books

i have lots of trouble buying sensible things. ask me to buy clothes and all i can think of is going to tescos to get cheap jeans and peacocks to get new t-shirts. ask me to buy trainers and it is where is cheap that sells more than nike? household goods? what are they and even then it has been awhile since i bought anything for the flat, who needs furniture…

but books i have no trouble buying. in fact the real trouble i have is not buying books. oh look cheap books in tescos. no no no put that back you haven’t read the last 5 novels you bought, but they are cheap. oh look here i am in the eastside bookshop and there is a gorgeous book about london buildings, only £33 and here is one about the history of the east end, only £30 and look a study about family life in east london only £16… put them down now!

oh that nice chap in spitalfields market has several penguin books i can add to the collection. only £2 each, oh ok get a few.

marxism 2007 lets see what they have there. oh a book by john pilger. get it. oh that one from terry eagleton looks good. get it. mmm there is an interesting book by a hip new commentator whose name i can’t even say, oh what the hell add it to the pile. must stay on budget. ooops passed it a book ago. but there is this one and that one i need.
escape from here now, run to the tills and pay for what you have and leave.
more books in the pile to read.
(thanks go to cliff for helping that pile grow.)

flick through the weekend review section. bugger me that john gray book sounds interesting. so does the new hobsbawn one. they can go on the list of books i should check out. mmm the badly written review of conrad black’s biography on nixon has me tempted (though why i am not sure it is not like i have had that much of an interest in nixon…)

shit ali campbell’s diary comes out this week, gotta get that.
noooooooooooo stop me now.

about the only thing i buy more of than books are tins of diet coke….

my name is pat and i am addicted book buyer. please help.