My thoughts are rather scattered today for some reason and I am having a hard time rounding them up so please forgive my rambling. After finishing Wilkie Collins on Friday I didn’t have much opportunity to read over the weekend. Oh I read, just nothing fun unless you are yearning with all your heart to know about Drupal.

I did start reading a new book today, one I took off my reading binge pile, Terry Pratchett’s Unseen Academicals. I haven’t gotten far, but it is going to be classic Pratchett. Half of the very first page is taken up with a footnote and a footnote to the footnote. Pratchett’s footnotes are so goofy that they sometimes rival the actual story for interest and fun. If you are a Pratchett fan already, don’t think twice about getting yourself a copy of the book. If you are not a fan, well, maybe by the time I finish the book I will be able to convert you by tricking you into attending a Terry Pratchett tent revival meeting (there is no such thing but it would be fun if there were).

It is a good thing I took Unseen Academicals from my binge pile because then I was able to add some other books to it. It has become a rather towering pile and no longer realistic for what I can read for the final month of the year even with my two-week vacation in there. I keep telling myself it is not just for my reading vacation but also for Emily’s TBR Tome Challenge. I’ll be participating in it but cannot be blamed should I get a book gift card for the holidays and go over the amount of the card. Oh, and there is the end of the year Half Price Books blowout sale where you have to spend $30 in order to get a free calendar that also has a year of excellent discount coupons in it. If I don’t buy books the calendar is something like $10 and that just seems like a waste so in a weird way I’m saving money by buying books.

There have been mutterings around the book blogosphere about cutting back on book buying and Dorothy is feeling guilty about all her unreads. I wonder if that makes publishers quake in their boots or do they shrug it off knowing that those of us who say we are cutting back won’t be able to manage it for perhaps more than a month or two because, well, the word addiction comes to mind here. Hmm, does that mean that the library is like methadone for book addicts?