Reading Tree

LaTrobe University Bendigo's Heyward Library is celebrating the National Year of Reading with, among other things, a Reading Tree... Grab a leaf and write a favourite title... you might even get yourself a lolly!

You know you've made it when your name appears in Wikipedia

Stupid (depending upon who is judging) Obsessions...

I do go and get myself all obsessive about things, like particular authors.
Like Lisa Carver.
Or Lisa Crystal Carver.
Like when I see a book I want to read.
Then another one.
But I can't seem to find them anywhere.
And I'm embarrased about how many Interlibrary loans/document deliveries (depending upon which library world you live in).
So you go searching.
Then you find that you've read one years ago.
So you think about your frind Nettie who you've lost touch with.
Then you get more obsessive about it.
Then you find that you can buy them directly from the author so you do.
But you hope you get to the Post Office first because you shouldnt be buying any more books because your trying to save and YOU WORK IN A LIBRARY!
But you buy them anyway and you can t wait to read them.
Like I cant wait to read these...

 

Jealous much...

A guy I used to work with just had his novel published. I feel a strange sense of jealousy. It's not that I feel I should have a novel published. I don't even like reading novels that much, let alone have any desire to write one. And it's not that I don't think this guy is deserving of literary success, from what I can tell he's worked damn hard on his literary career in the approx. 8 years since I worked with him. I think it's that this guy was goddamn dodgy... He was pretty open about his cheating on his girlfriend (with us anyway, definitely not with her!), the obvious pash rash on female work colleagues and calling in sick to me and telling me that "he was still drunk"... The guy even writes under his new name... nah well. At least it's got me back on here thinking maybe I should do some more writing...