As the first month of 2007 comes to a close, come wander the internet with me for awhile.

First stop: Estella’s Revenge.

Estella’s Revenge is the webzine of Andi Miller. ER is currently on hiatus while they they change their focus to the one thing that many of us adore: books. Currently Andi is putting out a call for contributors. If you posses the desire to put pen to paper, or fingers to keyboard in this instance, then this might just be an opportunity for you to wax poetic. Estella’s Revenge is looking for “… reviews (of your own books. We get books from publishers occasionally, but it’ll take some growing to make it a full-time endeavor), features, columns, and fiction if you have it. We’d like to tell people about bookish goodies, bookish websites, bookish gathering places, and you can even take our readers on a reading tour of your town if you’d like! All things bookish are welcome.” For more information, including how to contact Andi, please visit here.

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(Heartbreaker, image by Chris Spollen)

Temptation…the word instantly conjures up images, most frequently of a sexual nature. If you are a bibliophile, a book lover, a collector and hoarder of the written word then you know another kind of temptation: that of being seduced by shiny covers, by intriguing titles, by authors who have satisfied your book lust in the past. How do we fight that temptation? Do we fight that temptation? If you are anything like me, you are constantly being drawn aside from your daily tasks by sweet nothings whispered in your ear, promises of a ‘good time’, of delicious ecstasy.

“It wouldn’t hurt to just take a peek”, you say to yourself, as the book gently purrs its promises. “I could just open it up a bit; read the jacket blurb”…and then it hits you: the book’s intoxicating perfume of ink and new paper, the eye candy of the tantalizing cover, the written promises of pleasure if you would just take it home…“you can always bring me back”, the book whispers.

Then, as you walk away, hooked from the moment you felt the touch of the book against your fingers, you can hear some of the books coquettishly giggling, while others murmur enticements, showing a bit of cover, to tempt you yet again. “If one is fun, surely two would be even more so, or three”…and it goes on and on. Books flirt, they vie for one’s attention, they wolf whistle…they make it so very difficult to resist.

This is one man’s story of a typical day of succumbing to temptation:

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