booklust

My friend Parki at the cottage.


I've been doing a lot more reading lately.

Read Valley Of The Horses by Jean Auel in two days, also finished Timeline yesterday. Was about to eagerly head off to buy the next book in the Auel series when I realized that if I keep up this reading pace, I'm going to run out of room to store my books as well as spending a lot of money on books I likely will not read more than once.

It was, after all, the desperate need for more office space that motivated me to move huge piles of my books to be packed up and stored; doing this after an evening of repetitive mouse work was what set off my original tendinitis last March. The books I had been moving are still sitting, like guilty vandals, in one corner of our living room because we have no more room in our storage locker. As for the locker, it is already bursting with boxes of books and bike gear and snowshoes and a plethora of perturbing knickknacks. The locker needs a thorough purge, of course, but Jeff has been too busy with work and I haven't had a set of properly working arms for a year.



I took this photo of a cottage sunrise
one misty morning a few years ago.


Storage space is one of the main reasons we may eventually move into a house. We need more bookshelves! I hate throwing out books. Okay, I hate throwing out anything, but especially books. I would make a terrible bookstore owner because every sale would be somewhat traumatic ("arg! you can't take my last copy of Freddy The Detective!"), and it would give me too much of an excuse to accumulate more books.

Anyway, I decided to turn to the Toronto Public Library. I don't use libraries nearly as much as I should, I'm ashamed to say, especially since several of my friends are librarians and my sister designed the Toronto public library card for young patrons. In any case, I've put a bunch of books on hold, including the next two Jean Auel books as well as Wrapt In Crystal by Sharon Shinn (thanks to Lissa for the recommendation!). If I like any of them enough to read more than once, I will buy it.



This photo was taken a few minutes earlier. Amazing how
quickly the light changes, and how completely it
alters the feel of the lake.


More hints re: mystery filker photos from yesterday:

Photo #1: she has been nominated for several Pegasus awards, plays penny whistle and guitar, some harp (possibly other instruments I don't know about).

Photo #2: also a Pegasus nominee, has done just about everything from professional acting to bald eagle research, and he will be at FilKONtario in a couple of weeks.

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