What I Would Do if I was Swimming in Books

Warning; this post was hastily written, created with neither purpose nor enthusiasm, and not edited at all. I'm sorry; it starts to disintegrate towards the end. I might edit it, though,,, someday. :)

When I was younger, I read a lot of books. A lot of books. 

I have a bookcase full of em' back at home, and every time I look at it I'm surprised at how many I've read.  Series, standalones, classics, bestsellers... there's quite a list there.

Then. in recent years, that number started to slow considerably. I try to blame YouTube and Minecraft, but in the end I know that it's up to me to read.

I don't really know why my reading productivity has slowed- I still really enjoy reading, and I now feel more motivated to read then ever due to the knowledge that reading helps writing. Perhaps it's the cost to it all, or that it's quicker to start a game then to settle into a book, easier to pause a game then be jolted out of a world. It could be anything, really. I just wish I knew what. 

That said, this past week or two I've been finding myself reading more and more. Perhaps it's because of The Thief Lord, which I really enjoyed reading. Maybe I'm just bored. No matter the reason, a sudden urge to read led me to buy two new books at the bookstore. The problem is, now I'm swimming in them.

Before this trip, I already had Horatio Hornblower and The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy #2-4 already purchased. I'd just finished reading the first Guide, and so was set to continue on when I popped into the bookstore with too much money and couldn't help myself. 

The novel that I've really been wanting to get for the last little while is Will Grayson Will Grayson, by David Leviathan and John Green. You may recall that John Green is my one and only man-crush, so naturally I had to buy his novel. Once that one's read, I'll have finished every John Green novel available- unless you count the collaboration short-story collection Let it Snow or that one he wrote for NaNoWriMo, ZombieCorns. Which I do, because John Green for life.

So far, Will Grayson Will Grayson has been really good- I'm only 100 pages in, and I really don't want to be writing at the moment. I want to be reading Will Grayson, damn it! 

The other book I purchased was Writing Tools. Man, I hate to say that. Now you're going to be scrutinizing this post. I can hear you sneering "must be a shitty book, then!" My only defence is that I'm writing this at 11:46, and I just want to sleep, damn it. Writing tool #38; when you can't think of anything good to say, just insert a few swears to take your reader's mind off the shitty quality of your work, damn it!

So now, I find myself with four books to read and I really want to read them but to do that I need to rest so I need to sleep so I need to finish the post damn it damn itfuckfuckshittyassfuck-me-in-my-shitty-ass-oh-god-hope-mum-doesn't-find-thisshitdamnnuierwnsiuvebnvijnerwuisvnuewisbvuiesnbvjksenjkvn eriusfhieoruwfnerhqafiouHGUYBuBuyBuyBuykbjBfCersfYIgIBH gCtuBJHbGHvgfYUgibJvgcFGChVGHVGHBOBhkuVTUVUIVbUHBkBHJVGHJVGUBYHGYUBUSKEGBNIUHEGRS            BFYC ORFIQU4ES BHJDKVE

Thanks for reading, 

-Mark