Another case of my eyes being bigger than my bookshelf (TSS)

Library Loot is a weekly event co-hosted by Eva at A Striped Armchair and Marg at Reading Adventures that encourages bloggers to share the books they’ve checked out from the library. To join in this week’s event, click on the badge at left. I am also using this post for a second post in this week’s The Sunday Salon.

If sometimes in the case of physical appetites, our eyes are bigger than our stomachs, I think it also can be true that in the case of reading appetites, our eyes can be bigger than our bookshelves. Exhibit A is above. Exhibit B can be found here from earlier in the month, and I’ve only finished three from the stack pictured there: Easy to Kill by Agatha Christie, Born Standing Up: A Comic’s Life by Steve Martin and Brasyl by Ian McDonald. Today I might get to starting another by Ian McDonald: River of Gods, if I don’t get caught up in reading blog posts from the last week or starting any of the above books (in other words, it’s unlikely I’ll get to the McDonald today).

From bottom to top in this stack are:

• Backseat Saints by Joshilyn Jackson: I saw this one mentioned a couple of weeks ago by Marie of The Boston Bibliophile and also saw her discussing it on Twitter.
• Between, Georgia also by Jackson: Marie and a few other bloggers also mentioned this one on Twitter and since I hadn’t read it, I picked it up at the library even though it was in large print. I loved Jackson’s gods in Alabama too.
• Sad Cypress by Agatha Christie: For the Agatha Christie Reading Challenge.
• And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie: Ditto.
• The Beekeeper’s Apprentice by Laurie R. King: I recently read A Slight Trick of the Mind by Mitch Cullin, which was a pastiche of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes, and while it was good, I didn’t think it was great (one reason that I haven’t posted a review yet of it). However, I’ve heard great things about King’s pastiche of Holmes that includes Mary Russell so I thought I’d give her series a try. I didn’t think our library had this one until I discovered it in the Young Adult section.
• How The Scots Invented The Modern World: The True Story of How Western Europe’s Poorest Nation Created Our World  &  Everything in It by Arthur Herman: I came across this one while shelf-reading at our local library, where I work on the circulation staff and being of Scottish descent, there was no way I could pass this one up.
• The Truth About the Irish by Terry Eagleton: Likewise, I’m of Irish descent as is my wife and I couldn’t pass this one up either.

I have a feeling I’m going to be busy for a little while here.

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Also earlier today while I try to steer clear of politics for the most part here on my blog, I did put up a post under my Unfinished Rambler persona called “Obama in 2012? Hell, yes, after today“. Also earlier this week, in the guise of Unfinished Rambler, I wrote about how people like to share the strangest things with my wife, and also sometimes me, in “Up Jumped the Boogie“.

Last but not least, I have added a Book and Movie Reviews page here, so please check it out. See if we agree on the movies we’ve both seen. If not, well, too bad…because your taste in movies must suck then .