It’s the middle of January, which means I’m counting down the days (six and a half!) until my annual pilgrimage to the Lifeline Bookfest. The Brisbane edition of this is billed as the biggest secondhand book sale in the southern hemisphere, and it’s where I buy nearly all my books. So today I sat down with pen and paper and began making my list of books and authors to look out for.
I soon had a list of 50 51 books and 34 authors. It sounded quite unimpressive until I realised that of the works of those 34 authors, there were nearly 330 books that I don’t have.
That’s 380 books altogether. And that’s not including the probably sizeable list of books that I’ve forgotten about. Or the ones I haven’t heard of but will stumble across on the day. It’s times like this I wish I could afford to get my license and run a car; fighting the traffic on the Pacific Motorway would be worth it to be able to bring home more books than just what I can carry. Of course it really is the luck of the draw as to what’s laid out on the tables at the particular time I happen to be browsing; probably I won’t find even a tenth of the 380.
Which could be a good thing: After all, where would be the fun in a world with nothing left to read?
3 comments:
WOW!! I would be excited to go to a show like this with you!! too bad I'm in Canada. Take pictures for us.
Heather
www.thelibraryladder.blogspot.com
Sounds like heaven! Happy hunting!
What Kirsten said--Heaven for a booklover. I hope you have a great time. I think I'd have to borrow someone's van for the day--forget a car load! Haha
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