I'm afraid all my good wishes to finish the LOTR chapter today came to naught; I couldn't even write a little section. Yesterday was a singularly unfortunate and 'off' day; I'm still recovering my spirits. But I still had the odd compulsion to make a list of stuff I wanted from my Amazon Wish List; it is the first of the month and I have no truly compelling item that I have knocking at the door. But these 'big ticket' items have been tickling my fancy for a while; there's just no really good reason to buy them (except for aesthetics, if you can call that a good reason) and prices are high.
Especially enticing but most unnecessary are those deluxe editions of Tolkien books, each with Tolkien's own illustrations; they are volumes of which I already have multiple copies. Would I even read them, or would I be too fearful of even besmirching them with my touch? But they are beautiful, and impressive, and a luxury that I would be hard-pressed to justify.
More justifiable would be the Annotated editions, dripping as they are with various illustrations and scholarly notes. But it would be the third edition of The Annotated Alice that I've ever owned, each more intricate than the last. I already have adequate versions of The Arabian Nights and Hans Christian Andersen; the only book I really don't have is The Secret Garden, and my interest in that is kind of marginal.
I'll probably have several other Wish List inventories through the day, not all of books, but certainly all items that I either can't afford or can't justify, but I certainly would like to own. If it were just a matter of wishing.
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