If I Wasn't So A.D.D. I Would Read

So, I've just been accumulating books to read. It's like I can't get through things fast enough in this crazy world. I can't keep up with all the new movies that are released or new bands or books that I want to read. I currently have 99 movies pending in my Netflix queue and 11 books on my book shelf that I need to read. Before facebook and my blackberry I would read a few books every month. Now, it takes me 3 months to read 1 book because I can't seem to focus anymore. A few months ago I started taking out books from the library again. It worked because I knew I only had a limited amount of time to read them before they had to be returned. The problem with owning them is that I can always read them later...or tomorrow...or next week...or whenever...

But I like owning books. I like seeing them all alphabetically lined up on the shelves in content order...it makes me happy. Even moving 4 times in 6 years has not stopped me from acquiring more and more. I can't stop. I'll throw out clothes and shoes (and even THAT'S difficult to do) before I throw away a book.

Here is a list of the books I have pending. In no particular order, of course. Because I could NEVER rank things that are so lovely...

1. The Adventures of Sherlock Homes- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
2. The World Is Flat- Friedman
3. The Hobbit- Tolkien (it's a reread from childhood)
4. Common Psychological Disorders in Young Children- Bilmes
5. The Road Not Taken- Robert Frost
6. The Idiot- Dostoevsky
7. Up the Down Staircase- Kaufman
8. How Full is Your Bucket?- Rath and Clifton
9. Aesop's Fables (another childhood reread)
10. Mindset- Dweck
11. The Know it All- A. J. Jacobs

I am currently reading these two simultaneously:

Drinking: A Love Story- Knapp (such an awesome memoir. I learn something new every time I read it)
The Beautiful and Damned- Fitzgerald

And this poor book has been put on the back burner for the last 6 months:
El Principito- The Little Prince in Spanish. One of my all time favorite books ever. My goal is to read it in as many languages as I can. This would be number 4. After is German.

I have a lot of work to do....