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Weekend to-do:

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Work on Saturday (NOOOOOOO!)
Bake cookies for the work Christmas Holiday party.
Rock Band
Finish up last bits of Christmas shopping

Which is just to say, I have NO intention of letting the coming Snowpocalypse interfere with ANY of this. I HAVE A VERY LONG SCARF, AND I'M NOT AFRAID TO USE IT.

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An informal survey of the shelves reveals that I have read just about 5% of the YA collection at our branch. Well, no wonder I keep recommending the same books over and over!

Here's the problem: Our branch, for whatever reason, doesn't get a lot of the high-profile critical-success YA books. I can understand why they'd only buy 29 copies of "Nation," or 31 of "Frankie Landau-Banks," or 13 of "Tender Morsels" to go around 60 branches, but even so. Much of what's left over is fluffy chicklit, first-person-contemporary-fiction trying to be Poignant and Insightful and not doing very well, extremely short books for reluctant readers... all of which I SHOULD be reading, mind you.

Too many books, not enough time.

I don't even know what's reasonable for me to have read. This year I want to get away from reading all the YA books out of a sense of duty, and read some more adult fiction and pop science, but I still can't get away from this sense that I'm falling down on the job by only having read about 5% of the collection.