Need It: Security Blanket

Being on vacation makes you miss the stuff you have at home, the stuff you need by your side or you freak out. Your security blanket. Here's mine:

BOOKS!!!!

I needs 'em. Lots of them. This is the unread pile by my bedside. And this isn't even the pile when it's out of control.

There are lots of subpiles within the pile including:

A set of YA ghost stories. My current manuscript is a ghost story so I've sworn them off until I'm further along in submission to avoid plot-envy. This collection keeps growing. I'm excited about getting to read them!

Nonfiction geeky math stuff. I like math. And geeky stuff. This is also where I pile my Brian Greenes and my Malcolm Gladwells.






You ever buy a book, find out its part of a series, buy the series, then find out there's one more? That's what's going on with me and the Nightwatch Series. One to go. Then I'll take a long weekend and bust through these babies.






Good ol' fashioned women's fiction. I also have a pile of Nick Hornsby which I consider wf.







Stuff I read over and over and over again. Basically Twilight and cookbooks. These are the only re-reads vs un-reads in the pile.







While on vacation, I brought three books with me.
- The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak (read it, loved it, review pending)
- What I Saw and How I Lied by Judy Blundell (read it, loved it, review pending)
- Little Brother by Cory Doctorow (commandeered by husband for random needs)

Once I read the first two, my security blanket was thinning. So I did what any sensible booklover would do. I ran out and bought:
- Evermore by Alyson Noel (finished it)
- The Forest of Hands and Teeth by Carrie Ryan (reading it)
- If I Stay by Gayle Forman (next on my list)

Luckily, I made it home before another desperate dash to the bookstore. But clearly I have an emotional (yet healthy?) attachment to the written word.