I checked a truck of adult nonfiction shelf-ready books today and put on way too many holds for myself. I have no Earthly idea when I’ll have enough time to read them all. But I couldn’t help myself. They all sounded so interesting! When I get them home, I throw them in a pile on the kitchen counter, dining room table, or my nightstand, all to be read later, whenever that is. Sometimes I get a book home and I wonder why I was interested in it enough to place a hold on it. Each night presents me with a game I call, “Which book do I want to start, but know I will never have time to finish?” It’s an endless game.

I once had the maximum number of books checked out. It was close to a hundred titles. I didn’t read them all, of course. I was working on a bibliography for our Girl Scouts and their parents. We were trying to educate the girls about their changing bodies and we encouraged the parents to join us in the discussion. But the parents were more than happy to drop off their girls for an hour or two and not bother participating in our meeting. I bet nobody read my bibliography.

I’m going to start a blog to share some of my reading interests, since they are so varied. There’s just something neat about finding out what you’re reading or have read is of interest to someone else. I recently heard that books were one of the most frequently shared things on social network sites like blogs and Facebook. If so, count me in…