On My Bedside Table To Read

…is a giant stack of books:

– The Best Creative Nonfiction Vol. 3 (Advance Reading Copy)
– Moral Disorder and Other Stories, Margaret Atwood
– Journal of a Novel, John Steinbeck (for when I re-read East of Eden)
– 2666, Roberto Bolano (almost finished book 1; books 2 and 3 taunt me)
– Letter to My Daughter, Maya Angelou
– The Patron Saint of Liars, Ann Patchett
– Motherless Brooklyn, Jonathan Lethem
– Self-Help, Lorrie Moore

And that’s only on my bedside table. I have about that many on hold to buy, and three times that many on my dresser (including a reading copy of Toni Morrison’s A Mercy, which just won the Tournament of Books!).

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Priorities

List made last night to remind me why I shouldn’t spend crazy amounts of time doing stupid stuff online. Granted, I don’t have TV, and a therapist I once had recommended a half hour of mindless TV everyday — apparently it gets your mind to unravel — and internets are the closest thing I have. BUT. Now that I’m working longer weeks, I don’t want to be spending my time doing stupid stuff online.

Happy book that will get read! Good old-fashioned books. Hooray.

And my favorite detail:

I basically live in a giant redwood forest. It’s a sin to not walk in it regularly.

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