Why did Achilles have to have a heel, and why on earth did he pass it on to the rest of us?

I can't help it. And I know I must stop, if only to give me a chance to enjoy those which I already have. But I looooovvvvveee them soooooo much. The feel of them. The differing weights of them. The smell of them. The appearance of them. How they take up those specific areas on the shelves. Damn those evil books!

I can't stop buying them. And seeing as how I have managed to pass the book thing on to Principessa, I give myself an excuse to buy books by buying them for her. Addicted, I am.

I have so many books that I have bought in the last few months I need to read. I have books I bought years ago that I haven't got around to reading because I bought other books that took priority. I am running out of space to put new books, but I can't stop myself from buying another one here or there. And Amazon have a lot to answer for... Buy more than £15 of stuff and get free delivery. The delivery charge on one or two books is usually enough to buy another book, so I can bear the extra few days wait to buy that extra book and qualify for the free delivery. Talk about circles with teeth.

When I get a new book, I can't help myself but take a dip in the new words on those new pages. This usually results in putting down the book I am reading at that time, and most of the time it means that the book that is being read gets put down and never picked up again, losing out to the new, shiny words.

So today I received 'The Ode Less Travelled' by Stephen Fry, 'Plato And A Platypus Walk Into A Bar' by Cathcart and Klein, a rhyming dictionary for me, and a rhyming dictionary for Principessa. (Not that she's taken much notice of it yet, she is far too busy watching Over The Hedge for the umpteenth time. The only thing she has wanted to read today is my t-shirt. It says 'Red Hot Chili Peppers' on it. It's a start, I suppose!)

I have flicked through the rhyming dictionary to see how to use it. For the moment I have ignored 'Plato And A Platypus...', but I couldn't help but delve into 'Ode...'. I still haven't finished 'Jane Eyre', and I am nowhere close to getting started on 'Wide Sargasso Sea' - and I have to read that for my course. Why can't I stay concentrated?