Too Many Books

[maxcelcat]

I hereby swear, as you are all my witnesses, that I will NOT set foot into another book shop until I have READ all the books I have bought in the last six months. And which are sitting around my flat. Not to mention my book group book - which this month was Catch-22, the one book I've read more times than any other.

Books I have to read:

• Monkey - Wu Ch'Eng-En (translated by Arthur Waley) Yes, THE monkey
  
• What We Do Now - Multiple authors, collection of essays.
  
• Quarterly Essay - "Beyond Belief" - John Button et. al.
  
• Quarterly Essay - "What's Left" - Clive Hamilton et. al.
  
• Hope - Marian Fowler. A book about a diamond
  
• Dopeland - John Birmingham, the guy who wrote "He Died With a Fallefel in his Hand"
  
• Blunt - Bob Blunt. A biased history of Australian Rock
  
• Humans - Mike Dowdall and Pat Welch. A field guide from the 70's

I also picked up a book in Pitman Shorthand a few weeks back, which I'm NOT going to attempt to read!

There was another little book of essays, which I now can't locate... Will have to ask evildoom_bunny if she's seen it.

I'm currently finishing "Best American Essays 2003" which is really excellent.