the recurring new year’s resolution
Every year I include the same New Year’s resolution on my list, which is to not buy any more books until I have finished all of the books on my not-read-yet shelf (above). I have been doing this every year for about six years, and I can usually make it til about June when there are four or five books left - at that point I either just leave them on the shelf or move them aside and admit I made a poor decision when I bought them. The not-yet-read shelf is just next to my bed, and just above the “books I like to re-read” shelf.
And so, this week, I had to make sure I got my last book purchases in before the calendar turned. The customers I worked with so much this year, librarians that they are, got me a gift certificate for Amazon.com. For the record, the books I bought were a few about about Constantine and the early church, one about Thomas Jefferson, and Randy’s recommendation of “Omnivore’s Dilemma: a Natural History of Four Meals”.
It’s going to be a long spring.
Posted by Marie on December 27th, 2006 under books
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