What’s on my nightstand, er, living room bench
I saw on 5 Minutes For Books this morning an invitation to join in the “what’s on my nightstand” blog post for the fourth Tuesday of every month. Sounded like fun. My eyes are always bigger than my stomach, metaphorically speaking, so I’m actually doing “what’s on my living room bench”. A few days ago I realized that the library book situation at our house was reaching ridiculous proportions. I started to gather all the books to figure out what needed to be returned and lined them up on my bench so I could see what I have. After I took this picture, I remembered that my husband had his own stack of a dozen books or so on his side of the bed. I decided not to count them since I only planning on reading one or two from his stack. 
This is a regular occurrence at our house. I request book after book from the library each time something catches my eye until the stacks around the house have become dangerously high. I really need to pace myself and only request a book or two a week instead of fifteen, but I can’t seem to help myself.
The books I’m most excited about are Corrag by Susan Fletcher, I Still Dream About You by Fannie Flagg, Spilling Ink by Anne Mazer and Ellen Potter, and The Search for Wondla by Tony DiTerlizzi. Hopefully my stacks won’t intimidate me into ignoring all the books and watching t.v. instead. Wish me luck.
That’s quite a stack! I don’t think I’ve heard of any of the titles you mentioned. Welcome to What’s On My Nightstand!
Thanks for linking up!! Most of us have our pile/stack/row in someplace other than or in addition to our Nightstand!
I bought Spilling Ink for my daughter and she’s enjoying it. If I get my act together and post about the Cybils challenge next week, you could use that book, because it’s a Nonfiction finalist!
Ooh, I’m excited about Spilling Ink. My kids love to write and I’m hoping it’ll get them motivated to try something new.
Thanks for visiting, Jennifer!
I feel the same way! I currently have 53 books checked out from the library, which is way more than we read. Of course, many of them are the kids’ books; they’ve developed my habit (the only difference is that Logan will at least read most of his, whereas I don’t!). I read in the local paper some sad statistic about how, on average, each citizen checks out one book a year (can that really be right??) from the library. Either I am one of the ones driving up the average — or maybe I don’t count ’cause I’m an outlier!
All I can say is “wow!” That is quite the stack of books. I definitely check out more than one book a year but I try to have only 3 or 4 out at a time, not counting the kids books.
Yes, I need to learn restraint. It gets to be too much and I get overwhelmed by the stack. Maybe someday I’ll learn.
Forgot to mention I’m one of the reviewers from 5minutesforbooks.com.
I love that one of your books is called “Book Lust.” Also, I have always been impressed by the variety of books you read. It’s inspiring.
I know, “Book Lust” made me giggle. I got the kids’ version, “Book Crush” too. Hee hee.
I see you have an Anne Perry there. Do you like her? Or have you yet to read the first of hers?
I haven’t read it yet. It’s on my radar, but my list is pretty long.
Whoa!! That is quite a stack. Looks like YOU need a nook. Then you can carry all your books around in your purse.
Though, as you just read, I never actually buy anything for my nook.
I’ve pondered a Nook many times, but I worry that I’m too cheap to buy anything, since I almost exclusively read library books. If I can put e-books from the library on there, I’m totally game for it.