In 2022, I will not rob myself of any tiny joys. Then I’m forced to buy pens and pencils to pair them with and it’s a whole thing.ĭo I intend to remedy this obsession in any meaningful way? Nah.
For every one I buy, I’m probably gifted another three by folks who know I have a penchant for jotting down to do lists and random thoughts in prettily bound collections of paper. Floral planners, gold planners, green planners, vintage, old-timey looking notebooks, more than I’ll probably get to in my lifetime. I use those front-faced titles to hide my secret shame, which is that I own so. That has, of course, been a feat easier said than done, and I’ll probably buy a second case this year because who the hell was I kidding? But I’ve more or less managed, even when acquiring new books, to keep it to that singular Billy through a very precise, not at all chaotic strategy I like to call “shove books in literally any empty space,” which includes placing several front-facing titles in each row of that shelf.Īnd here’s a little secret: behind those front-facing titles aren’t just more books. I took myself down to Ikea and got exactly one Billy bookcase, vowing that I’d only hang on to as many books as would fit on that bad boy going forward. When I left San Diego in the summer of 2019, I only brought about one third of the books I owned with me on my trek to the Pacific Northwest. When not reading books or selling them, she can be found blogging, working on her first novel or cozying up at a library.
Vanessa’s penchant for books, travel and tea is rivaled only by her serious addictions to milk, avocado and floral lattes. If loving Agatha Christie is wrong, she doesn't want to be right.
Vanessa is a writer, reader and generally bookish Latina from San Diego.
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