Tuesday, December 8, 2009

Book Thief

Today at work, Annie and I started true confessing about books we've stolen--or wish we'd stolen (she once found a signed first edition of a classic kids book in her sister's hometown library and was sorely tempted).

I myself once took an old paperback edition of THE TWO TOWERS from the shelves of the beach house my family rents for a week each summer. Yeah and here's the worst part. The house belongs to nuns. So I am the kind of person who steals from nuns.

I have to live with that.
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9 comments:

  1. Lisa B.December 8, 2009 at 9:17 PM

    Your family rents a beach house from nuns? How did I not know this crucial detail about you?

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  2. SWILUADecember 8, 2009 at 9:50 PM

    hahaha! it all makes sense now...

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  3. BeccaDecember 9, 2009 at 6:22 AM

    Don't the nuns take some sort of anti-ownership vows anyway? So stealing from nuns isn't really stealing, it's more like living the communal law.

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  4. wjmomDecember 9, 2009 at 8:52 AM

    That's it. I'm tellin'...

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  5. LucindaFDecember 9, 2009 at 9:10 AM

    Thief of scallop edged crystal dishes and a nuns book. You're living a life of crime.

    You should contact your library and ask them to donate part of the proceeds that they collect from your book return tardiness to a convent.

    Or, I could start confessing to you and by comparison you will receive Sainthood.

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  6. AndriaDecember 9, 2009 at 11:11 AM

    I only stole from family members. I stole fluffy romance novels from my mom and from my aunt's old room at my grandma's house. I did finally return the book to my aunt's room, but those Harlequin romances were mine forever. I was about 13 or 14 at the time.

    Most recently, I almost stole a copy of Writer's Digest from my gym because I liked some of the articles in it and I didn't think anyone at my gym would mind. But, at the last minute, I decided not to my ruin my minute chance of getting into Heaven, and I checked the issue out of the library instead.

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  7. BBBDecember 9, 2009 at 12:41 PM

    That is awesome.

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  8. AnneDecember 10, 2009 at 6:06 PM

    OK, I also "borrowed" my brother-in-law's mass market copy of Pillars of the Earth and never even read it. I brought it into the bookstore yesterday to donate to the troops overseas.

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  9. Louise PlummerDecember 11, 2009 at 4:03 PM

    I figure you can steal books from beach rentals if you also leave a book you've already read. That way the library is every changing.

    Could you do that with sterling silver flatware?

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