So many books

Do you ever stop and think about all the books that there are in the world?

There's so many books that I have yet to read and I wish I had time to read all of them!

The main reason for this thought process is that I work in a library twice a week and I am surrounded by books that I wish I had time to read. I keep telling myself that one day I'll just go to the library on one of my days off and just sit down and read something I picked up off the shelf. Maybe I'll do that next week on my day off from school...

In any case, I tend to carry around little bits of paper as I shelve so that I can write down book titles that seem interesting.

Right now, I am pushing through Eat Pray Love by Elizabeth Gilbert. It's really good, I genuinely enjoy reading it, but man, it's taking forever. I've had to renew it twice I think. I just don't have the time or concentration to focus on it. I do want to read it again at some point, but if I do, I will buy my own copy so that I can underline passages and write things in the margin because it's the kind of book that deserves to have underlined passages.


I also have to read the Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald for my English class. However, as I read it last year I can get away with skimming through the chapters. It's still good, I still like it. A lot of people in my class don't, but I think it's one of those books that you have to read outside of a school context first, and then read with guidance from a teacher so that you can appreciate its full value.

I'm also reading On the Road by Jack Kerouac for an independent read this semester. I don't know when the semester ends, but I've only read about five chapters so far. It's good, but I am withholding further judgements. Maybe next week when I go to the library I'll just read that.

In addition to all that, as I was working last week, I think it was, I came across a book that I couldn't just leave. It was called The Friday Night Knitting Club by Kate Jacobs. I'm not too sure what it's about, but I discreetly put it on my cart and checked it out. I haven't even had time to open it yet.

Okay, so maybe the goal for the reading over the next few weeks is this:
- Finish Eat Pray Love this weekend (which I can definitely do, I'm not too far from the end)
- Go to the library on Tuesday, do homework and read On The Road
- Read Gatsby as the teacher assigns
- Read The Friday Night Knitting Club when I'm done Eat Pray Love and when I'm through half of On the Road

So that's what I've been up to over the past few weeks!
What books have you been reading?