So Many Books, So Little Time!

Well, that's April over and done with, I suppose. You know, it's kind of depressing... For quite a while, I've been keeping a month-by-month track of how many books I've bought or otherwise acquired vs. how many I've read. The idea was that it would help keep me cognizant of how rapidly the dreaded To-Be-Read Pile was growing, and thus to help me not go overboard with the whole buying-books-faster-than-I-can-read-them thing. Unfortunately, it hasn't much. This month's Read total was a whopping 10[*], with the Bought total weighing in at no fewer than 23. At this rate, not only will I never catch up, but soon I'm not going to have enough room in the house for the stacks of unread books! A lot of April's excess has to do with the library sale a couple of weeks ago, but far too much of it is due to my pitiful weakness of will when it comes to book clubs. All sorts of stuff that I probably wouldn't look twice at in a bookstore manages to catch my attention when it's presented in those nice, shiny book club flyers. The fact that I don't actually have to give them any money until the books arrive doubtless has a lot to do with it, too. It's much easier to be restrained when you know you're going to have to fork out cash on the spot.

Sigh. I really do need to find some kind of Bookoholics Anonymous group to join...


[*] It should have been 11, but I fell asleep before finishing The Stars My Destination last night.