Stacked

...on my desk. With my name on them, as reserves. Not even checked out yet. Some have been waiting for a month now. Listed in the order they appeared on my desk:

• Saving Dinner the Low-Carb Way by Leanne Ely
• The Complete Idiot's Guide to Creating a Web Page & Blog by Paul McFedries
• The Lost Bird by Margaret Coel
• The Story Teller also by Margaret Coel
• With No One As My Witness by Elizabeth George
• How to Build Your Own Prize-Winning Robot by Edwin J.C. Sobey (for Sparky, I hasten to add)
• Hard Truth by Nevada Barr
• The Weblog Handbook by the unnervingly-named Rebecca Blood
• Why Americans Zigzag While They Eat by Michael Pauls
• The Serpent on the Crown by Elizabeth Peters
• Tough Plants for Northern Gardens by another author with a great name: Felder Rushing (which I had sitting here for about 6 weeks in the middle of winter before giving up then; let's hope I actually get it home this time!)

Then there is this list (on the sidebar), of things I do have checked out:

• The Unending Mystery by David Willis McCullough
• The Stories of English, by David Crystal
• With Charity Toward Non: A Fond Look at Misanthropy, by Florence King
• The Torching, by Marcy Heidish
• Who Betrays Elizabeth Bennet? Further Puzzles in Classic Fiction, by John Sutherland
• London's Underworld: Three Centuries of Crime and Vice, by Fergus Linnane (again) The
• Rule of Four, by Ian Caldwell & Dustin Thomason
• NOW: No Opportunity Wasted, by Phil Koeghan

Minus Sparky's book and the cookbook, there really isn't a book on that list that will take me less than 4 or 5 hours to finish. Maybe the gardening book...no, that will require list-making and so forth.

The temptation is great--

My cart is cleared
I really have nothing pressing to do
The boss isn't here today
I'm alone (no other techs here today)
I'm bored and antsy and mentally more-than-ready to go home

-- but I'm trying NOT to pick one of these up to read. Especially not George or Peters....

Aaarrrghhhhhhh.