Since then I’ve gone a bit overboard. A couple years ago I looked over at by TBR pile and thought to myself, this is out-of-control. I figured there were forty or so books in the pile and figured that with a concentrated effort I could get it down to a more acceptable level of ten or so books. The compulsive to-do list maker in me led to me writing down a list of all the books in my TBR pile so that I could cross them off one by one. I was surprised, no shocked, to learn that instead of forty or so books in the pile, there were ninety-three. (Did I mention that I’m bad at measuring things at a glance? I never understand how on TV shows people on police shows can describe a suspect as being 5’11” and 185 pounds without having a scale handy.) Now my TBR list numbers 127. Somehow books keep getting added to the pile faster than I can read them. So my goal for 2012 is to get the list down to under 100. Wish me luck.
Monday, January 2, 2012
My Ever Expanding To Be Read List
About six or
seven years I was sitting on my couch reading the last few chapters of a book.
I glanced up to the spot where I kept my pile of unread books and saw there was
only one book there. I panicked and immediately went to the bookstore and
purchased six or seven books. It seems silly but not having a good book readily
available is kind of terrifying to me. I could live without TV or myiPod, for
awhile at least, but I really must have a book close at hand.
Since then I’ve gone a bit overboard. A couple years ago I looked over at by TBR pile and thought to myself, this is out-of-control. I figured there were forty or so books in the pile and figured that with a concentrated effort I could get it down to a more acceptable level of ten or so books. The compulsive to-do list maker in me led to me writing down a list of all the books in my TBR pile so that I could cross them off one by one. I was surprised, no shocked, to learn that instead of forty or so books in the pile, there were ninety-three. (Did I mention that I’m bad at measuring things at a glance? I never understand how on TV shows people on police shows can describe a suspect as being 5’11” and 185 pounds without having a scale handy.) Now my TBR list numbers 127. Somehow books keep getting added to the pile faster than I can read them. So my goal for 2012 is to get the list down to under 100. Wish me luck.
Since then I’ve gone a bit overboard. A couple years ago I looked over at by TBR pile and thought to myself, this is out-of-control. I figured there were forty or so books in the pile and figured that with a concentrated effort I could get it down to a more acceptable level of ten or so books. The compulsive to-do list maker in me led to me writing down a list of all the books in my TBR pile so that I could cross them off one by one. I was surprised, no shocked, to learn that instead of forty or so books in the pile, there were ninety-three. (Did I mention that I’m bad at measuring things at a glance? I never understand how on TV shows people on police shows can describe a suspect as being 5’11” and 185 pounds without having a scale handy.) Now my TBR list numbers 127. Somehow books keep getting added to the pile faster than I can read them. So my goal for 2012 is to get the list down to under 100. Wish me luck.
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