So I'm going to write a book

Yeh so today I decided I wanted to write a book. Don't ask me why, it just came to me and I decided to do so. I think I'm mainly doing it because it's just struck me that after study leave I still have 2 months left of school oh dear god help me! So to get me through that I'm going to write a book. It's not going to be a proper novel, more like a collection of short stories, but at the same time it's not just a collection of short stories. You won't understand what I mean until I've actually finished it. I've got ideas for it and I've started writing some of it. I've also decided to keep it interesting and different it's going to be multi-cultural and include diagrams, pictures and photographs. I guess I've always liked the idea of writing a book but have never actually got round to it so this is me getting round to it as it were. So there we go, my achievement this year is going to be to write a book!

Too many books?

Having decided to attempt to tidy up my bookshelves today, I realised I have run out of space. Shocking seeing as I only bought 2 new bookshelves less than a year ago. So I asked myself can a person have too many books?

Most books you can fit into 3 categories:
Books you will read more than once
Books you will never read again
Books you begin to read and give up halfway through

So what do you do with those books that belong in the last 2 categories? Do you keep them thinking 'Yeh, I'll read them in ten years time.' or do you get rid of them, probably for half the price you bought them and therefore losing about £4 for every book you sell. If you keep them you're only going to have to buy more bookshelves for any new books that you buy and say you buy a new bookshelf every two years, thats about...£1050. Quite expensive. So if you sell those unwanted books how much would that be? Well say you buy 25 unwanted books per year, and when you sell them you lose about £4 of the original price so thats...£7500 less off.

So, the result? You can never have too many books because it's simply too expensive to bother getting rid of all the ones you don't want. Just keep buying new bookshelves every couple of years and you'll be around 6000 quid better off by the time you're placed in the soil.

The hairs on the back of your neck...

I have lately found myself obsessed with song lyrics. So I felt the need for a list. It's a work in progress...

'Memory seeps from my veins, let me be empty and weightless'

Angel - Sarah Mclachlan

'holy scriptures of the shopping mall'

Jesus of Suburbia - Green Day

'If life is cruel then someone lied'

I Love It When We Do - Ronan Keating

'If you're a heart without a home. Rebel without a cause. If you feel as though you're always stranded on the shore, like a thief in the night let me steal your heart away'

Heart Without A Home - Westlife

'Take a picture of what you think love looks likein your imagination'

Colour My World - Westlife

'I sit and wait, does an angel contemplate my fate?'

Angels - Robbie Williams

'Remember every new beginning is some beginning's end'

Welcome to Wherever You Are - Bon Jovi