The Library is Bad for Me.

I go in just to look something up or get one book I need for a paper and then bam! it's like I black out until I'm walking out of the library with 5-6 books in my arms and no idea how they got there. I think the library casts an enchanment on me to make sure that the really obscure, rarely read tomes of russian children's story (in russian) or dense studies of comparative literarture get out and see the sun. Maybe I should write a flash fiction piece on how books in the library subvert you into checking them out. Last time I went I ended up with like 10 books that I still haven't been able to read yet.
Now after this morning there are at least 5 books in the best seller section that I want to read including Kushiel's Legacy which I'm still waiting to come out in paperback, the new Nick Hornby, the new Salman Rushdie, the new Tamora Pierce, ooh ooh and this new epic fantasy based on Alice and Wonderland that makes it into a parallel universe. I know sounds cool right? Also! There's a new Colleen McCullough even though I haven't read the one in between Thorn Birds and this one either. But I love love love the Thorn Birds. In high school I was told I couldn't do a paper on it because it didn't have literary value, it was only a romance. Now as a future literary critic I beg to differ. It's a brilliant book that easily trascends generations (something very hard) yet still ties them all together. I really think the writing is great and that it deserves to be looked at as more than just a popular novel made into a mini-series (where of course they played up the sex more than was really necessary). Anyway I have to finish writing this paper so this afternoon I can exchange some of the books I've finished for those new ones I have my eye on. I can't wait!
Also I still need to get around to reading The Last Dragon by J.M. McDermott. It's been on the "to-read" list for awhile and I think it's hit the top finally. I almost bought an advance reading copy of it (it has a different cover) on ebay. I wonder if it'll be worth something one day.