Not Exactly a Book Haul

For someone who insists that they only buy books for their classroom, I've acquired a lot of new books in the past six months.  These are the unread books I've bought. Sure, many of them will end up in my classroom, but it would be disingenuous of me to pretend that is the only, or even the main, reason I picked them.

• Saffire  won from Goodreads
• Charming Billy  super cheap at library book sale
• To Survive is Not Enough gift from the author, my mom's best friend
• The Year of Reading Dangerously bought with my Christmas gift card
• The Lies of Locke Lamora impulse buy--I think at remaindered pricing
• Heartless had to get it!
• The Almost Nearly Perfect People bought with my Christmas gift card
• A Gentleman in Moscow Book of the month buy
• Tell Me Three Things super cheap at library book sale
• A Conjuring of Light had to buy!
• Jane Steele super cheap at library book sale

And then there are my library books.  I definitely have an impulse problem there.

• Monster on a Hill
• Girl in Pieces (which is overdue and non-renewable)
• Norse Mythology
• If I Was Your Girl
• The Imposter Queen
• The Cursed Queen
• The Other Boy
• The Reader
• Learning to Swear in America
• Big Magic
• When We Collided
• Kids of Appetite
• The Smell of Other People's Houses
• Up to this Pointe
• Some Writer!
• the January, 2017 National Geographic magazine 
• The Inker's Shadow
• Giant Days Vol. 1
• The Golden Compass graphic novel

And then at school, either for read-alouds or because I picked it up one day to talk to a kid about it and then got interested, there's

• Stolen
• Boys of Blur
• The Eleventh Plague
• Ms. Bixby's Last Day

Yep.  34 books.  (Okay, 33 books and a magazine, but I plan to read it cover to cover.)  I realize this is more than many people read in a year.  It's enough to make me feel vaguely panicky.  But probably not enough to keep me from picking up and reading other things I come across before I get through most of these.  And not enough to keep me from not buying or borrowing another book until I get through most of these.  

On the other hand, if my choice of problems is:

a) too many great books on hand

b) nothing I want to read

c) not being able to find the books I do want to read

--then I definitely have the best problem.  

Why is it only Tuesday?  I need a weekend so I can power through a couple of these!