A Hero is Never Forgotten, but a Legend Never Dies.

I love books. If I could, I’d spend every dime I have on books. They smell nice, they look great, they make me feel all warm and fuzzy and make me want to curl up in my couch with a blanket on top of me, sipping hot chocolate milk while I dive into the adventures of heros and heroines. But books are expensive. If you go to the normal book shops and buy one of the most recent novels, you will end up having to spend at least 20 euros, sometimes even 30 euros. So I try to go to the cheaper book shops to satisfy my book-craving but the novels they have in stock there are very limited. Usually they have volume 1 and 3 of a series or 2 and 3 or whatever they can do to torment you. It’s some sort of sick and twisted game of society to turn us bookworms into freaking psychopaths because there is always one volume of our series missing, or even worse: the volume is there but the print is completely different. Go figure how that would look in my book closet. /whine. Because of all this, I was relieved to be able to go to a cheap yearly book market located near my university. Although eventually I was dissapointed because they had mostly English books while my native language is Dutch and although I like an English book once in a while, I do want at least 80 percent of my purchased books to be in Dutch, they had a lot more to choose from than the cheap book shops I used to go to. Regarding fantasy though, my all-time favourite genre, they were very lacking. I bought some historical novels, some English classics and something to keep my WoW fangirlness happy. Here’s the complete list of books I bought, for the total cheap price of 50 euros.

• Dracula (Wordsworth Classics) by Bram Stoker.
• Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak.
• North and South (Wordsworth Classics) by Elizabeth Gaskell
• Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Wordsworth Classics) by Robert Louis Stevenson.
• Jane Eyre (Wordsworth Classics) by Charlotte Bronte.
• Frankenstein (Wordsworth Classics) by Mary Shelley.
• The Annotated Elminster Collector’s Edition (The Elminster Series) by Ed Greenwood.
• The Dreamers Book 3: Crystal Gorge by David Eddings.
• The Dreamers Book 4: The Younger Gods by David Eddings.
• Sense and Sensibility (Wordsworth Classics) by Jane Austen.
• The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova.
• The Alchemist’s Daughter by Katharine McMahon.
• Helen of Troy by Margaret George.
• World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade Official Strategy Guide by BradyGames.

I know the last book is a bit outdated, but I bought it because I’m an official WoW fangirl and thought I couldn’t miss this guide in my collection.

What about you guys, are you a bookworm like me or do you only read when you have to? Do you buy your novels at cheap book markets or do you prefer just buying one or two a year at the local book shop?