It’s called books. Seriously, I stalk authors that I like for recommendations, I aspire to be a stay at home blogger/author, and I read books to bring me to that lifestyle.

I take the shape of the main characters, from reading Eat, Pray, Love I now have thought about my own search for God, my own coming to a religion as I prepare to be accepted into the Catholic church on Saturday night.

But seriously, today marks Holy Thursday, Lent is over either today, tomorrow or Saturday, I forget which they told us in class on Tuesday night, but I received a comment from a fabulous newbie to Life in Pink, and stalked down her page only to find she has an amazing taste in books - many of which I want to read and have on my amazon/bookmooch wishlist. I found two of the books on her list cheap on amazon so what did i do? And another book that I want to read before my first BOOK CLUB! MEETING! IN APRIL!!!! So…I ordered them…

Despite the fact that boyfriend’s cousin - whom I’ve never even met - sent me three books on spirituality to celebrate my confirmation. I couldn’t express my joy when we walked downstairs to our stoop and I saw an amazon package with my name on it. It took us a minute to figure out who they were from. I need to write his cousin and his aunt who sent me a nice card thank you notes and send them out.

On top of the soon to be six new books…I have still, at least 8 books from when I went on the huge splurge right before Lent with my amazon/barnes & noble gift cards from Christmas. I still have a number of bookmooch books that I’ve gotten recently that I haven’t read because this book is taking me freakin’ FOREVER. Seriously, I’ve been reading it all month and while I’ve enjoyed it…I really really realllllly want it to be over so I can start something new. I keep forgetting it in the mornings though, and I haven’t been going to the gym as much recently and I always read when I’m on the elliptical.

I love love love books. I’ve always been a huge book nerd, when I was in third grade I was reading at about an 8th grade level. Most of it has to do with the fact that both my mother and father are huge book nerds also. Although, for some reason my attempts to skew my father’s conservative political beliefs to the left by giving him great American literature by the political figures such as Ambassador Joe Wilson as well as the books by Tom Brokaw about the “greatest generation” went…unread or at the very least, uncommented on. Harrumph.To give you a sense of my book addiction, I have one overflowing bookshelf in the living room, boyfriend has three (much larger) bookshelves which are really probably only two filled bookshelves because of the bottom shelves that remain empty for puppy-proofing purposes. (gawd I love alliteration) In the bedroom? I insisted we purchase two matching bookshelves (of the smaller ones that I brought into the mix) so that a. i could have some storage space and b. for the books that were slowly stacking themselves out of my bookcase in the living room. I’ve been firm on keeping our books segregated because I like my book collection…chick lit, kennedy biographies, and all the political books in between (everything from Hillary Clinton to Jared Diamond to Al Franken…can you tell I’m a bleeding heart Liberal…though I call myself a moderate because I don’t like to be associated with hippies). I move the books around to show off the new ones, the ones that makes me look well read (i.e. not Sarah Mlynowski novels) and my hard cover books which make me look like I can spend a lot of money on books.

Truth be told, I am a book-a-holic. Now, if anyone would like to contribute to my addiction, my birthday is just around the corner and I have a growing amazon wishlist. Inquire within. For now? I’m going to finish some work and then hop on the metro with my book. Too bad I don’t have the time to take the long way around the city today.