What to do?
I’ve been diligently keeping track of my 2009 reading list since the beginning of the year, and it has been exciting to see how many books I’ve knocked out while not even trying.[1] Having the list (right here) to look at makes me feel quite accomplished.[2]
My book consumption continues to be in audiobook format, which by now we all agree works well for my lifestyle of always having things to do with my hands which cause holding actual physical books difficult.[3] Tonight I have finished the book I had been listening to. I have some knitting I want to work on as well as some general crafting I’d like to do to post on Leaky’s current Craft-Along contest[4], which means I really ought to load up another audiobook before morning.
Here’s where I’m unsure what to do. Of course there are plenty of books I should read and plenty of books I’ve been wanting to read for ages. Actually, lately I’ve gotten so many recommendations from friends that I’m a bit overwhelmed. I can’t decide what genre or age group I want to spend time in at the moment. At the same time though, I’ve realized I haven’t done a re-read of any of the various works of Tolkien in over a year and it might actually be over a year since I re-read Harry Potter as well. I’m itchy for my happy, familiar re-reads.
Would re-reading waste time that could be better spent on previously undiscovered-by-me books? If I do re-read, do those books count towards my total of books read in 2009? If I don’t re-read now, what should I read next?[5]
Please do comment and let me know your thoughts. Soon. Or I might resort to television to keep me company.
1. If I think about how much reading I’d get done if I did NOTHING but read, it’s a little scary.
2. Pay no mind to the fact that 8 out of the 30 books read so far are those Sookie Stackhouse Vampire books. They’re fun, but it felt like cheating as I breezed right through them.
3. Yay, run on sentences! I could blame the lateness of the hour, but it’s more fun to say I worked to make that sentence an exercise for a reader’s brain.
4. Click here to get your craft on at The Leaky Cauldron.
5. While I could be buried alive by my books-to-read list if I owned them all right now, I really can’t help but want to know what people have been reading and what they’d like me to read too.