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So I am in the delicious position of having too many books I want to read and I’m in the mood to talk about them. Part of the non-issue is that my boyfriend works in a library and is constantly coming across books that I am interested in. Some of these books have already been borrowed and some are just waiting on the TBR to be checked out when I have moved through the ones I currently have. Whenever possible I will be linking to the GoodReads for each of these books in case you’d like to learn more about them.

Currently I am reading I Know What I Saw by Linda S. Godfrey. It’s a recounting of U.S. urban legends and cryptid encounters. I kind of learned that hard way that if I read more than a couple stories at a time the skeptic in me becomes too strong and I get bored. In small doses I can treat them as entertaining legends and enjoy her writing style.

So in addition I am also reading The Restaurant of Lost Recipes by Hisashi Kashiwai. I came across this in a bookstore, but saw that it was the second book, so I borrowed the first from the library. I loved it so much that despite having other books in line I immediately borrowed the second from the library the moment I finished the first. So far I’m enjoying this book just as much and am looking forward to exploring Kashiwai’s other works.

In line physically is The Monster Theory Reader edited by Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock which takes a more sociological look at the legends we tell and Every Contact Leaves a Trace by Connie Fletcher about the actual forensics process of investigating crimes. Both of these have been borrowed from the library but I do have an extended hold on them.

Also on the physical TBR is She Followed the Moon Back to Herself by Amanda Lovelace. This one I bought because I own every other work by Lovelace and I would really like to keep collecting her work. This is at the top of my physical TBR instead of any of the other unread books I own because I currently keep my Lovelace collection at my mom’s house in Maryland and I’d like to read this one by the time I finish my holiday trip to Maryland so it can live with its sisters. Part of me is really tempted to bring them all back up to Massachusetts now that I have a touch of room on my shelves, but I believe it’s best to wait until I read more of the ones on my shelves that way I don’t get distracted re-reading Lovelace’s poetry.

Honorable mentions to the books I have been borrowing from my aunt and my friend for months that are still untouched and likely will be for at least another month.

Currently sitting at the top of the digital TBR, we have in no particular order The Problem of Punishment by David Boonin, In Defense of Plants by Matt Candeias, and The Biology of Human Survival by Claude A. Piantadosi. Each of these will be borrowed from the library eventually. I do hope it’s soon, but I am notorious for falling in and out of infatuation with a genre and by the time I finish with what’s on my physical list I might be in the mood for something different.