Tsundoku could be the operative word here. That Japanese term for getting books, and letting these just accumulate, but not actually reading any. Or, a more benign interpretation, leaving open the possibility of reading these later. Which, I should note, I really do want to, I'm just not quite sure when I'll get to it.
At any rate, this is the top of the stack of books I have not yet read.
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Top right, clockwise:
Hillary Mantel "The mirror and the light" (loved the first two of the series, but am having trouble "getting into" this one);
Jonathan Franzen "Crossroads" (read several of his books, this is still waiting);
Ian McEwan "What we can know" (one of my fave writers, so a nice xmas gift);
Barbara Kingsolver "Demon Copperhead" (with so many plugging this one, plus a Pulitzer, I just had to get a copy);
Elif Shafak "There are rivers in the sky" (hearing so much praise that it ended up on the stack);
Tony Judd "Postwar" (felt I had to read this one, if only to understand how we got where we find ourselves in this moment, but have only just made it past the first 100 pages)
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If anyone has similarily "succumbed" to the tsundoku experience, or perhaps just a (hopefully temporary) reading slump, let us know. And if you got back to reading again, I'm super interested in how you did that.
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