In an unexpected pile-up last night the library cart collided with my neighbor's dog and a small child on a scooter, resulting in THICK RICH TOMATO JUICE SPEWED ALL OVER MY SEX & POLITICS SECTION.

I'll have to throw a few clams on top of it and call it "Love Story."

Steve - wow what a collection!
I love that for you.

I've a friend at work who confessed last night that she has every available wall in her house covered with book cases. She is Christian, and only reads the accompanying material (God's instructions it seems), so it astounded me though when she went on to tell me that all her kitchen cabinets and dresser drawers are filled with books as well. She furthermore said she has Tupperware storage tubs stacked up throughout the house. Gadz!

I delicately asked why kept so much material on religion? Didn't she find it a rather materialistic thing to do? Her reply was that she never knew when God would tell her to read a certain book and she wanted to have it ready just in case. "Christian material hits the shelves in bookstores, then tends to disappear," she told me.

"Uh huh, mmm,,,, it must be nice to have all that room." I replied. Well? What could I say?

And I only 'thought' I was obsessed as a book collector.

In that vein, I have a few shelves where I stash the books I want to have the nurses read to me when my eyes go. I figure it'll be fun as a little old lady to ask to be read to very sweetly and earnestly and then hand over something very different than expected.