Ever since we moved to the new apartment and bought a new book shelf, I\u2019ve been very aware that I have a lot of books to get through.<\/p>\n
Through a series of fortunate events, I\u2019ve come to own several books that I haven\u2019t even read yet. I received a gift certificate to a book store for my birthday, and then another one on our anniversary, and then two more at xmas. I also attended a conference for chromatographers, where I won another gift certificate. At another conference I attended (See below), it was all I could do to limit myself to the three books that I did buy. And then Half-priced Books sent me a \u201c25% off any one item\u201d coupon\u2026and how could I pass that up?<\/p>\n
So I created a list of all the books on our bookshelf that I own, but haven\u2019t read yet. <\/p>\n
There are 19 books on the list. <\/p>\n
But wait! There\u2019s more! That list doesn\u2019t include the five books I am currently reading. Five books\u2026who reads five books at once? Well, I didn\u2019t intend for that to happen, it just did. <\/p>\n
There is, of course, the main book I am reading right now: the recent book from Lawrence Krauss (see his picture below). Did I mention that it\u2019s an autographed copy? <\/p>\n
But then there\u2019s also the book on the history of tea that I keep at work & read during my lunch breaks. And then there\u2019s Uncle John\u2019s Bathroom Reader <\/em>\u2013 a book specifically designed to be utilized while relaxing on the toilet. The book\u2019s been sitting on top of the toilet for over two years and I\u2019m not even half way through with it (primarily because I usually bring another book with me when venturing to the privy). I am also listening to the entire Harry Potter <\/em>series while driving. And, finally, there\u2019s a small book I keep in the other car to read on the rare occasion when I am not driving. As it is a book detailing the origin of Minnesota place names, somehow it seems fitting to read it while in the car.<\/p>\n I hope to tackle the majority of these books in the next few months. Lately, a few new projects have entered my life and I\u2019d like to give them more time.<\/p>\n Will write more soon \u2026I\u2019m off to the library now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Ever since we moved to the new apartment and bought a new book shelf, I\u2019ve been very aware that I have a lot of books to get through. Through a series of fortunate events, I\u2019ve come to own several books that I haven\u2019t even read yet. I received a gift certificate to a book store […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-film-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zimmerscope.com\/Verbisaurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zimmerscope.com\/Verbisaurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zimmerscope.com\/Verbisaurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zimmerscope.com\/Verbisaurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zimmerscope.com\/Verbisaurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/zimmerscope.com\/Verbisaurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86,"href":"https:\/\/zimmerscope.com\/Verbisaurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions\/86"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zimmerscope.com\/Verbisaurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zimmerscope.com\/Verbisaurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zimmerscope.com\/Verbisaurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}