Adding my 2c to the “unread by the bed” meme for the 30 posts in 30 days challenge.

Currently reading: Margaret Attwood’s Oryx and Crake on my iPad.

I work in a public library. Good books  follow me home. Most sit in the pile by the bed for a couple of months and then are returned, briefly opened, but unread.

By the bed pile:

Most  seem to be less known works by authors who have had a bestseller.

• The White Tiger, Aravind Adiga
• Tales from Firozsha Bahg, Rohinton Mistry
• My Nine Lives, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
• Telling Tales, Melissa Katsoulis
  • history of literary hoaxes. I almost bought it as “aeroplane reading” last time I was in Melbourne, but it didn’t look wonderfully marvellous, so I saved my $$
• House of Horrors, Nigel Hawthorne
  • about the guy in Austria who kept his daughter locked away and had a second family of several kids with her. I picked up just any book when I was testing things on the database, forgot to return it and so I’m somehow reading it – sensationalist and voyeuristic
• Moral Disorder, Margaret Attwood
• Island Beneath the Sea, Isabel Allende
• Bleeding Kansas, Sara Paretsky
  • set in Lawrence, Kansas where I spent a couple of weeks last year. Totally separate from the V. I. Washawski series
• Her Fearful Symmetry, Audrey Niffenegger
  • half way through then read a review panning the last third of the book, so have a dilemma – I’m enjoying it so far, do I want to ruin it by completing the story ?

Not next to the bed pile

These ones are on the “library book” shelf and I haven’t picked them up, or they are on their way back and I can’t quite part with them yet.

• The Triumph of the Airheads, Shelley Gare
  • About the decline of public intellectual standards in Australia. Skimmed it already
• The Last Lecture, Randy Pausch
  • Unread. If you haven’t already seen it, please go right now and watch Randy Pausch Last Lecture: Achieving Your Childhood Dreams
• The Beats: A Graphic History, Harvey Pekar et al
• Dear Fatty, Dawn French
• Girl Next Door, Alyssa Brugmart
  • YA title. I try to read one every couple of weeks
• The Almost Moon, Alice Sebold
  • I enjoyed reading “The Lovely Bones”, but the tone of “Lucky” made me feel like throwing the book across the room at times.
• In the Kitchen, Monica Ali
• The Star’s Tennis Balls, Stephen Fry
  • Must get on to this one
• Decca: The Letters of Jessica Mitford, Peter Y Sussman (ed.)
  • I’ve been reading this for the last four years. I left my copy on the plane in Brisbane and am slowly getting through the library copy.
• The Art of Emily the Strange, Rob Reger
  • Totally read and needing return

And there’s more

Probably the same amount again are on the shelf but I didn’t photograph them …. you get the idea from what is here …

Post 13 of the  30 posts in 30 days challenge.