Five books that I have owned forever but have never gotten around to reading. Those volumes that lurk upon my shelves, squinting down at me with their beady little words, shaming my guilty conscience with my procrastinating ways. #1 – The complete set of Anthony Trollope’s Barsetshire Chronicles I bought this set ages ago because I fell in love with his great-granddaughter’s work, Joanna Trollope. I have absolutely no excuse for not having dived in to read these… #2 – Diet & Self-Help Books Well, I hate to cook or pay attention to food, so all those diet books that blather on and on about weighing this and tracking that just do not appeal. It’s too much work. I don’t want to be bothered…especially when I have all these luscious books to read and kittens to play with. As for the self-help books… Such books are primarily about commonsense or they rattle along about some odd metaphysical, abstracted reasoning. And I’d rather be reading something fun. Self-help is just NOT fun. #3 – The Bible A religious friend thought that I should have my own bible. While I appreciate the thought and I do mean to get round to it […]

Over at This Girl Reads, Cheyenne Williams has come up with an intriguing challenge to celebrate Halloween. Challenging enough that I want to see if I can follow her rules. Yep, she does not require that anyone follow the rules, but I like her ideas enough that I plan on…well, adhering to the idea of ’em! In the week leading up to Halloween, I’m supposed to post something about books daily, beginning October 24th and ending on the 31st. It’ll be fun to see what I come up with…for me at least! Y’all’ll just hafta suffer. Day 1: Ghosts of Books Half-Read Five books I began but never finished. The words that are watching me from the corner of the room, waiting, lingering in the doorway, yearning to be set free. Day 2: Bats in your Book Pages Five things in books that drive me round the bend, the idiotic antics, the issues that are so wacko-nutso that I am knocked senseless. Day 3: Skeletons on My Bookshelf Five books that I have owned forever but have never gotten around to reading. Those volumes that lurk upon my shelves, squinting down at me with their beady little words, shaming my […]