For many years, I have been deluding myself into thinking that I no longer spend as much money on buying books like I used to. One, because I no longer trawl through book websites looking for the next thing to read; and two, because I have not been stalking any of of my favourite authors for new releases. I have a few books strewn about the place that I started reading, but have not finished, which is something I rarely do. And equally, I have books which I know I have finished, but I can't remember anything about the plot or characters or even how it ended. However, in my periodic bouts of cleaning and organsing, I went through my book receipts for the past 2 years which I keep in a file on the off chance my tax claims are audited. It seems that I have, on average, been buying 2 books every month. Most are works of fiction, one or two are reference books for my studies. And here I was deluding myself into thinking that it's okay buying expensive face creams and splashing o