Week One Recap: Total Fail

The year of reading my own damn books did not start out that way. Yes, I finished an awesome galley on the first, and I guess you could consider that mine, but then I went out and bought three more at the used bookstore. And ordered two online. And bought four more at another used bookstore. (And that was just the first half of the week.) So that was fun.

I had already had a book out from the library and needed to renew it because I got stuck, and then my holds came in right before the holiday. So now I've got three library books too. (And another one just arrived on the holds shelf.)

And then, there was the biggie: a colleague in Collection Development ordered a book that I thought would be important to carry just for its face value. Well she bought copies last week. When I went to visit one of her fellows a few days into January, she held up an ARC—coveted amongst book reviewers—and asked if I wanted to read it. 

Hells yes.

I started it on my lunch break. And then I read more when I got home. Library books? What library books?

But my week wasn't a total fail. I've got a grasp of how I'm going to approach this whole thing, And I started acting upon it. After seeing 2001: A Space Odyssey in 70mm on Sunday, I ended up spending a few hours in a bar while hubs and his dad watched football. 

Thank the gods for cell phones.

I started reading The Masque of the Red Death and it's so good! If I hadn't gotten distracted by If I Was Your Girl I would totally have devoured it by now.

It's slow going, but I think I'll be able to pick up the pace once I get rid of All. These. Library. Books. (Plus the ones that I put on hold when they went On Order in the catalog and won't be out for several months...)

I can do this.