Day Twenty-Nine

Your aspirations

At the moment, I aspire to make significant headway in the stack of books on my nightstand waiting to be read. I seem to have this problem where I continue to buy more books even though I already have several dozens (well, actually I've lost count) that have yet to be opened by me. And no, they're not all listed on my Goodreads page or on my evolving reading list. I will, however, list them here (in no particular order):

Open House, edited by Mark Doty (this is my current read)
Alas, Babylon, by Pat Frank
The Love of The Last Tycoon, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Battle Angel Alita, by Yukito Kishiro
Battle Angel Alita: Tears of an Angel: by Yukito Kishiro
Quarantine, by Jim Crace (borrowed)
Evening, by Susan Minot
Wicked Plants, by Amy Stewart (borrowed)
The Time Traveler's Wife, by Audrey Niffenegger
The Little Friend, by Donna Tartt
Murder in the Rue St. Ann, by Greg Herren
Insignificant Others, by Stephen McCauley
Do Glaciers Listen? by Julie Cruikshank
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, by Stieg Larsson (borrowed)
Best Gay Romance 2010, edited by Richard Labonté
Rough Trade, edited by Todd Gregory
Yield, by Lee Houck
Vieux Carré Voodoo, by Greg Herren (which I can't read before I get the other four books in the Chanse series)
The Pocket Muse, by Monica Wood
Murder in the Garden District, by Greg Herren
I Like It like That, edited by Labonté and Schimel
While My Guitar Gently Weeps, by Deborah Grabien
Boys Like Us, edited by Patrick Merla
Best Gay Love Stories: Summer Flings, edited by Brad Nichols
The Pride of Baghdad, by Brian K. Vaughan and Niko Henrichon

…and numerous back issues of The New Yorker, Glimmer Train Stories, Canteen, The Missouri Review, Boulevard, Gertrude, American Short Fiction, Zoetrope, Icarus, and probably even more titles buried somewhere at the bottom of the stack in back.

And then there's the stack in the other room….