All I Do is Read Read Read No Matter What (WHAT)

Remember a while ago when I took a tip from Sarah about researching new books coming in to the library and racing everyone to get to the top of the holds line? And decided to buck my trend of only borrowing ebooks because usually the new books only have paper copies at first? Anyone want to know how that's going?

Like this:

Plus four books at the library for pickup right now and two in transit. Every Wednesday after work I go to the library and return whatever I've finished and pick up the new books. We'll see how long I can keep this up before I cry uncle and pause the rest of it. 

It's always interesting when you put books on hold based on recommendations from numerous sources, so you never really know what you're getting. Last week I got this tiny, beautiful little gem.

It was an incredibly effective, subtly unsettling, cutting story packed into a short space of words. 

I did not love this book, but I was frightfully amused at the fact that I have this bookmark from the adorable little bookstore down the street from Eve's house (for two more weeks, *SOB*), and will only use this bookmark in books about bookstores.

After brunch on the weekend, since I was out anyway I stopped in at Indigo even though it was pouring rain and gale force winds. I was in a car already and there was a bookstore, what was I supposed to do? Did I buy another book, even though I have a full roster of library ebooks, a pile of library paper books, an Alexandria's worth of books on my Kindle and oh, the books on my bookshelves that I haven't read yet?

No, I did not.

I bought two. (It was buy one get one fifty percent off, I had no choice).

They're Canadian! My brother-in-law and his wife know Richard Van Camp and sent me one of his books that was really good, and this one is so pretty. 

The other one I think I will read and then give to one of my libraries. So, you know, altruism.

This one gave me pause at work on Monday. 

Alive or not alive? Is it going to be dead geese or dead children? Please be dead geese.

Oh. Oh, I see. Fine then. Still seems a little weird, but we have a French picture book called L'autoritarisme, so clearly French children's authors have some hefty takes on concepts. Oh, I just looked that up and apparently it's about bossiness, not dictatorships. That's embarrassing, but less confusing.

I feel like I've told my story about my bedside pile of books here before, but not for a while and it is currently relevant again. I always have a giant pile of books on my bedside table, which my husband mocks me for often and at length. I usually have a glass of water on my bedside table also. One time a few years ago we were flipping the mattress, and Matt said he had it so I let go. Then he lost it. It was falling towards my bedside table and the glass of water, which wouldn't be a huge deal except my CPAP machine was also there and electronics + water = not good. We both watched in horror as the mattress fell.... and landed balanced on the pile of books with the glass of water safely sheltered underneath it. Boom, books are magic life-savers and I should keep buying them, who knows what will happen if I stop.