My Books, My Life

Well hello again, dear Internet. For some reason the urge to blog was strong tonight. Probably because I've finally gotten both kids to bed and I'm avoiding the pile of house chores left to do tonight in the brief hour or two between now and my own bedtime (dishes and laundry and lunch-making and blablabla). Josh is away on a biz trip so I've been solo parenting and since it's also the end of the month at work everything is barely being held together by chewing gum and dental floss right now, if you get my meaning. But I'm hanging in there.

What I really want to do right now though (in addition to blogging) is just blow off the myriad of "TTD" (Things To Do) and flop down on the couch and read. Mmmmmm reading. I have this huge pile of books hanging out on my nightstand right now, and as I was putting a fresh couple on there that just arrived from Amazon I realized that I really ought to record at least some of the titles for posterity, because it certainly does give me a great snapshot of where my life (and both sides of my brain) are at right now.

So here's a generous sample of the top layer (the "I truly intend to get to this shortly" pile as opposed to the "eventually when I get to it" pile), in no specific order:

Think and Grow Rich (a wealth-building classic, apparently)
Lower Your Taxes--Big Time! (recommended by someone at the Chicago seminar)
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (because, well, duh)
The E-Myth Revisited (an entrepreneurial classic)
The Price of the Stars: Book 1 of Mageworlds (for VP)
Blood and Iron: A Novel of the Promethean Age (for VP)
In A Fine Frenzy: Poets Respond to Shakespeare (because Suz gave it to me and it looks fun and is in nice small bits)
Intimate Politics: How I Grew Up Red, Fought For Free Speech and Became a Feminist Rebel (a memoir by my favorite college professor/thesis adviser)
Sex Wars: A Novel of Guilded Age New York (newest book by one of my favorite authors on a really interesting topic)
The Assault on Reason (because dammit, I still haven't seen An Inconvenient Truth and I really want to read this one)
Real Estate Investment For Dummies (back to the wealth-building education now)
Growing A Business (given to me by my Dad from his biz book library)
The Entrepreneur's Manual (also from Dad)
Up Your OWN Organization: A Handbook on How to Start and Finance a New Business (also from Dad)
Eat, Pray, Love (next month's book group book)

And that doesn't even count the 3 or 4 other books I have on order from Amazon, all novels from VP instructors. How can I blog when I have so much to read? How can I keep going to work or feeding kids or anything else with this many books demanding my attention? I clearly need a nice long beach vacation (with optional hammock, frosty drinks and cabana boy with fan). What are my chances? Don't answer that, it'll only depress me.

And people look shocked when I tell them I don't watch TV or movies. Hah. Who has the time?