I have an awesome friend, Tyg, I’ve never seen.  Literally.  In this day and age of Googling and letting your fingers do the typing, I have no idea what my friend looks like beyond written description (he’s Norwegian, so I can make some safe assumptions…kind of!).  People seem to find this fascinating for some odd reason.  This is besides the point, though.  My awesome friend loves to read and so do I – that’s how we met-ish.  And, more than 15 years later, we still do!

He sent me an E-mail today listing all the books and book and books he’d like to read this year.  I don’t think I could read all those books over three years but as he is a high school teacher, he has time to burn, haha. (He’s going to kill me now).

He gave me an idea, though, and I’ll try to list some of the books I’d like to read this year. 

Very loosely and in no particular order:

1.  The books I am currently reading which are Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (I know, I know I have committed myself to reading yet another book by him)  and The Hour I First Believed by Wally Lamb.  Both are slow going right now, densely packed and huge.  Actually sounds like me after Christmas dinner, ha.  On my Facebook status/Living Social Virtual Bookshelf I have also listed a book of short stories called Don’t Look Now by Daphne DuMaurier on my ‘currently reading’ list.  I am, but I’m not.  At least not enough to take it off my list.

2.  I’d love to read some books for another class I’m hoping to take in March, if the recession recedes a dollop.  We’ll see.  I don’t even know what class I’d be taking anyway.

3.  I have a whole whack of library discards to read, including a recently acquired collection of Roald Dahl’s.  Ah, Roald, your name even makes me laugh with your quirkiness.

4.  My way-cool friend B. has sent me some books I haven’t even cracked the spines on yet, as with Tyg.  I save these books for desperate times and rainy days.

5.  I got a preview copy of a book by Miriam Toews that is now receiving some acclaim now that it has been released.  I think it may be called The Troutman or something silly.

6.  Nature Girl by Carl Hiassen is also on my discards list.  Looks funny.

7.  I’d love to re-read something.  When is there ever time to do that?

8.  There is a whole schwap of non-fiction books for my work I need to read, especially since I’m running the library these books belong in, I think I should know a little something about something.

9.  Speaking of non-fiction, I know nothing about Excel spreadsheets and the thought of reading a textbook on them scares me.

10.  There’s a book called The Tale of Edgar Sawtelle or something like that I’d like to get for my birthday.  I don’t even know who the author is.  I wanted to read it before Oprah put it on her list, though, do I win?

11.  My oldest daughter is reading Brave, New World by Aldous Huxley for her English class, so I had better read that, too, although she took my copy.

12.  I’d love to get caught up in a new series (i.e. Harry Potter, Twilight, etc.), I just don’t know of any.

Now, off to read a cookbook and make dinner.  You’d think I’d learned something by now.  Ciao!