Had another library mishap.  Or, well, not really a mishap.  At least no one can blame me this time.

Here’s what happened: I’d been adding books to my holds queue, I thought strategically.  I spaced out the additions and I seemed to be at wildly varying points in my wait for all of these books.  Then I got an email saying that a couple of my holds were available for me to pick up.

Great!  I sailed on down to the library and grabbed them – Death Comes to Pemberley, by P.D. James, and The House at Tyneford, by Natasha Solomons.  I knew that there were probably a few more that would be available before long, so I set to it and made my way through the first, and about two-thirds of the way through the second.

Meanwhile, along came another email: two more books available for me to pick up.  Well, I’m still happy.  The new books were books I’d been looking forward to reading – very much – and I couldn’t wait to dig in.  Still, I decided to leave them on the holds shelf for a little while, at least until I could return a couple more books.  (I can leave them there up to a week before they’ll go to the next person.  Normally, I don’t like to do that – it’s not entirely fair to the person who’s behind me in the queue, but these were desperate times, clearly calling for desperate measures.)

Then came another email: two more books were ready.  And finally, one more email this morning: a fifth book was waiting, with my name on it.  Uh-oh.  Now the situation is getting pretty out of hand.

I did some quick calculations and found that, not counting The House at Tyneford, which I should finish shortly, I have 1,927 pages to read before May 7th.

The House at Tyneford, by Natasha Solomons (due back April 30)
Village School, by Miss Read (due back May 7)
Below Stairs, by Margaret Powell (May 7)
Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?, by Mindy Kaling (May 7)
The Marriage Plot, by Jeffrey Eugenides (May 7)
11/22/63, by Stephen King (May 7)

Let’s get this party started…