I loved Julie’s Lazy Ass Blog Post so much from last Saturday that I am flagrantly copying her today.

One of my biggest flaws as a human is that I buy waaaaayyyyy more books than I read. This year, I’ve done kind of a LOT of book buying. Way more than usual. Several of my favorite authors came out with new books and I pre-ordered a few of them to be delivered on the date they were released. Also, my husband and I went into several bookstores when we were driving through Canada, and he encouraged me to buy books at all of them. (He is the best.) Then there are the gift-giving holidays. I always ask for and receive books. I’ve acquired a bunch of books this year, is what I’m saying.

But I haven’t read a ton of them. I’ve read SOME. But the number that I haven’t read far exceeds the number I have.

Anyway, I thought I’d lay them all out on the coffee table and ask the same question Julie asked: Which of these books have you read, and which of them do you recommend?

Of course, after I gathered up these books to put them away – I have a special shelf in my bedroom that my husband bought for the express purpose of storing my As Yet Unread books – I found another book that I bought and forgot to add to the photo array.

Okay, okay, the shelf has other books that I haven’t yet read as well. Books I’ve gotten as gifts and books I’ve borrowed from friends. I don’t know why I didn’t add them to the photo array; maybe they just seem less appealing to me for whatever reason? Do I need to re-do the photo array?

There are also a few books on this shelf that my husband put there – A Burning, which I read years ago, is one he either was going to read or already read, and the Ian McEwan book is definitely his, although I think maybe I want to read it too.