read all the books I own

K.I.S.S.I.N.G.

It came today. I am such a good mood! I will begin it now.

and just ordered the first volume of Proust. I haven’t read anything for a month so my 50 book goal came to a complete standstill. I just couldn’t pick anything else up as I wanted Proust so much. I have no idea why but it feels like it is the right thing for me at the moment. If it turns out to be indeed the right thing for me, I will have to revise the 50 book goal as I can’t read 15 books and then decide that Proust and Tolstoy are the men for the job!

I have come to a halt because all of a sudden I feel like I need to read Proust and I don’t have any. I’m going to have to break the not-buying-books thing to get hold of À la recherche du temps perdu.

how much I love having my own library. As I scanned the spines for Anna Karenina this evening (located in the blue sequence of my chromatic section) I was distracted with every glance by all the other treasures waiting to be read. I pulled out Keats, Blake, Turgenev, Chekhov, and Pushkin – AK was left shelved. It’s a perilous task to choose a book. Sometimes I rue having so many as it is hard to decide what to read. But I’ve just realised how much I love having so much great literature at my disposal, available whenever I need or choose. Any time, day or night, the greatest minds of my generation and every other before us are waiting for my perusal, consultation and delight.

a grand Russian epic romance. Anna Karenina?

It’s a combination of having read trashy novels so far this year, and my heartbreak over M needing similitude.

In a competition from Faber. It’s called Viva South America!: A Journey Through a Restless Continent by Oliver Balch. It’s a travelogue and is pretty hefty. I’m so pleased to have won something and the book looks really good.

I’m not including this in my 50 book challenge as I didn’t actually finish it.

I read it several times as a teenager, I used to like it but now I couldn’t even get through it! It’s not like me not to finish a book but it illustrated to me how much I have changed and matured, so I don’t feel bad to just donate it.

I found it hard transitioning from children’s books to adult’s books when I was a young teenager. I read a lot of trash before I was ready to move on to adult fiction. I think now there are a lot of good writers in the genre, JK Rowling, Philip Pullman, Meg Cabot etc but back then there really wasn’t anything.

I have been enjoying reading in bed, I’ve been turning off my phone so I can’t use the internet and get distracted. I’m going to concentrate on first reading the trashy novels I have so I can get rid of them as part of my decluttering goal. That will also enable me to more quickly catch up on my reading 50 novels in 2009 goal as I’ve only read 3 so far. Yay for working on 3 goals at once!

I need to make a habit of reading again. I need to set aside a time to read, perhaps before I go to sleep. That means turning off my phone!

I love books but have about a zillion I have never read. This year I’d like to read them all so any time anyone sees a book on my shelf and asks what it’s like, I can tell them!

I am guessing I have around 100 unread books. I buy them because I want them, not necessarily because I will read them straight away. Our city library has been closed for 2 years so I have been buying books instead of borrowing. It is reopening in a few months so hopefully that should cut back on my book buying.