It’s Monday, April 18th, and I am doing my honest best to finish my library books and return them in a somewhat timely manner. I presently have 11 books out from my university library, plus one interlibrary loan, and 2 of those are ready to be returned. I have, yes okay, 27 books out from the public library BUT I am prepared to return 9 of those when I go on Saturday. So there.
(I’m fine, I don’t have a problem. You saw that 11 of those, nearly a quarter, are set to be returned?)
My main current book is The Ever After of Ashwin Rao, which deals — one way and another — with aftermath (I love aftermath!). I am also dipping in and out of this essay collection Cupcakes, Pinterest, and Ladyporn, which is an absolute treat; and while I am brushing my teeth, I am reading one of my Own Damn Books, i.e., Thomas Cahill’s book on why the Greeks are important to history.
(I noticed that the highest number of unread books on my shelves live in my nonfiction section. Which makes sense! Nonfiction isn’t quite as subject to the vagaries of taste as fiction is, so you can see how I might acquire a whole bunch of it without having read those books beforehand. I DO NOT HAVE A PROBLEM.)