Currently On Hand (COH) is going to be a regular update (hopefully weekly and on a particular day-which currently remains undecided but is likely to be somewhere between Saturday – LIBRARY DAY! – and Monday) that, as the title states, shares what I currently have on hand from the library, what I am currently reading, and sometimes may include what I’m seriously considering reading from my own collection. On other reading blogs, I’ve seen similar concepts referred to as TBR (to be read – like you don’t already know that), but I feel like that indicates that I plan to read everything on the list, and then I’ll feel like I HAVE to read everything on the list, and then I won’t read any of it because – rebellious inner book-reading muse (at some point I will elaborate further, but for now, please see previous post Reading Selections). And, I’ll admit now that a) I will most assuredly not read everything COH (currently on hand) because b) I am a library book hoarder (for which I feel no shame because it drives up circulation, which can’t hurt when they are considering cutting library hours).
But I digress…I present to you my first ever Currently On Hand list:
- Deep Blue by Jennifer Donnelly
- The Magicians by Lev Grossman (currently reading)
- The Magician King by Lev Grossman
- The Magician’s Land by Lev Grossman
- Snow Like Ashes by Sara Raasch
- Shifting Shadows by Patricia Briggs
- A Thousand Pieces of You by Claudia Gray
- Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
- Outline by Rachel Cusk
- The Guns of August by Barbara Tuchman
- The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin
- The Interestings by Meg Wolitzer
- The Monuments Men by Robert M. Edsel
- The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton
- Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
- Fragments by Dan Wells
- We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver
- Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline
- The Weed That Strings the Hangman’s Bag by Alan Bradley
- The Weight of Blood by Laura McHugh
- The Passage by Justin Cronin
- Tell the Wolves I’m Home by Carol Rifka Brunt
The end of The Magicians is very near, and Station Eleven is next because it’s a current bestseller which means a) I can only have it for 2 weeks, b) I had to wait a long time for it, c) I can’t renew it, and d) my library charges .50 to check out (isn’t that really renting???) a bestseller, so it’s a rather easy choice. Then probably Shifting Shadows because, I mean, Patricia Briggs and shapeshifters. Need I say more? After that? Who knows? Probably a galley that isn’t even listed here because those are starting to pile up on me, and a girl has got to do her part. Right? Right.
So there you go. This is what’s currently sitting on my shelf – literally and virtually. What would you tackle first?