Listening to Cicero

"A home without books is a body without soul."  

Marcus Tullius Cicero

 If Cicero is right then my home has a whole lotta soul.

Paperbacks spill across every surface in here, my room. Little stacks of them on my floor, my desk, my shelves. 

One day I might even read them all.

I’ve got a problem, it would seem. 

A book-specific kleptomaniac-ish type of problem. Whenever I find that I’ve stumbled absentmindedly into a bookshop – and this happens far too often - it’s not an option to simply leave empty handed. 

Three books seems to do it. 

                   Why three books? 
I don’t know. It just feels right, okay? 
There’s just something about the number three that feels right, you know? Plato believed that there are three parts to the soul - maybe that explains it. I need a book for each part of my soul. It’s actually really profound and Romantic and lovely…

...But I also might just be greedy.

                Never listen to the excuses of an uncontrollable bibliophile.