How did I get to this point?
Currently reading:
Life is a verb by Patti Digh
Crucibles of experience by Robert J Thomas
Evening is the whole day by Preeta Samarasan
Hen’s teeth by Manda Scott
How the rich are destroying the earth by Hervé Kempf (review)
The inheritance of loss by Kiran Desai
The classical world by Robin Lane Fox
The man who went up in smoke by Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö
On bedside table, for dipping into:
The best science fiction stories
Australian lives: stories of twentieth century Australians by Robin Hughes
Patrick White: Letters edited by David Marr
And that’s not counting all the books in my study, borrowed from MPOW:
Small tech: the culture of digital tools edited by Byron Hawk, David M. Rieder, and Ollie Oviedo.
The dominant animal: human evolution and the environment by Paul R. Ehrlich and Anne H. Ehrlich.
Disrupting class : how disruptive innovation will change the way the world learns by Clayton M. Chris and Clayton M. Christensen
Remix: making art and commerce thrive in the hybrid economy by Lawrence Lessig
The bridge at the edge of the world: capitalism, the environment, and crossing from crisis to sustainability by James Gustave Speth
Drowning girls in China: female infanticide since 1650 by D.E. Mungello
The moons of Jupiter: stories by Alice Munro
Born digital: understanding the first generation of digital natives by John Palfrey and Urs Gasser
Seed cake and honey prawns: fashion and fad in Australian food by Colin Bannerman.
Chinese lexicography: a history from 1046 BC to AD 1911 by Yong Heming and Jing Peng.
Open space technology: a user’s guide by Harrison Owen
Saved from oblivion: documenting the daily from diaries to web cams by Andreas Kitzmann
Media & values: intimate transgressions in a changing moral and cultural landscape by David E. Morri
The future of the Internet: and how to stop it by Jonathan Zittrain
Groundswell : winning in a world transformed by social technologies by Charlene Li and Josh Bernoff
(this is just some of them. I have thirty five books out on loan to me.)
Far from being a rich, enjoyable feast it is starting to make me feel slightly sick. I feel scattered and like everything is unfinished. I think I need to settle and finish just one book.
So how did I get to this point? I blame working in a library, too many Borders vouchers, a lack of self control, and not enough hours in a day.
9 Comments
Let me know when you return that evolution book – sounds interesting. /How the rich are destroying the Earth/ sounds interesting too…
Also, that is one HUGE pile of books!
whoa!
I’ve resorted to writing lists of books I want to read and limiting the number I get out at once…
It is a problem. I’m starting to stop saying, ‘yes, I should read that’ and turning it into ‘that sounds very interesting’.
And at least the 35 books can be returned…Good Luck! might be time to watch some DVDs for a circuit breaker!
Will do, Akkadis 🙂 the pile of books happened when we moved house. The books actually moved in first. Because we have so many (3000+) it is a major operation!
Penny you sound more disciplined than I am…
Genevieve I have been tempted to just get a box and pile all the library books in, and return them, but the ‘that sounds very interesting’ mantra keeps me keeping them (and borrowing more and more)…
🙂 my beside pile is also gathering momentum. I think I have ‘book fatigue’ as things that looked really intersting a few weeks ago, now have no appeal, or I can’t remember what it was. Might be tired, roll on End of year hols! (BTW NLS4 was fantastic!)
I think I need my head read. On the weekend I did manage to read The man who went up in smoke (Sjowall and Wahloo are my new favourites I think!) but then this morning I went and borrowed Christos Tsiolkas’ The slap. I couldn’t help it, I have heard lots of good things about this one…
TB, am looking forward to hearing all about NLS4 🙂
Well, I won’t feel too bad that I read more than one book at a time. At my previous MPOW, I used to have a lot of books out under my name. Here, since the collection development is poor (we don’t have a book budget for one), I don’t borrow as much. But I do use ILL now and then (which does wonders).
Best, and keep on blogging.
I’ve just bought Born Digital. Have you started reading it yet? It is on my overgrowing list of books to read over summer before uni starts again.
Angel – wow, no book budget! You have my sympathies!
Rachel, haven’t started on Born Digital yet. It’s on my summer reading list 🙂 (hopefully it will be enjoyably readable; lately I have found books on tech topics a bit dull to read…)