Bibliophile

Dear Self,

You finally did it.  You broke down and bought a bookshelf.

It was possible that already owning three bookshelves + closet shelf that caused you to put it off as long as you did.  In a room your size, there just isn't much space left.

You can make do, you kept telling yourself.  Except that whenever you cleaned your room, you found on average 40 books piled up in stacks around your bed and at least a pile of 10 books on the dresser just inside the bedroom door.

The mess is due to all my clothes.  Or because I'm disorganized.  Or I just don't have time to clean.  All of these funny little things you kept telling yourself as you carefully stepped over the minefield of books to get to your bed every night.

Why it never occurred to you before yesterday, I will never know.

Because, let's face it, when you have enough books to already fill the entire shelf, you've just waited too long...

Love,
Me