Book crazy

Last Sunday I went to the Seattle Public Library Book Sale...last day...everything was fifty cents! I came away with 22 childrens books. I picked up mostly books published in the 1950's through 1970's by authors like L.M. Boston (the Green Knowe books), John Rowe Townsend, Patricia Lynch, John Macken, N.M.Bodecker (nonsense poetry), Philippa Pearce (author of "Tom's Midnight Garden"), William Mayne, Edward Ardizzone, and Bill Peet. Now to find the time to read them! I've also ordered about 15 books online over the last week. I have one book waiting for me at the library I'll pick up today...don't know...it'll be a surprise...and two books to return today...which I haven't even started. Maybe I should quit my day job...but then I'd get lazy...besides I like my work. I could so see going into debt just buying books online. It's truly addictive. I look at the back of some old 1960's Puffin children's book I just read and discover other books that sound great. Then I go online and order them...even though I know nothing about the author. I just want to take the chance of making some new discovery! Of course I also hope all this reading will improve my writing...possibly taking it in different directions. I'm still reading William Mayne's book "The World Upside Down" (1954), his second book. It kind of feels like a metaphor for my world now...having finished Fall Rush at the University Book Store...even though the subject matter is completely different. There's treasure in England's Yorkshire Dales...it could be a fish, a grandfather, a chest of gold...depending on how you look at it. I'm taking my time reading this book. It's less about the plot and more about the poetry of the landscape...the children's relationship to this ancient landscape...as well as the sometimes humorous journey into how children think. So much to read!