Welcome and hello to none and all

This is my new blogspot home. I've had an alternate idea for a blog for a while now, but not felt either one I have (it amazes me how readily the Internet furnishes people with outlets for their drivel :) has felt the right place. One is nice and neutral and more of a diary, catch-up blog, while the other was an account of the dark. So here is my new home to spill all my aimless, inconsequential thoughts on all things books.
Considering I buy so many books a month (the number, which will become apparent as the blog progresses, is shameful) and have so many read and unread, loved and unknown on my shelves, I thought it a natural, long over-due choice to have a book blog. I have no academic or literary credentials. I do not follow any particular genre or subject. I'm a book whore, a book nymph, and I will consume anything and everything. However I do go by the adage that life is too short to read bad books. Although I rarely give up on a book. I am discerning, but to my own tastes, not others'.
I think this will give me an idea of the colossus that is my book collection and also how little I actually get read, being a dipper and a diver. I dip in and out of some, then dive head-first and don't come up for air til the last page on others.
It will also, perhaps, be an examination of addiction. As I do get a high from buying books, am not put off by monetary means, or lack thereof, and am convinced the next book I read will be The One; the perfect story, the one with which I will feel an indelible kinship, the one to fix me and make me whole. Maybe the only one with which I feel that kinship will be the one I write myself :)