My TBR stack is getting out of hand.
And no, that’s not my entire TBR stack. Not even close. Not by a longshot.
I have a TBR bookshelf, y’all. A bookshelf of not-yet-read books. And a tablet with maybe a couple hundred more.
What’s pictured there is the current priority list of the TBR–books I pulled out of the TBR about 3 months ago, thinking that maybe I could make a dent in these over the next 7 months or so. (Of course, I’ve added about 8 to those stacks, while only finishing maybe…2?)
And that doesn’t count the stack of 4-6 in-progress books in the living room next to the comfy chair–a chair that, these days, I mainly sit in only when I’m feeding a baby.
Also, I have 3 novels I just checked out from the library on a whim. Because I have a problem.
So far this year, I’ve finished reading 16 books. While I’m glad for that much progress, normally I will finish between 30-40 in a calendar year, so I’m definitely way under my normal pace. No big surprise as to why, with a new baby and a more hectic work and preaching/teaching schedule this summer.
But it’s still a bit frustrating. I love reading. I just don’t do it much these days. There’s always something “more important” to be done, or my mind is just so tired from work at the end of the day that I want something easy. (The sign of a lazy mind–something I should be working on training?)
I’m hopeful that I can turn this around–I mean, obviously, as I’m still checking out library books. I just hate the thought of all these books in my house, unread. I should do something about that.
Here’s my “currently-reading” stack (from memory, so there may be gaps), and for the record, I’m not even halfway through any of them so far:
- Preaching and Preachers – D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones
- Lectures to my Students – Charles Spurgeon
- The Daring Mission of William Tyndale – Steven Lawson
- Holiness – JC Ryle
- Gentle and Lowly – Dane Ortlund
- The Invisible Man – H.G. Wells
- The Complete Husband – Lou Priolo
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