Take it off your stack & put it on mine, please

[debgeisler]

Sometimes, when it's been a particularly rich harvest at Amazon.com, I'll have a stack of books to read. Right now, it's a phantom stack, because I don't actually own the books that are screaming "read me next!" (Fortunately, Amazon's sending me some RSN.)

Now, I find out from autopope that writers have "to write" stacks, just like readers have "to read" stacks.

But their stacks, alas, never seem to shrink at the rate mine do.

Perhaps I should read more slowly?

Comments

[ianrandalstrock.livejournal.com]

Man, wish I could read that fast (then again, I wish I could write that fast, too).

[nwl.livejournal.com]

I have stacks and stacks of books screaming, "Read me, read me!!!" They are in bookcases, stacked by the bed, under the bed, in the quilt room, in the spare bedroom. I even hear the ones in the public library, even though it's several blocks away! Yes, I have a problem.

[constant-reader.livejournal.com]

You can only read bad books slowly. Good books get read overnight, in defiance of food and sleep. Amazon better deliver tomorrow or I will find myself on a long flight with only the inflight magazine to read. Or worse yet have to buy something At the Airport -- hardly ever a good idea. I'm not going to find my last two Hugo novel nominees there!

There are no reading books on my stack right now unless you count reference books on FileMaker, Photoshop, and GoLive reading material. Alas, I will have to read those sometime anyway.