{"id":1643,"date":"2009-07-14T23:09:25","date_gmt":"2009-07-15T04:09:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spritewrites.net\/?p=1643"},"modified":"2009-07-15T00:09:41","modified_gmt":"2009-07-15T05:09:41","slug":"booking-through-tuesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spritewrites.net\/?p=1643","title":{"rendered":"booking through &#8230; tuesday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/btt2.wordpress.com\/2009\/07\/09\/unread-2\/\">this week&#8217;s Booking Through Thursday challenge<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153So here today I present to you an Unread Books Challenge. Give me the list or take a picture of all the books you have stacked on your bedside table, hidden under the bed or standing in your shelf \u00e2\u20ac\u201c the books you have not read, but keep meaning to. The books that begin to weigh on your mind. The books that make you cover your ears in conversation and say, \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcNo! Don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t give me another book to read! I can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t finish the ones I have!\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 \u00e2\u20ac\u0153<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I own <strong>lots<\/strong> of unread books. Long before I had a stash of yarn, I owned a stash of books, acquired as gifts, souvenirs, and library book sales. After moving to D.C., my job periodically required me to attend the American Library Association&#8217;s annual conference, where they give away books &#8212; for free. So each time I went, I&#8217;d come home with a suitcase full of novels and other books.<\/p>\n<p>So for ease of writing tonight (and for future post fodder), I decided to consult only one shelf tonight. In the reading nook, the following books remain unread*:<\/p>\n<p>The top shelf, which, admittedly, is a bit light on books compared to those below gave me false hope. Only two books hadn&#8217;t been read:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>The Scotch<\/em> by John Kenneth Galbraith<\/li>\n<li><em>The Princess and Curdie<\/em> by George MacDonald<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The second shelf down, which houses a large portion of my knitting book collection also didn&#8217;t look too bad, although only the last item has anything to do with knitting:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>The Secret History<\/em> by Donna Tartt<\/li>\n<li><em>Into the Wild: Warriors 1<\/em> by Erin Hunter<\/li>\n<li><em>The Last Dragon<\/em> by Silvana de Mari<\/li>\n<li><em>Subject to Debate<\/em> by Katha Pollitt<\/li>\n<li><em>A Woman&#8217;s Education<\/em> by Jil Ker Conway<\/li>\n<li><em>Thinking Out Loud<\/em> by Anna Quindlen<\/li>\n<li><em>No Idle Hands<\/em> by Anne Macdonald<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Third shelf down and we start to see the results of randomly shoving books onto the shelf in a frenzy of cleaning. This shelf is supposed to hold poetry, but now seems to equally hold fiction:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>The Complete Collected Poems of Maya Angelou<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>The Invention of Hugo Cabret<\/em> by Brian Selznick<\/li>\n<li><em>Reading like a Writer<\/em> by Francine Prose<\/li>\n<li><em>The Open Door<\/em> by Steven Gilbar<\/li>\n<li><em>The 101 Dalmatians<\/em> by Dodie Smith<\/li>\n<li><em>Rules<\/em> by Cynthia Lord<\/li>\n<li><em>The Geography of Bliss<\/em> by Eric Weiner<\/li>\n<li><em>Artemis Fowl<\/em> by Eoin Colfer (I&#8217;ve read a couple of the sequels, but not the original.)<\/li>\n<li><em>The Princesses of Bamarre<\/em> by Gail Carson Levine<\/li>\n<li><em>Grace and Gravity: Fiction by Washington Area Women<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Bottom shelf. This is supposed to hold literature compilations, as well as books from college. It seemingly also holds piles of fiction I couldn&#8217;t fit elsewhere:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Forgiveness<\/em> by Jean Brashear (I entered a contest to win yarn on the author&#8217;s website and she sent me inscribed copies of four of her books)<\/li>\n<li><em>Mercy<\/em> by Jean Brashear<\/li>\n<li><em>Coming Home<\/em> by Jean Brashear<\/li>\n<li><em>Live Is Lovelier<\/em> by Jean Brashear<\/li>\n<li><em>The Illustrated Lark Rise to Candleford<\/em> by Flora Thompson<\/li>\n<li><em>The Bilingual Edge<\/em> by Kendall King and Alison Mackey (Ummm&#8230; I have no idea why I picked this one up at the last ALA conference I went to&#8230;)<\/li>\n<li><em>Foundling<\/em> by D.M. Cornish<\/li>\n<li><em>Artemis Fowl: The Lost Colony<\/em> by Eoin Colfer<\/li>\n<li><em>Zlata&#8217;s Diary<\/em> by Zlata Filipovic (I started this one but it was depressing and I abandoned it in favor of less warlike reading.)<\/li>\n<li><em>The Name of This Book Is Secret<\/em> by Pseudonymous Bosch<\/li>\n<li><em>Claiming Georgia Tate<\/em> by Gigi Amateau<\/li>\n<li><em>The Whole Sky Full of Stars<\/em> by Ren\u00c3\u00a9 Salda\u00c3\u00b1a, Jr.<\/li>\n<li><em>The Book of Time<\/em> by Guillaume Pr\u00c3\u00a9vost<\/li>\n<li><em>The Rest of Her Life<\/em> by Laura Moriarty<\/li>\n<li><em>Making Money<\/em> by Terry Pratchett (Can I tell you? I looked at the title of the book and thought, &#8220;Why in the world did I get a book on that?!?&#8221;)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Admit it: aren&#8217;t you glad I only tackled one shelf?<\/p>\n<p>Any recommendation for books in the shelves that should shift toward the top of the to be read pile?<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>* Some of these books mentioned above were gifts from friends that I have yet to read. Please don&#8217;t feel that your present was unappreciated. I&#8217;m just savoring our connection for even longer than usual.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From this week&#8217;s Booking Through Thursday challenge: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153So here today I present to you an Unread Books Challenge. 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