Yesterday was a gloomy day, so I thought it would be a good opportunity to catch up on my reading. I'm behind in everything...
- Newspapers - I had some company over last Friday and took them on a walk around the house. Upon entering my office, a guest queried, "What's with all the newspapers?" Er, um. Newspapers serve two purposes at Casa BookBlog. They are both a way to keep up with current events (by which I mean what happened three weeks ago since that's about how behind I am) and to start fires in the wood-burning stove. As a result, they tend to pile up and contribute to my irrational anxiety about being buried alive.
- The Red and the Black
- When I started the book, I didn't want to get ahead of the discussion at Reading...The Red and the Black. Now I'm behind and have been deliberately been avoiding the blog because I don't want to spoil the story for myself. Of course, this makes no sense since I already read the book in college and have some recollection about what happens.
- Novel Without a Name
- This book is beautifully written and full of rich metaphors and similes. I've been hoping to finish it soon, but I can't get back into it because of my problem with reading more than one book at a time. The best thing would be to put it aside in deference to catching up and finishing tRatB, but why be efficient and productive when you can be lazy and procrastinatory?
- Doctor Zhivago
- Our moderator, Eddie, is a friend and I talked him into doing December in order to take some of the pressure off Ana and myself for keeping the book club going. (Anyone interested in moderating January? E-mail me.) Since he acquiesced to my whining, I'm obligated to read it even though he picked this particular title just to spite me since he knows I am not a fan of Russian literature.
So, anyway, despite my good reading intentions, I made the mistake of telling myself to get a little bit of housework done before migrating to the couch. Next to the newspapers cluttering up the office were two air conditioners that had been on the floor since they were removed from windows at the end of the summer. Genius me moved them to the utility room for storage which created two new problems:
- Everything in the utility room was brought into the living room to make way for the air conditioners. And I never got around to putting it back because...
- ouch!
The aches and pains are better today, so my plan is to return utility room items to their places and clean the house. Of course, this probably means I will get a lot of reading done.
