I am keeping QUITE the tight reading ship lately – books come in, books go out. Not reading six books at once, nothing lingering on for weeks. Very unlike me.

This post was fun – I read Someday, Someday Maybe and I decided to speed read The Tragedy Paper this weekend since it’s ah… umm.. overdue. Ivan had to go back, but we will meet again.

So once I’m done with Tim & Duncan, what’s next?

I have very distinct high school memories involving The Great Gatsby, memories of typical English class disappointment. In this Sad English Saga, we were assigned one or two chapters a week. I couldn’t keep up because I was SO busy, what with all my AP courses – two science classes, can you believe it! – and taking music lessons and my overflowing social life… oh wait, that’s a lie, I just couldn’t be bothered to read anything I didn’t want to read in high school. Anywaaaay, the ending to this story is, I was taking our weekly reading quiz over the chapters I hadn’t read that week, and found out that a main character died and I was simply too shocked to pass the quiz! Anyway… so the only reason I want to re-read this dreadful book is because A) there is a movie coming out I’d like to see and B) oh, it’s an American classic that everyone says you should actually read and it’s not even that long. My copy came in this week, and if I read 1-2 chapter a week, maybe I can pass my quiz. I mean, finish before the movie comes out.

Hey, remember when I said I was going to read five romances? Well, that was three months ago now, and I’m stalled on four. Love and Other Perishable Items is still here, waiting for me, on my damn bookshelf…

…unless of course there is a shiny brand new book in the house. After Visiting Friends showed up all unread and lovely on my hold shelf this afternoon. It might be a hopeless fight.

Or maybe I don’t want to read about a dead [insert main character here] or a dead father or… a romance. Maybe I want to read something unusual? I acquired Oleander Girl recently – it looks like it would be up my alley, and a blurb from Junot Diaz means a lot to me.

…. I may have already made my decision, and it might be After Visiting Friends and I might have already read 100 pages. And I’m already sucked in.

Dorothy. Betsy. Harry Potter.