Several years ago a fellow bookseller friend created t-shirts and buttons with the phrase, well-known to book lovers, "So Many Books, So Little Time." The phrase has really hit home even more strongly in the past few days as I began to worry that the teetering stack on my bedside table would be the cause of my early demise and as I anxiously shuffle books trying to decide which to read right now. The Elegance of the Hedgehog for my book group? I've begun it and was really enjoying it but then The Voice of Authority, for today's VB Reads Business Book Group, intervened. And, last night the advance reading copy of Pat Conroy's next novel, South of Broad elbowed its way into my consciousness. Others fighting for space and my attention include Martin Melaver's Living Above the Store (I'm a ways into this and love it...just need more reading time), First Break All the Rules and Stephanie Kallos' latest, Sing Them Home. But, just when I think it's all a big problem, I ask myself "what if you had nothing good to read?" Isn't it amazing what we consider to be a problem sometimes?
I'm beyond jealous of your ARC of South of Broad. Have you read it yet? Did you love it??
Posted by: Kaye Barley | June 25, 2009 at 06:58 AM
I've only just begun. Dee read it and loved it so, I'm really looking forward to digging in. -- Chuck
Posted by: Village Books | June 25, 2009 at 08:26 AM