Po(sey) Sessions

My reading goals for 2017 were extremely lofty and somewhat unrealized so far. My goal: 100 Currently finished: 13 While 13 is not a shabby number, it is half of what I am expected to have done to meet my goal this year. Despite a number of changes in my life this year, one of which going back to school fully time, I am stubbornly hoping I will find the time to make up the numbers of books read. Perhaps over the summer? Books completed in 2017: 1. Sugar - Jewell Parker Rhodes 2. Sweetbitter - Stephanie Danler 3. Food, Genes, and Culture - Gary Nabhan 4. Chew, Vol. 5: Major League - John Layman 5. Ink - Amanda Sun 6. Underground Airlines - Ben Winters 7. The American Way of Eating - Tracie McMillan 8. Annihilation - Jeff VanderMeer 9. Authority - Jeff VanderMeer 10. Saving Seeds, Preserving Taste - Bill Best 11. Farmacology - Daphne Miller 12. Sleep Donation - Karen Russell 13. High on the Hog - Jessica Harris Currently reading: My Southern Journey - Rick Bragg V...

I want to tell you a story. Hi, my name is Megan. I am mildly willing to admit I may have a problem with books. Problem is probably not the best term for it. I have an obsession, a mania, a philia. Some might call it a Gentle Madness. In my home I have over 5,000 books. Books that I have never read. Waiting in piles for me to find time and energy for consumption. These piles around me used to be piles of guilt, but it was fairly recently that I discovered, even on the day I die, I want plenty of books to choose from. There is a certain sadness in thinking about only having one book left to enjoy in this mortal world. But these piles of books are not my story. Or not the story of today. Once, in my dark past, I used to be a person with lots of piles of books and a blog. These things were the entirety of my book passion. I was silent in my love for books until I was able to start describing them with poorly chosen sparse words. It was through my blog and twitter that I was able t...