Overbooked

I started Sacred Games by Vikram Chandra this week. I’m finding it interesting, but fairly slow going (lots of flipping back to the glossary), and at over 950 pages, I suspect it will take me a while. And this is a problem, because I am overbooked.

My book club meets next week to discuss The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz. I already had it on audio, so I’m listening to it rather than reading it, and I have about 7 hours to go. I agreed to discuss The Fifth Business by Robertson Davies in May with an online group, and my book club meets again late May to talk about The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler. At last night’s Big Read discussion of Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury at the kids’ school, people enjoyed getting together and talking about the book so much that we made a date for a next meeting–June 5, to discuss The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck. I’m also expecting two Early Reviewers books (Strange Ways by Rokhl Faygenberg and Love Marriage by V.V. Ganeshananthan), for which I feel I should drop everything and read so I can write the reviews.

“Speaking of reviews, Chris, how’s that review-writing resolution going?” Funny you should ask. I’m woefully behind! I haven’t yet written reviews for The Night Watch by Sarah Waters, The Pursuit of Love and Love in a Cold Climate by Nancy Mitford, John Adams by David McCullough, the aforementioned Fahrenheit 451, The Sisters: The Saga of the Mitford Family by Nancy S. Lovell, Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War by Nathaniel Philbrick, and Thursday Next: First Among Sequels by Jasper Fforde.

So many books, so little time!