Books, books, books

My lovely friend Mia, blogged about this site: http://bookshelfporn.com/ and I am officially obsessed. I want to get lost in one of these bookstores with her and race to see who can find the best book (of course we will both win because we will both think that the book we've chosen is the best). There's just something so nostalgic about books. The way they feel, the way they sound, the way they smell...all of your senses are engaged when you read a book. For me, all of those senses are also awakened when I enter a bookstore or a library. One of my friends recently asked me: So what's with you and bookstores lately? And honestly, I've always had an obsession with books, shops, libraries, but I feel like I lost touch with a lot of the simple pleasures in life during my old job. I was frankly too busy and too "in the zone" to even stop and enjoy a book I was reading or the smell of a library. With books, you can always remember the places you bought them, who gave them to you, where you read them, what part of your life you were at when you read them, mark them up, write notes in them, lend them to a friend...you can display books as a badge of honor, "yes I was there, yes I conquered that, I took something from that book and made it my own." What's better than that? When I enter a book store I feel like I've been transported to another time. My voice gets quiet, my steps are light, I become a person with hopes and dreams that are contained within the books on the shelves. Yes...I am a nerd. But this is one part of me that I am glad I reconnected with.

These pictures are just some of my favorites from the site that literally made me giddy inside.