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19/12/08 14:31![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
owlectomyAn 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.
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.