Outside A Dog

Finally getting around to finishing up my January-based stuff. Must be that procrastination gene rearing its ugly head.

So, here’s the book pile:

Even with all of those books that I read — the ones on the smaller pile in the front — it doesn’t look like the main stack is any smaller.

That’s because it isn’t.

That’s because books are my weakness, and sites like BookMooch and PaperBack Swap are nothing but dirty enablers. I may have read thirteen books this month, but fourteen came into my house. One [Strangers In the Land of Egypt] came from LibraryThing and their Early Reviewers program, four from BookMooch, and nine from PaperBack Swap. [Though I've already read three-and-a-half of the PaperBack Swap books, so that has to count for something.] But more coming in than getting read / going out isn’t exactly the point, so I’m still going to have to work on my restraint a bit. Oh, and two of the books that I read [Child 44 and Dead Until Dark] weren’t even mine.

So. Thirteen books this month, and seven worth keeping [the bold ones]. The rest are being given to friends or released on BookMooch:

• The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
• An Assembly Such as This: A Novel of Fitzwilliam Darcy, Gentleman by Pamela Aidan
• Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith
• Wild Animals I Have Known by Ernest Thompson Seton
• Strangers in the Land of Egypt by Stephen March
• Julie and Julia by Julie Powell
• The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien
• Bitter Sweets by Roopa Farooki
• Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris
• If I Am Missing Or Dead: A Sister’s Story of Love, Murder and Liberation by Janine Latus
• Remainder by Tom McCarthy
• Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
• Promise Not to Tell by Jennifer McMahon

So, here’s to a more productive February!