Since I work in a library, I have already read a boat-load of books. I like to preview the books I purchase for the library so that I can help students find something they might actually enjoy.
However... If I read one more fantasy-vampire-werewolf-on the run young adult novel in the next little while I'm going to have my brain ooze out of my ears... I need to break it up a bit.
I've read and reread lot of classics, but I want to seek out some that I haven't gotten to yet. Right now I'm reading The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin. Although it's fairly short (136 pages), it's not a quick read. Billed that "the reader will delight in an intimate portrait of the man", I'm not feelin' it. Page after page about printing procedures, then a quick paragraph about his alcoholic pals or hanging around with disreputable ladies. It throws me off a bit, but it also makes me read it carefully, since I don't want to miss a juicy bit.
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