Sunday Round-Up

What have I read? Which is a bit of a different question that what have I mentioned on this blog. In reverse order, since that is what I get from LibraryThing, I see:

• The Mysterious Benedict Society
• Storm Glass
• In the Stormy Red Sky
• The Princess and the Hound
• Shelf Discovery: The Teen Classics We Never Stopped Reading

Distressingly, only one of those is from my shelves; the others are all library books. I have one day left on the Clear My Shelves Challenge, and I think I need to read about three more shelf books. It's not a long list, but I also read a few hundred pages in other books without finishing them. I find Thanksgiving weekend to be rather distracting. Good food, though.

What am I currently reading? Well, from the library I have:

• A Fatal Waltz
• The Necessary Beggar
• The Prisoner Within
• A Weed By Any Other Name
• Marcelo in the Real World

And I also have bookmarks in a few other books, ones without deadlines because I own them or borrowed them from people who won't hurt me:

• Clutter's Last Stand. I seem to be reading this when I get the urge to clean. Actually cleaning would probably be more effective than reading about it, though.
• Fairest. I'll finish this tomorrow to up my ratio.
• The End of Racism. Lots of big words.
• Dead to Me. Book I started at the airport while waiting for my children to drift by. Was I unreasonable in thinking "they'll come out on the first floor" to be a bit nonspecific about where my children would emerge from their transatlantic flight? The one that they took all by themselves? Thank goodness A remembered that we meet at the baggage claim even if you have no baggage, because the silly lady responsible for him kept trying to lead him goodness knows where. Anyway, I wanted a book that I wouldn't be too interested in, and this was perfect.
• Whiskey and Water. All of Elizabeth Bear's books start slow for me, so I'm still nibbling a few pages here and there. Eventually I expect it to become all-consuming.