distantheartbeats:

I was having a crappy day a few days ago, so I sauntered into Waterstone’s. I had no business being there, but I wanted to say hello and stop for a chat with a couple of my favourite workers. I ended up stress-buyingbooks. You know, instead of stress-eating. It’s a thing, okay? IT’S A THING.

American Gods by Neil Gaiman
Wish I Was Here by Jackie Kay
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Liesl & Po by Lauren Oliver

I’ve been meaning to read American Gods for a long time now, so I decided to just go for it. I’m meeting/photographing Jackie Kay next month, so I wanted to read something by her. I already own The Secret Garden in an old Puffin paperback, but this Penguin Thread edition has been tempting me for a long time. Really, it’s just amazing I’ve managed to restrain this long and that I didn’t also buy the gorgeous Black Beauty. Liesl & Po (which is junior fiction if I remember correctly) I bought purely because Zoë really loved it, and it’s beautifully illustrated and was half off.

I’m going to try and hold off from more book purchases but I make no silly promises. And by silly, I mean prudent, considering I’m (hopefullyfingerscrossed) graduating in four months and I have no fucking clue where I’m going. How I’m going to figure that out and then figure out a way to lug ~300 books (if not more) with me I really don’t know. Shh. We’re not thinking about it.