I've found Heaven

Well, incase it wasn't clear from the last full post (and NOTHING was in that drunken kerfuffle), yes, I'm back up North and pretty much settled in. Already the adventures have begun! With any luck, this year will be as delightfully insane as the last.

But that's not why I'm writing this today, friends. Oh, no. Today, I bid you gather round the campfire as your humble narrator draws you a map to Heaven. The garden of earthly delights is not Eden, but Allison The Bookman.

After grocery shopping and dinner, Mike and I made a "quick" stop at Allison the Bookman, a seemingly small, out of the way used book store sinfully close to where I now live. I hadn't even got through the door when I found myself thrown into the most awe inspiring, insane worlwind of... Good lord, I can't even describe it. There were Nora Roberts by the table, Hundreds of copies of books screaming "You Must Have Me, if only for the prestige!"

And So, a spree insued.

Yes, I know what you're thinking, It was less than a month ago that I posted my monumental reading list for Kid Lit, which, though I'm making some progress, will take me some serious time to burn though, And I really, REALLY can't afford to be blowing my cash on any little guilty pleasure, but COME ON!! Mike's going to California to veg next week, Todd, Vanessa, Will and Tanya are going to see Tori Amos this weekend, My parents are at the cottage with my puppy... I DESERVE this!!

That said, I am now the giddily proud owner of

Tara Road - Maeve Binchy (I had a copy, but thick books like that suck up water like a friggin sponge...)
The Norton Anthology of English Literature, 5th Ed. - Which was friggin FREE!!!
Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov (ok, it was the biggest cost at $21, because it was new)
A Midsummer Night's Dream - Shakespeare (my favorite of his plays)
Four Tragedies: Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, Julius Caeser and Hamlet - Shakespeare
Vampire: The Masquerade player's handbook - It's out of print. And it's MINE. Bite that one, Toddly!! And next on the pecking order are the acompanying permutation guidebooks...

And of course, I'm wandering through, seeing the books that go with Tara Road, the rest of the Anne of Green Gables books, Masses of just fascinating looking...

Gah! I mean, Gah! I walked out of there in a state of bliss I haven't felt in a long time! I think I may have to start spending a few hours (and a few dollars) in there every week!

I'm going to go play with my pretties now, but I'll be back later with tales of the madness that was Saturday Night Past.

*Squee!*