bookstores

[silverflight8]

Can I say, I don't really enjoy bookstores? Oh, I quite like nosing in and looking at what's on display and seeing all the shiny, new, unbent and perfectly formed books and all. They are so perfect! Most of my reading is library so they've often been well-cracked, or modified with plastic and such to make them last a little longer. Plus bookstores always have interesting knick-knacks and general atmosphere - but all it makes me feel is that I should go home and read the books piling up there. I feel, guiltily, that I have so many books on hold at the library and as well as on the to-read-later list on the library website. That I have the real TBR list (on paper), the vague TBR list I keep in my head (which consists of things like "eventually, read all of Shakespeare's plays, Milton, the four Chinese classics, etc" - you know, very ambitious projects).

And what do I do when I get home?! REREAD SOMETHING I LOVE. I am making so little headway!

I'm presently about 30% through A Tale of Two Cities. I've read a lot of British literature and decided (completely ignoring all of the TBR lists previously mentioned) abruptly a few weeks ago I was going to stop avoiding Dickens.

flist, what are you reading?

Comments

[tani]

I love to buy books, but I am similarly afflicted with guilt over all the books I own and haven't read. I try to focus and catch up, but I always seem to end up acquiring more books, making my progress a net zero. XD

I've just finished reading Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat: Why It's So Hard To Think Straight About Animals by Hal Herzog. Lots of interesting information, but no clear conclusions, as suits a book about such a complex topic. Definitely food for thought. Now I'm going to work on focusing The Blood Mirror by Brent Weeks. It's the fourth book in one of my husband's favorite series, and while enjoyable, I've been a bit unfocused with it, so time to buckle down.

[silverflight8]

It is a familiar rat-race!

Oh, the animals one an interesting book. I agree, we have really complicated feelings about the things we share the planet with, and it's also of course culturally influenced, so that complicates it more.