No Time To Read!

What's a boy to do? While downtown yesterday I stopped in Giovanni's Room, the oldest LGBT bookstore in the country. Sure, my financial situation requires I save as much as I can when shopping, so I'm often buying from Amazon or other discount sites, but I still think it's important to spend locally and support local businesses, particularly those that are gay-owned or gay-friendly. So those of you with more disposable income, please pick up the slack for me! Anyway, today I picked up the paperback edition of Gregory Maguire's "A Lion Among Men," the third volume in the "Wicked" series -- the original, of course, having been turned into the spectacular Broadway musical.

Problem: I now have a backlog of four books to read! In addition to the book I bought today, I have the Harry Kalas biography "Harry the K" by Randy Miller, Simon Doonan's memoir "Beautiful People" (turned into the delightful BBC series that aired on Logo in the USA) and the novel "Boomsday" by Christopher Buckley (the hardcover, picked up for $1.80 at a Borders Express that was having a store-closing sale). I've read the first chapter of the Doonan book, and that's it. Four books -- no, wait! I also have the five Scott Pilgrim books I got at more than half-off through Amazon. Even though they're graphic novels, they're like little paperbacks, ranging from 184 to 248 pages. So that's nine books to read! Plus I get Entertainment Weekly and Sports Illustrated every week, the Phila. Daily News six days a week, the websites and blogs I read online, Facebook and Twitter...and then there are the TV shows I watch regularly, and sports...Eagles and NFL, Phillies in the baseball playoffs, and now this coming week the Flyers begin the new season? Helllllllp! I'm drowning!