#8: TBRs Awaiting In The Wings
I have three books by the nightstand, I just finished two audio novels, and two books are patiently tucked wating their turn in my library bag. As the saying goes:
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I can’t imagine not having a book ready and waiting for me. And as the clock suggests, I feel time is fleeting in terms of getting around to all my TBR books. I have had to stop writing down book suggestions from other bloggers since my list has grown longer than my left leg. Contending with my prior list of must-get-tos is causing me to wonder what would happen if I stopped everything that wasn’t absolutely pertinent and simply read. Rod Serling asked the same question back in 1959.
Witness Mr. Henry Bemis, a charter member in the fraternity of dreamers. A bookish little man whose passion is the printed page, but who is conspired against by a bank president and a wife and a world full of tongue-cluckers and the unrelenting hands of a clock. But in just a moment, Mr. Bemis will enter a world without bank presidents or wives or clocks or anything else. He’ll have a world all to himself…without anyone.
“Time Enough at Last” is episode that deals with Henry Bemis who would much prefer reading to working as a bank teller or spending time with his wife. He gets his wish, only with a dark twist. The episode has been much parodied over the years and it makes me ever so glad that I am near-sighted after all.
As for my TBR list, it’s daunting; I’ve divided it up into categories to help sort it out. Maybe if I take one read from each category and move through the list I can get to the top of the list by the year’s end. Sounds like I’m either trying to make a resolution or a concession. Maybe I should get back to my reading. Any of these on your TBR list? How many are awaiting in the wings for you?
Classical Works:
The Iliad, Tartuffe, The Misanthrope
Realistic Works:
Crime and Punishment, Anna Karenian, A Doll’s House
Romanatic Works:
Don Quixote, Les Miserables, Faust
Impressionistic Works:
Heart of Darkness, The Awakening
Naturalistic Works:
Metamorphosis, Dubliners
This list comes courtesy from one of my AP resource books. Looking it over I have decided I am fairly illiterate and must get busy. To make myself feel a bit better I have read many of the suggested work, but I am still way behind.
Getting to these TBRs doesn’t give me too much opportunity to read the likes of a Hunger Game when it comes about. Those count too, right?
Fortunately, I am not derided for being a “reader” as was Henry Bemis. And I hope I won’t get my wish for more time in the manner of Henry. Until then there is summer vacation, my hammock, and my understanding family.
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