It is a good thing I get my books for free because I have no self control

THIS. This is what happens when I decide to read book reviews, start following Jon Scalzi's blog and then a new cart of books arrives in delivery and I get first dibs.

And also when you are allowed 5 renewals of books so you just keep them on your desk because you know there is no space on the shelf anyway and you do want to read them eventually (yes, I think if you click back to the last time I posted a picture of the pile of books on my desk, two of these were probably there. I want to read Exit, Pursued by a Bear but I know the subject matter is going to be intense and upsetting and I gotta be in the right mood.)

I can build a small fort with all these books!

And to top it off, I'm reading a non-library book right now! Sylvia has to read Kindred by Octavia Butler for school and it has been on my to-read list FOREVER so I took this as a sign. I really love it, I'm about halfway through and even though it was published in the mid-70s it, sadly, is still very relevant when it comes to history, race and gender and the United States.

At lunch today I started Prez which is hilarious and horrifying because, yeah, our politics are so screwed up, I could see a star of a viral video accidentally being elected President.

Oh, and I apparently hit my 80 book mark yesterday! Now, a few of those were picture books so I don't feel like I've really hit my goal, but by December I will definitely have read 80 chapter books of some kind. Go me!