The Perils of Being a Librarian

[cinaed]

 ...is that you find too many books at work, until you've accidentally checked out 20 at once and you get stuck in a loop of "I should read these, but which one" and end up reading none, and then just staring, stressed out, at the pile of twenty books on your floor. 

Finally started Downbelow Station because it's hit the renewal limit almost, but there's still so many left to read.

• The Chinese in America : a narrative history
• Mrs. Sherlock Holmes : the true story of New York City's greatest female detective and the 1917 missing girl case that captivated a nation
• Room {1219} : the life of Fatty Arbuckle, the mysterious death of Virginia Rappe, and the scandal that changed Hollywood
• Stuntwomen : the untold Hollywood story
• The edge of anarchy : the railroad barons, the Gilded Age, and the greatest labor uprising in America
• Bird by bird : some instructions on writing and life
• The beautiful country and the Middle Kingdom : America and China, 1776 to the present
• Radiant days, haunted nights : great tales from the treasury of Yiddish folk literature
• A beautiful poison
• The life-changing magic of tidying up : the Japanese art of decluttering and organizing around the world
• Fearless girls, wise women, and beloved sisters : heroines in folktales from around the world
• For the thrill of it : Leopold, Loeb, and the murder that shocked Chicago
• Blood royal : a true tale of crime and detection in medieval Paris
• Chinese Yankee : a true story from the civil war
• An elegant madness : high society in Regency England
• Prince of pleasure : the Prince of Wales and the making of the Regency
• Pinkerton's great detective : the amazing life and times of James McParland
• The notorious Reno Gang : the wild story of the West's first brotherhood of thieves, assassins, and train robbers
• Without lying down : Frances Marion and the powerful women of early Hollywood

Comments

[chestnut_pod]

Oh, I really like Bird by Bird! I use chapter one all the time with my introductory writing classes, plus "Shitty first drafts."

[cinaed]

Yeah, someone recommended it to me as a good book about writing, so I thought I'd check it out!

[hokuton_punch]

So many fascinating titles! This would absolutely be my curse if I worked in a library.

[cinaed]

I want to read all of them at once! Why is cloning technology not available?

[m_madeleine]

All these sound so interesting! I myself usually just see all the cool books while shelving and then promptly forget about them by the time I'm back at the desk (and no, still haven't learned that I should take them with me immediately :D)

[cinaed]

That's how I end up with so many checked out at once because if I don't immediately check an interesting book out, I will forget it exists. But yeah, looking forward to reading all of them just gotta...actually read them.