obsession

“Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not a hobby. Those who do it must do it. Those who do not do it think of it as a cousin of stamp collecting, a sister of the trophy cabinet, bastard of a sound bank account and a...

"I have this weird obsession about buying books and looking at them with a smile, even if I won't read them soon. At least they are mine now." Anaïs Nin

Cure for an obsession: get another one. Mason Cooley

It had to come. It's time to sell my flat and move on. Happy memories, but the hard part was dealing with my books. I have a lot of fiction (most of which I have kept, including almost every one of John Le Carre's novels), and a huge amount of non-fiction. I can keep some, but much of the...