in which our narrator contemplates the endlessly receding horizon

[heresluck]

A few weeks ago I cleaned up my Books To Get list and found, to my delight, that I'd actually made a dent in it. It was still a long list (six pages, single-spaced, 10pt Times New Roman), but several focused trips to bookstores and some judicious borrowing from truepenny had allowed me to cross off quite a lot.

Yesterday stakebait posted a request for urban fantasy

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[heresluck]

Too. Many. Books. *g*

[heresluck]

In theory, there is no such thing. In practice, however, we have a) my bank balance; b) the finite number of hours in the day; and c) my fondness for such time-sucking enterprises as LJ and vidding.

I'm not *complaining* about there being Too Many Books. I love having too many books, which is why I have piles of them sitting around my house unread. Heh.

[stakebait]

Hee! Sorry about that.

[heresluck]

Yeah, I bet. You and melymbrosia both.

Of course, I can blame the list on other people, but the greediness and tendency to lose all financial sense when standing in a used bookstore are, sadly, all my own.

[coffeeandink]

No, I'm not.

You should post your list(s).

[heresluck]

Of course you're unrepentant. You are The First Evil of book-list additions. Mer will have to do a hell of a lot more posts before she even attains minion status.

As for posting my list, no way. Between the "you haven't read [x]?!" and the "oh, but you must also read [y]!" I suspect I would end up both embarrassed and (more) broke.

[way2busymom]

Glad to see someone with a list as long as my own. Is it strictly fiction? Or do you have poetry, drama, & assorted non-fic works on the list as well?

[heresluck]

The sections at the moment:

fantasy/science fiction
literary fiction [both contemporary and "classic"]
young adult
romance
poetry
drama
essay/memoir
biography
history
literary criticism
Afro-American studies
gender/women's studies
religion/spirituality
mythology/folktales
media studies
music
sociology/politics/cultural studies
writing/language
science
architecture
cookbooks

...whew. *g*

[way2busymom]

Very interesting.

I usually go over my main list & try to come up with a yearly reading list that's balanced across the topics...but I tend to go in spurts & read a bunch of one category before moving on to the next. Kind of like how you eat a ton of fresh strawberries when the season comes in, then you move on to the next fruit or veggie.

[renenet]

geek.

[heresluck]

What? Where?

:::whistles innocently:::

[renenet]

Right. There. Behind whatever you're hiding behind to block my view. You can't escape my state of the art geek-detection system. The nose knows.