I mentioned the Amazon Cart in my New Years Resolutions post, and I have a feeling it is going to keep coming up constantly in the blog.
You see, the Amazon Cart has become an entity all on its own. It is there, in the corner of my mind, all day. After lunch at work, I open up Amazon, look at the cart, add things, take away things, see my total, change the currency into Chilean pesos, and say “Yes. Today I will definitely place the order”.
But I never get to that. Whenever I am about to borrow someone’s credit card to order, I remember all the “real life” things I have to save money for, and so, I get guilted out of ordering.
Why is this Amazon order so important?
Well, it’s like this: I get to order books once a year (as a personal rule). Due to the lack of recent books in English here in Chile this order must last me the entire year. One order a year is my limit. It is too damn expensive to order books internationally and I don’t get payed enough to feed my book love.
Last year I had no Amazon order because I was in Australia, where books are A) Available and B) At a reasonable price**. So I just bought books as I read them.
The thing is, new technology is driving me crazy. With the influx of information from forums, blogs, and Twitter, I get overwhelmed by the amount of books I would like to read and can’t. Unlike some of my friends, I don’t do online book piracy, so I just wait for my chance.
Today, I have decided not to order. Perhaps tomorrow I will change my mind. Who knows?
Anyway, this is the Cart as it stands today. I will update as it changes =)
1) Tempest Rising by Nicole Peeler
2) Wicked Lovely: Desert Tales, Volume 2: Challenge by Melissa Marr
3) The Book of Lilith by Robert G. Brown
4) Halfway to the Grave (Night Huntress, Book 1) by Jeaniene Frost
5) Comic Book Tattoo Special Edition by Various
6) Ballads of Suburbia by Stephanie Kuehnert
7) Ash by Malinda Lo
8) Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater
9) Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia
10) White Cat (Curse Workers, Book 1) by Holly Black
11) Ballad: A Gathering of Faerie by Maggie Stiefvater
12) Fire (Graceling) by Kristin Cashore; Hardcover
13) Half-Minute Horrors by Various
14) Bones of Faerie by Janni Lee Simner
15) Faeries (25th Anniversary Edition) by Brian Froud
16) I, Lucifer: Finally, the Other Side of the Story by Glen Duncan
17) The Blue Girl by Charles de Lint
*Books in Chile possess neither of those characteristics
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