of The Name of the Rose.
alias_lilacgirl about cravings to write about. Being me I suggested a book addition. Her: "I just need one more, man! Just a little one. Someting to calm my nerves. I'll take a magazine."
I sometimes think the only reason that readers joke about being addicted to books is so that the public won't know that it is true. For me books are even worse than sex. I dread the day when someone stumbles in upon me stroking the spine of a favorite volume and I have to swear nothing is going on.
Book people exist as our own strange little sub-culture. Amoung the non-readers, nearly invisible, and totally strange to outsiders. We get movies like The Ninth Gate and cried at the end of The Name of the Rose.