Bibliophilia

'Bibliophilia is the love of books. Accordingly a bibliophile loves books, but especially "for qualities of format." A bookworm loves books for their content, or otherwise loves reading in general. Bibliophilia is generally considered to be incorrect, but some would say it is a new, recent, usage. The practice of loving or collecting books is dubbed bibliophilism, and the adjective form of the term is bibliophilic. Also, a bibliophile may be a book collector.' ~from Wikipedia

OK!!!! I love collecting books and reading books, I even like reading about books, this is no secret, at least not to those who know me well. Recently, while reading about books on my favorite website, Amazon.com, I came across this blog stream called 'A cure for bibliophilia?' My first thought was "wha, it's a disease!?!" My second thought was "why would I need to be cured!?!"

Reading further I found that it was a blog stream of persons, who like me, share a sort of perverted passion for books. We buy books when we already have a mountain of them, waiting to be read, on shelves and various other objects around our home; we steadily cruise online looking for the next great bookstore; we refuse to go to the library because, of course, these books must be owned, not simply borrowed; we categorize them according to author or by fiction and nonfiction, or by read or unread, etc.

How thrilling it is to find that I am not the only one plagued with this affliction. If there is ever a cure found for this disease called 'biblophilia', kindly refrain from informing me, as in this case ignorance will surely be bliss.

Say your peace at the amazon blog stream:

http://www.amazon.com/tag/fiction/forum/ref=cm_cd_ys_rt_tft_tp?%5Fencoding=UTF8&cdForum=Fx1X9OILUVOYVZ7&cdThread=Tx3SKYEVJ72LF47

By the way.....currently reading 'Astrid and Veronika' by Linda Olsson. I realized recently, that I have a preference for novels which feature women as the protagonist. Guess that comes from being one. This novel has mixed reviews, some seem to love it while others were left feeling a little unstatisfied at the end. I have only read the first few chapters, but so far I have a good feeling about this one.