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[inmyriadbits]

Twenty-nine is the number of books I have lying around my room in piles, in the process of being read. These are not to-read; they have all been started to some extent or another. *sigh*

Three are from the library:

- a Lord Peter Wimsey short stories collection (I have re-checked this out SO MANY TIMES now)
- two Pippi Longstocking books (re-reading, because this fic made me all nostalgic)

Thirteen are fiction:

- Death Masks by Jim Butcher (fifth in the Dresden Files)
- The Complete Sherlock Holmes, Vol. 2 (my sister and I are reading these out loud with each other; we've stopped midway through Hound of the Baskervilles)
- Fragile Things (three short stories in; still in love with "A Study In Emerald", so I keep re-reading that and then forgetting to move on to the rest of the book)
- Hourglass by Claudia Gray (oh the shame, I am so behind on this lovely series)
- Fateful by Claudia Gray (WEREWOLVES ON THE TITANIC! I haven't actually started yet, but I've been enormously excited about it ever since claudiagray told me about this great idea she had, while we were drunkenly sharing a cab home)
- Sunshine by Robin McKinley (borrowed from katieupsidedown, I ♥ Robin McKinley)
- Naked Heat by Richard Castle (professional Castle fanfic!)
- Traitor's Moon (fourth in the series)
- Very Good, Jeeves! (what ho!)
- Busman's Honeymoon (still haven't read this, embarrassingly. I get all weird and "OH NOES there will be no more new [Sayers-written] Lord Peter after this!" about it, which I know is silly)
- Metamorphoses (Ovid is the shit, guys. Also, these stories are batshit. But they're kind of great for ideas, because when )
- The Westing Game (I never read this as a child -- which I realized on my unsuccessful hunt for our copies of Pippi Longstocking, before I gave up and hit the library -- and think I missed out there)
- Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (because I never really read it in school when we were supposed to, and not at all because Erik refers to himself as Frankenstein's monster in XMFC, nope....)

Six non-fiction:

- Unpopular Opinions by Dorothy Sayers (I'm looking forward to the jokey examinations of Sherlock Holmes canon, such as "Holmes' College Career" and "Dr. Watson, Widower"; I posted scans of a few essays from this here)
- The Monster Show: A Cultural History of Horror by David J. Skal (one of the coursebooks for my horror films class, which I loved but didn't quite finish; it's enormously fun)
- My Wicked, Wicked Ways by Errol Flynn (his autobiography, which I picked up used from a street vendor in NYC; it is written in the most ridiculously tongue-in-cheek, self-important style, and clearly full of tall tales, so I have fun with it)
- Imbibe! by David Wondrich (a wonderfully nerdy bartending recipes/history of mixology book)
- Bartender's Bible (what it says on the tin: lots and lots of drink recipes)
- Vagabonding by Rolf Potts (no relation to Pepper, I don't think. Traaaaavelling *longing eyes*)

And seven re-reads:

- Strong Poison
- Have His Carcase
- Gaudy Night by Dorothy Sayers (all of the Harriet Vane books of the Lord Peter series, which I am not at all re-reading for the purposes of writing a The Eagle AU, no sirree....)
- Diplomatic Immunity by Lois McMaster Bujold (where I stalled out on my epic Vorkosigan Saga re-read. I'm so close!)
- The Big Con by David Maurer (because ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥)
- The Twits by Roald Dahl
- The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery (both also added to the pile during the great Pippi Longstocking bookhunt)


It's all getting rather ridiculous. NO MORE NEW BOOKS UNTIL THESE ARE FINISHED.

Comments

[celli]

Diplomatic Immunity seems like a logical place to stall out. :)

I'm so excited you're reading Westing Game! One of my favorite books of all time, to be sure.

Technically, according to Goodreads, I have eight books in progress. That is a flat-out lie, and maybe as I unpack books I'll update it more. Or maybe not. *g* I'm trying to finish what I have on that list first, since it's more public so people can see how I'm doing, and I do find it kind of motivating. If only a new library book hadn't come in! (The Big Over Easy by Jasper Fforde.)

[spatz.livejournal.com]

Your Pippi fic rec has a broken link, love.

still haven't read this, embarrassingly. I get all weird and "OH NOES there will be no more new [Sayers-written] Lord Peter after this!" about it, which I know is silly

Totally not silly, and potentially a way to trick yourself into reading the shorts as well. See, you read Busman's Honeymoon, and *then* the shorts. It's sheer elegance in its simplicity!