Reading list
In the past three weeks, I've finished reading five short-story collections and anthologies, and acquired two new ones. I thus have only fifteen left to get through in the stack by my bed.
Luckily for me, I've read at least a couple stories in almost all of the books, either when the stories were originally published or by picking up the book and starting to read it at some point or other. But still, that's a lot to read.
And it doesn't even count the four novels that are on the stack (not to mention the dozens of other books in my bookcase of books I haven't read yet, but we don't like to talk about that). Nor the assorted magazines and chapbooks. Nor the fact that, for reasons beyond mortal ken (I like that phrase), I've started reading Jerome K. Jerome's Three Men in a Boat in the Project Gutenberg etext version. Okay, so the reason isn't actually beyond mortal ken: it's a combination of the fact that I'm supposed to be writing a review of Panshin's Villiers books for SH (did the reading ages ago, have been picking away at the review but not done yet) and wanted to see whether Panshin owed anything to Jerome's style (he may, but very little if so), and the fact that almost everyone I know has recommended Connie Willis's To Say Nothing of the Dog to me, and I've felt for some time that I ought to read the original first.
Of course, what I really ought to be doing is catching up on editing, so I'll bid you fondieu for the nonce and be off to do that very thing.