I can't believe how little I got read...

...though not because I usually read more than this or anything. In fact, many days I read a lot less. No, the thing is that I'm totally sucked into Unwind...it's so distracting, because I find myself thinking about it and wanting to pick it up all the time. But thus far, I've been good and stuck with getting my work done instead of ditching it all and just curling up with this book until I finish it. Anyway, yesterday I managed another 45 pages in it. For me, it's one of those books that isn't perfect, there are some definite flaws in my mind, and yet I'm thoroughly enjoying it anyway. :)

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And in the dangerous world of blog-reading, these books have been added to my wish list:

*Love's Executioner by Irvin D. Yalom (thanks to Chris' heartfelt review...dang, I meant to look to see if the library had this when I was there this morning)
*No Place Left to Bury the Dead by Nicole Itano (thanks to Eva's glowing review of what sounds like an incredible book)

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And what I'm dying to read from our own shelves (shelf #2):

*Through Black Spruce by Joseph Boyden
*The Homecoming by Ray Bradbury
*The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley
*The Brief History of the Dead by Kevin Brockmeier
*The Sisters Grimm: The Usual Suspects by Michael Buckley
*Northlander: Tales of the Borderlands by Meg Burden
*Black Hole by Charles Burns
*Fledgling by Octavia Butler
*Mijeong by Byun Byung-Jun
*The Unwritten: Tommy Taylor and the Bogus Identity by Mike Carey and Peter Gross

Like last time, if you could please help me maybe weed this list down a bit, I would greatly appreciate it. Tell me which ones you think I should leave on, and I will strike the rest off (with the exception of one I get to pick myself). 

slow but gratifying day in the bookish realm

Okay, so yesterday didn't see a lot of reading happening on my part...but it was a wonderful day in my own personal book world anyway. Because of this! Yes, I finally finished reorganizing and super-cleaning the library...and I so love how it looks!

Only managed 15 pages in Last Chance to See, 23 pages in Shadow Man, and 29 pages in Scrapbook Page Maps (a book I just started yesterday). Yep, I'm on a scrapbooking reading binge right now--mainly because I had this huge stack of scrapbooking mags, with a few books thrown in, sitting on the library floor unread. I needed to get them cleared out of there, so they got moved to our bedroom. But I want to get them read before the major bedroom overhaul begins. (For whatever reason, likely because I'm neurotic, I never like to actually put them in my scrapbook area until I read them and decide whether I actually want to keep them or not. Yep, neurotic.)

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And since I added no books to my wish list yesterday, and because I'm so thrilled with our library reorganization and I'll use any excuse at all to be in there, I decided to start making myself a list of all the books I REALLY, REALLY, REALLY want to read from our own shelves. Obviously, if they're on my shelves, I want to read them...but I'm going to concentrate on the ones that are calling my name the loudest. I've mentally divided the library into "shelf numbers," so I'll just do a shelf a day.

What I'm dying to read from our own shelves (shelf #1):
*Origin by Diana Abu-Jaber (Eva)
*Indian Killer by Sherman Alexie (Eva)
*Skellig by David Almond (Vivienne, Amanda)
*Feed by M.T. Anderson
*Looking for Bapu by Anjali Banerjee (Eva, Amanda, Chris)
*The Love We Share Without Knowing by Christopher Barzak
*Brains by Robin Becker
*Fieldwork by Mischa Berlinski (my choice)

Edited: Since I'm going to still end up with quite an unmanageable list of books I REALLY, REALLY, REALLY want to read, I've decided to whittle down each list further by using my wonderful friends' recommendations. (Thanks for sparking this idea, Eva!) And maybe by allowing myself to choose one book all on my own, too. The books that end up stricken will be the ones no one tells me I must read.