looking positively at books

In an attempt to hack my mood, let’s make a list of ten books I’m excited to read over the next few months.

• Amy Poehler wrote a book and so I have to have to have to read it. If I don’t read it, I may just cease to exist. I think I need to stress this again: Amy Poehler, with whom I would love to be friends with for now and for always, wrote a book. Amy Poehler, who is one of the greatest things to ever happen to anybody ever.

  Status: Purchased, on kobo, ready to read as a reward to myself when I get all my work done.




• Ever have a book you haven’t read yet but just know that you and it will get along? This is that book for me.

  Status: Haven’t purchased it and not in public library. From a small US press, but I think there’s been a recent ebook release, so I should be able to get my hands on that somehow.

  
  




• After my disgust with another written-in-french mystery novel, I have higher hopes for this one.

  Status: Only the original French version is in the library, so need to find myself an English copy somewhere.

  
  
  
  




• I’m hoping for just the right amount of quirk in this book. Just the right amount.

  Status: On hold at the library (35 on 6 copies).

  
  
  
  
  
  




• I have a feeling this will creepy me right out, maybe even disgust me, but with that frisson of feeling that you have to stay up all night to finish it.

  Status: The library’s only copy is in braille, so I’m going to have to look elsewhere.

  
  
  




• A long time ago, I read Behind the Scenes at the Museum and then swore of Kate Atkinson forever, because how could anything top Behind the Scenes at the Museum? I have since re-adjusted my views. Maybe nothing can top Behind the Scenes at the Museum, but, similarly, nothing can top Kate Atkinson. So now I’ve read all the Jackson Brodie books and Life After Life, and am catching up on the back catalogue.

  Status: I have a hard-copy that I bought at Fair’s Fair in Calgary oddly during my Kate Atkinson boycot, so I must have known, even then that I would eventually crack.




• I put this book on hold at the library when we lived in Halifax. After nine months they said the book was lost and they weren’t buying a new one. I moved to Calgary and put the book on hold in Calgary. About a year later, it came in, the same day we moved from Calgary to Ottawa. So I now owe the $2 fine or whatever it is for putting a book on hold at the Calgary library and then not picking it up (actually, we also accidentally stole a Wiggles DVD as well, so remind me never to move back to Calgary and try to get a library card). Ottawa: not in the public library at all. Finally, finally, it is in the New Brunswick library.

  After all the wait, I know I’m going to be disappointed.

  Status: On hold at the library (1 on 1 copy).




• The Cellar by Minette Walters: No picture, the book isn’t out yet. Yay British mystery novels though!

  Status: Not yet published.




• Another not out yet book (but with a cover this time). Tesfa calls these books the Delphine books as we read them together. Likely they go over her head, some of the content, but I don’t care. Better to read this than have to suffer through another Geronimo Stilton book.

  Status: Not yet published.

  
  
  
  

Hmmm. I can only think of nine and I’ve grown tired of this exercise. Besides, I have books I have to read carefully before I give them to other people as presents. I’m not the only one who does that, am I? My grandmother used to do that too, so I know I’m not alone.